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SBOO for a saddle horse, but no trace
could be found of the animal.
Ex-mayor Barth was then in the
East. Upon his return he informed
Mayor Bingham that the horse was
in his private stable, and from then
on he was subjected to ridicule by
his political opponents. The local
press, friendly to the Bingham ad
ministration, insinuated that Barth
had attempted to defraud the city.
Barth sent his personal check for the
cost of the horse, but the criticism
continued, greatly worrying the for
mer mayor. In vain did his f iends
point out that he was being car
tooned more in the spirit of humor
than ill will. He grew more and
more despondent.
Ask Government to Take Control of
Telegraph.
President Small of the Commercial
Telegraphers’ Union of America took
official action at Chicago, calling on
the United States and Canada to take
over the control of the telegraph lines
of the Western Union and Postal
Companies. He also began a cam
paign looking to a congressional in
vestigation of the conduct of the
companies in this country.
Roosevelt Stands Pat.
In the presence of a throng that
filled the space around the grand
stand erected on Town Hill, Prince
town, Mass., where the cornerstone
of the Pilgrim’s monument was laid,
President Roosevelt corrected the
'Speech he had intended originally to
deliver, and made the declaration that'
it was the determination of the gov
ernment, in which it will not waver,
to punish certain malefactors of great
wealth. With clinched fist the pres
ident declared:
“Many men of large wealth have
been guilty of conduct which from the
moral standpoint is criminal. .....
“When in addition to moral re
sponsibility these men have a legal
responsibility which can be proved
so as to impress a judge and jury,
then the department will strain every
nerve to reach them criminally. . . .
“But it may well be that the de-
Hermination of the government, in
which, gentlemen, it will not waver,
to punish certain malefactors of
great wealth, has been responsible
for something of the troubles, at
least to the extent of having caused
these men to combine to bring about
as much financial stress as they pos
sibly can in order to discredit the
policy of the government, and there
by to secure a reversal of that policy
so that they may enjoy the fruits
of their own evildoing.”
His words were greeted with tu
multuous cheering, and the applause
was renewed with greater intensity
when he continued that the govern
ment not only would not waver in
its intention, but defined his own per
sonal policy. He said:
“Let me say that as far as I am
(concerned and for fthe eighteen
months of my presidency that re
main, there will be no change in the
policy we have pursued; no let-up
in the effort to secure the honest ob
servance of the law, for I regard this
contest as one to determine who shall
rule this free country—the people
through their governmental agents—
or a few ruthless and domineering
man, whose wealth makes them pecu-
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
liarly formidable, because they hide
behind the breastworks of corporate
organization. ’ ’
The center shots from the presi
dent’s Pilgrim speech were as fol
lows :
“I want to say as to desirable and
undesirable citizens that the same re
mains true as when the words were
spoken. I stand pat.”
“Certain socialistic leaders pro
pose to redistribute the world’s goods
by refusing to thrift and energy and
industry their proper superiority
over folly and idleness and sullen
envy. ’ ’
“The rich man who, with hard ar
rogance, declines to consider tho
rights and the needs of those who are
less well off, and the poor man who
excites or indulges in envy and hat
red of those who are better off, are
alike alien to the spirit of our na
tional life.”
“'No individual, no corporation,
obeying the law, has anything to fear
from this administration.”
“'ln the last six years we have
shown that there is no individual and
no corporation so powerful that he
or it stands above the possibility of
punishment under the law.”
“There is, unfortunately, a certain
number of our fellow countrymen
who seem to accept the view that un
less a man can be proved guilty of
some particular crime he shall be
counted a good citizen, no matter
how pernicious his doctrines or his
practices.”
“But there is a growing determina
tion that no man shall amass a great
fortune by special privilege, by chi
canery and wrongdoing, so far as it
is in the power of legislation to pre
vent, and that the fortune when
amassed shall not have a business use
that is anti-social.”
“There is no objection in the minds
of this people to any man’s earning
any amount of money if he does it
hones'ly and fairly, if he gets it as
the result of special skill and enter
prise as a reward of ample service
actually rendered.”
“Our aim is to help every honest
man, every honest corporation, and
our policy means in its ultimate an
alysis a healthy and prosperous ex
pansion of business activities of hon
est business men and honest corpo
rations.”
“I earnestly hope that the legis
lation which deals with the regula
tion of corporations engaged in inter
state business will also d°al with the
rights and interests of the wage-work
ers employed by those corporations.”
“In any good movement, such as
that in which we are engaged, noth
ing is more necessary than sanity,
than the refusal to be led into ex
tremes by the advocates of the ultra
course on either side.”
“There exists no more sordid and
unlovely type of social development
than a plutocracy, for there is a pe
culiar unwholesomeness in a social
and governmental ideal where wealth
by and of itself is held up as the
greatest good.”
“One of the favorite devices of
those who are really striving to pre
vent the enforcement of these laws
is to clamor for action of such se
verity that it cannot be undertaken
because it will be certain to fail if
tried?’
