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ROOSEVELT lH
ATTACKS THE 1
The President in a bpscia!
of Standard 01! to
Baiiot-Boj
PUTS GAMBLERS IN STOCKS!
Asserts M Unscrupulous Men of We
Ills Administration and i
Washington, D. C.?Never
_P 1.1 . L An a ~D c i /-I o t" A!
Oi tne country a x
policy in such impassioned langi
on his enemies and predatory \
Roosevelt does in a special mess
or Congress.
His message was ostensibly
ing legislation for the protection
man, but he makes it the instr
Standard Oil Corporation and tb
terests of the country who are oj
cies; places the blame for the rec
men /->f rrr.^at wpaltK and olainlv
ll-LV^XA V/4 g4VM? vt J
spiracv against him by the react
He does not recede one jot
trust abuses and renews his reco:
of legislation that will give the F
or the financial and physical ope
of law-defying wealth.
The President refers^ with very
strong feeling to the attacks that he
says are being made on him through
newspapers and public sp3akers controlled
by the Standard Oil Trust and
other combinations and says the keynote
of these attacks upon his efforts
to secure honesty in business and
politics is that they are unnatural
onH hncinPQC- nanic
auu uuviaiiautgu, uuu ~ ? t
is the penalty.
Like Plea of Gambler.
The morality of such a plea, he
says, is precisely as great as if made
on behalf of the men caught in a
gambling establishment raided by the
police and means that no effort should
be made to prevent a repetition of the
insurance, banking and railroad scandals
in New York, the Chicago and
Alton deal, the successful effort by
the Standard Oil people to crush out
every competitor and to establish a
monopoly which treats the public
with a contempt it deserves so long
as it permits men of such principles
to avow and act on them with impunity.
The "business" which is hurt by
the movement for honesty, the President
says, is the kind which in the
long run it pays the country to have
1/ hurt: the kind which has tended to
make the name "high finance" a :
term of scandal to which all honest
American men of business should join '
in putting an end. '
The opponents of the measures he
champions, Mr. Roosevelt says, single <
out now one and now another for
special attack, as if the movement he <
is engaged in was purely economic. <
This is not so, he says, for it is funda- '
mentally an ethical movement and i
one which must be persevered in until '
the spirit which lies behind it sinks '
deep into the heart and conscience of '
the whole people. His purpose, he
declares, is to secure national honesty
in business and politics and equality 1
of opportunity for all, and he will not
be swayed from it by attacks on him.
Laws Will Be Enforced.
The laws, the President insists,
must in future be administered as
they are at present, justice being
meted out with an even hand to great
and small, rich and poor, weak and
strong. And he adds that there
should be no delay in supplementing
the laws now on the statute books
v ith others he recommends.
^Referring to the financial situation,
the President says there is a natural
tendency to feel gloomy and fright
? ened at the outlook, out ne ueciares
there is no justification for such a
feeling, as there is no nation so absolutely
sure of success as ours, and
we must certainly succeed.
Not Responsible, He Says.
The President then disclaims any
responsibility for the business distress,
saying he does not believe for
a moment that any actions of the
Administration brought it on. It was
due, he says, to the speculative folly
and flagrant dishonesty of a few men
of great wealth, who seek to shield
themselves from the effect of their
own wrongdoing by ascribing its results
to the actions of those who have
tried to put a stop to the wrongdoing.
"But," says the President, "if it
were true that to cut out rottenness
from the body politic meant a momentary
check to an unhealthy seeming
prosperity, I should not for a moment
hesitate to put the knife to the
corruption."
He advocates the immediate re-eaactment
of the employers' liability
law, limiting its scope to interstate
employment to conform to the ruling
of the Supreme Court; urges legislation
providing for compensation by
the Government and employers generally
to all employes for injuries,
calls attention to the need of some
action in connection with the abuse of
injunctions in labor cases by the
courts and warns men of property
t Head of French Church Dead.
Cardinal Richard, the Archbishop
of Paris, died from congestion of the
lungs. Francois Marie Benjamin
Richard, Archbishop of Paris, was
born in Nantes, France, in IS 19, and
was created a Cardinal in 1889.
| Unemployed March at Detroit.
