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I GIVES HIS PLAN Cmrau Ti'm T iaks (he fay la RrgV alit* Lifleftieti af Trails is la PUT ONE DUMMY IN JAIL Thereafter, He Haj'H, Tliere Will He No More Irresponsible Dummy Directors to Hire Out to the Largo Corporations and Trusts That Prey Upon tlio People. George E. Miller, special correspondent of the Detrlot News, In ^ a letter to his paper from Sea Girt, JN. J., the summer capital of that state, says if Gov. Woodrow TFileon becomes President of the United States, his message on the subject of trust busting will go to congress with the decisive emphasis of the rifle shots which epho through his library frojn the range as you sit In conversation with him in the State Executive's summer home here. They will if the Governor retains the opinions he now holds J* on the illegal things done by the people characterized by Mr. Roosevelt as malefactors of (great wealth. <jOV. Wilson is no hopeless despondjp -ent. He disagrees utterly with those who believe the law cannot be made to reach such as seek to adjust the business machinery of this country so that all the wealth will fall into a few hoppers, ills ideas are snarply defined and his plans simplicity Itself. He would send violators of the law to jail. That is the whole of the antidote he prescribes. Fines, he says, place too much burden of the punishment upon the innocent. And ho scoffs at the idea that the guilty cannot be detected and convicted. It will be seen that Gov. Wilson's plan, <luoted below, for trust busting differs very radically from the blusler and do nothing plan of Taft and Republicans (generally, but agrees with Bryan's plans. Here is Gov. f Wilson's plan as outlined to the 'correspondent: V "The managers of corporations themselves always know the men who originated the acts chamed against them as done in contravention of the law; is there no means by which their names may be disclosed to the officers of justice? Every act, every policy, im the conduct of the affairs of a corporation, ^ originates with some particular officer, committee or board. The officer, the committee, the board, ordering an act, or originating a policy, contrary to the law, or intended to neutralize or cotntravene it, is a serious offender against society and must be punished if our institutions art- to stand. It is neither sensible or affeoK tivo to attempt to punish the corporation. We do not indict the gun, tut the man behind the gun. Ji is a fatuous and unnecessary fiction to treat a corporation as in all respects v legal person. To control such of its acts as are against public policy, wo must cease to deal with it by means of the law as if it were only ^ a single individual, a responsible individual, and must handle it for what it is an artificial agency. You cannot punish a corporation. Fines fall upon the wrong persons. Fines fall opon the wrong persons, ?ind more heavily upon the innocent A than the guilty. Those who know nothing whatever of the offense for which the fine is inflicted must pay as well as those who originated and ( carried through the illegal act. So , the real punishment falls upon Te ] stockholders and the customers. "If you will but put one or two conspicuous dummies into the peni- j tentiar.v, there will be no more dum- ] mies for hire. You pan stop the traf lie in dummies, and then, when the | idea has taken root in the corporate , 4 mind that dummies will bo <confis- . cated, the custom of the business ( will change. Modern business enter- j prise make the (corporations indis..am nhla \T/\r a no T f n ].' o If hoa JUilinfl Ulf. m (id, i lunv v, nuu j any quarrel with business success, 4 but all of us ought to have an irreconcilable quarrel wl^li business law*- I lessness. As I told the lawyers of the American Rar Association in an address last, year, corporations do not do wrong. Individuals do < wrong. When we stop that wrong- g doing we have taken from the } corporation all the power of evil of j vhlch the people so justly com- c plain." * f j, Tniattve, Referendum and Recall. \ In Calfornia the vote was so ofer- F whelming in favor of the initiative c and referendum and the recall, in- 1 eluding the judiciary, that tabulation t of the returns was suspended with a ' ^ nearly a third of the precincts re- f mainlng unreported. The final vote i ^ was far the initiative and referendum c 138,181; against 44,450. For the I recall 148.572; against 46,290. r I J Butter