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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
It is reported that the concern
known as the Honduras National Lot
tery Company, has paid the govern
ment fines, approximating $250,000,
and gone out of business. The com
pany’s property at Puerto Cortez,
Honduras, has been dismantled. It
is believed that the prosecution in
the Federal courts of agents and
others connected with the company
may be dropped.
In an interview Governor John A.
Johnson, of Minnesota, declared that
the slogan of the Democratic party
in the next campaign, and in every
succeeding campaign until the ques
tion is settled, should be a revision
of the tariff. He believes that the
tariff, more than any other cause, has
a direct bearing on trusts, and places
a burden, direct and indirect, upon
the people of the country, benefiting
no general class and doing good only
to a privileged few.
The Rev. Dr. W. T. Long, in an open
letted addressed to the president,
asks Roosevelt to apologize for hav
ing called him a “nature fakir.” Dr.
Long offers eye-witnesses and affida
vits to prove all his assertions made
in his various books. He closes his
letter with these stirring lines: “You
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cannot, at this stage, Mr. Roosevelt,
take refuge behind the presidential of
fice and be silent. You have forfeited
your right to that silence by break
ing it, by coming out in public to at
tack a private citizen. If your talk of
a ‘square deal’ is not all a sham;
if your frequent moral preaching is
not all hypocrisy, I call upon you as
president and as a man to come out,
and admit the error and injustice of
your charge in the same open and
public way in which you made it.”j
Secretary Taft is now squarely be-J
fore the country as the tariff revision*
candidate for the Republican presi
dential nomination. He believes that
there is a strong sentiment
out the country in favor of a revision
of the tariff. This decision of Mr.
Taft’s is of great political importance.
It probably lessens Taft’s chances of
securing the nomination, as the tariff
interests always have been the heart
and core of the Republican party or
ganization.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Judson C. Clements, of Georgia, a
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, in a statement to the
New York World, declared that “one
of the most wholesome things that
could happen would be the putting in
jail of some man of prominence in the
railroad world. It would do more
than anything else to bring about
better conditions.” He further
stated that there are a lot of
men of wealth and position who seem
to think that there is no possibility
of punishment being inflicted upon
them, no matter how far they go.
Once let the possibility become a dem
onstrated fact that jail doors can
close on them, and a most salutary
lesson would be taught. This state
ment by Mr. Clements shows that the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
entered upon a radical policy of
treatment of corporations which per
sist in violating the law. Possessed
of authority to investigate every phase
of railroad business and having power
to bring about the punishment of in
dividuals, as well as corporations, the
commission is pushing its work with
determination.
President Roosevelt and Attorney-
General Bonaparte both declined to
assist in bringing Oklahoma into the
sisterhood of states. W. A. Ledbet
ter and other members of the com
mittee, after spending two weeks in
Washington, left for Oklahoma very
much disgusted, declaring that the
real reason was a purpose to keep
Oklahoma out of the Union until after
the presidential election. Another con
stittuional convention may now have
to be held to perfect a constitution.
This would postpone admission nearly
two years, which means that Oklaho
ma’s seven electoral votes will not be
counted at the next presidential elec
tion. Oklahoma is almost solidly
Democratic.
In a telegram to the editor of the
New York World, Senator John W.
Daniel, from Virginia, said that neither
the South, nor any section should, in
his opinion, have a candidate for any
place on the presidential ticket on ac
count of its locality. The country is
one and the Democracy as yet is one.
He said that the chief requisites of
candidacy are ability and availability.
That fact should determine the choice
and he believes in taking the right
man from anywhere—New England,
the West, the North, the South.
Os the nineteen women members
who took their seats at the opening
of the Finnish Diet eleven are Social
ists. They expect to work and act in
accord with their male colleagues of
that party, but they also promise to
force some distinctively feminine and
sex issues to the fore, as follows:
“Prohibition of the manufacture and
Importation of liquor into the country;
radical changes in the marriage and
divorce laws; equal recognition of
illegitimate children and education for
all are among the issues on the wo
men’s program and if their male party
associates hesitate to support them,
they have a powerful weapon in their
hands to bring the men to their
senses.” One-of the most gifted wo
men of the Socialist party is Miss
Mimmi Kannervo, who comes from
Abo, Finland. She is a beautiful peas
ant girl, who has educated herself and
is hailed and adored by her women
comrades as a feminine Demosthenes.
At a meeting of many thousand
workingwomen in Abo she closed a
stirring address with this impassioned
outburst: “More than the workingmen
are we, the women who toil, enslaved
by the present capitalistic society.