An "army of the unemployed"
marched on the City Hall at Detroit,
Mich. The Mayor promised to urge
the hastening of city work as a measure
of relief.
The Field of Sports.
Yale defeated Columbia in a hockey
game by a score of 10 to 1.
John J. Ryan, of "get-rich-quick"
notoriety, declares he will quit the
turf.
Thoney and Gessler were the batting
sensations of the Eastern League
and the American Association, respectively,
last season, with averages
tOQ ?jnH 39?;
Hot Springs this spring will have a
baseball colony equal to its population,
judging by the reports of the
number of tossers who are going
there to boil out.
ill!! WORDS
1W-DEFYING RICH
Message Compares Crimes
Murder, Fraud and
[ Stuffing,
N CLASS WITH CARD SHARKS
altJi Have Bonded Togeitisr to Attach
3ring About a Reaction.
before, perhaps, in the history
[ the United States defended his
Liage or made such a bitter attack
vealth in general as President
age which he sent to both houses
for the purpose of recommendof
the interests of the workingument
by which he flays the
te big railroad and financial iniposing
him because of his poli:ent
financial distress on a few
intimates that there is a conionaries
of the country.
from his determination to curb
mmendations ior the enactment
ederal Government supervision
ration of railroads and control
that they cannot afford to trust to
anything but the spirit of justice and
fair play.
Mr. Roosevelt assails stock gambling
and the "cornering" of the market.
He says there is no moral difference
between gambling at cards,
in lotteries, at the race tracks and
gambling in the stock market. It 13
just as pernicious and in degree the
evil worked is far greater.
President's New Platform.
Roosevelt's platform, as he states
it in this sccond message, is as follows:
"We seek to control law-defying
wealth; in the first place to prevent
its doing dire evil to the Republic,
and in the next place to avoid the
vindictive and dreadful radicaliom
which, if left uncontrolled, it is cer
tain in tne end to arouse.
"Sweeping attacks upon all property,
upon all men of means, without
regard to whether they do well or ill,
would sound the death knell cf the
Republic; and such attacks become
inevitable if decent citizens permit
those rich men whose lives are corrupt
and evil to domineer in swollen
pride, unchecked and unhindered,
over the destinies of this country.
"We act in no vindictive spirit and
we are no respecter of persons. If
a labor union does wrong we oppose
it as firmly as v/e oppose a corporation
which does wrong; and we stand
equally stoutly for the rights of the
man of wealth and for the rights of
the wage worker.
"We seek to protect the property
of every man who acts honestly, of
every corporation that represents
wealth honestly accumulated and
honestly used. W*e seek to stop
wrongdoing , and we desire to punish
the wrongdoers only as far as it ia
necessary to achieve .this end,."
The Administration's a'im, the
President asserts, is to control law
defying wealth, and he asserts that
corporations and men of great wealth,
have banded together to bring about
a reaction from this policy, hiring
writers to attempt to overthrow and
discredit all who honestly administer
the law.
Flays Standard Oil.
The Standard Oil Company and the
Santa Fe Railroad he specifically denounces.
With regard to the former
he says:
"The methods by which the Standard
Oil people and those engaged in
the other combinations of which I
have spoken above have achieved
great fortunes can only be justified
by the advocacy of a system of morality
which would also justify every
form of criminality on the part of a
labor union, and every form of violence,
corruption and fraud, from
murder to bribery and ballot-box
stuffing in politics."
In advocating laws better to secure
control over great business concerns,
especially great common carriers, Mr.
Roosevelt says the Interstate Commerce
Commission should be empowered
to pa3s upon any rate or practice
on its own initiative, even to prohibit
an advance in rate pending examination.
He says the Federal Government
should exercise supervision over the
financial operations of interstate railroads,
and must also assume a certain
measure of control over their
physical operations. He favors traffic
associations.
After quoting from Lincoln, "with
malice toward none, with charity for
all; with firmness in the right as God
gives us to see the right, let us strive
on to finish the work we are in," the
President says: "In the work we of
this generation are in, there is,
thanks be to the Almighty, no danger
of bloodshed and no use for the
sword," as "we strive to bring nearer
the day when greed and trickery and
cunning shall be-trampled under foot
by those who fight \for righteousness
that exalteth a nation."
