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TTht a journal VOL. X. METHODISTS NAME BISHOPS TO LEAD I WmEHCES Assignments for Coming Year of Conferences Are Made By College of Bishops of South ern Methodist Church 'By AwocUted Pr»»») ’*■ • NASHVILLE. Tenn.. May I—The fol lowing conference assignments have been . announced by the college of bishops of the Southern Methodist church in session here: r Bishop Wilson—Virginia, Salisbury. Md., , November 1; North Georgia, St. James. Augusta. Ga., November 15; Alabama. Pensacola. Fla.. December 6. Bishop Hendrtx—Denver. Walsenburg. Col., August 31; Mexicon border, mission. Saltillo. Mexico. February 1; Central Mex- | ico mission. Guadalajara. Mexico, Febru ary S; Northern Mexican mission. Tor- j neon, Mexico, February 22. CANDLER AT HOLSTON. Bishop Candler—Holston, Morristown. , September 27; Tennessee, Columbia, Octo ber 18; Memphis, Madison Heights, Mem- i phis. November 16; Cuban mission, Janu ary 11-13. Bishop Morrison—Western Virginia. < Kentucky > Louisa, Ky.. September 16; ; Illinois, Warden, September 21; South Georgia, Bainbridge. Ga., November 11-13. Bishop Hoss—Western North Carolina. Broad Street, Statesville, N. C., Novem ber 8; North Carolina, Kinston, N. C., ! November 22; North Alabama. Florence. Ala., November 29; Florida, Gainesville, ! Fla.. December IX Bishop Atkins—New Mexico, Tucumcari, New Mexico. October 4; West Texas. San Marcos. Tex.. October 18; Northwest Tex •as. Plainview. Tex.. November 4; Central Texas, Polytechnic State, Fort Worth, Bishop Denny—Missouri, Columbia, Mo., August 90; Southwest Missouri, Marshall, Me.. September 12; Sv Louis, Kirkwood, Mo.. September 27; East Oklahoma, Ok mulgee. November 28; West Oklahoma, Mangum. Okla. November 22. KILGORE GIVEN PLACES. Bishop Kilgore—Kentucky. Itichmond. Ky., September 12; North Mississippi, Ma con, Miss., November 29; South Carolina Bennettsville, S. C„ November 22. Bishop Murrah—Japan mission,. Arima. Japan. August «; Korean mission, Won san. Korea, September 21; China mission, Shanghai. China. October 12; Baltimore. Roanoke. Va. March 27.. Bishop Lambuth—Brazil. Petropolls. Brazil. July 20; South Brazil. Uruguayans. Brazil, August 17; African mission, Sep tember 90. Bishop Waterhouse—Montana Missoula. Mont., August 24: East Columbia. Hepp ner. Ore., August 31; Columbia. Roseburg. Ore., September 14; Pacific. Sacramento, Cal, October It; Los Angeles. San Diego. Cal., November L Bishop Monzon—German mission. San Antonio, Tex.. November 2; North Texas. I Gainesville Tea. November IS; Texas, j Marlin,* Tex.. November 22; Louisiana.! Parker Memorial, New Orleans. December | . A Bishop McCoy—Louisville. Greenville, Ky., September 27; Arkansas. Boonville. Ark., November 22; Little Rock. Fordyce, Ark., November 15; White River. Blythe ville. Ark., December «. WDPT Bill EY MOTION 4FTEB LENGTHY FISHT J Senate Decides to Meet at 2 o’Clock p. m. Instead of • at Noon WASHINGTON, D. C-, May 4 —The sen ate today radically departed from cus toms of the past, when it adopted Sena tor Bailey's motion fixing the hour ot meeting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. For years the senate has met at noon, just as the house. The Bailey motion commits the upper legislative branch to the 2 o’clock meeting hour Indefinitely, and it will not be changed until the senate re scinds today s work. Although the change is a radical de parture from precedent, for which the senate is a great stickler, the change in no wise will interfere with its well known leisurely habits. The new meeting hour means simply that the senate proposes to proceed in future with even greater delib eration and tardiness than in the past. The Bailey motion was adopted by a viva voce vote and only a few voices were raised in opposition. The sentiment said to be overwhelming in favor of the change. The 2 o'clock meeting means that the senate will not really get down to the business o fthe goernment until 2 o'clock every day. The first hour of each ses sion is devoted to what is called "Morn ing business,” consisting of the filing of reports and the introduction of bills. Aft er "morning taisiness" is out of the way, the senate proceeds to its deliberations. Senator Bailey began the agitation for a meeting hour a couple of years ago. At first there was no sentiment in its favor, but the Texan has persisted, and today won his point. It is explained that the 2 o’clock meeting will enable the sen ators to devote more time to committee work, and to better enjoy their lunch. J. J. COLLINS IS DEAD; WAS COTTON BUYER GREENVILLE. Ala.. May 4—After repeated calls this morning the room at the Wilkinson house here of John J. Coll ip. a cotton buyer for the firm of C. H. Minge & Co., of Mobile, was broken open and Mr. Collins was found dead In bed. Pnysicians gave as the cause of his death, hemmorhage of the brain caused by the wound. Mr. Bol tins’ relatives live in Brooklyn. N. Y.. bls former home, and have been noti fied. He was at one time a member of the Kew York Cotton exchange, and lived in Brookhaven, Mass., before coming here. The body will be taken to his home tn Brooklyn for burial. He was about 42 years of age. Watkins Found Guilty ASHEVILLE. N. C.. May 4.