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2 THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 192C.
I Swan Interviews McKinley
By O. A. Kenned
Swan Swanson wanted letter vvrlt
ten to the Hon. Secretary of the In
terlor. It was in regard to grafting
lands. I suggested that a man With
I sheep on a thousand hills would do
well to cultivate the local land iffi-i
lals and that the honorable land
I n.mmipsloner would probabh be the
; i . - 1 arbiter of his case. .
' Xothlng doing, ' said Swan I
lng a number twelve shoe to ni dock
"i never waste time on clerks and
uiuler-strappers If you want to get I
lick action go right to the main gUV,
nn man it the top, and let htm call In
the little fellers, if he wants to."
I suggested that a secretin v of the
H interior was of necessity a very busy.
"Not loo busy to act on an impor-j
tknt case like mine. Anyhow, what
makes him busy" Why, lell.rs like
me If I don t help keep him busy,
feme other geezer will, so there you
are Besides, these big fellers like to,
have you bring your troubles to them.
Thev like
Are you sure of that"' I asked. I
1 ' "Of course, I've talked with lota of:
them, senators, governors and presi
dents, and they are all Just human be-j
ings like the rest of us, and they like
to bo treated like human iicii.K-,
i. plied putting the other number
twelve shoe beside the first upon my
LLB desk.
Vou see." he went on, a man be-
I g,ns to rise In the world. s.i an a poll-
tlclan. He is elected a member of the
H iwgislature. People see him coming
H ii i ,i thev step back and km out of his
way anil say: That's Brown stats
H senator from this county . and after a
H while he is elected to congress and
people whisper as he K'"-- bj and saj
There goes Brown, member of con-
H And thev are afraid to talk to him j
H because he is such a big man and
H when thev do talk to him because he
H a such a big man they are afraid to
H tell him the truth for fear he may not
H like It. and they don t like to take up
H so much Of his valuable time and they
H rush away before he has got through
H with all he has got to say.
H 'So the higher up he goe.. the more;
they step back and leave aim alone
H and the more he feels that he would
lke to tulk to just common folks like
""" be used to when he wasn't no proini-
H nent It must b,. awful lonesome to be
president of the l nlted 8tatea."
H "Did you pay you had talked with
B tome presidents'"' I asked.
HBhj "Sure! I shook hands with Teddy,
H a couple of times ami with old Gen.;
H l.issus Grant once when I was a boy.1
fl and I had a long talk with McKinley
H time."
H I was skeptical. Swan had been
H Known to prevaricate Ht rare Intervals,
H so I said 'When did you ever talk
H with McKinley"'
H ' "Oh. let's SSC, mused Swan, "It was
H during the Spanish war. or right away.
H koon after (hnt 1 had to 'ni-
H tago with sheep and stopped over In '
H imaha during a big doin'a th y have
inem every year and McKinley was
H there to make a speech.
The reception commutes met liim
H at the depot and there was a long,
H string of carrlagea with the tops let
down, you know, and the mounted po- 1
B lice and militia and brass hands. Mc
Kinley w aa in a carriage seated beside
a governor, or something, and oppo
site to htm Aaa a mayor and a set. ret
H service man and there was mounted 1
H militia all around the carriage
H "And every body h ered aim
hr.ts and flags and McKinley kept lifl-
lng his hat and bowing right and left
and smiling, and wh a thev got right
H opposite to where I was
fl something on ahead happened to bloi
the street so the carnage
J was in was stopped right th' i (
H "Weill the crowil from behind tsh-
H cd us people nut Into the middle Of the
street and 1 was In the front row and.
the first thing 1 know I was right
i against the bind wheel of McKlnlej s
carriage and not more than a foot
from him.
H "He was u small man and when he
H was seated in the carriage 1 could look ,
right Into his yes. and he turned hla
head and looked at me and 1 loi
I at him and he looked so frlendlj l
couldn't resist the. temptation and 1
Just reached out m hand and slapped
him on the back and I -says, 'Hello,
I Billy, old boy. how are you?
H "Well, sir, you never see a tickleder
! man than little Mac. He just laughed
all over his face and he grabbed hold
I bt my hand and Just shook and shook'
and shook You can tell if a man
I means it when he shakes hands and he
H says How do you do, sir! I am glad1
to meet you, sir. What is your name?'
j, and kept on shaking my hand.
H "And you ought to have seen the
J way them other tallows In the carriage
H looked at me when I slapped the presl- I
dent Of the United Stales on the bark
If looks could kiir You'd ha i thought
H I had broke a light In a
i house.