Industrial News Encouraging.
Industrial news is slightly more encouraging
on the whole, but there is
much idle machinery, and the coal
output has been curtailed on that account
together with the tardiness of
winter.
Steel Trnst Earnings.
The quarterly report of the United
States Steel Corporation showed net
earnings of $32,553,995 and a decline
in unfilled orders of 3,865,165
tons as compared with December 31.
1906.
Stub Ends of News.
The amendment intended to curtail
the negro vote in Maryland has
been completed.
Army men, in New York City, were
overworked by the continued ru9h ol
unemployed to recruit.
The National Bank of North America,
New York City, went into the
hands of a Federal receiver.
The worst storm in fifty years was
reported at Nantucket, Mass., with
thousands of dollars' damage.
Providence, R. I., has arranged to
open a "fresh air" school on the plan*
U4 Similar luduiuuvua iu
"DANCE! YE S'
(A
?Cartoon b;
Says William J. Bryan:
"Measured by the number of -suicides
caused by the New York Stock
T7l*,s.v.nnrrn Mnnfo Parln is an innnppnt.
1 iJAV/uaug^i iuuuvg vu* ?v ?w v..*
pleasure resort by comparison. . . .
The New York Stock Exchange has
graduated more embezzlers than Fagin's
school did thieves."
BRYAN ATTACKS
; He Tells the Civic Foruir
Times is Divided Intc
Larceny and G
Says Wall Street Has Tu
Than Fagin's Sc"
New York City.?William J. Bryan
brought all his invective into play
to tell what he thinks of the New
York Stock Exchange and to denounce
lawyers who "stand behind
corporations who violate the law and
tell them how to do it with safety."
Addressing the Civic Forum, in
HamoHo Hall hii nraised President
Roosevelt, and described the Clearing
House certificates issued throughout
the country to relieve the money
stringency as "no-cent dollars."
He branded the Stock Exchange as
worse than Monte Carlo. He declared
Its members use loaded dice and practice
every form of gambling and
swindling known. He asserted that
the Exchange turned out more embezzlers
than Fagin's school turned
out thieves, and wound up his denunciation
by the utterance:
"It is a mystery to me why the
eighty million people of this country
do not rise in their indignation and
drive these gamblers into honesty or
I out of the country."
j Cheers that reverberated for two
: minutes through the auditorium
j greeted this sentiment, and they were
followed by thunderous outbursts
| when Mr. Bri'an attacked the monop|
olists who "reap rewards by cornering
j the necessities of life."
I "It is time," he said, "that the
j masks of respectability be torn from
these monopolies, and they be revealed
in all their ugliness.and ghastliness."
The subject assigned to Mr. Bryan
I was "Thou Shalt Not Steal," and he
talked on the topic for two hours.
Mr. Bryan's Address.
I Mr. Bryan said in part:
"To steal or to commit larceny
may be defined as tne wrongful taking
of another's property. Law
writers have divided larceny into two
classes?petit larceny and grand larceny?the
former term being used
when the property stolen is of little
I value, and the latter when the value
is greater. There is a tendency in
' f a rlltrMo nrro nH 1 a ro on tt
I UiUUUl U llUiCO tU U1TIUC ?UU iUi VV/U^
! into two classes, so that now we are
j Inclined to think of larceny as petit
I larceny, grand larceny and glorious
j larceny. By glorious larceny I do not
I refer to the policy which nations
! have indulged in of taking the propl
erty of other nations by force?an act
that is sometimes - described as not
only innocent, but even patriotic; I
refer, rather, to that tendency, quite
discernible at the present day, to re]
gard stealing upon a large scale as
! less reprehensible than stealing upon
a small scale. If a man picks your
pocket, or enters your house in the
dark, or accosts you upon the highway
and takes from you a few dollars,
you regard him /as a vulgar
thief. No one can have respect for
such a person, and the punishments
of the law are in such cases swift
and sure, if the offender is caught.
"Even in the case of grand,larceny,
if the amount taken is not very great,
the thief finds it difficult to escape,
for he has no influential friends and
he cannot hire skillful lawyers to
present technicalities in his defense.
