Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, January 12, 1911, Image 2
POTASH TAX HITS ~ |
1 THE FARMERS HARD
l
looking to Washington For Ratio!
From Gorman Exactions.
Krorrs continue to secure relief from
the enormous tax Imposed by Germany
ion e*jK?rtK if potash to the I7nlt??d
Btn tes. lu these efforts all agrlrul-1
turn! Interests nre deeply concerned
for tlv reason Hint potash Is nu essentia!
element of all commercial fertilisers.
Realizing the seriousness of the burtlen
so Imposed, President Tnft and
the state department have made rigorous
protest to Germany, nnd the matter
Is -till pending. A representative
of the state department who visited
Berlin in an effort to secure redress
from the German government lias Just
returned to Washington, and further
action by the administration la expected
without great delay.
Otncial efforts to bring abont a favorable
settlement have from the start
been actively aided by the nonsyndlcate
potash mines which made the
lAniet'lcan low price contracts.
Did Germany Break Promises*
| It Is understood that the state department
had assurances from the German
government when the tax law
rwas first talked of that nothing would
be done which would Impair existing
trade arrangements. These assurances
proved to be worthless, and after Ger
many had secured the benefits of the
minimum rates of our new tariff law
the potash tnx wns put into force.
[President Tnft in Ills message to conpress
may have had this fact In mind
(when ho said, referring to the successful
working out of the maximum and
minimum provision, "There are. however.
unfortunately. Instances where
foreign governments deal arbitrarily
iwlth American Interests within their
jurisdiction In u manner injurious and
Inequitable."
It was when the Herman potash syndicate
found that Independent mines
Ihud pot almost all of the American
touslncss by making prices nlsnit 30
per cent lower than the syndicate
prices that the law now complained of
toy Atnerlc^tt consumers wns demanded
by the potash I rust and enacted by
the relcbstag with the avowed purpose
to deprive Americans of the benefits
of their advantageous agreements,
running in some cases until lOtfi.
The amount of the tax Imposed by
|Oermany Is more than the entire cost
pat the mines under the American contracts
with nonsyndlcate producers and
nakes the price on deliveries In the
l*Tnlted States much greater than the
}old exorbitant syndicate piMcos. As
(the American contracts provide that
/the buyer shall pay nil government
YTiarges7. the tax fnlls heaviest upon the
Consumer* of potash for the making '
f fertilizers.
T*k Levied to Raise Price*.
The ins law was passed, it is assert
Cfl, with no other purpose than to detroy
xisting contracts, to coerce nl?
potash mines Into the syndicate unrt
eo to bring about a return to high
Erices and take away the market made
ere by nonsyndlcate producers.
' Until this controversy arose it was
not generally known that potash In
IworVab'c quantities was found only in
Germany. The produetlon is and has
Iboen for rwei%ty years controlled by a
?yndlerre. which also fixes the price
ithnt the world shall pay for this no
jccssliv. In this syndicate, which U
trictl' regulated by law, several <?er
gnnn governments pnrti'tpnte as own
iers of potash mines. It was during a
^temporary lapse in the syndicate, leavllug
cvrv <>n* free t ? make Ids own
'figures, thai the low prices now causing
trouble were made.
WATCH ROADS THIS WINTER.
Improved Highways Are Now Passing
T?.ut of All Traffic and Woathar
Conditions, arid Those That
V.akoGood WiI' 8? Standards
of th? Future.
At the end of the present winter
gorsl roads builders will be able to
form dwindle opinions as to what shall
be the -taiidard road of the future.
Road building up to the present has
been fot the most part tnort ?ur less
xperinn ulal. Demonstration ^ ?
fust hew LVind miine "finvt mn-t." I
would prove to lie has been lacking j
because improved highways have not
been hnllt long enough to allow their i
worth.
On asi hnltie macadam la placed the ,
B1..I11 reliance of ronii engineers. Such
flllghways have been proved absolutely j
necessary to withstand heavy tratlle. i
tiul th main question remaining to i
be doeli: d Is the best "binder" to hold
the stone of the macadam together.
