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s3ionccr |)rfss. J. \. IhmltlieUl, or. MILLER, Those Krupp guns sent as “kitchen furuiture” from Germany to the Span iards will probably next be heard of in Uncle Sam's kitchen or in some junk shop. While the captain general at Manila is encouraging the authorities at Ma drid with fake reports of the submis sion of insurgent chiefs in some por tions of the Philippines, he discounts them by reports of fresh outbreaks in other portions and in the Caroline is lands. How precious the memory of a writ er of uplifting hymns! The late Rev. Henry Francis Lyte. author of “Abide with Me.” and other hymns sung the world over, has been dead half a cen tury. Brixham church, Devon, where he ministered for many years, is now in the course of rebuilding. With gifts and words of sympathy for the object, come loving and grateful expression which testify to the service the poet yet fulfils. Such a ministry has an immortality of its own. Austria, aside from its rulers, is not nearly so Spanish in its smypathies as has been generally supposed. The Deutsche Zeitung of Vienna, referring to this subject recently, says: “The great North American republic con stitutes a warning for all European princes and governments who ar** steering for absolutism. Were it not for the American union the cause of civil liberty in Europe in our days would be in a bad way.” It would probably surprise most rulers of the more despotic countries of Europe to know to what extent sentiments such as the above prevail in their domin ions. J R. Cravath makes some useful sug gestions to owners of electric-light plants in towns of 2.000 to 5,000 in habitants. Towns of this size usually have an electric-light plant, a water works system, a small factory or two and a dozen or more small steam plants of from one to twenty horse power. Mr. Cravath maintains that there la ordinarily no good reason why the electric light company cannot sup ply power to these varied industries more cheaply and more satisfactorily than under the present system of every man for himself. In other words, the power generation for the community should be consolidated under the roof of the electric-light plant, and the men and hollers and engines there employed made to earn money twenty-four hours a day instead of two or three. That salaries and wages are govern ed by the profits of business has been «t commonplace of political economy; hut of late an interposing factor has been unusually demonstrative in the character and disposition of the em ployer. There are instances where a sharing of a portion of the profits of business has made employes more will ing, regular and useful. There have been counter instances where the em ployer's hardness has kept his work men irritable and unhappy, to his in jury as well as to theirs. Strikes are not infrequently brought on or aggra vated by the arrogance or luck of sym pathy of employers, and there is rea son to believe that a comparatively recently costly and bloody outbreak would not have taken place had nut the superintendent met the represen tatives of the workingmen with curses instead of conciliation. Workmen are too frequently hasty in action, and reckless and unreasonable in their de mands. Ordinarily, however, if they are met in a spirit of conciliation, the first impulse of self-assertion soon ex hausts itself. Reason to some extent then seeks control. At this point can did statiuents by the employer will or dinarily be candidly received. By them the wage-earners may be made to see more clearly the conditions that regulate wages, and which, wisely or unwisely heeded, make to their em ployers the difference between loss aud a reasonable profit that is as Justly the employer's due as are reasonable wages to the wage-earner. Of course the cordial acquiescence of the work ingmen in the statements made de pends wholly on their belief in the truthfulness and moral integrity of their employers. Hard, grasping em ployes are always distrusted. They simply reap what they have sown. An Army and Hat y Memorandum book is what you have bten wanting. The Northern Pacific ba* it. It contains cut of the Maine, inap cf Cuba, list of United States and Spanish naval vessels, interior