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Tuesday, July 10, 1907
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
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rrrnnT Tft Tlinil nnillll of ‘he bin as passed by the Senate! If State prohibition is bound to
III llli I III III |v M II || Mf N temperance committee, on the part of j
practicing of H«\SK*£S£
feature which prohibits the purchase, priatiors. With a loss of $250,0.00 a
of alcohol for medicinal purposes ex- year from this source, and with the
cept upon the certificate of a physi- ' State treasury now $250,000 behind, it
clan Iri actual attendance on the case, j will be necessary to retrench to the
■ In many instances, it is claimed that j extent of half a million dollars. This
There la nn Interesting bit of eossln i th,s w,!1 prove to ° severe - But the cannot all be cut off special appro-
o whiM? ana _ jV prohibition element Is not worried on priations. Pensions and schools will
ick of a motion which was made in K
UNCLE QBE STEVENS
NTERESTINB GOSSIP
FROM NATION’S CAPITOL
JOHN C. SPOONER
By SAVOYARD.
3 (Tice
, Dav,fe . supported 1>y 'the Meck-
lenourgerrf who had so boldly thrown [ back
Kauntlet to King George and ! ttie House of RepresentaUv
roe to . j! 1 * r0 » al Cover- er day by Mr. Alexander. _
r, mriae a stand behind the same log i inokinr to immediate action vh a* ...... . . . , .... . . . ,
court house in which th«* npriir'itlon 1 u. *_ OMt i, Ar The prohibition element has elimi-ia million Income gone, the States
° nd w,th » tood three j provides that the comptro'ller genera* [*® te<3 a ^?? U *Lf^ich wL 22SS*!2i £35*“ mUSt ** CUt accord ‘
‘he '“e ‘ a/L^ralor to^epresem toe Stalin j the ordinal bill. But’thl. has ft'is a question that involves many
and On retired in good order. 1 the matter of tax P assessments upon now been cut out - and the father may interesting features, and the last of it
It Is not within the bounds of proba- j corporation property up0n sell his grapes, but not the product of j will not by any means be heard, with
biIity that John VfrKnltt AUvon^Ar I nrviii A ry A «.. »<% i a » ♦'/.« , them.
WASHINGTON. July 12.—In
‘ mitted to the bar. They have an
I I in Wisconsin'and the father ha* en-
I When this man resigned from the j tered it to give his aid. Another son
the'United States Senate he left a big; is of a poetic and artistic tempera-
question for the time being has prac
tically ceased to hold tt\e center ot
the stage. Secretary Taft is away on
his vacation. Vice-President Fair
banks Is "swinging around the circle’
■the final passage of the bill.
‘ ha ‘ J°hn McKnitt Alexander | While the House refused to let the j
on 11 hav * fabricated *nd palmed off j bill be read a second time as It was '
«* $£££"*?? SJJr?SSXVS COMMERCE OF UNITED STATES
cu- Declaration or Independence. 'the manure had boon referred. to make Wimill.llVi. V> W IVIIB.W h# I n X bi.
IS STEADILY ON THE INCREASE
the measure had been referred, to make
. I an early report upon It.
1 i-erc is1 m disposition to minimize There could bo only one reason for
r evade the analytical discussion as haste in the passage of a measure^
klmllartty of phrases in the this kind, and that Is a desire for its
, t , i nf>ur * Declaration with some application to the tax arbitrations up-
yV eraon * papPr: ‘he contention on corporation property now about to
c ni c.overnor Martin's rcferencels can be held. These arbitrations are Just
'■ shown to relate to the May 31st getting under way and it will not be
*' j nd ,h t fact ,hat * he an 1 * 86 - ! possible to dispose of all of them per-
fiuent conduct of the Mecklenburgers | haps for two or three months.
• as not always consistent with the ; it Is well-known that Railroad Com-
sentlments of the Declaration. missioner O. B. Stevens has already
Briefly taking these up. the last been chosen- as the State's arbitrator
mentioned first In order, the writer
Is frank to say that the Declaration
was premature and did not -receive
wide acceptance. The Mecklenburgers
could only speak for themselves, and
When their sentiments were coldly re
ceived and disparaged at Philadelphia
and later disregarded In the' councils
of the North Carolina colonial assem
bly, it Is possible that those who had
subscribed to the Declaration In the
patriotic fervor of the moment did not
faithfully adhere to Its terms.
The abstraction bv Minister Steven
son from the British rolls office of
the paper enclosed by Governor Mar-
t ‘Ip to Dartmouth will always leave
some doubt In the mind of the student
Ps to what that piper was. And
whether it was the May 31st Resolves
or not, it does not follow that the
Mecklenburgers held only one meeting
and acted on and promulgated only
one paper In May, 1775. On tho con
trary. the May 31st Resolves standln'g
by themselves are -like the armless
\ enus of Milo. They are a fragment
and. like the mutilated masterpiece,
unmistakably Indicate that something
is missing from the plan of the de
signer. As a plan of provisional Gov
ernment formulated hy "the commit
tee.'* they show that the people
in convention had taken, or were con
templating taking, some radical ac
tion. What the nature of that action
was we must be pardoned If we In
sist on accepting from the testimony
of Governor Martin, n contemporary
whose business it wiy, to know what
the people of North Carolina and
every part of it were doing in 177. r .,
rather than accept It from the deduc
tions of a scholar of today, no matter
how learned, as made from some frag
ments of printed matter and Imper
fect records of a people who did not
print their doings or preserve any
systematic record of them. Governor
Martin reported to Dartmouth in June.
