The McLouth Times from McLouth, Kansas • 8

ATCHISON, TOPEKA SANTA PE suffering la this country hav nDICMIICTDIIC ROOSEVELT'S BUS THE GRANGE ninety-nine times out of a hundred, IUJIIIULL I Luru li KAST No. 102 mixed dalle cept Huijdaj-, in. WEKT No. 101 mixed daily, Ex. cmt rtuiiiiuy, I'.

bea tyrannies by a minority, that Is, tyranny by privilege. Sometimes, as in the case of some public utility franchise or other bit of grabbing by a few what belongs to the many, tho ROOSEVELT IDEE Canduelti by J. DARROW, ChMh.m. N. Editor of the San Tat Stat Orangt Hcvitw DAY IN ST.

LOUIS 3P tyranny Is primarily commercial; at (Colonel Again Outlines His Views AN EFFECTIVE GRANGE. F.B. Heath, Agent, McLouth, Kan, WEDDINQ Wedding belles have been heard in the north end of town, this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ilar-ker, on Wednesday, April 10, when their youngest daughter, Elizabeth, was united in marriage with Mr.

Orville Ray Carey, of Kansa3 City, Kan. Miss Ilarker is one of our most amiable and popular young ladies and Mr. Carey, who is well-known in this community, is recognized as a young man of sterling moral character. Tne ceremony was performed by Rec, D. C.

DeFoe in the presence of about fifty friends Made Five Speeches in Addition to Before Immense Mass Meeting at St. Louis. The Hsll Is Open Every Evening For Armory Address. other it la primarily political. This, for Instance, is true just at the (present day in those states where tho people have been denied tho right to vote at primaries in order to express their preferences for president.

By th way, a ludicrous feature of the Michigan situation has been that the Social Intercourse. TIM 13 TABLI3 MISSOURI PACIFIC Edward Van Alstyue. a prominent institute lecturer of New York, has this to say about on efficient grange that be visited at Balmvlllc, Orange "FREE GOVERNMENT" HIS AIM RECEIVED A WARM WELCOME county, near Newburg: WEST No. 503 Jluil and Ex-jiruHS. Daily IDilv'A.

No. I'uswnifor and Express, lluily Except, Sunday 8:30 P. M. No. Local Frolirht.

'Real Democracy as Opposed to Rule I of Privilege Tyranny by Minority A neat ball, costing about $2,506, stands out in the open country half men who denied tho right of tho people to vote at the primaries did it by pusslng the primary law In such shape that It would only take effect after the latest date that primaries could be hold to elect delegates to the convention In June. This represents a merely meaner form of opposition to the Crowds Awaited the Former President in Downpour of Rain and Picked the Halls Where He Spoke. ruilo from tho end of the trolley line, of the contracting parties fron both a Menace Representatives Chosen to Carry Out the Will of Those Who i Elected Them. Kansay Cities, Lawrence, Winches It Is located here because It Is central point between two hamlets and ono strong grange could be maintained here rather than two weak ones at the ter and McLopth. Exactly at 12 o'clock to the Dally Except Sunday A.

M. EASTI No. 504 Mall and Express. Dally P. M.

No. I'aKHuiiKur and Dally Except Huiuittv UiL'OA. M. No. aw stock Dally Exwiit Sunday 1:50 A.M.

II. E. KcksIit, Airont, strains of Mendel leshon's wedding hamlets on either side. This ball Is open any night iu tho week for young or old who care to gather there for march, flayed by Miss Bertha Stout social, intellectual or agricultural in the wedding party entered the room. The bride wore a beautiful white satin gown, with crestle trim tercourse.

The people avuil themselves of it. Not far away Is a rural school, Bsseits and near it Is a half ncre devoted to a school garden. Tills had its rise in ming and carried a boquet of white St. Louis Col. Roosevelt stated his case to the people of Missouri.

He made five speeches In this city and another in Kust St. Louis, in which he explained his political doctrines. The streets were drenched with a downpour of rain, but Col. Roosevelt found a crowd awaiting him at the station when he arrived and large audiences which applauded him whenever ho spoke. The colonel put In a day which kept him busy from the time he stepped from his train before breakfast until well on toward midnifht, when it was time for him to start for St.

Paul. In addition to making six speeches he attended a breakfast, luncheon and Balmvlllo grange. A committee was roses. After the ceremony was conluded the guests sat down to a appointed to take tho matter up with the school trustees. Francis 15.