—The jury In the case of F. C Watkins, charged with the killing of John Hill Bunting at Black Moudlain tn August. 19®. yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of man slaughter after being out 19 hours. fldfiil EDUCATION IS URGED BI HOKE SMITH Governor-Elect Makes Inter esting Address to Lowndes School Commissioners (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) I VALDOSTA. Ga.. May 4.-The address of Governor-elect Hoke Smith was a 'feature of the annua] convention of the county school commissioners here te day. He said in part: MR. SMITH’S ADDRESS. j I cannot too strongly urge the possi ibi I i ties for service which thq offices you j fill give. i New and improved methods are daily j being introduced into industrial pur lsuits and city lite. ! Our city schools, supported by local i taxation, are well equipped for efficient work and contribute greatly to the prog ress being made in the cities. I Our rural schools should seek to ac complish the same results for thos® at I work upon the farms, but the task is 'more difficult because the rural schools I depend almost entirely upon contribu tion for their support from the state treasury, and are further handicapped ! by the fact that our rural population is sparse. ’ FARMS UNLIMITED. The ideal school system will not exist i until each county through local taxa tion establishes one system of schools i for the entire county, but this condt ition will come slowly and the task is ■ largely on you to see that progress is | made with the schools a® they now exist, i I wish to make a few practical sug gestions for your consideration. The work of th® rural school cannot be accomplished by mere instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography and history. The children must be taught those things that pertain to rural life that their powers of observation and creation may be stimulated with reference to those things which will be connected with their future. The rural school house and the rural home must be brought closer together. Our rural school teachers must be aroused and filled with a greater desire for accomplishment that they may be able to stir the children and cause them to long for knowledge and for thorough preparation for life. The county school commissioners and the rural teachers must themselves feel the deepest interest in rural life and be ready to acquire and to teach all knowl edge possible with reference to it if they are to be successful workers in rural schools. I commend to the county commlsson ers the necessity for frequent normal school meetings among the teachers. At these meetings not only better meth ods of teaching the ordinary courses of study should be considered, but ALL J PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH RU RAL LIFE SHOULD BE STUDIED. Revolutions are taking place all over the ' wqrld in agricultural methods. ! Those entrusted with the conduct of our rural schools should seek to acquire and to teach ail available knowledge which will improve farm conditions throughout the state. VALUE OF CORN CLUBS. I wish especially to commend to your consideration the value of boys’ corn | clubs and girls’ domestic science clubs. You should intensify the interest of even- teacher under your direction In such .work. I wish every white boy and girl in the rural schools of Georgia would join these clubs. The rural teachers under your direction should encourage and advise the boys and girls in this work. The time taken from the ordinary school work for instruction on these lines will not lessen the proficiency of the children In their regular school studies. On the contrary, it will make them 'realize that the school house is preparing them for life and it will stimu late to higher effort on the part of th® children in the regular school work. I believe that the boys’ acre of cotton or corn and the special work