If, however, he steals a large sum,
it becomes quite a different matter,
and the sum may be so large that we
overlook the man's rascality in our
amazement at the genius which he
has displayed. As a rule, the man
who steals a million dollars has a
better chance of escape than the man
who steals a thousand. So true is
this that it has been suggested that
we amend the commandment to read,
'Thou shalt not steal on a small
scale.' We should attempt to cultivate
a public opinion which will rei
move the distinction between grand
' larceny and glorious larceny and ini
sure the enforcement of the criminal
! law against all offenders alike, re
j gardless of the amount stolen and
regardless of the social, business, or
political position of the thief."
Mr. Bryan's peroration was devoted
to the Stock Exchange.
Rvsh of Unemployed
To Join the Army.
New.York City. ? The army recruiting
officers have had all they
could do enlisting or rejecting members
of the "army of the unemployed"
who showed up at the various
recruiting offices to enlist. It
is said that at least 8000 of them
have offered their services within the
last two months. There has been an
increase of nearly 300 per cent, in the
nvprflpp nf annlicants. At no time
since the Spanish War have recruiting
officers had so many applications.
The Labor World.
The eight-hour day is now legalized
for all the mines in France.
A Farm Laborers' Union is making
rapid strides in New Zealand.
One of the curiosities in labor cir:
cles is the formation of a Pallbearers'
Union in Alexandria. Va.
In England upward of $525,000
was awarded to injured workmen under
the Workmen's Compensation act
; during 1907.
j In 1907 there were 13,257 old age
I pensioners in New Zealand, 10,053 of
whom received the full pension of
$130 a year.
-. . rt
ON OF A GUN!" ]
y Warren, in the New York Telegram. 1
j j
Says President Roosevelt: (
ami l - 1 A : kA.
" i nere is iiu muitii uiucrcutc l?c- ^
tween gambling at cards, in lotteries,
at the race tracks and gambling in
the stock market. It is just as pernicious
and in degree the evil worked
is far greater."
STOCK GAMBLING
l That Stealing in Modern
) Petit Larceny, Grand
lorious Larceny.
.rned Out More Embezzlers
hool Did Thieves.
"I am aware that here in New
York," said he, ''the Stock Exchange ,
is regarded with a certain amount of 1
veneration and that many who ve- J
hemently denounce gambling in a
backroom where winnings and losses ,
are small, remain strangely silent in .
the presence of the enormous games
that are played upon the stock market,
often with loaded dice. Gambling
is one of the worst of vices, and f
gambling in stocks and farm products
is the most destructive form in which
the vice appears. . Measured by the ,
number of suicides caused by the
New York Stock Exchange, Monte
Carlo is an innocent pleasure resort
by comparison. Measured by the ,
amount of money changing hands, the "
contrast is still greater in favor of t
Monte Carlo; and measured by the ,
influence upon those who do not gamble,
the evils of Monte Carlo are insignificant
when compared with the t
evils of New York's commercial .
gambling houses. The New York
Stock Exchange has graduated more 1
embezzlers than Pagin's school did ^
thieves. t
"After a crusade which convulsed
a State and at least impressed the ,
thought of the Nation, we got rid of j,
the Louisiana lottery and then we f
congratulated ourselves upon our vir
tue. The men in charge of the lottery ^
never did a tithe of the harm that the
grain gamblers and the stock gamblers
of New York do every day, nor
did they ever exercise anything like
the corrupting influences over politics.
It has been asserted without 1
denial that ninety-nine per cent, of
the New York purchases and sales of
stock and of produce are merely bets T
upon the market value, with no in- .
tention upon the part of the vendor
to deliver, or on the part of the purchaser
to receive. This is not busi- J
ness; it is not commerce; it is not n
speculation; it is common, vulgar s
gambling, and when to the ordinary .1
chances that the gambler takes are {
added the extraordinary chances due
to the secret manipulation of the market
by those who are on the inside, .
the stock market becomes worse than c'
an honestly conducted gambling resort.
