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PLAN SCORED
BY TRADESMAN
Well Known Journal Come] Out
Against Warehousing Sckne.
ALSO ATTACKS JORDAN
President of Southern Cotton Assocfetion
Alleged to Be in Hands of Schemed.
A Caloric Arraignment.
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Commenting upon the removal of
the headquarters of the Southern
Cottqn Association from Atlanta to
Birmingham, the Tradesman, (Chatta
nooga), the best known industrial pub
lication south of Baltimore, says that
“Mr. Harvie Jordan has been playitg
Birmingham against Atlanta, and tilts
is so transparent that it is astonish
ing the fact seems to be overlooked
at the Birmingham end. Some oi
the methods which this modern mogu)
of finance uses to exploit his schemes
are so patent on their face they would)
be extremely ridiculous if they were
not so dangerous.”
Commenting upon the warehouse
receipt system recently promulgated
at the Birmingham meeting, in whicn
movement the Farmers’ Union refus
ed to join, the Tradesman, among
other things, says-:
“It does not seem possible, how
ever, for Mr. Jordan to keep out of
the toils of schemers, or to horn In
check those promptings of his inner
consciousness that are so constantly
leading him into the most glaring in
consistencies and paths of danger and
disaster to his blinded followers.
“Just consider for a moment those
policies which he aided in fastening
on the cotton farmers that permitted
the marketing of a large portion of
the crop of 1905 at medium prices and
then playing into the hands of specu
lators for higher prices when the far
mers had parted with their product.
Why, it was one of the most notorious
of these speculators, and the very
chief of ‘hot-air artists’ in America,
who boldly and publicly proclaimed
his admiration of Harvie Jordan, so
much so that he said he had ‘given
him $20,000 for his plan to buy up
cotton for higher prices.’ This was
at the meeting of the Southern Cot
ton Association held in Birmingham
in January last. Does any cotton
farmer know the result of that ‘deal?’
Did any of the profits go into the
treasury of the Southern Cotton As
sociation for which Mr. Jordan was
presumed to be acting? Oh, no —for
that association was so near bankrupt
that Mr. Jordan would not consent to
accept renomination unless it was bet
ter financed.
•‘At this writing he is in Birming
ham for the purpose of establishing
there a great ‘system’ of warehouses
that would have one parent ‘stock’
there with ‘branches’ all over the
south. The cotton of the farmers is
to be stored in these warehouses, ahd
for which they are to be given ‘war
rants,’ or certificates.
“This scheme has been made so
attractive to some of the most promi
nent of his followers that they are
trying to form a great southern cotton
exchange to dea.l in these warrants.
“The Tradesman endorsed in 1905
the only warehouse plan that seeni3
feasible or desirable, and that was
known as the ‘Waco’ plan, and this
is now in successful operation all over
Texas. Under that plan the farmer
needs no one to help him except his
local banker. He puts his co;ton in
his own warehouse, under his own con
trol, and that is the best collateral
he can give for any loans he may
require—better than any kind of a
‘warrant’ —and then he can sell as
suits him and to the manufacturer di
rect if he wishes. That plan is well
established. It is very simple and
very efficient. The Jordan plan can
not improve or supersede it, because
it is not in the real interest of the
farmer, but it is another form for pro
moting gambling, the very thing Mr.
Jordan is fighting.
MIGHTY SWARM'OF IMMIGRANTS.
Month of April to Show Arrival of 140,000
at New York.
How stupendous is the rush of im
migration to the New York port this
spring is shown in a tabulation which
makes its appearance this month that
the arrivals will total more than 140,-
000.
There are waiting in the harbor
10,498 men, women and children, chief
ly Italians. When the twenty-five
ships due within the next few days
arrive there will be waiting in the
harbor and at the piers about forty
thousand immigrants.
PICKPOCKETS WORKED.
Gentry of the Light Fingers Reap id Big
Harvest on Opening Day at the
Jamestown Exposition.
Returns from the operations of
pickpockets during the opening; day oi
the Jamestown exposition are being
received by the Norfolk police. There
are many cases of course which will
never be brought to the attention of
the authorities. The Powhatan Guards
picked up many drunks, and quite a
bunch of suspicious characters.
W. N. Mitchell, a Virginian by
birth, president of the G.orgia com
mission to the exposition and a close
personal friend of President Roose
velt, was relieved of his wallet con
taining SO6, while on a trolley car
en route to the exposition grounds.
So deftly was the work done that
the wallet was not missed until the
owner had occasion to go into it for
some bills while taking in the sights.