of the girls done at home under the leadership of the rural school teacher will bring better results than any effort at a school gar den immediately around the school house. The use by the rural teacher of STORIES OF GOOD WORK DONE IN FARMING AND OF IMPROVED METHODS AROUND THE HOME, to be read to the boys and girls and studied by them, should prove a great help and I bring the parents closer to school work. I It Is my purpose to recommend to the legislature a Überal appropriation tq/the State CollegZ of Agriculture for exten sion work Among the grown men and women engaged in farming. By the dis tribution of bulletins carrying valuable Information to the grown farmers, im mense good can be accomplished * The rural school teacher should also read and study upon these lines. THE RURAL SCHOOL TEACHER SHOULD BE INFORMED UPON THE PRO GRESS THAT IS BEING MADE IN AGRICULTURE and should introduce a system of reading among the children of the many interesting publications now being made on heme hygiene, on poultry, on cooking, on butter making and on farming generally. It would be admirable while the father is reading at home a bulletin from the State College of Agriculture on com raising for the teacher to read the same bulletin and explain It to th£ child at school, and while the mother is reading at home a bulletin on some subject con nected with her> household responsibili ties for the teacher to read It and explain it to the girls In school. RURAL SCHOOL SUPERVISORS. It is my purpose to recommend the ap pointment of a number of rural school supervisors to aid the state school com missioner. and to assist the county school commissioners in developing the rural schools. My hope is that these rural school su pervisors. if created, may help you in your normal schools to teach the teach ers. May help you to bring the home and the school house close together and in tensify the interest tn that progress which can only come when you make the rural school house U> a large extent the center of pleasure and instruction for parent and child. With knowledge of the great opportuni ty which the soli of Georgia offers to those who cultivate it Intelligently and industriously, with knowledge of the splendid achievements that are being made by the most successful farmers of the state, what a splendid service is open to you when you realize how greatly can be increased the number of th* very successful through the work In the rural school house. IT WILL BRING IN GEORGIA GOOD ROADS. GOOD SCHOOLS, GOOD FARMS, BETTER HOMES. MORE CAPITOL ANNEX IS FAVOUED BY GOVERNOR MW RECOMMEND IT Gov. Brown Believes an An nex as Large as Present Capitol Should Be Built Near Old State House In an Interview Wednesday morning Governor Brown proposed that an an nex to the capitol be built on Capitol avenue or other property, near the cap itol. He has not decided to embody this proposal in his message to the legisla ture, but it is not improbable that he will do so, for he is decided in his be lief that an annex to the capitol is nee-* essary. He thinks that the annex should be about as large as the present capitol building and that, in addition to pro viding offices for state officials, it snould also be used in part for a state museum. The present building, in his opinion, should be retained as offices for the court of appeals and the supreme court, the executive offices, the state treasury, and the departments of the comptroller and the secretary of state. The other departments should be moved into the annex. Governor Brown detailed this plan af ter he had been asked whether he thought, it necessary, for the capitol building to be remodeled inside. It was suggested to him that a movement has already been begun for a state museum. "But we need more than a museum." he answered. “We need an annex. The Jackson residence and about half of the square in which it ia set might be purchased, the buildings cleared off and the annex built there. “1 think it would be well if some ar rangement were made by which the of fice ot the adjutant general, or at least the supplies of this office, abutted on a railroad. In such a case, a sudden movement of troops would not be de layed by the movement of supplies.” He was asked if any legislation has been decided upon that woujd provide for the construction of an annex to the capitol. He said that he doesn’t know of any and that he hasn’t yet outlined his message. He is now deciding upon what recommendations he will put Into this message. As soon as he has made this decisiort* he will begin the