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Summary of Tbents as They Happen
“Unfair List” Still in Use.
Although suit was brought against
the American Federation of Labor
to prevent boycotting the September
number of the American Federation*
ist, just issued, contains the usual
“We don’t patronize” list.
President Samuel (Jumpers, in a
vigorous editorial regarding the anti
boycott suit and the alleged determi
nation of the National Association
of Manufacturers t o raise a • fund
of $1,500,000 to fight labor unions
under the heading “Go to With
Your War Fund,” says in part;
“The employers in the Manufac
turers’ Association have organized
and instead of frankly conceding
that right to the wage-worker they
want to destroy nis organization so
that they, in organized force, may
more easily become roasters of all
they survey.
“Organized labor has been so fair
to the fair-minded and just employ
er, it has brought such a degree of
sunshine to#the homes and lives of
the toilers, that it has come to stay.
To stay, do you understand —Van
Cleave, Parry, Post—to stay!”
Anarchist Congress Opens in Amster
dam.
Emma Goldman, the American an
archist, told the Anar'hist Congress
at its opening at Amsterdam Hol
land, that she brought cordial greet
ings from all the Anarchists in the
United States. She declared that lib
erty for the masses exists only on pa
per; fervently hoped the congress
would devise an international organ
ization of anarchists and said that
there is nothing to hope frtm the So
cial Democrats.
Uncle Sam’s Telegraph.
The following sacs are given in
the annual report of Gen. Allen, the
chief signal officer »vh > has charge
of the Federal system of telegraph;
The system consists us 1,403 cries
of line and 107 miles of wireless and
2,524 miles of submarine cable. There
are forty-five telegraph offices and
ten cable stations in this system, of
which eighteen are money transfer
offices. Last year the total number
of messages handled w.is 260.000
commercial and 50,000 official.
Edward VIII. Forces House of Lords
to Pass Bill.
After sixty years of incessant agi
tation the British House of Lords at
London has at last conse.ned o a
bill legalizing marriage with “a de
ceased wife’s sister.”
This bill has passed the House of
Commons eleven times, and reached
third reading in the House of Lords
once before, but then was rejected by
a plurality of two.
Its chief opponents hava bem the
Anglican bishops. wh.i insist on re
garding such unions as immoral, and
have opposed legalizing them on the
ground that it would introduce a new
element of disruption and unhappiness
into home life.
The Royal family has steadfastly
used all its influence with the Peers
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WaTsoU’s Weekly jeffeKsonian.
to pass the bill and at last King Ed
ward has succeeded.
Writing to the press, many of the
Anglican clergy declare that they
never will consent to celebrate such
unions, or peimit their celebration in
their churches.
Hitherto Englishmen wished
to marry their dead wife’s sisters
have married abroad, but the off
spring of such marriages was illegit
imate in Great Britain though legiti
mate in the British Colonies and
the Channel Islands.
Lien Mangles Woman.
Mrs. Anna Hucke, sixty-four years
old, was horribly mangled at Pitts
burg, Pa., and 1,500 persons were
thrown into a panic when Cedar, an
immense lion at Luna Park, escaped
from his cage and charged the au
dience, composed mostly of women
and children. After fifteen minutes’
battle four park policemen killed the
brute. Over fifty shots were fired at
him. Mrs. Hucke is in the Homoe
pathic Hospital and the doctors do
not think she can survive the night.
Steam Presses Scare Printers.
Steam presses are now being in
stalled in the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing at Washington and the
plate printer’s employed there fear
they may lose their positions in con
sequence. The law against the use of
steam presses in the Bureau was re
pealed by Congress at its last ses
sion and since that time two have
been placed in the establishment. The
officials say none of the men will be
dismissed.
Canada Would Limit Japanese Immi
gration.
The Dominion Government is nego
tiating with Japan to restrict the im
migration of Japanese to Canada to
a still more limited number each
year. It is believed such an arrange
ment can be effected.
The existing arrangement provides
for the admission of from 500 to 600
Japanese yearly, but this number is
multiplied several times by arrivals
from Honolulu. It is proposed to lim
it the arrivals in British Columbia
to 500 yearly, whether they come
from Japan or elsewhere.
The Japanese consul here says that
a large number of the Japanese ar
riving in Canada ultimately find their
way to the United States.
Noel Will Be Next Governor.
E. F. Noel has been nominated for
Governor of Mississippi in the Demo
cratic primary held in Mississippi
last Thursday. Earl Brewer, his op
ponent, conceded the nomination, of
Noel.
Farmers Lynch Murderer.
Lewis P. Higgins, who murdered
W. L. Coppie and wife, farmers near
Rosalie, Neb., May 12, was lynched
at Bancroft. Sheriff Young, of
Thurston county, came to Omaha last
night to get his prisoner, who had
been in the Douglas county jail here
since his capture, and took him to
Bancroft on a train which arrived
there at 8 a. in. today.