1775, the "treasonable publication'' of
the Mecklenburgers who he proposed
to punish when he recovered the "lost
authority of Government." and In Au
gust. 1775, more than two months
after the convention, he issued a trroc-
lnmnllon denouncing them for “most
traitorously declaring the entire dis
solution of the laws. Government and
Constitution of this country.” It Is
absurd to suppose that the printed
copy of the May 31st resolves as we
know them, was the only information
as to the conduct of the Meeklenhurg-
ers Governor Martin had In all that
time and the only basis for his con
tinued anger and denunciations of
Ihem.
And finally as to the similarity of
phrases. In all great epochs in his
tory and In human affairs the spirit,
^the sentiments, and the opinions of
the people have crystallized Into cer
tain popular phrases commonly em
ployed and repeated among the people.
We will find It so today In the de
nunciations of "predatory wealth” and
kindred expressions. Tt will he found
to have been the case prior to our
great Civil War hy any one who will
examine the flies of tho papers at that
reriod, and It was doubtless so in the
Revolution period. Jefferson's immor
tal paper did not all originate within
and of himself. He spake for all the
American people: he breathed t.heir
spirit and In many ir»stnnees used
language that had been coined out of
the conditions of the time and was
current among the people.
Reverting then to (he nroposltion
that John McKnitt Alexander's state
ment is "the kevsfone of the fabric of
the May 20 Declaration.” wo find this
kevsfone upheld and supported by cor-
••ohorativc evidence of the most sur
prising and conclusive nature, that
developed long after John McKnitt
Alexander had been gathered to his
fathers, ft was buttressed by Gover
nor Martin In Mo denunciation of the
treason committed hy the Mecklen-
hurgers In May 1775: It was support
ed by the testimony of a whole raft
of eye-witnesses. Including Gen. Jo
seph Graham, who
In several of these cases, and on ac
count of the fact that he Is a,new
man on the commission, one who has
not engaged In such arbitrations here
tofore. there Is strong probability un
der the present law. that he will be
chosen to represent the State in all of
them, unless Mr. Alexander's bill be
comes a law In time to prevent it.
It Is openly talked about the capitol
that. the fact that Mr. Stevens was
not altogether In hearty political ac
cord with the administration, prior to
the action of tho party in the primary
election has given rise to a desire orv
the part of friends of the administra
tion to eliminate him as a factor in
passing upon these tax assessments.
If this bill "an be passed promptly
the elimination process will be possi
ble; otherwise he will continue to serv£
as the Iqw provides only for the ap
pointment of a railroad commissioner
in such cases.
Nevertheless Commission Stevens in
the work already done, has evinced a
desire and an intention to stand
squarely up to to the comptroller gen
eral's assessments, unless it can be
positively shown thev are based on
erroneous facts. In fact he has In
formed the comptroller general that
this is his determination.
AS SHOWN BY THE PRINCIPAL 1 coast ports. In imports the gain by
PORTS AND SECTIONS, 1907. ! the southern, western and northern
border ports over those on the Atlantic
WASHINGTON, July 13.—Ports on I f ron t, while not so strongly marked, is
the southern, western and northern j ... ,, , „
borders of the United States are stead- : d “* to ,£/o r 1J nr tfhfnh
»y increasing their share In both the
import and export trade, while, con
TO MAKE LEGAL GRADES
OF COTTON SEED MEAL
ATLANTA, Ga.. July 13.—The com
mittee on general agriculture in the
House, of which L. H. O. Martin, of
Elbert, is chairman, has amended the
McMIdiael bill in regard to the grad
ing of cotton-seed meal into three
classes of "High.” "Standard” and
"Low,” and stamping the grades
plainly on the sacks or tags, and rec
ommended its passage by the House.
It Is on account of grading that
Commissioner of Agriculture T. G.
Hudson recently came down upon sev
enteen cotton oil mills in the Sta'te
for selling meal which he claimed was
below the former standard as defined
by analysis of the State chemist. It
was to correct this evi! and protect
both file farmer and manufacturer
that the McMichael bill was framed.
By its terms, instead of there being
only one grade of this general fertil
izer, there are to ho three under the
names designated above. The first of
these is to contain S per cent of am
monia, which is equivalent to 6.60 per
rent of nitrogen: the second or lower
grade, which was formerly the high
est grade, is to contain 7% per cent
of ammonia, or 6.18 per cent nitro
gen, while nil below this grade is to be
known as low grade and sold as such.
In speaking the bill Commissioner
Hudson said: "X am heartily In f;v
vor of the measure and think that un
der'its terms all former unpleasant
ness will be eliminated. With the
three grades and ail properly stamped,
the farmer will know exactly what he
is buying when he makes his pur
chases. and the manufacturer will
make a pleased customer by telling
him exactly what grade of goods he is
selling him at tho time.”
School Fund And
Pensions to Be Cut
versely, the percentage of the trade
passing through ports on the Atlantic
seaboard is decreasing. In 15s97. 82 Vi
per cent of the ipiports into the United
States entered through Atlantic ports,
while in 1907 the share entering
through those ports will be about 80
per cent. In 1897 about 69 per cent of
tho exports passed but of the country
Atlantic ports, while the figures of 190"
will show but about 57 per cent of the
exports of the country through those
ports. These figures are bdsed upon
the records of the imports and exports
by ports for the eleven months ending
with May, as shown by the official re
port of the Bureau of Statistics of the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
Comparing the figure* of 1907 with
those of 1906 (the figures for the clos
ing month of the present year being an
estimate based upon the known record
for the month of May), Atlantic ports
show an increase of but 17 per cent
in imports, as compared with the im
mediately preceding year; Gulf ports
show an Increase of 18 per cent, Mexi
can border ports an Increase of 6 per
cent. Pacific ports an increase of 40
per .cent, the northern border ports an
increase of 12 per cent, and in the in
terior ports an increase of 20 per cent.