Rean Causes Deatli. When a butter bean became lodged In his windpipe, John R. Dillard, aged four years, died In great agony t I at Columbus, Ga., Friday night. The t child was the son of J. Z. Dillard of i Ochille, Ga., and was visiting rela- c fives at Columbus, Ga. i< ' ANOTHER HUSBAND TUKNS UP IN MIDST OF A BLISSFUL HONEYMOON. Woman Deserts 12er Husband at Jacksonville and Marries Another Man at llendersonville. Finding that his bride of only a few days was not a divorced woman and that she had deceived him into marrying her, young E. C. Howard, a prescription clerk in the local drug store at llendersonville, N. C., was placed in a very peculiar predicament when the first husband, VV. V. lienry, or jacKsonvine, arrived in Hendersonville In search of his wandering wife. A bit of romance in attached to the affair in spite of the evil wrought and the young man is not so much to blame as it looks. Several months ago, about the first of the summer Eeason Mrs. Annie L. Henry as she called herself, went to Hendersonville for a visit. Young Howard, who is said to be from a well-to-do family in the eastern part of this state, met Mrs. Henry and a close friendship resulted. Later in the summer Mrs. Henry', admitting she was married at that time, stated to young Howard that she would return to Jacksonville and seek a divorce from her husband. Last Tuesday Mrs. Henry returned to the city and informed the youthful lover that all was well, that she hud succeeded in crettincr a divorce. and that their future happiness would be shadowed no longer. Young Howard proceeded to get out license papers and summoned a local magistrate who before several prominent local witnesses, performed the ceremony. All went well until last Sunday morning, W. V. Henry, the f'rst husband, arrived in the city and registered at the same hotel in which his wife and her new husband were boarding. Mr. Henry at first would not believe that his wife had married another, ,but when shown the papers he was convinced. Realizing that his wife had changed her love for another, Henry decided that with the exchange of all the valuables each had given the other he would not push the mat*ter, but would leave his wife in the hands of one who, though at first deceived, was now willing to take the consequences of the biunder he had made. Mr. and Mrs. Howard loft the city last Monday for parts unknown and Mr. Henry returned to Jacksonville. THOUSANDS DIE OP STAHVATION China Sorely Heset by Famine as Well as Disease. News was brought by the steamer Empress of Japan that thousands are dying of starvation In Kiang iSu, along the Yang Tse, following the floods, and the situation was expected to augment greatly the spread of the rebellion in China. The whole of the country was under water, according to refugees. Corpses were * floatiag everywhere and famine stricken refugees were dying daily from diseases. In places the Yang Tse was thir ty-flve miles broad and floating bodies, on which starving dogs were feeding, were seen in numbers. A captain of one of. the rivet boats tells of seeing a number of multilated corpses in uniform, iirdicatin.g the fate of some Imperial soldiers at the hands of the starving peasantry. " Retween 60,000 and 70,000 refugees, probably from Anhul, were gathered at Nankiang. Cholera was raging among them and typhus was said to be equally bad, beside other < forms of pestilence. The death rate svas reported to be between 200 and * 300 a day. Food has been sent to \ them, but it was almost impossible < for medical aid to effect any relief. 1 < MEETS HOKRIRLK DEATH. 1 Little Cirl is Crushed to Death in a , Water Mill. 1 i A dispavh lrom Land run to The ? rnte Says that community was i ihocked Wednesday night when the lews of the accidental death of Ella > lishop, the ten-year-old daughter ? >f William Rishop, was received. The t iccidemt occurred at the water mill lelonging to J. II. Page. Mr. Bishop vas running the mill and his little rirl, who was standing near by, was aught in the cogs of the wheel and tilled istantly. Ella was a bright litle girl, a pupil in the fourth grade it the public school, and was a great avorite among the children. The nterment took place at Pacolet hurch. The grief stricken parents lave the sympathy of the entire com11 unity. Sounds Ukc Blizzards. A dispatch from Anaconda, Mon., ays twenty-three inches of snow fell here up to midnight Friday prosrating telegraph and telephone wires ; 1 n all