writing of it. In addition to recommending an an nex, the governor agreed that improve ment of the capitol is needed. “This budding,” he said, “should be kept in a condition that would comport with the dignity of the state.” Other state officials are very desirous of the offices of the building being done over. Without exception these are dingy and the walls are cracked. In many instances parts of the plastering have fallen. J. Pope Brown, state treasurer, said Wednesday morning: “There seems to be a:t opinion that the people in general take no interest in public , buildings. This is not true. As a rule every individual is interested in public buildings. “A gentleman who was in my office the other day noticeci how the walls have begun to peel. He asked me how the state could permit the capitol ,to fall into such a condition. He remarsed that it looked as though the state were broke. "Lt is a shame that this budding should not be kept in better repair.” WARRING LEGISLIIOHS REACH NO COMPROMISE 'Speaker” of Insurgent Wing of Tennessee House, Will Not Consider One (By Aisociated Preai.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 4.—That no proposition of a compromise between the regulars and fusionists of the Ten nessee legislature had been received here or would be considered was the statement made this morning by "Speak er” Johnsonius, of the "Alabama wing" of the Tennessee legislature, who came here to break a quorum at Nashville. The proposition or suggestion made by Representative William, of Hamilton county, had been heard of, but it was not pleasing to the members here. The tentative plans of the fusionists are to leave for their homes next Wed nesday, the idea being that no mem ber could be arrested and made to attend the legislature after that date, even if it has been decided to continue the leg islature two years, if necessary. The daily sessions here by the fusionists have been discontinued. J. D. MOBLEY IS INJURED IN CATCHING STREET CAR Missed Step of Car and Was Thrown to Ground, Receiv ing Bad Scalp Wound While trying to board a trolley caf at the corner of Whitehall and Alabama streets Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock J. D. Mobley, of 5 Adair avenue, Lake wood Heights, was thrown violently to the ground and painfully though not seriously injured. He was rushed to the Atlanta hospital where it was later sta ted that his only injuries consisted of a bad gash on his head. Bystanders stated that Mr. Mobley tried to board the car after it had start ed and missing the step, was thrown heavily to the ground. He had been in ill health for the past year and it is thought his weak physical condition caused him to miss his grip in trying to catch the car. COMFORT AND GREATER PROSPERI TY FOR THE MASSES OF OUR STATE. It will cause the development of more Individuals of splendid capacity to serve themselves, their families and their lo calities. Let us all determine to realize the value of this service and during the next 12 months to set high our standards and work with unbounded energy, en thusiasm and self-denial to accomplish the best results. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1911. ' S- national Bh 2 * CONGRESS S All ° - Wash ' ngt °x In 3 national® '''' HSr" t P£ ze if CONGRESS ‘ ~ nz -zZ ~ iJlßillH Baltimore HOW II LOOKS TO HIM PEACE ENVOYS MEET IN 200-FDDT ARENA JS CROWD LOOKS ON Roped Off From the Curious .. Throngs, Mexican and Rebel Leaders Begih Their Con ferences to Settle War (By Associated Press.) EL PASO, May to bring about a reign of peace in war torn Mexico begin today. The negotiations probably will progress with great delib eration owing to the fact that Judge Car bajal, the government commissioner, will be compelled to hold frequent consul tations with Mexico City. The commissioners wifi meet in a 200- foot ring, roped and guarded to keep out the curious. Not even General Madero will be permitted to Judge Car bajal and Dr. Vasquez Gomez, the elder Francisco Madero and Senor Suarez, who represent the insurrectos, will' be the sole occupants of the charmed circle. The site of the peace conference was not chosen for the convenience of the newspaper men. It is on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, midway between Juarez and the insurrecto camp. As Gen eral Navarro will not allow the reporters to pass through Juarez, it is necessary to make the trip to the scene of the peace negotiations byway of the food bridge near the El Paso smelter, two miles be yond the meeting place of the conferees which in