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Show B B The Republican 'Record IN his acceptance speech President Wilson had t- the assurance to give his version of why the -H Republican party was ousted from power, in the e K cheekiest paragraph of his speech. H But it naturally awakens the thought of why mm the Republican party ever arose to power and B what its record has been. It is the successor of B the old Whig party. It has controlled the gov- 'B ernment since '61 with the exception of the last B term of Mr. Gleveland and the present term of H Mr. Wilson. What have been somesof'the tri- B umphs in the interests of the people? We leave B 'out all reference to the Civil war, for that' was B sectional, except to say that it steadied the coun- B try through that might upheaval to a port of B safety and peace. B But it brought in the free school system. It B' established the homestead law for the men who B changed the frontier to an empire of 'enlighten- H ment and progress. 8 It caused the building of the first transcon- ,B tinental railroads. IB It was the parent of the eight-hour flay 'for IB f 4 company labor. jm V ' It exacted the first laws to govern child idbor B in great industrial concerns. 'It established, the J$mi protective tariff to encourage skilled labor; to jE make places for millions of employes; to supply Br. a market at home for home products, and' to' keep B- in our midst the money from our mines and B trade balances. It established governmental B bureaus for commerce and agriculture, and caused B the founding of agricultural colleges in the sev- eral states. It extended great help to secure V Uhe utilizing of the waters in the arid regions M of the republic for irrigation and for the supply-B supply-B iiig of power to needed industrial plants. M It tried to establish a most needed merchant m, marine but was always baffled by the solid vote of the opposition and a few votes in its own party B "by men who never should have had transporta-m transporta-m "tion to Washington. It compelled justice to our B country from all foreign powers. B , ' "Under its rule the republic was transformed m ' and fifteen new states were rounded into form. n It' obtained and developed the empire of Alaska, (ft 'and 'has so changed the status of the nation that ft from being so poor and weak that its credit fc S 'was' rated the safhe as that of Spain and Turkey, mL H 'becaVne in fifty years a world power in the 'B very forefront of the nation. ' And it is fair to say that almost every measure , that it established was not through the help but I ' , -against the bitter opposition of the -party now In ' '"pbwer. M , It was able to receive and assimilate twenty m millions of foreigners and was able to do this by finding for the comers profitable places in 'which ,m to work. R And save in passing some financial legislate legisla-te tion, mast of which was already outlined by their b predecessors, what has been the part the party n which Mr. Wilson leads, has played? The one If thing which Mr. Wilson claims as one of the IjjL most conspicuous of its achievements is the re-jL re-jL . viBion of the tariff. Was' that a new inspiration If,' of'the'pafty in power? Or was it not'in'fact il' the exhuming f fom ' the 'grave of ' the dea'd con- I A i t-i,JL. i , ., . ..... federacy the plank in its .constitution, which was to have made the confederacy, had it succee'ded, more free trade than is England today? 1When President Wilson claims that his party -now embodies the patriotism, the intelligence "and the spirit of progress of the nation, he trenches , on dangerous grounds. If It was a 'poker garne pebple would "say he was bluffing on 'two duces and that "he hfust'be shaking 'in his 'boots, lest 'he be called. So Abject ASurrencier jTN 1909 Professor Woodrow Wilson addressed the graduating class of Princeton university and in the course of his speech said: You knew what the usual standard of the employee em-ployee is in oir day. It is to give as little as he may for his wages. Labor is standardized by the trade union and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to -do more than the average workingman can 'do; in some trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to do more than-ythe least skilfull of his fellows can do within the hours allotted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. I need not point out how economically disastrous dis-astrous such a regulation of labor' is. It is so unprofitable un-profitable to the employer that in some trades it will presently not be -worth his while to attempt anything at all. He had better stop altogether than operate at an inevitable and invariable loss. The labor of America is rapidly becoming unprofitable un-profitable under its present regulation by those who have determined to reduce it to a minimum. Our economic supremacy may be lost because the country grows rnore and more full of unprofitable unprofit-able servants. Two weeks ago Professor Wilson had become president of the United States and a1 candidate, for re-election. In a more formal statement than the one above he gave his views publicity in the 'following: 'fol-lowing: "It seemed to me, in considering the subject matter of the controversy, that the whole