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Volume 9—No. 8
GLENDIVE, MONTANA. THURSDAY. APRIL IO. 1913
Eight Pages
OUR AIM: TO TUBLISH A NEWSPAPER.
SHORT MESSAGE
STÏOKS TO TARIFF
President Wilson Advises the
Extra Session.
URGENT NEED OF REFORMS
Chief Executive Says Recent Elections
Laid a Duty Upon the Democratic
Party, Which Must Lighten the Bur
den of the People—Says It Would Be
Unwise to Move Forward Headlong
or W'th Reckless Haste; That Busi
ness Must Be Encouraged, Not De
stroyed, but That Everything That
Has a Semblance of Privilege Must
Be Abolished— Promises Special Mes
sage Dealing With Needed Banking
and Currency Laws.
To tbe Senate and House of Repre
sentatives:
I have called the congress together
in extraordinary session because a
duty was laid upon tbe party uow in
power at tbe recent elections which it
ought to perform promptly in order
that the burden carried by the people
under existing law may be lightened
ns soon as possible and in order, also,
that the business interests of the conn
try may not be kept too long in sus
pense as to what the fiscal changes
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PRESIDENT WILSON
are to be to which they will be requir
ed to adjust themselves. It Is clear
to the whole country that the tariff
duties must be altered. They must be
changed to meet the radical alteration
in the conditions of our economic life
which the country has witnessed with
in the last generation. While tbe
whole face and method of our indus
trial and commercial life were being
chanced beyond recognition the tariff
schedules have remained what they
were hefore the change began or have
moved in the direction they were giv
en when no large circumstance of our
industrial development was what it Is
today. Om task ts to square them
with the actual facts. The sooner that
Is done tlie sooner we shall escape
from suffering from the facts and the
sooner our men of business will he
free to thrive by the law of nature
(the nature of free business! instead
of by the law of legislation and arti
ficial arrangement.
How Tariff Has Grown.
We have seen tariff legislation wan
der very far afield In our day-very far
indeed from the field In. which our
prosperity might have had a normal
growth and stimulation. No one who
looks the facts squarely in the face or
knows anything that lies beneath the
surface of action can fail to perceive
the principles upon which recent tariff
legislation has been based We long
ago passed beyond the modest notion
of "protecting" the industries of the
country p,nd moved boldly forward to
the idea that they were entitled to the
direct patronage of tbe government
For a long time—a time so long that
the men uow active In public policy
hardly remember the conditions that
preceded jt—we have sought in our
tarin schedules to give each group o!
manufacturers or producers what they
themselves thought that they needed
in order to maintain a practically ex
clusive market as against the r«*t of
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the wot iVi Consciously or unconscious
i y we have built up a set of privileges
and exemptions from competition be^
hind which it was easy by any. even
the crudest, forms of combination to
organize monopoly, until at last noth
mg Is normal, nothing ts obliged to
stand the tests of efficiency and econo
my. in our world of big business, but
everything thrives by concerted ar
rangement Only new principles of
action will save us from a final hard
crystallization of mouopoly and a com
plete loss of the influences that quick
en enterprise and keep independent en
ergy alive
Must Abolish Privilege.
It is plain what those principles must
be We must abolish everything that
nears even the semblance of privilege
or of any kind of artificial advantage
and put our business meo and pro
diners under the stimulation of a con
stant necessity to be efficient, econom
ical and enterprising, masters of com
petitive supremacy, better workers and
merchants than any in the world
Aside from the duties laid upon arti
cles which we do not and probably
cannot produce, therefore, and the
duties laid upon luxuries and merely
for the saks of the revenues they yield,
the object of the tariff duties hence
forth laid must be effective competi
tion. the whetting of American wits by
contest with the wits of the rest of the
world
It would lie nuwise to move toward
this end headlong, with reckless haste
or with strokes that cut at the very
roots of what has grown up among
us by tong process and at our own in
vitation It does not alter a thing to
upset it and break it and deprive it of
a chance to change. It destroys it
We must make changes in our fiscal
laws, in our fiscal system, whose ob
ject is development, a more free and
wholesome development, not revolution
or upset or confusion We must build
up trade, especially foreign trade We
need the outlet and the enlarged field
of energy more than we ever did be
fore We must build up Industry as
well and must adopt freedom in the
place of artificial stimulation only so
far as it will build, not pull down In
dealing with the tariff the method by
which this may be done will be a mat
ter of judgment, exercised item by
item To some not accustomed to tbe
excitements and responsibilities of
greater freedom our methods may in
some respects and at some points seem
heroic, but remedies may be heroic
and yet he remedies. It is our busi
ness to make sure that they are genu
ine remedies. Our object is clear if
our motive is above just challenge
and only an occasional error of judg
ment is chargeable against us we shall
be fortunate.
