Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 12, 1903, Page 3

PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Congratulates the Country on Substantial Achieve- ments of Past Year—Capital and Labor—Postal and Land Frauds—The Panama Canal. Dec. 7.—The following is Washington, President Roosevelt's mes- a synopsis of sage: In opening the president says that the country is to be congratulated on the amoun' ‘of substantial achievement which hag marked the past year both as regards our foreign and as regards our domestic poticy. “With a nation,” he says, as with a man the most important things are those of the household, and therefore the coun- try is especially to be congratulated or what has been accomplished in the direc- tion of providing for the exercise of su- pervision over the great corporations and combinations of corporations engaged in interstate commerce. The congress has created the department of commerce anda labor, including the bureau of corpora- tions, with for the first time authority to secure proper publicity of such pro- ceedings of these great corporations as the public has a right to know. It has provided for the expediting of suits for the enforcement of the federal anti-trust law; and by another law has secured equal treatment to all producers in the transportation of their goods, thus tak- ing a long stride forward in making effective the work of the Interstate Com- merce commission.” rhe president looks upon the establish- ment of the department of commerce and Jabor as a real advance in the direction of doing all that is possible for the solu- tion of the questions vitally _ affecting capitalists and wage-workers. The scope of the department's duty and authority, the president says, embraces the com- mercial and industrial interests of the nation. It is not designed to restrict or control the fullest liberty of legitimate business action, but to secure exact and authentic information which will aid the executive in enforcing existing laws, and which will enable congress to enact ad- ditional legislation, if found necessary, in order to prevent the few from obtain- ing privileges at the expense of dimin- ished opportunities for the many. ‘Sys- tematic intelligent. iavestigation is al- ready developing facts,’ says the presi- dent, “‘the knowledge of which is essen- tial to a right unGérstanding, of the needs and duties of the business world. The corporation which is honestly and fairly organized, whose managers in the conduct of its ‘business recognize their obligations to deal squarely with their stockholders, their competitors, and the public, has nothing to fear from such su- pervision. The only corporation that has cause to dread it is the corporation which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not be over-sensitive. The purpose is not to assail or embarrass legitimate business, but to aid in bringing about a better in- dustrial condition—a condition under which there shall be obedience to law and recognition of public obligation by all corporations, great or small.” Among the duties falling within the scope of the department are those of strengthening our foreign and domestic markets. perfecting transportation facili- ties, building up merchant marine, keep- ing out undesirable immigrants, improv- ing commercial and industrial conditions, and in bringing together on common ground those necessary partners in_in- dustrial progress—capital and labor. Con- stant watchfulness is necessary to se- cure to Americans the chance to partici- pate to the best advantage in foreign trade; and the department is expected to justify the hopes of its creators in this respect. In enacting the laws above enumerated congress attempted nothing revolu- tionary, according to the president, but a common-sense and successful effort was made in the direction of seeing that corporations are so handled as to sub- serve the public good, Under the head of ‘‘capital and labor,” the president 8 “The consistent policy of the national government, so far as it has the power, is to hold-in check the unscrupulous man, whether employer or employe, but to refuse to weaken in- dividual initiative or to hamper or cramp industrial development. We rec- ognize that this is an era of federation and combination, in which great cap- §talistic corporations and labor unions have become factors of tremendous im- portance. Hearty recognition is given the far-reaching, beneficent work which has been accomplished through both cor- porations and unions, and the line as be- tween different corporations, as between different unions, is drawn as it is _be- tween different individuals; that is, it is drawn on conduct, the effort being to treat both alike; asking nothing save that the interest of each shall be brought into harmony with the interest of the public, and that the conduct of each shall con- form to the fundamental rules of obe- dience to law, of individual freedom, and of justice and fair-dealing towards all. Disregard of the law, acts of arbitrary or tyrannous interference with the rights of others willabe stopped by the federal governmen@without heed to the power or position of corporation, union or in- dividual, Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor, so long as he does not infringe the rights of others. No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it. We