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Show part Two VOL X. o. yitblisliri Dailtj No 90 SAND RIDGE S. L. den eVe" of casually or with have ho , the nmy ihe digging., are rIrt, evened to the advantage .ware of the great facilities of the Gale City with the completion wi'ioh will come on the Oregon cut-o- ff rid and south of the l ilW' Weet reaaon lhe Sta,e tliat .lri.- - f,r trouble to some to jxiufiMl lias Aone Tacts and figures relative to The under way. t;.e Improvement the accompanying iLoLsnai'li wiil le a material aid hi an of wlmt is doing. tfHV.stamlhtg cut-o- ff began last June. the "it Wnik for ii.l the r.iw line will be ready next of middle stea.Iy use by about the the estiJuly, thirteen months being the bills After mate.! time required. n in and paid the aggregate cost lrt, Otw. will probably run up to about $250, make Railroad, like other institutions, improvements for the ultimate saving obviof money to. them. While it is what Just to sUte lniiHsible ously will annually the sand ride cut-o- ff aave the Oregon Short Line, it is fair to presume the aum will be in the neighborhood of at least $25,000. or 10 In ten per rent on the investment have will road the very probably years as a its money back and the cut-o- ff a! (DtjJiru. Utah NEARING COMPLETION CUT-OF- F - Ft. ' i A . us 1.. :. : C.t i ; Bridge. '.i ic: t. i.'iv lv W b- .Yf'Jl'- - li'- Hi- x 1 x. ..."1' - . 1.1. ! i i n I I. . practi... y .. : - I i II. ihign.i I ; . ,i. I .it : 1,.. i ...I,i. 11 I" sonic li. i.. ci .'I. .sled, ail n -, ix1 g and soiie tel tll.ll tills i ml ialx-- P ban , n . I : x 0.1, I'I'C m, . I't.tll i vCaialicn in i, of II M Ainiatt Completed. foil.'-- . i r- I'r- ilt and lcoLiii. l I ' .li ..id - : Mciri.nn i, tl I.. I..,, Ihig us I mil. The i bri.ige . e. II on Vd. Tlnrliclli .'x trick ix.s t a'l.l ..ell' s llie in line two cs rth .1 Uox. In an inxciiloiy xxn'i i .M ;:i I . i m- - '''.- St. I -- It- rk ' I, i :!,. pi.-- xvas , .n,- , m.. f t'lgl:., fully sl'.i'lt SplUV " 'Ling Ttiis was sup' i x is- l Knrema.i I! i . tan.l. J. L.i stroin xu fniviMiiii .if tii,. Metal f.ir il... bridge cii'ii.-limi the American etiiupimy. Ill lhe picture t Is slinxx n llu- 111. mill 'I the cut which the sainl ridge. From this cut 33u.tii0 yards .if sand were removed, most nf it going ".del of the prueti.nl great advantage Short Line can be seen in a comparison of the grades, the maximum coniiH-nsaiegrade of the new route 1.5). as against sevebeing nty-six hundredths (.76) on the old one. This difference in grade, to the flve-toiii- hs ;c- - - ent crossing, which will be obviated by the new route. While the Short Line li to be commended and congratulated fur the precautions it has taken and the success it has earned in the prevention of wrecks and casualties on its present crossing, yet none realizes better that it la perilous, that one slip Photo C, by Sooy, Looking WoiL resolves itself u; fuel, time wear uml i.ar an.l the sundry othei Items of .ruling expense. Helps U. P. and Espce. A decrease of about a quarter of a rtlle is effected by the altered course. Trains from the south at present run past the depot and back in. Under the new regime they will run straight in from the south and continue to the north without extra trouble and time required J.y the harking. The same gain will be enjoyed by through trains from the north. Another point of importance Is that no longer, as now, will the Eapee engines be compelled to cross the O. 8. L. main line lit quest of coal and water. A still further Improvement is the opportunity which will be afforded for a rearrangement of the Union Pacific yards and the extension of her tracks further north. On account of the spurs to the sugar factory and the canning factories, as well as other interests in that region, the present line will not be entirely abandoned, but some steps will be taken to do away with the danger necessitated by the croselnga as now in use. oiiee int-- i a .liflfer'iH'- - in ! i -- being tlic or.L i li c san.i ri.lgc I i.nnlin iil place. . Photo B, by Sooy, Looking East. - Anotli.-- r s . pi n.iliv'icxl III. 1'.. i 'g.I.-i- o Photo A, by Sooy, Looking West. rail-ma- night any day cause a greater pecuniary kies than the coat of the cut-of- f, not to mention possible fatalities. In addition to this consideration, the crossing now in use enforces slower running and consequent loss of time. i xx b.-- . New Line is Safer. out of the d the foresee to what Just question can aave by this work is one of the chief reasons for the works being dune. That is the danger of the pres- ... .1 li .I T i asset The main reason why it la C.II X.-- 0,u valuable SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1906 ciixe and X. III. cut-o- uc- -. ali.