Borne of these hlndors "bleed" In summer
ant! then get so brltMe that thuy
lose" the road. The natural asphalts,
uch as are used In street pavements,
4o not act In this way.
Whatever may be next spring's vor
4fct as to what Is the lwe?t road, the
Imovement for Improved highways Is
Jgolng stendlly forward with lacrensod
Mnerg>. The latest to enlist In the
ignod roads cause are the presidents of
Itbc Pennsylvania, N'ew York Central
Mnd Southern railroads and Mr Yon
Ikum of the Frisco, who were among
Ithe organizers of the American Association
For Highway improvement,
now getting to work In Washington.
[With Logan W Page, director of tb?
Mffice of pulrtlc roads, as president.
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DEATH CAUSED BY CARBON GAS.
Gtlcago PhpticUn Succuntw to Odors
Inhaled From tiwollae Engine.
A muffler on the gasoline engine
of hie automobile caused the death
Friday night of Dr. John Aloeius
Hemsteger. a prominent peyeiclan of
Chicago. He died from the effects
of carbon dioxide Inhaled on Wednesday
while cleaning the apparatus
on his machine. The death Is said
to be the first of ita kind on record.
Hemstoger, finding a quantity of
carbon had accumulated in the
muttler and engine cylinders, peured
a mixture of wood alcohol and kerosene
Into them to clean them out.
Ho then started the engine and opened
the cut off valve in the muffler.
The garage door was closed and
there wan no other outlet for the
forming csrbou gas that rushed Into
the room. The physician was almost
overcome, but managed to open
the door of the garage, which let in
the fresh air.
He was taken to his residence,
where ho died the next day. Physicians
who hold an autopsv assert that
death was due technically to poisoning
of the heart by the carbon gas.
Dr. Hemsteger wna 56 years old.
AVHOLKSALK POISONING.
Nearly ttvery lliwldcnt of a Texas
Village Made 111.
Six deaths have occurred and practically
all the members of the entire
village of Telfener, In Victoria county,
Texas, are ill, ascribed to the
eating of food prepared with flour
containing arsenic.
On Monday the village grocer
poured several sacks of flour Into a
su.*a barrel and one of his first
customers was Joe Brown, a negro.
After the morning meal the entire
family became ill, two of Brown's
children dying the same night.
Since ih?n four other deaths have
occurred. How the drug anu flour
came in cod'act has not been do
Ler mined
An Honorable Exception.
The Hon. Thomas W. Loyless, editor
of the Augusta Chronicle, was
most agreeably surprised on Thursday
evening of last week. Without
any previous notice or Inkling ot
what was about to happen, he was
requested by a delegation from a
meeting of some citizens of Augusta,
which had quietly assembled, to present
himself, accompanied by Mrs.
IiOylesa, at the Chamber of Commerce
hall In that city. On arriving
there he found about one hundred
or more of the leading business men
of that city, headed by Mayor Thomas
Hnrrett, awaiting him. Mayor Barrett,
on behaif of those present, then
presented Editor T-oyless with a solid
silver service, which had cost the
donors an ever thousand dollars, as
an oxprt sslon of their appreciation of
what Editor Loyless through the
Chronicle and Individually had done
for the advancement of Augusta.
Editor Loyless is fortunate In living
in a city where the business men
appreciate his efforts In its behalf,
and In honoring him as they did.
hoy honored themselves as well.
Mis case la an honorable exception
the general rule In too many
fiit'ea, and towns too. for that Dialer,
editor*, of newspeners don't even"
'et thanks for what to d,? for their
cities 01 towns, for vhotn they labor
n season and out of season, to say
nothing of a silver service The husI
iness men if Augusts know a g^O''
Ihing when they have It. at.d it
is not serpi-fs'eor that ?Key ere p'ond
of the Chronicle and its able editor
Itrave Firemen.