B "The secret service man Jumped'
straight up. and the governor trie
fl IbOO me away, and a couple of mount- J
cd militia spurred their horses Into the!
H crowd and forced tnem back, but 1 i
H stepped between the wheels and thej
j couldn't get between me and the pics-;
1 Anyhow. 1 was talking to McKlnh
H and he was talking to n I Bays to
H him, 'Billy, you are giving ue a rat
H tllng good administration and the peo-i
H pie right back of you.'
H " 'I am vury glad to hear that.' he
H Suva, 'very glad Indeed,' and the gov -Hi
einoi or mayor tried to cut in with
Hl remark but Mac only saga !yes'!
HHHHh lo him and then he asked me my name
HHVHfl i.nd where I was from and I tobl him
1 was dwaa tiwanson from Utah.
I le aakd my business and 1 told
him sheep' and then he asked whj 1
kind I preferred and just ther,
HHVHb carriage started to move mid I had
to jump to get out of the way of the
wheel, but McKinley shook hands and
I bid me goodbye "
HH Say, Swan,'' I said, do you mean
to tell me that really happened?"
HjHjHjHjj "Cross my heart " replied Swan
j I've got eh Omaha paper that tells
about It with my picture in. And that
ain't all. The procession moved up
i about fifty feet and then something
H stopped It aaln After a minute or
I (wo I see McKinley turning asound in
I his seat and looking back and, being
tail f r than the most of people, he saw
in" and he motioned for me to comt
So I steppod out into the street and
I t alked right up to the president's car-
! Mage On account of the militiamen
I had lo come up on the other side
from whers the president sat.
"That secret service man, he Just
glared, and so did the governor and
j mayor, or whatever they was. but llt
j He Mac leaned over and he says. 'You
1 d'dn t finish telling me what kind of
sheep you consider the most proflt-
aide. Mr. Swanson.'
J "1 told him 1 preferred Hamboull-
1 lets, but most flockmasters out our
Jl way waji strong for Southdowns. Then
j He ask What do you figure It costs
HHHHHJ you a pound for your wool''' told
3 Kim ten i o twelve cents."
j ' Then.' he says. 'Mr. Swanron.
a what In your opinion would be tL ef-
2 f i t on the Industry to repeal the tariff
HHjjHHJ
H Billy says, It would sure knock
1 11 seven ways for breakfast
HjHjHjHH " Do think so?' he says
jVjVHH "'I know it.' told him, 1 have
jHjHjfAV been raising wool since I was
jVjVjVjfJ boy and it can't be did for than.
HHHHH rents a
H 'I am very glad to get those fig
ures,' he says, 'I shall have occasion
lo use them I am -very glad always
to got to talk to a man who knows '
"Then the carriage started again
and he shook hands again and so did
the governor and the mayor, but that
secret service man you bet your life
he n cr shook hands "
"Now Swan. " 1 said, "look me in the
eye. Is this all true?"
'Every blasted word," he declared.
' It was in the papers. 1 toll you. W hen
Mac's carriage drove off. I felt some
one pulling my coat and here was a
little fellow with a note book and a
pencil In his hands
' 'What's your name, please?" he
says
'What In blazes Is that any busl-m-ss
of yours'." I says
" 'You were talking to the presi
dent, he says
What the devil is that to you"' I
says I've a right to talk to him!
'Where are you from"' he savst
That's none of your business,
either,' I told him. And then I BSS
that he was writing down In his note
book every blamed thing I had said.
"I looked around and, there was
three other fellows writing in note
books an fast as they ..ould, and a big
crowd gatheilng all around and a po
liceman trying to scatter thorn.
Then 1 knowed they was reporters
and I wouldn't talk lo them any more,
and they stood around me with their
note-hooka looking me over and writ
ing away like a bunch of Judges
around a prize steer at a stock show.