addition necessitates the retrac ing of two miles more on the Mexican side. Peace May Be Brought To Satisfactory End WASHINGTON, May 4. —According to a telegram from American Ambas sador Wilson, at Mexico City, foreign Minister de la Bara expects peace ar rangements between the federals and insurrectos to be perfected today. In another telegram Mr. Wilson says that the Mexican government expects Independent negotiations in the states of Moreloes and Guerrero. VOTE HAS BEEN DELAYED ON POPULAR ELECTION May Come Up Later Under Head of Unfinished Business WASHINGTON, D. C., - May 4—The house resolution providing ftor the popu lar election of United States senators will not come before the senate until next week. Senator Borah who has charge of the resolution, today yielded to the importunities of its opponents and agreed to a delay in order that they maw draft and file a minority report, setting forth their objections. Senator I Borah will then move to make the reso | lution unfinished business and eventually I his motion will prevail. patentYarFissued TO MANY GEORGIANS WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4 Patents i issued: Samuel B. Adams, Manchester, valve motion; B. Bowers and O. H. Franklin, Canon, cottonseed culler; John G. Hale, Pendergrass, hay press; Lena A. Kent and G. H. Tuttle, Atlanta, dental Instrument, holding and sterilizing bracket table; Otis A. Murphy, Atlanta, hub attaching device. , SHERIFF FRED T. CLARK REPRIMANDED BY JUDGE HAYWARD. Wls.. May 4.—During the trial roday of John Dietz, his wife and son. Leslie, for the alleged slaying of Deputy Oscar Harp, Judge Reid, rep rimanded Sheriff Fred L. Clark for al lowing John Dietz to walk around town last night and permitting him to enter saloon. OHIO LEGISLATURE BRIBERY CHARGES AREJEFORE JURY Forty Members of General Assembly Are Accused of Accepting Money-Organiza zation Officers Summoned (By Associated Press.) COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 2—The Frank lin county grand jury met today to con sider the wholesale charges of bribery, involving about 40 members of the Ohio legislature. The matter was taken before the grand jury instead of a legislative probe committee on the advice of Gov ernor Harmon and others In order to pre vent any accused members from escap ing punishment through the immunity bath. Scores of witnessed have been summoned, and it is said that the jury ma.v make a partial report some time tomorrow. Officers of state organizations interested in legislation before this assembly have been summoned to tell what they know of efforts to hold them up by members. They include officers of such bodies a? the state board of commerce, the Antt- Saloon"' league. th® Personal Liberty league and heads of large corporations. It is reported that at least one head of a state department was solicited for a bribe to expedite the passage of a bill of interest to his department. Attorney General Hogan, After a talk wtih Prosecuting Attorney Turner, said that if there is any need for immu nity baths, they will be given to the person least culpable. RAILWAY STRIKE IS NOW BECOMING WIDESPREAD 300 Additional Employees Go Out in Sympathetic Strike / PITTSBURG, May 4.—The Pennsylvania railway shopmen’s strike is spreading. About 300 men employed in the shops ot the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad joined the movement today and it was said men along the lines between Pittsburg and Alliance (Ohio) would go out some time during the day. Two hun dred men also quit work at the Verona shops on the Cone Maugh branch of the Pittsburg division. The railorad compa ny continued to place new men in the different shops today. No disorder was reported. While the result of the meetings of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors at Pitcairn was kept secret, it was declared at strik ers’ headquarters that the members of the two orders indorsed the strike and promised support, both financial aifS moral. PRESIDENT TAFT~TO~ BE GUEST AT RECEPTION Philadelphia Medical Club Will Entertain in Honor of Chief Executive PHILADELPHIA, May 4.—President Taft will be the guest of honor at, the dinner and reception to be given tonight by the Philadelphia Medical club. The function will be in the nature of a tes timonial of the appreciation of the pro fession for the president’s interest in the science and for the many things he has done to assist the forward move ment of medicine in its fight to con quer disease. There will be no speech es at the dinner, but at the reception which follows addresses will be made by the president, Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell and Dr. W. L. Rodman, of this city. Among the guests invited are Andrew Carnegie and J. D. Rockefeller in recog nition of their efforts in behalf of med icine. SPLIT IS IMMINENT AMONG DEMOCRATS OVER WOOL TARIFF Nine Members of Ways and Means Committee Determin ed to Report Free Raw Wool Duty Bill BY MALPM SMITH. WASHINGTON, May 2.