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YOU ALWAYS GET AN ANSWER WHEN YOU WRITE
TO CONGRESSMAN MONDELL ON ANY PROBLEM
Receives More Mail Than Any other
Congressman and Renders
Real Service
Scattered over every section of
Wyoming are hundreds of settlers,
surrounded by improved homes as fine
as to be found anywhere in the west,
who owe their occupancy of the lands
in large measure i not entirely to the
efforts of Congressman Mondell.
Many a Wyoming homesteader,
threatened with the loss of his land
either through some technical viola
tion of the law or the undue officious
ness of a public official, has saved his
home by appealing to the Congress
man from Wyoming. Every year, as
Government bureau exactions become
more strict and field agents more
suspicious, the Wyoming Representa
tive finds occasion to use his good
offices in behalf of the settler. And
never is the appeal in vain. If the
case has any merit, and the settler
can convince Mr. Mondell of his hon
est intentions to make the land his
home, the Wyoming Congressman
never lets up until the last possible
avenue of relief has been exhausted.
Mr. Mondell receives more mail
than any other member of congress.
His correspondence, frequently reach
ing 100 personal letters a day, must
be answered as fully as the circum
stances warrant; no letter may be
slighted; no thought of the writer’s
politics or standing in the commun
ity; every correspondence must have
as complete and full a reply as is
possible to give. Many of these
letters require hours of personal
research through the records; others
several calls on Department heads
and other officials; call for the ex
ercise of legal knowledge of the high
est order; others for extended writ
ten and oral arguments before the
General Land Office or the Secretary
of the Interior. The public land
cases particularly, are of such in
tricate nature as to require expert
knowledge of the law and rulings of
the Departments. Many Congress
men decline to take up these cases,
and turn them over to land attorneys,
writing their clients that as Congres
smen they “are not permitted to
take cases in which the Government
is a party.” Mondel! never uses
this subterfuge; his long experience
in land matters has made him the
best posted man in or out of Congress
on these matters, and in some way
he finds time to give the case the
attention it warrants. It is his pride
that every letter is answered, and its
recipient told to write again if there
is anything further about which he
can help in any way. In handling
this tremendous correspondence, if
anyone is to be put off with a short
answer, it is never the homesteader
or the man of small means. He is
given the most complete information
possible, and urged to write again if
what is sent is not fully clear.
It is not surprising that Mr. Mon
dell’s activities in behalf of the home
steader should have given him the
sobriques, hereabouts, of "The Home
steader’s Advocate,” for the Wyoming
representative was himself once a
homesteader. Raised on an lowa
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frontier homestead, and doing farm
and railroad work for many years
afterward, and always since inter
ested in agricultural development
and associated with the work of its
improvement and extension, he knows
the needs as well as the hardships
of the homesteader, and an appeal
from this class enlists his greatest
endeavors.
TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE
VERA CRUZ INCIDENT.
In the Spring of 1914. occur
red the capture of Vera Cruz.
Men from one of our ships had
been arrested at Tampico and
had been discharged with an
apology. But our Admiral de
manded a salute, which was re
fused. Thereupon the President
went to Congress, asking au
thority to use the armed forces
of the United States. Without
waiting for the passage of the
resolution. Vera Cruz was seiz
ed. It appeared that a shipload
of ammunition for Huerta was
about to enter that port. There
was a natural opposition to this
invasion and a battle occurred
In which nineteen
and over a hundred Mexicans
were killed. This, of course,
was war. Our dead soldiers
were praised for dying like
heroes in a war of service.
Later, we retired from Vera
Cruz, giving up this noble war
fare. We had not obtained the
salute which was demanded.
We had not obtained repara
tion for affronts. The ship with
ammunition which could not
land at Vera Cruz had soon
landed at another port and Its
cargo was delivered to Huerta
without Interference. Recently
the naked truth was admitted
by a Cabinet officer. We are
now Informed that “we did not
go to Vera Cruz to force Huerta
to salute the flag.” We are
told that we went there “to
show Mexico that w* were In
earnest in our demand that
Huerta mnst go." That Is. we
seized Vera Cru* to depose
Huerta. The question of the
salute was a mere pretext.—
From Mr. Hughes’ speech of ac
ceptance.
DEEDS, NOT WORDS
Men who can turn their hands to
any sort of a job that needs doing!
are very useful as husbands. Mr.
Pickles was one of these useful gen
tlemen. His amiable wife once ask
ed him to hang a picture she had pur
chased for the parlor, and he said
that he would do it “in a jiffy.”
“You just get me the cord and a
picturehook,” he said to his wife, “and
tell the servant girl to run down into j
the cellar and bring up the step lad- j
der and carry it into the parlor, and
where’s those two little screw thing
umajigs that go into the back of the
frame at the sides to put the cord
through? Look them up for me; |
and I shall require the gimlet to
bore a little hole for the screws.
Somebody get the gimlet; or maybe
I can drive them in with a hammer.
Johnny, you run down into the cel-1
lar and get the hammer. Perhaps j
a chair would be better than a step
CW a
“My Good Min, Don’t You Ever Forget Anythin*?*'
CUT!I •In IcA lee
ladder. Somebody go out in the
kitchen and get me a chair. I don’t
want to use one of the parlor chairs.
Got that cord? Just measure off
about the right length and fasten it
to these little things at the side.