Tientsin is us tally associated in
the public mind with battle fields, nnd
many inspiring are the records of
deeds of vlor ?*? ! of strn.'gle Flt
in these days of pence we aro continually
heing reminded thnt tt -re
are battles other than those in which
m m are pitted against each other in
den,lly combat. I'robal v among t' e
most spectacular nro tiiose in which
h.vdy, fearless and trained men wresl
? with the great fires which threaten
property and lives. Intent upon 1
their duty and with r.o selfish |
thought of themselves these flremon J
isiana x.u-c to rice with danger iu
such hat'le. and oftlmee as in the
ovory recent c.rtssfronhies In Chicago,
Philadelphia and other cities
prove, they go unfalteringly to their
death Such heroism is an inspiration
to the performance, of du'y under
ail circumstances and strengthens
faith In human nature.
Sonii'tliiiiK I niTsual.
One of tho worst of English railI
road accidents happened in that
I country a week or two ago resulting
In the loss of about thirty lives. The*
singular thing about It is the fact
that the railroad company voluntarily
l assumed responsibility for the ftccl
dent. It seems almost like a miracle
that nuv large corporation or trust
should take the blame to Itself 1T*i
ually. It la the other way and the
, trtwt legal talent. Is employed and
\ every subterfuge resorted to In the
effort to show that an accident is tbo
i fault of others, an act of divine prorIffyice.
or something else, and that
| the corporation is as innocent as an
j infant child.
Happy New Tear to aLL friend
and foe.
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RICH CROOK DEAD
WEALTHY YOUNG ALAN WHO LEO
LIFE OP A BUHGLA1L
i I1UII1U n?DUi*M ITflfl I ?I U>? I nderworld
to a Life of Luxurj in
Hit* Brooklyn Home.
Death has ended the career of
Thomas Wandlass, the "white front"
burglar, who was shot and fatally
wounded while breaking Into the
home of Thomas Tapley, a contractor
in Passaic. N. J. Wandless preferred
the underworld to a life of luxury
in the home of a fond and wealthy
mother. He developed from a sort
of "angel child" to a desperate criminal.
Paralysis of his vocal organs
shortly aft^r his capture kept the police
from obtaining any correct aocount
of his amazing career.
Jean Mitchell, aged 17 years, who
cnlled uerself his "chicken stall" and
assisted him iu 22 burglaries, has
pleaded guilty and will receive sentence.
She declares she la eager to
get back to her home in the New
Kngland states as she has had enough
of travel and nice dresses, the bait
offered by Wandlass when she consented
to become his accomplice.
The police called Wandlass a
"slipper worker" and a "dress suit
burglar." He called himself a
"white front" burglar and was fascinated
by the danger of robbing a
house while there were many persons
about. Often he would stop
to listen to the dinner chatter before
making Ills escape. Generally
he selected a dark or dimly lighted
parlor, jimmied the window and
climbed In. During the mouths that
tho girl worked with him he relied
upon lier to "Bplll a faint" as she i
called it. and draw the crowd whilo
he made his escape.
Wandlass was about 30 years old.
Ilic, n.ntlm. M ? "
...a iiivuidi, .his. /lu^nsiuB r neriinr,
is a woman of wealth ami refinement
In Prooklyn, N. Y. Her
first husband, W'andlass, was ft hotel
proprietor and well to do. Ho left
i comfortable fortune, and when he
died his son. Tom, was a model
youngster and a great church worker.
He was precocious, high strung
and bad a vivid imagination.
Just when he became transformed
into a "bad man" no one seems to
know, but he ran away from boarding
school at 1? and the next bis
mother heard of him was that he
wai* a member of a gang of thieves.
Ho was never what might be called
a Itaflles, except tbat he dressed well
and committed most of his burglaries
while clad in evening clothes. He
was known to the police as Kid
Howard and Thomas Hanley and had
served time in several penal Institutions
in the state of New York.
1>1K1> ON WAY HOMK.
After Ilelng Al*?ent Twenty-One
Years I n heard From.
A mysterious stranger who died
*midenl.v in a hotel at Now Cnnan,
^om., a few d.iye ago has been IdenH.'tod
as Francis Humphreys, a welt'<>
'o resident cf New Canan, who
i! \*?nnn<?nra/1 f mm ?
- -If ?? VM* -aio 4MMUC lUQrH i
ears ago, leaving his wifo and four
laughters.
Humphreys, who was R.'? years old.
returned with the Intention or JoinIn,:
hla family, who had heard noth''
r from him since his disappearance.