—A situation has developed in the house of represen tatives in connection with the proposal to amend the wool, schedule of the tariff law that may/ cause a serious split In the ranks of the Democratic party in congress. Nine of the 14 Democratic members of the ways and means com mittee are determined to report a wool bill which shall admit the raw product duty free. The five members of the com mittee, who are opposed to raw wool, are led by Chairman Underwood. While Speaker Clark has not, up to date, attempted to dictate to the lead ers of the house membership in matters of legislation, he is taking a lively In terest in the deliberations of the com mittee over the wool bill. He has ex pressed the opinion to members of the committee that the party will make a serious blunder if it passes a bill con taining a free raw wool provision. FEAR LOSS OF STATES. Messrs. Clark and Underwood have pointed out to the majority on the ways and means committee that if the Demo cratic house commits itself to free raw wool, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and oth er wool-growing states, which are now veering toward Democracy, will be lost to the party in the next presidential elec tion. They have argued further that raw wool is a big revenue producer, and that it would be unwise from an economic standpoint to admit the product duty free until measures have been evolved that will furnish revenue to take the place of that now yielded by raw wool. Speaker Clark and Chairman Under wood are very much in earnest In the arguments they have made in this con nection. Up to date the Democrats have worked in harmony on all legislative matters. The wool bill threatens to make trouble. Even if the speaker and ma jority leader, Underwood, induce the ma jority of the ways and means commit tee to approve a bill providing for a duty on raw wool, they will still have another difficulty to overcome. A count of nays has disclosed that a majority of the Democrats in the house favor free raw wool. PERMISSION GRANTED FOR AN INVESTIGATION National Tariff Commission Association Permitted to Make Probe ■ i WASHINGTON, May 4.—ln a letter to John Candler Cobb, president of the National Tariff Commission association. President Taft today granted permission for a committee appointed by that as sociation to make an investigation of the work of the tariff board. This, the president said, was “with a view to seeing in how far the structure of the board and its methods and systems agree with the broad principle of scien tific reconstruction of the tariff mak ing system.” Kills Wife, Shoots Child GAINESVILLE, Ga., May 4—Balus Merck, a negro, about 55 years of age, in a fit of jealousy and crazed from drinking blind tiger liquor for the past several weeks, killed his wife on Summit street in this city last night with a shot gun and then shot his 12-year-old adopted child. He first shot his wife at his home, and she ran to her brother’s house across the street, and he followed her, empty ing his double-barreled shotgun in his wife’s killing her instantly. SHOE IMDUSTBY OF UNITED STATES IS IN WS TOILS' Startling Declaration Made Before Senate Committee on Finance at Beginning of Reciprocity Bill Hearing WASHINGTON. May X—The declara tion tha<t a “trust” grips the entire shoe manufacturing industry of the United States was made today before the sen ate committee on finance which began hearings on the Canadian reciprocity bill. Manufacturers from the middle west told the committee that they were practically at the mercy of the United Shoe Machine company of Boston. It was suggested that a report of the hearings would be transmittfctj to the at torney general. The principal spokesman for the shce manufacturers was William D’Oench, of St. Louis. With him were manufacturer* from St. Louis, Chicago and Grand Rap ids, Mich. An incidental reference to a failure to reduce the duty on brass wl'e used in the manufacture of shoe* led Mr. D’Oench to say that the “trust” made it impossible to buy brass wi e abroad. “Why don’t you buy all your machin ery abroad then?” asked Senator Sim mons, of North