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RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY"

Has a population of 22,324 and la a-rowlnir- It is the county seat of Wayne County, anil the tradln center of a rich agricultural community. It Is located duo east from Indianapolis 69 miles and 4 mllos from the stat line. Richmond Is a city of home and of Industry. Primarily a manufacturing city. It Is also the lobblna- center of Eastern In d Ian a and enjoys the retail trad of the populous community for miles around. Richmond is proud of Its splendid streets, well kept yards, Its cement sidewalks and beautiful shad trees. It has three national banks, one trust company and four bulldinsr associations with a combined resource of over 8, 000,000. Number of factories 126; capital invested 97,000.000. with an annual output of $27.000,000, and a pay roll of $3,700,000. The total pay roll for the city amounts to approximatedly 93,600,000 annual. There are five railroad companies radiating; In eight differnt directions from the city. Incoming; freight handled daily. 1.750,000 lbs., outgoing freight handled dally. 760,000 lbs. Yard facilities, per day 1,700 cars. Number of passenger trains dally SI. Numbet of freight train daily 77. The annual post office receipts amount to 980,000. Total assessed valuation of the city, 916.000,000. Richmond ha two Interurban . railway. Three newspapers with a combined circulation of 12,000. Richmond is the greatest hardwar Jobbing center in the stat and only second in general Jobbing Interests. It has a piano factory producing a high grade ftlano mrnry 16 minutes. It is the eader in the manufacture of Traction engine, and produce more threshing machines, lawn mowers, roller skates, grain drills and burUl caskets than any other city In the world. Th city area 1 9,640 acres; has a court house costing 1500,00; 10 publlo schools and has the finest and most complete high school in th middle west; three farochlal schools; Earlham colege and the Indiana Business College; five splendid fire companies In fin hose houses; Glen miliar nark, th largest and most beautiful park in Indiana, th homo of Richmond's annual Chautauqua: seven hotels; municipal electric light plant, under successful operation and a private electrlo light plant, insuring competition; the oldest public library in the state, except one and th second largest, 40,000 volumes; pure refreshing water, unsurpassed; 65 miles of improved streets; 40 miles of sewers; 25 miles of cement curb and gutter combined; 40 miles of cement walks, and many mile of brick walks. Thirty churches, Including th Held Memorial, built at a cost of 9350,000; Retd Memorial Hospital, one of the most modern In the state; Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a cost of 9100.000, one of the finest In th stat. Th amusement center of Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio: No city of th ls of Richmond hold as fine an annual art exhibit The Richmond Fall Festival held each October is unique, no other city holds a similar affair. It Is given in the Interest of th city and financed by th , business men. Success awaiting anyone with enterprise In the Panic Proof City.

This Is My 38th Birthday

' TAKASHI NAKAMURA.

Takashl Nakamura, who holds the

Important post of Consul-General r Japan In Canada, was born in Yuasaxnachi, Ku, Japan, July 3, 1S73, and received his education in the best

schools of his native land. Later he traveled extensively in Europe and

America. In 1895, after a thorough preliminary training, he entered the Jap

anese dipldmaUc and consular service,

For ten years he served at various points in Korea, In China and in the United States. From the latter country

he was recalled in 1906 to All the im

porta nt position of secretary to the

Foreign office In Tokio. Three years

later he was appointed to his present

position of Consul-General in Canada

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The Same Struggle

It is a hundred and thirty-five years since the days of Washington, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. It is a hundred and thirty-five years since a new Democracy was founded on the American continent. It is true that the growth was by no means spontaneous, that events had paved the way in such a manner as to make the Declaration of Independence inevitable. Dut the average man of today thinks little about the Declaration of Independence except to remember the scrawling siguatures of the signers and to have some memories of how things looked In the school histories. The things which he as a boy read about were the "stamp act." t'ae Continental Congress, the "Boston tea party," Valley Forge, and Yorktown. He had little understanding of the problems of this generation, much less those of a hundred years ago. Washington was more intimately known as a portrait on a postage stamp. Franklin was the man who wrote the story of the whistle in every school reader. The men who opposed the revolution and the Declaration of Independence have been lost in the scramble in the later days to belong to the D. A. It. and kindred societies. The word "tory" is just beginning to be used again after a hundred and thirty-five years.

FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed Li the Order Received.