“We should certainly not adopt
any new scheme for grappling with
them (new conditions) merely because
•it is new and untried; but we cannot
afford to shrink from grappling with
them because they can only be grap
pled with by some new scheme.”
Taft the Choice of the Central West.
The Chicago Tribune, the recogniz
ed Roosevelt organ of the Central
West, has completed a poll of 1,700
editors, congressmen and chairmen
of states of the Central West. These
questions were submitted to each of
them, and almost all of them sub
mitted answers. The questions asked
were:
“Do you approve of the President’s
aggressive policy?”
“Do you prefer a candidate of the
progressive school as his successor?”
“Whom do you prefer?”
That the Central West is well sat
isfied with the policy which John D.
Rockefeller has so vigorously de
nounced is evident from the fact that
1,435 of the 1,700 men addressed an
swered and favored the policy of the
president and favored the nomina
tion of a candidate who will follow
along the same lines. The states to
which the questions were sent were *
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon
sin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota, lowa, Nebraska, Missouri
» and Kansas.
In answer to the questions as to
whom they preferred as the successor
of President Roosevelt the votes stood
as follows:
•
Taft 544
Fairbanks 150
Cannon 191
Hughes 184
Knox 19
Senator McCullom 39
President Roosevelt 158
Abolitionist G. F. Talbot Dead.
George Foster Talbot, prominent as
an abolitionist before the civil war,
died at Portland, Me., aged eighty
eight. He was a delegate to the Re
publican Convention in 1860 that
nominated Lincoln for the presidency.
Fears Spread of Mormon Power.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, spoke at
Aurora, 111., on the probability of
the spreading of Mormon political
power to all parts of the United
States. He urged his hearers to use
their influence with congressmen to
prevent the continuance of polygam
ous marriages, which, he said, were
still made among Mormons.
Russian Officer Murdered.
Col. Schrceter, commander of the
Bialystok military station, Russia,
was assassinated today. He was ac
cused of organizing and helping to
carry out recent attacks on Jews
there.
Marion Story a Suicide.
Marion Story, one of the best
known clubmen in New York, and for
many years a prominent exhibitor at
horse shows, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head in his
magnificent country place, Brook
Farm, near Port Chester.
To Investigate Superintendent Kelsey
Convinced, after thorough consid
eration of the force of the charges
made against Otto Kelsey, Superin
tendent of Insurance, Gov. Hughes,
of New York, ordered an investiga
tion into the condition of that de
partment.
Harriman to Escape.
Immunity from punishment for
granting rebates to the Standard Oil
Company was promised by the gov
ernment to E. H. Harriman and the
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
in return for furnishing the govern
ment evidence on which to secure a
conviction of the oil monopoly for
receiving rebates.
This fact was clearly established
at Washington between Attorney-
General Bonaparte, Special Counsel
Morrison, a government expert; Unit
ed States District Attorney Sims, of
Chicago; Assistant District-Attorney
Wilkerson, Robert Mather, General
Counsel for the Rock Island Road,
which controls a majori f y of the stock
of the Chicago and Alton, and Ralph
M. Shaw, General Counsel for the
Chicago and Alton.
There is scarcely any doubt that
the government will act in good faith;
that the immunity will be granted;
that Harriman and the Alton will es
cape punishment in this instance, and
that the matter of prosecution will
be dropped.
Until Attorney-General Bonaparte
can communicate with Judge Landis,
of Chicago, who imposed the fine of
$29,240,000 on the Standard Oil Com
pany and directed United States Dis
trict-Attorney Sims to submit the Al
ton end of the case to a special grand
jury for the purpose of securing in
dictments, no announcement of the
decision of the government will be
made.
Auto and Train Collide.
A millionaire’s automobile and the
Pittsfield Express, after racing side
by side for more than a mile, came
together at a speed of eighty miles
an hour at Ashley Falls, Conn. The
millionaire Charles J. Root, of Bris
tol, Conn., and his aunt, Miss Cunaee
Roberts, were killed instantly. His
mother, Mrs. Joel Root, eighty-one
years old, died on her way to the hos
pital. His sister, Miss Mary Root, is
dying in the Pittsfield hospital. One
side of her head is crushed.
One of the oldest and wealthiest
families of Connecticut was practi
cally wiped out of existence by the
collision. Root was a manufacturer
of brass hinges for pianos and per
haps the only person in this county
engaged in that business.* His family
was one of the founders of Bristol.
His mother was a granddaughter of
Gideon Roberts, the first clockmaker
in America.
No Reason for a Panic.
Leslie M. Shaw, formerly Secre
tary of the Treasury, now President
of the Carnegie Trust Company of
New York City, authorized the fol
lowing interview on the present finan
cial and industrial condition:
“Our farms produce more than
$6,500,000,000 per annum, and the
prospect is good for an average crop.
Our mines yield more than $1,000,-
000,000. And neither of these sour
ces of wealth has been exhausted.
The output of our factories, in other
than food products, is approximately
$12,000,000,000, and no fires have been
extinguished.
“The railways earn more than
$2,000,000,000, and they are all in
successful operation. The payrolls of
our factories and railways aggregate
approximately $3,500,00(1,000, and the
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