Thorough, but Moderato.
We are called upon to render tbe
country a great service in more mat
ters than one. Our responsibility
should he met. and our methods should
be thorough, as thorough as moderate
and well considered, based upon the
facts as they are, and not worked out
as if we were beginners We are to
deal with the facts of our own day
with the facts of no other, and to make
laws which square with those facts
It is best-lndeed. it is necessary-to
begin with the tariff I will urge noth
ing upon you now at the opening of
your session which can obscure that
first object or divert our energies from
that ciearly defined duty At a later
time I may take the liberty of calling
your attention to reforms which should
press close upon the heels of the tariff
changes, if not accompany them, of
which the chief is the reform of our
banking and currency laws, but just
now 1 refrain. For the present 1 put
these matters on one side and think
only of this one thing-of tbe changes
in our fiscal system which may best
serve to open once more the free chan
nels of prosperity to a great people
whom we would serve to tbe utmost
and throughout both rank and file.
WOODROW WILSON.
The White House, April 8* 1913.
State Board Of Health
The use of the public drinking
cup and of the common roller towel
in all hotels, restaurants, lodging
houses and other public places was
prohibited in regulations adopted by
the state board of health at its meet
ing at Helena. Regulations for the
control of various diseases and those
relating to railway sanitation adopt
ed by the Northwestern Sanitation
association at St. Paul last Decem
ber were also adopted by the board.
|Dr. D. J. Donohue of Glendive was
i re-elected president and Dr. W. 5.
1 Butler was elected vice-president for
I the ensuing year.
Score cards for sale at the Monitor
office.
Wilson Upsets Precedent And Willj°P
Deliver Message In Person
Washington, April 6.—Setting aside
precedents of more than a century,
President Wilson will appear in the
halls of congress Tuesday to deliver
his first executive message in person.
This decision of the president evoked
much comment among the congression
al leaders. He will be the first pres
ident of the United States to appear
officially before either branch of
congress in deliberative session since
John Adams in the first few years of
the last century. An attempt was
made in 1813 to revive the custom, but
President Madison declined an invita
tion to discuss foreign relations with
the senate. Since then no president
has even suggested joining in the de
liberations of congress.
It was suggested tonight that the
senate might go over to the house
while the president read his message.
Such a proposal is under consideration
by congressional leaders.
President Wilson made his plans
known to Majority Leader Underwood
of the house, Representative Mitchell
Palmer of Pennsylvania, and the other ■
house democratic leaders, that they ;
might prepare for the event. j
The president believes he can get
in closer touch with the members of
both houses of congress, by personally
expressing his views to them. In ad
dition to his official visits to the floor
of the house which will become a mat
ter of White House policy, the presi
dent will take advantage of these vis
its to kold conferences with party lead
ers in congress?
The president has been told by his
friends that such a procedure is fraught
with embarrassments unless he tact
fully keeps to his purpose of merely
giving advice as the leader of his party
and offering suggestions to those with
whom he confers. Those who have
discussed this with him say he is con
vinced that congress will not misun
derstand his intentions that he will go
to the capitol in a spirit of friendly co
operation so that there may be at all
times a unanimity of purpose between
the executive and legislative depart
ments of the government.
The president, it was learned today,
has read with considerable surprise re-1
ports that he had actually written
parts of the tariff or that he had forced
any agreements witn committees of
congress. As declared, he simply had
been asked to make suggestions and
had cheerfully done so; that the bill is
the work of congress and that his part
in it has been that of counsellor and
adviser. It is known, too, that the
president is anxions to give equal con
sideration to the leaders in both houses
of congress in seeing that party pledg
es are carried out.
The senate has organized already for
the new congress and its sessions will
be a mere routine meeting. Immedi
ately afterward, however a democratic
caucus will be held when the fight to
revise the senate rules will begin.
This matter will occupy the senate
for a part of the time that the house
busies itself with its work of tariff de
bate. When the house assembles the
democrats, after their caucus decision
will renominate and re-elect Speakei
Champ Clark.
The republicans will nominate Repre
sentative Mann of Illinois and the pro
gressives will nominate Representative
Murdock of Kansas.
