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1906-06-01, [P ] 1 i POLITICS OF PRESIDENT. WAKENING TO THE TARIFF Attacks on Trusts Mere Bluffs to Republicans Learn That Trusts Are IN A LAND OF INDIAN Allay Suspicions of the Selling Cheaper Abroad NHWAYS PRESENT , 1 People. Than at Home. ATMOSPHERE The cry of “stop thief” was never Those Republican congressmen who more sensationally raised to deceive anxious for proof of the steel ? KING are so the public than it was by President trust selling cheaper abroad than here Of Quiet Lake and Still Forest—The Old Days and Roosevelt in his recent message on should read their own party papers the Present—Fishermen Lured Hither. the Standard Oil Investigation. That more thoroughly, The government AND KINGSJF THE PAST message was timed to meet two exi­ statistics show that 35,000 tonB of steel V— ■■ 1 ■■■'- ' 1 11 — " gencies. The sugar trust indictments billets were exported last month and (f were presented to the court in New cabin, and hither one glorious May the market expert of the New York Spring and fall, summer and winter, York the eame day, and something day Leo drives May and me. Shy May Press says: •‘The major portion of I have stolen away to the north woods, had to be done to offset the effect of has kindly responded to my request these billets, however, are shipped and new once found them wanting. those indictments, which resulted for a companion, and alone with Osau- back here In manufactured form. The long inhabitants up there may from the work of Democrats. And, They are sold here for export at a eomplaln of untimely cold or heat, gee’s great-granddaughter I pass some again, as it has since turned out, Mr. very happy hours deep in the woods. price around $18 at the mills, while iy of unreasonable depth of snow, the ice Roosevelt was intending to desert his f. Perhaps we feel a bit lonely when stal­ the existing quotation for billets for 59 i too slow in breaking up; but some friends and go over bag and baggage l if 3 wart Leo drives away and leaves us, domestic consumption is $27.” kindly fate has ever attended me. I to the camp of his opponents on the But this writer, who certainly but mayhap the bit of fear gives zest "U have had little to complain of as to railroad rate legislation by accepting should be good enough authority for jjLj weather or view or pleasures. to the experience. In the long twi­ tH It the amendment suggested by Senator the most stand-pat Republican, fur- ' A recent sojourn deepens the impres­ light of the Lake Superior region we Aldrich, dictated by Senator Carter, tber gays; remain out of doors, the better to real­ Fully 20,000 tons of last 's sion; 1 am tempted to an eternal good- written out by Senator Fulton, and month-s billet shipments were con- hy to town life, and In the seclusion ize the loneliness and think how brave credited to Senator Allison, who knew slgned to Weish mills, where they are and beauty of the north woods lose we are. But when two loons rise nothing of it until it had been printed to be rol]ed lnt0 piates, then dipped dTORTHNG ; wiyself—rather, find myself. And not from the water, and high overhead in the newspapers and approved by jn and resbipped here for the pur- : i‘y •'il'YH; alone the woods and beauty draw me, give voice to the loneliness, I think a the President. Clearly the president pO80 of maklng nans. The largest im- Buhddmg hut the aspect of the people. Such little longingly of the much-peopled thought It necessary to play the cut- porter of tbese tIn plates ls the stand- bright eyes, such glowing health, such city. Down by the lake some pee-wees tle-fisli and muddy the waters, In or- ard on company, which uses about northern vitality. One sees no old peo­ hold a day’s-end chatter, and likewise der to cover his ignominious retreat ino ooo tons annuaHy. The beef trust ple, or at least no feeble looking old give voice to the loneliness. However, into the railroad camp, by playing on jg ’algo a very heavy buyer of tin the frogs answer back with hoarse de­ The democratic Norwegians desired king accepted the proffered responsi­ people, none that are content merely bis calliope the old tune of “stop plates made from the steei billets bilities, solemnly swore to support the to sit by the fire and let the world fiance, and with them I say: "Who’a thief;” and he played It loud and sb(pped from this country to Wales, a democratic king, and could nave constitution of Norway, and as King : afraid?” long. The people applauded, of though practically