R. C. Parks of North Carolina is
making loud, bitter and vindictive
complaints over having purchased
from a stranger, for $2,000, the Cit
izen’s Bank building, on Main street,
the skyscraper of which Norfolk is
so proud. The story of Parks is that
he was standing on the street admir
ing the building when a w'ell-dressed
and most pleasant spoken man ap
proached him with the remark that
he owned the building, which he de
’sired badly to sell because of his urg
ent need for ready money. He s>jd
that he would take $2,000 for the
property. Parks was much interested,
and after being shown through the
corridors offered to give $1,500. The
stranger, however, who gave the name
of H. L. Holmes, declined to accept
this sum. It was arranged that Parks
should pay SBOO down and be accord
ed a long length of time in which
to meet the deferred payments.
Parks, having nearly SI,OOO with him,
peeled the SSOO off his roll, and hand
ed it to the affable stranger, who
made a precipitate retreat. It was not
until several hours later that the
North Carolinian learned that he had
been swindled.
TWO JURYMEN WERE OBSTINATE.
Mistrial in Case of Lyle, Who Murdered
Wife and Baby.
Just after noon Friday aniistrial
was declared in Ware county court
at Waycross, Ga., in the case of H.
E. Lyle, charged with the murder of
his wife and baby, last January.
The foreman of the jury declared
to the judge that ten members of
the jury stood for one verdict, and
two for another, and that the two
members declined to listen to argu
ments in the matter.
The foreman charged the jurors
with having made up their minds be
fore entering the jury box, and claim
ed that they were prejudiced in favor
of the defense.
Judge Parker dismissed the jury,
and declared that court would hold
over until next week, and that Lyle
would then be tried again. Ten jury
men were for hanging Lyle and two
were for lffe imprisonment.
“BIG STICK” GETS THE CREDIT
For Consummation of Peace Treaty Be
tween Central Americans.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua has
given to President Roosevelt person
ally the credit of having brought about
peace in Central America in the fol
lowing telegram:
“Managua, Nicaragua, \&pril 25.
President Roosevelt: Peace signed
day before yesterday (Tuesday) at
Amalapala. I thank your excellency
for your great work toward achieving
that happy end.
“J. S. ZELAY.”
LABOR MEN MAKING HOWL.
Raise Cain Over Teddy's Letter Regarding
Haywood and Moyer.
The indignation of labor men
throughout the country at the reiter
ated expressions of President Roose
velt condemning Moyer, Haywood and
Pettibone was greater Friday than
even immediately after the publica
tion of the president’s views. A strong
statement was male by the executive
committee of the New York Moyer-
Haywood protest conference.
MAMMOTH PIER COLLAPSES.
Eight Workmen Lose Life and Nearly a
Score are Injured.
With a roar that terrified thousands,
and a rush that drove a wave 0 feet
high to distant parts of the harbor
of Baltimore, nearly half of the new
pier under construction at Locust
Point Saturday broke away from the
shore and plunged ffito thevater. Out
of the wreckage three dead bouis3
were soon taken, five men are miss
ing, and their bodies are almost cer
tainly beneath the ruins. Eighteen
men are suffering from injuries.
TEDDY'S TALK
AT JAMESTOWN
Dealt With Concrete History of
America's Ascendancy.
MIGHTY ACHIEVEMENT
Toils and Troubles of First Settlers are
Graphically Described-Makes Plea
for Universal Feace.
President Roosevelt opened his ad
dress at the Jamestown exposition by
extending cordial greetings to the
representatives of foreign countries
present, showing America’s intimate
connection with practically* every na
tion and race on the globe, and also
making a plea for universal peace.
Along this line he said:
“We have met today to celebrate
the opening of the exposition, which
itself commemorates the first perma
nent settlement of men of our stock
in Virginia, the first beginning of
what has since become this mighty
republic.
“Three hundred years ago a handful
of English adventurers, who had
crossed the ocean in what we should
now call coclriebcats, as clumsy as
they were frail, lauded in the great
wooded wilderness, the indian-huunted
waste, which then stretched down to
the water’s edge along the entire At
lantic coast.
“They were not the first men of
European race to settle in what is
now the United States, for there were
already Spanish s: tt.enents in Flor
ida and on the headwaters of the
Rio Grande; and the French, who at
almost the same time were strug
gling up the St. Lawrence, were like
wise destined to form permanent set
tlements on the great lakes and in
the valley of the mighty Mississippi
before the people of English stock
went westward of the Alleghenies.
“Moreover, both the Dutch and the
Swedes were shortly to found colonies
—those that grew up around the Poto
mac, aud those that grew up on what
is now the New England coast. Never
theless, this landing at Jamestown
possesses for us of the United States
an altogether peculiar significance and
this without regard to our several ori
gins.
I he men who landed at Jamestown
and those who, thirteen years later,
landed at Plymouth, all of English
stock, and their fellow-settlers who
during the next few decades streamed
iu after them, were those who took
the lead in shaping the life history
of this people in the colonial and
revolutionary days. It was they who
bemt into definite shape our nation
while it was still young euough most
easily, most readily, to take on the
characteristics which were to become
part of its permanent life habit.
