Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 194, Hammond, Lake County, 4 February 1907 — Page 8

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TOE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Mond.iv. Fob. 4, 1007.

Inconsistencies of American Policy f - jT.;.-i-rr?3 By DAVID J. EUEWEH, Associate Justice United States Supreme Court

CONTRACT SYNDICATE

Strong Combine Prepared to Bade Oliver in the Building of the Canal.

MOST OF THEM EASTERN MEIT

E are busy denouncing trusts, but the most dangerous

of them all ia the trust IX THE FUTURE to pay debts. Look at the enormous issue of municipal bonds in

the building of railroads. Xo wonder that we have the largest and most magnificent developments of railroad transportation that the world has ever seen. Nearly all the litigation in respect to municipal bonds has ceased to be conducted along the higher levels of honorable and fair dealing, but has sunk to the lower levels of S:IALL TECHNICALITIES and trivial omissions.

country, with all its greatness, must answer still further questions before its FIXAL VALUE to the world is determined, and as we look at the great sweep of its life we see some things of which we ;annot boast. The real questions are : Which way is the nation looking ? iWhat are its ideals, its aspirations ? The ideal of today is the reality of tomorrow. Is the republic more and more seeking material development, luxurious living, ostentation and parade, or is it looking to the HIGHER TIIIXGS, striving for those which make for the better life of the individual and the nation ? H We cannot be blind to the fact that there is great striving after the MATERIAL. We are manifesting a fondness for military and naval prowess. Our great expansion and rapid growth in population and resources are developing a habit extravagant. Wo have been most unwisely DISCOUXTIXG THE FUTURE. It is refreshing, the emotional utterance of our recent great secretary of state, the lamented John Hay, that the diplomacy of America is to be found in the Monroe doctrine and the Golden Rule, and I may add in passing that he did more to make this world power than ALL THE BATTLESHIPS we have built or may build. Wo are trembling on the verge of wondrous social and political changes. Those most important, most profoundly involving the social, business and political lifo of the republic, do not spring from railroad rates and rebates, inspection of packing houses, the coal trust or the Standard Oil. Far more profound and vital is the building up within this nation of A UNIVERSAL BODY OF HONEST, INTELLIGENT, PATRIOTIC CITIZENSHIP. In our successes in this direction lie the promise and prophecy of the future. 'Another matter must be noticed, and that is the relation of this republic to foreign nations. Wo cry peace while we are PREPARING FOR WAR. Our navy is already fourth in size of the nav'?s of the world, and there is a persistent clamor for its increase. When England launched the Dreadnought the cry went up for a larger Yeseel, and apparently ten millions of money are to be invested in it. In opposing the bill for the construction of this vessel the chairman of the house committee on appropriations declared that the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth congresses had appropriated for the navy $388,000,000, A SUM LARGER THAN THE ANTICIPATED COST OF THE PANAMA CANAL, yet on the other hand we summoned

the two warring nations, Japan and Russia, to a conference at Portsmouth, which resulted in a peace whose achievement was a blessing to each of the contestants and a LASTING GLORY to this republic. We saw the Cubans at our doors outraged and trampled upon, and Mro assumed the burden of war to liberate that oppressed people and establish a republic. But we rode roughshod over tho rights of Colombia and established the republic of Panama IN ORDER THAT WE MIGHT GET POSSESSION OF TERRITORY for our construction of the canal. WE ARE STRIVING TO STRENGTHEN AND ENLARGE THE MONROE DOCTRINE FOR AMERICA, CUT REPUDIATE THE APPLICATION OF ITS PRINCIPLES TO ASIA. Government Cannot Interfere With Schools By Judge PETER- S. GROS3CUP of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals

rHE national government has no right to make a treaty that will interfero with the regulation of schools BY A STATE.

California or any other state has the right guaranteed to it

under the constitution of the United States to exclude ANY ONE from its schools it chooses. The schools are established, supported and regulated by tho STATE. The state has absolute power over them ; hence it can bo plainly seen that that part of any treaty made by the national government which conflicts with a state's right to regulate ITS OWN SCHOOLS is void. IF THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO INCLUDE SUCH PROVISIONS IN ITS TREATIES IT SHOULD ESTABLISH NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN EACH STATE, SUPPORT THEM AND REGULATE THEM.