The progressives may precipitate
trouble at the first fall of the gavel
if they carry out a plan to demand the
seating of William J. McDonald in
place of Representative H. Olin Young
of the twelfth Michigan district, when
the roll of members elected is called.
It is considered likely, however, that
the progressives will be recognized to
en the contest of Mr. Young at that
time.
After the election of the speaker and
the organization of the house, the
democrats will bring in their proposed
rules for congress. The party fight on
these rules probably will go over until
Tuesday. Both republican and pro
gressive minorities will present
substitutes for the democratic rules
resolutions. The democrats with a
majority in the house, contemplate lit
tle trouble in running things to suit
themselves. In the senate the demo
crats will line up with 51 senators,
against 43 republicans and 2 progres
sives.
Both houses of congress will be be
sieged tomorrow by a small army of
suffragists, who have planned a parade
through the downtown streets to end
in the rotunda of the capi+ol, where
individual suffragists will perform
missionary work for the cause among
members of the house and senate.
Time Of Examinations
The regular eighth grade examina
tion will be held May 22-23. The
nex t teachers examination will be held
Thursday and Friday, April 24-25.
Second grade subjects are: reading,
W riting, arithmetic, spelling, gram
mar, geography, physiology and hy
giene, U. S. History, civics, (state
and federal), theory and practice of
teaching.
For a first grade certificate, appli
cant must in addition to the branches
required for second grade certificate
take an examination in American lit
erature, physical geography, element
ary algebra, (through quadratics), and
school management.
The questions in theory and art for
the remainder of the year will be bas
ed on "O'Shea's Every Day Problems
in Teaching.'' This can be had for
$1.00, postpaid, by sending to the pub
lishers, Bobbs, Merrill & Company,
Indianapolis, Indiana, or for $1.10 of
W. A. Moore Book and Stationery
Company, Helena, Montana.
The reading questions will be based
on some book to be announced in the
March issue of the Inter-mountain Ed
ucator, Missoula, Mont.
Questions will be given only in the
order indicated below :
Thursday Forenoon Friday Forenoon
Theory and Art. Grammar,
Reading. Geography,
physical Geography Algebra
Thursday Afternoon Friday Afternoon
Spelling. History,
Arithmetic. Physiology,
American literature. Civics.
Geography. Physics.
No grade, whatsoever, of a certi
ficate not issued in Montana can be
transferred.
In no case can any grades be trans
ferred unless the applicant is the hold
er of an unexpired Montana certificate.
If the certificate has run out the ap
plicant must be examined in all
branches.
Permits cannot be issued to any
candidate who has failed in the exam
ination, nor to one who might have
taken it and neglected or refused to
do so.
HARRIET KELLY,
Co. Supt.
Why Women Prefer It.
When the newsboy comes through
the train with the Chicago papers,
watch the married couple across the
aisle. If the man is a well regulat
ed husband he will ask his wife which
paper she prefers, and then you may
lay odds that the one chosen will be
The Record-Herald. There is no mys
tery about it. The man knows that
he will find all the news in The Re
cord-Herald, to be sure, but the woman
knows it is the only paper that gives ad
equate attention to the things in which
CITY ELECTION
QUIET AFFAIR
Votes Canvassed by Coun
cil. - Otber Business.
Except for the closing of the places
of liquid refreshment, the average
citizen would hardly have known
that the annual Glendive city election
was occurring on Monday, so little in
terest did the occasion create. There
being no opposition developed to any
of the candidates in the field, voting
by the ordinary citizen was merely a
matter of form. The polls were open
during the usual hours, from 8 to 6
o'clock.
In the evening the city council held
the regular monthly meeting and the
votes were canvassed. In the First
Ward the result was as follows: For
mayor, w a g an> 50 ; councilman,
Whetham, 53; treasurer, Tisdale, 52;
police magistrate, Goulding, 51. The
Second Ward gave the following re
sult : For mayor, Hagan, 25; treasurer,
Tisdale, 22; police magistrate, Gould
ing, 24; councilman, Baker, 24. It
was one of the lightest municipal votes
recorded in a long time.
The council, taking up its routine j
business, allowed the usual bills, and
received the regular monthly reports, !
which were approved.
An application from A. G. Nehring j
to run a pool hall on the south side
was referred to the police committee
to investigate and report on.