' And next a photographer man
LENINE CALLS
LEMLURE
Premier Declares Capitalistic
System of World Is on
Verge of Collapse
MOSCOW, July 2-i (By the Asso
ciated Press i Nikolai Lenlne. the
soviet premier, speaking at the open-,
.ng session of the third Internationale,
Monday, slated that the world's eco
nomic crisis and the fallme of the
league of nations to reconcile and
unite tin- interests of capitalistic gov
i rnmentl were the most important
factors promoting the alms of the
third Internationale one of which was
i consolidate and organize world rev
olution. Alter L. nine's addreas In w hich ho
declared, among other things, that the
entire capitalistic system of the world
was threatened WltD collapse and that
the league of nations contributed to
communism, the intei natlouale adopt
ed a resolution calling on workers of
ml natlojia to institute an economic
blockade of Poland. Lenlne pointed
out that even in countries where there
Were the mo6t favorable codltions.
such as America, Japan and Kngland.
the Increase in the coa; of living was
disproportionate to the rise In wages
and declaied that those who benefited
In all countries were in infinitely small
l-ioportion of the population.
The deportation of 600 communists
fiom America would not help the capl
lallsti.1 regime while need among the
1: Soling i i.-.s.s was increasing and
capitalists v.ere continuing to enrich
U etnselves at the expense of the
workers, the premier continued. The
working classes were ripe lor a broad
revolutionary movement arid the task
of this intei nationole was to consoli
date and organist- world revolution, he
said.
Collapse of the entire capitalistic
s. stem was threatened, Lenine said.
owing to the impossibility of settling
war debts without involving many
countries In economic . ruin and be
cause of the hopelessness of recon
struction under a capitalistic regime
English economists, such as Kent, he
declared, had already advanced the
idea that annulment Of war debts was
necessary for the i --establishment, of
International credit.
LJfiAGl 1 OF NATIONS
The league of nations, a prey to In
tel national dissensions, had furnished
no protection to small nationalists, he
asserted, and the Imperialistic govern
ments were placing the defeated na
tions in the position of colonies. Len
lne cited the difference that had aris
en with regard to the fate ot Turkey.
Thus, he said, ti.e acttv ivies of the
league of nations had facilitated the
work of the communist Internationale.
The premier pointed to the repre
sentation lii the Internationale for the
first tunc of colonies, dependencies,
and ! oppressed nations. " which he de
clared was sigiticant Experience was
proving, he added, that non-capitalls-tic
powera such r:3 those of Asia, were
fertile fields for soviet doctrines.
Regarding International organisa
tion. Leulne asserted that the Soclul-Lc-mociats
were the most serious ob
stacle to the development of i evolu
tionary power as a means of service
to all counti les as it had been shown
the; were the enemies of the working
class
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TIDEWATER CONGRESS
ASKS U. S. TO ACT
DETROIT, Mich . July 24. After
passing a resolution urging the United
Siates congress to act quickly for a
Waterway connecting the Atlantic with
the Ureal Lakes, the Great Lakes-tS.
I Lawrence Tidewater congress ad
journed today.
Call for the next congress was left
with the executive committee of the
l Tidewater association, which has a
i membership of H states.
A telegram from Herbert Hoover.
In which the former food administra
tor urged building of the proposed
Ureal Lakcs-St Lawrence waterway
under direction of & consolidation of
the construction and engineering de
pnrtmenta of U- tfovei nment Into a
single publli works department to re
placa the presenl department of in
terior, featured the closing session of
the congress.
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SIX BUILDINGS NEAR
FORT WORTH BURNED
I FoRT WORTH, Tex.. July 2 1 A
bank, three hotel and two dry goods
stores were destroyed by fire Which
swept three blocks of the business dis
trict of Desdemonta, in the Texas oil
fields The loss was estimated at
fhalf a million dollars
The fire Started In an unoccupied
j restaurant building and gained consid
erable headway before it was dtscov-
ered
No flre-flghtlng equipment Is avail
able at Iiesdeinuiila, formerly known
as Hogtown. and dynamite was us d
' to flatten out buildings In the jaih of
I the fire.
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Wanted Salesman. Read "Jake's
I New Job,'' page 4. ZS2i
.came up the street and he set up his,
machine on three legs and he says to,
me: 'Are you the man that slapped
'McKinley on the bac"'
"And before I OOUld say any thing, I
'one of the reporters says: 'Yes, ho is,
get him. Bill,' and then the reporters
I stopped out of the way and pushed
, the crowd hack and the man snapped
j Ills machine and iays; Thank you,'
and away he went with It.
