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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
At a luncheon and reception pre
sided over by Gen. Kuroki at the Ho
tel Astor, New York city, there was
launched the Japan Society of New
York, which has for its object the
promotion of friendly relations be
tween Japan and the United States.
Ostensibly Baron Kuroki and his staff
came to this country as Japan’s rep
resentatives at the Jamestown Exposi
tion. However, it is believed that the
visit to the exposition was of seconda
ry importance. It was learned from
authentic sources after the luncheon
that, following the school troubles in
San Francisco, diplomatic circles in
Tokio and Washington were eager for
an opportunity to make known to all
nations that friendly relations between
the two countries had not been inter
rupted, but that each sought complete
harmony and the formation of closer
bonds of sympathy and good will.
The Gordon monument was unveiled
Saturday upon the capital grounds in
Atlanta, in the presence of a great
throng. The statue, standing 25 feet
from base of pedestal to top of head,
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GENERAL J. B. GORDON.
was appropriately unveiled by Gener
al Gordon’s two daughters, Mrs. Caro
lina Lewis Gordan Brown of Vermont,
and Mrs. Frances Gordon Smith of
Atlanta.
Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, was
nominated and elected United States
senator from Wisconsin by the Re
publican caucus. He is a multi-million
aire, lumberman and has been for
years the financial backer of Robert
H. LaFollette in his campaign against
the old-line Republicans.
While in the senate he proposes to
support this radical program:
“1. Prompt and thorough revision
of all tariff schedules, reducing duties
wherever possible without reducing
wages of labor.
“2. Strengthening the interstate
commerce law, giving the commission
full power to regulate rates and serv
ices.
“3. Legislation authorizing and
equipping the interstate commerce
commission to ascertain the true val
ue of railroad property; the lowest
cost of operating the railways, and the
amount paid therefor.
“4. Legislation requiring the adop
tion of the best known safety appli
ances and prescribing strict regula
tion in the operation of trains in con
nection therewith.
“5, Strengthening the Sherman an
ti-trust law and imposing such addi
tional penalties as will deter property
interests from combining in violation
thereof.
“6. A constitutional amendment for
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the election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people.
“7. A federal tax upon incomes.
“8. A federal tax upon inheritances,
the same not to interfere with the
taxation of inheritances under the
Wisconsin state law.”
With the flag of anarchy at the
head of their column and many march
ers carrying small red flags, 3,700
cheering socialists, anarchists and
trade unionists paraded through the
streets of Chicago. The demonstra
tion was designed to create sympathy
for W. D. Haywood, Charles Moyer and
William Pettibone, the leaders of the
Western Federation of Miners, on tria]
in Idaho charged with the murder of
ex-Governor Steunenberg. A big white
banner bore in letters of red the slo
gan: “If Haywood, Moyer and Petti
bone die, 20,000 unionists will know the
reason why!” Other banners carried
bore inscriptions such as these: “Arbi
tration be damned .” In the rear ranks
members quaffed beer from bottles as
they marched.
Abraham H. Hummel, known as “the
notorious Hummel,” the New York
lawyer, was sentenced to one year in
prison on the charge of conspiracy. As
Hummel left his home to enter the
big touring car which was to take him
to Blackwell’s Island, he completely
collapsed. His health shattered, his
mind on the verge of collapse and
his fortune dissipated, the convicted
and disgraced lawyer of the Dodge-
Morse divorce scandal presented a pic
ture of ruin that has inspired pity
even in those who believed that he
was a menace to the community.
John Temple Graves, the noted
southern editor, in a special article
written for the New York World, ar
gues that for its own sake and that
of the people the Democratic party
should uphold the president in his
war against predatory wealth. He be
lieves that neither President Roose
velt nor any other American who has
lived would refuse a nomination ten
dered him as a common expression of
confidence from the people of all par
ties. He further states then, he does
not believe it to be a wise policy to
change leaders in the stress of a
great and hopeful battle, or to remove
a proven and apparently invincible
general to install an honest and pop
ular but certainly an untried strat
egist and executive.
At the meeting of the national as
sociation of manufacturers, held at
the Hotel Astor, New York city, Pres
ident Roosevelt was accused of lack
ing the moral courage to cut loose
from the labor unions entirely and
give the country a “square deal” on
the labor question. The association,
on motion of President J. M. Van
Cleve further agreed to appoint a
committee to raise $500,000 a year for
the next three years to “federate the
manufacturers of this country to fight
effectively, industrial oppression.”
This means, it was said, combating
the hostile moves of organized labor.
At Dublin in convention assembled
four thousand Irish Nationalists, rep
resenting every part of Ireland repu
diated Chief Secretary Birrell’s Irish
council bill. Not a word nor a hand
was raised in its defense and John
Redmond’s motion for its rejection
was carried amid tremendous cheer
ing.