have cause as a nation to be thankful for the steps that have bec: successfully taken to put these prin- ciples into effect.” The receipts of the government from all sources, exclusive of the postal servic for the last fiscal year aggregated $560,- 6 The expenditures for the same period were $506,099,007. the surplus for the fiseal year being $04,297,667. The in- dications are that the surplus for the present fiscal year will be very small it indeed there be an This con- Taking off the war taxes has tended to more nearly equalize re- ceipts and expenditures. The need of strict economy, the president points out, is emphasized by the fact that we can not afford to be parsimonious in provid- ing what is essential to our national well- being. “The integrity of our currency is be- yond question,” says the president, “and under present conditions it would be un- wise and unnecessary to attempt a recon- struction of our entire monetary system. The ‘president recommends that con- gress direct the secretary. of the navy, the postmaster general, and the secretary of commerce and labor, associated with such representation from the senate and house as congress may designate, to serve as a commission for the purpose of fnvestigating and reporting to congress at its next session what legislation is de- sirable or necessary for the development of the American merchant marine and ‘American commerce, and incidentally of @ national ocean mail service of adequate auxiliary cruisers and naval reserves. While such a measure is desirable in any event, it is especially desirable at this time, in view of the fact that our present government contract for ocean mail with the American line will expire in 1905. The need for revision of the immigra- tion laws that will shut out the undesir- able immigrant and encourage the desir- able immigrant to seek our shores is inted out. Corruption and inefficiency n the New York office have been eradi- ated, ecerhe special investigation of the sub- ject of. naturalization under the direc- tion of the attorney-general, and the con- sequent prosecuticns,” the president says, “reveal a cond‘tion of affairs calling for the immediate attention of congress. Forgeries and perjuries of shameless and flagrant character have been pe etrated, not only in the dense centers of popula- tion, but throughout the country; and it js established beyond doubt that very many so-called citizens of the United States have no title whatever to that right. and an asserting and enjoying the penefits of the same through the grossest frauds.” ¢ “In my last annual message.” says the resident, “in connection with the sub- lect of the due regulation of combina- tions of capital which are or may be in- jurious to the public, I recommended a in the customs. | | CAE A t | special appropriation for the better en- forcement of the anti-trust law as it now stands, to be expended under the direc- tion of the attorney-general. Accord- ingly congress appropriated five hundred thousand dollars to be expended in the employment of special counsel and agents to conduct proceedings and prosecutions under said laws in the courts as a matter of the utmost importance and urgency, the extension of the porrosen of this ap- propriation, so that it may be available for the due enforcement of the laws of the United States in general and espe- cially of the civil and criminal laws re- lating to postal crimes and offenses and the subject of naturalization. Recent in- vestigations have shown a deplorable state of affairs in these three matters of vital concern. By various frauds and by fergeries and perjuries thousands of acres of the public domain have been dishonestly acquired. It is hardly neces- sary to urge the importance of recovering these dishonest acquisitions, stolen from the people, and of promptly and duly punishing the offenders. Touching the subject of the postal frauds, forgeries and perjuries, and by shameless briberies, the laws relating to the proper conduct of the public service in general and to the due administration of the postoffice department have been notoriously violated, and the consequent prosecutions are in course of hearing or on the eve thereof. For the reasons thus indicated, and so that the govern- ment may be prepared to enforce prompt- ly and with greatest effect the due penal- ties for such violations of law. urge the necessity of making such appro- priation available for immediate use.” Steps have been taken by the state de- partment looking to the making — of bribery an extraditable offense with for- eign powers. The need of more effective treaties covering this ‘crime is manifest. “It should ke the policy of the United States,’ says the president, “to leave no place on earth when a corrupt man _ flee- ing from this country can find rest. There can be no crime more serious than bribery. Other offenses violate one law while corruption strikes at the founda- tion of all law.” The president deals at some length with the history of the Alaskan boundary dis- pute and calls attention to the recent suc- cessful termination of that dispute by the decision of the convention in London, a decision which is satisfactory in every way. Speaking of the claims of foreign powers against Venezuela and the sub- mission of those claims, through the friendly offices of the United States, to