In exports Atlantic ports show an in
crease of but 1 per cent. Gulf ports an
increase of 30 per cent. Mexican 'border
ports an Increase of 17 per cent, north
ern border and lake ports an increase
of 12 per cent, and interior ports an
increase of 24 per cent, this reduction
in exports through Pacific coast ports
being chiefly in exports to Asia, which
fell in 1907 about 14 million dollars
below those of 1906.
A more accurate view of the trend
of the import and export trade is ob
tained by extending the comparisons
over a longer period of time. Com
paring conditions in 1907 with those of
1897, the gain in imports is apportioned
about as follows: Atlantic ports, 79
per cent: Gulf ports, 220 per cent; Pa
cific ports. 111 per cent; Mexican bor
der ports. 337 per cent; northern bor
der and lake ports, 118 per cent; inte
rior ports, 180 per cent: and for the
country as a whole. 90 per cent. In
exports the relative increases are as
follows: Atlantic ports, 46 per cent;
Gulf ports. 163 per cent: Pacific ports,
56 per cent: Mexican border ports, 19.3
per cent: northern border and lake
ports. 211 per cent; and for the United
States as a whole, about 80 per cent.
Taking up the principal ports and
comparing conditions in , 1907 with
those of 1897. imports through Boston
through the Pacific ports, and the in
crease in movements from Mexico and
Central America at the south and Can
ada at the north of material for use in
the manufacturing establishments of
the United States. 1 '
A summarization of the year’s busi
ness shows that less than a dozen cus
toms districts are credited with five-
sixths of the entire foreign commerce
of the United States. Stated in the
order of magnitude they are approxi
mately as follows: New York, 1.4S0
millian dollars; Galveston, 251 mil
lions: Boston* 230 millions; New Or
leans. 217 millions; Philadelphia. 174
millions; Baltimore, 145 millions: San
Francisco, 90 millions: Puget Sound,
68 millions; Savannah, 66 millions
Mobile. 28 millions, and Chicago, ,25
million's. Considering imports and ex
ports separately, the leading ports are
in imports: New York, Boston, Phila
delphia, San Francisco, New Orleans
and Baltimore; and in exports, New
York, Galveston. New Orleans, Balti
more Boston. Philadelphia. 'Savannah,
Puget Sound, Detroit, San Francisco
and Buffalo.
Detailed information as to the trade
of the various ports by principal arti
cles during the tf-ear just ended is not
yet available, but the character of that
business may be ascertained, approxi
mately, by reference to figures for the
year 1906. For that year New York
was credited with about one-third of
the total exports of the country, iron
and steel (8 million dollars), meats (70
millions), copper ingots and bars (45
millions), mineral oils (45 millions),
cotton (30 millions), being the leading
items in a list of articles including
practically every branch of our export
trade. At Boston the principal exports
are meats (27 million dollars), cattle
(10 millions), and lard (6 millions).
At Baltimore, cattle (5 million dollars),
corn (13 millions), wheat and flour (8
millions), cotton (9 millions), copper
ingots and bars (27 millions), manu
factures of iron and steel (7% mil
lions), lard (7 millions), and leaf to
bacco (8 millions) are the leading ar
ticles of exportation. The chief com
modities exported at the Port 'of Phil
adelphia are mineral oils (20 millions),
breadstuffs (17 millions), and meats (6
millions). At Savannah cotton con
stitutes the most important item of ex
portation. At Galveston; the principal
cotton port of the country, while cotton
(137 million dollars) is the leading ar
ticle exported, breadstuffs (12 millions)
and cotton-seed oil cake (5 millions)
are items of increasing importance.
New Orleans is second to Galveston as
hour” without Spooner will appear I that Spooner is now a corporatioh law-
strange, and work on the “calendar" i yer. If by that they mean a man
without Spooner will cost the Treasury , learned in the profession and a help to
a pretty penny. In my time at this j the court in tho administration of jus-
CapitaU now approaching thirty years, itice. they are exactly right. But that
• _ .c. rvr Ae * . j r>i,Vf5«fr j- Vile now Bpproacning imr*.
sr>are momen4‘ 1 <f a %dn P t waitresses : John C ' s P°° ner was the best “watch is not what they rtlean
T^,'>r'o S ^ S i d °S” of the whole lot, and made the insinuate that Spooner will lend him-
".J ?n nna 1 least noise of any of them. He was self to corporations to oppress the
“L.L gnnr "fn L AInl 'f! Indispensable when big bills were be-j people. Why did he leave the Senate?
fore the Senate; he was ever present! If that is his game, he could
have
Senator Knox also is absent from the
Capital. It may have _been the fact an< j €ver vigilant when little bills were learned millions in that body. Many
sntniinna considered. Charles Sumner had su- was the day that his absence from the
S t m v n t P erIat, V‘ contempt for little things. It sitting would have been worth largo
Leslie M. Shaw, former Secretary of took what he conceived to be "a great ...
moral idea” to i^ut him in action. The
"morning hour" filled him with ennui;
the "calendar” was his special aver
sion. Andy Johnson classed him
the Treasury, to make a mysterious
visit to Washington this week. Mr.
