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7FPS RAM FNM ANR zeppeun roMES muni; buu n;«u Limnuu crew causbt on bis road LONDON’S AIR DEFENSES BRING DOWN TWO BIG RAIDERS MANY VICTIMS CUIMED * ' ji' * vC- Metropolitan District Suffers Loss of 328 Lives—Small Dwellings and Shops Destroyed — Many Fires Caused Two Factories and Rail way Station Damaged, But London is Pleased Over Resulting Loss to Raiders. ;> Of the twelve big Zeppellnc which invaded the British Isles Saturday night to deal death and destruction from the skies, two lay stark and black masses of, steel and aluminum in the little village ComMnndOT Lands Chip . d S^rd.- THIS OF SETTLEMENT decs to British Constable—Zep pelin Crew Was Not Armed. The c«mmai.der and twenty mem bers of the crew of tho Zeppelin which was forced to land near an Essex, England, coast town were ar rested by the village constable Mon day morning as they were marching along the road Into the blackness of the night, according to the latest “eye witness.” “I am the commander of a Ger man airship that has just come doton and these are my crow," said the leader of the men who was t.cocsted by the constable Then the officer added: “Please allow me to go to the nearest post office so that I may tel ephone some one in London who will let my wife know I am safe.” The constable replied that the commander was perfectly s^'e. At OF THREATENED STRIKE STANDS FOR R HOUR LAW opinion, of n forecast, of the fig ures of expenditures based upon an ‘entirely different experience and if you were to £sk me person ally to arbitrate such n question 1 wonld say I am not competent to arbitrate it. — out of | “The reasonable thing to do is to him as if he thought L-lrere his an- grant the eight-hour day, not because , tagonist. And his labor is cheap at the men demand it, but because it is any price. ...That is the human side bright and let me get authority from of it, and the human side extends to congress to appoint a commission of this cohception, that laboring man Is as Impartial a nature as I can choose must support on the one side, and on the other. “Labor Is not a commodity. It Is: a form ot co-operation, and if I can 1 make a man believe in me,-know) that I am just, know that I want te* share the profits of success wjth him. I 1 can get ten times as mudfi out of] IN AMLRIC _ • V TRACTORS ARMORED TO M GERMANS BACK Addressing Large Crowd of Hearers at Shadow Lawn President Says Distrdust of Labor mid Capital of Each Other is Painful Realization to Him. s' President Wilson Saturday active ly opened his campaign for re-elec tion with a speech at Long Branch, N. J„ replying to Republican criti cism of his settlement of the recently threatened railroad strike. With emphatic gestures, before a large crowd assembled at Shadow Lawn, to observe the results and report up on ths results, in order that justice may in the event be done the rail roads in respect to the cost of the a partner of his employer. “If lye is a mere tool of his em ployer, he Is only as serviceable as the tool. His enthusiasm does not . into It. He does not plan how the i ' > work shall be better done. He does ** . th ® which they not look upon the aspect of the busi- reJ^tcd and which congress pot into ness or enterprise as a whole and. • • wish to co-operate the advantage of) “When I carried it to congress his brains and invention to the sue- *ome very Interesting things happen- cess of it as a whole’. Human rela-i*® - * n House of Representatives tionships, my fellow citizens, are gov-!^ e P* an was passed, was sanctioned ENGLANDHASATHOli! erned by the heart, and if the heart is not in it, nothing i^in it. “I have recently been through an experience which distressed me. I tried to accommodate a difference between some .of the employees >f British “Tanks” Wkic Through Teutonic Ldm Somme Were Made la V Buys Manufacturer of Farm Machinery. The British “tanks,” the motor cars used in recent aw German trenches in northern by a vote which included, I am told, ] about seventy Republicans as against' so successfully as to attract fifty-four Republicans; and in the, wide attention, were built tor Senate, I am intorrued, that the Re-; most part in Peoria, III., in the £ publican members of the Senate held 1 a comerence in which tncy determin-l he defended the eight-hour day and | the American railways and the ex^ ! ‘ ko? e f w l-. this juncture special constables came a!s0 t{jai the nat j on must! cu ti V e» of the American railways, and the p a8sa ^' e cf t! e t)i11 - ■ s ' ow of Yangold, Lssex , up and the prisoners were marched tj e f ree <j i r0 m t'ne possibility of in-j the distressing thing that I discover- Was l,ecaU;>c l ‘ ,e i was re: victims of the to the neaiest detention camp where terfert;nce with iu commenr . P . I , I,' 1 able and was baseu upon right. reason- upon right “But, ladies and gentlemen, that is not the end of the story. , This of caterpillar tractors designed years before the war began for ttau purpose of meeting some of th« dif- licuit problems ot modern fanning. Except for their armor, their ma chine guns and their creWa, thou sands like them are in use to-day to the United Slates, in plowing, dlc- county. They fell victims of the ucainoi. ^ tenerence with its commence. ^ ed wns that on the one hum! there anti-aircraft defenses of London and ^lT Se tlfe ra mfn wore dark' Mr ' Wilson s P° ke fl0ai the Porch j WUi# ' un limiad suspicion and distrust outlvin? districts . wounded. All the men wore dark, of Shadow Lawn lle waa introduced ,i, e „ ( | u . r sl( ie 1U id that susoidon lue enu 01 1116 Blory in18 lue u “, lleu oiaie8 - in Plowing, outbing districts. [blue uniforms and life saving waist- b w P H unyon, of Perth Amboy, and disUust was returned hy tl" thing ought to’have been done, and glng ditches, and other labors One came down a flaming torch, coats. None of them bore arms. I N j who said that bubiness me n in ^. ^L iL ,..n JJ } « had to be done at the time that it, heroic than war as did the Zeppelin L-321, destroyed The village co-stable in telling of all parts of tlje ^unt,.,. were or „ atl . the coming down of the Zeppelin j j z j ng t0 secure the president's re- o o i rv Vv n VixxowH f ri n n on' rvr * Vi o vnArrKfa • . . three weeks ago, while tl.c second, disabled by gunfire, effected a land ing which saved tho lives of the crew, who Sunday night were pris- flying seaward three hundred oners in England. The crew of the nip. Then, as said he heard the n 'ce of the motors e i ect j on overhead and next saw Zeppelin I After his feet othedvside in full measure. . . . > . . . , . ,. i ^ ,, was dune, so as to bring about a reg-1 M. M. Baker, vice president of — "And while arbitration was being sonable trial of the eight-hour day Holt Manufacturing company, "' discussed 1 had this sad thought, ar- and a careful examination of the re- plained that it waa i >acuiuea a speech the president ! ) , itra i io ?, 18 a word associated WiJi suits‘of the eight-hour day. But fuat by his company at its Peoria p ty minutes on the porch 1 ^ ie dea .\ , i n " 8 hosti te interests. It does no t fl n j 8 h the matter. , l^t me that had hurdled German trenches^ everybody' 18 V 1 a H'ernative of war. There ca n your attention to what 1 believe waiKetf'through forests and «.rawte4 i.« s „ch thinir na .h„ we ought al , t0 be tlllnklnK about 80 0 ver shell craters in the face of Ut- ilrst raider died in the flames of the airship feared trouble on the ; esent Mrs W1 j b0n 8 t 0 od bv b is i ou8,lt to 1,6 uo suc,}l thing 53 1 tlie ton their own ship but the; were not so water, he turned and went back in'] 8ide a ' d nenj-hv we p Attorney Pen-! t8lnplatlon °f hosti lity aa between as to set the stage for this and alL tense gunfire, terribly ..charred as their rret’eces- land and in a few i inutes "the air- , Greeorv Postmaste- rehern! men w 11086 interests are the same similar cases. «ors. • ship floated like a giant feather” , ( „ r , PC „n r^’i v m and who should co-operate to Bother. • -There are This latest raider to light her own funeral way ou^ English soil collaps ed and/was* consumed much more quickly than the L-21. It is possible though, that some of the men still were living when the great • essel ship floated like a giant landing in a farmer’s orchard le n than thirty feet from the farmer’s cottage. Two loud explosions followed and Burleson, Col. E. M. House, Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, and Jacob Shiff. MV. Wilson began making arrange ments for trips to ihe Middie We it Zeppelin was wi‘ essed ■ by tens of until Sunday's official statement was given out. Many who saw the shrapnel bunt ing like akyroekets about the Invad er, which subsequently caught fire, think there must have been seven! direct bits. Many aerop.anrs were aloft and attacked tho from all sides. The raiders took a he vy toll of lives before their deatrurtioa, 28 per- soas being killed and 0tt wounded in the metropolitan district of Ix>ndon. Two persons were klllod, probably four, and 17 were wounded In the provinces. Tbs property damage, while wide