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A. K. SWIFT, Editor.
VOL. IV.
DIRECTED TO SOUTH
Civic Federation Would Send
Immigrants to Dixie,
THE SCHEME DISCUSSED
A Million Newcomers Arrived During
Present Year and Eastern States
Received Nearly All of
Them.
The United States immigration ques
tion was taken up for discussion oil
Wednesday by the National Givic Fed
eration in session in New York city.
August Belmont, president of the Na
tional Civic Federation, opened the
session.
The statement that over 1,000,000
immigrants have come to tbe United
States during the past year, and that
the south and west, the sections of
the country which needed and wished
for these new citizens, did not get
them, was made by Frank P. Sar
gent, United States commissioner gen
eral of immigration. Mr. Sargent pro
posed that the Unted States hereaf
ter distribute immigrants according
to the needs of the country.
“I have just received a few figures,
he said, “showing where this immi
gration goes to. Of the 1,026,491 im
migrants who arrived last year; New
York received 315,511; Pennsylvania
201,708; Massachusetts 72,150; Illi
nois 72,750; six states of the union
received 777,748 or 75 per cent of
the whole, which gives some Idea of
how popular those states are abroad
and how rapidly they gained last
year.
“The beautiful and prosperous
south, entering upon a season of great
commercial activity, received 45,343,
divided as follows: Maryland, West
Virginia and Virginia, 9,000 each;
. Louisiana, 5,000; Texas, 4^000; Ke»
tueky, 8,018wTennesseo
tVIL POLICY EXPOSED.
Compare Shows Bad Effects * White
Children at Wot* While Negro
Children Attend School.
Samuel Compere, president of the
American Federation of Labor, was
the chief speaker at Saturday’s ses
sion of the annual meeting of the
child laor committee in Washington.
Mr. Gompers refuted the charge fre
quently made that the federation is
not sincere in its opposition to child
labor and acts through selfish motives.
Mr. Gompers mentioned the at
tacks which have been made upon
labor organisations in the south for
their advocacy of laws protecting
children and discussed the conditions
in southern factories, where negro
children are excluded and white chil
dren are employed exclusively. The
result is the negro children are in
school, while the whites work, Mr
Gompers declared, and the very men
who disfranchised the negroes are
now working great injustice to the
whites of the laboring classes.
Eldridge T. Gerry of New York, the
leader in the movement to protect
children, was quoted by Mr. Gompers
as saying that the hope for anti child
labor laws lies with organized labor,
which has been behind all the legisla
tion so far obtained.
Felix Adler of Columbia University,
chairman of the committee, opened
the session with a plea for a con
stant effort to better the condition of
child labor.
The general subject for the day
was legislation for the District of Co
lumbia.
Charles P. ‘Neill, United States labor
commissioner, said there is less child
labor in the national capital than'
elsewhere, but declared that the evil
exists there in worse form than in
most cities. Nothing in the district’s
laws prevents the employment of chil
dren, and consequently they frequent
ly are Required to aiork from ten to
thirteen* hours
“GO FORWARD.”
WOODBINE. GA , FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1905.
PROBE OF TILLMAN
Run Into Insurance Scandals,
Wields Pitchfork,
ASKS POINTED QUESTIONS
Calls on Secretary Shaw to Know if
National Banks Contributed
to Campaign
Funds.
The subject of campaign contribu
tions by insurance companies occu
pied the major portion of tbe time
of tbe senate Thursday. It came up
in connection with Mr. Tillman’s res
olution calling for an investigation of
national bank aid in politics, and was
exploited by the South Carolina sen
ator in a speech of some length. It
was couched iu characteristic lan
guage and attracted considerable at
tention. The resolution, directing
the secretary of the treasury to re
port whether the reports of the na
tional bank examiners show that the
banks have made campaign contribu
tions in recent years, was adopted at
the close of Mr. Tillman’s remarks.
Outlining his reasons for the in
quiry, Mr. Tillman called attention to
tbe recommendation made by the
president in his annual messages of
1904 and 1905 for the enactment of a
law for protection against bribery and
corruption in connection with elec
tions. He quoted with especial em
phasis the president’s remarks con
cerning campaign contributions by cor
porations. “Our chief executive has
taken a very progressive stand to se
jure purity in elections,” he said, and
added: “Every good American will
say ‘well done,’ and look for progress
along thajr line.”