Kelley, movement for public decency than would have been a straight-out voto against the entire proposition. Duties of the Representatives. In a government like ours, our representatives do not rule us in tho sense that a monarch or an aristocracy bears rule over the peoplo. We tho people rule ourselves, and what we really want from our representatives is that they shall manage the government for us along the lines wo lay down, and shall do this with effl-clency and In good faith. We welcome leadership and advice, of course, and we are content to lot experts do tho expert business to which we assign them without fussy interference from us.

Hut the expert must understand tlint ho is carrying out our general purpose and not substituting bis own for it. The leader must understand that ho leadB us, that he guides us, by St. Louis, March 28. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt made his gocond "key inote" address In tho west at the First 'Regiment Armory tonight before (in ioUdlence thut crowded the building to jits limit, while thousands were unable to gain admittance. 1 During the day the colonel spoke at jlhe Merchants' Exchange and tbo Col-Jseum.

Colonel Roosevelt's address at tbo Armory was as follows: When I say that I believe not only In the right of the people to rule, but jla their duty to rule theniBelves and to refuse to submit to being ruled by lothera, I am not unlng a figure of 'speech, I am speaking of a vital issue jwliieh fundamentally affects our whole 'American life. I not merely admit but insist that in all government and Bpe-'lafly fn popular government there jmust be control; and furthermore that gardener mid florist of many years experience, a native, of Greenock, Scot splended prepared dinner which was richly enjoyed by all present. Mrs. Carey was the recipient of many beautiful and valuable presents, land, where school gardens nro con ducted on a large seali-rtfus bad charge Lowest Rate of the Season California TheNorthwest of the work. Somo forty-six children.

among which wore two handsome checks from her parents. ranging In age from seven to fourteen years, ure enrolled lu the garden school. Even durlug tho vacation mouths the The young couple left on the 3:30 dinner, Issued two statements, sent a messuge to the Illinois Senate, cover attendance averages twenty. Tho gar ed a largo part of the city In his den is 250 feet long by GO feet wide. There are sixteen plots, In which are grown a variety of vegetables, the children doing nil tho pluutiug, weed Jaunts from place to place by motor, and between times found opportunity to go over tho political hltuation with train for points east amid shower of the proverbial rice.

After their wadding tour they intend residing in Kansas City, Kan. The best wishes of their many friends go with them for a long and prosperous life. If control does not come from within convincing us so that we will follow him or follow his direction. He must it must come from without. There the leaders of the Roosevelt campaign and intermediate points 1 ing and whatever other work Is neces- fore It Is essential that any people in Missouri, The Duty of Leaders.

snry. Last year tho state department of agriculture warded sixteen certifi which crRftsres hi the difflci'H exiierl of selt'-govcrnmeht should bo able to practice self-con! rol. There cates to the children for prollclcncy and one to Mr. Kelley as instructor. The former President spoke briefly at the dinner tendered him by the SHOWER Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Chapman were showered Friday evening at via Missouri Pacific "ThelLine With the Service." Lee Harding's residence, by Ep-worth League and a host of friends. Million Population Club. His main speech was delivered at night in the First Regiment Armory. He discussed "The Right of the Peoplo to Rule," and talked lurgely lu the same vein as In his speech lu New York last 'nrs peoples in the, world which have proved by their lamentable experiences that they are not capable of this aeif-control; but I contend that the American people most emphatically are capable of it.

I bold that in the long run, taken as a hole, our peoplo can and will govern themselves a great Were the recipients of many useful and ornamental presents. week upon the same topic, lie pro tested against the theory ascribed by him to President To ft that the people should be ruled by "a representative part of the people," and said that "if MORELOCAL. Mrs. George Woodeead visited in the people cannot rule themselves, in McLouth this week. teal better than any small set of men can govern them.

The attempt has recently been made to improve on Abraham Lincoln's statement that "this Is a government of the people, tor the people, by the people." As a substitute therefore it Is proposed that this government shall hereafter be a government of tho people, for tho peo then they are not fit for free govern II. C. Papenhousen, wife nnd ment and democracy is a sham. children visited K. C.

Thursday. "We welcome leadership and advice. Miss Anna Zimmerman spent the pot get it into his head thut it is his ljuslnftPs to (Wye VI or to rule ua. Ills business is to manage the government for us. To Illustrate what I mean, tnke tho jpanama Canal under Col.

Gocthals. That lias been the biggest Job of tho kind ever undertaken by any nation, tho biggest piece of engineering work ever attempted In tho world. After trying several experiments, we finally found In Col. Gocthals the man who could do the Job, and we set him to work, and he has nearly done it and no Job of tho size has ever been done better. We have been delighted to give him a free hand and let him manage the wholo affair.