If a man takes a chance upon ^
a wheel of fortune, he knows just
what his chance is, and he knows
that the owner of the wheel has a !:
percentage of chances in his favor, 1
but when a stranger gambles upon v
the stock or grain market he is at the r
mercy 01 inose wno, oy oDiaming con- .
trol of the visible supply, can destroy { *
every natural law or business rule i 1
which the outsider knows. I beg '
the spiritual advisers of our great r
cities to consider whether they cannot 1
advance religion as well as morality r
by pointing out that the command- 1
ment, 'Thou shalt not steal,' is openly ^
and notoriously violated in the stock 1
market and in the grain pit by those '
who profess to believe in the Bible 1
and to have respect for its teachings. r
"The 'swollen fortunes' against ^
which the President justly inveighs,
almost without exception find their
source in special privileges and in '
Governmental favoritism which legalize
injustice; it is not strange that the ^
humble members of society complain,
but it is strange that conscience does
not more often restrain the rich and
the potent from asking for such un- j
fair advantages. c
"The commandment, 'Thou shalt c
not steal,' will not have the weight (
that it ought to have among men until
it is so construed as to bring the i
feeling of guilt and shame to those (
wuu uraw irom iue curnmuu aiure i
more than they add in service. If we c
can but create a sentiment which, will c
make men ashamed, not only of
wrongdoing but of idleness as well,
and fill them with an earnest desire
to make generous return to society
for all the blessings that society con- I
fers, it will be easier to prevent those ^
varieties of larceny which are so diffi- I
cult to define and which the officers I
of the law find it hard to detect and ?
punish." >
Women Claim Right to
Jury Duty in France.
Paris.?Jurymen have ever been f
the subject of criticism, but the serv- i
ice has always been considered a bur- ;
den. The. French law forbids wage t
earners to serve on a jury, and an at- r
tempt is being made to extend the
panel to them, the authorities stating
that the regulations were framed
with the view to excluding domestic
servants and retainers in social condi- i
tions no longer existing. Women are i
now claiming the right to sit on jur- <
ies. Cynics hope it will be granted. i
Ifnlls of Congress.
Senator Tillman made a speech on
the financial situation. j
A special message from President j
Roosevelt was read in both houses. ?
A bill providing for a new immi- \
grant station at Philadelphia was *
passed by the Senate.
Nearly 1000 bills were introduced
in the Senate, including Federal incorporation,
railroad rate, shipping,
anti-trust and many other measures. 1
In his annual report Secretary of t
the Treasury Cortelyou urge3 upon <
Congress the need of prompt legisla- $
tion to prevent financial disturbance* 3
M "CflUHTESS" Fffif:
Marriage With the Effeminate
Earl of Yarmouth Void.
Ic Made No Defense, as Defense Was
Impossible?Secret Hearing
Lasted Only 25 Minutes.
London.?Miss Alice jC. Thaw's
narriage to the Earl of Yarmouth,
vhich took place in Pittsburg April
27, 1903, was declared null and void
)y Sir John Govell Baines, Presilent
of the Divorce Court.
i.ne aecree was gra.ui.eu uu nn; uuij j
possible statutory ground in England
?that except In name the Countess
las not been wife to Yarmouth.
The hearing, which was held in
he strictest privacy, lasted only twen;y-flve
minutes. The Countess testiled
briefly, the Earl was not present,
lor did he defend, although he was
epresented by counsel, E. Newton
3rane. The Countess intends to drop
he title.
The rumor is false that her mar iage
was nullified because Yarmouth
s a bigamist. Bigamy would not be
ground for such a decree, nor would
i suit based on that ground be heard
n private.
The court doors were carefully
guarded, the only persons admitted
)eing the lawyers engaged on both
sides, two medical men who testified,
ind two other witnesses. Through
he glass doors part of the brief pro:e3dings
were visible, but not audible
n the corridor.
Rufus Isaacs, distinguished lawyer,
opened her case with a brief
itatement. While he spoke the Couness
averted her face. Only once did
ihe glance hastily at the lawyer and
>nce she raised a little gold smelling
>ottle to her nostrils.
Then she took the witness chair. |
tfr. Barnard, yet another of her law'ers,
questioned her.
One of the doctors was tho nest
vitness, testifying for the Countess,
le answered, concisely, a few quesions,
then left the court.
Another witness was a middleiged
woman, dressed in black, and
ilosely veiled, who, presumably, testiied
that the Earl and Countess have
[welt under the same roof for months
it a time. This woman's testimony
asted only three minutes, and in an>ther
ten minutes all the formalities
vere finished.