the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague the president says: « “This triumph of the principle of international arbitration is a subject of warm con- gratulation and offers a happy augury for the peace of the world.” Regarding our relations with China the president says: “The signing of a new commercial treaty with China, (which took place at Shanghai on the 8th of October, is a cause of satisfaction. This act, the result of long discussion and ne- gotiation, places our commercial relations with the great Oriental empire on a more satisfactory footing than even before.” The rural free delivery service has been steadily extended. The attention of con- gress is asked to the question of the com- pensation of the letter carriers and clerks engaged in the postal service, especially on the new rural free delivery routes. More routes have been installed since the first of July last than in any like period in the department's history. ‘Which a due regard to economy,” says the presi- dent, “must be’ kept in mind in the es- tablishment of new routes, yet the exten- sion of the rural free delivery system must be continued, for reasons of sound public policy.” In. this connection the president also urges the importance of the movement for good roads. The Louisiana Purchase exposition and the Lewis and Clark exposition are rec- ommended to the favorable attention of congress. The president calls the special attention of congress to the Territory of Alaska. The country is developing rapidly, and it hi assured future. “Proper land law ould be enacted” says the presi- dent, “and the survey of the public lands jately begun. Wagon roads and is should be built, and the building of ds, promoted in all legitimate An appropriation for the building of lighthou in Hawali is recommended. The president says: “If our insular poss ions the Philippines and Porto Rico it is gratifying to say that their steady progress has been such as to make it unnecessary to spend much time in dis- cussing them. Yet congress should ever keep in mind that a peculiar obligation re pon us to further in every way the welfz of these ‘communities. The Philippines should be knit closer by ariff arrangements. No one people ever benefited another peo: have benefited the F possession of the islan The cash receipts of the general land office for the last fiscal year were $11,024,- 743.65, an increase of $4,762.816.47 over the preceeding year. Of this sum, ap- proximately, $8,461,493 will go to the ecred- it of the fund for the reclamation of arid land, making the total of this fund, up to the 30th of June, 1903, approximately, le more than we jinos by taking "$16,191,836, In pointing out the necessity for revi- sion of the public land laws the president says: “There is a tendency to mass in large holdings public lands, especially timber and grazing lands, and thereby to retard settlement. I renew and emphasize my recommendation of last year that so far as they are available for agriculture in its broadest sense, and to whatever extent they may be reclaimed under the national irrigation law, the remaining public lands should be held rigidly for the home builder. The attention of con- gress is especially directed to the timber and stone law, the desert land law, and the commutation clause of the home- stead law, which in their operation have in many respects conflicted with wise public land policy,” The work of reclamation of the arid lands of the West is progressing steadily and satisfactorily under the terms of the law setting aside the proceeds from the disposal of public lands. The study of the opportunities of reclamation of the vast extent of arid lands shows that whether this reclamation is done by in- dividuals, corporations, or the state, the sources of water supply must be effec- tively protected and the reservoirs guarded by the preservation of the for- ests at the headwaters of the streams. The necessity for perpetrating our forest resources, whether in public or private hands, is recognized now as never before. The demand for forest reserves has be- come insistent in the West, because the West must use water, wood. and summer range which only such reserves can sup- ply. “The Indian agents,” says th - dent, “should not be dependent Yor thelr appointment or tenure of office upon con- siderations of partisan politics. the prac- tice of appointing, when possible, ex- army officers or bonded superintendents to ne vacancies that occur is working well.” On the subject of pensions the says: “No other class of our” cltisens deserves so well of the nation as those to whom the nation owes its being, the veterans of the Civil war. Special atten- tion is asked to the excellent work of the pension bureau in expediting and dispos- img of pension claims. During the fiscal year ending July 1, 1903, the bureau set- tled 251,982 claims, an average of $25 claims fer each working day of the year. The number of settlements since July 1, 1903, has been in excess of last’ year’s average, approaching 1,000 claims for each working day, and it is believed that the work of the bureau will be current at the close of the present fiscal year." The civil service next engaged the president's attention. He says: “During the year ended June 30 last 25.566 persons were appointed through competitive ex- aminations under the civil service rules. This was 12,672 more than ‘during the preceeding year, and 40 per cent of those who passed the examinations. This ab- normal growth was sarees. occasioned by the extension of classification to the rural trem delivery service and the appointment las ear of over 9,000 rural carriers. A revision of the civil service rules took ef- fect on April 15 last, which has greatly improved their operation. The comple- tion of the reform of the civil service is recognized by good citizens everywhere as a matter of the highest public impor. tance, and the success of the merit sys- tem largely depends upon the effective- ness of the rules and the machinery pro- vided for their enforcement.”’ “The effect of the laws providing a general staff for the army and for the more effective use of the national guard has been excellent,” says the president. “Great improvement has been made in the efficiency of our army in recent years. Such schools as those erected at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley and the in- stitution of fall maneuver work accom- plish satisfactory results. The good e! fect of these maneuvers upon the national tion should be made to enable the guard: men of the several states to share in the benefit. The government should as soon as possible secure permanent camp sites for military maneuvers in the various sections of the country. The service thereby rendered not only to the regular army, but to the national guard of the several states, will be so great as to repay many times over the relatively small expense. We should not rest satis- fied with what has been done, however. The only people who are contented with a system of pronoun by mere seniority are those who are contented with the triumph of mediocrity over excellence. On the other hand a system which en- couraged the exercise of social or po- litical favoritism in promotions would be even worse. But it would surely be easy to devise a method of promotion from grade to grade in which the opinion of the higher officers of the service upon the candidates should be decisive upon the promotion and standing of the latter.” The president congratulates congress upon the steady: progress in building up the American navy. He says: “‘We can not afford a let-up in this great work. To stand still means to go bac! ‘There should be no cessation in adding to the effective units of the fighting strength of the fleet. Meanwhile the navy depart- ment and the officers of the navy are do- ing well their part by providing constant service at sea under conditions akin to those of actual warfare, The_establish- ment of a naval base in the Philippines ought not to be longer postponed. Such a base is desirable in time of peace; in time of war it would be indispensable. and its lack would be ruinous. It is eminently desirable, however, that there should be provided 'a naval general staff on lines similar to those of the general staff created for the army, We need the establishment by law of a body of trained officers, who shall exercise a systematic control’ of the military affairs of the navy, and be authorized advisers of the secretary concerning it.” The president goes into the isthmian canal question at great length. In open- ing he says: “By the act of June 28, 1902, the congress authorized the presi- dent to enter into treaty, with Colombia for the building of the canal across the isthmus of Panama; it being provided that in the event of failure to secure such treaty after the lapse of a reason- able time, recourse should be had to building a canal through Nicaragua. It has not been necessary to consider this alternative, as I am enabled to lay before the senate a treaty providing for the building of the canal across the Isthmus of Panama. This was the route which commended itself to the deliberate judg- ment of the congress, and we can now acquire by treaty the right to construct the canal over this route. The question now, therefore, is not by which route the isthmian canal shall be built, for that question has been definitely and ir- revocably decided. The question is simply whether or not we shall have an isthmian canal. When the congress directed that we should take the Panama route under treaty with Colombia, the essence of the condition, of course, referred not to the government which controlled that route, but to the route itself; to the territory across which the route lay, not to the name which for the moment the territory pore on the map. The purpose of the law was to authorize the president to make a, treaty with the power in actual control of the isthmus of Panama. This purpose has been fulfilled. “In the year 1846 this government en- tered into a treaty with New Granada, the predecessor upon the isthmus of the Republic of Colombia and of the present Republic of Panama, by which treaty it was provided that the government and citizens of the United States should al- ways have free ahd open right of way or transit across the Isthmus of Panama by any modes of communication that might be constructed, while in return our Bov- ernment guaranteed the perfect neutral- ity if the above mentioned isthmus with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea might not be in- terrupted or embarrassed. The treaty vested in the United States a substantial property right carved out of the rights of Sryarelieby and