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CASUAL COMMENT.
; ( By J. D. Watson.
: 1 (Continued from Page Nine.)
In concluding his opinion, Judge Pritchard
says:
“It is not necessary at this time to pass upon
the validity of the provision of the constitution
of Virginia which created the State corporation
commission; that is a question which the court
SUMMARY NEWS.
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Board of the Western Federation.
He was selected president of the
Western Federation in June, 1902.
Haywood had been elected secretary
treasurer the year before. He had
first met Haywood in 1900, and Pet
tibone about a year previous.
Moyer said that he was an Odd
Fellow and a member of the Order
of United Workmen. He defined his
duties as president, and outlined the
duties of the secretary-treasurer,
who was under a $30,000 bond. When
he was first elected president the
union had about 22.000 members;
when he was arrested it had 30,000.
and now it has 40,000 members. A
strike cannot be called without a
two-thirds vote of the local unions
involved. He described the duties of
the Executive Board, which now con
sist of seven members, exclusive of
general officers. The rule was to de
fend every member arrested. Very
few had ever been convicted of any
offense. Though a member of the
Executive Board at the time of the
Coeur d’Alenes trouble, he had no
active part in the conduct of the
strike. He was in the Black Hills,
and» the management of the strike
was in the hands of President Boyce
and Secretary Maher.
Not Hostile to Steunenberg.
“I was in sympathy with the men
and voted on some questions in con
nection with the strike,” said he.
“I never saw Gov. Steunenberg, and
never had any personal hostility to
him. When martial law was declar
ed, T felt like the majority of the
organization felt, but I bad no per
sonal feeling in the matter.”
Moyer said that the frst time he
met ‘‘Steve” Adams was at Cripple
Creek. He denied ever having
paid him S3OO for his good office in
blowing up the Vindicator mine.
While Moyer was a prisoner in
Telluride, Capt. Bulkley Wells, of
the military administration, expected
him to work under guard, cleaning
gutters. He refused. The other
prisoners were compelled to work.
While in prison he heard of the In
dependence station explosion and
telegraphed the Federation, in an
nual session in Denver, to offer a re
ward of $5,000 for the perpetrators.
This was done, but the reward was
never claimed. He read that Or
chard and Neville were suspected of
the ciime. Subsequently Neville
was arrested and discharged. Neville
came to him and asked that he be
reimbursed for expenses while under
arrest, declaring that neither he nor
Orchard knew anything about the ex
plosion; that they were in camp ten
miles from Cripple Creek at the time.
Moyer said that he made an investi
gation, found that Neville was not
a member of the organization and
the Executive Board dropped the
matter, .
reserves until the final hearing of this cause.
For the reasons herein stated, the restraining
order heretofore granted will be continued until
the final hearing.
“In conclusion, I will say that it is a source,
of gratification to me to know that my decis
ion in respect to this question is not final, but
that it is to be ultimately submitted to ths
’ Supreme Court of the United States for deter
mination, and if I have committed error that
Moyer denied that he had ever
asked Oi chard to kill Neville. He
last saw Orchard, he said, on June
23, 1905. Orchard came to his office
in' Denver, shook hands with him,
and asked him to take a drink. They
went out together, drank, dined and
parted. He knew Orchard had taken
the name of Hogan, and supposed it
was to escape the blacklist. He next
heard of Orchard under arrest for
the Steunenberg murder. Moyer
consulted John Murphy, counsel for
the Federation in Denver, who told
him to take no steps to defend Or
chard unless the Federation was at
tacked. Moyer then left for Chica
go, and did not return for several
weeks.
William D. Haywood followed
Moyer and told his story of his mil
itant activities as the dominant spir
it of the Western Federation of
Miners. Haywood gave the jury
nothing new beyond denying emphat
ically that he ever pa'd money to
Orchard for any purpose. Later on
when cross-examined by Senator
Borah, Haywood proved that he was
Borah’s mental equal. He did not
make a misstep and was not shaken
by the State’s grilling. After the
state finished its cross-examining of
Haywood, counsel for the defense
rested their case, a”d the state be
gan its rebuttal.
Nine witnesses were examined in
the first two hours, the most inter
esting being August Paulson, former
ly a partner of Harry Orchard in
the Hercules mine and now a rich
banker of Wallace, Ida.
Tn contradiction of the old sol
dier, John D. Elliott, who said he
heard Orchard make threats against
Gov. Steunenberg while on a train,
the State introduced several railway
officials ,who produced records show
ing tffat the trains on which Elliott
said he and Orchard traveled did not
make the connections which Elliott
had described as a part of the jour
ney. Elliott testified for the de
fense that he traveled from Webster,
Ida., to Boise about November 23 or
29, 1905. The State called J. P.
Stephenson, a hotel clerk of Salt
Lake City, to testify that Or
chard arrived at the Hotel Cullen on
November 25, 1905, and remained
there three weeks. When asked to
produce records the witness said he
could only find Orchard’s name en
tered in the books on November 25.
Tt was the man’s custom to pay for
his room nightly in advance.