John

B. McDonald and the Peircea Are Fronhaeiit.

Nobody in the Combination from Chl cago-IIow the Work. Is To Be Portioned Out Among the Members.

MBS. GALLINGER IS DEAD Stricken as She Enters a Theater at W ashington and Only Lives a Moment. Washington, Feb. 4. Mrs. Jacob II. Gallinger. wife of Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, was taken ill in the Belasco theater and died shortly

Humor end Philosophy By DUNCAN M. SMITH

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Property

THEY DON'T KXOT7 YOU.

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Washington, Feb. 4. William J. Oliver, the lowest bidder for the construction of the Panama canal, has got

ten together as his associates, some of the largest contractors in the United States, most of whom have been engaged on government construction work running into millions of dollars. TIk? men whose names he will submit before the ten days allowed him to complete his bid expire are as follows: "What the Men Have Done. John R. McDonald, of New Yorfc, who built the subway; John Peirce, of New York, who built the Portsmouth dry doe;:, the Chicago and Washington postolfice buildings, as well as other government works amounting to over

$;0,000,X;0; W. II. Sayre. of the Intertional Contracting company, New York; P. T. Brennan, of the Brennnn Contraction company, Washington; John II. Gerrish. of the Eastern Dredging company. Boston, and P. T. Walsh, of tiie Walsh Contracting company, Davenport, la. , Syndicate Holds a Meeting:. New York, Feb. 4. William S. Oliver, of Knoxville, Tenn., the lowest bidder for the construction work on tho Panama canal, held a conference here with ten other contractors who will, it is understood, be associated with Oliver in the event that his bid Is pcecptcd. The purpose of the conference, it was said, was to discuss tho formation of a corporation . which would be prepared to undertake the work on the isthmus. Those present in addition to Oliver were: John B. McDonald and John Pierce, of this city: George Peirce. of Maine; P. T. Walsh, of the Walsh Contracting com

pany, Davenport, la.; P. T. Brennan, of the Brennan Construction company, Washington; Robert Russell, of New York, who has been associated with Oliver in many enterprises; W. II. Sayre, of the International Contracting company, of New York; Charles H. Ackert, third vice president and general manager of the Southern Railroad company; It. A. Chester, vice president of the National Bank of Commerce, Washington, and R. A. C. Smith, of this city.

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Mr.S. JACOB H. GALLIKGEB. afterward. Senator Gallinger, his wlf I and four friends went to the theater as the guests of David Belasco. Tho party had just entered the building when Mrs. Gallinger swooned, and before an ambulance arrived she wa dead of heart disease. As the stricken woman was being removed to the lobby of the theater Mrs. Roosevelt, Associate Justice Moody, and others forming a party came through the private entrance. Mrs. Gallinger's body has been taken to Concord. N. II., where the funeral will take place tomorrow.

Cf course it riles you through anj through To have a clerk eret gay with you, A man you're certain cannot get One-half your salary, and yet lie acts as though he owned the town And has the nerve to call you down. But don't let that your temper mar; Perhaps he don't know who you are. When the conductor on the train Will not allow you to explain, But wants to put the blame on you Because he missed you going through And says you tried to beat your way And didn't really mean to pay, Don't rise and throw him from the car; Perhaps he don't know who you are. When the policeman swings his club And grufFly says, "Move on, you dub. And take away that ugly mug. Or I will land you in the jug." Don't answer him. "The street Is free, And part cf it belongs to me," Hut quickly hie yourself afar; Perhaps he don't know who you ore. How can the man with but two eyes Know you are great and good and wise? You do not bring your pedigree Along for every one to see. The multitude can't " ulerstand That Sullivan once shook your hand And that your father saw the czar; Perhaps they don't know who you ar.

Subdivisions and Desirable Lots for Residences For Sale

REASONABLE PRICES, EASY TERMS

Slip Noose.