spirit of the 'time and the preponderant evidence of recent re-cent economic experience spoke for, the lelgni-hour lelgni-hour day. It has been adjudged by the thought and experience of recent years a thing upon which society is'justir Vin insisting as in the interest of health, efffc jiy, contentment, and 'a general increase of ecd omic vigor." Moreover, liis statement was made as a justification jus-tification for making an abject surrender to the demand of four r men representing some labor unions, and coupled with the demand was a threat that if the demand was not complied with within five days they would give the order which would paralyze the transportation systems of the United States, bring great losses to the business men and great distress to the poor of all the millions who make it possible for railroads to run their trains and to pay their employes better wages jthan are paid for the same work-anywhere -else the world around, and better wages than the same men could' obtain in any other field of labor in any country, including our own, on earth. What has change'd the opinion 6rbur"pfesident in seven years? And had he kept the pledge made in the platform on which' he was"elected, and refused to' be n candidate this year wouldlie have made the statement of two weeks 'ago, and 'then have driven the measure "of his surrender "through 'congress, or would he have taken thV gfound that "Mr. Hughes takes when lie declafesth'at'he would never surrender 'to such a dehiah'd, 'btit 'would H "go down to defeat rather 'than yidld bne'Jdt'br H title of the 'principle of investigation in "atiVance H Of legislation? H The matter has now assumed 'a 'form wliich H makes it a direct test of the manhood anlTwom- anhood of the United States, for if our 'govern- ment cftn be made to surrender abjectly to the H demands of any organization within and under it, M we are not three degrees removed from anarchy M and Mexican lawlesness. M Voters will bear in mind that this has become M the supreme question of the campaign. M So vital is it that some of the strongest mon M in congress of Mr. Wilson's own party recoile'd M before it and refused to vote for Mr. Wilson's sur- M render. M No wonder Mr. Gompers is wearing out -his M leather lungs because of the joy of his leather ft brains that a section of organized labor, through M its vicious representatives, have freightene'd -.or M cajoled the president of the United States not M only to make an abject surrender to its demand, M but have further compelled him to drive their tie- M mand through congress. M The Great Republic was never 'before "so 'hu- ; M miliated. f M The Result IrTMaine H AS was expected generally, we think, Maine M 'has gone Republican. With a little change M the old saying may be repeated, "Maine Went'hell- M bent for Blaine." H It will have some effect on the national vdte M in November, but Maine is no longer 'a 'pivotal H state, indeed it has nut been since 180. Invtltd.t M year Maine revised itself. In that year the cry: M ''Maine went hell-bent for Blaine," 'ha'd 'cease'd. M The plumed knight came 'down from there dls- M comf itte'd and demoralized. The stalwarts ' h'a'd M refused to vote and thus gave 'the 'victory vtothe M opposition. M When the Republican national convention met fl that year, the 'stalwarts led by Roscoe Conkling H were fpr U. S. Grant. The opposition in the con- H vention tried by cat-calls and hisses to pr"eveii H Conkling from making the nominating speech ft Grant, but he beat them down by the sheer force ; of his masterful intellect, pluck and skill as a 'H platform orator. M Garfield was there ostensibly to support John tM Sherman and to make the nominating speech 'for jH him. Ho made the speech, a magnificent one, but on the first ballot there was one vote for James A. Garfield. It was the same way on the H second and third ballots. Then inquiries were made and it was found that the vole was that of a Campbellite preacher from Pennsylvania. 'When U a stalwart whom wo all knew heard that vhe 'ex- H claimed: "We are gone. Garfield will be notnin- ate'd." Arid he was. Blair e was his warm tfar- , sonal friend. John Sherman was never 'mbre (' his warm friend. H Much ill-feeling was engendered in the con- vention and Conkling and his friends went' home in a most savage mood. This Ill-feeling was 'in the air of oil northern states, and 'Maine w6nt Democratic despite the utmost efforts of'the party HIS managers, and thp opposition was jubilant all over Hff the republic. Hfl Then General Grant aroused himself. He called HII upon Conkling and in substance said: "Conkling, Hff there is too much at stake this year for either H! of us to stay in our dens and lick personal Hl wounds. Come, you and I must make a campaign H'f for the Republican party" H1 1 Conkling at once agreed and the next morn- H ing news announced 'the fact and where they H I would hold meetings nighty or daily for the com- Hj Jug two weeks. They started out and it was as M I when Blucher appeared in sight on the afternoon 1 of tlio last day of Waterloo. Those two men H elected Garfield president. m ' Since then Maine has ceased to be a pivotal Hj state. The result there is an index of the drift M of public opinion but that is all. It is nothing that