Twenty men took Higgins from the
sheriff, hauled him off in a dray and
hanged him to a tree.
Morgan to Buy .More Bonds.
Repeating his famous coup of 1896,
when he formed a rich man’s syndi
cate to buy United States lionds by
secret contract to replenish the gold
reserve, J. Pierpont Morgan, accord
ing to semi-official .announcement
has made a private arrangement with
New York City officials to form
similar syndicate to purchase $40,-
000,000 4 1-2 per cent city bonds
which Acting Comptroller McCooey
has announced, will be sold on Sept.
10. .x
Taft a Straddler, Declares Bryan.
William J. Bryan’s reply to the
speech of Secretary Taft at Colum
bus, Ohio, was given out at Lincoln,
Neb. Secretary Taft is condemned
as a “straddler” on nearly all the
important issues and criticised for
not taking advance® grounds in re
forms. He says:
. “Secretary Taft’s speech will
prove a disappointment to those who
expected a clear bugle note in favor
of reform. There is not a single ques
tion on which he takes a strong, ad
vanced position.
“On the railroad question he is in
favor of preventing watered stock,
opposes the consolidation of compet
ing lines and the duplication of di
rectorates. So far so good; but he
does not advocate the ascertaining
of the value of the roads or the re
duction of rates. He defends the
President from the charge of favor
ing, the reductions made by the States.
The railroads may object to his rhet
orical denunciation of abuses, but
they will hardly be scared by his rem
edies.
‘ ‘ On the trust question, he thunders
at unlawful trusts, but not only does
not recommend new legislation, but
takes the position that a monopoly
may not be harmful. He seems to
lean toward the idea that it must be
convicted of some harmful act —and
this throws the burden of proof up
on the Government. He recognizes
that ‘restraint is more difficult’ when
one corporation swallows up a lot
of other corporations —that ‘it in
volves enormous labor on the part of
the Government to prosecute such a
combination because the proof of the
gist of the offense lies underneath an
almost limitless variety of transac
tions,’ and yet he is opposed to the
license system which would enable
the Government absolutely to prevent
a monopoly.
‘‘ In other words, he gives the ben
efit of the doubt to the corporation
instead of to the people. He thinks
that putting one or two trust mag
nates in the penitentiary would have
a healthy effect, but he uses so many
qualifying words that one is left in
doubt as to what he really favors.
“After submitting an argument in
support of an inheritance tax and a
graduated income tax, he concludes
by saying that he is not in favor of
adopting either of them now. At
some future time he may adopt them
if they are needed.
“He comes out strong in favor of
government by injunction, but does
not take any positiun on arbitration
and election of senators by the peo
ple.
“He takes a rap .at socialism, de
nounces the initiative and referen
dum and presents an argument
against Government ownership of
railroads. He is stronger in stating
what he opposes than in stating what
he favors and he —unintentionally of
course —misstates Mr. Bryan’s posi
tion on several questions.
“He makes out a strong case in
favor of tariff reform, but when he
gets to the remedy he goes no fur
ther than the Republican leaders
have gone in former campaigns. He
wants enough tariff to cover the dif
ference in cost of labor here and
abroad —the excuse given for the
present tariff —and he wants tho
tariff reformed by its friends. ‘Tar
iff reform by the friends of the tar
iff’ is a farce and a fraud* and the
Secretary runs away from the conclu
sions which would naturally be drawn
from the statistics which he presents.
“The conservatives may object to
his speech because it admits many
Democratic contentions, but no real
reformer will find encouragement in
it. It is a straddle of the most im
portant issues—a compromise instead
of fight for reform.”
Fish Smites Harahan.
At a meeting of the directorate of
the Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany at No. 11 Broadway, New York
City, Stuyvesant Fish, whom E. H.
Harriman ousted from the presidency
of the company in November last, to
put John T. Harahan in charge,
punched Mr. Harahan in the jaw.
Other reports have it that there was
only a wrestling match, in which
honors were even.
Mr. Harahan in an unguarded mo
ment used that “shorter and uglier
term” in answering an assertion by
Mr. Fish that the President of the
Illinois Central was a tool of E. H.
Harriman.
Nine directors were present, Stuy
vesant Fish, Alexander G. Hack
staff, Charles M. Beach, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Walter Lutgen, John De
Witt Cutting, Charles A. Peabody,
Robert Walton Goelet and the Pres
ident.
Mr. Fish introduced a resolution
wherein he asked the directors to
vote for or against the present man
agement of the Illinois Central Rail
road and its president Mr. Harahan,
whom he accused of being a tool
in the hands of Mr. Harriman. This
resolution attacking Harriman
brought about the clash.
Parker Assails Centralization.
The thirtieth annual meeting of
the American Bar Association was
held at Portland, Maine. President