But we firBt of all decided that we wanted a canal, and that wo wanted it in Panama, and that wo wanted it of a given type, and then set Col. Coethals to work to realize those various wishes of ours. Well, what Is true of Col. Goethals is truo of all other public offteluls, from a Justlc of the peaco and an- alderman up to the president and the chief Justice of the United States. There is not any one of them who Is ruling us.

We are ruling ourselves. Each one of them is managing bis special bit work in the public interest, Just exactly as Col. Goethals Is managing the building of the Panama Canal in the public interest. We rule ourselves, and we choose our representatives not to rule us but to manage the public business for us aloug the lines we have laid down and approved. The men who disbelieve lu tho rule of the people, and who think that the lieople should be ruled by a part of tht (for to call such a part "a rep- ple, by a representative pnrt of the of course," said he, "and are content to let experts do tho expert business to which we assign them without fussy Interference from us.

Hut the week end with home folks at Holton. people. It is always a dangerous mat Carl Ragan, of Nortonville, was ter to try to improve on Lincoln when we deal with the rlchts and duties of Special One-Way Tickets on sale daily 15, inc. Choice 3 Different Through Pullman Tourist Sleeping Car Route Through Senic Colo a do Liberal Stop-over privileges The Work In Ohio. State Master Laylln gives some interesting figures concerning work lu bis state.

It says that Ohio Is making stendy, substantial growth, forty-three grnnges having been added during the year twenty-eight new ones, eight reorganized, three Pomouas and four Ju-venlles-nnd 4.709 now members were gained, this being the greatest au-uunl gain In thirty-three years. A large number of Ohio granges own their balls. Quite number were built last year. More grange fairs were held than In nny previous year, nnd the demand for grunge speakers for picnics was unprecedented. Many county fair organizations provided balls for grange exhibits nnd provided gi'ungo speakers us attractions.

The secretary's report showed that tho total receipts lust year were $12,377.57, itemized us follows: (9,735.80 from membership dues and initiation fees, $2,001.03 from sundry sources, $138.71 from Bale of supplies nnd $112 from sixth degree fees. Tho expenditures totaled $11,430.81, of which $1,540.30 was paid to tbo national grange for membership dues, leaving a net surplus of $010.70. Tho treasurer reported the total resources of the state grange ns $20,403.18, divided thus: Itonds, mortgage notes, cash, The superintendent of juvenile grnnges reported that Ohio now bus fifteen of these granges, four having been organized the past year. The Juvenile membership totals About 300, nnd tho chil expert must understand that he is carrying out our general purpose and a McLouth visitor for a few days, tie people, and thin particular at. not substituting his own for tempt at Improvement Is not a happy one.

la substance It of course means Before contracting your plaster How Michigan Denied Right to Rule. ing see the eld plasterer. nothing except that this is to be a government of the wholo people by a Wesley Guest, McLouth. The U. U.

Bazaar Saturday, had The speaker said that in Michigan "the men who denied the people tho richt to vote at the primaries did It by passing the Primary Law In such shape that it would only take effect part of the people. We have had such a government In various parts of this Union from time to time, and stripped jef verbiage It simply means a government of the people by the bosses, a i government of the whole people fine patronage over $80 were the receipts. All but a few of the 100 fancy Bnd useful aprons were sold after the latest date that primaries could be held to elect delegates to Full Particulars on Ap that day and others since. the convention In June. lagalnst Instead of for the interest of "I his represents," he continued, "a Mr.

Archie Brown arrived Sunday merely meaner form of opposition to plication to H.E. KESSLER McLouth go tho movement for public decency than from Kansas City in his new Auto. A neat single seated Ford. He and would have been a slraightout vote against the entire proposition. K.

Dick made the run in 8 hours, roads were not in fine condition. Iu his address at the luncheon given by tho City Club, Col. Roosevelt dte H. B. Ragan.

the elevator man cussed the recall of Judicial decisions. Six Judges, four of them ou tho fed' travels by motor car, which he has dren uro very loyal to their obligations nnd tako intense pride in tho ritualistic work. eral bench, were seated at the table recently purchased at fine speed with him. rips to Leavenworth and Uzawkie JOHN GEPHART PHY51CIAN and SUROCON, Calls Answered Promptly pay or Nlht. Phono 130.