ly distributed, Is confined for the most part to small suburban dwell ings and ’Shops, although one rail way station was damaged, some empty rare being deatroyed and part of the tracks torn up. The roar of dropping bombs was "We have sold about oni lhousan4 There are some things in which 1 caterpillar tractors to the iirttlnli “And then it came upon me with a society is so profounding interested government," said Mr. Baker. "W* force that it had never had before that its interests lake precedence of have had nothing to do with putttas that the real problem of capital a id the interests of any group of men armor on them, or placing machfcs* labor was to bring the two sides to whatever. One of these things Is the' guns, but some of our men a* Ald«r- understand and believe in one au- supply of the absolute necessaries of shot, Eng., recently were nutta^ cr; that tl.e pi.ddcm of the next life. ... 1 that the British government imeadaA [genetation, if America was really to; "But these supplies are of no use to arm some of th^ tractors and «m nitely an invitation to speak i n i release her energy, to be this unless they can be distributed and in them for work other than the usual , frightened to answer the knock so ’ omalia on October 5, tentative plans rou, ’ genuine, fundamental reconciH- the matter of the distribution of towing of big guns, the Germans to<>H to tho road where' were begun for him to visit Chicago. a,i< n between capital and lalmr. goods, particularly of the goods that "Germany had some of these traa- they encountered the constable, it llp huM a | rpor) „ i„' -j d i d no t realize until 1 held 8UStain Mfe an d industry, the inter-, tors before the war began, and aB- those conferences just how far apart 6Ht o( society is paramount to every: though 1 do not understand just haw they were in that particular and In- other interest, and the . difficulty^ it occurred. 1 believe she may tu. a dispensable pari of our national life. ab out all situations Tike that which lot others since thelT. We have aaak the transportation of the country, we have just passed through Is this, some to France and- some to Raaaha. and when I did realize It, then 1 sawn that the main partner is left out of So far as 1 know, up until the raaaafc that there was a great task that was the_reckoning. Those men were deal- appearance of the armor \ cars Use worth any man’v worth while ahead tn K M t* h one another as if the only I tractors were used only '» tow then a flare of a few seconds dura- jn 0ctober lo R bef uon .^ Tti . unc „ _ _ tiom The airship commander march- |san organization8 on pubilc * quea _,otk struck the ground. The captain’s ed the men to the farmer s house b it ti(Jn8 in addition to accepting defl- body was foun^ so- i dLtar » from ‘ b ^°^cupants of _ tb6 ^ hoa8e ( ^ 6 ' 6 t0 °; nitely an Invitation to speak the wreck. The death and burning of the first thousands of London’s residents, but jf believed engine trouble force 1 the the w eunding and descent of the sec- (,e8cent of the Z 6 l'P 6li “ ond raider was, a matter of doubt ' tiful in Germany. Thousands of persons journeyed to Essex to view the ..recks but quick precautions prevented souvenir hunt ers from making away with every thing detachable. There were many sight seers also viewing the d -maged " "i7‘” outskirts of the city, ppe From the number of bombs drop ped both explosive and incendiary the authorities wonder why thi cas ualties were not greater. The Zep pelins seemed abundant^ 'implied with ammunition. Householders al. ng the thor oughfares heard the bom) s ex ploding. growing louder and loud er ns the raiders rame with the speed of an express train, took their baptism of fire calmly as they IMiased and heaved n sigh of re lief an the reporta diminished in the distance. Outside of the London district two He had already decided to go to In dianapolis on October 12. In his speech President Wilson said: “Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Business Men’s League, Ladles and Gentlemen: "1 need not tell you what a sense of gratification It gives me that you should come bearing this generous message which I have Just heard from your chairman. There is a sense in which the business men of America represent America because America has devoted herself time out of mind to the arts and achieve ments of peace and business is the organisation of the energies of peace. No one who looks about upon the field of, American business at the present moment can fail to realize that a new breath and spirit have come