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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1914
Character is that central magnet
ic froce of real manhood and true
womanhood, born of a combination
of the positive faculties and quali
ties, mental, moral, physical and
spiritual.-A. F. Sheldon.
MORE WOE
The German attitude toward Japan
does not give hope that this will be
the last world war. Even if deeated
in this conflict, the Teutons; unless
crushed to earth, will never rest until
they have avenged the disastrous
Asiatic campaign.
Far from being the last conflict of
this scope, the present war, after a
brief respite-of say, a decade-may
flame forth upon a more terrible scale.
The commercial ascendency certain
to be attained by the United States
during the struggle will make us foes
the world around. We see Japan and
Russia, enemies not so long since,
united against Germany; we may one
day find all those now at war united
against us.
IMAGINATION STAGGERED
Two weeks ago, the German casual
ties for seven days were estimated at
62,000. Last week they were fixed at
57,000. For the war, they are about
a half million. On these figures the
total casualties, in all phases of the
conflict, must lie between one and
three-quarter millions and two mil
lions. In other words, from four to
five times the total population of Mon
tana is eithea killed, wounded or miss
ing. About the population of Montana
must have been killed.
The mind does not grasp these fig
ures.
THOSE ART MONUMENTS
They are greatly exercised, over in
France and Belgium, when a German
shell turns over a turret or chips a
gargoyle. The demolition of a "13th
century city hall" is made a subject
for wailing. At a period when tens
of thousands of men are being killed
or maimed daily, the scattering of a
few tons of bricks and stone would,
not, to the average American mind,
appear so terrible a calamity, for
tons of flesh and blood are also scat
tered. To our simple notion, the raz
ing of Notre Dame is trivial beside the
death of a child by an airman's bomb.
We do not possess such monuments of
art, secular or religious, in America;
but on the other hand, one may pass
into the American church almost any
where without stumbling through a
horde of the blind, the halt and the
lame, all begging.
Having crossed the Wart, and driven
the enemy from the mole of Poti, the
czar has the victory, on the face of
things~
Could it be that the Russian victory
at Poti is the direct result of Russian
abstentions from potations?
That large per cent of the reform
ers who want the newspapers to drive
out liquor and the social evil too much
resemble that celebrated coterie of
mice who were looking for some vol
unteer to append the bell to the cat.
-Berlin thinks the Belgian king will
,pOf be w1ititi to "Let George do it."
THE INDEPENDENT VOTE
As the final election returns from the various states are
tabulated, the part played by the independent voter be
comes more evident.
Minnesota, while electing a solid republican congressional
delegation,. elects W. S. Hammond, her lone democratic
congressman, as governor of the state.
South Dakota, while returning republican congressmen,
defeats Charlie Burke the standpat republican candidate
s for the senate.
o California re-elects Johnson, the progressive candidate
for governor by a landslide majority and chooses Phelan,
a democrat, to succeed Perkins the present republican sen
ator.
Idaho re-elects Brady, progressive republican as senator,
but elects Alexander, a democrat, governor over Haines,
the present republican incumbent.
Wyoming returns Frank Mondell to, congress and at the
same time chooses the progressive-democratic candidate for
governor of that state.
Massachusetts re-elects Walsh, the present democratic
r governor by 25,000 plurality and fills the rest of the state
house with republican officials.
o In Michigan, Governor Ferris, a democrat is'elected to
" succeed himself, while most of the republican state ticket
is elected. In the mean time the upper peninsula, which
Y formerly was the republican stronghold of the state, elects
u a bull moose congressman.
The city of Chicago gives Roger Sullivan 100,000 plu
rality and sends Medill McCormick, the progressive leader
in Illinois, back to the legislature at Springfield.
Coming nearer home, Montana sends Evans and Stout
back to Washington by 7,000 plurality but re-elects Judge
Holloway to the supreme court by 4,000 plurality.
Here in Missoula county, the voters selected men for the
court house jobs, from all four of the party tickets.
In our neighboring county of Ravalli, while most of the
new county officials are chosen from the progressive ticket,
successful candidates for county offices are also chosen
from the republican and democratic tickets.
The same situation prevails in Flathead, while in Mineral
county, every single successful candidate for county office
ran as an independent.
Not a single, solitary county in Montana last week,
elected "a straight county ticket," as was the custom in
some counties not many years ago.
