The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 02, 1912, Image 4
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ROOSEVELT AND THE HARVESTER
TRUST EXPOSED
CATERED TO J. P. MORGAN
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Correspondence Relative to Prosecution
of Alleged Harvester Trust,
Tending to Show Roosevelt's Catering
to Morgan Interests Brought
to Bight in the Senate.
The confidential correspondence
which passed between President
Roosevelt, Atorney General Bona- '
parte and Commissioner Herbert
(
Knox Smith, of the bureau of corporations,
in 1907, about a government
suit against the International Har- '
vester Company, was sent out to the
Senate from tho files of the department
of justice
One letter from Col. Roosevelt to ;
Mr. Bonaparte, written from Oyster 1
Bay on August 22, 1907, said that 1
the Colonel had had conferences with '
George W. Perkins about the com- 1
pany's affairs, directed Mr. Bona- *
parte not to file the suit then, but to ;
go over tho matter with Comuiis- 1
sioner Smith and Mr. Perkins.
A letter from Commissioner Smith
to the Colonel on September 21 told
ot conferences with Mr. Perkins and "
stated Commissioners Smith's ob"feotinns
to a nrnsor.n t inn at flint time
The commissioner wrote that he c
thought the question of the com pa- N
ny's guilt or innocence was merely a *
technical question and told of a conference
with Mr Perkins on August '
24. 1
Commissioner Smith wrote that
Mr. Perkins concluded with great
emphasis "that il' after all the en- ,
deavors of this company and tho oth- .
or Morgan interests to uphold the !
policies of the administration and to
adopt their methods of modern publicity
this company was now going to '
he attacked in a purely technical
case, the interests here presented
were 'going to light.' " Further on '
in the same letter Mr. Smith wrote:
"While the administration has (
never hesitated to grapple with any j
financial interests, no matter how
great, when it is believed that a suh- f
Btantial wrong is being committed,
nevertheless it is a very practical j
question whether it is well to throw ,
away now the great influence of the
so-called Morgan Interests which, up
to this time have supported the ad- f
vancd policy of the Administration, jbotU
in geneeal principles and the
application thereof in their specific
interests, and to place them generally
in ODDOSitlon. I believe Mr. Per
kins statement that his interests !
would necessarily he driven into ac|
tife opposition was a sincere one and
in fact, 1 can hardly see how those
great interests can take any other at- f
titude should this (prosecution be
started and the final adoption of this
policy bo made public," 1
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In another portion of the letter {
Commissioner Smith reported Mr.
Perkins as having said substantially t
that "the Standard Oil people in New (
York were giving him the laugh for r
having thought he was trying to be t
good and keep solid with the administration
and now lie was going to
get the same dose as the others"
"With the correspondence was a letter
from William Loeb, Jr., tho President's
secretary, making an appointment
for Mr. Ponaparte to talk tho
business over.
Hope of dissolving the $1 <10,000,000
International Harvester Company
without a fight in the Courts
has been practically abandoned. A ,
suit against the corporation under ,
the Sherman anti-trust law probably (
will ho filed at Chicago about the
middle of next week There remains
one bare possibility, however, that
an agreement may bo reached, but
those familiar with the problem have
lost expectations that tho government
and the corporation will bridge
the differences as to a plan of disintegration.
President Taft was apprised of tho
situation at a conference with 'Messrs.
Wckersham, Fowler and Bancroft. Tt
is understood he liagreed that tho
plans for disintegration so far submitted
could not be accepted by tlie
Government. Tho crux of the whole
difficulty, it is believed, lies in the
contention of the harvester company
that the McCormack and Peering
companies, which are subsidiaries,
should not bo separated in any
scheme of reorganization. Tho gov-j
eminent wanted these integral parts
made distinct.
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Saw Many Bodies Floating.
The steamer Bremen and the
steamer Ilhcin passed on Saturday, |
Apvil 15, in afternoon in the neigh-1
borhood of three largo Icebergs. !
Sighted numerous pieces ol wreckage !
and a groat number of human Doilies
with life preservers on floating in J
the sea.
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Tho half-hearted way In which
pome people conduct their business
|?* akin to the half-hearted way many
people live their religion. In both
there necessary unsatisfaction!
leading to ultimate failure unless a i
change of attitude takes place.
FARMER'S BEST FRIEND
rilE SLAUGHTER OP THE BIRDS
COST THEM MILLIONS.
If It Was Not for tlio Feathered
Tribe the Insects Would Eat 1'p
All the Crops.