draw ing of a battleship, illustrations of United States and Spanish ships, glos sary of navy and army words, table of distances, commanders of United States ships and army corps, list of United States regiments and their com manders and other information very useful and valuable at this time. The book fits the vest pocket and is up to date. Send ten cents and the book is yours. —Charles S. Fee, General Paseenger Agent, N. P. R. f St. Paul, Minn. REGULATION OF RAILWAYS. S. DAK Mr. I.n Toilette's artiele on “The Regulation of Railways.” in tin* May number of the South Dakotan is so misleading that 1 cannot resist reply ing to it. Mr. lai Follette tells in pompous lan guage how “our fathers, when they builded the base of our governmental superstructure, regarded the instru ments of commerce ami transportation as the property of the people.” With this appeal to the constitution as a starting point, lie proceeds to make an argument much confused l>y irrele vant quotation against the position taken in the recent decision of tin* United States supreme court to tin* effect that a state commission has no power to regulate or control interstate traffic, “but has only power to estab lish reasonable rates ujton local or do mestic traffic,” 1 am quoting Mr. l.a Toilette's words. We all know that a text can be found in the Bible to justify almost any sin. All that is necessary is to wrench the text from its context and then Interpret it to suit yourself. But the railroad commissioner presumes sadly on the ignorance o # the people of South Da kota if he Imagines that they will swallow his attempt to quote the United States Constitution in support of the power of a stale commission to “regulate or eoutral” iuteistate rates. Has Commissioner La Follette ever read the history of the constitution? Has he any idea why the colonies fed erated themselves into the United States? If there is one thing which “our fathers, when they builded the base of our governmental superstruc ture,” understood (that is a great phrase—you can see the railroad com missioner putting out ids chest as lie wrote it> —if there is one thing. I sav. which our fathers then understood, clearly and unequivocally, it was that all matters of transportation and com merce between the several states were, and must eternally be. utterly free from the “regulation or control" of every individual state, and must rest entirely with tin* federal authority. The complete reservation of interstate relations to tin* federal jurisdiction was practically the most essential and vital izing feature of the federation. Read the constitution to which Mr. La Follette appeals! The very first powers voted in congress arc*: First—The congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes, duties, im posts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for tlie common defense and general welfare of the Fidted States: but all duties, imposts and ex cises Khali be uniform throughout the I'nited States. Second—To borrow money on the credit of the I'nited States. Third to regulate commerce * * * among the several states. Mr. Isi Follette quotes largely from the book of Mr. A. B. Stickuey Mr. Stickuey is said to be a most worthy gentleman, but he is not generally re garded as an authority on logical! rea soning. He has recently been enlled a "most able-bodied developer of imprac ticable theories/* But why does Mr. La Follette say that the main tenor and purpose of Mr. Stiekuey's book is to show that railway rates are. in fact, a tax? Mr. La Follette carefully omits from his quoted passages any refer ence to this. If he had not clone so. it would have exposed at once the ab surdity of his whole* article. It does not seriously matter, for the present purpose, whether interstate railway rates lire* in fact a tax or not. If they are. then tlu* right of any slat,* to "regulate* or control" them is explic itly forbidden by tin* first clause (of See. Ylll.i which I have* quoted above. If tlie*y are* not a tax. then it is express ly forbidden by the third clause. Howe*ver the*y are re*garded in theory, and whatever they may he iu fact, tin* e ne* thing that “our fathers, when they builded," saw clearly, was that ail charges on commerce and transporta