M cannot be overcome. Mr. Wilson has already the 1 electoral votes of at' least eight states in his H pocket and then such men as U. S. Grant and Ros- m coe Cpnkling are scarce in any country. H , Our Senator Greatly Honored B TT was a signal honor that the American Bar As- M . . sociation bestowed upon Senator Sutherland m j when they elected him president of their associa- H tion. That association has upon its rolls more great names than any other organization in Anier- H , ica has; more profound scholars and lawyers; M more men who direct the business of the coun- H try along legal lines; who are leaned upon for H . guidance by the men of affairs of the nation than H j any other. H I To belong to the association is a certificate of H ability in the profession; to be president of it is H in itself a certificate of character such as few H men ever receive. H i We congratulate the senator; at the same time H we congratulate the association, for we doubt not H that the senator will fill the place in a way to H fully vindicate the judgment of the men who be- H stowed the honor on him. M Senator Newland's Interviewed M J C ENATOR NEWLANDS of Nevada, is chairman H of the senate committee of interstate com- H merce. H A significant interview with him covers a page Hj and a half of the New York Times of August 27. H' In view of what has happened since the inter- H view reads as thought even then he was cognizant Hl of the program the president had determined to H drive through congress. The first sentence of the H' interview is as follows: "Almost as a matter of H instinct I believe in the eight-hour day for rail- f road employes and all other classes of labor in H 3 the United States." Now Senator. Newlands is an honest man, but he does not believe in any such 1 thing. For instance, we believe the senator has HH a valet. What special use would that valet bo to B him if his daily service was limited to eight hours? V In the estimation of most men the farmers Lj are the very backbone of the country, of what j use would an eight-hour man be to the average M farmer, who himself averages about fourteen M hours of work daily, from March to December? H How many farmer's wives would keep femal H help if their hours began at G a. m. and stopped H at 2 p. m.? M The senator does not favor compulsory arbl- H iration, but gives no receipt for settling differ- B qnces between employers and employes, though M as we recently saw, the welfare and the safety B of millions of people hung upon the result of that H difference; and it is a question that increases in H seriousness every day. Mr. Wilson temporarily H settled it by an abject and humilitating surre1 ler H to four men, who delivered to him an ultiu ni H and gave the government notice that they would B arbitrate nothing, but if their demand was not complied with inside of four days they would paralyze par-alyze transportation from sea to sea. What would Andrew Jackson have done in the face of such an ultimatum? What would Grover Cleveland have done? The senator explains why the railroad unions object to arbitration "the umpires um-pires have not technical knowledge enough to properly weigh the merits of their demands." If that is a reason, then President Wilson and the foremost suffragist could not settle the differences between a bootblack and hiB washer woman, neither having technical knowledge of how a real shine is put on shoes or when a pair of overalls is properly laundried. The senator injects the statement that he is informed in-formed that the average pay of unorganized railroad rail-road employes is only about $700 pr annum, while the pay of the organized is from $1,100 to $1,200 per annum. Well, if the section hands receive $2.25 per day for every working day in the year is not that more than the average working man can get anywhere else in the world? And if the men 'who run trains receive 4 per day for every working day in the year, where in the world could they go and get as much? And these are the ones whose representatives delivered de-livered the ultimatum to President Wilson which he surrendered to. The senator justifies the railroad men for not accepting any arbitration proposals on the ground that it would cause a delay in settlement. Exactly. The proposition which the brotherhood made was to levy an assessment on the people of the country of what they said would amount to $30,-000,000 $30,-000,000 per annum over their present pay; the railroad managers say it would be $60,000,000, and so anxious were they to have the matter fixed that they at last gave the government but five days to comply, on the threat of a universal strike, and the president of the United States, the chief magistrate of the great republic, surrendered surrender-ed to the demand, and forced his backers in congress to surrender. Would he have done it had not a presidential eelction been only sixty days off? And did not Senator Newlands know he was going to do it and was not his interview to pave the way for it? And when before was anything so humilitating ever perpetuated by an American president? Why Not Buy Northern Mexico? A TREATY is in progress with Denmark for the purchase of her three little islands on the outward border of the West Indias, subject to the