-a.l- Ills, sm ll tilings these latter .lays, Is worthy a ff 1 - puiii-truli'- Cl -- the ms. Hi Tin- lit lhe xx.sl end of the maximi.iii dlg- - Is nil) feel, this being so lie Ill'll feci xx.st I the river. The cut Is 4 Suit feet long, al xxhioll point it reaches tile lex.l That is about the place from which ilic picture 1 was taken, at the west PLANT COMPASSES. The means of idling north from south by tile lank on h tree Is already x ell known to the average person, yet few seem to Ih- aware of the fact that ih. re are several plants which inay bo ft rilled almost infallible guides. These are the "cniiipasH-planta,- " The most common one Is the rosin-- x - eed. The discover of the "coiiipass-plun- r' whs first niH.lc In 1642 by a company of western pioneers, slid in t he following year Major Alvord of the United Htute army made a report in which he verilieil the statements made by the discoverers, and at lust Ihe compass-plawas duly classified and recorded. Several theories have tieen advanced to explain the reason why the leaves of this plant are attracted to the poles, for they stand ierpciidicularly with their faces to the east and west and their edges to the north and south. But it remiilned for Dr. Ass Gray to give a true explanation. This was that both sides of the leave being similarly constructed, and both equally sensitive to light, both Bid's would therefore make an equal struggle for sunlight, musing each leaf In twist ujain the stalk unlll It became perpendicular, thus exposing one side as much as the other. Further microscopic examinations piuved the truth of these deductions. nt Photo D, by Sooy, Looking East. A BRYAN -- HEARST REVIVAL They are talking much more about Hearet at Washington than one would have thought posaible eighteen months Some of them are even beginago. ning to say, Mr. Hearet." Although to their many put a qualification it la easy to guess that Will it turn they smell something. out a false scent, or a simple case of first endure, then dicker, then embrace? The spectacle of a young man without a call, or any training in public life, after starting out the presidency, a check-boo- k in one hand an braaa band in the other, Memed eaay enough, but this same Young man, having behind him what la vention the vice president will have snmetning to say. The Republicans may elect without New York; hardly without Indiana and what Indiana imThe east may sneer at Mr. plies. Fairbanks. It will have to reckon with him. But, the Roosevelt suggestion, materialised, means the splitting of the Republican party wide open. With that, anything becomes possible for the Democrats, and we may be sure that after the fiasco of 1904, very few Democrats will awing on to the conservative horn of the dilemma. The Hearat-Brya- n organs will remind the party that radical men and measures have benerally won in the long run; that Jefferson was regarded by believed a. vote for mayor of the Federalists, who represented ormajority Kew York City, with a poaalble election ganised capital, and the gentlemanhood to the governorship in front of him, of their day, as very little short of flanked by thq labor unions and sup- the devil; that Jackson was pictured ported by an ample fortune, becomes to as worse than Jefferson, and, finally, the average political mind a different that high finance, for which the ReProposition. publican party mainly, stand the Politic not only makes strange bedaristocracy of money and culture fellows. hut, veered by the winds of the has received such a black eye and Popular caprice which we christen Pub- grown so odious to the masses of the lic Opinion, It la of the essence of the people, that a boy wltn a sling little expedient and the available. In France David Bryan, or little David Hearet they say It ia the unexpected that hap- will be able to bring him down and pen. Even In England, an old, con- lay him low. servative country, we are seeing a The Democrat! of the west and as complete, as thorough and south are likely to heed this perhaps radical as might be implied by the to warm to it in 1948. election of William Jennings Bryan or Nor, will there be anybody of imwilliam Randolph Hearet for President portance and influence to say it nay, the United States. or to contest it. The old line, with That Hearet and Bryan, united, can Cleveland and Parker and Carlisle at end will control the next National its head, has definitely passed from Democratic convention (i the scene. New leaders of the Hearet may be without much stretch of conjec- persuasion will begin to bob up here ture or fancy. What might happen If and there. New shibboleths will he they should play at is heard. The Philippine Issue Is whipping Quite another matter. It is well, howround to the Bryan point of view. The ever. to base all calculations upon the following the Hearst-Brya- n mrmte that they will work together, have the best of it in the lead, nd It is too soon to take it for granted matter of the Trusts, the Railways and at. if they do, will encounter Municipal Ownership as distinguished they another overwhelming defeat. Hope from Government Ownership. It will springs eternal in the gambler's breast, be a long time before organised capid of late years American politics baa tal goes again into the treasure chest good deal of a gamble. after campaign of the stockholders ve talk of Theodore Roosevelt for funds. Already Jacob Bchlff and Lyy)rd ,erTn is ominous for the Re- man Gage are talking about a possible publicans. m case It has any founda-o- n. money panic under certain contingenit wjll pruve fatal. My own opin-- n cies. The Democracy of Jefferson, Jack-so- n has been, and is, that the Presl-w-i- ll and Tilden may be a thing of the lend himself to no such movepast, the Democracy of Cleveland and ment. He i. an able man, deeply versed Carlisle certainly ia But the label la to worldly lore, and knows full well