into the business ot America. "There have been times when it looked as if America wete interested only In herself, but in these recent years American business men have lifted their eyes to more distant hori zons and have seen how the markets of the world were waiting for their service, and as they have sought and obtained entrance into these markets a new vision has come to them of what the development of the of us, to bring the minds of the coun try together, to see that men under stood one another, to Dee thiUMhev tiling to settle was between them- guns. 1 understood that selves, whereas the real thing to set- used about forty of them In (Mm tie was what rights had the hundred work before Liege early in the mar had some assurance that the^Vere mUMoq people of the United Htatea and recent photographs show i speaking the truth to one another. l| “ T1> « business of government Is to the British are using some of tl , never had franker conferences in my that no other organization is as now for the same purpoee." life than I had with the representa-. ,tr0 ®K aa itself, to see that no body Mr. Baker said he did not It lives of the sides. group of men, no matter what bow many of the one thousand t ” You know that when the nubile I th ® lr P r ‘ Tal e Interest Is, may come. tors seat to England had been arw. began °to notice ^thls^ controversy It lnt0 ^PSilUon with the authority I *<1 and put ia service as land battla- had already been going on for houi* 1 of • oci « t J r ; and the problem which ■bipe, nor did he know what a«a%- tlme I had been* w afchinx It w ^v con|T ®“’ beca « B « the latenes of | meat the Britlah war otttee had pfaa- 1 nad be€n watchinK 11 w — *— •- a few months *4 upon cars to be t-ed la this was*. It is true,” said Mr. Baker, these tractors can go ahead war al most anything or through alaaat anything. They can straddle a trench, go through u swamp, rail re- and all the multitude of men who’ day ‘ * * l 8aw at once that there heard In many districts where the raiders were Invisible. It is not be- persons were killed and 11 Injured lisved that more than two or three i n an e** 1 Midland town and it is invading Zeppelins which crossed the feared that two other bodiec may be east coast succeeded In reaching the buried in the ruins, environs of London and that two of missile* dropped by the hi>»- these paid the death penalty gives •H** aircraft caused numerous flreu • oar ees of America means: of what the greatest satisfaction to the mill- * n '* demolished or damsged a large! the organization of American effl- tary authorities. Apparent-from the number of residence* and stores means;, of why it was that Io-ji of material the casualties of the l*»u<lou. The casualties in the met- 1 * ‘ last raids, it is believed, will have ropolltan area, according to an offL a depressing effect on the morale of cia l complication are as follows: the Zeppelin crews in the future. Killed, men 17, women 8; children Ixindoners were Jubilant but there 3. Total 28. ■was not the s .me exultant enthusl- Injured, men 45, women 3 7, chll- asm as three weeks ago, indicating dren 17. Total 99. that the destruction of giant sky An official statement issued by the raiders is already taken as an ordl- British press bureau said; nary Incident in this unusual world “Latest reports show that prob- war. a bly not more than 72 airships par- ^ The fact that the Zeppelins were ticipated In last night s air rrld. Jt! brought down practically outside Police reports from ”ie province.! in- ^ hope that all business men of London shows which the defense has been prepared ,,speed with which they were picked bombs were dropped and it is re up by the searchlights. I Kretted that, two persons were killed 1 For a minute or two the raider and '11 injured. It is feared that kept its course, then wavered, turned more bodies were buried under partly away and suddenly dissolved some ruins In this town, apparently Into thin air. In the "Seme damage was caused at a meantime, however, bombs were railway station and about a dozen, opportunity, dropping and red flares were vivid as houses and shops were wrecked or^'”The problems that are before they hit the earth. Then the city damaged and a chapel and store- "American business are world prob- was quiet for an hour, the search- 1 house set on fire. This is an exee:>- lenis rather than American domestic lights flashing only occasionally in H° n - ? ' , ’o othfer casualties have been problems. America must understand the hunt for raiders. j reported outside the metropolitan j the world in order to subject it to its All London within sound of the area and although a large number of: peaceful service. And'yet when we guns and bombs waa out to see the bombs were dropped promiccuously look u]K>n the field of American busi- great anxiety, and when it became! th ®*®“ l '? D ,' hM to . T ... .. evident that an ascommodatlon was I ‘° a co K n 1 ro, ;®”J r ’ ' ,k ® th *l not going to be reached I thought It,,L th 8l c J? to , th '? 