“Yet let us remember that while
this early English colonial stock has
left deeper than all oihers upon our
national life the mark of its strong
twin individualities, the mark of the
Cavalier aud of the Puritan —never-
theless this stock, not only front its
environment, but also from the pres
ence with it of other stocks, almost
from the beginning, began to be dif
ferentiated strongly from an Europe
an people. As I have already said,
about the time the first English set
tlers lauded here, the Frenchman and
the Spaniard, the Swede aud the the
D'ucthman, also came hither as per
manent dwellers, who left their seed
to inherit our national life. The Ger
man, the Irishman, and the Scotch
man came later, but still in colonial
times,
“All through the colonial days new
waves of immigration from time to
time swept hither across the ocean,
now from one country, now from an
other. The same thing has gone
ever since our birth as a nation; and
for the last sixty years the tide of
immigration has been at the full. The
newcomers are soon absorbed it*o
our eager national life, and are rad
ically and profoundly changed there
by, the rapidity of their assimilation
being marvelous. Hut each group of
newcomers, as it adds its blood to til.’
life, also changes it somewhat, and
this change and growth and develop
ment have gone on steadily, genera
tion by generation, throughout three
centuries.”
He dwelt at length on the enormous
nature of the task which the first set
tlers of America faced when they se
foot on our shores. Especially, said
he, was this the case with the plo
ner settlers at Jamestown, who wer<
from the start menaced by famine
pestilence and war. He went on to
show that other portions of America
were not settled until after the James
town pioneers had begun to prosper.
WON'T ENTER SCHEME.
Farmers’ Union Balks at Plans for Ware
housing and Dealing in Cotton.
Too Much Wall Street.
That the Farmers’ Union does not
endorse the movement begun at Bir
mingham, Ala., to organize a plan of
cotton warehouses aud a guarantee
company, is stated emphatically by
J. G. Eubanks, Georgia state busi-
ness agent of tile Farmers’ Union.
President R. F. Duckwortli of the
Georgia division of the Farmers’
Union, endorsed Mr. Eubanks’ state
ments.
“We were invited to this meeting,”
stated Mr. Eubanks, “in order that
we might hear this question discuss
ed. Our Alabama state business agent,
Mr. P. F. Parker, was there, and also
a few other Farmers’ Union repre
sentatives.
“The announcement has gone out,”
continued Mr. Eubanks, “that a plan
was agreed upon at this meeting, and
that it had the endorsement of both
tlie Farmers’ Union and the Southern
Cotton Association. Nothing could be
further from the truth. Alabama State
Agent Parker has already sent out a
denial of the statement published in
an Atlanta paper and making it clear
that the Farmers’ Union has not en
dorsed the plan promulgated.
“I may as well be frank,” said State
Agent Eubanks, “and say that as soon
as we got to Birmingham we found
that the meeting was all cocked and
primed by the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation. The invitation we received
came not from it, but from others, the
Southern Cotton Association evidently
fearing to take the lead in the move
ment on account of its odorous con
nection with Mr. Hoadloy of Wall
street., So we were invited by others,
but we did not take the bait. From
all we could see, one end of the fish
ing pole was in Wall street, and we
have no doubt that Speculator Hoad
ley was eagerly feeling for tremors
at the handle end to see whether or
not the nibblers at the other end of
the line meant business.
“We must make it plain now that
we cannot, and will not, co-operate
with the Southern Cotton Association
as long as it is officered by men as
close to Wall street as are some of
its present head officers. Less than
six months ago Mr. Hoadley in an
interview boldly made the statement
that he was kept constantly in touch
with cotton development in the south
by almost daily communication with
President Harvie Jordan —that Mr.
Jordan let him know ‘just what was
going on.’ That came only a short
while after the time when the South
ern Cotton Association endeavored to
force the Farmers’ Union to make
a stand for 10-cent cotton for last
season. We would not do it, but
made a straightout fight for Jl-ceut
cotton, and largely as the results of
our efforts most of the last years
crop has sold at nearer 11 cents than
10 cents, if we had agreed to 10-cent
cotton, not one bale of cotton in the
south would have brought more than
that figure.
“As to the Birmingham warehouse
movement, a plan was proposed by
this convention to establish a cotton
exchange for handling warehouse re
ceipts, closing contracts on them in
stead of spot cotton. Our plan is for
the Farmers’ Union to deal only in
spot cotton and to sell direct to the
spinner. We are establishing ware
houses throughout the south and at
the present rate of increase it will
not be long before our warehouses
are available to the entire cotton
belt. But we propose to retain the
identity of a bale of cotton from the
gin to the spinner, giving the pro
ducer the benefit to be so derived.