He concluded that the secretary
migh k. e the facts wanted, but
ougy * i
MRS. ROGERS HUNC
Vermont Murderess Pays the
Penalty on Gallows.
DIED WITHOUT A TREMOR
Was Married at Sixteen, Murdered
Her Husband at Nineteen and
Was Executed at Age of
Twenty-Two Years.
At Windsor, Vermont, without a tre
mor and without a word, Mrs. Mary
Mabel Rogers, Friday, marched to her
death, and paid the penalty of mur
dering her husband, Marcus Rogers,
at Bennington, on August 13, 1902.
To aH appearances Mrs. Rogers was
the calmest person in the chamber of
death. She faced her end with the
same social indifference that ha3
marked her demeanor ever since her
arrest more than three years ago.
Greatly to the relief of those offi
cials who were assisting in executing
the sentence, Mary Rogers’ last hour
was remarkably free from barrowing
incidents. It had been feared that the
woman’s wonderful courage would de
sert her at the last moment, and she
would be carried to the scaffold in
a state of collapse. Instead, however,
Mrs, Rogers met death bravely.
There were no sensational incidents
in connection with the hanging. Al
though the woman was not officially
pronounced dead until ] 4 minutes and
3f> second after the trap was sprung,
sue evidently suffered no pain. Her
neck was broken at the second cervi
cal vertebra and she lost conscious
ness immediately after the drop fell.
A few feeble convulsive movements
of her pinioned hands was the only
evidence that vitality had survived the
fijgfyshock. The drop fell at 1:13 p.
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Terms: $1.00 Per Annum in Advance.,
ASSASSINATED BY WOMAN
General Bakharoff Shot Down by Fe
male Warrior Belonging to Flying
Column—Death Instantaneous.
The St. Petersburg correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph (London), in
a dispatch dated December 6, sent
by way of JSydtuhnen, says:
“Lieutent General Sakharoff, former
minister of war, was assassinated
Wednesday.
“Tbe government had deputed Gen
eral Sakharoff to visit the province
of Saratoff for the purpose of quell
ing the agrarian riots there.
“A woman belonging to the so-called
‘flying column’ of the revolutionary
movement called at the house of the
governor at Saratoff at noon Wednes
day and asked to see General Sakba
roff. She fired three shots at the
general, killing him on the spot.
‘.‘The tidings reached St. Peters
bury Wednesday night. Count Witt*»
charged Lieutenant General Rudiger,
minister of war, with the task of
breaking the news to Madame Sakha
roff.
“The event has created a profound
impression in St. Petersburg, owing
to fears that the revolutionists here
will follow the example thus set.
“I am personally convinced that
Count Witte’s faith in the good sense
and political tact of the Russian think- j
ing classes, which recently was as
firm as a rock, is gradually weaken
ing, and with it his hopes for the
carrying out of the liberties promised
iu the emperor’s manifesto.”
COST OF POLICY FATAL.
“Victims” of Insurance Companies
Under Investigation. 4,
George Eldredge, first vice jresi
dent and actuary of the MatuaJ Re
serve Life Insurance company, who
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NO. 5.
RUSSIA IS REELINC
Financial and Dynastic Ruin
Stares Empire in Face.
CATACLYSM APPROACHES
Soldiers in Revolt and Banks Are Be
ing Looted by Depositors—The
Power of Count Witte
to Be Waning.
According to St. Petersburg advices
public confidence in the government’s
ability to weather the growing storm
is waning fast. Premier Witte seems
powerless to cope with tbe new ele
ments of danger which the revolution
is raising on every hand. New mu
tinies among the troops are constant
ly reported and the lawlessness in the
country is increasing. •
The immediate danger confronting
the government is a concerted attack
on the country's credit. flie public
fear that the government can be
forced to suspend gold payment in
creases daily, This woul– be the
ci"wning work of the revolutionists
who are satisfied that the at
tending financial crash the whoie
house would come tumbling down.
The chances of driving the govern
ment into bankruptcy they profess
to believe would be materially In
creased if the confidence of the pol
icy holders of Russian obligations
wks undermined, and the news that
the French investors who have for
eign indebtedness, were unloading,
was received with jubilation by the
;
revolutionists.
At the same t ime, it created a veri
table panic rse, imperial 4s
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