McLouth, Kas "My proposition has been discussed by my opponents In a frame of mind have been made. It accommodates three passengers and is a handsome Parcels Post. An Ohio man wanted to send a pack machine. resrni tatlvo part" entirely meaning less), tient the constitution as a straight Jacket for restraining an unruly patient the jK-ople. We on tho contrary treat tho constitution us nn Instrument designed to secure Justice through giving full expression to tho deliberate and well-thought-out Judgment of tho people.

They are false friends of the peoplo, and enemies of true constitutional government, who endeavor to twist the constitution aside from this purpose. Genuine Popular Rule Imperative. We are engaged at the present day in a great struggle for soolal and Industrial Justice In this country, and age of four pounds few miles by mall. It cost Mm 01 cents to do It which makes hysteria seem cairn by comparison," he said. A Campaign for Justice.

"Somebody told me that I was right The packagu weighed exactly four Mrs G. L. RatlifT recieved the eay ntelligenco of the death of her pounds nnd one ounce. The postmaster made him undo it find take out three plants. The package contained rother-m-law Mr.

E. Van Buren at on that proposul but that I shouldn't an Francisco, of heart trouble have iuterjected It into a campaign, strawberry plants. Tho gentleman Monday. Mr. and Mrs.

Van Buren I said that I wasn't in the least in 0. D. METZCER SON, AUCTIONEERS. says: "Itlght over the desk where we visited in McLouth, last Summer and undid nnd repacked the plants bung will be remembered by many riend3 a plncnrd that proclaimed the rate to our chief opponents In this struggle foreign count rlen to be 12 cents per are the powers of tillage, the powers The Quarterly Union Meeting of C. E.

E. L. and B. )T. P.

Sunday All Phones. McLouth. pound up to eleven pounds. Had I wanted to send thut four pound pack that profit by priv.ljge at the expense of the rights of the plain people as a terested in the cumpalgn except as a means of getting Justice. I'd a million times rather lose the campaign and get Justice than to win it without getting Justice." Col.

Roosevelt referred to the days when he was police commissioner of New York, and said that he made that city apoplectic with rage by enforcing the Sunday liquor Law, "until age to New Zcuhtud it would have evening at Brethern church was especially profitable and interesting, Miss Morrison of the High School was Leader an address by Ilev. B. F. whole. I advocate genuine popular rule In nation.

In state, In city, In cost tne 48 cents: to Toledo, It cost CI cents. I wonder if our national law county, as offering the bent possible means for eliminating special privi makers ever attempt to reconcile this Inconsistency!" lege alike In politics and In business, and for getting a genuine equality of opportunity for every man to show the stuff there is in him. I do not demand equality of reward. There is Patrons' Fire Intursnee Companlts. The question is often asked if a (the whole people by a part or the people which does the bidding of the holders of political and financial privilege.

Appeals to the Individual. Now I want each of you to consider thin governmental proposition from lils own Individual standpoint. Our contention Is that JuHt us ach Individual wishes, and ought, to wish, to rule his own llfo for himself, so that ail Individuals taken' together; that Is, the peoplo, munt wlun themselves to rule their collective life and not be te ruled by ol hern. Kach of us here wants to lend his own life hlniKelf. Ja not that true of euch of you? It certainly in true of me, and If I found (Jt was not true of any of my sons, 1 would feel like disinheriting them.

I want to lead my own life for myself, and not to have anyone else lead It for me or boss me In loading It, and each of you are In my class, the parent class, you mothers and fathers, Want to feel that way about your boys as they grow up. After the boy has gone out Into the big world, if be is worth hie salt he will want to boss the Job of leading bis own life him lf, and If you find that he wishes he had a guardian, or needs a guardian, you won't think much of him. This not mean that none of us make mistakes; on the contrary, each of will sometime make mistakes. Yon make them. 1 will make them.

But they will be my own mistakes and not somebody else's; and I will know (hat they are and will cure them myself, whereas If somebody Is was making them for me, maybe and I would not agree as to what Were mistakes and what were not, and la that case he could not cure them. Free Government. Well, It is Just the same way about the people as a whole. All of us, you sta4 all of as together, want to rule parsslves, and we don't wish to have body of outsiders rule as. That What free government meatus.

If ipeople cannot rule themselves, then jthey are not fit for free government, 14 an talk about democracy is a (sham. I do not for a moment mean (that we, the people, will not occasion-i any make mistakes, but, after all, jtitey will te our mistakes, and not Somebody else's, and we can cure 'them ourselves, whereas if other peo-ple rule over us, under whatever form, ivea If they are entirely disinterested, they may make what we regard as i 1rf bad mistakes and yet If they do ot think them such we cannot make 'tfcem change. DR. MILTON CAJN PHYSICIAN IID SURGEON Calls promptly attened day or night Eyes Tented and Glasses Carefully Fitted, a 66.,,. TELEPHONE.