Intact, and this, with the flag,, la in ,onPr tenure of the Pres den -- Ihanda that know not Belmont and will tint my hi ..d,ce wuld not add an Inch to no more of Parker. And, dear toture. whilst the attempt friend and fellow-iluden- t, there you to ... I"lc n 11 m8lt cost him, would are. YorvL'T hlm- Intelligent New Parties in a Fluid State. he Is committed to Sir Eto. why la Mr. Root sec- - The professional politician, , who of state? P"T keeps hie nose in the air and his ear n the next national Republican con to the earth a feat physically Impos quasi-approv- flat-foot- ed rev-olutl- on as-um- cross-purpos- es Ultra-Democra- ts, "a 1 tht not much, fell betwixt the two stools. North and ground-and-lofSouth, the Union still represented the popular aspiration. It did not take the Whigs a long to die as It took the Federalists. But, they died as hard, leave. ing not a reck behind. Know Nothlngism in the North e, quickly resolved Itself into what was s. long-sho- ts Read the at the outset called Black Republicanand story of the White House. Consider ism. At the South it was scotched first the career of lta present occupant. One by Henry A. Wise, In Virginia, and triumphant party leader brings in a finally killed outright, by Andrew Johnwhole dynasty. The shores of public son, in Tennessee. There was an life are strewn with the wreckage of American" party in 1858, headed by beaten party leadership. There are the Fillmore and Donelsun, and a Union" Men that Were and there are the party in I860, headed by Bell and Evers. ett. But they were merely shades of the Men that and the line betwixt success and The real fight fell between the Demofailure Is sometimes invisible. It weins crats and the Republicans Except that all in the drew, as the saying it. Ted- the Iiemocrats, who seemed to think g and got a there was no hereafter, split wide open dy drew to a d. Why not another as well? in 1840. they would again have carried Thus Mr. Bryan reasoneth, anil Mr. the country and the' Sectional War would have been deferred at least four Hearst, and many more. Not without warrant, either, for It year. Often little things affect great may be doubted whether the political onea. Had Rusk, of Texas, lived, he conditions of the country were ever so might have brought the Democratic unfixed and uncertain, were ever In factions to aether. Though long ago such a flnld state, as they are at the forgotten, his personal Influence was extraordinary. But, in 1859, crazed by present moment. The old Federal Party, which set out the death of his wife, he took his own over the Constltu-tlo- n life. Thu offer of Guthrie as a comto ride rough-sho- d and which got Its coup de grace in promise candidate at the Charleston It did Convention, came very near accept1840, was a long time not actually walk the plank and sink ance. But, the day of Compromises beneath the wave never to rise again was over. Yancey, and his Immediate until 181$. The era of good feeling, following were bent upon Secession as it waa called, being as a matter of and s Southern Confederacy. Thun, the fact an era of personal politics, with Deluge! its ambitions and rivalries. Its fpuds It is a question whether the reorganand ita scheming, lasted eight years ization of the Democratic iarty after longer. Then came the reparition of the war waa not a strategic mistake The party parties, the labels being Whig and on the part of the South. hari-kari In Democrat, with Jackson leading the had deliberately committed Southern and 1860. Northern of lta winga Then twenty-foyears Whigs. unequaled strife, most of the Incidents hated one another worse than they and accidents playing to the hand of hated the Republicans. More than any the Democrats as the last forty years other among living men the South dewas now they have played to the hand of the tested Andrew Johnson, who Republicans, until, In 1852, the Wblga President Equally good terms could went to pieces under the Presidential have been made with the Republicans candidacy of General Winfield Bcott, in Congress, where real power lay, as Clay dying In the early summer of that were made with the Administration, year and Webster not surviving to vote, which had no real power and came as he meant to do, for Franklin Pierce. perilously near to losing its hold, by There Is, or there was, among the pri- Impeachment. But the South was In vate papers of Mr. Clay, an unpub- jno mood for strategy. Johnson showed Thaddeua Wade. lished address to the Whigs of tha some relenting; United States repudiating the nomina- Stevens and Henry. Winter Davis, tion of. General Scott none; and so. blind of an eye. with an The Slavery Question had superseded arm in a sling, and a leg In plaster-of-pari- s, all other Issues, and, the Democrats Democracy hobbled on its feet the field militant again. took and upon themselves firmly having planted From that day to this, with a brief the Constitutional recognition of Slavery and the Rights both of the States spell of sanity under Tflden, it has been and of the Slaveholder which repre- the merest bungle of quiddities, a sented the trend of contemporary opin- monster without a head, catching at ion they carried all before them. Tbe all sorts of straws and for the most North was not ripe for Abolition. The part reaching out blindly after the imSouth