Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 155, 13 April 1911 — Page 4

PACE FOUR.

THE RICHMOND PALJLAD1UM AJTD SUX-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1911.

The Richmond Palladium iai Sun-Telegram Published and ownad by the palladium rniNTiso ca iMutd 7 days each waak. venln-s ana Bandar mornlnir. Offtea Corner North tth mn A streste Palladium and Hun-Tel'a-ram Phonsa Il-jslnss Offtia, Hit; KUlloria.1 llooms. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Rwlalrk O. Latde Editor S. r. Rlashoft Baslaesa Maaager Carl Brafcart Aaaoclatv Kdltor V. R. raaadataaa Naa Kdltor 8UnSCIMPTION TERMS, la Richmond It 00 .nr yoar (In advanes) or 1O0 per waelc. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONa One rear. In advance '5 2!! Mis month. In advance ' On month. In advance RURAL. KOUTfcif On rear. In advanra '5 22 Mix montha. In advanra One .month. In advance Add.e4 changed olten a desired; both unw and old adJree must b (Ivan. tubaerlhars will pleas remit with order, which should ba lvn for a epevlflAd term; name will not bo enterad until oaymai.t la r.oelved. Entered at Richmond. Indiana. post office aa aecond claaa mall matter. New York ?prenttl Payne Totr.a-. 30-34 Wit 33rd street, and 51st Wert 3:nd atreet. New York. N. X. Chicago Itnreaentatlv Payne & Tounr, 747-74S Marquette UulldlnaT. Chicago. III. V.l.l.t Mill IIIMIM 11 I ' Th Association of American 2 g AuVertiers (New York City) taW I at tola publication. Only the UaTurea of 4 t aireuiaUon eocUlnad la 1U report Ml 1 ailHHKw p lot aHouauvv. 4 RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Ilea a population of 23.000 and fa grow I ti if. It la the county rat of Wayne County, and the tradliiK center of a rich agricultural community. It Is located duo east from Indianapolis Cj mil-a mid 4 miles from U.o tat lino. Itlk-hmund la a city of homes and f Inilusiry. Primarily a inantifacturliiK cltv. It Is also tn Jobbing center of Kastern lit' U I ti it n and enjoys the retail tradi of the populous community for inllrs around. Itlrhniond la proud of Its splcn did struct a. Well Kept yard. It tfinent sidewalks and ba llful aharie trees. It has 3 national banks. 3 trust companies and 4 building associations with corn blncd l.sour.rs of over f 8.000.000. Nuinliri of factories l'ibi capital Invested $7,000,000. with an annual output of I27.ooo.oon, and a pay roil of $3,700,000. Thn total pay roll for th city amounts to approximately $6,300,000 annual lyThere are five rallroau companies radiating In eight different direction from the city. Incoming freight handled dally. 1.TtO.OOO lbs.; outgoing freight handled dully. T60.O00 lbs. Yard facilities, per day 1.700 cars. Number of passenger trains dally . Number nf freight trains dally 77. The annual post office receipts amount ta $80 000. Total assessed valuation of tli city, 115,000,000. Richmond has two Interurban railways. Three newspapers with a combined circulation of 12.000. Richmond la the greatest hardware jobbing center In the state and only second In general Jobbing Interests. It has a piano factory producing a hlsrh grade f gno every 10 minutes. It Is the eader In the manufacture of traction engines, and produces more threshing machines, lawn mowers, roller nkaten. grain drill and burial caskets than any other city In the world. The clty'a area ti I.40 ncres; has a court house coating $500 000: 10 public schools and has the finest and most complete high school In the middle west under ennst ruction: S parochial schools: Karlham college and the Indiana Pualness College; five splendid fire companies l;i fine hose houses; Olen Miller park, th largest and most beautiful park mond'a annual Chautauqua; seven In Indiana, the home of Rich nntela; municipal electrlo light plnt. tinder successful operation and a private electric light plant Insuring competition; the oldest p obi to library In the state, except one and the second Inreest. 40 ooo volumes; pure, refreshing water unsurpassed: CS miles of Improved streets: 40 miles of sewers- 25 miles of cement curb and gutter rnmbtned: 40 miles of cmient walks, and manv miles of brick wnlka. Thtrtv churches. Including the Peld Memorial, built at a cost nf JiSO.Ortft; Held Memorial Monltl. one of the most modern In the state: T. M. C. A. building erected t a cost of $100,000. one of the finest In the state. The amusement center of Kastcrn Indiana and Western Ohio. No city of the elae of Richmond holds a" fine an annual art exhlMt The Richmond Kail Festival held each October Is unique, no other city holds a similar affair. It Is given In the In. crest of the cltv and financed by the business men. Fuceess awaiting anvone with enterprise In the Panic Proof City. FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not He in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received. Having noticed several times recently statements from acme of our prominent business men jiertainlng to patrons sending to mail order houses for their supplies. Now I, like they, lo not believe anything la saved by this transaction, but it would be well for theao lame business men to look to their own households and see if they are using some articles that ure shipped In from other citlea; while we have many manufacturers here in our city manufacturing the same class of good. I have stood in cigar stores and have seen business men and clerka buy clears made in Indianapolis and various other cities, when we have Just aa good goods made here in CHILDREN WHO ARE SICKLY Mothers wlio value tite r on comfort and the welfare of thnrrhiulivn, tumid r.rv. r ! without a tma of Vothrr (tray's Hwcrt 1WLt for Children, fr aaetbrnuiihoul thesMUxm. Tlwv llrvalc npt'oMs, Kelleve rVvrlUte., t'onntailtwi, TretLing Iienters. Hrsdm he and htonim h 'frmihir. t'M by Woth.rt f.ir 11 yrr. 1 llr:sli POWDKKSNKVER VAIL, fold br Sll lrn Mnrn. JV. Krtt'f n,,..t Aikao. ouuC La lioy.XY. J

