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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Crime Wave in New York.
A tidal wave of assaults has been
sweeping over the five boroughs of
New York City. The record since
May proves that no girl is too young,
no woman too old to be the victim
of the brutes that infest New York.
Most of the victims are children rang
ing in age from five to twelve years
old.
A mite of a girl, four years okl,
was the object of one attempt. In
a brutal attack by two men a woman
of sixty was the victim. In some
oases the young girl or child died
from the injuries inflicted.
Many of the assailants escaped the
, clutches us the law. Others were
captured and dealt with in the Magis
trates’ Courts, ur held for a higher
tribunal. Public feeling against this
class of crimes has been reflected in
several instances in mob attacks on
men caught in the commission of
them, or only accused.
So far, more than forty-five vic
tims have been added to the list of
assaults.
Bishop Potter Assails Churches.
The church was severely criticised
for indifference to the mental, phy
sical and social needs of the masses
by Bishop Henry C. Potter, of New
York, in an address delivered at the
Chautauqua Assembly, N. Y.
“What is the relation of the
Church of God to the social unrest
of the country!” he asked. “There
is no more righteous arraignment of
the Church of our time than its in
difference to the social conditions of
the classes made up of less favored
men and women down in the gutter.
“The task of the Church is to
translate the mind of Christ, first,
by sympathy, then by painstaking
curiosity. This sympathetic curios
ity would lead men in the Church
to know something of that -strata of
life below that in which we are wont
to move. Such sympathetic curiosity
will sooner or later lead to the only
hope for the social unrest of our
time, and that is personal service.
“The trend of our generation to
mechanical devices and the elimina
tion of the personality of the work
man, however clever and valuable in
its material results, is a trend to be
afraid of. The modern tendency to
institutionalism is destroying the
habit and instinct of personal ser
vice. It is only by personal service
that we can lift the man in the gut
ter.
“What is the relation of the
Church of God to these facts! First
of all, it should be a profoundly sym
’ pathetic relation. In our ecclesias
tical relations we have been intimi
dated from translating our relation
» to the world into human sympathy,
for fear of dropping into what is
called the institutional churcjj.
“But if an institutional church be
a means of bringing the church into
profound sympathy with human life,
then the founder of our religion in
stituted the institutional church.
“When Christ found the hungry
he fed them; when fie saw the dis
eased he healed them; when he found
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the blind be made them see. Note
how invariably He did this Himself,
how often he illustrated the princi
ples of the New Testament by means
of the human hand.
“The church should take active
steps to cure the physical and men
tal "as well as the religious ills of the
people. The Church’s neglect of this
vital work cannot bo remedied too
soon. It has neglected its most im
portant functions.
“As a further and great cause of
social unrest, there comes that mon
strous profusion and extravagance of
expenditure which I am at times in
clined to consider the worst note of
our American civilization.
“A friend of mine, a lawyer of
New York, went into the mayor’s
office during Tweed’s administration.
A large diamond stud dropped on the
floor and rolled toward him. He
picked it up and turned to one of the
gentlemen in the room —it would be
invidious to mention their names,
they are all dead —‘Did one of you
drop this?’ ‘No,’ was the reply, bui
one of them hitching up his vest, said
‘Y T es, it is one of my suspender but
tons.’
“This was twenty-five years ago,
and conditions are worse instead of
better. In such conditions of social
life you have come very close to the
origin of a great deal of social un
rest.
‘‘As I grow older I am more and
more profoundly convinced that the
impatience of the masses . comes
more from the abuse of wealth than
from any other cause. Many of us
who claim to be Christ’s disciples
are guilty in this particular. We fail
to set the pace for the community
in which we live by our own habits.”
Holy War to Begin.
The French Charge d’Affairs at
Tangiers, Morocco, has been present
ed with evidence to the effect that
the slaughter of Europeans in Casa
blanca was instigated by Arabs who
preached a Holy War of extermina
tion against foreigners.
Appeal Recount Decision.
Mayor McClellan, of New York
City, and John T. Dooling, Charles
B. Page, John McGuire and Rudolph
C. Fuller as Commissioners of Elec
tions, yesterday filed notices of ap
peal from the ruling of the Appellate
Division of the Supreme Court in
regard to the recount of the votes
cast at the mayoralty election. Both
notices are directed to Justice Charles
W. Dayton of the Supreme Court,
who made the adverse ruling, and all
his brother justices.
In his appeal the mayor again asks
for a writ of prohibition preventing a
recount.
Government Fining Railways.
Western railroads complain of
heavy fines for delay in delivering
the mails. To consider the situation
railroad officials held a conference
at Chicago. One official declared
that the fines levied by the govern
ment against his road had in one
quarter amounted to $40,000. A sim
ilar condition on other roads was
reported.
Aliens Should Not Vote.