All of which demonstrates the fact that individual voters
are looking, more and more, to the qualification of the can
didate for the office he seeks, rather than to the party label
he bears.
Two years from now, here in Montana, 75,000 women will
f be still another factor in the game of politics.
How are they going to vote? We predict, that in national
politics, the married woman will very largely vote with her
husband, the unmarried woman with her father and broth
ers, but in local affairs look out for still further disregard
of party labels.
In our neighboring states of Idaho and Wyoming, where
a equal suffrage has prevailed for years, the gentleman with
the shady reputation has largely disappeared from the field
e of local politics, in the role of a candidate. We believe the
a same result will follow here in Montana.
The voter who has the moral courage to vote for the in
dividual best qualified to fill the local office, regardless of
his political affiliation, is performing the highest duty of
- citizenship.
t The day of the straight ticket is past and gone in Ameri
t can politics, in the states of the north and west.
South of the Ohio river, they still take it straight from
president to constable, but even there the leaven is at work.
e
TONG WAR CLOSED
SUDDENLYBY
BOMB
CHINESE CONSPIRATOR HOIST BY
HIS OWN PETARD IN
BUTTE-OPIUM
Butte, Nov. 9.-That a tong war was
brewing in Butte's Chinatown, but that
I it came suddenly to an eid in the pre
mature explosion of a bottle of nitro
glycerine, which yesterday morning
killed Mon Tow, a celestial physician,
and seriously injured Sing Sue, is the
belief of Chief of Police Jere Murphy.
The police will look no longer for
bomb throwers, believing that the
two Chinese responsible for the exist
ence of the bomb were the ones caught
by its explosion.
Woman Released.
Jessie Cum, a Chinese woman, ar
rested in connection with the case, was
discharged this afternoon.
The police, however, will continue
their investigation in the opium smug
gling phase of the case, in the belief
f that the accident may lead to the dis
closure of a ring in Montana for the
wholesale smuggling of opium, in
y which Butte is thought to be the cen
ter. The probe of the officers has es
tablished that Dr. Tow left Omaha,
Neb., several days* ago, stopping on
- route at Casher, Wyo. Soon after the
e celestial had left Omaha, it was founi
h that he had shipped $2,000 worth of
f opium from that city to Butte.
Officers met Dr. Tow at the Butte
ilepot and his effects were searched,
but no opium found, and he was re
I leased. A bottle was found. which It
since has developed contained nitro
glycerin, but it was not disturbed,
the officers not knowing what it wa.a.
Chief Murphy tonight expressed the
belief that the two Chinamen were
attempting to manufacture a bomb,
when the nitro exploded.
Wounded Man Mum.
The injured Chinese refuses to talk.
He probably will recover.
Sue has one hole as large as a base
ball in his body and a portion of a
hand was blown off and his eyes fear
fully burned.
FIRE ON STEAMER
IS UNDER CONTROL
New York, Nov. 9.-The Lamport &
Holt freight steamer Rembrandt,
whose wireless operator reported in
calls for help this afternoon that she
v. as on fire 200 miles off Cape Henry,
is steaming for Norfolk, Va., tonight
with the fire under control. The ves
sel sailed from Baltimore last Satur
day for St. Nazaire, 1'rance.
TRULY
(Dillon Examiner)
The trouble with some men who are
architects of their own future is that
they only build castles in the air.
AND WILL FOOD, TOO?
(Livingston Enterprise)
The prices of agricultural lands are
sure to rise during the next few years,
for the percentage of profit upon their
present values is becoming constantly
greater.
The string of beads of light some
times seen for several seconds after
a flash of lightning, is due to the in
candescence of the air.
The smallest aeroplane in the world
is a French machine that weighs but
180 pounds, yet has made a speed of
nearly 60 miles an hour.
The inventor of an air buffer Jor.
locomotives, recently patented, claims
it will prevent a serious wreck in the
event of a .oliionI.
CLAYTON TRUST BILL 18 CALLED
GREATEST TRIUMPH 'OF
LAB14R
,Philadelphia, Nov. "9. (Pronouncing'
the passage of the Clayton.trust bill as
organized labor's great6st single ac
complishment for the paet year, the
executive council .f the American Fed
eration of Labor bresented its annual
report today to the 34th convention of
the federation here. The voluminous
document covers every question which
has affected labor during the year, in
cluding, the European war.