Must the Truth be Extracted by Force ?

"Begin nothing of which thou hast not well considered the end " Quotation in Item editorial. March 28. 1911. The Palladium today gives space t three communications two bearing the signature of William Dudley Foulke, as president of the Item Newspaper company, and one a copy of a communication which the Palladium Printing company sent to Mr. Foulke, in his official capacity as president of the Item Newspaper company. They speak for themselves. The Palladium's excuse for printing them is found in the quotation above. For some time the Palladium printed the statement that it had "1,000 moro circulation than all the other papers in Richmond combined." That statement was true and is true. There is nothing illegitimate or unfair in makiiiK such a statement. It is on a par with the claim of a merchant that he sells better goods for less money than any one else, or that he otters better values than his competitors, or that he has the most complete stock of goods. The statement in nowise attempted to give the lie to any claim or circulation made by the Item or any other paper. Hut strange lo relate it fell upon sensitive nerves. A guilty busines conscience was aroused. The statement rankled. The first intimation that the Palladium had of this fact was a letter it received from a foreign advertiser enclosing a Utter that advertiser had received from the eastern advertising representative of The Item in which that representative made this charge that the Palladium has less than 4,500 circulation, that it "makes free distribution to pull up its circulation," and that it does not havo within J.Oon uross the circulation it claims to have. This letter was written, so it states, upon the authority of The Item Newspaper company and sets forth that its charges are made with the knowledge and consent of the publishers of The Item that is Mr. Foulke. Had tin- situation been reversed, had the Palladium circularized the foreign advertising field and branded The Item a liar, its circulation, statements us perjury and charged it with deliberately misrepresenting the goods it had lo sell, we do not imagine the placid temier of the apostle of reform on Seventh street would have remained unruffled. Tho Palladium had three courses open to it. First, adopt the same tactics used by The Item that of going away from home to stab a business competitor in the back, thinking thereby to escape detection. Had we the keen sense of honor and national reputation for square dealing that our illustrious competitor possesses we might have afforded to do tills but being young, we have our reputation to build. Some day we may feel like indulging in the luxury of tearing it down by such methods, but not now so that alternative was eliminated. Second, we might have remained quiet, overawed by the majestic mien of our competitor and stunned by his Napoleonic tactics of libeling us away from home where he is so well and favorably known and his ipse dixit is taken as the law and the gospel. But with the rashness of youth we put this aside. There remained only one other action that of publishing his charge nnd asking him to back it up. When we decided upon this action, and we did not hestitate to adopt this plan, we had no other idea than that our competitor, whom all know to be the soul of honor, would come across and give the evidence which seemed sufficient to justify his authorizing his foreign representative to brand the Palladium as an unscrupulous newspaper that pads its circulation and swears falsely to its patrons. Imagine our astonishment, therefore, when the ex-civil service commissioner, confidential adviser to Theodore Roosevelt, author, publicist, president of the National Municipal League and general Jack-of-all-uplifts took umbrage nt our defense of our reputation as a reputable business concern and gave evidence of his ability us a juggler of phrases. We admit that he has exhibited marvelous agility in sidestepping. We expected a fight; instead we were treated to a foot race. Finally, when it was evident he did not intend to justify his charges in public, we made him a proposition under date of April 7, 1911, which we publish elsewhere today in this issue. We deem it eminently fair. We submit it to our readers and advertisers and feel that they will agree It la fair. We expected a fair answer; instead we received the remarkanble communication which we "also reprint today. Moreover, upon the day we received Mr. Foulke's answer; we were somewhat surprised to see both communications published in the Item, which is evidently a challenge for further prosecution of the case. A newspaper that would lie about its circulation is on a par with the merchant who lies about the goods he sells. A newspaper that would give "short" measure Is on a par with the merchant who would give short weight. A newspaper that would do this is disreputable, and a newspaper that is disreputable in one department is capable of being disreputable in every other department. The Palladium therefore owes no apology to its readers for taking up this charge of the Item's and pushing it to some conclusion. Mr. Foulke prates about "judicial authority, the sanction of an oath" and that sort of thing. By this does he mean he wouldn't tell the truth unless he had to in a court of justice? By this are we to infer he wouldn't tell the truth about the circulation of the Item to a committee of local advertisers? Does he have to be under duress before the facts can be extracted from him? Is that his idea of honorable business methods? The Palladium has no objection to such legal interrogation, if Mr. Foulke wishes to invoke it. Perhaps it might be wise to insist upon the exercise of judicial authority. Maybe on the witness stand "with the power to cross examine" we might be able to elicit the information as to Just when the Item began to start its press counter at 1,000 and if it continues that; practice. And we might be able to analyze its rural route mailing lists, and determine for the edification of the advertisers the extent it uses a "dummy" mailing list to show advertisers over the front counter but never runs it through the mailing machine. It would be interesting to learn upojt the witness stand under "judicial authority" whether or not the Item hired a man to "verify" the Palladium's claims nnd what was his report, and moreover God save the mark what else he was asked to do. Perhaps some of these things might be news even to Mr. Foulke. We may even learn under "judicial authority" that Foulke told the truth w hen he said that in reading the Palladium he learned for the first time that The Item had fathered the infamous letter which was sent to foreign advertisers. You know Mr. Foulke is a busy man and his time is very much taken up traveling over the country telling cities how to be honest and square and there are many sordid details of the newspaper game that may have escaped his notice. If Mr. Foulke thinks he has been. wronged let him find recourse. If he is square and as honorable as he would have us all believe let him back up his charges. We assure him that we will tell the truth and furnish all our records willingly to any committee of advertisers. We regret very deeply that our contemporary who has held the torch of righteousness and upripht dealing where all might see it (and also see who held it confesses that before he will tell the truth he must be haled Into court nnd compelled to testify under the pressure of judicial authority. We did not think his case was that desperate.