No species of wild creatures can
withstand exploitation for commercial
purposes. On every case it means
speedy extermination. Even the
whales of the sea cannot survive the
modern steam whaler and terrible
harpoon gun. A hundred years ago
there were millions of American
bison; millions of fur seal, passenger
pigeons, grouse and quail. There
a us the South African elephant without
number; the Guadalupe elephant
seal, the great auk, the egrets of
L'Torida and Mexico, the mule deer of
Colorado, tho alligators of the South
uid the beavers of tho North.
Where are they all? Destroyed,
Annihilated, exterminated by greedy
xnd rapacious men? Well, yes, l:ut ;
kVQinan?lovely woman?is an acces- <
jory after tho fact. Her philapthrop- (
c sympathy is of little value while
icr hats are decorated with plumes i
uid feathers that could only have (
Aeon obtained by acts of the Utmost
Tiiely. The question has been raisrd,
how long will the farmers of (
\nierica continue to stand for the }
;ale of the bodies of their best friends ,
is food? \
Wild creatures play an important i
icononiic part in the affairs of the
vorld, for which we all pay in high I
<rices of food. Many i)laces even 1
tow are deserts because wild life has >
icon exterminated and tho insects
eft to devour the vegetation. If ev- t
ry bird in the world were suddenly i
viped out of existence, tho earth
vould, within a priod of ten years, (
leconie uninhabitable for man. This <
act has been verified in Australia, i
Hhere, whole districts in which the \
ilrds have been annihilated and t
vhich were once a beautiful table- '
and, are now given over to grubs i
md other insects, and been abandond
by agriculturists as a place of hah- ;
tation. t
The foundation of wealth in this i
ountry is agriculture and forestry. *
Tinder the growth of either and pros- i
>erity is injured to a like degree,
^osses to farm crops from insects j
ind rodent pests amount to over a j
>i 11 ion dollars yearly. It, therefore, |
lecomes vitally necessary not only t
or the farmer but for everyone else
o know the relation of wild life,
especially birds, to agriculture and
orestry.
The bob-white is the most valuable
md important wild bird in existence
or the American home, garden and
arm. It does practically 110 harm
vliatever and seems to specialize 011 f
he pestiferous insects and weed
;eeds. Its large size, compared with ;
?ther insectivorous birds, renders it 1
apable of doing an amount of good 1
lervice which few people realize. 1
from different crops representing a
dnglo meal?and the bird probably '
ills its crop from six to ten times a 1
lay?have been taken 200 seeds of 1
unartweed; 500 of sheep sorrel; 1,- j
>00 of ragweed; 5,000 of pigeon *
;rass; 1 0,000 of pigweed; a table- 5
spoonful of chinch hugs and over 100 *
>otnto beetles.
Feeding tests with a pet bob-white ]
icn reveal the possibilities of the
bird's work in a garden or Held. One ,
lay, 5 0 adult potato beetles; anoth- '
;r, 1,280 rose slugs; another, 5,000
)lant lice and 508 mosquitoes in two
T .. ? .1 . !!!!?.. * ? r. 1. ^ < li >
lours. in auumuji iu tut? ?iuw>u u>u
jird is known to feed upon the cotton
worm, the boll worm, the Mexican
motion boll weevil, cut worms, cab- 1
iiage worms, cucumber beetles,
squash bugs, grasshoppers and crickets,
army worms and the Hessian fly.
If the estimate, $795,100,000 annual
damage to farm crops In the United
States from Insect ravages is correct
?and it is much too low, if anything
?tho bob-white alone might save us
over half this amount if people would
only give it a chance. Other tens of
millions would be saved in weed seed
destruction. The bob-white is a sociablo
bird, makes a charming pet
and, if protected, will "home" about
the house and garden, becoming
much tamer and more responsivo to
potting than domestic fowls In a
very short time it would be possible
to have these cheerful birds common
in every garden. Pet bob-white hens j
average (55 eggs a season and at the j
Massachusetts State Fish Hatchery
one bob-white laid 100 eggs, practically
all hatchahle. As many as 4 2
eggs have been found in a single
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near. in mo wiiu.
Tho Department of Agriculture at
Washington has reported to tho Governmont
that tho cotton holl weevil,
tho ravages of which have been costin0
the jpntc of Texas $40,000,hOO to .
er,a 000,000 a year, is moving steadily
eastward and northward and will,
within a few years, go to the Atlantis
ocean and as fav north as cotton
grown. In proportion to tho area
planted, all cotton growing states will
suffer ns heavy losses as Texas.