Shaw, who has Presidential aspira
tions of his own, is now president of
lief that Mr. Shaw was not neglecting
his fences even if 'business duties did
press.
the Carnegie Trust Company of New am the / reat men " who a ' ln . t flt for
York, although he declares he still ; not hin" ”
claims his legal residence in Iowa. He j s ' poo s nel ; did not want to leave the
is in splendid health, and denied vo- ( Senate. He loved the work, and he
ciferousiy that he was here for polit- knew he u - as m for the work. Never
ical purposes declaring his visit was an OI tfcat Iabored harder thnn he .
purely one of business However. never a blic man more faithfu i to
there were a number of mysterious his trUBt H e gave his best years to
country in the field and in the
council, and when three-score years
and four had passed over his head he
left the Senate a poorer man than when
he entered It, either in 1S85 or 1S97,
and set about to make an estate to
keep his children In comfort after he
shall be gathered to his fathers. He
had gained the applause of many good
men. He had-commanded the applause
even of churls, who would sooner have
condemned him, and did backbite him.
But when history with Rhadamanthian
pen shall make the roll of great Sen
ators. high on the list will be the name
of John C. Spooner.
Thirty-eight candidates for consular
positions took oral examinations this
week in the rooms of the Third As
sistant Secretary of State in the State
Department. These oral examinations
lasted one day, and written tests were
made on two succeeding days. The
determination of the department to
have none but competeent men repre'
sent the United States abroad has led
to the fixing of the percentage re
quired to pass at 80, ten points higher
than that usually exacted in competi
tive examinations for positions under
the Government.
It is likely that the Navy Depart
ment' wili have a war vessel present
at Put-In-Bay on August 5, when the
Victory monument, commemorative of
the battle of Lake Erie, is to be un
veiled. Congressman Burton, of Ohio,
consulted this week with Acting Sec
retary Newberry, and white no decis
ion was arrived at, It is said that in
all probability the gunboat Wolverine,
now on special recruiting service on
the Great Lakes, will be sent there on
the date named. There will be an
other attraction in the person of Vice-
President Fairbanks, who has ac
cepted an invitation to deliver the
principal address.
lion,; wMl, S IhSSh toot pSn SSL'??.? t! 0 ' 1 ’: .«!«««•«« 011 «**?•
show little if any gain in the decade,
ATLANTA, July 13.—There Is
use hoping against hope—that Is If
you are on the lo#il option side of the
fence—for prohibition In Georgia is
practically an assured fact. There is
no stopping It; its ardent advocates
won’t even hear to delay.
When Joe Hall, of Bibb, a well-
a boy had lis- [ known local optionist. admitted the
tetied to the arguments of the speak- I S‘»‘ e prohibition bill had 125 votes in
ers nnd as a man. five wars later, led - ‘ be House, and possibly 150, there was
the Mecklenburg contingent, when. | no uaft ‘ n carrying hope any further,
with Gen. Davie, they held the British ] The Iocn I optlonlsts may as well settle
army at bay, a skirmish in which the | down upon the conclusion that they
former vonrg officer was severely have got to take their medicine and
wounded ar.d nojfrlv lost his life: It make the best of It.
was signally substantiated In the" tes- i Georgians from other parts of the
tlmonv of riant. Jack, who made theiS‘"‘ e who had not been In Atlanta
:rin to Philadelphia and stopped »t until the last few days, would not be-
Ralisbury. In Rowan County where jllcve the reports sent out. Indicating
the court which was in session IU(- j that State prohibition was practically
pended proceedings in order to hear an assured fact But when they came
the d'.'Uinenf r ad: ar I. finally, i: here, many of them to go before the
was borne iut in the nmin point hy I Senate temperance committee and
the Vav 31st Resolves !■> which t : present their protest, amounting to no
‘■J-, pudlntor* of the Declaration shifted ! more than a mere formality, they gave
r’leir ground and pinned their faith ! I‘ «P and went back home satisfied
after the historical records and other ‘hat the "goose was cooked.”
developments so signally stampeded i Never has such eagerness been dis-
them from their first ground. played to get a piece of legislation
E— - . ■ j through as in this instance. Every-
Sleeping Cars and a Cent a Mile. thing else must give way to It. and it
New Jersey Is now ready to adopt j is tha ‘ little elsC wlll be done
««»•-.» -«»».. err T,. bii ur.. is
rrs t buffet, and even freight cars on Governor.
her trolley system, which means that ! The House !s not waiting on the
New York City Is to have an entirely ! Senate. The House temperance com-
j*»w service—one that will’ bring more . mittoe has already gone to work on
than hnlf of New Jersey within ^ Covington bill, which will be made
•h” reach of hundreds of thousands to I ? ad exac ‘Iy like the Hardman bill
i i. v,. never !"fore dared hope for 1 in the Senate, and favorable report
country homes near the great metrop- U P°" “ r® no doubt be made before
o \l From Now York to Philadelphia ; tllp Senate bill Is sent over. This will
I return bv trollev occupies ten I save at least two or three days in the
eosti *wo dollars or a passage of the measure, and that Is
fraction ovor a cent a mile. This rato U u9t what th * Prohibition element is
. ivibly b.- lowered when the | ‘ryln* to do. The quicker the better.