Richmond by men who spend their money with the same merchants. What excuse can these same men offer for buying flour made in Minneapolis and St. Paul and other cities when we have two mills right here in Richmond that manufacture just as high grade flours and sell for less money, using wheat bought from local farmers, who also spend their money right here in our city. We might name several other articles made right here, that have the same opposition but the people of our city know what they are as well as we do. We would just drop a hint that it would be well for these business men to use their influence among :th.ll rrtonrt.! an A omrk1yioo a oianufactarcre of Ricliiuoiid. deem we

also deserve the patronage of the people of our city . E. T. H.

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Some Correspondence Between Palladium and Evening Item

To Rudolph G. Leeds, Esq., Editor of the Palladium: Dear Sir: On my return from St. Louis I noticed on the first page of your paper of yesterday a criticism on a letter written by M. C. Watson, the Item's advertising agent in New York to the effect that the Item's publishers offered $500 in gold to anyone demonstrating that the Palladium has within 2,000 of the circulation it claims. I was greatly surprised to see such a letter and I think that if unprovoked it would have been extremely discourteous and unwarranted. 1 have not felt the slightest inclination to dispute any figures you may give, for any circulation you claim. You may make it six thousand or ten or fifty and 1 have no intention of questioning it. The advertisers of Richmond know the value of our respective newspapers, they have made tests from long experience more accurate than you or I could possibly make from our onr sided points of wt?, ana witn tneir estimate upon the value of the Hem's circulation, as shown by their patronage, I am entirely content. Now the circulation of our respec tive papers is of no great interest to anybody except advertisers and I don't see the need or the wisdom of tormenting the general public with mutual outcries in- regard to our mere private business I doubt whether either our newspapers or our personalities are anything like as interesting to the rest of the world as. to . ourselves. Our papers have been "keeping the peace" with each other a good while and I would gladly continue it. But you must remember that in this circulation matter you were the aggressor for you did not content yourself with mere statements of your circulation, however extraordinary, but you kept publishing day after day and week after week, at the top of your first page, the statement that both the other newspapers together didn't have as much circulation as you did. I confess I think you were drawing it pretty strong and this does not seem to me a very courteous way of doing business. I don't think it would be at all polite for our retail merchants to make such comparisons and I don't see why newspapers should have any greater license to disparage each other except in self defense or unless some public interest requires it. Now if there shall be an investigation of our respective circulations it must be In a much more authoritative manner than the way you suggest. It must be by a full judicial inquiry under the sanction of an oath with the power not only to produce all books and lists and contracts and records, but also to examine and cross examine every witness who can shed light upon the actual good faith of every subscription. A controversy of this kind may lead to results which neither you nor I can forsee. For myself I can see a much wiser application of the time, the money and the energy which this will involve, and far better results from other efforts than the bitterness which is sure to follow to ourselves and perhaps to the community if we litigate such a subject. Would it not be better to remain friends? Yours, WM. D. FOULKE. Richmond, Ind., April 7. 1911. Hon. Wm. D. Foulke, Pres. Item Newspaper Company, City: . Dear Sir In order that, the advertisers of Richmond may be put into possesion of an imparial and authoritative statement of the circulation of the Richmond Palladium and the Richmond Evening Item respectively, The Palladium Printing Company herewith makes the following proposition: That a committee of five be named, consisting of three local advertisers, or their accredited representatives, and one representative of each of the newspapers. This committee to be given the right and power to conduct an investigation along the following lines: Both the Richmond Palladium and the Richmond Evening Item agree to give to this committee free and immediate access to all cash books, accounts, bills, papers, receipts, route books, mailing lists and any and all other memorandums pertaining to the circulation department of each paper and necessary to the conduct of a thorough investigation. Bona fide circulation under this investigation shall be as denned by the postal laws governing second class mail matter. This committee shall be empowered, if it deem fit, to employ a circulation actuary from some reputable foreign advertising agency or auditing company, the expenses and salary of which actuary shall be equally divided between the Richmond Palladium and the Richmond Evening Item.. This comittee shall have the right and power to go over the cash books and ledgers of each newspaper so far as necessary in order to ascertain the the amount of cash turned in for circulation and in ordere to verify the list of bona fide subscribers. This committee shall have the right and power to verify any carrier book fr any mailing list by a canvass of the route, or the territory represented by the mailing list by the employment of canvassers w hose expenses and salary shall be divided equally between the Richmond Palladium and the Richmond Evening Item. This committee shall have at least . 30 days for the conduct of this investii gation and if at the end of that time, i in the opinion of the committee more time is needed to complete a thorough ! examination of the circulation departj raent of either or both of the newspapers, it shall have the time extended j in so far as it desires. ! The report of this committee shall be printed simultaneously in both newspapers upon its completion and

its filing with the accredited representatives of each newspaper, upon a date named by the committee. In order to show our good faith in

