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PAGE FOUR 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 WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. 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 ♦ 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