1 part ‘ my duty to try my hand at the dtffl-, P th# ***•• *■ d l* cu “- cult task of accommodation. . . . i*®.,!L?. a , *® < * ’ Before I consulted with them 1, g re at many different methods have. o*®* logs, or climb through 0f .| C0 . , ! ^ *® , , ma<le mynelt ac< l ua * n ted been proposed, and One of the tea- Bku a ground Juggernaut. It looka with the points at controversy, and I gong wbjr congress thought lt-neces-! uncanny to sse them crawl along Uhu were ver y "'tuple, sary to postpone the decision for a ground Just Ilka % hugs caterpillar, indeed, that the men demanded an f ew months’ «ag that there were so 1“ a thick forest. If they encoualar eight-hour day, and that In order to man y honest differences of opinion, trees thuy could not bush oat «K make the eight-hour day work they not a# l0 the object but as to tne their way they could easi’/ be uae4. demanded that tho railroads pay me thod. ... | to uproot them and clear their o.m lh!n U fH n , 10re .K ,0 r ov f run ’| “The only thing worth talking 1 P^tha." than thej paid tor the time in tee abou t | n politics or any other sphere I Mr. Baker said the tracters seat regular day. the men alleging that j, t h e constructive Idea; to England weigh about elghtam this was the only way in which they| “•flow are you going to do Itr thousand pounds each, develop omm . . . And the very different ques- hundred and twenty horsepower ea* ...... tion which the American people is built of steel. The caterpillar have developed the peaceful Indus-! ki! 8 k 1 !* P . a .. r l° f .!. h ! that , W “ a,l . , !^ ra * now fac « te face with, and which future, he explained, ia of tAe al as arbitrable. The first tiling 1 told both aid»« There never was a time when the practically outside I’ollce reports from ’le provlnced In- 1 hope that all business men 1 from either side as to what the basis the care with dirate-that the damage by the air- America reaize that we are only al'ofTettlement waT\o be eiJeDt ttaL against air raids ships is slight. In one town in the the beginning of a new era America, lhe railroad executives’did sugge t . as well as tho « a8 t Midla.ds, however, a number !“‘ 8 " ol 118 proportionate part : <hat con g res8 glve them 8ome 8 ®‘ 0l . in the development of the trade of the world. In Zlie time* to come . . . the scope of American busi ness will be wnat men itave hitherto not dreamed of, if American men know how to take advantage of the assurance that if the eight-hour day went into operation they would get increased rates for the carriage of their freight. 1 pointed out to them that It was impossible to tell whether they would need .increased rates to" the carriage of their freights. "We believe in the eight-hour day because a man does, better ’ work within eight hours than • he does within a more extended day, and the whole theory of it. a theory which is sustained now by abundant experi- labor which interrupt the life of tho nation?' I invite all subscribers to suggest a method. “The question is apt to be ol>- scurbed in some quartern, as if we were Haying Uutt it was the gift of the government or of organized society, which is another term of for tiie same thing, to nay to a man: 'You.munt work whether you want to or not.' " AMerlca in never going to nay to any Individual: ‘You must work whether you want to or not,' but it in priveleged to nay to an organi zation of peraonn: ‘You must not interrupt the national Fife without consul ting us.’ “It is not a question of obliging individuals; it is a question of en- is on ths ground. Ou the ii the belts, on each side of the , are two lines of steel rails, j four lines in all. These rails ara tm ; short sections. Jointed, and ^ , over a cogged mechanism that ; lays them down with their belt tachment ah the tractor moves as and picks them up again, so that ! car runs on its own seil-nLue u continuously. The short Jointx | the rails make it easy to turn to r or left. The body is supported by track* with five wheels, something Uk* small railroad trucks. These wheels never touch the ground, but run upea the steel rails. In the ordinary trac tor about seven feet of belt and rails is on the ground at one time. Mr. Baker said that the maehtsa would .bridge any trench that was ness there are some things to think that disturb us. Some men seem to think that the way to advance Amer- spectacle and almost despaired of over the districts visited by the air- more excitement when well to the ships the material damage is insig- eastward a tiny glow appeared low nificant. A great number of bombs in tne sky. It looked first like the toll in the sea or in open places. j ican business is to walk backwards moon rising red in its last quarter) “In the metropolitan area, 17 men, j and attempt again the provincial from behind a cloud bank. Fro n 8 women and three children, were i po " cies w hich have characterized an the city it appeared to hang station- killed and 45 men and 37 women and age wlien we 8hu t our doors against ary for a minute or more then glow-! 17 children were injured. In/ redder and redder, slowly turned 1 "A considerable number of small to the perpendicular and streaked dwellings and shops were demolish- Into the gloom of the smoky night jed <5r damaged. 9 number of fires ground mist. we^e caused. Two factories sustain- To th6 watchers In Essex, how- ] ed injury. Some empty trucks were ever, the spectacle of the flaming destroyed and a permanent way falling Zeppelins had all the thrills slightly damaged in two places. of excitement which marked the end of the L-21 and they cheered the gunners and their fortunate shots that brought the raiders to earth. London expected the attack, the Germans evidently having selected Saturday for their greatest effort, but a bright moon deterred any at tempt since three weeks ago, when 13 raiders came over the sea. From the moment the first Zeppe lin appeared it was evident that the raiders were of the new and large types. This was borne out later by the two brought down. - One of the burning Zeppelins in falling crashed through a row of “No reports have been received of any military damage.” An official statement issued short ly after noon Sunday said; “12.15 p. m.—Fourteen or 15 air ships participated in the attack .on Great Britain last night. The south eastern and eastern midland coun ties and Lincolnshire were the prin cipal localities visited. “An attack on London was car ried out by two airships teom the southeast between 1 and 2 a. m., and by one airship from the east between 12 and 1 a. m. Aeroplanes were sent up and fire was opened from anti aircraft guns and defenses, the raid- trees In Eessex, {wo of which pierced, ers being driven off. the lattice work of the supports. The | “Bombs were dropped, however, Tillage fire engine was quickly on the in the southern and southeastern dis- scene and began putting water on tricts and it is regretted that 28 per- the blazing wreck. Police constables sons were killed and 99 injured, and villagers removet the bodies as j “Two of the raiders were brought rapidly as possible. down in Essex. They were both Some of these ware charred be- large airships and of a new pattern yond recognition while others were One of them fell In flames and waa still white and recognisable^ All ap- destroyed together with the crew, peered to he young men. well clad The crew of 22 officers and men of and wearing the remnants of stout: the second were captured, leather coats and shoes of rather | “Detailed reports of ths casualties poor quality, which Is takes te tudl- srd damag has not yet bap* reeatv- cate that good footwear Is sot plea- ed.~ . * the influences of- the world, * “But the chief cloud that Is upon the domestic horizon is the unsatisfactory relations of capital and lalKtr. , i here is only one way, gentlemen, in which the relations of capital and labor can be ren dered satisfactory. “That is by, in the first place, i£- garding labor as a human relation ship of men with men; and, in the second place, to regard labor as part of the general partnership of energy which is going to, make for the suc cess of business men and business enterprises In that country. So long as labor and capital stand antagonis tic the interests of both are injured and the prosperity of America' is held back from the triumphs which are legitimately its own. } “Yon know that we have been a legalistic people. I say with all due respect to some men for whom I have a high esteem that we have been too much under the guidance of the lawyers and that the lawyer has always regarded the relations between the employer and the em- . ployee