tion l»etwe*en states must be* controlled solely by tin* federal power. Mr. La Fedlette* positively shrieks because the* supreme court says now that no state eeiinmissiou can control these charge's. 1 say now. that every man ill South Da kota who knows anything of our his tory will say with me, that if what Mr. Iji Follette now demands had been permitted in our constitution, tin* fed eration of the I'nited State** would not have endured for one* ye*ar. It would have* crumbled again Into its several indcpenelent colonies. “Our fathers” knew it. They took e-are* that it should imt e-rumble. It is this labor of emr fathers that Mr. La Follette now attacks and would subvert. I am no politician I have net votes to win by attacking corporations. If I was se*oking votes. howe*ve*r, 1 should trust tin* manhood of South Dakota to follow me* in proclaiming tlie* eternal fixity of the* principles of tlie coustitu tion which reserved interstate relations to the* federal jurisdiction rattier than 1*- le-el by Mr. La Fedlette* wliei. for tin* sake of making a partisan argument against a railway company, is willing tei deny tliese* priliciple-s and to uphold the most dangerous form ill which tin* doctrine e»f states’ rights lias us yet shown itself. If South Dakota could control inter state rate-*. se» could North Dakota and lowa anel Missouri and Nebraska and Minne-sota. What would lie worse, so could New Ye»rk. Pennsylvania anel Ill inois. There* would Im* a pretty scram ble. with every state controlling rate's across state* 1 (orders te» suit itself. While the scramble lusted, the weaker and Wtßtcrn letateg would Buffer. If II) 11. F. Hunter. it continued, they would be depopulnf aml. Hut it woiihl Jn>t A'uutitnh*, vi l cause, for tin* mere preservation ol the country and themselves, all states would be compelled to refer the re sponsibility back where it belongs to the f«*deral authority. Mr. La I-ollette not only has the constitution and the law and the courts against Idm; rudiments of common sense arc against ):iui. Nothing but chaos and danger to the very fabric of tin* 1 nion could tvsiilt from following the course he advocates. It is tin* United States supreme court which, Mr. La Follette says, is now perverting the spirit ol the con stitution and frustrating the laws. Personally, when it conies to inter preting tin* constitution of tin* 1 nited States, I would rather trust the inter pretation of the supreme court of the United States than the interpretation of Mr. La Follette. Mr. La Follette uses large words and high-sounding generalities, and it is very difficult to tell, in these generali ties which are at variance with the facts, whether he is really ignorant himself or whether he only trusts to the ignorance of his readers. If he has read the discussions in the senate and the house which preceded the pass age of the interstate commerce act. he must know that things which he savs as to the meaning of that act and its Interpretation by the courts are totally false. 1 am inclined to think, howev er. that he does not know it, and is not wilfully telling what is not so; in which belief 1 commend to Idm a care ful reading of those debates. Th* u. if lie will turn to lii« article after reading the debates, 1 imagine that he will be a little ashamed of some of the things In* has said, and will be very sorry that in* has put himself on record in print. What is worst in Mr. La Toilette's article, however, is the spirit which underlies it and the point of view which ought to be resented bv every loyal citizen of South Dakota. Mr. La Follette is a politician, and every poli tician knows that it is a clever trick to appeal to that inherent human discon tent. which is more or less at the bot tom of all our natures, and that it is a particularly clever triek to play upon this discontent l»y pretending tlmt the people are suffering horrible outrages at the hands of the eorporation capital ists. Mr. La Follette says that our so cial conditions are greatly disjointed, that the corporations arc managed without regard to the interests of the people, and lias an inspired pity for tin* poor people of South Dakota who are suffering such wrongs. Mr. La Follette talks about tin* rail ways having