"There, now; there’s your picture
hung up, and no fuss about it. The
difference between us men and you
women is that, when you have any
thing to do, we do it, and don’t talk
all day about it.”
PROMISE TO REDUCE THE
COST OF LIVING
NOT KEPT.
Our opponents promised to
reduce the cost of Ivlng. This
they have failed to do; but they
did reduce the opportunities of
making a living. Let us not for
get the conditions that existed
tn this country under the new
tariff prior to the outbreak of
the war. Production had de
creased. business was languish
Ing. new enterprises were not
undertaken, instead of expan-
I aion there was curtailment, and
our streets were filled with the
unemployed. What ground is
there for expecting better con
ditions when the unhealthy
stimulus of the war has spent
Its force and our industries and
working-men are exposed to the
competition of an energized Eu
rope?
It la plain that we must have
protective upbuilding policies,
i —From Mr. Hughes’ speech of
I acceptance.
PRAISES CAVENDER
| Cheyenne Tribune: Splendid work
has been accomplished at Camp
Kendrick by Major Joseph W. Cavend
er of Cody. He is a fine officer, court
eous and popular.
It is always hard to meet easy
payments.
NORTHERN WYOMING HERALD
WOMEN PREPARE
FOB J1 BATTLE
1 Colorado Springs Conference s o
Determine Attitude
in Campaign.
WOMEN ARE ACTIVE
Plan Energetic Campaign; Sup
port Dependent on Course
1 of Big Parties.
The part played by the women
in the forthcoming president ial
campaign in the movement for equal
suffrage, promising the most active
participation of women in national
politics in American history, will be
planned when women suffrage lead
ers, militants and pacifists, meet at
Colorado Springs for a three-day
conference of the National Women's
party, August 10 to 12. The confer
ence will consider what policy the
new suffrage party, organized last
June at Chicago, shall adopt in the
coming campaign to secure submis
sion to the state by Congress of a
national suffrage constitutional a
mendment.
Dr. Frances Lane, county chairman
j of this county of the Woman’s party
I left Tuesday for Colorado Springs
where the conference is to be held
to determine which political party
shall receive the support of the more
< than million voters who have pled
n ged themselves to vote for the party
. that will declare itself for the Anth
. ony amendment.
Will Determine Course
Whether these campaign forces
y will be thrown for or against the
nominees of existing political parties
■ or whether an independent ticket will
be formed is the decision to be made
at the Colorado Springs conference.
The status of the national suffrage
amendment in Congress also will be
considered at the opening session
August 10. It is expected that by
that time Congress will be on the
point of adjourning and the fate of
the Susan B. Anthony amendment
probably known. Should the Demo
crats in control of Congress fail to
act upon it, leaders here declared,
that will be an important factor in
the probable decision regarding sup
port of or opposition to the Demo
cratic party by the Woman’s party.
“Suffragists will judge the Demo
cratic party by its deeds anti not by
its promises, since being the party
in power it has had and still has the
power to pass the federal amend
ment,” was the statement of Miss
Alice Paul, chairman of the Congres
sional Union.
MISSIONARY CONFERENCE
Under the direction of Mrs. W. G.
Pitkin, county superintendent of mis
sions of the Park county Sunday
school association, the Sunday schools
of the county will hold a missionary
conference at Powell on Saturday
and Sunday, August 19 and 20.
The assistance of Rev. F. H. Throop
a missionary of Soochow, China, who
is in the United States on a furlough,
has been obtained and he will speak
Saturday evening, Sunday morning
and evening. Both Rev. and Mrs.
Pitkin are on the program for ad
dresses based on their experiences
while missionaries in India.
The Powell band has been engag
ed to furnish music.
Entertainment will be furnished
all delegates and each school in the
county is expected to send as many
as can possibly attend.
IQl£ A NATIONAL
l“lu PARK SUMMER
Join the August vacation throng in the Black Hills, the Big Horn* or the
Absarokas, Estes Park, Colorado, or the Rocky Mountain National Parks,
Yellowsone or Glacier. There is room for all in the thousand-mile stretch
from Colorado to the British boundary.
You can quickly reach any of these mountain localities by the Burlington
and I can help you to plan a sweeping circuit tour of the West’s magnificent
out-of-doors that will include several of these localities on very low fan’
ticket.
BB The Cody Way, with its ninety-mile auto
mobile ride over Sylvan Pass, is the crowning
scenic adventure of the Yellowstone tour.
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THE LINKUM HIGHWAY
This from an lowa man:
When completed the Lincoln high
way will stretch 3,000 miles. At pres
ent they are trying to make about
400 miles of Lincoln highway stretch
3,000 mileß.
PARKS INLANDER
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Parks Jr., are in
Lander this week visiting and look
ing after business matters. Mrs
Parks has a brother at Du Boise and
they will visit him. Lander is the
former home of the Parks family and
it was from there they came to take
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1916
up their residence in Cody. On the
plains about Lander Mr. Parks learn
ed the sheep business from the sage
brush up and it his thoro knowledge
of the business that makes his advice
valuable here in the handling of sheep
and the marketing of wool and mut
ton. He is interested in the First
National at Lander of which his cou
sin, S. Conant Parks is president.
The trip was made in the Studebak&
and while in places the roads were
mere trails it was greatly enjoyed.
A good plodder is better than s
cheap genius.