was a unit against it The Whigs possible. Little other than tbe label sible, though Intellectually harder than other forma of tumbling to which he acrus-- ; toina himself la lucky if he hits it at the opportune moment once or twice In a In the political field, scarcely less than upon the there are ty life-tim- race-cours- dark-horse- iDlght-have-bee- shoe-strin- tan-yar- ur n; side-show- survives. And even the label means one thing east and another tiling west, discounted both ways in the South, where the Nigger, and nothing but the Nigger, tips the beam. And there you are again, my masters! All Agog and All in s Fog. So much ss Is set duwn in the foregoing relates to the politicians mainly and to the game of politics as It is played in the national capital and in the principal centers of combination and movement. What Is back of It? Say what we will alxiut the jieople losing control of their Government, It is, under a system like ours, to the people, as the source and resource of power, that the party leaders must and will at last address themselves. The voters of the United States are too widely separate to reach In a single camjwil'gn, either quick, or, accurate clnciuslons. They are often misled. They are often mistaken. Too often they are Indifferent particularly to abstractions and statistics. Hence, wise platform-makesimplify their programme. They seize some paramount issue, strip it of complication, and turn It loose to hit or miss, to win or lose as the case might he; but it must lie an Issue Inviting the popular Interest and suited to the popular rs w What Is It likely to be In the coining Iiolltlcal battle? He who can forecast this will come very near the solution of a real problem, because so much will depend upon the secret aims of undeveloped ambitions and purposes of certain individual players. Mr. Bryan Is on the other side of the world. What oracles, what vagaries will he bring back with him? Mr. Roosevelt5s friend, Jacob Rils, has butted into tbe ring. Did he come directly from the White House? The Hearst papers are lively enough. But, are they not likely to do their owner more harm than good, as a candidate for office? Have not great editors been as disappointing aa great Judges in the field of actual political warfare and In tha chaiycter of appellant! for votea? We need go no farther bark than Greeley, Raymond and Forney for an answer. It took twenty years to educate the country to a realization of the inequalities and inlqultiea of our tariff system. First, the Democrats had to be got out of the way. Four years were lost because Mr. Cleveland neither knew nor cared anything about the question. Finally, on a clear-cplatform we swept the country,.to face four more years of blundering and tergiversation, ending In catastrophe. In Tha people are yet uninstructed ut foreign affairs. They do not yet realise our relations to the world at large. They chiefly want their government to he honestly administered, and . Mr. Cleveland's popularity, which need not tie denied, or discredited, sprang from the belief that In spits of his failure he was an hnnet man, who waa trying to do right The same may be said of Mr, Roosevelt The wave which passed over the country last fall was the protest of the voters against boodle politics and x If enriching bosslsm. The Republican iwrty, as the party In power, has made Itself mainly responsible for the grafting which has been going on, and, if the people had been given half a chance, they would have sent the Republicans to grass lung agox They have simply preferred to bear the Ills of graft and grafting than fly to tbs arms of advertising doctors with cure-a- ll remedies. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst promise too much. They should simplify their program and draw in their homa. What they have laeked has tieen the public confidence. They certainly m&de Judge Parker look like thirty cents. But can they do any tietter for themselves? That is the proposition which, when the time comes, they will need to consider. In the meantime, the general opposition to the unified Republican fabric Is growing apace, and the state of confusion among the diillmasters and the file leaders of both parties Is obviously Increuslng. Two things may be conjectured:Teddy for a third term and the nomination and election of Hearst for governor of New York. In either event the country is face to face with a revolution more than that which has Just overtaken England. The bottomlesa pit, which has opened and swallowed the insurance princivolcano pals, Is but the crater of which will presently belch forth its flood upon the Pompeils and Hercu-luneuof Boodle Politics and High Finance. To escape the deluge cm the one hand, to cleanse the Augean Stables on the other, must it be a choice between Roosevelt and the Mexlcanisa-tlo- n of the presidency, and Hearet, supported by a wild horde of the discontented, preaching the Gospel of Thorough, the llqulflcatlon of all things solid and their recreation on lines which conservatives will call socialistic and ruinous? What Is Mr. Roosevelt's politics; la he an old-tiConscience Whig of the schol of Clay and Lincoln, or a bold and lucky adventurer upon the high seas of public life, as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a -- ng (Continued on FI Ten.) |