On June 29th, 1776, Patrick Henry wrote to the convention, which had Just elected him governor of Virginia: "When I reflect that the tyranny of the British King and parliament hath kindled a formidable war now raging throughout the wide-extended continent in the operations of which this commonwealth must bear so great a part, and that from the events of this war the lasting happiness or misery of a great proportion of the human species will finally result; that, in order to preserve this commonwealth from anarchy, and its attendant ruin and give vigor to our counsels and effect to our measures, government hath been necessarily assumed and new modelled." Virginia had Just framed a new bill of rights, a new constitution, and had elected Henry governor. The preceding Monday, 24th of June, Archibald Carey had submitted to the convention" a new plan of constitution. By the 29th it was unanimously adopted, but the minutes of the meeting show that there had been a sharp struggle between the aristocratic and Democratic forces and the side of the people won. Provided that an upper and lower house be selected annually by the people, and by the convention itself of a governor and such other officers as might be necessary for the introduction of a new government. Virginia had thrown off the yoke of the crown. Preceding this John Adams' pamphlet had been circulated through

5 the colony In which Adams exclams:

"The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, and nabobs, call them by what name you please, sigh and grown and fret and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree has gone forth and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America." And he went on to speak of "the exuberance of pride which has produced an insolent dominion of a few, a very few, opulent monopolies and families. He says "these must be brought down nearer to the confines of reason and moderation." Are these words so very different from the ones we have lately heard in the battle against special privilege? It was James Rudolph .Garfield on the eve of the skirmish in Ohio against the bosses, who said "the rights of man are greater than the rights of property." So it is no new struggle. The fight today is gradually assuming the 'same conditions, repeating the foreshadowing events which brought on the Declaration of Independence one hundred and thirty-five years ago. "The few, the very few monopolies and families" whom Patrick Henry and John Adams fought in the preliminary skirmish for the new constitution of Virginia, only a few days before Declaration of Independence, have they no parallel today? It has come to pass that in America the two modern inventions of human conduct have their battle aground monopoly vs. democracy. Today as in 1776 the oppulent forces of gTeed are equally insistent, that there shall be no change. The tory sentiment is the sentiment of reaction. Today the change contemplated for the overthrow of the forces of monopoly is a more complete expression of the people's will, a change of the letter of the constitution to meet the spirit of 1776. How shall we fight Morgan if the constitutions of the state and nation grant him license for harm in what was meant to be liberty to every man for good. Signs are on every hand change Is here. In Oregon they have thrown off the old constitution of the fore-fathers and granted a fuller expression of popular government. In Wisconsin, In New Hampshire, even in boss ridden New Jersey, signs of change are here. In Arizona the popular constitution Is to be the first one adopted, fought by the tory influence of the national governments in the past eight years have undergone the same change! Over a hundred cities have now embraced the Des Moines plan with the initiative, referendum and recall. A year ago Theadore Roosevelt at Ossawatomie proclaimed the spirit of the new time. He was denounced from Wall street, but within a year both Perkins and Gary, the Morgan partners, have admitted that these Ideas of co-operation and strong government regulation are bound to come. So on the eve of July 4th, the old struggle is on. Then it was Tory and Whig, now it is Long and Progressive. It is not a matter of party, it is a matter of principle the oid battle of the many against the few the old battle against greed and special privilege.

Elitor Palladium: May I again beg the use of your columns to reply to Mr. Dill's communication of the 29th inst. I regret that I am not endowed with the faculty of erecting mental greenhouses from which to pluck bouquets to throw to whomsoever I would.

Were I thus endowed, the choicest

orchid available would be the missile

nd Mr. Dill the target. I must content

myself by just saying that Mr. Dill's reply is the embodiment of courteous-

ness and strictly In harmony with

what was expected.

It is to be regretted that Mr. Dill

vaded the essential features of my ar

ticle, resting content in the creating of

parallels that really has no bearing on the points at issue.

While I may be a party in a commer

cial transaction such as Mr. Dill sug

gested, in the buying the business of

one of our Main street merchants, suf

ficient precautions to have an inven

tory of the stock made, if I had any reason to suspect that exaggerated

alues were included in the Inventory, should be acting strictly within my

rights in protesting against such values being included.

That is precisely our position re

garding the water works valuation.

No one questions the personal vir

tues of those who constitute the personnel of the Richmond City Water Works, such virtues may be illumined by an halo of glory, transmitted and set apart as too sacred to be marred by a suspicious thought, yet such a condition of virtuous perfection docs

not remove a single injustice contain

ed in the present proposed amend

ments to the ordinance of 1885.

In that we are mostly Interested.

This is a business proposition wherein

both parties to the contract are seek

ing to secure the best possible terms

and on the terms secured by the city

will rest the judgment of tuture gener

ations as to the business capacity of

present day men.

I am going to propound a few ques

tions to Mr. Dill, placing them in nu

merical order asking him to reply thereto in the order given (except question 4 and 13 to which I expect,

and have no right to ask a reply.)

1st. Is it the intention of the Rich

mond City Water Works to secure, if

possible, a perpetual franchise which they retain the right to use our streets

for all time to come?

2nd. Does not the section relating

to their desire for freedom from limi

tations to those rights and privileges

prove beyond doubt that Attorney Shi-

vely is mistaken in his conclusion that they are now possessed of a per

petual franchise?

3rd. Does not the request for a per

petual franchise disprove the theory that you are desirous of seeing the

city become the owner of the plant

and your proffered assistance to the

city to that end, become pure and un

adulterated buncombe?

4th. As a citizen Mr. Dill, free from

commercial influences, public spirited as we know you to be, would you vote

for such ordinance?