\Yenvied from his Journey, lie atoi
>e ai ti e hotel to r?-8t and soon af
. his a; !? .1 vas seized' with tu attack
of heart disease, from which he
dh-d almost Instantly. He did not
Ive to see ar v ir.emher of his famly.
A large sum nf money was
found In his clothing and will be
turned over to his widow.
WORK OF A FIKNI).
A t an of !.)? Thrown In the Face of
a Young Fauly.
With her fare and shoulders seured
land scarred l?> the contents of a can
of lye that was thrown in her fare
Sunday night. Miss .Myrtle Rurney
lies .it her father's home in Qakdale, j
a suburb of Plttabur,r. Pa., and Is
probably disfigured for life, while
county detectives are searching for a
man whoso dost rlptiou the youug Ionian
gives. Misp Tlurney was wnlkiiK
from the Oakdale btntlon lo her
l)omt> Saturday night with a brotoer
whfn a man appeared from behind
a tree and dashed the content* over
| her Instinctively she closed her
j eyes, thus savin* her sight. The fainI
i'y la at a loss to explain a reason for
i the at tack.
Thumb liln^s.
That demand made by some ladles
in an eastern state that married men
be compelled by law to wear thumb
rings lias at l?ast the r:"rlt of uo\?jlty,
but It. wouid not wor.i Mod are
' saoh wicked. designing cre.'tur?-? thut
?h^y we'll find some way t > clrcumj
vent the luw and contlnu* to flirt
with und make love to unausnectlng
I fern t ies. Tet the ld?*a has great possibilities
Why not, for instance,
enlarge It and compel a man to wear
a ring for every marriage he has contracted.
In some districts with some
! men the two thumbs would scarcely
' be large enough to carry aJl the
rings.
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74 VKHSKL8 I-OST
And Fifty-three People Out of 1.48b
Loot ljut YearOut
of a total of 6.6G1 persona Involved
In 1.463 disasters to vessels
of all classes within the scope of the
United States life saving service, only
fifty-three were lost, and about
seventy-four vessels were completely
destroyed, according to the annual
repon or 9. u. MraDan, general superintendent
of the Bervlce. for the
fiscal year, which ended June 30 last.
The next expenditures for maintaining
the service for the year were
$2,249,375.68. The enactment ot
the hill passed at the last session
of Congress b** the Senate providing
for retirement pay for members of
the life saving service and others or
the field service and others of the
field service Incapacitated for duty Is
urved In the report.
Of the 1.646 vessels of all kinds
which met with accidents, the life
SHveiw rendered service to 1.047, valued
with their cargoes at $10,179,230.
Other succor rendered by the
life saving service Included the rescue
of 137 persons from drowning,
surgical aid to 60 persons suffering
from gunBhot wounds, broken limbs
or bruises and the recovery of 150
bodies of persons who had met death
through ice or In other ways. Nine
of this number were suicides.
Oreat Wave of (Yiiue.
As v.*e stated in a recent Issue the
statistics for lust year show that
there was a marked increase in the
number of homicides in this country
during that period. The numl>er of
deaths by personal violence of all
kinds in 1910. exoept suicides and
lynclilngs, was 8.975. as compared
with 8,103 in 1909. This record is
not confined to such cases of murder
and homicide as result In arrest and
trial, but include deaths by every
form of violence.
The principal causes of these
deaths were from quarrels, 4,049;
unknown causes, 984; liquor. 798;
killed by highwaymen, 93"; jealousy,
612; Infanticide, 125; highwaymen
killed, 73: resisting arrest, 106; insanity,
225. The most striking feat
ure of these figures Is the increase In
murders committed by thugs, thieves,
burglars and hold-up men, the number
being an increase of 53 over
1909.
The laxity of our laws In regard
to the punishment of those who are
guilty of taking the lives of other
people will be at once recognized
when It is stated that In the face of
the fact that nearly nine thousand
persons met death at the hands of
other persons during last year there
was only 104 legal executions during
that period. This was three less than
were executed In 1909. when there
was 107 legal executions for crime
In the several States.
Classified by States, the record of
leral executions I3 as follows: Alabama.