approval of the people on those islands. A commission is now in session to try to determine de-termine the difference between the Mexican gov-vernment gov-vernment and our own. Why would if not be a good time to propose the purchase of northern Mexico by our government, subject to the approval ap-proval of the people in that territory? To make the northern line of Mexico and the southern lino of the United States the tropic of concer. It would take from Mexico probably six hundred thousand square miles of territory, but it is in that sparsely settled region that all her revolutions revolu-tions are hatched; it is a source of weakness rather than strength; it is a constant expense rather than revenue to her, the sale would reduce the border line by two-thirds; with peace established estab-lished Mexico could make nothing out of it for a century to come; a perpetual menace to her peace would be removed by the purchase. Why should a senseless pride make her qling to It? The purchase would insure peace between the two republics; it would bo a good place to turn the tide of immigration which is Boon to begin to pour toward, our shores from Europe, into it would be better for both countries. It would save to Mexico all that she new has that is of any value to her and the money she could obtain by tho sale would enable her to set all her industries in motion. The line would be above Mazatlan on the Pacific, and Tarn- " pico on the Gulf of Mexico. r The purchase would save' to our country a mighty annual expense; -it would secure to us the harbors on the west coast of Lower California; Cali-fornia; It would give us no end of cactus, and some mines. Tho proposition is worth considering consider-ing by both countries. Why No Foreign Wars FNEMOCRATS are comparing Mr. Wilson to ' Abraham Lincoln by saying that at a time of great danger Mr. Lincoln kept the peace with Europe Eu-rope and that Mr. Wilson has done the same. In 18G1-'G2 the rich men and the nobility of Great Britain and the emperor of Franco were determined to interpose in favor of the Confederacy. Confed-eracy. In 1915-'1G all the great powers of Europe were in a death-lock and no faction of any of them has at any time wanted any serious trouble with the Great Republic, and no one save he was a lunatic or one of the feeble-minded has ever thought a war with any of the nations involved, and the United States possible. In our judgment neither Mr. Lincoln nor Mr. Wilson prevented a war. In Mr. Wilson's time there has been no danger of war. In Mr. Lincoln's time the danger was so great that Mr. Lincoln could not have avoided war save for (1) the attitude qf the British Queen, (2) the stern notice served on France by the Czar of Russia, through his premier, Gortchakof, (that any attempt at interference on the part of France and Great Britain, in the American war would be held by Russia as an act of war, and at the same time sending the Russian Atlantic fleet into New York harbor and the Russian Pacific fleet into the harbor har-bor of San Francisco, with orders to their admirals ad-mirals to report for duty if necessary, to the president pres-ident and secretary of the navy of the United States, and (3) to the achievement of tho littlo Monitor's performance off Hampton Roads. Those three things, together with the unseen Power that had set the stage and called the acts of that war, were what made the change of determination de-termination in Both France and England. To Insure Peace WE have been told much of late of the sweetness sweet-ness of peace. For a nation there is something some-thing very much sweeter. That is not to be afraid. The only way for a nation not to be afraid is to be prepared for whatever may come. We have had a new example in the great European war that in an emergency the greatest nations will violate their most solemn and sacred pledges and agreements with impunity. The only I way to be safe is to be prepared to meet such vio- J lations. The United States should have a perfect navy, its people should be universally trained, at least in the elementary course of war. It should not rest until thelimitations of submarines sub-marines and of aeroplanes is reached; it should exhaust chemistry and mechanics to have at its 'command every means of distruction. , It uhould have some more things especially j important. It should have fields prepared to make it possible for every earnest man to find employment. employ-ment. I Such dispositions should be made as to en- ' able tho United States to produce every needed thing that can be produced by mechanics and chemistry. There are plenty of reason for this. It would make us independent of all other nations; na-tions; it would give to Americans the work -of production; it would save to us millions of dollars dol-lars that are now annually sent away. There should be such laws passed as would at l once stop strikes and at 'the same time secure , absolute justice to employee and employer. It is baby talk to say that such laws cannot be framed. We should have" such a merchant marine as would remove every obstacle to trade between our own and foreign countries, and do all our own carrying trade on all the world's oceans, in American ships, to give us closer relations with foreign powers