directions and putting out ot, l 10 mmission practically all telephon- < in the city. | RUNS A MUCK ] _ 1 Nepre StMicr Sheds Aiether Negri Sildier aid Twt Negre We rata. SHOT FINALLY BY RUSE A Member of the Tenth Cavalry, Colored, at Fort Hthan Allen Murders Comrade and Defenseless Cairl, Then Mortally Wounds another Negress. He Huns 011 Hampage. Tre people of Burlington, Vermont, near which place is located Fort Ethan Allen, have about got their full of negro soldiers. Recently Thos. Carlisle, a trooper of the Tenth Cavalry, which is composed of colored men, except the officers, came out of his quarters of the fort, where the regiment is stationed, with a rifle and his belt filled with amirnitlon, and proceeded to shoot up several people, all of whom were like himself negroes. He was a big, vicious, bad looking fellow. Before he himself was brouight down by a bullet from a rifle in the hands of Lieut. Blaine, a white officer of the Tenth, Carlisle in hia homicidal fury had killed Andrew C. Fox, a comrade in the regiment; had murdered a young negress named Clara Washington, coming upon her - i ill i ^ J ,1 ~ ^ ^ .11 ^ as sue lay 111 111 ueu aim sunning three ballets tearing into her body while she was in the act of screaming for mercy, and had mortally wounded another colored girl named Beatrice Stewart. Against Fox he had a grievance, but against the woman none at all; he merely came upon them in his flight after the slaying of his fellow soldiers. He had run into a negro resort, known as Bluefort's restaurant, and rushed through the rooms seeking to shoot to death all whom he had found there. Other women in the house ran screaming out into the roads and sought the shelter of nearby woods. He had left Beatrice Stewart for dead. Mortally wounded, as the girl was she staggered and floundered and crawled after the other women until one or two, more courageous than the rest made a dash for her and drew her with them in the shelter of the underbrush and trees. Then Corllolo fr.ii n rl ihimool f fn/ilncr o Wtvi IIOIU 1 V/UUU IIIIllOV/ll 1 (1^111^ It fight with a corps of thirty armed soldiers. Standing in a second-story window of the Bluefort resort he fought them furiously. Bullets smashed the pane of glass over his head and tore away the sashinig. He returned he fire as fast as he could pull the trigger of his riffe. In the end he fell victim to a ruse devised and executed by Capt. Godson and Lieut. Blaine. He was shot in the hip by Blaine and sank helplessly to the floor of the room. Brought to his senses by the shock of the wound, he signalled his willingness to surrender. Fox, the murdered soldier, is understood to have caused Carlisle's arrest for a slight infraction of discipline. The man had simply been remanded to quarters for the day. His rifle and ammunition had not been taken from him. Fox had no chance for his life. The top of theman's skull was completely carried away by the high-powered VmllAt A prnnn nf snlrHors riiRliArl toward Carlisle .Hut. they, like Fox, were unarmed. And he turned on them, his rifle on his shoulder. The maniacal expression of his eye halted every man of them. Without a word he turned suddenly and ran down the road, off the military reservation and into the restaurant resort. The dining room and bar were empty at the time. So he tramped upstairs. He put his shoulder to tho rloor of the first room he came to and 3ent it flyinlg backward. There he confronted the sick woman, Clara 1 Washington. She screamed and asleed him wha he meant to do. His answer was to shoot, her in the breast ind head and thigh, killing her. Ho tieard after that the voice of women who had Hist, come in downstairs. Ife leaped down the stairway, swept n on the women, shot Beatrice Stewirt and grinned when he saw her 'all. ! As he stood watching the woman * writhing on the ffoor he heard the mund of approaching horses and he tramp of men. He ran upstairs ind took his place at a corner win- ( l J __ J 1. ^ ~ * 1 .1 1 1 low, ana as ine /company 01 soiuiers, inder command of C'apt. Godson and Ldeut. J31aine, approached he met hem with every bullett that remainid in the magazine of his rifle. A volley came back at him, hut, alhough it splintered the glass and woodwork of the window he was unhurt. Then strategy was used against lim. Capt. Godson drew his men off it a distance in front of the house, aking so open a position as to incite Carlisle's fire. It nearly proved i fatal ruse for