6: Arkansas. 7; California, 2:
Connecticut, 1; North Dakota, 1;
Florida, 4; Georgia, 7; Illinois. 2;
Iowa. 1; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana. 4;
Massachusetts, 1; Mississippi, 3: Missouri,
3; Now York. 9; New Jersey,
4: Nevada, 1; North Carolina, 2:
Ohio. 4; Oklahoma, 1; Oregon. 1:
"onns>ivanin. 9; South Carolina. 7:
'"ennessco, 4; Texas. 6; Virginia, 11;
Washington, 2.
There were fhtrtc-sovon legal executions
In 'he Northern States and
tytv In the Southern States. Of those
executed thirty-three were whites,
fl't.v-three were negroes and one an
Indian. The crime for which thes?
...n-u- .mm ji i wi'l't" luneiy
four for r>urder. nine for ' api* and
?ne for attempted rape. In Addition
to the above leeal erecn'ions. seventy
three persona were lynched in the
-outb and on<* at the North.
This ia a fearful record. and the
I xnrst nirt of it is we are doing little
lor nothing to 'orrect It. Think of
the thousands of nnir iers that wore
committed during the past year for
which leas t ban one hundred people
were le- ally executed, and consider
what la huni^r. life worth in this
ho isted home o< *\e brave and land !
of the free. Tii v is no country on j
earth where human life is worth so!
little ng it is here. .Strict enforcement
of the law la 'he only remedy fori
thin fearful condition.
Should lie Sifted.
Of co'-"se 'here is an enquiry kb to
the cause or causes that led to the
death of so nnny firemen in the recent
Chicago fire. There always is
an Inest'gnrlon after a catastrophe
und groat things Am promised At the
' outset of what is going to be done In '
the way of reform and of the severe ;
| punishment to be ineted out to the j
*ullty ones. Hut home way or other
the investigation usually lingers on, |
the report is smothered or male inocuous.
no guilty one la punished,
and.no reforms instituted. There i?
an occasional exception to all this,'
i but it Is only very occasional, and the |
stockyard Investigation wi't be one of
I tho exceptions if anything of value
I roeults from it.
Sent1?<?>ntally cons' ored An *
' Carnegie's S 10.000,000 151ft << j(rontote
peace among the nations is ireU
I timed, for tt Is made at the season
i when la commemorated the birth of
| the Prince of Peace whose mission
!was to bring "peace on earth and
good will anion# men." tt Is to be
. hoped that the Aaptratlon of tha
. donor and of *11 well wishers of man'
kind may be fully realised..
HULVIRti GREENWOOD MYHTKKY.
Young White Man Arrested (or At*
tucking Mis* Pinion.
Fletcher Golden, an elghteen-year.old
white boy, has been arrested at
Greenwood in connection with the
alleged attempt of robbery at the
home of J. F. Pinson on Reynolds
street The evidence on which the
arrest was made Is circumstantial,
being based on the finding of a pair
of trousers, which are said to have
been identifled as his, in a vacant
hulldlivt near the Pinson home with
some of the young lady's hair In one
of the pockets. Young Golden Is a
carpenter and has been doing some
work out In the country, though he
comes home at night.
Au Intenwtlng feature of the affair
Is that young Golden's father la
the man who shot at a thief who attempted
to rob Plnson's store about
a year ago and went so far as to
Identify the man by his voice, fixing
It on a young man here who proved
conclusively that It was a case ot
mistaken Identity.
There Is considerable Interest In
the case, there being many differing
opinions. The peculiar hour, 7 a. m.,
at which the robbery was attempted
puzzles most people and also how It
was possible for a cut. so severe at
to cut the young lady's hair, could
be made without cutting her skin or
ear. Golden asserts his Innocence.
Awful Record of Crine.
Last year was one of hloodshed
and crime, and will go down Into history
8k ex .^ceding any other year In
:he numb-T of murders and suicides
In our history us a nation. During
the year an army of people died by
violence, the record being in round
numbers, nine thousand suicides and
thirteen thousand murders, making
a total of twenty-two thousand
deaths by violence.
