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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. The attack on the which can be found In the Congres­ 5 J Standard Oil was a hoax, a feint to sional Record for April 25, 1904. In panied her mothe" on a visit to her seem from the twentieth century, this & cover the desertion of the president Danish relatives. It was at the Ama- modern machine age. They suggest Harald Fairhair, he who united £ \ <5S their indorsements. There ls no long­ -Ol .*• a ton Jess than the price of the steel To be sure, King Haakon has other his country under one head and made er any possible excuse for Indulging \ rails for use In this country. connections of due importance. You a kingdom of it, which it has since Slit V* \ In cuckoo music. During last April there were no less remember his grandfather, the lament­ continued. In his youth Harald than 23,141 tons of steel rails sold by ed King Christian of Denmark, was aspired to marry the beautiful Gyda, a WHERE LIE THE SPECKLED BEAUTIES. POLITICAL EDITORIAL WORK. * the steel trust for export, so there Is called father-in-law of Europe, and proud princess, who declared she no doubt that the same underselling Haakon is related to almost all the would not stoop to a mere Jarl; if he backing cough one judges he long has, asleep nor go to sleep—a play recent------If congress should decide to let to foreigners still continues. Many crowned heads; the czar is his first would have her let him do as Gorm of bcen deficient of lung; but in this fine ly seen comes too vividly back to re- In free of duty all building materials other trusts are doing the same thing, cousin, the king of Greece his uncle, Denmark, Eric of Sweden, Egbert of air that seems to make small differ- membrance: “The Sabine Woman," * intended f~v San Francisco, remarks for we hear of farmers in Canada and he Is a grand-nephew of King Oscar of England, subdue the contentious Jarls ence, he promises to hold out for many and the story of the girl alone in the the Springfield Republican, what a In other countries buying American Sweden, his queen is cousin of the about him and become a great king. I find L’Or up on the isolated cabin in Arizona is not such years to come, shocking confession it would be that agricultural machinery, fence wire kaiser. Then Harald swore a mighty oath that steep roof of his cottage patching the a one as to soothe to slumber a the tariff is a tax and that ihe home and similar articles made by the same King Haakon is popular In the best he would not cut his hair till he had woman alone in an isolated cabin in shingles; politely, and with consider­ builder and the home consumer pay it. harvester trust, the steel trust and sense of the word, not because ho accomplished the subjection of the Not till dawn comes in able agility, he descends to greet nis Wisconsin, ----- The senate is still considering other protected corporations. It is makes a bid for popularity, plays to other kings, until Gyda was his own. through chinks in the logs does the visitor and chat of late news, old days. the nomination of Barnes for post­ very difficult to get the price at which the galleries, but because he is natural­ Twelve years passed ere Harald’s coward paleface sink into an exhaust­ In fancy I travel back with him master of Washington, but the Repub­ these products of the trusts are sold ly kindly and good-humored. When mane was shorn, Gyda came to his ed slumber. But the next morning all through the changes of years; where lican senators are supporting the for export, for there is great secrecy the news was flashed abroad that he home; 12 years it took to subdue the fears and weariness flee away. What Stolon Springs now stands, see the Roosevelt declaration that Barnes was maintained of these transactions, for was to occupy the throne of Norway, Jarls and conquer the Vikings of the, joy the sparkle of the sun on the lake; 1/Or homestead, the “four forties,” all simply doing his duty when he or­ obvious reasons. Still those doubting Paris paper spoke thus of the newly as Carlyle calls them, out-islands. hiding behind the bushes near the run­ a forest covered. And I hear of rough dered Mrs. Morris ejected from the Republican congressmen who cannot elected sovereign: “His wife adores Then Harald spent about 60 years in way to watch the deer come down for raids and of Indian troubles, and, lis­ White House with force and brutality. explain away the above given transac­ him; but who does not?” A most de- organizing a government for his con­ their morning drink; to follow the tening, look about In appreciation of ----- The Republican leaders in con­ tions will have to admit that. the voted husband, essentially a domestic quests—Harald Fairhair had a reign trails blazed by Leo leading on and Democrats have furnished enough the Indian atmosphere over the land. gress are so rattled and politically man, a favorite among his many broth- long as his renowned mane. After him on in the timber. Out with fears and proof to convict the trusts of selling Beautiful Lake St. Croix is so quiet, scared that they can’t settle whether ers and sisters, prime favorite with came his son Eric Blood Axe, who was foolish “Sabine Woman,” In broad cheaper abroad than here, which the 30 breathless, the surrounding woods his father-in-law, King Edward, well unpopular in Norway and was suc­ daylight the coward paleface is bold the Panama canal shall be built to sea stand in a silence full of portent, like level or of the locks type. But Chair­ protective tariff allows them to do liked by the