the Captain, far one >f the negroe's bullets sent the officer's horse to its knees, and Godson aad Just time to leap free of the anmal as it kicked and writhed in its lying agony. Then while Carlisle's attention COOKED AND EATUi THK CANNIBALS CAUGHT AND DEVOURED PEOPLE. IVev. Frederick Daniels, a Missionary, and Others Whit , Victims of the South Sea Islands. A cablegram from Sydney, N. S. W., says that news has just been received of the murder of several iiluropeans in the South Sea Islands, some of the victims being cooked and eaten by the murderers. The Rev. Frederick Daniels, the Queensland missionery killed in the Solomon Islands, was conducting a Sunday service in the open air when suddenly a shot was 11 red by a native who was concealed in the scrub. The bullet struck tho missionary ill the breast. He fell backwards, murmured, "Ix>rd, save me," an'd then died. It is supposed that Mr. Daniels was shot because he was a missionary. "The natives," says an olllcer of the mission, take a pride in getting scalps, so to speak, and the murder of a white man is a special glory. Mr. Daniels is the first white missionary to be killed in the Solomon Islands. From New Caledonia comes an account of the butchering of a family of three, father, mother, and child. The name of the victims was devaux. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the crime. The bodies had been treated with great brutality. The French warship Korsaint has brought news to Sydney of an outrage at Maewo, one of the nortlrern islands of the New Hebrides group, two French residents, named Gerlin ad Baleu, having been killed by natives and afterwards eaten. ELECTS A NEW MAYOR. ill" II DllU'K \ III 1' mm .111 l'iiiri inrii Over Booze. A special dispatch from Blackville to "The iState says the municipal election there Monday, which resulted in the selection of A. 13. Hair as mayor, afforded enough excitement to last for a long time. The whiskey question played an important part, and the town. was worked up. The prohibitionists put out a ticket headed by Charles Wilson, but another ticket was later brought out which was also headed by Mr. Wilson1. Then the prohibitionists demanded that he repudiate the use of his name in connection with the last ticket, and a misunderstanding arose which resulted in the prohibitionists taking Mr. Wilson's name off their ticket, and substituting that of A. 13. Hair. Interest was at fever heat, and personal difficulties were narrowly averted. However, the election passed off without trouble, and the prohibition ticket won. The women of the town held prayer meetings on election day, praying for the success of tho "dry" ticket. This was said to be a crucial test for Blackville in the matter of enforcing the law against the illegal sale of whiskey, and the mayor and council elected are determined on this course. mullins man struck by train. Was So Badly Hurt May Die From Injuries Received. A dispatch from Mullins to The State says Lawrence Stephens, an extensive planter living two miles of this place, was struck by the engine on the N. S. C. railway and may not recover, his injuries being (Considered serious. The man was seated on tho track and is thought to have been asleep. He was picked up in an unconscious condition and was rushed to Hamlet, where close connection with the Lawreryce train was made. lie is now under surgical care in a Laurenburg hospital and his chances for recovery are considered slight. His head and face are badly mangled. Damage About Two l*er Cent. The 1911 cotton crop in South Carolina will be damaged just about Lwo per cent on account of the sudden and unexpected visit of the sosailed "army worm," or cotton catBrpillar, in the opinion of Mr. A. C. Smith, of the Federal farm agriculLural department in Columbia. Looking For One Langston. The Chester police are looking for >ne W. D. Langston, who is charged with having obtained money for magizlnes which ho was not authorized :o represent, lly offering attractive dubs for well known publications he s said to have'secured $250 and left for parts unknown. cvas attracted to the men In front of '> him Lieut. 