Carolina. HIGH MACHINERY DUTY. In reply the shoe manufacturer refer red to the 45 per cent duty which stood in the way. "Would the removal of that duty make shoes cheaper?” asked Senator Simmoti "It would, but I cannot say hew much.” The witness said the royalty charged by the shoe machinery "trust” in less than a year would be sufficient to buy the English machinery outright. Senator Smoot contended that under these cir- | cumstances the duty should not prevent the American manufacturer buying Fil ropean machines. Mr. D’Oench declared that the shoe manufacturers could not get all their machinery in England and to get part of It from the American concern they were required to buy all. I Representative Simmons said that if the report of the hearing were trans mitted to the attorney general it ought to “make trouble for the shoe machine fl trust.” Senator Gallinger said he thought Int ents on machinery would protect the machinery manufacturing company from , the charge of being a “trust.” Senator Bailey asserted they would . not. Mr. D’Oench said the United Shoe Machinery company sold some of its machines in England and that it did not bind the English manufacturers by any such contracts as those in this country. Milton 8. Florsheim told the cpm- s Tnittee that the American manufacturer had been obliged to sign a 17 years’ con tract and that no. other shoe manufac turing company would enter the field because it would not find purchasers. MMEBIS MURDER" SAYS THEODORE ROOSEVELT In Signed Article Dealing With Los Angeles Dynamiting Case NEW YORK, May 4—Theodor#- Roosevelt will have a signed article entitled “Murder is Murder" in ’the Outlook” this week, dealing wlt ? th ® dynamiting of the Los Angeles and the arrests recently made by De- ■ tective Burns. Mr. Roosevelt says in g part: ■'The men responsible for the dyna miting of the Los Angeles Times build ing are responsible not only for the wreck of the newspaper offices, but for the loss of ’many lives. IMPARTIAL SEVERITY. “The arrest was made In consequence of testimony secured by Mr. Burns. who has been Mr. Henry’s right-hand i man in bringing to justice grafters x who violated the law of the United States in Oregon and grafters who vio lated the laws of California in San Francisco. He has proceeded with im- < partial severity against the most in fluential politicians and the rich set business men. It happens that the -nett whom he has now arrested are mem bers of a labor organization; just as; men whom he formerly arrested were I members of the Republican or Demo-(I cratic parties or of great and wealthy corporations. , ' ■ “It would have been a wicked thing • in the former cases with which Mr.' Burns had to do, for leading Repub- ■ Means or Democrats to combine to I break him down and support the ac-; cused merely because the accused be-' longed to their political parties, and it would have been a wicked thing fori -'j capitalists and big business men to make common cause with the capital ists against whom he proceeded nere-. ly because they were capitalists. "Wherever any politician or any cap italist did actually take this position, whether in the case of the men prose- > cuted by Mr. Burns or in any other case, the Outlook unhesitatingly de nounced them. In exactly the Same spirit, I state the convictions of the Outlook in expressing its heartiest re probation of the conduct of those la bor leaders, who, without waiting to know anything of the facts of the case, have at once flown to the defense ot the alleged dynamiters whom Mr. Burns has now arrested and who talk about the arrest as being part of a conspiracy against labor unions. "It is grossly improper to try to create a public opinion in favor of the arrested men simply because the crime of which they are accused is commit- ■ ted against a capitalist or a corpora- . tion and because thef men who are charged with committing it are mem bers of a labor union. This is ar in- | iquity as gross as it would have been if when three years ago the sugar trust was Indicted for swindling op-, erations in the New York custom house the forces of organized capital han been put behind the indicted men on the ground that the attack on capital ists guilty of crime meant an attack ‘ on all capital. “The question of organized labor or organized capital, or of the relatdons ot either with the community at large, has nothing whatever to do with this I , issue. All we are now concerned with ‘ | is the grave and vital question of i - »fact, whether the accused men have ' been guilty of murder. NO. 65.