J. H. Moser, proprietor of the
Kettle Block rooming-house in Den
ver, testified that Harrv Orchard,
under the name of Dempsev, stopped
with him for two weeks late in July
or August of 1904. Dr. McGee, a
witness for the defense, testified sev
eral weeks ago that he saw Orchard
in the Coeur A’Alenes at this time.
The trial will consume all of this
week.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN
“GREATEST OF WOMEN.”
Elbert Hubbard’s Remarkable Trib
ute to His Wife.
East Aurora, N. Y., July 9. —•
Within the plain gray covers of a
thin little book, whose significant ti
tle is “White Hyacinths,” Elbert
Hubbard will in a few days publish
to the world a remarkable tribute
to the woman he loves—the woman
he says he has loved for seventeen
»years, although she has been his
wife only during the last fourth of
that period.
At this tribute the world cannot
but marvel, for of Alice Hubbard it
has heard little and knows less. Yet
this man, whose sense and ability
cannot be doubted, even though
many cavil at his manner of display
ing them, does not hesitate to say
that he believes his wife, “in way of
mental reach, sanity, sympathy, and
all-round ability, outclasses any
woman of history, ancient or mod
ern, mentally, morally, and spirit
ually.”
“To make a better woman than
Alice Hubbard,” he adds, “one
would have to take the talents and
graces of many great women and
omit their faults. If she is a depart
ure in some minor respects from a
perfect standard it is probably be
cause she lives in a faulty world, and
deals with faulty folks, a few of
whom, doubtless, will peruse this ar
ticle.
Not “Blind Love” Tribute.
“Right here, of course, I hear
you say, but love is blind, or at least
myopic, and every man who has
loved, says what you are saying, now.
The nature of love is exaggeration,
and to take a woman and clothe her
with ideality, this is love. And you
sp ak wisely. But let me here ex
plain that while the salfness of time
in my ego has not entirely dissolved,
1 have reached a time of life when
feminine society is not an actual
necessity.
“I am at an age when libertines
turn saints, and rogues become reli
gious.
“However, I have never gone the
pace, and so I am neither saint nor
ascetic, and the eternally feminine
is not now, and never was to me, a
consuming lure.
“And while the flush of impetuous
youth, with its unreasoning genius of
the genus, is not mine, I am not a
victim <rf amour senilis, and never
can be, since world problems, not sen
sations. fill my dreams and flood my.
hours.”
Never before in the history of high
tributes to women has a living wife
been the subject of such adulation
as is set forth in these half a hun
dred pages of black print.
“So here cometh ‘White Hya
cinths.’ being a book of the heart,
by Elb-rt Hubbard.”
Such is the brief preface. Then
distinguished tribunal will correct the same.
I will prepare an opinion at an early date, in
which I will discuss more my views in
regard to the matters in controversy.”
Even if the State of Virginia loses out in
this case they will have a two cent passenger
rate, for the people demand it, and if the courts
hold that the Corporation Commission of Vir
ginia had no right to enforce such a rate, the
next legislature will pass a two cent rate bill.
two pictures —one of himself, one of
his wife —and after these the pages
that teem with praise and affection,
and cannot but impress one with the
devotion and sincerity of the writer.
They begin thus:
“When Charles Kingsley was ask
ed to name the secret of his success,
he replied, ‘I had a friend.’
‘‘ If asked the same question, I
would give the same answer.
“I might also explain that my
friend is a woman.
“This woman is my wife, legally
and otherwise.
Wife, Comrade, Chum.
“She is also my comrade, my com
panion, my chum, my business part
ner.
“There has long been a suspicion
that when God sjiid, ‘1 will make a
helpmeet for man,’ the remark was
•a subtle bit of sarcasm.
“However, the woman of whom I
am speaking proves what God can
do when He concentrates on His
work.
“My -wife is my helpmeet, and I
am hers. I do not support her,
rather, she supports me. All I have
is hers—not only do I trust her with
my heart, but with my pocketbook.
And what I heie write is not a tomb
stone testimonial, weighted with a
granitic sense of loss, but a simple
tribute of truth to a woman who is
yet on earth in full possession of
her powers, her star still in the as
cendant.
“Having such a wife as this, I do
not chase the ghosts of dead hopes
through the graveyard of my
dreams. ”
How this one sentence will snarl
and snap in the minds of some men!
Hubbard proceeds:
‘ ‘ I have succeeded beyond the wild"
est ambitions of my youth, but I am
glad to find that my desires outstrip
my performances, and as fast as I
climb one hill* I see a summit beyond.
So I am not satisfied, nor do I ever
declare, ‘Here will I build three tab
ernacles,’ but forever do I hear a
voice, which says, ‘Arise, and get
thee hence, for this is not thy rest.’
Her Radical Philosophy.
“She is the onjy woman I ever
knew who realizes as a vital truth
that the basic elements for all hu
man betterments are economic, not
mental or spiritual.
“She knows that the benefits of
preaching are problematic, and that
the good the churches do is conjec
tural; but that good roads are the
first and ’chiefest factor in civiliza
tion.
“She knows and advocates what
no college president in America dare
'advocate —that the money we expend
for churches, if invested in scien
tific forestry and good roads, would
make this world a paradise now.
“She does not trouble herself
much about Adam’s fall, but ah*