BOARD OF FOOD INSPECTION.
Three Experts are Appointed by Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson.
Secretary Wilson Thursday created
an executive order for the board of
food and drug inspection, whose duty
it shall be to administer the national
pure food laws. The board consists of
Dr. Harvey Wiley,fchief of the bureau
of chemistry, chairman; Frederick L.
Dunlap, associate chemist, and Georgu
it. McCabe, solicitor of the department
of* agriculture.
UNION WAS NIPPED IN BUD.
Atlanta Street Car Mon Fired for At
tempting an Organization.
Another attempt of the street car
conductors and motormen in Atlanta
to organize a union seems to have
been nipped in the bud by the officials
of the Georgia Railway and Electric
company.
Of fifteen men who mot a few
nights ago f.nd organized an associa
tion and decided to apply for a char
ter from the American Federation of
Labor, practically all have beeu dis
charged. *
GATES OF EXP
THROWN OPi
Great Ter-Centennial Show
Jamestown is Inaugurated.
ELABORATE PROGRI
President Roosevelt was at Helm in l||
Feature of Launching of the Enter®
prise—Thousands Present.
With President Roosevelt as 8
guest, and with diplomatic and in
tary olllcials from all of the
important nations of the world in I
tendance, the Jamestown Ter-centß
nial exposition was thrown open*
the public Friday. Every steacE
and every train reaching Nort'fl
brought thousands of visitors. tB
city was decorated as se.dom
and the governor of Virginia
claimed a holiday. The details of tE
program of land and water certnE
nies were carefully • worked out, i kfl
tiio opening was a notanle epoch fj
the history of tidewattr Virginia. !
President Roosevelt, who leu Vvagln
iugton -Thursday afternoon on bofti I
the IVlayilower, arrived orf Fort MorS
roe Friday jnorniug snortly after la
o’clock. Ho immediately proceedefi
'to review the magnilicent fleet of to:||
eign and American warships now a||
anchor in Hampton Roads. -This inffl
posing ceremony and a brief leeduM
uon to tlie flag officers on board th@j
Mayflower ended, the president sell'
out for the shore, landing at the ex®
position at 11 o'clock, lie was driven®
at once to the reviewing stand oni
Lee Parade, a magnificent drill!
grounds, skirted by blossoming as-1
pine blooms, and there delivered thd|
opening and dedicatory address of the!
exposition, which was received amld|
deafening cheers.
President Roosevelt concluded by f
pressing a gold button as a signal for "i
the formal opening of all the finished'!
departments of the enterprise.
The president and his immediate
party then received several hundred
invited guests in the auditorium build
ing. After this function lie was en
tertained at luncheon. He returned to
the reviewing stand during the after
noon to witness tlie land parade of
soldiers and sailors, several compa
nies of the latter being landed from
the foreign vessels. This concluded
the opening ceremonies.
Thursday witnessed the arrival of
tlie most formidable of the visiting
warship squadron. The Austrian ships
Uankt George and Asberu, and the
British cruiser squadron, composed of
the Good Hope, the Argyll, the Hamp
shire and the Koxborough passed In
tbe capes within a few hours of each
other. With saluting cannon and dip
ping flags they cruised slowly up
Hampton Roads. The flagship Con
necicut of the American fleet ex
changed salutes with the Bankt
George and the Good Hope, and later
Admiral Sir George Nuville of the
British squadron and Commodore Her
mann Prescott of the Austrian squad
ron put out In pm all boats to visit
Rear Admiral Robloy 1). Evans on
the Connecieut. They were warmly
welcomed and had hardly gone over
the side to return to their own flag
ships when the American commander
was in his launch returning the ofli
cial call of courtesy.
The arrival of the Britons and Aus
trians, who had been preceded two
days by tlie German squadron and
the Argentine ship Sarmiento, lent
immeasurably to the attractiveness of
the naval display arranged for the
opening day of the exposition.
The steamer Jamestown from Wash
ington, bearing the congressional del
egation to tlie exposition, arrived at
Old Point Comfort Thursday night.
The steamer Newport News, with the
diplomats and naval and military at
taches of the foreign embassies and
legations on board, arrived early Fri
day disembarked her
distinguished passengers at the expo
sition grounds +
HEAVY SHORTAGE REVEALED.
Manager of Electric Machine and Power
Company Alleged Embezzler.
A shortage of about $112,000 in the
accouuts of tho Woonsocket Electric
Machine and Power company at
Woonsocket, R. 1., was revealed on
Thursday by the issuance to the stock
holders of the company of a circu
lar letter announcing that a heavy
shortage had been discovered. The
letter further stated that the resig
nation of Levi Cook Lincoln, secreta
ry-treasurer and general manager of
the company, had been accepted.