democratic Danes, it Is ceeded by the first Haakon, Haakon the lull before a tempest. The only as a squaw. man Shonts says he cannot proceed with Impunity. readily seen he appeals to many men the Good. The white winter forest is exquisite, aonnd in harmony with the place with the digging until the question is of many kinds. Haakon the Good had been brought in summer the pine woods are all would be the paddle of a canoe, the settled, so there will soon be 20,000 More Bunco. Charles was a sailor prince, and this up at an English court, and when he abloom, in the autumn the coloring is only figure in harmony an Indian pad- men Idle through the procrastination From the gratification of Senators fact proved very agreeable to Norway, began his rule over Norway tried to incomparable, but May days seemed teach the people something of Chris­ sjlcr of that canoe. I walk down un­ of a Republican congress. Elkins and Aldrich and the other with her long line of famous sea kings. to be pretty good. Then the wild-hay der the outspreading white pines and ----- The administration has again members of the senate, known to fa- No doubt the schooling he received In tianity, and practiced as well as meadows, whieh break the tree spaces plumed Norways to the lake and step postponed the trial of Congressman vor corporations at the provisions of the severe discipline of a training ship preached; did not, like his father, force softly not to break the spell. When here and there, are green (almost) as the rate bill as it now stands, it looks had no small influence in his develop­ the boys to go to sea, did not take rice fields; In the middle and along Blnger Hermann, of Oregon, and this I reach the-shore I meditate how like, time it “is not to be later, than the a ; if the public had been buncoed ment. A former cadet in the Danish from them In greed. King Haakon f the borders of the wood’s roads the again by the Republican politicians how like the still forests and unpeo­ first week In June.” There is a par­ navy and a messmate of the prince’s spoke to the people assembled at a pled waters of those Indian tales of brave pasque flowers upraise; every­ who control the congress, If Pre3i- recently wrote for Munsey’s Magazine Thing (a sort of parliament) of the ■ where the fragrance of arbutus fills tisan reason apparently for putting off impressionable youth. the evil day to that date, for the Ore­ dent Roosevelt had stood fast to his a spicy article on this period in the Great -White Christ, and at the next And of course the constant Selecting a boat tied conveniently the air. gon election for congressmen takes guns instead of retreating at the last life of the new king of Norway. The meeting at Yule refused to drink to the wintergreens give their note of green wear—this is a hospitable land, and place the first week in June, when it moment, the joy of the corporations writer, Hrolf Wisby, says: “But the god Thor. This made a great hubbub, But it is the air that is best one may help oneself—I cross over to and red. is hoped the voters will forget they and their senatorial friends would not rough and ready course of training but the people had faith in Haakon the of all “unbreathed air, illimitable, the other side where the summer peo­ have no member of their delegation be so full. But “he who fights and through which he had to pass on ship­ Good and began to believe a little in Such a contrast to poor, dust- ple have not yet encamped. Back a clean.” in congress free from the law’s runs away will live to fight another board, where nobody cared a fig for his the Christ, though they forced some of la swept, smoke-choked Chicago; which day,” and the presidential Tear of dis­ their heathen observances on the king. ways from the shore I come upon a clutches. rank, and where he had to learn unhappy town ’Gene Field doubtless rupting the Republican party has evi­ The laws of Haakon made at a Thing trio of black-eyed, nut-browi* children ----- The anthracite miners have prompt and implicit obedience to dis­ had in mind when he said: dently led Mr. Roosevelt Into the be­ at Gula were good laws, and ever loved gathering arbutus, and find among agreed to a continuance of the 1903 cipline, determined his character in “If ’tweren’t for sight and sound and lief that discretion is the better part dearly by the Norse folk. When Haa­ them shy hospitality. That straight award for three years more. They are after life. Impressionable as the lad and very black hair, those keen and smell, entitled to credit for yielding, under of valor in politics as weil as war. was, he would have shrunk to a mere kon died he was lamented by both friends and enemies; they said that black eyes bespeak the original I’d like a city prettv well.” the circumstances, and they have the princely puppet If he had been left to very never again would Norway see such a American, the race that ruled before But fortunately the townsman can sympathy of the public. The oper­ ----- Last year the Republican poli­ develop only in the atmosphere of king. It is told that the year Haakon the white men took possession, The quickly whirl away from town sight ators held the advantage of a monop­ ticians were admitting that the trusts court life. Instead, the human side of was chosen king the birds built their children are named May and Andy and and sound and smell to seek re­ oly, and would have recouped from were selling many of their products the boy was brought out by contact nests twice, and the trees had two Bewey, have a very considerable ad­ creation in the re-creating woods; and the public all