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Schools Place for Peace.
Tfie fiftieth annual convention of
the National Educational Association
convened at Los Angelss for five
days’ session with delegates from
the United States, England, Mexico
and Hawaii among the 5,000 pres
ent.
President Nathan C. Schaeffer, in
his annual address, answered the
question, “What can the Ichool do
to aid the peace movement 1” He
said, in part:
‘‘ It seems to me that our text
books, our examinations and our in
struction should glorify the arts of
peace above the art of war. The
pupil can be led to see that Pasteur,
the scientist, has done more for hu
manity than Napoleon, the destroyer
of thousands; that Carnegie, the phil
anthropist, has done more for civili
zation than the admiral who sinks
a hostile fleet; that the men who, by
expeiiments upon their own bodies,
showed how yellow fever is transmit
ted and can be prevented, were as
great- heroes ias any soldiers that
ever faced a cannon’s mouth; that
the woman who serves in the hospi
tal as a nurse displays as much he
roism as the officer who serves his
country in time of war.”
Vatican Hears of Secret League.
The Vatican, at Rome, has learn
ed of a secret international league
in Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon coun
tries, formed ostensibly to petition
the Vatican to suppress the In
dex Expurgatorius, but the real ob
ject of which is said to be to stir
up strife among Catholics, causing
schisms. The Pope, it is asserted,
will soon take severe disciplinary
measures against the new league.
What’s the Use?
• Standard Oil, through its counsel,
declined to avail itself of Judge Lan
dis’ invitation, at the close of the
examination of John D. Rockefeller
and other officers of the company,
to present evidence to show that it
had not violated the law in other in
stances. The implication was that
if it could show that it had not it
would be a mitigating circumstance
to be considered when it came to im
posing a fine on its subsidiary com
pany, the Standard Oil Company of
Ind’ana. The maximum fine would
be $29,240,000.
Full Pardon Granted to Col. Arthur
Lynch.
On the eve of his visit to Ireland
King Edward has granted a full par
don to Col. Arthur Lynch, who was
convicted of high treason in 1903 in
fighting in the Irish Brigade on the
side of the Boers in the South Af
rican war.
Col. Lynch was sentenced to death
for high treason in 1903, but his sen
tence later was commuted to impris
onment for life, and in January,
1901, he was released “on license.”
Lynch was born in Australia of
Irish parents, and received a uni
versity education in Germany. Later
he went to Galway, the home of his
ancestors, and plunged into party
politics. After being defeated at
the polls in the general election in
1892, he went to London and en
gaged jin literary and journalistic
work. He was sent by a London
newspaper to Ashanti with the
British expedition, but owing to his
leaving London without a permit
from the War Office, he did not get
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
any further than Cape Coast Castle.
He afterward became Paris corres
pondent of a London newspaper.
He was instrumental in raising the
Irish Brigade which fought on the
side of the Boers in the South Af
rican war, and while in Paris, after
his return from South Africa, he
was elected to Parliament by Galway
City. But on returning to England
to take his seat in the House of
Commons he was arrested.
To Be Tried On the Trusts.
Injunctions and receivers may be
the future weapons of the Depart
ment of Justice to curb illegal trusts.
The new plan is slated for trial at
an early date. It was conceived by
Attorney-General. Bonaparte and Mil
ton D. Purdy, the trust expert, and
there is every promise that it will
shake the trusts as nothing before
has done. The courts will be asked
to issue injunctions and appoint re
ceivers in the case of big combina
tions that have so long ignored the
Sherman anti-trust law, in the belief
that fines would be the sole puni h
ment they might expect.
To Smash Traction Merger.
Attorney-General Jackson, on be
half of New Yo k State, began pro
ceedings to smash the $225,000,000
Ryan-Belmont Interborough-Meti o
politan Company. Justice Platzek,
in special term of the Supreme
Court, signed an order on applica
tion of the attorney-general, direct
ing the Ryan-Belmont traction trust
to show cause on July 19, why pro
ceedings should not be instituted to
-annul the Interboiough-Metropolitan
charter, on the grounds that the
corporation is an illegal monopoly.
Japanese Caught Sketching.
During the past week Japanese
men have been captured while draw
ing and photographing our coast for
tifications, both on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. One of the Japs was
captured in Fort Rosecrans at San
Diego, Cal., and caused intense feel
ing among the Americans who made
hostile demonstrations in the lower
part of the city near the water front,
where the Japanese quarters are lo
cated.
Thousands of Plague Victims.
It had been estimated that more
than a million of the people of East
India would fall victims to the
plague. Now it is known that this
figure, vast as it is, will be exceeded,
and that the mortality will reach
an appalling total. During the last
week for which there are official fig
ures, 67,000 died of the plague.
Agitators take advantage of the
awful infliction to have an additional
fling at the British Government.
One declared that the illness from
which the people a e suffering is not
plague, but the result of the poison
ing of the wells by their British
masters.
Santa Fe Indicted.
The Federal Grand Jury, at Chi
cago, indicted the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad on sixty-five
counts of rebating. If convicted on
all the counts the railroad would be
liable to a maximum fine of $1,300,-
000.
Costa Rica Wants White Men.