Of the Clayton bill the council's
statement says that it "contains the
most fundamental, the most compre
hensive enunciation of industrial free
dom found in any legislative act in the
history of the world," and that it was
I obtained through the "organized econ
omic .power" represented by the work
ers of the United States.
Discussing economic organization as
the keynote of the federttion's thought
r and effort, the council expressed pride
in the report of progress transmitted
"at a time when most of the civilized
t countries are submerged by a worla
e wide war" while in the United States
"on every hand the workers are in
sisting upon the maintenance of or
e ganization and resistance to deteri
oration of present working conditions."
'"Organized labor," it adds, "has assist
ed the effort to mitigate the industrial
disorganization and losses entailed by
'the European war."
The War.
'Before the war," it- continues, "the
1 thought and effort of civilization were
e centered upon the development and
glorification of human life. One life
was counted of infinite value. But
s, ince the cataclysm that brought war
n between the nations, men are treated
as only military pawns. Things are
valued for their life-destroying power.
S Guns are worth more than men."
The war is said to be the produdt of
"artificial conditions and policies and
repugnant to the thought and political
progress of the age; but so far we
have made little progress in providing
agencies for organizinz international
relations to maintain peace and jus
tice. The war has shown that war
r cannot be stopped by resolutions and
that war cannot put an end to itself.
War will cease only when society is
convinced that htiman life is really
sacred and when society establishes
agencies, international as well as na
tional for protecting lives."
Summing pp steps that may be taken
toward the abolishment of war, the
e report continues:
"Militarism and competitive arma
ment must be abolished and tribunals
for awarding justice and agencies for
f enforcing determinations must be in
f stituted. International interests and
issues exist. Political institutions
should be established corresponding to
- olitical developments. Those most
interested should lead in demands for
world federation andc the rule of rea
son between nations. The working
people of all lands bear the brunt of
war. They do the fighting, pay the
1, war taxes, suffer most from the dis
I. organization of industry and commerce
e which results from war.
mexico.
Turning to the Mexican situation the
report makes public a letter from
President Gompers to Rafael Zubaran,
"United States rpresentative, Mexican
constitutionalists," dated July 14 of
this year, saying the federation, more
than any other American agency ex
cept the government of the United
States, aided the success of the "pros
pective government" and urges the
withdrawal of the avowed declaration
of "those who speak or assume to
speak in the name of General Car
ranza" that "retribution of the most
Draconian character" would be visited
upon those responsible for the over
throw of Madero. Such a withdrawal,
the letter added, would have a tran
quilizing effect and tend "to unite the
people of Mexico in support of an or
derly government."
The report adds: "We extend to the
people of Mexico under this new
regime our felicitations and our best
hopes for their welfare and progress."
Mining.
Lengthy presentations were made of
conditions in mining fields in West
Virginia, Colorado, Michigan and Mon
tana, including much of the correspond
ence exchanged between operators,
employes and offcials of the federal
and state governments. Summing up
the general situation the report says:
"The various different, movements
of the miners for improved conilitions
have been more conspicuous this past
year than those of any other organiza
tion. This is due to the intensity with
which the struggles have been waged,
amounting in e;ch instance practical
ly to civil war; to the number of hu
man beings to whom the struggle
meant privation, suffering and losses.
"Land holding conditions involved
in some mining districts have enabled
the operators to establish what
amounts to a feudal operating system
for the mines. They own Vast tracts
of lands, hundreds and even thou
sands of square miles in extent on
which the mines ar located. The minm
ing companies own and, thereiore, oon
trol all roads that traverse the land.
They own the houses In which the
miners live; the villages made up of
thwie malere; the 0hoo4o"U W to
OTON BROT "RS
Victrola Club
. , And THave One of the Mo ,t
P l !O VCfrOLa D red
S e b Paying$1Membeship
This s on the Price; Balance Covered
VICTROLA X. by St l Wee..kly Dues' of Only $1.00O
$75.00
This Is the Victrola
You may have your choice of the ONL FOUR LEFT
mahogany, golden oak, weathered oak
or fumed oak cabinet with record
racks, 41 15-16 inches high, 158 inches
wide, 22 inches deep, 12-inch turn- We have only four left out of the 20 which were
table. Nickle-plated Exhibtlon sound set aside for the CLUB SALE. This is your last
box, Victory tapering tone arm and
"goose neck" sound-box tube, brake, chance, so don't postpone. You are sure to be
speed regulator and indicator. Extra
heavy double spring, spiral drive motor disappointed if you delay.
