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THE MADISONIAN, VIRGINIA CITY, MONT., JULY 17, 1914 PUb1IebC0 30V Ube cb e tosabiooniait ababisontan Publisbino Co. - tra Cole......Editor and Manager Rates of Subscription One Year . $2.50 Six Months . $1.25 Three Months. $ .75 Admitted to United States Mail as Second Class Mail. Vir City Postoffice ATTRACTIVE BOOK ON THE PANAMA -PACIFIC INTERNA- TIONAL ,EXPOSITION AND PANAMA CANAL MAILED FREE OF CHARGE. A HANDSOME book of sixty pages, profusely illustrated, in colors and giving detailed descriptions of the Panama -Pacific Interna- tional Exposition to be held in San Francisco from Feb 20 to • Dee 4, 1915, and of the _Panama canal and canal region, will be mailed by the Exposition free of charge to all inquirers The booklet is intended as a general guide to prospective visitors and will also Con- tain,infoimation concerning the great engineering feat which the Expo- sition is te celebrate. Write to the Manager. Bureau of l'ublications, Panama -Pacific International Exposition, Exposition Building, San Finn - else% for booklet. G • LOBE trotters and officials from all parts of the 'world who havo visited the Panama -Pacific International Exposition grounds at San Fren- else° have expressed their astonishment and delight \atthe wonders ------_____ alroany rfrby_ealed_th re, \The most stupendous undertaking of the kind in history,\ \The furthest advanced toward completion\ and \The most beautifpl site and color effect of any exposition in the world\ are a few of the expressions from men who are familiar with all of the great world expo- sitions of modern times. , The exhibit palaces are of vast size. In the Palace of Machinery Z0.000 people in masquerade costumes lanced ill night beneath the Illuminated arches over nine acres of door space. Lincoln Beachey flew an aeroplane in the same building. No exposition has ever attracted such - eitte - iition abroatt - --Thirty-eix-of-th world's nations have accepted America's invitation to pirticipate and will present on an elaborate scale exhibits revealing their progress. The partici- pating nations are as follows: Argentina. Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil. Bulgaria. Canada, .Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Re- public, Ecuador, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Holland, Honduras, Italy, 2apan...,14per1a, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Persia, Peru, Por- tugal: Salvador, Slam, Spain, Sweden7'itiirciyTtliiigiii i rriestinetallf:_.:;... - , Work is being rushed on the splendid illuminated towers, fountains and festival. courts' , where will be shown the masterpieces of architectural, land- scape and sculptured decorations and the wonderful outdoor mural paintings,' some of them 100 feet long end executed by eleven of America's greatest a . be gatten and - tanflarape-effects-arrahnest-eompleted-&t trig, over a million rare trees, flowering shrubs and plants being used. This greatest of universal expositions already gives proof that It will pre - 'rent the masterpieces of the world of art and that in its harmonious beauty, Its high educational value and utility it will be unsurpassed in histo NEWS Of WASHINGTON Representative Tom Stout's Interesting Letter Full of Capitol News DEMOCRACY . MAKING GOOD Republicans; Finding Little Chance to Make Political Medicine—l'resi- dent Wilson l'roves His Ability as a Great end Successful Leader, Washirigton,.D. C., July 8, 1914. - After having listened Patiently for months f6 Various and sundry repub- lican members of the house sounding the tocsin of \hard ,times\ and filling the air with about every species of calamity howling known to the high- ly developed G. 0. P. art, the demo; crats have finally decided to accept the challenge thus thrust upon them and to give prompt aniwer to every republican who starts out to prove that business is going to the dogs un- der this democratic administration. Now, whenever a republican orator gets up in the house and starts to de- claim about poor i buslness conditions, there is always one or more demo- crats ready to refute his - statement and match his cleiletul figure - s — With other figures of a more encouraging character. The republicans earbfully scan the ncwapers of the country item of distress and . failitte while optimistic democrats have eyes only for paragraphs which tell of the mill's and factories working overtime and of the crying demand for laborers which untwpstionably exists in till the great agricultural sections. Before the democrats began to bestir them- -selves, the congressional record was filled with gloom spread upon its pages by their opponents. Now, how. ever, that daily publit-ation has