Brubaker Brothers received the con
tract for the city cement work, hav
ing the only bid in. Their rate is 14
cents per square foot for walks, and
women are especially interested. In ev- j
ery daily issue she can find a bill of fare !
for the day's three meals, reliable so |
ciety news, good book reviews, bright
verses and jokes^without vulgarity, a
cartoon that everybody can enjoy and a ;
fair share of the news of the day, re
lating to women. Every Monday there
is "Martha's Management,'' a very
helpful column of culinary topics. In
the Sunday edition a whole secHon is
devoted to women, including the most
complete department of household
economy in the country, the latest
fashions, beautiful embroidery pat
terns, Mary O'Connor Newell's breezy
articles, Dame Curtsey's "Novelties
in Entertainment'' ar.d many special
article of timely interest. Then there
is the Sunday Magazine of The Re
cord-Herald, a real magazine, full of
good love stories and beautiful pic
tures. Do you wonder that women
prefer The Chicago Record-Herald.
Sheriff Killed And Negro Lynched
Mondak, Mont., April 4.—Thomas
Courtney, first sheriff of Sheridan
county ,>as instantly killed and his
deputy, Richard Burmeister, died
of his bounds sustained when they
endeavored to arrest Jim Collins a
negro, at a bridge construction camp
near here today.
Collins, pursued by a posse of rail
road bridge builders and citizens,
surrendered when he was cornered
in the brush. He was turned over
to the officers and taken to the jail
j here.
Tonight a mob formed the jail,
I overpowered the guards and remov
! ed Collins to the street. A rope was
thrown over a telegraph pole, his
clothing was set on fire and while
he was shrieking for mercy, the ne
gro was hoisted, blazing into the air
and a score of shots fired into his
! swaying body.
j With the death of Collins the mob
quietly dispersed and the body was
I cut down by the authorities.
I The shooting of the two Sheridan
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25 cents for street and alley crossings.
Hanley & Golding also had the only
bid in for tapping, and as their price
of $33.00 for water mains was not re
garded as excessive, they were award
ed the contract.
There were three bids in for street
sprinkling and team work, as follows:
F. B. Whetham, $125.00 per month:
C. Johnson, $130.00; Ed. O'Neil,
$140.00. The contract was awarded to
Mr. Whetham.
An interesting discussion was de
veloped when the question of a reduc
tion of the city electric lighting rates
was taken up. Finally the body, in
cluding the mayor and all the coun
cilmen, decided to form a committee
to wait upon the power company in
reference to the subject in hand. A
letter had been received from the city
clerk of Helena inviting the mayors
and city officials of all Montana cities
to meet in Helena on Monday, April
28, for the purpose of formulating
ways and means for the securing of
lower electric rates, as it was con
sidered that the rates in all Montana
cities are excessively high, when the
cost of the generation of electricity is
considered. This promises to be one
of the most important movements that
city officials of Montana have taken
up in a long time. Glendive will no
doubt be represented at the Helena
meeting, probably by the mayor and
one or more aldermen.
county officers grew out of their ef
forts to arrest Collins on a com
plaint sworn out by a colored man
named Patterson, who charged that
Coliins had assaulted his wife when
they went to take possession of Neil
Clay's cabin at the camp of the
Union Bridge and Coustruction
Company, which is building abridge
over the Missouri river a few miles
north of here. Collins had been
staying with Clay since his arrival
at the camp a couple of months ago.
Clay sold the cabin to Patterson yes
terday.
She! iff Courtney and deputy Bur
meister came down from Plenty
wood and secured E. P. Wilson to
take them out to the construction
camp. Wilson inquired for Collins
at the office of the company and was
directed to the cabin. As he step
ped inside the door Collins pulled a
gur. and commanded Wilson to
throw up his hands. Wilson did so
and was relieved of bis gun.
Collins started to run outside and
was met by Sheriff Courtney. The
officer drew his gun but Coliins was
too quick for him and shot him twice
through the body. The sheriff ap
parently died instantly.
Burmeister, who had remained
with the team, came running up at
the sound of the shooting. The
negro's deadly aim poured five bul
lets into Burme»ster's body.
Collins took the guns of both men
and jumped into the brush. A
number of Mondak citizens and con
struction men went in pursuit of the
negro and he was soon surrounded.
Seeing no chance to escape the fugi
tive surrendered and was brought
to Mondak, where the officers and
prisoner were met by a large crowd
with ropes. Collins was successful
ly lodged in jail after his guards had
stood off the mob.
The mob later made a second as
sault and secured the negro.
Deputy Burmeister w'as brought
here, where a special train was se
cured and he was rushed to the hos
pital at Williston, N. D. His death
was reported tonight.