(can be wound while playing). All
metal parts nickel plated. Club terms apply only until we have four more
We Wild" Accept
Your old-gtyle talking machine at its members. After that our regular trms prevail.
full present cash value toward one of . .j
these Victrolas.
ORTON BROS.
118 E. Cedar St., Missoula, Mont.
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which their children must go for men
tal training training; the churches which min
ister to their spiritual nvpds; the stores
from which they buy their clothing,
food and other necessities; the post
offices where they get their mail,
money orders and conduct their crude
banking transactions. Every detail of
mining life is under supervision of the
mine operators through their power of
ownership. In time of strike, the mine
operators have the power of evic
tion and have forced hundreds of
strikers and their families to seek
shelter in tent colonies, with the con
stant dangers of exposure. There can
be no real freedom under such condi
tions of industrial tyranny
"In addition to problems arising
from federal ownership of land, the
mine operators have assumed poliCe
power. They employ armed mine
guards to maintain their regulations
and to guard mine property. In times
of industrial peace, the mine guards
serve as police and prevent 'unde
sirable' persons from trespassing upon
the land of the mining companies. The
elastic term trespass has been inter
preted to mean all manner of organiz
ing activities. In times of industrial
disputes the mine guards are in
creased and more heavily armed. These
conditions beget violence and indus
trial disputes in many of these districts
are now practically civil war.
Troops.
"The use of armed troops by mine
operators and the power resulting from
ownership of large tracts of contingu
ous territory and the subversion of
civil government to military rule are
some of the most serious of modern in
dustrial problems. We recommend and
urge that the various state federations
of labor endeavor to secure legislation
prohibiting this brutal practice which
is subversive of all industrial justice
and freedom."
Statistical reports show the mem
bership this year to total 2,020,671 as
against 1,996,004 last year. The one
cent assessment fund to defray ex
penses of the United Hatters and con
tempt cases shows that of $15,010, the
sum of $14,752 has been expended, the
largest item being attorney's fees to
Alton B. Parker for both gases,
amounting to $9,547. Charters issued
this year to various unions numbered
225.
Jurisdiction Fight.
In connection with the jurisdiction
of the fight between the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and the Sheet
Metal Workers' union over the man
ufacture and erection of metal trim
mings for buildings, the convention
adopted the recommendation of the
executive council that a committee of
nine be appointed with the purpose of
bringing about an agreement between
the two crafts, the committee to re
port not later than next Monday.
Three members of the committee are
to be appointed by the carpenters,
three by the metal workers and three
by President Gompers. As a result of
the differences between the carpent-.
ers and the sheet metal workers the
carpenters' union withdrew from the
building trades department of the fed
eration last February.
Wrinkles Disappear
As If By Magic
"In the removal of wrinkles I have
discarded cosmetics entirely." writes
.Mme. Corsan, the celebrated Parisian
beauty expert. "The results they pro
duce are deceptive and never perma
nent. Massaging is only partially sub
cessful and it's too slow a method.
"I've never seen anything work such
wonders as a simple, harmless solu
tion any woman can prepare and use
at home without the least trouble. A
half pint of.witch hazel and an ounce
of good powdered saxolite are all you'll
nee". .ix the two and apply this re
freshing solution to your face daily.
The effect is marvelous-instantane
ous. The skin becomes firmer. 'tight
er'---every wrinkle and sag is affected.
You feel so refreshed after using the
wash; you look refreshed, too; soon
you will look ten years younger."
loiety World,.--.Av,
On the Spur of the Moment
By ROY K MOULTON.
A HAPPY MAN
Let them say what they may of the
jay with the hay
In his hair and with gallus and
Jeans.
Let them croak. Let them noke their
weak Joke at this moke,.
But he knows what true happineh~
means.
He cannot turkey-trbt, but he's got
quite a lot
Of the dough, don't you know.
That is true.
You may smile at his style free from
guile, but his pile
Of long green, when once seen
staggers you.
Ile's no dude, he's no prude. He's
some rude with his food.
Etiquette, he ne'er met in his life;
But a free man is he on the lea. plair
to see,
In his lot, not a jot of mad strife.
