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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. I j 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.