"Well, sir, do you know, next morn
Lng the papers had a lot of stuff about
ithat, with my picture and my name
correct and that I was a sheep man
from L'tah and that 1 was 0 Mormon
and had two wives. But that's what
comes of talking to reporters
"I stayed In omaha two days to see
the sights, and wherever 1 went 1
could hoar people whispering to each
olhor. That Swan Swanson, the biK
Sheepman from l'tah. that slappc J
M Klnley on the bad. 1
'Ilats l didn't think any more of
lapping McKinley on the back than
1 would you. and I'll bet he didn't
mind il any more than you would;
I'll bet it made him feel young again
liut them fuss) shirts that was in the
carriage with him they nearly died
'Vou see when a man gets to be a
real big gun, all the little big gun
gather around him and they want vou
to stand back, and If you have any
thing lo say, say It to them first, and
that niakeq It all the harder for the
bif,- gun to keep In touch with the
common people
'Say, are you going to write that
letter for nie or not?"
FOREIGN HFFAIRS
DOMINATE TRADE
Prediction Made That Money
Will Remain Tight for Re
mainder of Year
NEW YORK, July 2-! -Foreign af
I airs dominated the financial markets
to an unusual decree this week, intfr
national exchange becomlne acutely
unsettled in consequence of latosi
complications in ibo Husro Poli?h im
broglio. Another significant phase of the in
ternatlonKl situation was presented by
the record of exports and Imports for
the fiscal year In volume these Up
ure- were tinprccedentedly large but
the June trade balance in favor of
this country wan the smallest of any
month prior to the world war
The met that (several of the federal
reserve branch banks recently ep
proached the limit of their rediscount
resources was regarded Rfl sufficient
proof that the crook situation has los:
little of its protracted tension The
opinion was expressed by the chi-i ex
ecutlve of the country s largest nation
al bank that momy would remain tigh
If not stringent, for the remainder of
the current year.
The stock market during the week
lapsed into apathy. Spasmodic out
bursls of activity were almost wholly
at the expense of quoted values.
The wage Increase award and pros
pects of an tfarlv advance in freight
and passenger rates Imparted a meas
ure of firmness to transportation
.hare, but this was forfeited when
shorts extended their commitments to
seasoned or representative industrials.
Judge Gary's view of 'future lndus
' rial conditions piompted some spec
Ulatlon regarding the earnings of the
United States Steel corporation for the
i ind quarter of the year. These rr.
lo be made public Tuesday Conserva
tive opinion believes that they will ex
ceed the first quarter's return by a
considerable margin.
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ABUSE BY MILITARY
IN MEXICO HALTED
MEXICO CITY, July 23. Orders
have been Issued to General Guadalupe
Sanchez, chief of operations in the
Vera Cruz district, giving instructions
that the military forces limit them-
Ives io executing the rulings of the
civil authorities, and avoid abuses,
says a government press bulletin to-1
n'ght
General Arnulfo Ft Gomez, chief of i
operations m Tamaullpaa has reported
the routing; ol the rebel leader Manuel
Larranga near San Jose del Pinto
(Advices to the state department in
W a.-hlnrrton of July 20 told of the re
volt of General Larraga, who with 500 I
men was said to be operating about
76 miles west of Tamplco).
The bulletin announces that the I
strikes in Tamplco and other parts of j
the country have been settled
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PUBLISHER OF GERMAN
WEEKLY IS ASSAULTED
SIOUX city a.. July 24 Oscar
Hoffman, publisher of a German
weekly newspaper here, was beaten
over the head 1 an unldent ifh d man
w ith a black Jack ' today. He Is ex
pected to die. Police believe Hoffman
was attacked from behind an hour af
ter the negro Visited his office to get
a history of the war. He is uncon-dous.
STRIKE IN LUMBER
CENTER CALLED OFF
MAKINETTB. Wis., July 2 4. By an
unanimous vote last night the Timber
Workers' union of Marinette and Men
ominee having over 1.200 members
called of the stilke for an eight hour
day which has been In progress since
May 30. This lumber center Is about
I the last to resume operations and the
timber workers' strike in Wisconsin,
I Minnesota and upper Michigan ap
pears to be over
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GENERAL FELIX DIAZ
WOULD LEAVE MEXICO
MEXICO CITY July 23. General :
j Felix Diaz erstwhile revolutionary
leader in the state of Vera Cruz is
ready to leave the country, considering
the revolutionary movement ended, ac
cording to an announcement tonight
by the war department Most of Ol n -oral
Diaz's fore have been disbanded,
it is staled, and the remainder are be
ing paid off under the war depart
! ment's supervision.
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STUIKF IN SPAIN
BILBO A. Spain July 23. Twenty
five thousand metal workers struck to
day, demanding a 110 per cent in-
' crease in wage.