...c', cars are In operation from ;,s their motto, and It may as well be
n street and Herald square to theEdone for little other business will be
• ),„ii in Philadelphia. At present transacted until this question has been
the figures for 1907 'being about the
same as those for 1S97. when the total
was 101 millions. Imports through the
port of New York increased from 481
million dollars in 1897 to 858 millions
in 1907, a gain of 377 millions, while
exports through that port increased
from 392 millions to 616 millions, a
gain of 224 .millions, Philadelphia
shows an increase from 48 millions to
80 millions, or a gain of 94 millions in
the year just ended. At -Baltimore im
ports increased from a little over 11
millions in 1897 to approximately 39
millions in 1907, and exports grew from
86 millions to something over 100 mil
lions in 1907. At Newport News im
ports Increased from a little over 1
million dollars in 1897 to about 3 mil
lions in 1907. while exports decreased
from 22 millions in 1897 to about 14>4
millions in 1907. Savannah shows aii
increase of about 2 millions In imports
and 40 millions in exports, imports President Said to Favor Governor of
having been less than' a half million i N ew York For Vice-President,
dollars in 1S97 and considerably over ! Washington Dispatch in N. Y. Times.
2 millions in 1907. and exports 23 mil- H bas become known within tue last
lions in 1897 and over 63 millions In j da >* or f ' v0 to f ome close friends of
the fiscal year just ended. the administration that Mr. Roosevelt
On the Gulf the principal ports are. | would be pleased to see Governor
stated in the order of their import and ! Hughes nominated for the Vice-Presi-
cotton-seed oil, and leaf tobacco supply
the bulk of remaining exports from
New Orleans, their values ranging
downward in the order named from 10
millions to 3 millions. At San Fran
cisco cotton cloth (8 million dollars),
iron and steel (4 millions), fruits (2%
m'lllons): and wheat and'flour, canned
salmon, fruits and cotton (each about
2 millions) constitute the principal ex
ports. At Puget Sound the leading ex
ports are cotton cloths (10 millions),
wheat (6 millions), flour (7 millions),
and cotton, iron and steel manufac
tures. and copper, each about 4 mil
lions.
If figures gathered by the Depart
ment af Agriculture are dependable,
there will be smaller loaves this year.
According to reports. England, France
and Germany are facing short crops,
and the world’s wheat yied will be
about 300.000,000 bushels undir nor
mal. This condition is serious when
the famines scourging Russia and
China are considered. In strange coh-
trast looms up the crop prosperity of
Canada, particularly the new. western
part. All reports received dwell upon
the great acreage under cultivation
and the excellent condition of the
wheat. In a statement just received
here, which was issued by Frank O.
Fowler, of Winnipeg, secretary of the
Northwest Grain Dealers’ Association,
it is shown that between five and six
million acres are producing wheat in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta,
and that barley and flax show an in
crease in acreage under cultivation of
10 and 12 per cent, respectively.
Hughes for the
Second Place
Iowa livestock shippers have filed
charges that certain Western roads
are exacting excessive and discrimi
natory rates from breeders of eastern
Iowa. The charges were laid before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
by the Grain Belt Meat Producers*
Association of that State. It is alleged
that shippers of Iowa are compelled
to pay $17.80 per car more than other
shippers. The complaint is leveled
against the Burlington, the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul, and other
Western and Northwestern lines. A
hearing has not been had upon the
matter.
sums to special interests: but it is
doubtful if there ever was a Senato;
more regularly in attendance, and It
is certain that, for his length of ser
vice, no other Senator ever knocked Ki
the head so many jobs on the private
calendar. There were' other Senators
as honest as he—plenty of them—but
love of detail Is a gift that few men
have to the degree that Spooner has
it. There was no real duty of a Sen
ator that he did not love, that he was
not master *>f, and that he did not
constantly discharge.
The town of Lawrenceburg, in the
State of Indiana, is within a stone’s
toss of Kentucky, and Kentucky was a
slave State. Spooner was born at
Lawrenceburg in 1843, and his father,
of Puritan stock, concluded that Law
renceburg was too close to barbarim
for him to bring a family tip in that
community; so he moved to Wisconsin
in 1859. a State then in judicial re
bellion against the United States on ac
count of the fugitive slave law and the
Dred Scott decision, both of which
Wisconsin nullified on the advice of
Carl Sctuirz. Like everything else in
this country, nullification was a local
question—treason at the South and pa
triotism at the North.
Spooner went to the big war as
private and returned a captain. He
saw arduous service and he saw dan
gerous service. He was brevetted ma
jor for gallant conduct. When peace
came he was made private secretary
to Governor Fairchild, and in 1867 he
was called to the bar. He had a supe
rior legal mind, and he was industrious
and loved the profession. In a little
while his practice was ample, and he
was a rising lawyer. He was a mem
ber of the Legislature in 1872, and held
other positions of trust by appoint
ment
export trade in 1907, Galveston, New
Orleans. Mobile and Pensacola. At
Galveston imports increased from less
than 1 million dollars in 1897 to 7 mil
lions in 1907. while exports increased
from 5S millions to 244 millions. At
New Orleans imports increased from
16 2-3 millions in 1897 to about 46
millions in 1907. while exports in
creased from 101 millions to 171 mil
lions. At Mobile the principal business
is In exports, which have grown from
10 millions in 1897 to about 24 millions
in 1907.
On the Pacific coast. San Francisco
shows an increase of 22 millions in Im
ports and a decrease of 6 millions in
exports, imports having advanced from
dency next year, with Secretary Taft,
of course at the head of the ticket. The
Pres'dent’s preference for Mr. Taft for
the higher office is well known, but
hitherto he has not definitely expressed
his opinion about the tail of the ticket.
The President, it is understood, con
siders Mr. Taft’s nomination pretty
well assured now. and while he has
given no indication of any intention to
enforce his views about the Vice-Pres
idential nomination, he has his prefer
ences and has not kept them to 'him
self.