In a special report on the petro
leum industry made to President
Roosevelt by Herbert Knox Smith, as
tonishing revelations are made con
cerning the vast power of the Stand
ard Oil Company and its daring and
successful methods' of throttling com
petition in defiance of law. Commis
sioner Smith declares the secret of the
Standard’s vast power is derived from
the following:
The Standard Oil Company produc
es over 86 per cent of the country’s
total output of illuminating oil. Its
Bayonne refinery alone handles more
oil than all of its seventy-five com
petitors combined.
It controls ten refining companies,
four lubricating oil companies, three
crude oil producing companies, thir
teen pipe-line concerns, six marketing
companies, the natural gas companies,
and fifteen foreign concerns.
Its growth and power rests in con
trol of transportation facilities, in local
price discriminations, in unfair com
petitive methods and in the elimina
tion of the jobber. Not over one
sixth of the crude oil comes from its
wells.
Its pipe lines cover 40,000 miles.
Co-operating with the railroads, it
established a system of secret or open
discriminations in freight rates
In its pipe lines, with only one com
petitor, it refuses to act as a common
carrier for independent producers, and
destroys or absorbs those who seek to
build rival pipe lines.
Its rates on its pipe lines are three
to six times as great as they should
be.
It is accused by Uncle Sam of over
8,000 separate violations of the law
against unjust rebates. >
Secretary of State Elihu Root de
livered the fourth and last of his
Dodge lectures at Yale University. He
declared that standards of business
morality are growing higher, instead
of lowering, and that an evidence of
this is the prosecution and convictions
for violation of the anti-rebate law.
He declared that this is evidence
that we are growing better; that
our government is applying a higher
standard of justice in the control of
public utilities.
The trial of William D. Haywood,
first of the alleged “inner circle” of
the Western Federation of Miners to
face a jury in answer to the state’s
charge of conspiracy to murder form
er Governor Steunenberg, has now
been in progress for more than two
weeks actual time. As yet, only sev
en final jurors have been selected,
and from present indications it would
seem that another week must elapse
before taking of testimony can begin.
The public utilities bill passed the
New York state senate in the form
desired by Governor Hughes. The bill
did not pass as a party measure and
the credit will rightly go to the ma
jority. The bill now goes to Mayor
McClellan for his signature. Senator
McCarren as usual, opposed and voted
against the bill.
Following the assassination of three
police officials in Odessa, Russia, ser
ious rioting occurred and in the even
ing the “Black Hundreds” were run
ning wild through the streets, merci
lessly beating people, particularly
Jews, more than a hundred of whom
were seriously injured.
Jospeh G. Cannon, speaker of the
house of representatives, made a mys
terious visit to the offices of the Amer
ican Protective League in New York
city, usually known as the “citadel”
of the tariff standpatters. It is believ
ed that plans were formulated for com
bating the presidential aspirations of
Secretary Taft. The league has already
taken a pronounced stand in opposi
tion to his candidacy, on the score that
a better “protectionist” can be found
for the position of chief executive.
Five thousand machinists and help
ers along the Erie Railroad between
New York and Chicago were called out
on strike for an increase in pay and
an eight-hour work day. On June 1.
16,000 more machinists will be called
out in Greater New York, which will
mean a suspension of work in all the
big machine shops in New York city.
At 1:05 o’clock Sunday afternoon
Mrs. William McKinley, wife of the
former president, fell into the sleep
that knows no awakening. Mrs. Mc-
Kinley’s last words were, “Why should
I linger? Please God, if it is thy will,
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why defer it?” The news of Mrs. Mc-
Kinley’s death caused profound sorrow
in the national capital, where she so
long made her home while her hus
band was a member of congress and
later president.
The Moreland bill giving Governor
Hughes of New York state authority
to go on a graft hunting expedition
this summer, was passed by the assem
bly without a dissenting vote. Politi
cians throughout the state, who are
more or less connected with the state
institutions, are considerably alarmed
about the bill and it is predicted that
it will be put in cold storage by the
senate.
The German government has receiv
ed from official representatives in east
ern Russia, harrowing accounts of mis
ery and destitution prevailing there.
In the province of Ufa, up to the end
of April, twenty thousand cases of ma
lignant scrofula were registered, all
the result of insufficient or improper
food. Since the beginning of the year
14,000 deaths have occurred, directly
due to the famine.
Theodore Tilton, aged seventy-two,
the American poet and literateur, died
in his apartments in the Avenue Kle
ber, Paris, of double pnuemonia, com
plicated with heart trouble. Theodore
Tilton was the last surviving figure
In the famous Beecher-Tilton scandal
that convulsed the religious world thir
ty-five years ago.