taken a more cheerful aspect and most of the,gloom ii3imm_ediately the radiant sunlight of .prosperity which is let in by th'e leader's of the majority. ess Easily chief of all the , \Gloomy Gussies\ on the question on the re- publican side is congressman Hum i phrey of the state of Washington: Judging from the frequency knd char- acter of his speeches during . the past three or four months, Humphrey must of necessity devoted a very large portion of his time in hunting for cases wherein some fellow has gone busted, some faeterY has laid off a man or some mill has curtailed its op- erations. I verity believe that if two or three banks in the country would accommodatingly go busted, Hum- phrey would be the happiest man in Washington. Unfortunately for the , gentleman - from Seattle, there are riot beaks going to the ova just at the present time, fewer, in fact, than at any time in the nation's history. I hesitate to even speculate upon what would happen to Humphrey if there should come about conditions such as prevailed during the good, old days of republican prosperity in 1907 when great banking institutions were going to the wall every few moments and most of those, outside of Montana, which were not going up the flue were placed to the necessity of honor- ing checks with counterfeit 'currency. No doubt, he would give such an ex- hibition of ghoulish glee as to put to. shame all of his recent efforts. For several weeks, Humphrey -got along since none of the democrats went to the trouble to reply to him, but he has found the going a trifle more difficult since Underwood, Rai- ney of Illinois, Hefflin of Alabama and others on that side of the house have begun to take a hand in -his Jit, tie game. His outbursts are becom- ing lesa_frequent.and he is compelled to be a bit more careful in cit- ing his facts and figures for there is always someone around to call him 'whenever he - makes a slip, which is quite often. While not so rantankerous as Hum- phrey, Jim Mann -occasionally feels that his position as republican leader demands that he take part' in the game of gloom and usually, he makes a fairly good job of it for, when all is said and done, Mann pretty nearly always knows what he is talking about When he takes the floor. But even the wisest of us wilL make a mistake now and then and the omni-1 - dent Mann recently ran afoul a snag in the person of his colleague from Illinois, Heniry Rainey. ..Mann was telling of the evil effects; of the Un- derwood tariff bill and laying partic- ular stress on the disadvantages un- der which the farmers of the country are laboring. After spilling •a few tears over the sad fate of the Amer - lean hen who is to be put out of busi- ness because of the importation of eggs from China, he proceeded to cite the horrible situation which the 'stock- men of the country now find them- selves in because of the importation of beef from Ilia Argentine RepUblic. Elaborating on this theme, he reveal- ed_tbe_excruciating_fact that nur_sail-__ ors and soldiers at Vera Cruz are being fed tons of this alien beef. Rainey very innocently asked him if it is good beef and' Mann fell for the bait by saying that it is. . Rainey then took the floor and recalled some half-forgotten history in \ednnection with the embalmed beef scandal which aroused the indignation of the country during the Spanish-American war. He said that the republican ad- ministration of that time didn't feed the, soldiers Argentine beef of un- doubted quality, -but they did feed them tons of rotten, poisoned ern , halrned beef which was purchased from some of Mr. Mann's packer con- stituents in the city of Chicago. Rainey is fairly proficient in the use 'of the English language and he did- n't restrain himself in the least on this occasion ) 'especially in view of the fact that he and Mann are not 'any too friendly anyway. For the first time I _have been an observer of events here, the loquaicous Mann was completely floored and made no attempt to reply. Moreover, he has been fairly tame since. •• Frank Mondell of Wyoming wild has been in congress for twenty years and is really a mighty decent sort of a fellow, is another charter member of the Order of Gloom and works at it with considerable assiduity. Frank, however, has been the victim of some most wretched luck, to say the least. When the tariff bill was under dis- cussion, Frank bemoaned at length and with much lachrymosity the dreary prospect which the downtrodden wool- grower must face under free wool conditions. He specifically promised that wool would sell for ten or twelve cents and produced the figures to back up his prophesies. Somehow, things haven't panned out just as Frank so earnestly assured us they would and there are