DOES NOT ANNUL C0NTEACTS

Railway Ilate Bill Not Intended Invalidate Passes Given Persons for Lifetime.

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PORTIONING OUT THE WORK

An Income Tax IMakes Liars

IS MAKING BIG SHARE

By ANDREW CARNEGIE

ONT INTERFERE WITH THE BEE WHEN IT

HONEY. BUT WHEN IT IS THROUGH TAKE A

OF THE HONEY. I believe with 3Ir. Gladstone, who said AN IXCCXME

TAX MAKES A XATTOX OF LIARS. There is no tax so pernicious, not only from an economic, but from a moral point of vievc, as a tax that requires a struggling young business man, fearful "whether the bank directors vyill pas3 his note for $1,000 tomorrow, to be compelled to explain all his PRIVATE BUSIXESS to eome man in the community who may bo himself a bank director or who is connected with banks. T PENETRATES BUSINESS TO THE CORE. This nation will never regret AXTTHIXG so much as attempting to collect a tax upon men engaged in business bees making honey for the national hive trying to PENETRATE INTO THE MINTJH2E of all their business.

Doesn't Seem To Be Any Place Left for Oliver to Get Busy. A representative of Oliver announced some plans that liavobeen agreed upon.

McDonald, -will, if the corporation to bo formed is awarded the canal contract, have general supervision of the. construction work. George Peirce and John Peirce. who have interests in tho largest quarries in this country, will have charge of the mason work, and Walsh will have supervision over the work of excavation. Brennan will have portions of the construction work to do. Robert PiUssell will be, it was said, in charge of this work. Vice President Ackert, of the Southern railway, will look after and have general charge of all transportation to the canal, not only of men employed but of the machinery used. II. A. C. Smith and Chester will have charge of the financial end of the corporation. Smith is a director of the Metropolitan Street Railroad company, and is also a director and officer in many other banks and corporations. It was said that the contractors in the eomnanv would associate with

themselves such other contractors as might seem necessary from time to time. Among others consulted by the contractors named were P. F. McCarthy, who is associated with. Walsh In the lattcr's construction company; George O. Tenney, an expert on concrete work, of Spartansburg, S. C; L. C. Gunter, who has been associated with Oliver in previous enterprises, and George F. Parker, representing the Title Guaranty and Surety company, of Scranton, Pa. The latter has arranged for the $2.C00,00O bond. The final papers for Incorporation, it was said, will be drawn up teday. Oliver has until Wednesday to comply

with the requirements of the government, and he will be ready on time.

Louisville, Ky., Feb. 4. Judge Walter Evans, in the federal court, overruled the demurrer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company to the equity petition filed by Erasmus L. and Annie M. Motley, in which the latter sought to enforce a contract by which the railroad company agreed to issue annual passes to each of the plaintiffs during their lifetime. The court says that the act of June '3, 190G, known as the railroad rate bill, under which the railroad company declined to issue the passes as agreed, should bo construed precisely as if in its general language there was an express exception excluding from Its operation the complaints' contract. In on other way can the vested contract rights of the complainants be preserved. The general tenor of the opinion is to the effect that congress did not intend to annual any previously made contract founded upon good consideration. The court says further that the passes issued the Motleys, while called "free passes," were not so any more than a ticket bought and paid for. JEH0ME AFTER THIS HAN ?

One of the Thaw Jurors an Old-Time

Friend of the Father of the Assassin.

Minneapolis, Feb. 4. It has just been

learned here that Wilbur F. Steele, one

of the jurors sitting in the narry K

Thaw murder case in New York, has been a long-time friend of the Thaw

family, and was for years agent for the prisoner's father In North Dakota.

Steele bore such an intimate relation

to the late William Thaw, father of Harry, in a business way, that men

who knew him in and about Steele, N

D., a town named for him, are inclined

to think that he may be one of tha men whom Jerome is determined to

unBeat.