The gutill, the prairie chicken and
other common birds are natural enemies
of the holl weevil. If these
birds could have heon preserved In
anything liko their previous numbers
In Texas, tho insect would never
have developed In sufficient numbers
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TERRIFIC TORNADO
SEVENTY-TITO PERSONS IN ILLINOIS
AND INDIANA
SLAIN BY ANGRY WINDS
+. Nearly
a Hundred Families in Destitute
Circumstances and Over That
Number Homes Demolished.?One
Town in Illinois Practically Wrecked.?Authorities
to Kxtcnd Relief.
Latest figures regarding the storm,
which swept over Illinois and Indian
nil, snow tz ueaa, injured and
nearly J 00 families in a destitute
condition as a result of the storm.
Moro than 100 homes were demolished
and the property loss totaled
several hundred thousand dollars.
Greatest damage was done at Bush,
Willsville, Murphysboro, Campus,
Freeman and Kankakee, 111., and
Morocco, Ind. Gov. Deneen and Adjt.
[Jen. Dockson extended State relief to
lie stricken districts of Illinois.
The dead and injured are: Bush,
(11., 18 dead, 100 injured; district
>ast of Bush, S dead and 30 injured;
Marion, 111., 3 dead, 20 injured; Murphysboro,
111., 3 dead, 5 injured;
2ampus, 111., 2 dead, 1 injured; Kantakee,
111., 7 dead, 21 injured; Mor occo,
Ind., 9 dead, 1 injured; Freenan,
111., 3 dead; district near Monoe,
1 dead, 2 injured.
.J. \V. Campbell, section master at
lush, with his wife and six children,
were sitting in the section house,
vhen the storm demolished it, killing
the occupants instantly. The
lumber of injured at Bush will reach
uoro than 10 0.
Bush, a village in the northwestern
orner of Williamson county, received
most damage. Two storms met
it. Bush, one coming from the northvest
and the other from the southeast.
The storms met a velocity of
i5 miles an hour, and in a few mlnites
Bush was in ruins.
The buildings of the Western Coal
>.nd Mining company were distroved.
is were tho postoffice, general departnent
store, hotels, restaurants and
!0 dwelings. Thirty-five other dwell
ngs were partially wrecked .
A train load of injured was taken
"rom Bush to Murphysboro, where
hree died. Seventy-five families are
lomeless and destitute in southwestern
Illinois.
WAS ACCII)KXTAI/LY SIIOT.
Miss Polly Benton Was Killed by Discharge
of Gun.
Miss Polly Benton was accidentally
diot and killed at her home near
A'alterboro Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Benton was in the act of hand11
g her brother a gun out of the
ivindow for the purpose of shooting
1 hawk, which was near tho house,
rhe hammer of the gun was pushed
jack by coming in contact with the
.vindow and the gun was discharged,
he load entering her head. Miss
Benton was a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. II. M. Benton of the Pine Grove
section of tho county and was a
roung woman of many estimable
raits of character.
:o seriously affect cotton growers.
It has also boon established at the
Department of Agriculture that the
Colorado beetle, commonly known as
Lho potato bug, has cost the farmers
if this country $1 2,000,000 to $14,000,000
a year for the past 15 years
and it is predicted that if the bird life
of the country is still further diminished,
this insect will rapidly increase
in numbers. The quail, the meadow
lark, the robin and several other species
of birds are natural enemies of
the potato bug, but these birds have
been so persistently hunted and destroyed
that there are not enough
left anywhere to keep down insect
lifo to a condition of sarety for farmers.
The time has come for drastic action
and the many nine millions of
"other people" who are suffering hardest
and financial losses that the few
thousand vain, epicurean and avaricious
persons may profit thereby,
would do well to rise in their might
and protect the birds that, if given a
chance, would so well protect thorn.
The fashionable woman of to-day,
clad in furs and feathers, carries
with her an atmosphere of death.
Her head gear alono proclaims to
the world the misery and suffering
which havo been the price of her
van n y.
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! odso Found the Lenlc.
Hunting for a gas leak, Enoch
Loose, of Cuyahoga, Falls, O., lighted
a .natch in tlio bathroom of his
homo. There was an explosion
which blow out a wall of Iho house,
and severely burned Loose, bin wife
and daughter, and Frank P. Sohaffor.
a boarder.
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"White Men on Chain Gang.
At Lexington Alex Gnnter and J.
C. Thomas, two young white men,
wore committed to tho white chain
gang Thursday by the mayor of the
town of Hrookland for disorderly
conduct, Gunter receiving a sentence
of twenty days and Thomas ten.
PUSH ALONG YOUR TOWN.