'Blaine, armed with a riffe, ' iiad made a detour into the woods i md approached the house on the right side and shot as he looked out ' Lhe window. Lieut. Blaine's bullet had struck < the negro in the hip. The wounded man and the Stewart woman were raken to the army hospital in the same ambulance. This is the sixth murder that has happened sinjee the going of the negro troooers to ort Ethan Allen two years ago. * THE WICKED TAX ' ** "V*' - V. That I* What \r buckle Calls (he High Taiilf Doty an Sogars. BE TURNS THE LIGHT ON The Big Sugar Refiner and Coffee Dealer Says the Government is Robbing the Public, So That the Smrar Moil Mav Pile Co Millions of Dollars. Just before sailing for Europe from New York the other day John Arbuckle, the sugar refiner and coffee manufacturer, issued a statement strongly attacking the tariff on raw sugar, declaring it to be a "wicked tax," for the benefit of the beet sugar interests. In his statement Mr. Arbuckle said: "I have not been well, and am going abroad to rest and recuperate in preparation for the light to be made In congress at its next session for free sugar. I propose to devote all my time and all my ability and all my strength to the abolition of all import duties 011 raw sugar, a most wicked tax 011 a food necessity of all our people. It taxes tlie man who works for a wage of a dollar a day as much as it taxes an Astor or or Mr. Morgan or Mr. Rockefeller. Each eats, or at least, needs, the same amount of sugar, and they pay; not according to their ability, but according to their needs, reversing an elemental rule of taxation. "Just look at these figures showing how the prices of refined sugar to the consumer is made up. 1 discharged the abnormal price lately, prevailing for the raw product and take a normal price. "Price paid by New York refiners for raw sugar, 2.4 cents. "Duty per pound, 1.685 cents. "With the raw sugar costing the refiiffcr 4,085 cents, his price to wholesale grocers for granulated sugar is about 4.90 cents per pound, and the wholesale grocers net price to New York retail grocers per pound is about 4.95 cents, and this retail grocers' prices to consumers was between 5.15 and 2.25 cents per pound So that for every pound of sugar going into a household in New York City at 5.2 5 cents per pound the government of the United States has exacted 1.685 cents or almost the third of a total price. It means that every household that row buys three and a half pounds of sugar could for the same money buy five and one-quarter pounds if this tax were removed. "If as someone has said, sugar is the comfort of old age and the delight of youth, your Uncle Sam is engaged in taking candies from children, the height of meanness. The duty on raw sugar is 78 per cent of its value. "You will he surprised to .compare this import duty with others: Sugar, per cent 78.87 Campagne, per cent 70.00 Automobiles, per cent 40.00 Furs, per cent 50.00 Diamonds, per cent 10.00 Pearls, per cent 20.00 "The duty which the Unied States exacts on the importation of raw sugar holds up the price of thei> beet sugar, as well as the cane sugar for the gentlemen who are manufacturing beet sugar exact from the pulrlic every penny they can get. "The beet companies have stated, as I am informed, that they can produce bet sugar at from 2 1-2 to 2 cens per pound. They sell at from 5 to 7 cents. The beet sugar people use the tariff to exact the uttermost penny for their product. "Everywhere the beet sugar manufacturer takes full advantage of the tariff tax and it results that the people of the United States pay the tax to the government on the cane sugar and the beet sugar barons on the beet sugar. The saving to the American people on the sugar consumed lasty ear if the tax were removed would amount to almost $15 0000,000." i Spanish (icneral Killed. ( A dispatch from Merlla, Morocco, says the Moarish tribes, who . have made several attacks upon the i Spaniards, to-day assaulted the po- ] sition at I/.liafen and Ymarufena, '< but were finally beaten off with se /ere loss. (len. Ordonez, the Span1 Ish commander, was shot through ] the chest as he was mounting his i horse and died shortly afterwards, j { Seven Die In Wreck. I Seven persons were killed and 2 2 1 injured, four of them seriously, in i a collision between a northbound Missouri Pacific passenger train and ei fast freight train at Fort Crook, Neb., Sunday. The accident is be- i lieved to have resulted from a mis- ] understanding of orders on the part ] of the freight crew. 1 Stands lly the Women. ] California has extended the right. ' of stiff race to her women. The vote (1 was close, but was sufficient to (i amend the constitution to give the woman tho right of suffrage. mim ^ i rn ' V HIDE WONT HANG HIS CASE TAKEN TO THE