Mr. Taft's nomination will naturally
call for an Eastern man on the ticket,
as he comes from Ohio, and it is .cus
tomary to-let New York represent the
I millions in 1S97 to 56 millions in | Fast in such cases. Mr. Hughes is the
1907. and exports having receded from on b' available public man iji New York
nearly 40 millions in 1S97 to about 33 "' bo would not be regarded as a “reac-
miHlons in 1967. At Puget Sound im- tionary." The Administration does not
nort- increased from 7 million dollars | want to have the ticket made up of
in 1S97 to a'bout 25 millions in 1907. n ' reactionary and reformer in^ equal
gain of IS millions, while exports ad- parts. Governor Hughes’ forcing of the
vanced meantime from less than 12 ' public service bill and of other reform
millions to approximately 43 millions, a 1 measures have placed him, in the Ad-
galn of about 30 million dollars. It is ! ministration view, in alignment with
proper to add that the figures for these ! ‘he tendency of the preseent day, and
Pacific coast ports do not indicate all t he is the only New York Republican
of the actual commerce at those points,
because of the fact that the trade with
Hawaii, which was included in the
foreign trade figures of 1897. t« not in
cluded in these of 1907. that Territory
having become in 1990 a customs dis
trict of the United States. A large
S’bare of our trade with Hawaii (ag
gregating in shiDmcnts therefrom
about 2S4= million dollars and in ship
ments thereto about 14 millions) enters
or leaves the country- through Pacific
coast norts. and
of whom this can be "aid who would
be considered .for a Vice-Presidential
nomination. Aside from this. Mr.
Hughes’ qualities as a vote-getter have
been shown, and it is gravelv doubted
w'-ether any- other New York Repub
lican can get very many in the nresent
condition of public sentiment in that
State.
P.
disposed of.
It Is possible that the bill will be
held up in the House longer than in
the Senate, because there are more op
portunities In the lower House for fili
bustering. a method of procedure to
yvhich President Akin of the Senate is
not partial, as he has already shown
in dealing with Senator T. S. Felder,
whom he twice ordered to vacate the
11 -enn Grove and beyond.’ .floor when the Senator from the twen-
•i - will also be e'xcndcd to jt'y-serond was indulging in evident
:ird Cape May. In .fact, dilatory tactics. Over in the House it
is becoming grldlroned VltJ» fcld*somewhat-different.-.the rules are
j'i. - and with the pro: ’
is 1 , pleasant trip is by trolley to
n, fnre SO cents, and down the
ire river by steamer to the City
jthhrly Love. From Philadel-
r> Atlantic City the through di-
no of railway hns been oleetri-
i that New York to Atlantic
v trolley- Is already a possibility
lll.adelnhin. From Jersey City
I S , direct trolley line to As-
Ob'ested to China.
Late one afternoon I heard a scratch
his fart should be I ,n " at the door, and on opening it
taken into; copsi<temtion In determin- j found myself looking into the friendly
ing general conditions in that section j brown eves of c. half grown Irish ter-
of the country. San Francisco has. in I r ' e ~ which, without waiting for an
fact, increased .her receipts of mer- J invitation, trotted in. says a corres-
chandlse from Hawaii from 19 million : nordeot '-he Chicago Tribune. ' TVe
dollars In U97 to about 16 millions in ! decided it was too late to find his own-
1907. and her shipments thereto from; er ‘ ba ‘ night, and gave him some sup-
4 millions to 11 million', while Pueet I supper on a china plate. He looked
Sound, whose receipts of merchandise j Pleased but puzzled, and did not touch
from Hawaii are inconsiderable, shows ! It. Thinking our observation perhaps
a marked growth in shipments to that ; embarrassed him we withdrew, but
territory, the gain having been from a ; nresent'v he followed us. carrying in
quarter million dollars in 1S97 to lk ibis mouth the tin cover of a can. which
millions in 1997. ' 'he laid in my Ian Then he pulled at
This drift of the foreign trade away j my dress so persistently that I at last
from the Atlantic ports and toward the :r °sp and Jot him lead me back to the
port« on the southern, western and kitchen. I was still holding the tin
northern borders occurs more large.lv cover. He lumped up. knocked it out
th<
but thar
3 by the
T before
ant .Terse
• Phil-"'
t and there are more members | in exports than in imports, and is due j of my hand and placed it beside the
Western system, who" who may want to speak. Hence the in part to the fact that a much larger china nlate. As I made no further
>,\ next summer the- prospect i* the passage of the bill may share of the grain and cotton exported move he took a piece of meat from the
roll into th ir be delayed, but only with vain hope, now find' its way <o Europe via the china plate and put it in the tin cover.
S i" re. to be aw k- The prohibition element Is determined Gulf. Pacific and northern border ports then looked at me, saying nlainly with
; r:er few hour? :o get the bill through, and it is going than formerly, and to the further fact his eyes "That’s the kind of a plate
. >":v ' . some to push it righ: along ahead of every- that the exports to the Orient, which I want." and when his supper was
>w or even in staid, thing else. have increased rapidly during tbe de- . placed in it he ate all there was wiyi
1 There has been considerable critcism | cade, pass chiefly out of the Pacific great satisfaction.
It is likely that the question of la
bor will be prominently to the fore
at the coming session of Congress.