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EUiE FERGUSON 1
! "HIS HOUSE IN ORDER" I "I
ITALY AFTER ITS
RICH MALEFACTOR
Premier Declares Ill-begotten
Millions Cannot Influence
Political Life
ROME July 23 Interpellated In
the chamber today on the recent dls
oiders in Italy, Premier Gloll'ti de
clared the government would discover
not only those guilty of actual law
breaking but the Instigators.
"We are no respeotors of persons."
he said "If anybody lr:-.aelne3 ho can
Influence the political life of the coun
ti y with Ill-beKOtten million, this per
son will soon discover his foolish mis
take.' The premier alluded to reports that
persons enriched by the war were now.
spending their money to foment dis
orders with a view to overthrowing the!
cabinet or hindering parliament In lls
functions, and thus prevent enactment
of the propos-eil patrimony bill, which!
WOUld COnfieOatS eXCSS profits
It Is announced that some Investi
gations already made In Rome Into the,
disorders have resulted in discovery of,
financial plot against tne state.
showing that in two days alone about
ten million slate bonds were sold ini
order to depress the market. Judicial'
authorities, it Is Qeserted, havo Issued!
warrants for the arrest of those re-
sponsible. Similar investigations are
being held In other cities, especially J
Milan. Genoa and Turin.
WHITE HOUSE PICKET
SUED FOR DIVORCE
TOPEKA; Knn.. July H .Mr Kffle
W. Maine, Kansas woman suffragist,
named some time ago aa one of a num-1
SIR THOMAS GETS
THIRTEEN CATS
I FROM ADMIRERS
OX BOARD THE STB AM i
YACHT VICTORIA. July 24.
i l.y Wireless to The Associated
Press.) Sir Thomas Lipton sat
in the shade under the striped
canopy rigged over the after-deck j
of the Victoria today, dividing his
time between conferences with his
chief yachting advisers and lis
tening to his secretary! who read
aloud the cable messages and
aerograms which poured in with
cheer and encouragement from
all parts of the world.
Of the many presents which Sir
Thomas has r- Ived from admir
ers since he began his fourth at
tempt to lift the America's cup,
the most popular variety has been j
cats
The Irish baronet received his
thirteenth pedigreed kltton today.
"UNDESIRABLE" TRAIN
ARRIVES IN GOTHAM
NEW YORK Julv 24 Sixty
ihie' aliens, charged with being "un
desirables." arrived at the Ellis Island
Immigration station today under a !
heavy ffuard of federal agent, to be
ht-bl for deportation. They were
brought here from Seattle, Chicago.
Kansas "ity and other points of the
west and mlddlo weit. where they
had been taken Into custody bv -le-pnrtment
of Justice agents.
bor of women arrested for picketing!
the White House, Is defendant In a di
vorce suit In the district court here and
filed her answer today. Her husband.
William YV. Main. Is a truck farmer,
living near here. Mr. Main den'es
that politics caused her to neglect her
home
RELIEF FROM PAPER
SHORTAGE HELD NEED
MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 24
Courtland Smith, president of the
American Pres9 aasoc latlon, discussing
the print paper situation before the
Wisconsin Federated Printing and
Pr association today urged country
publishers to demand congressional
action to solve the print paper problem
and suggested Inquiring the attitude of
.Senator Harding and Governor Cox on
the subject.
"What we want is definite assurance
from one of the candidates that he
will call a special session of congress
to put through a bill relieving the
present newspaper shortage," Mr.
Smith declared. "There should be es
tablished a parcel post rate of one cent
a pound on print paper with no zone
rate so that small publishers could buy
direct from the mills "
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MORE VEGETABLES AND
FRUITS ON MARKET
WASHINGTON; July 24. Prults,
vegetables and all forms of garden
truck are now on marke's In supolles
between 10 and 15 per cent greater
than during ihe same period In IJ1J(
the United states bureau of markets'
reported today. The movement to
consuming markets by railroad, the
bureau estimates, lg now 2,000 cars a
day and as much more normally
comes to the largei onters by truck
and local haulage. 1
j 13,000 CARS NEEDED j
FOR COLORADO CROPS
DENVER, Colo , July 24 Thirteen Wf
thousand refrigerator cars will be re- j
quired to move Colorado s fruit ai.d
vegetabio crop, according to reports IM t
of state utility commission inspectors '
today. The west slope will ship 9,000 MflKi!
cars and the Rockyford melon crop HP
will fill j.000. The shipments will
begin August 13
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