Costa Rica’s Congress appropriat
ed $40,000 a year to pay the trav
eling expenses of white farmers and
laborers willing to come to •San Jose
with their families to settle.
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Parker Attacks Roosevelt.
Judge Parker, in an address de
livered at Hendersonville, N. C., at
tacked President Roosevelt for his
misuse of the common law, and ask
ed: “What’s the Constitution now
between Friends'?” He called Roose
velt an accomplished politician,
backed by the trusts, and said:
“But the campaign against the
government plan of the fathers is
on and has been for several years.
It has for its leader the most ac
complished politician of our history.
■Behind him and backing him stand
these great corporations of the coun
try, which are engaged in interstate
commerce and insurance.
“Their reason is that it is easier
to deal with one government than
with many.
“It is not their purpose to Sub
mit proposed amendments to the
Constitution to the people as the
Constitution provides —a procedure
with which no one could find fault,
as it offers an opportunity for dis
cussion before the people prior to
their action.
“Rather it is their scheme to ac
complish the centralization of power
by unconstitutional, and, therefore,
dishonest, methods.
“These include:
“1. Congressional legislation as
suming powers not granted, but ex
pressly retained ei her to the states
or the people.
“2. Executive exercise of powers
not granted, and the seizure, in one
form or another, of powers belong
ing to other departments of govern
ment.
“3. The substitution of statutes
for common Jaw.”
Jail Sentence for Business Men.
For violating the Valentine Anti-
Trust law, which makes any con
spiracy in restraint of trade, a crime,
twenty-three representative and
wealthy business men of the city of
Toledo, Ohio, were sentenced to nine
months’ impr'sonment each, and
nine others were fined SI,OOO each.
In inflicting punishment 'upon the
guilty men, Judge Morris said he
was convinced the only effective rem
edy which society could employ to
prevent unlawful combinations of
capital at the expense of the ’public
welfare was a vigorous enforcement
of the laws to the very letter.
In passing sentence Judge Morris
scathingly denounced the methods
which had used by the solid busi
ness men who were ranged before
him. Most of them were nervous,
and plainly showed k they were also
badly frightened.
To Smash the Tobacco Trust.
The government struck the first
blow in its campaign to smash the
Tobacco Trust by filing a bill in
equity in the United States Circuit
Court in. New York City. By this
action it is sought to dissolve the
trust by having it declared a com
bination in restraint of trade, under
provisions of the Sherman anti-trust
law, to obtain an injunction to stop
its business and, i nthe discussion
of the court, the appointment of a
receiver. Specifically the complaint
asks the following relief:
That each constituent company of
the trust be restrained from engaging
in interstate or foreign commerce.
That each company be restrained
from holding stock in any of the
other constituent corporations.
That each corporation be restrain
ed from carrying out any of its con
tracts, combinations or conspiracies
with the others.
That the particular contracts by
which an agreement between the
English and American tobacco com
binations was effected in the fall of
1902, be abrogated as illegal.
That the trust in all its branches
be enjoined from continuing to exer
cise a monopoly of the leaf tobacco
business of this country.
That the court, in its discretion,
appoint receivers for each of the
constituent concerns to take control
of all their property and, if neces
sary, wind them up.
Bad Losses for Vatican.
It is conceded that the Catholics
sustained an overwhelming defeat in
the municipal elections in the city
of Rome last week, which fully de
termined the pirtial elections of last
Sunday. The usual number of Cath
olic municipal councillors sent to
seats in the capitol is generally more
than twelve, but this year the Cath
olic voters, notwithstanding their
several organizations, and the urging
of the Vatican authorities, have only
secured five seats in the municipal
council, while the majority of the
vacant positions were given to So
cialist candidates. As a consequence
of the el ction, b >th the mayor and
the select council have tendered their
resignations to the Prefect.
Gov. Hughes Accuses Kelsey.
Gov. Hughes vetoed the $15,000
counsel fees demanded by the law
yers who defended Sup rintendent of
Insurance Otto Kelsey before the
Senate. The governor again flays
Kelsey and his counsel in a memo
randum annexed to the item, and still
insists that Kelsey is incompetent.
Gov. Hughes said:
“There is no justification for this
item. The proceedings before the
Senate and its committee cannot in
any proper sense be called a trial.
Neither the superintendent nor his
witnesses were cross-examined, nor
were witnesses produced against him.
Counsel did not appear to prosecute
him or to argue in support of the
recommendation. ”
The Haywood Trial.
The past week proved to be the
most interesting as well as the most
important in the Haywood trial, as
President Charles H. Moyer, of the
Western Federation, and William
D. Haywood both took the witness
stand. In the early part of the week
many depositions were read, intend
ed to refute the story of Harry Or
chard, the state’s chief witness.
Then Charles 11. Moyer told from
the witness stand the story of the
stormy career of his organization
since he became its chief executive,
and the resultant trouble and suffer
ing visited upon himself. Moyer
said that he had been a miner since
1883. The Black Hills was the scene
of his early labors, and for years
he worked in the Golden Reward,
Homestate and Horseshoe mines. He
did not join any labor union until
1887, when he became a charter
member of a smelterman’s union, at
Lend, S. Dak., a local of the Feder
ation, and subsequently was elected
president. He served two terms as
president of this union and, in June,
1899, was elected to the Executive
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