...69 granger who is a member of a Patrons fire Insurance company should have Hill followed. A solo by Miss Zim merman was a feature. Church Notice Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday Servicp. 10 a.

m. Sunday School. 11 a. m. Preaching.

7 p. m. Epworth League, 7:45 p. m. Preaching.

Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. fire loss and he was not in good standing in the grange would the loss be paid? We believe it is the custom to Include In the Insurance policy a wide inequality of service, and where this is the case it is but Just that there should be inequality of reward, for It would be the rankest kind of injustice to reward the man who renders worthless service as well as we strive, however inadequately, to reward him who renders service that Is clause to tbe effect that any member of the Order In good standing may ap ply for such Insurance. This Is prac Ladies' Aid meets Thursdays at 2:30 ticed In tbe Jefferson County Fire as literally priceless. But I do ask that BARBER SHOP W. II.

Clakk, Prop. Ac.al WHITE STAR sociation, the largest In tbe world. p. m. All are welcome to these services.

B.F. Hill, Pastor. we endeavor so to shape our governmental policy as to bring about a It Insists tbst tbe Insured must keep In good membership In tbe grange dar ing tbe terra of his Insurance, other-" measurable equality of opportunity for all men and all women so as to do Justloe to man and to woman, to big wise it will be declared void. Collars 2Jc Cuff c. Lace curtains a ipcclalt r.

basket and to BtUe, to rich and to poor. I they got a decision that seventeen beers and one pretzel made a meal." Since the law provided that llqoor might be sold with meals on Sunday, he said. New. York has had Joy ua confined. The second speech was made at the Merchants' Exchange, where Col Roosevelt discussed his proposal for the creation of an Interstate business; commission to deal with large corporations.

Thence he went to the Coliseum, looked In on the household show, and spoke for two minutes. The remaining two speeches, la the armory and In East 6t. Louis, were delivered In the evening. Colonel Roosevelt's telegram to the Illinois Senate was occasioned by aa Invitation to stop off at Springfield, 111., and address that body. The col east wired his regrets and said that a Presidential Primary Law, to consider which the legislature is la session, was aa important step toward securing to the people the right to rule themselves.

He assailed the politicians and the "crooked men of wealth" who, he said, were opposing such measures. Governor Hadley Thomas K. Kled-tinghaus snd several others more active in Col. Roosevelt's campaign attended the conference, at which the political situation in Missouri was die cussed. CoL Roosevelt would make ao comment 5C fiatispk lA Oil stats, eaves every Tuesday, returns Friday Orange Mews Net.

Ulysses grange, at Jackson vCls, Vord-of-Mouth Advertising believe It is even more Important for men to pay heed to their duties and to the rights of others thaa It Is for N. dedicated a new grange ball last month. them to pay heed to their own rights. A resolution was defeated bf the But I believe also they can only do national grange to allow granges to confer the four degrees at one their full doty when they enjoy fully their rights. ITiold that we of this FRIDAY'S r.

tVatfrinc DENTIST Office with Dr. Cain. nation are false to our professions, Tbe legislative committee of the na tional grange was right oa the Job during the Canadian reciprocity fight at Washington. Passing encomiums, only over your store counter, about the quality of what you've got to sell, results in about as much satisfaction as your wife would get if yon cave her a box of cigars for Christmas. Advertising ia This Taper is yM-rvbov at (net and makes Luc at tack with mootj.

talse to the traditions handed down to us by the founders and the preservers of the republic, if we do not make It In very truth a real republic, a democracy la fact as well as in name, a democracy where each man stands en his worth as a man and is Judged as such; a democracy in which the peo The Patrons Fire Insnrance Com- pnnr of Ithode Island carries $112,920 Established in 1856. FRED urns TheCest Monument House In Kansas vnrtv i1 tMiw-lfsi irhcr. In risks. It has $7,103.74 in its treasury nnd had only one small loss last year. The "moral h7ord la co-operative Insurance reaches to rfllnlmom la the grttig fire Insurance fcasir.M.

y' their reprwientatJves do not rule yIhallcnly CghtiL But, tat m4 flatly ijrsxniw from which we bar. teaaJlg, govsnuixfflt for tU..