Fire Damage of $150,000 Chicago, Feb. 4. A six-story build

ing at S7 Franklin street, occupied by

several manufacturing concerns, prac

tically was destroyed by fire. The damage was estimated att $150,000. Those?

who suffered losses were: Oscar Loest

ner & Co., manufacturer of perfumes

Biehl & Sifferman, harness makers

and the Ticket and Tablet company manufacturer of labels.

Government in the Oil Business. Washington, Feb. 4. The creation of h corporation to take charge of the operation of mineral and oil lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, with the president of the United States ns the ex-efficio head, is the object of a

bill introduced by Senatcf Clapp. Better "Wages for Railway Men. Chicago, Feb. 4. An Increase in salary of 5 per cent, has been given to office employes of tho Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad in Chicago, affecting all who receive less than $100 a month and who have not received an increase within a year. Oklahoma Hits the Trusts. Guthrie. O. T.. Feb. 4. The constitutional convention has adopted the following proposition: "Trusts and monopolies shall be treated as crlmtaeis ana b prohibited

Associate of Horace Greeley Dead.

Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 4. David

Peck Ithoades. one of the founders of the New York Tribune, and an asso

ciate of Horace Greeley, is dead at

Stratford, aged 84. After leaving The Tribune Rhoades formed the New York

News company, which business he con

ducted for some years until he sold out to the American News company and retired.

HAMMOND REALTY CO. Hammond Bldg.

'lias any one got that scamp Jcnkin3

on the string now?"

"Yes." "Who?" "The sheriff."

They Should Reform. Every once in awhile, but frequently

enough to be yo often, some bank

throughout the country that has impos-

ng glass windows and expensive gilt

signs gets tired of paying its depositors and hangs a polite notice on the door to that effect.

While most of tho banks are good

for don't wo have their word for it? the banks with the closing habit are numerous enough to give nervous prostration to the man who has beat the game to the extent that he has a few hundred dollars saved up.

What we need in this country almost

as much as tue l'anama canai ana a portable flying machine is a set of

bankers who will not labor under the impression that the man who hands

his money over the counter to them

will not want it back some day.

They want to be broken of the habit

of thinking that it is a Christmas pres

ent regardless of the season, and con

gress can do no more worthy thing than

to devise a set of regulations that will

help them break the habit.

nnroiiT or tiiu commtion or Tim FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HAMMOND, IND. In the State of Indiann, nt the Clo t Iluinr January 26, 1!07. iu:sornn:$ Loans and discounts j 5T2.4G9.S3 Overdrafts, secured and unsoi:tvd L2SS.33 1. S. bonds to secure circulation 300.000 00 U. S. bonds to secure U. S. deposits 130,000.00 Premiums on U. s. bonds 7 500 on Bonds, securities, etc Furniture and fixtures"!!!!!!'.!!!" 1 500 Ort Due from national banks (not res.-rv.'- :' ats ! ! ! ! ! ! 26.$S:.S7 Duo from state banks and bankers . " So'"63 93 Duo from approved reserve agents !!!!!!!!! lOMtXKTS Exchanges for clearing house 1 04? 15 Fractional paper currency, nickelsand cents'. ..!!!! 225 SI SPecIe 23.394.0 ' . Legal-tender notes 3.000.00 :C,334.60 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 p, r cent of circulation) 6.000.00 TOTAL 51.092.4D9.47 M.UULlTlESi Capital stock paid in $ 100 000 00 Purplus fund 35.000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid... 14,044.94 National bank notes oustandins 100 000 00 Duo to trust companies and savings hanks $ 23.S08.47 Due to approved reserve agents 633 0'' Individual deposits subject to check.... 42S.O0O.53 Demand certificates of deposit 8.528.53 Time certificates of deposit 224,316.30 Certified checks 1,563.66 United States deposits 139.931.50 Deposits of U. S. disbursing officers 10,048.50 842,219.31 TOTAL ...11,002,433.47 State of Indiana, County of Lake, ss: I, W. C. Helman, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. W. C. BELMAN, Cashier, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of January, 1907. DAVID T. EMERY, Notary Public. CORRECT Attest: A. M. TURNER, E. C. MINAS, J. N BECKMAN. Directors.