At Norfolk, before the Virginia
Bar Association, John R. Dos Passes,
a well known New York lawyer, de
clared that the last century of po
litical life in America had developed
two great defects in the working of
the government; first, the indiscrimi
nate admission of foreigners to cit
izenship, with suffrage, and, second,
the abnormal increase in the number
of representatives in the lower houses
of the Federal and state assemblies.
Characterizing the naturalization
laws as a distinct innovation upon
the true conception of citizenship in
democratic government, Tie said:
“However necessary, nay, inevita
ble, in our early national life, the
naturalization laws have more than
performed their mission; they have
become a dangerous menace to the
nation. The time has come, it seems
to me, when the gates of the United
States should be shut to indiscrimi
nate citizenship, carrying with it the
right to suffrage. We must begin to
establish a real American union of
Americans only, fully imbued with
true American principles.
“I did, at one time, indulge in a
dream of interchangeable citizenship
between this and all other countries
where the English law and the En
glish language govern. I believe such
a step would insure absolute peace
and advance the interests of Christi
anity and civilization. So long as
this thought, however, hovers around
the world as an unrealized dream, I
would strengthen and solidify the
American nation. If immigration
must be encouraged, invest the immi
grants with citizenship but without
the right to suffrage. The right to
vote and citizenship are separable.
“By no fault of the founders of
our government, througn the admis
sion into our political body of a vast
multitude of persons as citizens, in
competent and neglecting properly to
exercise the right of suffrage, and
through the increase in the number
of legislators in the lower halls of
the house of representatives, univer
sal suffrage and a representative de
mocracy must to some extent be held
as failures, and to a greater extent
responsible for the lawless tenden
cies of the age. The halls of legis
lation are overworked, just as they
were at Atheu« when pure democracy
existed. Our legislators do not
breathe the proper atmosphere of
law-makers, the quality and know
ledge of the representatives have
diminished. The houses of repi esen
tai ives are run by cabals and com
mittees ”
To Smash Powder Trust.
Suit for the dissolution of the Pow
der Trust and, as in the ease against
the Tobacco Trust, for a receiver to
administer its affairs until the liti
gation is completed, was entered by
the Department of Justice in the
United States Circuit Court, at Wil
mington, Del., under the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act.
In its bill of complaint the govern
ment charges that the trust controls
95 per cent of the powder output
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of the country and that by unfair
methods it has forced its competitors
out of business. The suit is brought
against E. 1. DuPont-de Nemours &
Co., the E. I. DuPont-de Nemours
Powder Company, of New Jersey;
twenty-four other corporations and
seventeen individuals.
The government asks that these
companies be enjoined from engaging
in interstate commerce and that re
ceivers be appointed to take over
their business. The government asks
also that control of certain capital
stocks in other companies by the va
rious holding companies shall be ad
judged unlawful and void and that
the defendants shall be restrained
from carrying on alleged unfair com
petition against twenty-six indepen
dent firms, which at the time of the
filing of the petition were engaged in
the manufacture, shipment and sale
of blasting powder and dynamite in
the United States in lawful compe
tition with the defendants.
Johnson Named Senator.
Joseph F. Johnston was unanimous
ly nominated in joint caucus of the
Democrats of the two houses at
Montgomery, composing all but two
of the entire membership of the lig
islature, to succeed the late Senator
Pettus in tie United States Senate,
his time to run to 1915. Mr. John
ston was twice governor of the state,
and once ran against the late Sena
tor Morgan for the senate.
Taft Indorsed.
Senator Foraker’s address to the
Republican party through his open
lei ter to Committeeman C. B. Mc-
Coy, and Senator Dick’s appeal to
his friends in the Republican State
Committee not to adopt a resolution
indorsing Secretary Taft for presi
dent, fell on deaf ears, and the Ohio
State Committee by a vote of 75 to
6 adopted such a resolution at Co
lumbus.
The resolution as offered by Sen
ator Overturf read:
“We declare that the Republicans
ity of the people of Ohio, convinced
of the high character, great ability
and distinguished services of Secre
tary Taft, indorse his candidacy for
the presidency; and, further,
•‘We declare that the Republicans
of Ohio overwhelmingly desire that
the name of William Howard Taft
be presented to the nation as Ohio’s
candidate for president, and that the
Republicans of other states are invit
ed to co-operate with the Republi
cans of Ohio to secure his nomina
tion in 1908.”
When Senator Foraker learned of
the action of the Republican State
Committee he gave out this state
ment:
“I cannot add anything to what I
said in my open letter published this
morning. I wrote that letter fore
seeing the result and feeling that it
was my duty to give notice before
hand that I would not be bound by
any such unauthorized action. The
committee had no more right to speak
on that subject for the Republicans
of Ohio than any other twenty-one
Republicans of the state might have