That Is an appalling record, and
throws a dark shadow over the entire
country. Every profession, callinu
and occupation have representative
a in this record of crime, and
w. lie the rat- of increr.se is very
mi ch greater in some than in others
the Indications all point to a common
cause, and that is a lack of appreciation
of the sanctity of human
life.
This want of appreciation of the
sanctity and value of human life is
not confined to the uneducated
classes, nor is this appalling record
made up of the deeds of the poor or
Ignorant. It touches all classes. The
rich and well-educated people have
contributed their full share to the
carnival of blood and utter disregard
of the sanctity of human life that
overran the country last year.
Many thought that the almost universal
spread of prohibition over the
country would have a marked efTooi
In checking murders and other violent
crimes, but it seems tha' the
voting out the legal sale of all liquors
has hud no effect in cheeking
these crimes, ns the record for last
year Is the worst the country has
ever had In its history.
There is as much if not more liquors
sold now in many places than
there was sold before the prohibition
law was enacted. In addition to the
!!(.*.? ?..l. - "
,?wi ji"i' iii liquors, quantities of
ocalne and rr.orphlue are now sold
and used b\ those who formerly
drank whiskey. The effect? of tliet?e
drugs are most de ratlin,g, and we
believe that much of :he ncrea.sed
r'nie is attributable to them.
Another csi.be <<f crime is the nonnnforrement
of the criminal lav.s o."
the dtff!?? ? ? CT; ln**l-:.' !.
It 1s very bard to convict men of
"coital cr'.i .rt nr. } should they b
convicted. It Is harder still to adeqrn'ely
punish them. It is prac
ticallv ir.ipossible in this Section of
th? country to punish a man wit
means for any crime. This applies
to eo'ored as well ris white peor!?
Over In Fnuland and other '-ono
tries ucross the ocean it Is different.
When a man kills another over there
he is punished, reearlloss of h s
zenith or -oclal position. Take th
recent ea?e of the prominent d"ntl*t
who murdered hi? wife in Engla id.
lie was pursued to Amerlcn, captured.
taken hack to R: gland. tried,
convicted and executed in aixnit four
months after his heinous crime ws
committed That is the kind of Jus
tJoe uee led in this countrr When
we ha.e h the carnival of crime that
now disgrace* us will be over,
IVats t>fT Nevrro.
At Chloairo Miss Ellen K. Sillier
strom. a nineteen-year-old girl, re
| sisted a nogo who attacked her ia?>
evening in North Fiftieth avanue
I After u struggle in tvhich the youn.
! wi.mr n r?fiivn..a ? - '
u < iit *r?? (? i1io >vh
scratching and kicking him, h?
knocked her down, rnn through *e
*ll?y STld A?r?i lf?H
ling in Hrr Far.
j Mm. W. T. Duggnn. of Straw
Plains. 1 oviti.. was able to show bet
i grand children a enrlority wh.i h she
' has preserved, agniuvt Imr will. for
. jriy years Thi? curiosity ? j i a
wheat bug whlcii dropped Into hei
right ear when sh? iu a ?rirl of 1'
and which she cxir?? <?d Satyr I iy
The death of Senator Elk Ins. whe
was a Republican. means *wo h#mo
Cratlt nnlted States Senator from)
West Virginia, the Democrats *?ing
in control of the legislature of thai
State. We hope true blue Democrat!
1 will be svnt.
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SOME PLAIN TALK
TOO MI CH VICE, WRBCKS, SUICIDES
AN'D Ml'ItDEU l-XMt HER.
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Mr*. Gattrtolle 8. Mulllner Indulfpn
Glv?* ller Views of Hiln|H at a
Woman'* Meeting,
The New York World Bays jbefona
a* vent y-flve womea Mr*. Mailt opt :
(re^J a long paper in which ehl di>- I
cussed the menuce to society of wo- |
| men of the half world, unfat^ifnl \
nusoanus ana divorcee. She cloned
the city of New York a* one kdgc
j receptacle of everything foul u^er
the sun. A
I "There Is more vice per capltjKa
New York," said Mr*. Milliliter,
j "than In any other city of the woA.
There are more wreck*, more s^i'
cldes, more Illiteracy, more accldeuB
i upon the public highways, more,
thefts, more murders, more deprav?