Some Suggestions and Uinta to
IJoostors niul Knockers.
Not only does the "knocker" dole
out this discouraging line of talk to
his own homo folks, but passes it
along to the stranger within our
gates And isn't it wonderful how
fast this kind of information spreads
and isn't it equally wonderful how
some people will more quickly believe
a bad than a good report?
"The "knockers" (axes are always
tco high no matter how low they may
bo and he cusses his neighbor because
his neighbor is , rospcrous and
enjoys life. In fact, he hates himself
and is a menace to the town's prosperity.
a foe to Clod and no good to
the devil. These persons seem to be
a necessary evil in every town. They
I ought to bo put out.
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One of the causes for the failure
of local enterprises is the failure on
the part of many people to comprehend
that whatever injures any business
in a community reflects injury
upon the people of that community.
Home enterprises should bo loyally
supported by home people. It is too
often the case that a business that is
of incalculable benefit for a locality
is hampered or ruined through jealousies.
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The "knocker" who stands on the
street corner looking around for
something to gossip nboht or to find
fault with, can always find what ho
is looking for. But what a life he
lives. Iiis soul shrivels and withers
until it is shown in his manner and
looks For such a person life has
lost its savor. It becomes sour, misanthropic,
whining. He passes from
bad to worse and sees no good in
anybody or anything.
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Everybody can do something for
his town. His capital may be limited?in
fact ho may have no capital at
all, and yet be a strong factor in the
production of bustle, and "git up and
git." What is to hinder you from
offering a word of encouragement to
every undertaking? What is to hinder
you from speaking well of your
own town on all occasions? What
will it cost von? It is the manners
of the people that make them loved
and respected
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What trouble can there ho in
meeting a stranger kindly and extending
to him a warm hand of cordiality,
and informing him that, the
doors of the city are thrown open to
him, with an invitation to abide with
us? It is just easy enough to tell all
strangers that you have the best people
in the world, and prove it by carrying
them around and giving them
an introduction. It is not the most
Push Along Your Tqwq. Two.
wealthy that do the most for the
the town or city in which they dwell.
Remarkable Suggest ion.
If a layman had suggested that instead
of coal be mined the mines
should be piped and set on fire and
the gas thus generated be conveyed
to houses lie would have been considered
a visionary crank. Yet this
ia what Sir William Ramsey has just
advised and he is at tho very head of
British scientists.
Sir William contends that to thus
turn a mine into a great gas retort,
would do away with most of the
underground labor with its dangers
and hardship, that it would he the
most economical way of using the
coal, and that it would bo far more
convenient and pleasant for householders
and manufacturers.
In other words Sir William Ramsey
would do by human aid what
nature does directly in many sections
of this country in its natural gas
wells. Startling as the suggestion
may he there is much to commend
it, especially when one thinks of the
immense depths at which English
coal is now worked.
In addition to furnishing gas direct
to cities it is proposed to generate
electricity at the pit's mouth and
convey it to manufacturing establishments.
Of course, if the project
materializes, it will still be necessary
to work quite a number of mines
to provide coal for steamships and
for exportation.
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Patriot of Loftiest Ideals,
History affords but few examples
of patriotism that excel that of Dr.
Sun Vet Sen of China. Elected provincial
president of the Chinese Republic
he announced that ho would
willingly resign in favor of the man
who might bo elected the permanent
president. lie kept his word. Instead
of using his position to foster
personal ambition and Intrench himself
in otlicc, ho exhibited a rare
devotion to his country, a disinterestedness
and a modesty that marks
him as a patriot of loftiest ideals.
Not less to his credit was the grace
ful manner in which he welcomed
Itho new president, Yuan Shao Yi.
'ills examnlo may well he followed
in every country by those men who. e
great profession of patriotism is but
a cloak for their own personal gratification.
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Another Notable Perished.
Jonklin J. O. Reuchltn, managing
director of tho Holland-American
steamship lino, perished with the Tltanio.
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WANT TRUTH TOLD
SAYS WRECK OF THE TiTANiC
WAS A GREAT CRIME.
SAYS MAJOR WAS A HERO
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Mrs. Harris, Willow <>T Henry B. Harris,
Who host His Life in the
Wreck, Talks of the Si;i'.11of C11 <*
Titanic, declares That She Wants
to Tell Her Story of the Disaster.
"Sixteen hundred people were not
drowned on the Titanic; sixteen hundred.
people were murdered, cruelly
and foully murdered?that's the
story, tho true story, of this awful
wreck I shall tell the world tho secolid
1 am able."