Prices high, don't come nigh this old
guy. You and I
Often chaff. He can laugh, under
stand.
He is there with his share and tc
spare. Not a care
Mars the joy this old boy car
command.
UNCLE ABNER
They have invented all sorts of autc
horns excepting a kind that sounds
soothing to the ear.
Our idea of elastic currency is cur
rency that will stretch from one pay
day to another.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned gal who used to help her mothei
with the dishes.
Any city feller who plays poker witl
a guy from a small town ought tc
lose his money. Poker was invented
in the back room of a country livery
stable office.
Wearin' silk hat ain't no more sigr
that a feller is in the 400 than wearin
HOW EUROPE IS PROVIDING GRISTS FOR OUR
MILLS
(By George H. Benedict).
Here we have a sheaf of reports of
new business created for us by the
European war. They show -how we are
made beneficiaries of the unfortunate
conflict.
To meet a tremendous domestic
trade as result of the war, the Wols
back company and the Standard Roll
er Bearing company of Philadeluhia
have doubled their forces, which means
the employment of at least 1,500 more
people, and are 'also running overtime.
Among a number of large war orders
received in Philadelphia to London ac
count and delivery was one placed
with the Roxford Knitting company
for 90,000 suits of underwear.
Another that has been confirmed is
for 250,000 blankets, which are being
made by the John & James Dobson
mill. The Autocar company is com
pleting one ord6r for armored ma
chines for European delivery and is
closing another.
The Parrish Manufacturing eom
pany of Reading, Pa., has, been. given
an order for the frames of 350 motor
trucks which the Pierce Arrow com
pany Will supply to France.
The Pflister & Vogel Leather com
pany of Milwaukee is working night
and day to fill an order for 4,000,000
pairs of shoes for the armies of the
1W4 ______~ -:-.. .-1LL
a leather cap is a sign that a feller
owns an oatmobile. ,
A feller can't get into good society
row unless he's got a six-cylinder car
and kin dance the tango. and then,
sometimes, the society he gets into
ain't none too good.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Congressman Gardner says the na
tion is not prepared for war. Well,
some of the European nations were
prepared for it, and they got it.
Mme. Pavlowa, the Russian dancer,
says she is going to deliver the death
blow to the tango. Those Russians
are certainly a fearless lot.
Confidence man in New York sent
to the penitentiary and made to peel
potatoes. He ought to feel at home
in the skin game.
Looking over the evidence in the
German case, one must come to the
conclusion that not all the liars are
writing war news.
An eastern woman has stuffed a sofa
pillow with old love letters. This ought
to be the softest pillow ever invented.
Thirty-five French cooks captured
40 Germans. What could be more
pleasant than to be held prisoner by a
French cook.
Vassar girls, it has been discovered,
spend $17,531 annually for pleasure.
What of it? Look how much Europe
spends for war?
In school the little fellow always
get licked. It is about the same all
through life. Look at Belgium.
THE EXCEPTION
What goes up must come down,
That's a saying of renown,
As scientists all view it.
There's one exception to this rule,
As taught in nearly every school,
For hard coal doesn't do it.
A Chinaman has invented a simple
machine with which a person can
make straw braid of find cuality 12
times as rapidly as by hand.
The Pratt & Whitney company of
Boston, a subsidiary of Niles, Bement
& Pond, has increased operations from
part to overtime. A $2,000,000 con
tract for equipping a new arsenal for
the Chinese government is in sight.
Charles M. Schwab announces that
he is about to build a large fuse plant
at Sduth Bethlehem, Pa., presaging
that he has received large contracts
for shell ammunition.
Wagon factories in southern Illinois
and Indiana have received large orders
for wagons for European and South
American delivery.
The Lackawanna mills of Scranton,
Pa., Dunham Hosiery company of
Nantucket, Conn., and the Superior
Manufacturing company, Hoosick
Falls, N. Y., are turning out under
wear and sweaters.
Announcement was made at Peters
burg, Va., that the P, G. Seward Lug
gage company of that town has been
tendered the offer of a big contract
to supply one of the foreign armies
now engaged in the war with saddle
bags. A manufacturing concern at
Bay City, Mich., announced that iti
had closed negotiations with the Brit
ish government for construction of
600 houses, each 20 by 60 feet, which,
it is said, are to be used in housing
war refugees in England. The order
calls for houses complete and ready
for. erection.