Sir John Govell Baines, who was
>een on the bench for eighteen years,
nade a short statement before giving
he decision which frees forever the
American heiress from the unworthy
ion of the Marquis of Hertford.
The doors were kept locked until
he Countess and the woman who tesified
had departed by the Judge's
jrivate entrance. I
The Earl of Yarmouth offered no
lefense, and the only part his lawyer
ook was to correct one statement \
nade by Mr. Barnard. The reason
farmouth withdrew the defense he
lad filed was because no effective deense
was possible in the face of evilence
the Countess could have proluced
if need be.
PUBLIC PRINTER SUSPENDED.
expenses of Printing For Congress is
Called to Roosevelt's Attention.
Washington, D. C. ? President
loosevelt temporarily suspended as
5ublic Printer Charles A. Stillings
tnd appointed William S. Rossiter
eraporarily. The action, as exDlained
ifflcially, is to facilitate the investi;ation
now being made of the Governnent
Printing Office by Congress,
lossiter was chief clerk of the Census
)fflce.
The correspondence relative to the
hange was made public by the Presilent.
The first letter is addressed to
Chairman Landis. of the House Comnittee
on Printing, signed by the
'resident:
"The information you have given
ne this morning is so important that
deem it best that there should be a
vritteri record thereof. I had aleady
begun some weeks ago an investigation
into the Government
'rinting Office under Mr. Stillings; I
his investigation originating because j
>f information which reached me as !
o the increased cost of printing to
he departments. I accordingly diected
Mr. Havenner, of the Departnent
of Commerce and Labor, to investigate
and report upon this matter,
-lis report on its face was severely
:ondemnatory of Mr. Stillings. I
urnished Mr. Stillings with a copy
ind requested an answer from him,
vhich I have not yet received."
:OURT WIPES OUT FREE LUNCH.
)rders Bars Closed From 11 P. M. to
G A. M. in Wilmington, Del.
Wilmington, Del. ? Consternation !
jrevalls among the saloonkeepers be- i
:ause of a rule laid down by the Court |
>f General Sessions for New Castle j
bounty.
This rule provides that all bars
nust be closed between lip. m. and
> o'clock a. m.: that free lunches
nust not be offered and that no li:ensed
house shall have more than
>ne bar.
Filipinos Take Scats.
Representation in the House of
Representatives, Washington, D. C..
vas increased by two when Benito
-.egarda and Pablo Ocampo, resident
Philippine commissioners, took their
.eats. Their entry into the chan-.bc;*
vas signalized hy applause.
Denies Aspersion on Yale.
Dr. David Starr Jordari. president
)? Leland Stanford, Jr., University,
ias written a letter repudiating an
illeged interview sent from Califorlia
representing him as accusing Yale
)f hiring athletes.
Fresh Fruit Restricted.
Cold weather restricted the movcliont
of all varieties of fresh fruits,
educing it to the lowest possible
juantities that would satisfy trade
?quirements.
Cannot Find Morse.
Charles W. Morse, against 'whom
judgment by default was taken for
5155,573, who was sued for $243,321
ind against whose mansion a lis penlens
was filed, has fled from New
fork City and is believed to be on
lis way to Europe.
Fever Cost $721,436.
According to an average estabished
by investigations by the Pittsmrg
survey, typhoid fever cost Greater
Pittsburg the enormous sum of
J721.436 for the year ending June,
L907
AlfOH BLOW TO fi
ORGANIZED UBOB
1
Court Holds It Responsible For
Damage Caused by Boycotting,
REVERSES A CIRCUIT DECiSiON
Section 7 of Anti-Trust Act Awarding
to Complainant Three Times
Amount of Damages Sustained j
by Highest Court.
Washington, D. C.?The Supremo
Court was unanimous in holding that
the section of the Anti-Trust act
awarding to a complainant three
times the amount of damages sustained
by a combination in restraint
of interstate trade can be invoked in
the case of a boycott by organized*
labor.
The case was that of D. C. Loewe
& Co., hat manufacturers, of Danbury,
Conn., vs. Martin Lawlor and
200 other members of the United
Hatters' Union, of that city.