Quick Action. "I hear you want to sell your new home." "I do." "But I understand you haven't bought it yet." "That's true, but I have had experience living In a suburb before."

Shopworn. "What do you think of Irene's husband?" "About what you might expect, considering she always was a bargain hunter." Watch the Watch. If you desire to upward go, Don't watch the clock It might b slowBut save a week or two and buy A watch on which you can rely.

PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Lots of men are honest who don't work at it enough to raise blisters.

Most men get married in order have somebody to believe in them.

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If the other nine-tenths had automobiles, doubtless the present owners of machines would be down in the legis

lative halls lobbying to have auto'i

biling suppressed.

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

Heavy enow storms again have interrupted railroad communication In Italy. The wood working plant of the Wilts Veneer company at Plymouth, N. C, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $2:0,000. A fall of degrees in the temperature was shown at Norfolk, Neb., In twenty-four hours. Major T. II. Logan, U. S. A., retired, Is dead at T'l Taso, Tex., after a brief illness, aged titi years.

Articles have teen signed by a representative of Young Corbett for a fight with "K!d" Herman for a purs9 cf $10,000 at Renr, Nev., March 17. The severest storm of the winter is raging throughout Kansas and western Missouri. In the reballots Saturday the German Socialists failed in five and lost eats In three. North Dakota U having anotLfj "worst etona of tie season'

Getting rich quick gerous and exciting.

AND 50AE LITTLE

FBU-tN Li. WfAR

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is difficult, danWith. a lazy man desire and

acquire are never correlated la the same sentence. Posing as authority is one of the favorite attitudes of ignorance.

IlEPOUT OP THE CONDITION OI' CITIZENS GERMAN NATIONAL BANK AT IIA31MOXD, In the State of Indiana, at the Close of Baalnea, Jan. "G, 1397. HESOL'UCESl Loans and discounts J232.52R.31 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 401.94 U. S. bonds to secure circulation , 26,000.00 Premiums on U. S. bonds 868.73 Uonds, securities, etc 1,852.91 Banking house, furniture and fixtures 1,513.80 Due from state banks and bankers 1,635.20 Due from approved reserve agents 85,626.04 Checks and other cash Items 429.50 Notes of other national banks.. 2,500.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 7S.26 Specie $10,217.00 Legal-tender notes 2,500.00 12,717.00 Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer (5 per cent of circulation) 1.300.00 TOTAL 1367,551.81 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid In $100,000.00 Surplus fund 4,000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 1,003.33 National bank notes outstanding 26,000.00 Individual deposits 6ubject to check 150,178.82 Demand certificates of deposit 2,028.15 Tima certificates of deposit 84,340.51 Certified checks 1.00 TOTAL $367,551.81 STATE OF INDIANA, COUNTY OF LAKE, ss: I, Geo. M. Eder, Cashier of tho above-named bank, do solemnly swear thaf the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. GEO. M. EDER, Cashier, Subscribed end sworn to before me this 29th day of January, 1907. , J. K. STINSON, Notary Public. j CORRECT Attest: C. C. SMITH, E. S. EMERINE, j J. J. RUFF. Director.

Is Mr. Rockefeller's modest diamond an oil stone? Children think that they are forbidden by their parents to do certain things just because they are chuck full of fun.

The office that seeks the man hasn't

a million dollar emolument. It couldn't be expected that a gen

tlemaa's agreement would produce

ladylike resulti. It is a waste of time to argno the matter svlth an alarm clock.

Some Borrow Trouble Don't do it. It costs too much, but you can borrow from $10 to $1,000 on your Furniture, Piano or other personal property at very reasonable rates. All business transacted STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL and prompt attention given all applications. Call, write or phone and we will send our confidential representative to explain our easy payment plan. The Chicago Discount Co. Bum 2C0, 8133-43 Comrcarcial Ave. TeL Sa. Chictga 104 South Chicago Open until 9 P. M.

U Or Address Lock Box 233,

Hammond, Ind.

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WANTED A salesman, clean cut, active, one who is result producer, to call on over 20,000 people daily. Ad dress, THE PUBLIC.

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