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JERSEY CALVES AS PREMIUMS. 



President Colon C. Lillie of the National Dairy Show, 

 to be held in Milwaukee, October 14 to 24, announces that 

 he will give a Jersey bull calf to the creamery patron who 

 sends in the best sample of milk, and a Jersey heifer calf 

 to the hand separator cream patron who sends in the best 

 sample of hand separator cream. Samples are to be taken 

 by the regular man who receives the milk and cream at the 

 creamery, the amount of the milk or cream delivered to be 

 up to the usual amount. Applications for entry blank should 

 be mailed to the National Dairy Show Association, Room 148, 

 Plankinton House, Milwaukee, immediately. 



REFORM BY LYING AND SLANDER. 



President Taft's letter to Ballinger has hit hard the unco 

 guid and rigidly righteous, who think that the proper way of 

 reform is to lie about a public officer and stick to it. 



Our inestimable contemporary, The Enquirer, is one 

 caught with the goods. 



At the irrigation congress where the Ballinger-Pinchpt 

 controversy broke out with great virulence, Dr. Pardee did 

 more than shy his castor in the ring. His mouth got its tail 

 over the lines and ran away. This catastrophe, for it is al- 

 ways a catastrophe when the Doctor's mouth gets errant, was 

 caused as stated by him, by the restoration to the public do- 

 main of lands in Montana previously withdrawn as a na- 

 tional reserve. He charged that this restoration was done by 

 Secretary Ballinger for the purpose of enabling a water-power 

 trust to grab all the water powers in Montana, and that after 

 such grab was grabbed, the Secretary renewed the with- 

 drawal. 



This charge was specific, circumstantial, and in detail. 

 When it was made, a concerted howl went up from the 

 chemically pure newspaper organs of what they themselves 

 call "reform." Of course, in this chorus the inestimable En- 

 quirer took a leading part, and notified the President to this 

 effect: "If Taft stands by Secretary Ballinger, so much 

 the worse for Taft." 



Well, the President stands by Secretary Ballinger. He 

 gives proof that not a single filing was made on a water pow- 

 er in the area restored to the public domain by the Secretary; 

 that there were no water powers there to be grabbed ; that in- 

 stead of 15,000 acres it was charged the water-power trust 

 had filed on to grab water power, there were filings on just 

 160 acres, on which there was no water power, and that 

 these were not original but were refilings. 



In other words, the President submits indisputable proof 

 that the charges made by D_r. Pardee had not a shred, 

 raveling, lint or fuzz of truth in them. 



Thereupon, our interrogatory contemporary, The En- 

 quirer, sticks to the exploded slander and says : "Mr. Taft 

 may be a pacifier, but he cannot make peace by attempting 

 to silence the independent Argus-eyed American press. 

 Neither can he silence men like Dr. Pardee." 



Wow! who said he could, or that he wants to? He can, 

 as he has, prove their charges false, their statements per- 

 verted, their activity pernicious, their personality offensive, 

 their methods malignant, their language venomous, their pur- 

 poses venal ; but silence them, no. Only one way was found 

 to silence Ananias. Oakland (Cal.) Tribune. 



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