The National Association of Manu
facturers. it is probable, will seek to
bring about a more even distribution
of labor throughout the country and
will endeavor to solve the problem in
another way through the promotion of
industrial education and the estab
lishment of reliable employment bu
reaus. Another phase of the work
will be the support of such men as
Congressmen Littlefield and McCall,
who incurred the displeasure and ac
tive opposition of labor unions
through their treatment of certain
legislation believed essential by the
unions. The manufacturers’ organiza
tion by no means intends to antago
nize labor in any sense, for its sup
porters are of the opinion that such
an open and above-board program will
eventually result in drawing employer
and • employe closer together. It is
well known that organized labor has a
powerful lobby before Congress, and
when certain measures advocated by
this lobby, and deemed unwise by the
National Association oil Manufac
turers, are introduced, thd association
hopes by a direct appeal to the people
of the United States to bring the'
question up fairly for popular -ap
proval or disapproval.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelvou
has been seized with the house-clean
ing mania. He has just appointed a
committee of treasury officials to draw-
up a plan looking to the adoption of
easier business methods and the elim
ination of red tape in the handling of
Uncle Sam’' funds. The committee
consists of James B. Reynolds, J. H.
Edwards and Beekman NVinthrop. the
three secretaries of the Treasury:
Robert J. Tracewell. Comptroller of
the Currency, and Robert S. Person,
auditor for the Interior Department.
Secretary Cortelyou’s Idea is to facili
tate the business of the various di
visions and bureaus and draws into
closer relationship the head ot the
treasury and his various assistants.
He is of the opinion that the elimina
tion of many of the formalities now-
in vogue would expedite the work of
the department and at the same time
in no wise lessen the vigilance or
efficiency of the agency that has the
nation's strong box i n its keeping.
Reposing in a case in the Smithso
nian Institution is the famous old flag
which inspired Francis Scott Key to
compose wiat is now the American
national hymn, the Star Snangled
Banner. It is to remain there for at
least two years. The historic banner
is owned by Eben ApDieton. of New
York, nnd is about 20 by 30 feet in
size. The flag w-a? loaned by Mr. Ap
pleton to the Government through the
personal solicitation of Dr. Charles T>.
Spooner was elected Senator in Con
gress to succeed Angus Cameron in
1885. Cameron's chief title to fame
is that he defeated Matt Carpenter for
United States . Senator in 1872. Car
penter was then the best lawyer in
America: as Senator he had shed more
lustre on Wisconsin than all the men
who had preceded him in that office.
He was the first orator in the Senate
and the most brilliant man. I do not
believe that our political literature
contains a finer passage than the open
ing paragraph of Carpenter’s plea for
Tilden before the electoral commission.
It is eloquence and logic, couched in
exquisite English, and the utterance of
a voice simply matchelss for beauty,
clearness and sweetness. In debate he
overcome Blaine and Sumner and Ed
munds, and held his town against Ben
Hill. As a master of choice, elegant,
rhythmical English. E. W. Carmack
comes nearest to Carpenter of any man
in either house of Congress in my day.
But Wisconsin took Carpenter out of
the Senate and put Cameron in his
place. However, the first opportunity
that offered she returned Carpenter to
the Senate and he remained there until
his death, in 1881.
Spo'ojier succeeded Cameron, and
within two years was the most prom
ising Senator of all the newer set. He
had the ability, he had the industry,
and he loved the job. Before his term
expired there rose up a set in the Lake
States known as the A. P. A.’s. Their
avowed mission was to show the Cath
olics and the Lutherans how- to get to
heaven. Incidentally they sought to
make our German fellow-citizens, get
along with less beer. The A. P.'a.’s
were Republicans to a man. And is
in 1890 the Democrats swept the State,
carrying every congressional district,
electing the Governor and the Legisla
ture.
The result was that Mr. Spooner had
to surrender his toga to William F.
Vilas, a man plenty big enough to wear
it. Unfortunately, about that time there
rose up in the West an agrarian party,
and in 1893 the Democratic party
joined it. ‘But for that the country
would have continued Democratic to
this day. Wisconsin, along with Illi
nois and Indiana, refused to be bound
by the merger of the Democratic with
the Populist party, and that gave the
Republicans their opportunity, which
they seized, and built up a solid North.
Thus; in 1897 Mr. Spooner came in
again, and succeeded Mr. Vilas as a
Senator in Congress from Wisconsin.
The Republicans, flushed with victory,
had jabsolute power. They made the
Dingley tariff, and established what
they are pleased to call the gold stand
ard. though it has a half billion of 50
cent fiat silver in it. Just as the Ar-
kansaw cabin does not need a roof in
fair weather, this fiat does not hurt in
prosperity. Its opportunity will come
with the next panic.
The Republicans also fought the
needless and inglorious war with Spain,
annexed new territory, and bought 10.-
000,000 Asiatics at $2 a head. Of
course, great questions grew out of
these projects and Spooneer was the
We have fallen on 'times when men—
who think they are full and overflowing
with political virtue that came down
to them from Thomas Jefferson and
Abraham Lincoln, two lawyers—are
actually persuaded that no first-class
lawyer can bo an honest man. The
fact is that free Government In Eng
land and in America is the\invention
of lawyers. If there had never been a
lawyer in the world every country to
this day would be ruled by despots, or
by anarchists. Government itself is
nothing but law. and that is the best
Government whose laws are best ob
served. Life, liberty and property have
their security in the law. There are
rights inherent and inalienable; but to'
preserve them they must they must be
intrenched in the law.
There never was a great lawyer who
was not a conservative man. John C.
Spooner is a great lawyer and he is a
a conservative. His very greatness
drew the shafts of little men, as did
Tilden's. They said that Tilden was a
corporation lawyer. So he was, per
haps, the greatest. They said he was
railroad wrecker. So he was not.