STATE SUPREME COURT. Governor BIea.se Refused to Reduce the Sentence and the Appeal Was Then Made. A dispatch to The State from Anderson' says a telegram was received there Thursday from Governor Blease brought the intelligence that he will not interfere in the Samuel Hyde case. The telegram came to I^eon L. Rife, who was appointed by the court to defend Hyde, and who formulated the petitions which were freely signed, asking the governor to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. A counter petition was circulated by Mrs. W. V. Beasley, mother and wife of Hyde's victims, in the Orr mill village, where the double crime was committed. This petition was signed by several hundred persons. Hyde killed his wife and her father on the night of .July 18, was convicted of the murder of the former at a recent term of court, and was sentenced to hang Friday, October 20. Hyde will not hang 011 this day; however, as Attorney Rice has already served (notice on Solicitor Hon1 am of an appeal to the Supreme court. The appeal will hardly be heard by that tribunal until next January, and it is likely that a decision will not be handed down until loo late for the prisoner to .be resentenced at the January term of court bo sustained. In that event, and if the lower court's judgment is ailirmed, Hyde will be resentenced next May. Hyde sent for Attorney Rice and stated that he understood the governor had stated he would not interfere with the death sentence. Hyde said he was ready to die, and that he was willing to let the matter stand as it is and go to the gallows on the [ day set. .Mr. Rice told Hyde that lie had determined to make as (good a light for him as he would for a wealthy client; that the court had appointed him to conduct this case and although Hyde and his family have 110 money to pay the expense of the appeal he intended to carry the appeal up. Hyde then stated that he was willing to do what the attorney thought best to do in the matter; that he was willing for the appeal to be perfected, or he is willing for the execution to take place next Friday. WAS KILLIOI) HY TRAIN. Body of Unknown Man Found On Seaboard Track. A dispatch from Greenwood says the body of an unknown man who had been ground to death by a train on the Seaboard Air Line was found Friday near iSalak, three miles west of town by a. gang of railroad laborers. The body had rolled down an embankment after being run over by the train and was hidden from view by vines and bushes. From all indi cations the man had been dead at least ten days. The body was horribly multilated and the examining physician, Dr. J. U. Owens, could not be positive as to color. From the hair he judged it to he a white num. A piece of paper, a bill for goods sold, had the name "\V. 10. Hosty" on it, and this so far is tho only clue upon which to go upon to establish the unfortunate's identity. Coroner Shadraek empannelled a jury of inquest this afternoon hut the jury could do very little other then find a verdict that the unknown man came to his death by being run over by a train. Who the man is or when the fatal accident happened will likely remain a mystery. The clothing was of an ordinary quality, rather cheap, and appeared to have seen considerable wear. STOLK FltOM lllilXl> MAX. + Xcigro Near Honea Path, Also Took Mule to Haul It. A dispatch from Honea Path Says M. C. Jackson, a negro, who has been Mw, Anmlnir rxf f! Ciximn a ill vii xj uiu jm\; v; i i v VI v n v up, c* farmer who lives three miles in tho country, was arraigned FFriday hefore Justice Wilson on a charge of stealing cotton from the field. Mr. Owens is a blind man. The cotton ha been sold and a part of the money deposited in one of the local banks, fro negro hal also taken a mule with which to haul the cotton. For tho latter charge he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to the roads for 30 days or to pay a fine of $50 On the charge of stealing tho cotton, [he case, bein:^ beyond the jurisdiction of the justice court, was sent up to the circuit ,court. lleaten Almost to Death. At Louisville, Ky., a negro was so badly beaten by a mob tonight that ids recovery is doubtful. The black tiad attacked a ^-year-old girl, and when she released herself ho grabbed another, a;ed 14. Her cries for belp brought her mother, who, too, was beaten by the negro. Infuriated by the cries of the two girls and the woman, the mob was restrained from killing the black only by the police.