all the raw ma- made no wiser choice than that of so by. At Solon Springs—that inter­ Haakon VII. became head of the na- as ting settlement fast losing its Lum­ But at last the long twilight fades, course; for nobody knew what game ter(a] uged in the making of these tin Prince Charles of Denmark, now It gets dark, then suddenly all is black. Haaken VII. Compared with Sweden, tion. His formal coronation takes ber Jack characteristics and develop­ he was playing as an accompaniment olatM lg of Amerlcan origin, the tar- place June 22. ing .the aesthetic, attractive cottage On all sides the woods present im­ to the tune. But when they saw his iff bf)ldg them to be subject to a duty Denmark is very democratic, as some Haakon is a name that has honored gown by the lake, groves as carefully penetrable, oppressive darkness; time purpose, the next day, and realized of one and one.haif cents per pound, one phrases it, in Denmark the aris­ place in Norwegian history, and that tended as an English deer park; hers to go indoors and light the candles. that they had been listening to the ag the Drocess of making them into tocracy has gone to seed. “The ‘upper classes’ in King Christian’s realm (now this title should have been chosen is ft is now woodman, spare thine ax Fortunately, May is unimpressed by music of a siren or of the Lorelei, men Hn latj) enhanRea the value. The Night and distance from neighbors, and began to say; This is all a game o gtandard oil company uses these tin King Frederick’s) are largely wealthy significant of Norway’s national pride. where once it was cut down every mer­ merchants and farmers of the ‘scien­ The wife of Haakon VII. will be known chantable tree within sjght, for Deau- in her silent sturdiness nerves ar* practical politics plates for the export of case oil, with tific’ sort. Titles of nobility are no as Queen Maragretha, another name ty has become merchantable, and must quieted; one takes it, all’s well, In The Aldr-ieh-Carter amendment ee- ^ resu]t that a drawback is given longer issued in Denmark, and the few highly honored in Norwegian history. I call on the oldest in­ the woods a restful, sufficient compan­ tabllshes the broadest possible court fo u tbe govel.nment „f the full he preserved, remaining ‘noblemen’ in the kingdom It was Maragretha (1353-1412) who habitant, and find him this spring ion the great-granddaughter of Osau- review, Including the right of the lmport duty_ legg one per cent” The are not much seen at court. brought Denmark, Norway and Sweden apryer than ever, his age still prob- gee. courts to grant preliminary injunc- Wejsbmen buy this American steel be- The night is safely lived through, but It would be pleasant to believe that under one rule, formed a great union lunatic. It must be four-score and tlons in favor of the rail roads It cauge u {g gold for lesi) than Brltish the coward paleface can neither fall mar- of all the northern countries. The lit­ snore, and from his sunken chest and makes the legislation practically abor- made gteel_ and acrording to the not all royal marriages are tive, if not unconstitutional. It goes above Bepuhlican authority for about riages of convenience, and it is heard tle son of the present king and queen farther than Knox or Spooner or one_third lesa than the trust charges on all sides that Haakon and his queen the Norwegians have requested should I Foraker proposed to go, and yet these made a real love match—but this sort be called Olaf, a true Viking name. our own people. of story is very apt to be told even of Haakon VI. and Maragretha had a lit­ senators were represented as opposing We have the evidence of W. G. affairs. tle son Olaf, who died when but five the president, by going too far. And Raoul, who at the time he gave it, the most boldly “arranged” so the railroad rate battle ends in a But on the supposition this really is an years old, referred to by a certain I February 25, 1904. was president of writer as “the least and last of the fiasco, as everything else the Repub­ the National Railroad company, of exception, let us give credulity to the t tale of the courtship of the Danish kings of Norway.” * ]&: lican politicians have ever undertaken Mexico, quoted by Senator Bacon, of ? - They has ended when pretending to attack Georeia, in his speech on tariff abuses, prince and English princess, King Haakon and Queen Mara­ met when the latter one time accom­ gretha! How far away these names V//, corporations.
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