Our first step must be to free our
selves from this slavery by taking an
active part in lawmaking and the po
litical struggle for our independence.
How difficult has it been for me to
educate myself after a hard day’s
work on a farm or in the factory
while the woman of the privileged
classes was wasting that time in thea
tre-going, expensive amusement or the
pursuit of fashion. A single dinner
of my former employer cost more than
would a year’s education for me in
school. Down with our social op
pressors! Long live the Socialist Wo
men’s Union.”
Editor Ferguson, of the New York
Defender, a publication devoted to
civic righteousness, has returned from
a visit to Panama, which he calls a
hell. He declares that the whole city
of Colon “is one big saloon.” There
are 12,000 inhabitants and about 300
saloons. American boys who are work
ing in the canal zone go into these sa
loons by the hundreds and thousands
on Sundays as well as during the
week. He said he remembers that on
one Sunday there were 300 drunken
workingmen in one barroom alone.
Ferguson claims the responsibility of
these conditions lies with the United
States government, through President
Roosevelt, for all of the laws in the
canal zone are read by authority of
the president and not by the authority
of Congress. President Roosevelt has
absolute power there, and all he has
to do is to say the word. He could
put a stop to all this immorality.
The American poet and litterateur.
Theodore Tilton, was buried in the
Montparnasse cemetery, Paris, on
May 27. Less than thirty people at
tended the funeral in the little chapel
of the American church, on the Rue de
Berri, and only two carriages followed
the body to the cemetery. The body
probably will not be taken to the Uni
ted States, but will be removed to
Barbizon.
Solomon Fieldman was arrested
while holding a Socialist meeting and
waving red flags around Franklin
Square statue in Printing House
Square, New York City. Magistrate
Crane held him in SIOO bail to keep
the peace for one month and as the
prisoner failed to furnish the required
bonds, he was committed to the
Tombs. Magistrate Crane, in his de
cision, said: “Using the red flag in
your speeches or lectures on Social
ism incites men to disorder and vio
lence, creates feelings of hatred against
the government and its citizens, is
against the law and will not be toler
ated in this city or country.”
Governor Hughes vetoed the Teach
ers’ Bill. The governor sent along
with his veto a message, in which
he explained his action and pointed
out that while the present system
was characterized by glaring inequali
ties, amounting to injustice, the prin
ciple involved was one which should
be applied generally throughout the
civil service of the state, if at all, and
should not be adopted in any instance
until the state is prepared to make
equal payment to men and women
doing the same work in its service,
the fixed state policy.
At Boston the forty-eighth annual
convention of the Free Religious As
sociation of America, was addressed
by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
who made a strong plea for a “pro
gressive religion.” He declared: “My
dream is that in every large city
there should be opened in its center a
building with the sign, ‘Kingdom of
Heaven,’ or ‘Who Art.’ I would have
the pulpit supplied with strong men of
various creeds —the Roman Catholic
beside the Salvation Army captain—
and have the various churches respon
sible for filling the pulpit with their
best men.”
The equestrian statue of Major-Gen
eral J. E. B. Stuart, the Confederate
cavalry leader, was unveiled in Rich
mon in connection with the Confed
erate reunion, with thousands of vet
erans attending. The cord was drawn
by Miss Virginia Stuart Waller, of
Newport News, grand-daughter of the
general. Among the interesting feat
ures of the reunion in Richmond was
the presence of the widow of Stone
wall Jackson, who came as the guest
of honor of the veterans.
After a long fight, and amid a storm
of denunciation of Mayor McClellan,
of New York City, and without a word
in defense of William R. Hearst, the
N. Y. American.
senate obeyed the command of the
governor and passed the Prentice Re
count Bill. It is believed that the
mayor will veto the measure.
The Florida legislature passed the
anti-bucket shop bill, and it now goes
to the governor for his signature.
The body of an old man, supposed
to be that of a priest of the Armenian
Greek church, was found in a trunk
in the tenement at No. 333 West
Thirty-seventh street, New York City.
According to reports, the murdered
man has been identified as Father
Askpar, of the Armenian Apostolic
church, who lived at West Hoboken,
N. J. It is believed that the man
had been put alive, perhaps uncon
scious, into the and died there.
The funeral services of Mrs. Ida Sex
ton McKinley, held at the old-fashion
ed McKinley home, were extremely
simple. Four songs were sung, the
same that were sung at the funeral
of President McKinley, and the ser
veics were the simple ritual of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Presi
dent Roosevelt, Vice-President Fair
banks, and cabinet members, Root,
Wilson and Cortelyou, attended the
funeral. The body was placed In the
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