always a few heartless democrats around who re- fuse, to' permit the Wyoming states- man to forget the subject as he doubtless would like to do. So runs the merry war of words, .much of which is unadulterated bun- combe and all of which is designell to' influence the voters at the forthcom- ing election. The fact of the busi- ness is, all of the big eastern rail- roads, have applied for an increase of freight rates and, some of them, in an effort to make the interstate com- merce commission understand just how desperate their-ertse--13-have-held- back orders for supplies and repairs which has resulted in unquestioned depression in some of the industries dealing in those commodities. Added to this are the efforts of a few of the big fellows to bluff the president into dropping his anti-trust program and we have the only possible ex - or business-cle._ pression in this country. The inter- state commerce commission.is one bt the hardest worked departments of the government and this probably ac- counts for the rather exasperating leisureness with which it is going about rendering its decision.an_tha rate l ease, Tfi -- e moment that decision is announced and the uncertainty ex- isting among some of the great transportation companies of the country is relieved, this country will -era of business__ pension never equalled during any previous period of its history. Busi- ness men generally wig then also ap- propriate the vast advantage of hav- ing had settled -in an honest and d- ficient manner such disturbing ele- ments as the tariff, the banking and currency and the trust questions. TOM STOUT. THE TRUTII ABOUT PANAMA. _The World .today prints a detailed histOry of the Panama \revolution\ —from the time that Mr. Roosevelt first sent his military - spies into the • Isthmus to the time that an officer of the United States army raised the flag of a fake republic over pilfered territory. This history is compiled from legal axideneg. and_The World chrglen - Mr. - -Roosevelt-tii-ausweelt, . In a recent public statement, James T. Du Bois, former American minis- ter to Colombia, said in reply to Mr. Roosevelt's assertion that \the peo- ple of Panama were a unit in demand - in 'the revolution.\ - \I say, and can prove it, that a handful of men, who were to be the direct _beneficiaries of the revolution, conceived it, and not the hundredth part of the inhabitants of the Isth- mus knew of the revolt until an Amer- ican officer, in the uniform of the United tastes army, raised the flag of the new republic.\ Every word and every syllable of Mr: Du Bole's inrlicrment_ielrne - . What took place in Panama was no more a revolution than a train rob- bery is a revolution.' It was a sordid, cash register commercial conspiracy, backed by the Roosevelt administra- tion. The revoltition as bought and paid for. Treason was purchased in the open market, and the forces of the, United .States government were employed to enable the buyers and the bought to get away with the loot. There is no other such shameful chapter in the history of the United States, and whoever reads the ghast- ly narrative of this so-called revo-iu- tion will understand why it is impos- sible to arbitrate the differences be- tw_e_en the United States and Colom- bia. Thb United States could not go into court with such a case. It could not permit this scandalous record to be submitted to the scrutiny of any legal tribunal. There could be only one verdict, and that verdict would stand forever against the American government in the courts of Interna- tional justice. There is only one way to deal with Colombia's grievances and the bitter Latin-American hostility toward the United States which were bred out of the action of the Roosevelt adminis- tration 'at Panama. That is to settle the case out of court by the regular processes of diplomatic negotiation, as Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan have undertaken to do. This is the policy that Senator Root inaugurated when he was Mr. Roosevelt's secretary of state. It is the policy that Mr. Taft and Mr. Knox followed. If this Is \blackmail as Mr. Roosevelt alleges, then he and Mr. Root, as well as Mr. Taft and Mr. Knox, were offering to pay blackmail to Colombia. The crime of blackmail h:nges on the na- ture of the transaction, not on the amount of money to be paid. .. When Mr. Roosevelt afterward sought to settle the claims of Co-' lombia against the United States he himself knew that the record of what took place at Panama could not stand the test of judicial publicity and--judicial—accutin y. Although, be has boasted that he \took\ Panama, he has exerted every effort to sup- press the true story of the Panama \revolution.