and place us in every way in the , very forefront of all the nations of the 'earth. Edison's New Talking Machine THOMAS A. EDISON was disappointed because Colonel Roosevelt was not nominated for president presi-dent and is out now for Wilson, and supplies a statement giving his reasons for his course, which reasons the Democracy are circulating as important import-ant campaign material. The first thought awakened is, when did anything any-thing that Mr. Edison ever said or did, outside of his profession, carry anything like authority to any thinking man? He has made some most important im-portant electrical inventions and has from time to time promised a great many more which have . never materialized, but when did he become a poll- - tical authority, and what has ho ever said or done to single himself out from the masses of his countrymen as a gentlemen whose political ideas were either wise or worth noting, or essentially essen-tially different from one of his own talking machines? ma-chines? He writes as one who for a long time has held v his ear to the ground and knows whereof he speaks. The trouble is, he has the misfortune to be very deaf and the sounds that come to him are confused. All the reasons he gives for his present position posi-tion are stale and flabby, and many of them have no foundation in fact, but if they suit him, all right, but to assume that his opinions are worth one penny more than those of any ordinary citizen citi-zen who loves his country, is to make a mistake. A Stupid Company THE leaders of those New' York strikers are riot very bright. When they got ready to precipitate a strike they should have prepared a statement setting forth that New York City contained more inhabitants in-habitants than did all the thirteen colonies when they revolted against English exactions and raised the cry of "Liberty or death;" that the people going to and coming from New York daily exceed in numbers, all who landed in all our ports in any year prior to the last fifty years; that mil-, mil-, lions of people would be distressed by a week's strike, and then prepare their ultimatum and at- tach it to their demand, and should then have presented it to President Wilson giving him five days to have it accepted on pain of a, mighty strike if he refused. t Some Things To Anticipate T F the war in Europe closes in favor of the Allies, i- it will be more difficult to keep the peace with Great Britain for some years to come than it has for a good many years past. She will be K r smarting under the cost of the war and will be j determined to make it up in trade; she will re- sume her old swagger on the sea and will bo arbitrary in her demands; she will crowd her boycott to the limit and her arrogance will bo 4 accentuated not by the fact that she will not I' only have a great navy, but in addition what she jjl has not for many years, indeed never has had be- i fore, a mighty trained and seasoned army. We 1 do not expect her to pick a direct quarrel with ' the United States, but her swaggQr in Spanish H American waters will be most offensive. ' f The United States should keep building fight- r ing ships, should keep up and if possible exceed I the world in preparing moans of destruction, not only on land and sea, but beneath the sea and above the land; she should introduce the training train-ing in the simpler accomplishments of the soldier in our common Bchools; keep up the training camps to never be short of officers that could train and lead raw soldiers in short while dealing deal-ing with exact justice, by all the world, be always al-ways in a position to demand justice in, return, for a watch will have to be kept on Great Britain, on Russia and especially on Japan when the storm now raging on the eastern continent shall that city, is as follows: The Straight Vote THE voters in Utah who are naturally Republicans Republi-cans will not fail to see that they have a really greater interest in the result of the national na-tional election than even the result in Utah. If the national Dempcratic party wins the election, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Underwood and the others who smashed the protective tariff will have a right to treat the result as a vindication of their policy and the protection now given to our minerals, our beet sugar and to the manufacturiers now struggling strug-gling up toward Buccess will all be iorced on the free list. Democrats are prone to vote straight tickets. This year Republicans should imitate their example Utah four years ago was one of the states that was Republican. The vote of four years ago should be emphasized by being enlarged upon thlB year. The Utah contingent might make the balance of power in the next senate and house. An Easy One A BRILLIANT Democratic contemporary demands de-mands that Mr. Hughes shall explain what better policy for Mexico he would have pursued than that which Mr. Wilson has pursued. It is a plain case what any level-headed man would have done. He would have first sent a notice that the outrages must cease at once. If that had been unheeded he would have sent a ship of war to each Mexican port and a small army from the frontier to sweep the brigands out of the way and to proclaim to the people that the army was