that it lost by reason cheaper abroad than to our own peo- with his comrades In the navy, and un­ crops of apples! mixture of white man’s blood, but every time 1 take the train for Solon of a strike, while the miners had no pie, but they seem to have failed to der the pressure of their rigid code he their great-grandfather was Osaugee, Springs I find fellow travelers bent such advantage. They, like the pub­ convince themselves that it was a po­ was taught to work and to play, to There follow after Haakon the Good a Chippewa chief. Another ancestor, on this quest. Trout fishing was on lic, were at the mercy of the trust. litic step to make this acknowledg­ endure and to enjoy, like other healthy Harald Fray Fell; Haakon Jarl; Olaf their grandfather, is L’Or. when I was up there last time, and all At the end of the next three years, It ment. * For now some Republican con­ lads of his age. It was a lesson that Tryggveson; Jarls Eric and Svein 1 watch Osaugee’s grandchildren at about one saw reminder of hopeful ls to be hoped that the law will have gressmen are demanding of the Demo­ has been of Inestimable value in his (quasi sovereigns); Olaf the Thickset, a true Viking, In later years become •telr task and mark how different is fishermen, I came upon one that been so fully enforced against the crats proof that the protected indus­ subsequent career.” mrbutus fresh plucked from arbutus seemed to be fishing where there was Baers and Cassats, that the advantage tries are selling goods more cheaply When the proposition was made to Olaf the Saint; Magnus the Good; Olaf aold on Chicago streets. The children no water at all, the infinitesimal of being in a trust will not be so abroad than at home, and the Demo­ Prince Charles that he become ruler the Tranquil; Magnus Barefoot; Sigurd the Crusader; Magnus the Blind; Har­ are particular, select only the most stream well hidden from view; and great a factor in a contest between crats are furnishing the evidence of the independent nation of Norway, told this was a likely spot. Mile3 they* demand. the prince mentioned three objections; ald Gyllie, and now the “Falrhairs" waxy blossoms or those deepest pink, was labor and capital. beyond another stream, misrepresent­ ----- The evidence being brought out , A _ . „ his poverty—comparative, of course; rage among themselves and become ex­ and, lacking greed for gain, as well tinct. We haVe the rise of Swerrl, who lacking Japanese Idea of flower ar- ed under the name of Mud creek, tempt­ by the investigation of the coal roads “From Gavel to Gravel. tbe fat t that his wife was averse to as “Every time I see this picture of the gumlng the burdens of a queen; that led the wretched Birchlegs In many xangemont, strip off leaves and make ed the trout fisher to a long tramp, by the interstate commerce commis­ late Speaker Michael C. Kerr, of In- b(. to be eiected by the people victories and became king of Norway; •f epeli posy a compact nosegay of and Ox creek should not be forgotten. sion conclusively shows that the rail­ diana,” said Congressman Campbell, cf ratber than by parliament. As Is well founded a new dynasty which was to And later I find wherever Not far off winds the Brule, river be­ roads control the price of coal and are •toesems. Ohio, “I am reminded of an old friend known> the objections were overcome, last as long as Norway kept her in- I go, whether down in the Indian vil- loved of trout and lure for fishermen combined together to plunder the con­ of mine who worked on a Boston promige was given that a fund would dependence. jbge’ west of the town, or here on from far and near. sumers. The Chesapeake & Ohio rail­ newspaper. This man was the tele- bg provided f0r the proper maintenance Is it not of interest that the new king tfee east side of St. Croix, the compact And now that open season for fish­ road offered to carry coal at the rate graph editor and was possessed of one ^ b(s farnny and in event of deposition of newly independent Norway is a Bouquet ideal, no green of leaf, as ing begins, what man is there not of $1.25 a ton, but the proposition was of those queer streaks of humor which tbat a llfe pension would be granted Danish prince and of close kin to the aaay flowers as possible crowded In'a tempted to shut ledger with a snap, voted down by the other railroad man­ he always used at the wrong time. hlm_ King Edward Persuaded Princess royal family of Sweden? May the •■p; and wonder if this is significant close office desk wljh a bang, and agers In the association and the rate When the story of Speaker Kerr’s Maud t0 conBider with favor the posi- Danish-Swedish-Norweglan king bind ml Ihe Indian’s decorative sense, is to start forth on fisherman’s luck? Who was fixed at $1.40 a ton. All this has death came Into the office my friend t,on of queen 0f Norway. And popular in peace and fraternal feeling the peo- Wt classed with his drawings and color cares about stocks and bonds, rise or been exposed by complaints to the de­ partment of justice, but the adminis­ wrote this headline over the sU-ry: yote ratifled the choice of the new I pie of Scandinavia ^rms in basketry. fall in the market? brook and pool and 'From gavel to gravel.’ He lost hla I kjng Was auspicious, the new I CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER, tration la for some reason opposed to Miles east of the Big lake lies well lake are calling to thew woods, ths job the next morning.” I aMclnded Deerprint lake and Deerprint woods way. KATHERINE POPE. prosecuting the coal roads. I

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