\ Not only that, but he has deliberately falsified the record, and when he undertakes to brand President Wilson and Secretary Bry- an as the accessories to blackmail -and national dishonor, he must lace the facts. Whatever measure Of dis- honor attaches to the Colombian treaty attaches to the man whose lawless ambition made the govern- ment of the United States a working partner of the corrupt Panama canal y .cleverata_battle_for $40, ! 000,000 ref AtiaeAtlin money. SHEEPMEN PUZZLED. In Boston last week several clips of -Montana_lialt_hlooLL3vool o d at 23. to 24 cents a pound, while a number of individual transfers of miscellan- eous clips, amounting to 100,000, brought 23 cents, says The Butte Min- er. A few days ago The Miner re- corded the sale of a clip in the east- ern part of the state at 22 1 ,41 cents per pound, which is the highest price this newspaper has noticed, this year. The Montana sheepmen hardly know what to think of the situation, as they had been told by the repub- licans for so many years past that free wool would ruin the industry, when, as a matter of fact, they are receiving more for their fleeces this season. than under high protection. Some rather amusing stories are being told at the expense of Mon- tana flockmasters, one of which re- lates to a prominent Park county irieWiYar,avlfiraftitza,cted - hia - clip to• the first dastern wool buyer' he met last spring. • This Montanian thoroughly believ- ed what the republican spell binders had been preaching for years, so that when he met the buyer, long before shearing, and the easterner had ask- ed him how much he wanted for his clip, the sheepman suggested that the buyil - make 1itttrau - offer. In order to try out his man, the. Boston gentleman in a tentative way said he would contract for the entire olip at 18 cents. . The _ eastern -M ontana man , f ear i ng residence he felt robbed of more than that the easterner would go back on half the pleasure incident to his -his-offer,--replied--as-quIck as a flash, \It's yours.\ -••••••••••••••••••6•114411••••••••••••••••••••••11•11 For probably the first time in his life the sheepman felt certain he had the better of the Bostonian and he did a good deal of chuckling over the bargain he had made, but of late he has learned that if he had not taken the campaign statements put out by republican orators as true, he would Mire received from at least -4 to 5 cents more a pound for his wool. Another dyed in the wool republi- can in the same neighborhood, in dis- 0 000000000000000000 IC)107:4iN 00 000000000000000000000 • 0 Rough and Finished ....LUMBER.... Flooring, Shiplap, Rustic and Bevel Siding to Order FIREWOOD $2.00 per, cord Madison River Lumber Co. Varney, Montana 000000 000000000000000 itC)c) o g 8 0 0 o g 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 80 000000 • 00000000000 000 Montana Day. In Yellowstone Park August 3rd has this year been chosen as Mon- tana Day, in Yellowstone National Park. One: and one -third -fare-for the reund trip - las been -- authorized from all Northern Pacific points in Motana to Gardiner and return, plus $40, for adults and $26 - .5 - 0 for children, which includes 5. 1-,2 days trip in th park. Why Not Go This. Year Tickets on sale for all trains arriving at Living- stnn August 3rd except the \North Coast Lim- ited.\ Come and see me W. C. * DODDS, Agent, Alder, Montana Northern Pacific Railway adat*General Passenger Agent:-A.: 7 Palr' good fortune. At last the sheepmen of Montana are having proved to them what dem- ocrats have always maintained—that the manufacturers were the only ones benefited under schedule K of repub- lican tariff acts.: Copyright. 1914, by Pananie,-Paoillle International Expolition Co. U. H. Crocker Co, official photographers. COLOSSAL STATUARY FOR PANAMA -PACIFIC EXPOSITION. I NTERIOR of one of three 'Audios at the Panama -Pacific interna- tional BrPoeition te *pep in ilee Francisco next year, abewiqs : tite Partially completed Stay\ setae of them thirty feet In heliht. , which will adorn the vast courts. * ..-•••••••••••••••0011•11...., cussing the matter with a friend, ex, pressed a feeling akin to regret that he had taken 19 cents a pound for his clip, as he felt in doing so he had hardly been loyal to his political par- ty and its teachings. He confessed he would have been pleased to have received 19 cents for his wool if there had been a repub- lican president in the white house, but with a democrat in that official Starting a finiall account with ua now and gradually building up is. better than waiting until you have a large sum for deposit.. Southern Montana Bank, Ennis, Mont.—Adv. THE BAZAAR .011101M. 'Dry Goods,- Lad ies, Misses and Childrens Wear 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 41, 4.?