banded themselves to gether against their creators. The railway company with which I am connected does more to bring settlers within the state, to develop its re sources and to help it on to tin* mag nificent destiny which awaits it. than tin* whole tribe of La Toilettes will do in a thousand years. It is just such talk as liis that is tin* chief obstacle which those, who, like myself, are en deavoring to help in settling and build ing up South Dakota, have to meet and light against. We are now trying, per haps. to get capitalists to put money into a factory in South Dakota or we are endeavoring to persuade settlers to conn* here and make their homes and to help build tip tin* country and they produce from somewhere an article just like that of Mr. La Follette’s. puli lished in some home paper, as evidence that tin* people of tin* state are all dis contented and unhappy, and nothing that lie can say will overcome it. Tin* people of South Dakota are not discontented or unhappy. They are prospering. They deserve to prosper, and I believe Mr. La Follette would In* doing iiis state more servlee if he pro elainied these facts to tin* world, rath er than sit whimpering and whining about dreadful conditions which do not e.\i*t in Smith Dakota, at least. As for the recent decision of the United States supreme court. I have already said that 1 believe that that court knows more about our constitu tion than Mr. La Follette. As a mat ler of fact, the decision contains noth ing new. but only reiterates what lias been decided again and again. There is no question whatever, and has not been for twenty years or so. as to tin* right of the people to regulate the rail roads. In matters of Interstate trattle that regulation must be done by the federal authorities. In the matters of purely state traffic the state is su premo. The only limitation which is set to the authority of the state is that limitation which the constitution amt the < oiiimoii law have thrown as a pro tection around every individual citi zen. The state cannot confiscate the property of any individual or any per son. whether that person is a single man or a eor|M»ratioii. without due pro cess of law. It cannot take for public use the property of an individual with out reward. The state cannot arbitra rily *eizc a man's farm without paying for it. liecause it wants to build a sehoolhouse on It nor can it arbitrari ly lake the property of n railway com pany. Wl-at the United States su preme court has said is. that a railway company is entitled to a fair return on the fair value of its property. If it does not get such a fair return the state is confiscating that property, which it cannot do. That is what Mr! La Toilette complains of. There is no limit on the right of the state to regu late railways, provided that it does not positi\ely confiscate their property. It is only when the state gets below tin* limits of justice that the court*. and the constitution intervene. If tins is any ground for complaint on the part of tie* individual against the courts, 11,on Mr. La Toilette is right: but I imagine that the people of South Da kota prefer that the principles of the constitution should be observed and that common liberty aiul those com mon rights which the constitution se cures to all of us should be maintained, even if :t politician here and there should be disappointed in bis efforts to stir up a fttss for the purpose of climb ing into office on tne votes of tin* peo ple w hom he is trying to mislead. SUSPICIOUS AFFAIR. Mfilrrioa* Attempt tu BreaU Into a Powder Atlanta. Ga.. Juno 11.--Au attempt was made on the night of May 29 to outer the magazine at Fort Philip, on the Mississippi, sixty miles below New Orleans. In endeavoring to aj * preheml the two culprit* the sent nel who challenged them, was struck on the head by a bar of iron in the hands of a hidden ally and seriously injured. The news of the affair has just become known. At about 2:3d on the morning of May 29 the sentinel on the parapet of the Tenth battery heard a suspi cious noise in the direction of the mag azine. and ou creeping tip to the house saw two men trying to force the locks. He challenged them but they ran. and although tired at, managed to escape, one of the men sending a shot through the sentry's sleeve a* he left. The sentinel pursued the two men, ami as he neared the steps leading to the lauding a third man stepped out and struck him with a bar of iron, felling him to the ground. The guards, aroused by the shooting, came upon the scene hastily, but the three men escaped in a boat down the river. SUCCESSFUL ENCAMPMENT. Sou Hi Dakota O. A. R. Wliul# I p Its Kiisiness einel Fleets Ollleers. Canton. S. D„ June 11.