property which New Granada then had and possessed over the said territory. The name of New Granada has passed away and its terri- tory has been divided. Its successor, the government by Colombia, has ceased to own any property in the isthmus. A new republic, that of Panama, which was at one time a sovereign state, and at an- other time a mere department of the suc- cessive confederations known as New Granada and Colombia, has now suc- ceeded to the rights which first one and then the other formerly exercised over the isthmus. But as long as the isthmus endures, the mere geographical fact of its existence, and the peculiar interest there- in which is required by our position, perpetuate the solemn contract which binds the holders of the territory to re- spect our right to freedom of transit across it, and binds us in return to safe- guard for the isthmus and the world the exercise “of that inestimatable privilege. The true interpretation of the obligation upon which the United States entered in this treaty of 1846 has been given re- peatedly in the utterances of presidents and secretaries of state. “For four hundred years. ever since shortly after the discovery of this hemi- sphere, the canal across the isthmus has been planned. For two score years it has been worked at. When made it is to last for the ages. It is to alter the geography of a continent and the trade routes of the world. We have shown by every treaty we have negotiated or at- tempted to negotiate with the peoples in control of the ithmus and with foreign nations in reference thereto our con- sistent good faith in observing our obliga- tions; on the one hand to the peoples of the isthmus, and on the other hand to the civilized world whose commercial rights we are safeguarding and guar- anteeing by our action. We have done our duty to others in letter and in spirit, and we have shown the utmost forbear- ance in exacting our own rights. “Last spring, under the act above re- ferred to, a treaty concluded between the representatives of the Republic of Co- lombia and of our government was rati- fied by the senate. This treaty was en- tered into at the urgent solicitation of the people of Colombian and after a body of experts appointed by our government es- pecially to go into the matter of the routes across the isthmus had pro- nounced unanimously in favor of the Pan- ama route. In drawing up this treaty every concession was made to the people and to the government of Colombia. We were more than just in dealing with them. Our generosity was such as to make it a serious question whether we had not gone too far in their interest at the expense of our own; for in our scrupulous desire to pay all possible heed, not merely to the real but even to the fancied rights of our weaker neigh- bor, who already owed so much to our protection and forbearance, we yielded in al possible ways to her desires in draw- ing up the treaty. Nevertheless the gov- ernment of Colombia not merely repudiated the treaty, but repudiated it in such manner as to make it evident by the time that the Colombian congress had adjourned that not the scantiest hope remained of ever getting a satisfactory treaty with them. The government in Colombian made the treaty, and yet when the Colombian congress was called to ratify it the vote against ratification was unanimous. It does not popes: that the government made any real effort to secure ratification. “Immediately after the adjournment of the congress a revolution broke out in Panama, ‘the people of Panama had luug been discontented with the Republic of Colombia, and they had been kept quiet only by the prosvect if the con- clusion of the treaty, which was to them a matter of vital concern, When it came evident that the treat; hhope- lessly lost, the people of Panama rose literally as one man. Not a shot was fired by a single m: on the isthmus in the interest of the Colombian govern- ment. Not a life was lost in the accom- Specie baed of the revolution. The Co- lombian troops stationed on the isthmus, who had loam, been unpaid, made com- mon cause with the people of Panama, ne Pathe othe | Baws the new was sta! 5 ie duty of the uae States was clear.” y ' e president then tells of the orders issued to prevent the landing of an ex- ‘ditionary force on the isthmus, and is rege hare of the de facto govern- ment of Panama. He follows with a list of the revolutions, rebellions, insurrec- tions, riots and other outbreaks that have occurred on the isthmus since 1846; they. number 53 for the 57 years, and the presi- dent say the list is only a partial one. ‘In short,” he says, “the experience of over half a century has shown Colombia to be utterly incapable of keeping order on the isthmus. Only the active in:zr- ference of the United States has enabled her to preserve so much as a semblance of sovereignty. In 1856, in 1860, in 1873 in 1885, in 1901, and again in 1903, sailors and marines from the United States war- ships were forced to land in order to patrol the isthmus, to protect lMfe and property, and to see that the transit across the isthmus was kept open. In 1861, in 1862, in 1885, and in 1900, the Colombian government asked that the United States government would land troops to protect its interests and main- tain order on the isthmus. Perhaps the most extraordinary request is that which has just been received and