there not for conquest but to restore and maintain order, even as our army did in Cuba, until the different states could send delegates del-egates to a common center to nominate a candidate can-didate for president and to elect him; then to retire. What More Is Needed? ON the day congress adjourned President Wilson Wil-son expressed the hope that when the session ses-sion was resumed in December it would take up and settle the remaining differences between railway employmers and employes. That was strange. We thought it was all fixed, that if the officers of a railroad union thought of anything they wanted, all they had to do was to demand it and give the government five days to fix it on pain of a general strike if it declined. That is the precedent the president himself fixed and bulldozed bull-dozed congress into to ratifying it. Why trouble congress any more with a little incident that is closed? If the president feels uncomfortable over the way the business looks, let him call up Villa on the long distance and ask what he thinks of it. Ten to one the boss brigand would approve. MEN for ages have been trying to transmute silver into gold, but that is not a more Impossible Impos-sible idea than is President Wilson's experiment of waiting until Mexico can be redeemed from within. No chemist has ever tried to transmit lead into gold. Men boll maple sap, and the juice of expressed sugar cane until enough moisture is expelled to leave the residue sugar; but they never boil muddy water for the same result. Six-sevenths Six-sevenths of the men of Mexico should be on reservations; res-ervations; one-half the others should be in work houses. DROFESSOR DAVID STARR JORDAN is Bat- H A isfled that as soon as the election is over H President Wilson will move to see if peace can- H not be restored in, Europe. Wise idea that. Sup- H pose the president should make an appeal now and H it chould be accepted right away by the tired H powers, and the contracts for ammunition Bhould H be recalled, what would become of the presi- H dent's campaign in the stagnation that would at H once follow in this country? M W HEN the small Democratic campaign orators H vv and newspapers are telling the people of H the beneficience of the eight-hour law, they ought H to add that under the Democratic tariff revision H the great question, when business again becomes H normal, will not bo a question of hours, but a H qaestion of getting something to 'do at any price. H ""ONGRESS has adjourned. How many of the H Democratic members gave Mr. Wilson a H power of attorney to run things his own way H during the recess, even as he does when they are in session? M T N his acceptance speech Mr,, Wilson laid much stress on the way his party has kept its plat- H form pledges of four years ago. But how about " the pledge of economy? When one looks over the appropriation bills passed during the past H nine months; why great God; was it not time H for their adjournment. M A COMMISSION is in solemn session to try to H adjust the differences between our country and Mexico. But who or what do the Mexican M commissioners represent except Carranza, what M the Americans but President Wilson? Could not M the same results have been obtained over the long M distanco telephone by Mr. Wilson and the bandit M by a half hour's talk? It would have been the M cheaper way.' M nr1 HE present campaign in Utah is a reminder of M a paragraph in Henry VI: M "There shall be in England, seven half-penny M loaves sold for a penny; the three hooped pot JA shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony H to drink small beer." M We doubt a little about the loaves; the butch- M er's and grocer's trust wIH stand that off; it will M not matter about the hoops, but woe to the man H who shall attempt to drink small beer after the H legislature meets. M D EOPLE who note the front of the Tracy com- M pany's new building, can gain a little idea of M what the difference would have been had our cap- itol been surrounded by the great polished mon- M olith columns that so many people wanted to have M erected there. M AT first thought the elimination of Ex-Governor M Blease in South Carolina, would seem a sign jH of hope, but then we-do not know whether or not M the successful man is any improvement on Blease. M IF the weather clerk has not sold out to the coal H trust, and is not an enemy of his country then H he must have been off on his vacation for a week H past. M IF our arc de triomphe is taken down after the M fair, it should be put in cold storage, and taken H out and re-erected when our soldier boyb "come H marching home." M T1 HAT intimation that Germany will claim $400,- H 000,000 of the United States for damages to her citizens in Mexico is modest at least. That H ' would make Great Britain's claim at least $800,- H 000,000; that of France and Holland aB much as H ' that of Germany. (It altogether is a reminder of H t ithe man who 'asked the watch carpenter what his H1; (Charge would be for .repairing -his watch. The H; roply after examining 'the watdh was, "ten -dol- H lars." Waiting a movement ithe 'question came: H '"AV111 you have the watch repaired?" Whereupon HjL the owner of the watch aBked: "Will you take the H' iwatch in part payment?" B i |