—The South Dakota CJ. A. It. closed a successful encampment with the installation of tlmse officers: T. P. Farr of Pierre, commander; B. F. Bowman of Ccttys burg, senior vice commander: Bailey Madison of Sturgis, junior vice com mander; (J. W. Demote sfc chaplain. Delegates to national etucampmeiit: Col. Campbell of Sioux Falls: W. It. Stowe, Brookings; Joseph Elson. Northvilh*. Relief corps office rs: Viola Murphy, Yankton, president: Martini De Long, Canton, senior vice* presi dent; Anna Peters. Alexandria, junior vice president; Mrs. Hobbs, Nankton. treasurer; Mrs. Howard, Le nox, chap lain. Hot Springs was named as tlu* place* for the next annual encampment. NOT DFSPERATF. Sny« Manila ( mu fluid Out I mil llt-lr Arrive*. Madrid, Juue 11.—The cabinet coun cil was (mtupied with a long d'seus sion as to tlie military situation iu the Philippines. <b n. Correa, minister of war. deuied that Capt. Gen. Auguati’s jKMiition was desperate*, and Se-nor Sa gasta added that Manila had means of decense until the arrival of rein forcements. The* council then adopted important measures which are kept secret. Capt. Aunon, minister of marine, was au thorized to take whatever measures lie considers necessary with reference to tlie Philippines, anu Scuor Puigcicvcr, minister of finance*, was authorized to come to an agreement with the leaders of tlu* majority in tin* chamber for the passage of the budget. SAMPSON DFTFRMINFL. Work fur Whirl, fluhoon lti«Ucd Mis Life Shall not Ur 1 nduii.. (Copyright, ISV*S. by Af* <;aVrl l , r*«y ) Kingston, Jamaica, June 11. Admi ral Sampson is determined that the work for which I.ieut. Hobson staked his lift* shall not he undone, and upon tin* first suspicion that tin* Spaniards arc* endeavoring to raise or blow up the wreck of the Meiriinac. which now liars tlu* entrance to the prison of ihe Spanish fleet, the batteries and forts will Im* bombarded and reduced to ruins. Neither will he permit any more guns to lie mounted on the bat teries commanding tlie entrance. CHOKFD OFF BY GRFELY. Prohllitta I'tihllrn t Min of \«>vva Re. ItnrdliiK Aiuetlinn For-e*. W’ashiugton. June 11. Gem A. W. Greel.v, chief signal service officer, lias issued an Older prohibiting the pub i catlon of news regarding American forces. <;en. Greedy said no exceptions would be made. The prohibition af fects the movements <.f both naval and military forces, whether tlie subject matter of the dispatches was offend in this country or abroad. Mali Box Robber* I mile ten Columbus. (>l,io, June 11.-Timothy Hogan, Richard Burns and Frank Baxter, of the famous Hogan gang of mail box robbers and check riiM*rs were indicted by tlI rilti-d States grand jury, liugau pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years each on two of the Indictments, the sentences to he served concurrently. Burns and SUM*"* 4 Bu ‘ eun,y “■* wll > Faxt Time ou tbe Wnluuh Springfield, ill.. June n. p ;t sK,‘„ger Train No. H on the Wabash, beat the record of the Continental limited on that road, which was until then the fastest time ever made in u ie Wi-it The train was fifty tive minutes laTe' and the seveuty-om miles between Tfi ton and r>,o,tur. in,.|udinc ..“»/£ teeD-miuute stop ut Toulon was maUa in sixty-eight minutes. aUe GRIGSBY'S COWBOY!* Gossipy Letter From the « C'hlckiiii. Hnßu lau, P «| Tlie Sioux Falls Argus’i 4,0. respondent with "Grigsby'!!' %t "■rites that paper as follows- Brigade headquarters has been « liyhed on the grounds of ’i lt . ? atl camp. Fourteen large tents f 0 " 1 ' 0 ’ the quarters for Brig. ( , uruN ! and staff. D ' Gr ‘t*b; I.ieut. Col. Lloyd is now nctinp « i ml in command of the regitnejf % 1 “ 'y«< I’oiuter „ud UIJ J I hue commander. Next to the Yank," the boys could L ot have ' better pleased than to have u, e JP* put In command. 