5th Does not' Mr. Maury In his re

port state that the life of pipes and

mains is about 100 years? If so

6th What per cent of the plant's

tangible values does the pipes and

mains consist?

7th If 25 per cent depreciation on

pipes and mains is just, seeing they

have been in use 25 years, how- much

would such depreciation represent in

deduction? In other words what per

centage of tangible values would pipes and mains represent proportionate to

the whole?

8th What figure does the issuing of

Sabbath and Sunday. Th observance of the Sabbath bj th Jews Is first mentioned after tbexodus of the Israelites from Egypt, but no direct evidence of its beinj: kept in patriarchal times Is to infound in the Peutateucb. The earl; Christian church observed the first daj of the week Inscoramemoratlon of th resurrection of Christ, and this grad ually took tbe place among Christians of the Jewish Sabbath. The very earliest law by which tbe observance ot the first day of the week was ordained is tbe edict of tbe Emperor Constantine, A. D. 321. New York American.

Th Mere Important. Betty may not be Tery worldly wise,

but she is practical. She knows enough to take a common sense view of things

sentimental as well as material. So

when she listened to the proposal of the young man she is fond of she

couldn't help saying what she did.

"If you reject me. Betty dear." he

urged in a final appeal, "1 shall never.

never love another. It will be tbe

end."

"And if I accept you," she asked.

"does tbe same thing hold goody-

Philadelphia Times.

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY"

JULY 3. 1423 Louis XI. of France born. Died Aug. 30, 1483. 1608 Champlain founded the city of Quebec. 1775 Gen. Washington assumed command of the Continental Army at Cambridge. 1839 First Normal school in America opened at Lexington, Mass. 1842 An .insane youth named Bean attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria. 1S63 End of the three days' battle of Gettysburg. 1S66 Prussians defeated the Austrians in battle of Sandowa. 1890 Idaho admitted to Statehood. 189S The Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera destroyed by the American squadron at Santoago. 1910 The aeronaut Wachter was killed by the collapse of his monoplane at Rheims.

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1125,000 stock dividends have in swelling the value of the plant?

9th. To what extent does the going

value of $110,000 influence the value of the plant providing it is not sold?

Is that amount included in the declar

ed valuation? 1

10. Of what value would the "going

concern be to you. providing the city saw fit to give you competition?

11. Does not the fact that your con

tract expires Sept. 1912, have no bearing in reducing the going value."?

12. Does not the fact that the pres

ent amendments to the ordinance of

1S85 providing that: "Unless said city

shall not be able to legally assume

(and agree to pay in cash the pur

chase price of the plant) all bonded

indebtedness, then said city shall not have the right to purchase the plant and system" prove conclusively the hopelessness of our chance to buy the plant?

To acquire the cash by the sale of

bonds to realize the amount equal to

the purchase price, our taxable values

must increase from $14,329,915 to $42,989,745 or three times what it is now. In other words the city must become three times as big as now.

13. Providing the shoe was on the

other foot Mr. Dill, and you was rep

resenting the city, would you vote for an ordinance that refuses to the city

what is accorded an individual?

If I as an individual bought stock on

your plant my stock would have a vot

ing power. Why is such a privilege denied the city?

Have they no right to influence its

management?

Mr. Dill says. "By its careful man

agement and fair dealing, the company has succeeded in establishing a busi

ness that pays only a fair return on

the valuation." Kindly note the distinction between valuation and "in

vestment."

As a Missourian Mr. Dill I should

A POOR APPETITE QUICKLY REGULATED

like to "see" an answer to the problem in subtraction, that would result from actual cash "invested being deducted from the declared "valuation" of the plant. The city does not expect the plant as a gift. Neither do they expect to be

given anything but a square deal and in the matter of valuation I still claim the city is not getting that square deal. If Mr. Maury's report was dissected and a general business knowledge applied in regard to depreciation, the last analysis of said report would be proven very inconsistent. Yours truly, A. BAVIS. 411 N. 13th.

Wilson of New Jersey, Governor Harmon of Ohio, Governor Marshall of Indiana, former Governor Folk of Missouri and Champ Clark, Speaker of the House. Congressman Ollie M. James, the choice of the Kentucky Democrats, to succeed Thomas If. Paynter in the United States senate, is not yet forty years old. Before his election to Congress eight years ago he had established a reputation as one of the leaders of the Kentucky bar. A BRACING TONIC

Politics and Politicians

Republicans of Maryland will hold their State primary on August 29. Twenty-three Kansas cities are now governed by commissions. Governor Foss of Massachusetts will probably be renominated this fall without opposition. Lansing, Michigan, has rejected a proposal to adopt the commission plan of governmentThe Socialist party in Mississippi has named a complete State ticket, headed by J. F. Lester of Jackson, as

candidate for governor. Edward F. Dunne, former mayor of Chicago, is being boomed by his friends for the Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois. The Good Government League of Louisiana, representing the "insurgent" element of the Democratic party in that State, has nominated Judge Luthern E. Hall for governor. For the Democratic presidential nomination the active or receptive , candidates at this time are Governor

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