which runs as follows: “Knowing that revolution has already commenced in Panama (an eminent Co- lombian) says that if the government of the: United States will land troops to preserve Colombian gery: Hg and the transit, if requested by the Colombian charge d'affaires, this government will declare martial law; and, by virtue of vested constitutional authority, when ublic order is disturbed, will approve by decree the ratification of the canal treaty as signed; or if the government of the United States prefers, will call an extra session of the congress with new and friendly members—next May to ap- rove the treaty. (An eminent Co- jombian) has the perfect confidence of the vice president, he says, and if it became necessary will go to the isthmus or send representative there to adjust matters along above lines to the satisfac- tion of the people there? t + “This dispatch is noteworthy from two standpoints. Its offer of immediately guaranteeing the treaty to us is in sharp contrust with the positive and contempt- uous refusal of the congress which has just closed to consider favorable such a treaty; it shows that the government which’ made the treaty really had abso- lute control over the situation, but did not choose’ to exercise this control. The dispatch further calls on us to restore order and secure Colombian supremacy in the isthmus from which the Colombian government has just by its action decided to bar us by preventing the construction of the canal. “The control, in the interest of the com- merce and traffic of the whole civilized world, of the means of undisturbed transit across the isthmus of Panama has become of transcendant importance to the United States. “Under such circumstances the govern- ment of the United States would have been guilty of folly and weakness, amounting in their sum to a crime against the nation had it acted other- wise than it did when the revolution of Nov 3 last took place in Panama. “Every effort has been made by the government of the United States to per- suade Colombia to follow a course which was essentially not only to our interests and to the interests of the world, but to the interests of Colombia itself. These ef- forts have failed; and Colombia, by her persistence, in repulsing the advneces that have been made, has forced us, for the sake of our own honor, and of the inter- est and well-being, not merely of our own people, but if the people of the Isthmus Panama and if the civilized Steps to ff the world, to take decisive steps to {Fing to an end a condition of affairs wWich had become intolerable. The new Republic’ of Panama immediate- ly offered to negotiate a treaty with us. This treaty I herewith submit. By it our interests are better safeguarded than in the treaty with Colombia which was satisfied by the senate at its last session. At last the right to begin this great un- dertaking is made available. Panama has done her part. All that remains is for the American congress to do its part and forthwith this republic will enter upon the execution of a project colossal in its size and if well-nigh in calculable pos- sibilities for the good of this country and theua s of jnankind, y the provisions of the treaty the United States guarantees and_will main- tain the independence of the Republic of Panama. There is granted to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of a strip ten miles wide and extending three nautical miles into the sea at either terminal, with all lands ly- ing Outside the zone’ necessary for the construction of the canal or its auxiliary works, and with the islands in the bay of Panama. The United States enjoys within the granted limits all the rights, power and authority which it would pos- sess were it the sovereign of the territory to the exclusion of the exercise of sover- eign rights of the republic. All railway and canal property rights belonging t Panama and needed for the canal pass t the United States, including any properd of the respective companies in the cities of Panama and Colon; the works, prop- erty, and personnel of the canal and rail. ways are exempted from taxation as well in the cities of Panama and Colon as i the canal zone and its dependencies Free immigration of the personnel and importation of supplies for the construc< tion and_ operation of the canal are granted. Provision is made for the use of military force and the building of fortifit cations by the United States for the pro. tection of the transit. In other detail the stipulatoins of the Hay-Herra treaty are closely followed. while th compensation to be given for these en- larged grants remains the same, bein; ten millions of dollars payable on ex change of ratifications; and, beginning nine years from that date, an annua payment of $250,000 during the life of th: convention.”