0l! Lieut. David Conor of Troon T> been made adjutant, to til) the mJ Adjt. Sues, who is made adjutant iral. Adjt. Conors, who was forinJ] editor of the Clack Hills p reßß „*3 gis. is very well known through 3 Mack Hills and South Dakota general Jy. IK is a line gentleman and sold, and had South Dakota been permitted to raise another troop, he would had l*een made captain before lean Lome. 1 I.ieut. 11. V. Bally of Troop M. jj 0 . taiia. Las been made quartermaster k till the plat e of Quartermaster I{. v Farllman, who is now quartcrmasi* general. The weather is very dry and hotiti rain would be a welcome visitor, u ii en are working hard on drill m withstanding the heat and dust. s« era! times men have been fotvvd n drop out of llue on account of the hrai but not until to-day have any of tb men lieen seriously affected. To-da three men out of Troop Johnson of Devils Lake. John Than of Fargo and Ernest Kitcbel of bevij Lake, were overcome by heat, andfuj several Lours their recovery seem* doubtful. Everything possible tgl done for them, and at this time tbl seem tetter. Aside from tliese caswl there is one serious case of illness-1 that of Private Caylor of Troop ]J Montana, who is sick with pneumonia! He was removed to-day to the divlsioJ hospital. The other cases, reported a few days ago, are all on the uiend. I Ernest Hodgson and George FfuLanl of Huron. S. D.. arrived this w«>k.atil were mustered into Troop E. Tliejl will take the places of s< me who wnw promoted since the mustering in oil the regiment. I Sixty-three mules have been turnedl over to the regiment, to he used to! haul supplies. These mules will le| used i ii Tin wagon train when the reg-| inn 'it got s to the front. They are driv-i eu six unties to a wagon. Men are! hind outside of the regiment to drivel the train. I Religious services w ill be held tjl Chaplain Clevenger at i'.iib a. m. andlfl p. m. Sundays. I Among the Fifty-s, <-ond lowa im nt. which came in Wednesday, irel Johni Boc and Fred Bird, both clal Sioux Falls boys. The regiment made up principally from N’orthwaf-fl ern lowa, and many of its mental! art well known in Sov.tn Dakota. 1 Mail intended for in« mbers of ttel cowboy regiment should l*e addressed:! Camp Thomas. I Chickamauga Park. (la., I Third F. S. Vol. Cav. I '1 ht lett< r of the troop should abotcl given where it is known. The word! “»'ou |»oys M on a letter helps to direct! it- destination, as the regiment is best! known by that name. I Pants, shirts, hats, underclothinjj b-ggii.s. sticks*, etc., are being issued tul the men to-day. The special dressum-I form, designed by Hen. Miles for tbisl regiii ent and especially adapted ferl service in a hot climate, have not ydl nrrived. For Esninptr. I *‘lf fakes an exceedingly brilliant I man to know just w hat t< do at a crltFj cal moment/' remarked the student ell lnstorv. “Yes." replied the man with a nnffl* 1m r of Impecunious frit-mis, “it s<"uc times takes me live or ten minutes wj •let id* whether or not to receive ft giam marked ‘collect.’ Detroit Frtfl Pit ss. Deeettful W on an. “(•'cod gracious. Maud, it cannot l< ptissibh that you arc going to marry M newspapci man—a mere salaried l** I son?" "You must rot breathe it to a BoU ’ but I intent] to break the engafemJJ as -ot• n as I get all my poetry i»rlute - Indianapolis Journal. i% nll -VI nnii|i o 1 y. ** A lit i-mt Jjojxdists!" eehticd Ci»nitossel. who had been approa* j by au agitator. "’C'ourst "< !ire- ... "But are you sure ytu tarry J 0 ( principles f ar enough?" , , "We couhln't carry '< m no fu Ftdks around here won't eve* I j checkers any more fur ftar o cor 1 j in' soint thing*/’ I nfulfllletl E*pe* , talt< ,B *' "That man Titherson's a regular t P'do boat." "Jlow tltt you make that out' , "Ever since he was alev at M t people have been predicting k things for him. but he's newr „ anything worth mentioning 3 l * Cleveland Leader. Her Clmlrr. “lK>rothyV father Lad l»t (, J Lome tLree cow*, out* of ' v '" < 11 i i!l ,iy black nut! wliite aud marked, while tbe other t"° '' To her mother’* inquiry » 8 . re . her little *rirl liked best, 1>0!0UJ Mh Ihe bit* ”I—l guest* the one with tue miss skin, mamma.”— Judge. fopyi dr Hav au ’ rank till i btiir rajx 0 (8 nd n