He took in hand railroads that others
had wrecked, reorganized * them, set
them on their feet, and made them
paying properties. The Republican
party had wrecked our great political
corporation by 1876. Had they not
stolen his job Tilden would have re
stored ‘that, too, and we would have
escaped all the agrarian vagaries of the
next preceding double decade.
I apprehend Wisconsin will have
trouble, in finding Somebody - to Ifill
Spooner’s shoes. Vilas is the only man
she has whose feet are big enough,
and Vilas’ party Is out of fashion in
Wisconsin at this time. Mr. Spooner,
like Mr. Carlisle, will get more satis-:
faction out of the private station. It
is as easy to hem a sparrow in the
corner of a worm rail fence as It is to
retain the confidence of a constituency
of the average American common
wealth.
Cato was beaten for "Praetor. The
name of the successful candidate at
that election has escaped my memory.
COMPETITION DEAD:
RATES PROHIB
TOPEKA, Kans., July 14.-I
tion suits were filed in the!
district court here by
General Jackson against sixty-
insurance companies, charging
with violation of the State anti
laws. The suits are based on info<
tion furnished by Cbas. H. BaJ
superintendent of insurance, and
to prevent the companies from usl
the EJdridge rating sheet in writ*
Kansas insurance. The suits invol^
every fire Insurance company doing
business in the State.
In *his charges in an affidavit filed
by the Attorney General, Mr. Barnes
says:
•There is in existence in the State
of Kansas an unlawful arrangement,
trust and combination In restraint of
the business of fire insurance within
the State of Kansas. Te defendants
are members of, and participants in
such unlawful agreement, trust and
combination. By means of such un
lawful arrangement, trust and combi
nation, the cost and rate of insurance
the citizens of Kansas is arbitrarily
fixed at high and extortionate figures
by one, Chas. F. Eldridge, of Sliawj
County, Kansas, who is a. general
of other general functionary
character, who by common con
the defendants and by certain
ful arrangements, combir. itio:
agreement between them, is or
and permitted by the defend
fix the cost and rate of fire inrf
Mr. Barnes alleges that coijj
is almost totally abolished,
rates and cost of insurance
high as to be prohibitive.
This is the same bureau which We
McNall put out og b* ^iness when
was superintendent ot insurance. It
was then known as tho Ciarkston bu
reau. Eldridge was a clerk in the
Ciarkston bureau at the time. J
Judge A. W. Dana who heard the
Attorney General's application later
granted the temporary injunction. The
Attorney General announced that he
would seek to have the injunction
made permanent. ,
LINKED ROOSEVELT
AND BRYAN’S NAMES
SEATTLE, Wash., July 14.—Before
a large gathering of Christian En-
_ deavorers in Tent WHliston Rev.
Republican leader of the Senate in the| Ira Landrith. of Nashville, Tenn., in an
debates. 'Platt, of Connecticut, helped address on “Graft and Grafters,” Iink-
him to cut out the legislation; but! cd the names of
the flag by inheritance. Its first
owner, after it had -waved in triumph
over Fort McHenry during the bore,-
bardment of the fortifications by the
British on the night of September 13.
1814, was Col. Armsted. who took the
flag down and carried it to his quar
ters after the British fleet, baffled,
had withdrawn. Later he gave it to
his mother, who in ture
Spooner was the man who convinced
the Senate of its wisdom. George F.
Hoar delivered a speech- in opposition
that ranks with Webster’s best efforts;
but it fell on deaf ears. The Republican
party was in the saddle and rode down
all recalcitrant'. Thus the Philippines
are become as much a part of the
public domain as New England or
Texas.
About this time John T. Morgan had
put Congress in the notion to construct
the Isthmian canal that the country
had been talking about for twenty
years. Mark Hanna marshaled -his co'-
horts and voted the Nicaraguan route
out Then the United Statees fo-
Roosevelt and Bryan
as the greatest fighters the country
has ever known against graft and
corruption.
Rev. Edwin Heyl Delk, pastor of St.
Matthews Lutheran Church, Philadel
phia, spoke on “Training and Civic
Conscience,” in which he denounced
the action of the Government of Idaho
In the alleged kidnaping of Moyer and
Haywood and asserted that tho judi
ciary of Idaho was corrupt.
A considerable flutter was caused
among the women in the big tent by
an address by General Secretary Wn.
Shaw-, who denounced bridge whist
and declared that a beneficial social
revolution would take place if women
of the United States would devote the
mented a rebellion in a sister republic
and the canal was located in Panama.! same energy to promoting the patriots
Walcott, secretary of the institution. France was bought out. and the bigItaMPie as they devoted to whist.
Mrs. Appleton came into possession of ditch ordered. Spooner supported the j Discussion of "The Lo boring Man
administration, and but for him Mor- and ‘ be Church; How to Bring Them
gan might have prevailed. i Together," was held at the Walsh
Presbyterian Church. The discussion
In the entire history of the Republi- } vas l e <3 hi’ Charles Stelzl, super-
can party there can be named no other j intendent of the department of church
man who has fought so many battles ! an d labor of the Presbyterian Home
on the floor of the Senate for Repub- Board of Missions. Rev. Stelzle as-
lican administration? as John C. serted that the church was not suf-
Spooner. and he never got half thanked . ficiently democratic and was too nar-
passed it | for a single one. Last March Mr. r0 ' v > n It* views to procure the best
along to her granddaughter. Through Spooner resigned his seat and returned ! membership of the laboring men and
marriage, the flag passed into the pos- to the practice of his profession. He , he advocated a heartier effort to get
ession of the Appleton family. J has two sons, young lawyer?, just ad- ‘he world’s workers into th* church.