* Bavaria’s Crazy Princes. Bavaria has in the past been noted for its crazy princes. It has had several of them for rulers and there have been others who have merely hung around the Bavarian court doing queer things at the general expense of the people. A dispatch from Berlin tells of the strange doings of Prince Ludwig Ferdi- nand of Bavaria. He is a nephew of the regent, and instead of living an idle or dissolute life, as becomes a scion of roy- alty, he has become a practicing physi- Gian, and is, besides, a musician of con- siderable ability. Speaking about himself to a correspondent the other day, the prince said: “T go to the Prince Regent theater ev- ery morning and take part in the re- hearsal. I find that submitting myself to the sharp discipline of the director is amusing rather than depressing. After leaving the rehearsals 1 occupy myself until 3 o'clock in attending my patients and fulfilling my duties as a doctor. Then I must go off to the theater and play in the orchestra.” Other princes, who are perinitted to live tn splendid style at the public's expense, instead of doing things to justify their existence, will be likely to conclude with sorrow that the old strain of insanity is still manifest in Bavarian royalty.—Chi- cago Record-Herald. While complaining that the text-books in the common schools lead_ away from the farm, Dr. John Graham Brooks said: “Look with me into an average Massa- chusetts schoolhouse. Its arithmetic, its geography, its penmanship, its bookkeep- ing and its reading book, which appeal to the imagination of the farmer's child, are still dominated by clerk and trading views. As one listens to the teaching it is as if the one object were to create dis- content with the country life—to make every bright child hate his surroundings. The instruction seems to assume the fail- ure of the farm life. The inexhaustible charm and résources of the country have no part in the teaching.”” The Canadian Pacific railway sold last year from its subsidy land near! ee 2,600,000 acres, at a price averaging sométhing less than $4 an acre. In the previous year it sold less than 1,600,000 acres, at a price averaging a little over $3 an acre, NHEEPECTIVE DARE DEATH GERMAN FARMER BRUTALLY MURDERS HIS WIFE NEAR CHASKA. MURDERER THEN HANGS HIMSELF WOMAN’S FACE BEATEN UNTIL HER FEATURES WERE UN- RECOGNIZABLE. HER BODY REDUCED TO A PULP EVIDENCES THAT THE WOMAN MADE A DESPERATE STRUG- GLE FOR LIFE. Chaska, Minn., Dec. 9.—One of the most atrocious murders in the history of this section was committed Friday afternoon at a point six miles west of Chaska, on the Chaska-Cologne road. A little boy on that day discovered that Jacob P. Patzke, a German far- mer aged about thirty-three, had kicked his wife to death. He informed his father, but nothing was done to ap- praise the officers of the horrible af- fair until Saturday morning. When the sheriff and other county officials visited the Patzke home on that day it was found that after killing his wife Patzke had gone to the barn and hanged himself. The coroner held an inquest and the jury returned a ver- dict of murder and suicide. 1 The bodies of the husband and wife were buried in Chaska yesterday. The murder of the woman was most brutal in character. She had ‘been kicked in the face until every feature had been obliterated and her body made a mass of contusions and bruises. Portions of her fiesh were literally reduced to a pulp. Her body, lying in a pool of her life’s blood, was found in the kitchen of the home. Ev- idences of the struggle which the woman had made for her life were to be seen on every hand, and the kitch- en and other parts of the house were strewn with articles of household use and pieces of furniture. Patzke was a hard drinker and had long been accustomed to abuse his wife. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Dec. 9. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 81@813-4c; No. 2 Northern, 78 1-2@ £ 973-4c; No. 3, 741-2@77 1-2; no grade, 68@75c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 50c; No. 8, 48c; No. 4, 47¢. Rye—No. 2, 511-2c. Barley—Malting grades, 39 @52 1-2c; feed grades, 32@39c. Minneapolis, Dec. 9. — Wheat-—No. 1 hard, 821-2c; No. 1 Northern, 811-2c; No. 2 Northern, 79 1-2c. Duluth, Dec. 9. — Wheat — No. 1 hard, 815-8c; No, 1 Northern, 80 1-2c; No. 2 Northern, 77 5-8c; flax, 95 3-4c; oats, 33 3-4c; rye, 58c; barley, 34@52c. Chicago, Dec. 9. — Wheat — No. 2 red, 87c; No. 3 red, 85c; No. 2 hard winter, 82c: No. 3 hard winter, 75@ 78c; No. 1 Northern spring, 87¢; No. 3 spring, 82c. Corn — No. 2, 423-4c. Oats—No. 2, 35 1-2c; No. 3, 341-2c. Milwaukee, Dec. 9. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 83 1-2@84c; No. 2 Northern, 82@83c; May, 807-8c. Rye — No. 1, 56 1-2c. Barley—No. 2, 62c; sample, 34 @59ce. Oats—Standard, 37@371-4c. Corn—No. 3, 46@46 1-2c. Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 9. — Cattle — Beeves, $3.75 @ 5; cows, bulls and mixed, $2@3.30; stockers and feeders, $2.50 @ 3.60; calves and yearlings, $2.25@3.30. Hogs—Bulk, $4.30@4.35. Chicago, Dec. 9. — Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.20@5.85; stockers and feeders, $2@4.10; cows, $1.25@4; heif- ers, $1.75@4.60; calves, $2@6. Hogs —Mixed and butchers, $4.30 @ 4.60; good to choice heavy, $4.45 @ 455; light, $4.25@4.45; bulk of sales, $4.35 @4.45. Sheep—Good to choice weth- ers, $3.75@4.25; Western, $3 @ 4.50; native lambs, $3.50 @ 5.80; Western lambs. $3@4.65. South St. Paul, Dec. 9. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $3.75@5; good to choice cows and heifers, $2.50 @ 8.25; butcher bulls, $2.25@3; veals, $2 @4.55; good to choice feeding steers, $3.35@3.75; steer calves, $1.25@2.25; good to choice stock cows and heifers, $1.85@2.10; heifer calves, $1.75 @ 2; good to choice milch cows, $35@45. Hogs—Range price, $3.90@4.20; bulk, $4.10@4.15. Sheep — Good to choice lambs, $4.25@4.75; fair to good, $3.75 @4.25; good to choice yearling weth- ers, $3.25@3.50; heavy, $3@3.25; good 1o choice ewes, medium weight, $2.50 @2.65; culls and stock ewes, $1.50 @ 2.256 > WOMAN KILLS HERSELF. Second Attempt at Suicide’ Proves Successful. Welcome, Minn., Dec. 9.