These are the words of Mrs. Henry
H. Harris, widow of the millionaire
theatrical producer of New York, i
Mrs. Harris spoke these words Saturday
night between sobs as she lay
on her bed of grief and pain, surrounded
by her relatives in her (lower-filled
apartments that look out
over Central Park, and into the very
windows where Mrs. .John Jacob Astor,
another freshly made widow, is
also living over and over again those
wild hours in tho ice-strewn Atlantic.
"No one has begun to toll the
whole story about the wreck of the j
Titanic," Mrs. Harris sobbed. "I shall j
appear before the senate committee
in Washington and tell what 1 know.
I will wake the world at last to the
real horror of this disaster.
"1 was the last woman to leave the
deck of that ship. I was put into a
collapsible boat along with two other
women and scores of the crew .Women
and children?and our husbands
?were torn from us so the men of '
tho crew might go along.
"Hut I am glad that I waited. I
had a few extra minutes with my i
husband, and I learned of the carelessness
with which she was handled
which amounts to murder?plain,
cold-blooded murder!
"I want to tell the committee my
story. I want the blame to be fixed
where it belongs. The men who are
responsible for this crime must pay
for it. And I shall do all in my power
to see that they do."
J5ut it will l>o a long time before j
Mrs. Harris is able to testify ac-1
cording to her attorney, Max I). ,Steuer,
who has charge of her affairs. '
.She is in a most serious condition, he i
says, as a result of her terrible ex-I
posure and a fall she received while '
on board the Titanic.
"1 had watched the women get into
the boats," Mrs. Harris said, "and
finally I had to go, too. They said it
was my only chance of being saved.
I asked my husband the time and ho
, took out his watch. It was exactly
j 20 minutes past 2.
"Wo wore standing alongside of
Major Hutt. They had been helping
him put people into the boats. Major
1 tutt was the real leader in all
that rescue work. Ho made the men
stand back and help the women and
children in. Hut he was never rough,
as has been said. Ho was simply authoritative
in the most courteous
manner I have over seen. He was
surely one of God's noblemen.
"As I was lowered into the boat after
1 had kissed my husband that
last terrible good bye, I watched
the Major as lie stood by Mr. Harris.
Ho was emotionless, without a trace
of fear in his eyes. Just ten minutes
later 1 watched the waves sweep over
hem?my husband and tho Major ?
?s they both stood at attention like
tho heroes that they were.
"Major I'.iit;. never fired n shot, nn
:\s been said; "he acted the part of
ho greatest hero, the hero whose
heart is as tender as his soul is
bravo."
Mrs. Harris* declaration that she
knows the truth about the sinking of
the Titanic as perhaps no one else
knows it comes as a complete surprise.
It had not been generally known
that she was the last woman to bo
lifted from the death-ridden decks of
rho Titanic. This was becauso until
late Saturday she has been too ill to
talk. And even now she can go but
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solicil your business.
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Vick Ruksidknt. . (Jashie*
r cent, on yearly deposits.
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Attorney and Councilor At Law,
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Attorney at JLr.w.
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Attorney at
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Land Surveying
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SHE WORLDS BREArtSI SEWING MACHIHI
.LIGHT RUNNING
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n HI hi t tie, RotaA
SbutUe or a Single Thread {Chain iilitcJtl
Bowing Machine write to
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Mtacyaewtngmaohmrs are mndc to Rett rr^arrftm
Mllty, but the New Huiuo li made to ve? '
Ou* guaranty never runs out
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Relief Fund in Large.
Shipping men in New York express
keen interest as to how the immense
I funds that have been subscribed til
I Fngland and America for the relief
of Titanic survivors will be distributed.
The total already raised in
j London and New York is considerably
in excess of a million dollars .
land belief is expressed that thoJ
amount event ually will reach nearly
two million.
Shot in t?ie Head.
Mrs. Ella T. Horry, who resides in ^
'Columbia, was painfully injured
Thursday afternoon, when a carjt
ridge which she had unin'en' legally
! swept Into a fire exploded. The bul:
let struck Mrs. Lorry on the forehead
producing a wound that is not
regarded as serious.
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I So much depends upon H.c person.
nllty of ono and his motives and tact
'that a kind word from one person
j may do a man in distress mere pood t
than would tho locolnt of a thousand
dollars from some other man.
Uttlo into details.
"ft was just plain murder?downright
and terrible," she repoats to
her slaters over and over again. "And
I will prove it to tho world the minute
I can gather my strength."
Iler story every ono must know,
sho says, so that tho 1,500 personswho
are lying in those unfathomod .
graves shall not go unavenged.
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