this proposition we herewith enclose j a certified check in the amount of i $500.00 payable to the order of , 'Chairman Circulation Investigating Comittee" which check he shall turn over to any charitable institution of j the city of Richmond, which the committee may designate, upon the completion of this investigation in event the investigation of the Palladium's circulation does not show it to have ' the circulation it has claimed and set i forth in its statements to local and foreign advertisers. j The Palladium nominates for this committee the following advertisers i of Richmond: A. W. Gregg, Charles H. j Feltman, Sharon E. Jones. 1 In order that this matter may be i sreedily settled, we would request ' that you give us a definite answer as J to your acceptance or rejection of this proposition not later than Tuesday, April 11. In event, however, it is impossible to agree within three days from the acceptance of this proposition, upon three advertisers the Palladium proposes that it name one advertiser and that the Richmond Evening Item name one advertiser, and that these two select a third advertiser of this city to constitute tiie committee. Respectfully. The Palladium Printing Company, R. G. Leeds, Vice President. Richmond. Ind., April 11. 1911. Rudolph Leeds. Esq., Vice President : Dear Sir 1 notice that your letter of the Tth, just received on my return home, is addressed not to the Item Newspaper Company, but to me personally, as its president. When on the 16th of last month 1 saw a similar proposition in your paper and learned for the first time that you claimed the Item had made a $500 offer regarding your circulation, I wrote you as friendly a letter as I knew how and published it. It told you my surprise and said that if any such letter had been written without provocation it would have been extremely discourteous and unwarranted, that I had no intention or inclination to dispute any figures you might give of your own circulation, but that, you did not content yourself with this but were the aggressor in publishing day after day the statement that all the other papers didn't have as much circulation as yours alone, a statement well calculated to incite reprisals. I further told you that if there should be an investigation it must be more authoritative than the one you suggested it must be i full judicial inquiry under oath with the power to cross examine every witness who could shed light upon the actual good faith of any subscription in question, and that I could see a much wiser application of our time and energy than such litigation. I.asked you "Would it not be better to remain friends?" I did not have the honor of receiving any reply to my friendly communication, but some days later there appeared another black-letter defiance of the same kind in your columns, although the one made had been already answered. Is it not a little late for you now to address to me a personal communication on this subject? You already knew my answer. You had received it. It is doubtless because you knew the answer that you keep on making this interesting proposition in the hope that it may become more and more interesting to the public the oftener it is made. You did not. need inclose your certified check payable to the "Chairman Circulating Investigation Committee," a check by the way entirely illegal because the payee is not in existence, but which if legal would have been purely dramatic and entirely unnecessary since I hope nobody doubts that either of us, as well as our papers will be pecuniarily responsible for any offers which are legally made. As I have no us e for this remarkable bill of exchange, it is herewith returned. Your 'offer" is as grotesque as your check. You, yourself, first nominated the whole committee which is to pass upon the excellencies of your subscription list and immediately afterwards you provided for their selection in quite a different manner! You