The decision of the court was an
nouncea oy uniei jusuca r uiie.-, auu
it reversed the holding of the Circuit
Court of Appeals.
"In our opinion," Chief 'Justice
Fuller said, "the combination described
in the declaration is a combination
'in restraint of trade or commerce
among the several States,' in the
sense in which those words are used
in the act. The combination charged
falls within the class of restraints of
trade aimed at compelling third parties
and strangers involuntarily not
to engage in the course of trade ex- J
cept on conditions that the combina- j
tion imposes, and there is no doubt j
that, to quote from the well known
work of Chief Justice Earle on trade .
unions, 'at common law every person J
has individually, and the public has (
also collectively, a right to require f
that the course of trade should be
kept free from unreasonable obstruction.'
r
"But the objection here is to the t
jurisdiction. It is said that the re- e
straint alleged would operate to en- r
tirely destroy the defendants' busi- f
ness and thereby include interstate
trade as well; that physical obstruc- tion
is not alleged as contemplated,
and that defendants are not them- y
selves engaged in interstate trade. .
We think none of the objections are *
tenable, and that they are disposed |
of by previous decisions of this court." j
The suit was instituted by Loewe
& Co. in the United States Circuit
Court for the District of Connecticut. v
The company, alleging damages by
boycott against their factory to the i
extent of $S0,000, asked for a judg- c
ment for $240,000 in accordance E
with the terms of the Sherman act.
Not only the members of the Hatters'
Union, but the American Federation
of Labor, of which the union is a sub-" c
ordinate organization, was included r
in the bill. t
In the complaint it was alleged ,
that the labor organization had un- *
dertaken to compel the manufactur- J
ers to unionize their factory, as a ,
large majority of other hat factories
in the United States had been forced 1
to do, and it was asserted that when ?
they failed in this effort the union ?
hatters withdrew and induced other .
employes to do so. This act was followed
by the declaration of a boycott E
against Loewe's hats wherever they
were found, and as the firm con- i
trolled an extensive trade throughout :
the country the boycott extended to 3
many States. ?
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EXPLOSION' KILLS SEVEN. c
Boiler Lets Go as Rolling Mill ia j
About to Resume.
Northumberland, Pa.?Seven men
were killed and more than a dozen I
injured by the explosion of a boiler \
in the rolling mill of Van Allen & (
Co. The dead are: Grant Reeder, |
aged forty years; Edward Kreps, thir- ,
ty-eight; William Brouse, forty; Samuel
L. Sarvis, forty-six; Duval Clark. '
forty-eight; John Scholvin, fifty; 1
Thomas Jones, sixty-five. 1
The rolling mill had been shut ]
down for threa months and was to j
have resumed work during the day. j
All the boilers and machinery had
been ovehauled. The men were pre*
paring to begin work when the boil'
ers blew up. The loss to the plant isestimated
at $75,000.
I
OTTO KELSEY COADEflXafcU.
Report of Fleming Criticises New
York's Insurance Bureau.
Albany. N. Y.?rGuilty of inefficiency,
incompetence, trustfulness
and ignorance, is the verdict rendered
against Superintendent of Insurance
Otto Kelsey by Matthew C. Fleming
in an exhaustive report to Governor
Hughes of his probing of nineteen
charges against the head of one of the
State's most important bureaus.
On fourteen of the indictments
submitted, Fleming declares Kelsey !
convicted. I
SOLDIERS WIDOWS PENSIONED. 1
1
Bill Passed With Applause Granting 1
Them $12 a Month. '
- * ' TT 3 I 1
wasningcon, u. ? uuuer ausijcu- i
sion of the rules the House passed the
Sulloway bill granting a flat pension j ^
to all widows of honorably discharged | '
soldiers. Its provisions were ex- i
plained by its author, who said it in- i
volved an aditional expenditure of
$12,741,000.
i
Receivers Applied For.
Creditors made application for re*
ceivers for the Consolidated Steam- <
ship Company nnd two subsidiary , [
concerns with which Charles W. j (
Morse has been identified in his ambi- j
Uous career. '
. t
Rent Strike in St. Louis. r
At St. Louis tenants of the tene- ?
ment district are preparing to strike
for lower rents.
