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PAGE FOUR 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 I ZiOilw If / V, CCPT RIGHT IHOL try —mX- — CLWCWT WASH Pt-. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S LATEST PICTURE. ?. 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 (Continued on Pag© 12.)