tell us what they are to do and how long they are to be about it and you leave out the very things you know I have already insisted on, the judicial authority, the sanction of an oath, the power to cross examine concerning the actual good faith of any subscription and where the money came from that paid for it. In other words you proposed the things which you have alreadybeen told will be rejected! Your good aflii 0t W-aV A av M I and other ilia, due to an inactive conditk of the Lhfer, Stomach and Bowels, may be obtained most pleasantry and most promptly by using Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It ia not a new and untried remedy, but is used by wHlrta of weB-inf armed families through- i out the world to cleants and sweeten and strengthen the system whenever a I laxatrVe remedy ia Deeded. When buying note the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup 1 Conprinted on erery package of the genuine. Regular price 50per hot one only. aV For sale by aB 1

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faith in making such a proposition shines by its own light! Your tender solicitude for the welfare of the advertisers is more than touching. I regret that I cannot share it since I think the merchants of this city understand their own interests quite as well as you or I do, although they must be grateful to you for a guardianship thus assumed over their intelligence by one of such extended experience and so successful a business career. My plan is much shorter and more simple. Let me repeat it: You say The Item offered $300 to any one who could prove the Palladium's circulation to be within 2,000 of what it claimed and you declare that you enter the lists for this $."ieo. Why don't you make your words good? Why don't you prove it and then sue for it? If you can substantiate all your statements, the remedy is in your ow n hands. The testimony will be under the sanction of an oath, under the penalties of perjury and subject to wholesome cross examination. "Let's have some action!" Profoundly grateful to you for the reprieve from the Tth to the 11th so graciously granted in your letter before any disastrous "publicity" of its crushing conditions, I remain, with highest consideration. Your humble servant. Wm. Dudley Foulke.

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Absolutely Pure The only taking powder made from Royal Grape Oroam of Tartar NO ALUM.MO LIME PHOSPHATE ASK RESIGNATION OF BRIBER HIS Southern Lumberman Demands He Give Up Presidency of Association. Chicago. April 13. The Southern Lumberman, the most influential trade journal in the lumber trade, demands tho resignation of Edward Hines who is accused of being the collector of the bribery fund which elected William Lorimer to the United States senate, from the presidency of the National Lumber Manufacturers association, in the issue just published. In an editorial, it says: "The charges brought against him (Hines) in the senatorial bribery investigation at Springfield, Illi, and widely published lo the world, are of the most sinister cnaracier. lira cuhikcs are ueiinue, - . . n-1 I- . . . specific and circumstantial. They are made in sworn testimony by a man who holds a high piosltion with a concern, which itself sustains close relations to the lumber trade. "Such charges, emanating from such a source, cannot be ignored, and coming as they do in the course of a long continued investigation cannot be dismissed as less circumstantial allegations heretofore have been dismissed as mere manifestation of unfounded prejudice in the public mind against the lumber trade or as the mere political strife inspired by personal malice or revenge." The editorial calls on Hines to clear his name effectually or get out. L-LVu Breakfast Food the meat of the whole wheat Delicious, nourishing, economical 50 bowls for 1 5f. Great (or children good for you. In the checkerboard box. 526 MAIN STREET E