I Ity. more misery and distress. Antra
'the woman who surveys It all and a
understands It all and wants to
ter It all is beginning to make of *
herself a true suffragist." M
j Mrs. Mulliner aald the old Puritan \
standards that hud Inspired the writ
Ing of "The Scarlet Letter" had been %
mashed flat. Women, sh? said, w^r?
looking upon the breeders of evil. &
feminine home wreckers mid the like J
with pity and patience Instead of I
working for legislation that ehould
punish the woman who enters a home \
and steals a husband as It punished A
the thief wno breaks In and carried *\
! off the silver. 1
"There is such a thing as the no- \
wr'tten law," went on the woman I
lawyer, "and the written law often 1
countenance If If, upon the spur of
the occasion, a husband kills the man
i he finds with his wife. Why ehould
i it not l?e just as much the recognized
; right of the wife to kill the woman
who steals her husband? That thief
L not stealing alone from the family;
she is stealing from the social welfare
and that of the soul in futurity.
Hers is a marvellously wicked crime.
"It is the woman whom ihe law
allows to walk the streets and openly
attract men by her hedlzement that
Is the criminal at the base of New
! York's degeneracy, and at the base
of the evil in all cities. She Is the
community wife. And the decent women
are not helping conditions by
aping her In the matter of the hobble
skirt, the mob bat and the naint and
cosmetic. Hut even the deml-mondalne
and the woman who tolerates
her existence are not the ones to
u,miit7. u in uif i;iw useir ana tne
rottenness in politics thai Bees the ^
'thin?- calmly through that Is to ^
.?lanie. Good women should worM
to become elective eon-ituents of
right-minded men upon the Hoard of
Aldertnon and in other position! significant
to the public good.
"Itslse the ?-Mndard by setting a
value on chasil Make an infringement
of that standard punishable by
law."
| Mrs. Mulllner next presented her
. pet topic, dive <3 "Every co-resjxiudciit
ought to bo impounded in
the penitentiary for a certain term,"
she asserted. "Such in offeader
again?*, the public kood Is a criminal
of the worst type."
Every w ,iuen nt the meeting
pledged hers"lf to l;eep a close watch
I on hot own drawing vo?>m and to do
her part In the proposed purging of
society
It is announced that Champ Clark
.and o'her* lenioiv.it ,c leaders have
lerlded not to retain to the speaker
of the ne i bouse the power of appointing
the committees, ms was advocated
by all the South Carolina
members except Mr Johnson who
stands lor havii><: tlie committees
nami'd by the house Itself. The Spar
tanbur:.* !o in iS says to do so would
havo been absolutely inconsistent
ami undemocratic but considerations
v)f this s'?n did not seem to appeal
to t lie South Carolina me in hers mentioned.
? ?. ?
Tbo mac In one of the western
cities who compelled his erring wife
to cre>n> on hf.iids and kaees from hta
house to church, a dhtance of xevral
blocks, before he would forgive
he- must, we hope, stand alone In
i cruel meanness It was but right
tha* his wife should express her contrition.
but to compel her to creep on
a 1 fours, sobbing her heart out. to
be a spectacle for u gaping, curious
crowd was an excess of brutality almost
un Imagine bio.
The people of .Vie York, New
Jersey or Ohio do rot want corporation
machine Democratic Senators
in p'nee of the corporation machine
i Republican Senators bey are about
o iflsplrce The Democratic
has 'oo ninny such Senators now, and
rhey should s??nd no more of tta/it
' kind ?o Washington
? r>' ?,?-. ;,r if! by the farm- (
?r, S.'cre ury Wlleou says: "The
, farmer r'-rr?lv.>? hardly more than
half of mii.it the consumer pays for
poultry. 6!? per cent for eggs. 4 8 per
cent, for cahoaKC 60 per cent, for
cel? ry." The n-iddl"tru<n gets the bal
nee
i We ha.-e rot bo.jrd of a serlotia
' accident ot an> other Incident that
I happened In thla county to mar tho
i Christmas holidays this year. For
tl Is w# ?h miU ao sineoroly thaskfnU ,