as merely a contract lira! re- latlnnship, whereas. It is while baaed upon contract, very much more than contraetnral ence, is that his efficiency is increas- f. or ( c . ,n f a Partnership and seeing to not wlder than the i ength of tr#ck * ed, his spirit in his work’is improved il lh3t 00 organization which we all laid on lhe ground at oae Um<L and the whole moral ana' physical. belon f t0 an d support and call and <* bow ” m ig b t hit the far side of Om vigor of the man is added to. ! * ove by lhe nome of our own gov- "This is no longer conjectural. Where it has been tried it has been trench far below the top, and thm “stern” would undoubtedly sink a Ut- ; tie, but the tenacity of the tractor* S* ernment. “So I had a program before con demonstrated. The judgment"orso^ j gress which, at any rate a beginning b ;* ^^“d, wouVd"enable"it*to ciety, the vote of every legislature might be made In that direction, and ab ead and climb out in America that has voted upon it is!. that Program is going to be proceed- 1 a verdict in favor ofg the eight-hour w >th. day. I . “It Is no fun talking unless you "And, therefore, I said to these' can expect to do something.' The gentlemen on both sides at the very 1 on .>y * 68t that ever comes into af- UCI , beginning: The eight-hour day ought . fairs for ^S ian w . i . th , red blood in bisj w i iere a thirty-inch track is used to be conceded.’ But they said: ‘It veins is tlfTzest that comes when he , e88 than that of the foot o( ^ will cost us an immense sum of * 8 ptlt t0 ^ t0 t , h . lnk ° u , t , a dirferent man or horse. He suggested money.’ , thing and o do it and I for my part the BrittoS authorities probably ‘How do you know how much it, congratulate the business men of, lengthened the track on the trac will cost you?’ America that some of their difficul-1 UBed ln trencb work giving ti “You remember there was a case 68 have been removed by leg sla- eveQ ter to surmount tion, that they have been fortified: 8tac j e | “It la • i men ot mu with Ti.e width of track used on fib*- machines sent to England, Mr. Bak«r said, was twenty-four inches. Un declared that the ground pressura 1* about three pounds per square inch decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. It was known as the eighty-cent gas case where, by legis lation, in the State of New York, eighty cents was established as the charge for the unit of the supply of gas and the law was contested upon the ground that it was confiscatory and, therefore, unconstitutional. "And whgtt the appeal reached the Supreme Court of the United States it said: ‘Nobody-can tell until you try to manufacture gas at eighty cents whether it is confiscatory or not. -Go ahead and manufacture gas and Dell it for eighty cents and then, if it proves impossible to conduct your against certain forms of control which must have been intolerable to them, that they have had their real strength put in service by such acts as the federal reserve act, for exam ple. and that now. if they think they can conquer the world, it is up to them to do it; and that nobody is going to assist them, because it is a thing in which they cannot be asslste- ed by anything but their own brains. “We are now out In the open, competitors for the confidence of the world, and there ia only one way to get it and that U to earn it. “We’ve been making these fi n tors for the British government for a long time,” said Mr. Bqker, “aad have not talked much aboht it. Siam their recent use in storming treaefto* I have seen published report* tk*t led me to believe the secret wo*M come out anyway pretty apon, as 1 decided it might as well be told ■oar."*’ Although he would not disenas th* matter, it waa understood the Uwfhad States war department is expertaeat- ing with armored tractors lik* tkaaa now iiMise on the British battle U*sl «— • o » More tiaards for Two Wyoming National Guard ■ I cannot imagine anything more business upon that charge, eJuie back ’ ln»pirlng'than to be put on your met- and discuss with us the confiscatory after legislation has taken the character of this act.’ And it may shackles off yon and appraised you. faatry battalion*. Troop A, mt that be remarked in pasting that the com-1 To pretaad that w# ara able to Kansas cavalry, sad Troop ■ af pony never went back to discuss itiCo^Pdi® w,l h the world aad then Wisconsin cavalry, . (cringe at the opportunity would not the Merit be worthy ef any of the traditioas of w America aad so for my pari I am — particularly proud to be supported • to have sa tho railroad