—Mrs. Louis Mau committed suicide Sunday by ‘The Patzkes lived on a farm valued | taking a shotgun and very nearly at about $6,000. They had no and the estate will go to a brother of tthe murderer who lives in this town. TO ARREST SHERIFF. Venireman Implies Officer Sought Fa-| vor for Indicted Maj. Murphy. Grand Forks, N. D., Dec. 9. — The first sensational feature of the trial of Hon. J. S. Murphy in the federal court on an indictment charging him with perjury in connection with the pension claim of Mrs. Josephine Grinnell, came yesterday while the work of securing a jury was in progress. Ben Jones, a member of the petit jury, who lives at Minot, was being examined as to his qualifications as a juror, when he stated that Sheriff Scofield of Minot had called him into his room at a ho- tel, and told him what a fine man Maj. Murphy was and that the present pros- ecution in the federal court was a po- litical conspiracy, hatched by the ene- mies of Murphy. Judge Amidon at once directed that Jones be discharged as a juror in this case and that an at- tachment be issued for Sheriff Sco- field. Sheriff Scofield will probably be arraigned before Judge Amidon to- morrow morning. The Murphy jury was completed shortly before noon and the case of the government was outlined to the jury by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Edward Engeerud. STABBED IN PULPIT. Father Roach Attacked by an Insane Man and Severely Cut. Dubuque, Iowa, Dec. 9.—-While con- ducting the vesper service in Cascade, Sunday afternoon, Father Roach was attacked by an insane man and children | blowing one side of her head off. She leaves a husband and three small children. Death came instantly. She tried to take her life during the sum- mer by taking carboliec acid, but failed in the attempt. | i HEINZE IN POLITICS. ‘ Party Bearing His Name Is Organized in Montana. Helena, Mont., Dec. 9.—A mass con- vention of the so-calleed third, or Heinze, party, met here yesterday to name a state central committee which is to issue a call for a nominating con- vention next year, and, in short, to organize a new party. There were 300 men from various parts of the state in attendance. WORK IN PIPESTONE. indians Will Exhibit Skill at World’s Fair. Flandreau, S. D., Dec. 9.—Arrange- ments have been completed by Supt. Peirce of the government Indian school at this place by which three or four of the most skilful of the Flan- dreau Indian pipestoneworkers will go to St. Louis to take part in the gov- ernment exhibit of native Indian in- dustries. Negro Convicted. Fargo, N. D., Dec. 9.—Frank Scott was convicted on the charge of shoot- ing at John Fisher of Lisbon. Scott is @ negro and some weeks ago under- took to conduct Fisher to a_ hotel. Fisher says Scott inveigled him into an alley and fired a shot at him, which made a scalp wound above the ear. Fisher fought him off and succeeded stabbed several times with a knife. Joseph « Montgene, aged nineteen, rushed at the priest from behind and plunged a long knife into his»meck. Father Roach was about to raise the host, and he thought the man was go- ing to call him to a sick péfson, and leaned over to read the message. On his bared neck a gash three inches deep was made. The priest warded off | the blows, and two men from the con- gregation assisted him to a_ chair, where doctors attended him. priest will live. A panic was caused in the church. Montgene was arrested and a charge of insanity was preferred The | control. in escaping without being robbed. Blaze at McGregor. Prairie cu Chien, Wis., Dec. 9.—The Metropolitan theater and Kramer Brothers’ dry goods and clothing / house at McGregor were destroyed by fire which occurred yesterday after- noon. Two hose companies from this city were carried to the scene across the river and soon had the fire under The loss is $30,000. Mother and Son Cremated. Flat Rock, Mich., Dec. 9. — Mrs. against him. He was confined in an | Hattie Suttliff and her fourteen-year- asylum in 1901, but was discharged.| ld son were burned to death early After the attack Montgene said: wanted to kill him.” LESS GOLD PRODUCED. Closing of Smelter by Strike Affects Yearly Output.- Deadwood, S. D., Dee. 9. — The an- «| yesterday in a fire in their residence here. \ Chicago, Dec. 9. — Seven hund: Scandinavians from the West ani Northwest passed through Chicago yesterday en route to their native hearths, where they will spend the nual report of Thomas Gregory, state | holidays. This is the annual pilgrim- mine inspector for South Dakota, has | age of the Norwegians, Swedes and been submitted to Gov. Herreid. jt | Danes, many of whom deny them- shows a gold production of $7,159,-; Selves much to make the trip. The 400.70 for the year ending Dec. 3, 1903, as against $7,342,227.56 for the year 1902. The falling off is due .o the closing down of the Golden Reward smelter in Deadwood in March by a walkout of employes. travelers left for New York in a spe- cial over the Wabash. In New York they will be jcined by 600 more of their countrymen from otuer parts of the United States, and will sail cn ‘Wednesday. | ] j { ' { :