Ticks and Flashes. '
I .
Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, for years |
thu teacner of Helen Keller, the blind
girl, is losing her own sight.
Mrs. John W. Mackay and hei
daughter, the Princess Colonna, have
gone to Egypt.
Before Queen Olga of Greece took
the matter in hand there was no provision
made by the State for the care
of the sick poor, but there are now
numerous infirmaries, which she often
visits.
Colonel Goethals told the House
Committee that the Panama Canal
will cost J300.000.000.
IHOS. CALE, OF ALASKA, .
MEMBEII OF U.S. CONGRESS, |
____
Veil Known on the Pacifle Slope. Hit
Washington Address is IS Li 9th St
N. W.. Washington. D. C.
C0NQRK8SMAN THOS. CALE.
Hon. Thoe. Cale, who was elected to ;' f
Congress from Alaska, is well known on
he Pacific slope, where he has resided. I
lis Washington address is 1312 9th St, . x
!i. W., Washington, D. C.
Washington, D. .
Peruna Drug Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Gentlemen: 1 can cheerfully reo~
tmmend Peruna ana very efficient
remedy for coughs and colds.
Thomas Cale. ;
Hon. C. Slemp, Congressman from Virginia,
writes: "I have used your valuable C' -f
emedy, Peruna, with beneficial results^ v,
md can unhesitatingly reconimend yoar . ' y.
emedy as an invigorating tonic ana an
iffective and permanent cure for catarrh."
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxatlv. j ^
Germany sends 20,000,000 leathers per
rear to England for millinery purposes.
(TTS, St. Vitus' Dance, Nervous Diseases per- '?
lanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve
lestorer. 82 trial bottle and .treatise free. x 'X
)r. H.R. Kline, Ld.,931 Arch St.,Phila.,Pa. M
Londoners used over 82,000,000 gallons of
rater last year.
Piles Cared in 6 to 14 Days.
5azo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any '
aseof Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding ?
'iles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. tj: 'A
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How to Get Poor Quick. vj
Do not try to save your loose
:hange. It Is too small an amount to
)ut in the cavlngs bank. It would
lot amount to much, any way, and
here is great comfort In spending It.
Tust wait until you get sufficient
vorth while before you deposit it. V f]
Do not try to economize. It is an V
nfernal nuisance to always try to/ *
lave a few cents here and there. Betides,
you will get the reputation of \
jeing mean and stingy. You want -j
sverybody to think you are generous.
Just look out for to-day. Have a
;ood time as you go along. Just use 1
rour money yourself. Don't deprive .1
rourself for the sake of laying up
lomething for other ^ople to fight
>ver. Besides, you are sure of to- ' ';.
lay. You might not be alive to-mor ow.?Success
Magazine. ^
Mexican Rapid Transit. *
The queerest mode of travel I saw 1
n all Mexico was that adopted by a ; ^
ivoman who was on her way to the ^
ioctor, seated complacently in a chair
aorne upon the back of a man. Some ' jp
Mexican women are afraid even of
the mule, cars, while they look upon
the rapidly spinning trolley with such
trembling of knees they cannot be
persuaded to put foot upon it. Unible
to pay coach hire, they employ
the human carrier at a few cents for
;ach trip.?Travel.
Why He Was Released. i'Jjj
In a report tne superintendent ui i
:he Jubbulpore Jail mentions the case I
)f a cook named Lazarus who- was ,
sentenced to two days imprisonment I
n default of a fine of two rupees. He ' v '
vas released on the day of his admission,
the reason being that ''the
imount of trouble to which the jail
staff was put in dealing with him
vas out of all proportion to the probible
effect of the punishment on j
lim."?Westminster Gazette. 4
Taking No Chances.
Henry Clews, the banker and anhor,
was talking about a certain
Inancler.
"No wonder the man so success!ul,"
said Mr. Clews. -He is the
nost careful, the most suspicious fel
ow I ever heard or. In fact, he reminds
me of a Staffordshire farmer
ny father used to tell of.
4*It was said of this farmer that
vhenever ne bought a herd of sheep
be examined each sheep closely to
nake sure that it had no cotton in
t."?Washington Star
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