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PAGE FOUR Summary of 'Ebents as They Happen Taft Hits Back. Secretary Taft, at Tacoma, Wash ington, tried his hand at the knock ing game when he said: 41 Mr. Bryan, in discussing some of my views on the tariff and other mat ters, has done me the honor to call me ‘the great postponer.’ With re spect to the tariff I was in favor of revision last year, and I am still in favor of revision, but I am a party man and, I hope, a practical man, and I realize the danger both to the party and to the country in any re vision of the tariff in the midst of a presidential campaign. I am con vinced that the Republican party as a party will come to a revision of the tariff immediately after the next presidential election. If it cannot be done this year, I am in favor of doing it next year. “For two presidential campaigns Mr. Bryan urged the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, but now he is post poning the issue until he can bring it forward again as a panacea in times of financial disaster. Second ly, Mr. Bryan is now emphasizing ob jections to anti-imperialism until by his efforts the treaty of Paris was adopted and the sovereignty of the Philippine s was transferred from Spain to the United States. This is really the only piece of actual affirmative constructive statesman ship with which Mr. Bryan’s name ever has been connected, and he has now for eight years been engaged in attempting to explain that away.” One Hundred and Forty Million Dol lars to Run New York City for year. The city of New York will face the most colossal expense account in its history during the coming year. The expenses of government, as figured out by the various heads of depart ments, for the coming year will, in round numbers, be about $140,000,- 000. This is considerably more than was required to run the whole Unit ed States government in 1876, and shows an expenditure that eclipses anything ever heard of in municipal history. It has been figured out by statisticians that at least $40,000,- 000 of this huge amount will go for graft. Men are growing rich over night. The only item in the budget this year that will not be seriously criticized by the taxpayers is the $32.- 000,000 that is asked for the public schools. Under Superintendent Max well, the New York public schools have gone from nearly the lowest stage of efficiency in the country to the highest. The teachers are the best paid in this or any other country, and they are appointed without the slightest political influence. AU that is required of them is to pass ths so-called “Maxwell examination.” If they can do this their place is secure. Earle Follows Example of Maxim Gorky. In putting aside forever and all time his wife and two-year-old son in order to wed another, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, artist and socialist, ac cepts the doctrine of freedom in love WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. indorsed by Maxim Gorky, the Rus sian novelist, who shocked Americans by appearing in this country a year ago with Mme. Andreieva, a Russian actress whom he introduced as “Mme. Gorky.” Gorky left his first wife, who had borne him two children, three years previously. Both parents agreed that they did not love each other any longer. Gor ky announced that the separation was without bitterness. He agreed to provide for his wife and children. Gorky’s description of married incom patibility is contained in the follow ing paragraph from “Orloff and His Wife,” a novel written by Gorky shortly before his separation: “They loved each other, but their life was so tiresome they had hardly any interests and impressions which could occasionally afford them a pos sibility of getting a rest from each other and might have satisfied the natural demand of the human soul — to feel excitement, to think, to glow —in short, to live, or under such con ditions of lack of external impres sions and interests which lend a zest to life, husband and wife are bound inevitably to become repulsive to each other.” Gorky’s relations with his affinity were told soon after his arrival. He 9 was socially ostracized, barred from hotels and forced into seclusion by public sentiment. His mission in be half of Russian freedom proved a complete failure. Courts are Unfair to Labor —Gom- pers. At a great Labor Day celebration at the Jamestown Exposition, William Randolph Hearst and Samuel Gom pers were the principal speakers. Mr. Gompers, in his address, made a strong protest against “the dis crimination of the courts against the laboring men of our country, which deprived them of their constitutional guarantee of equality before the law,” as he termed it. “The injunctions as issued against workmen are never used or issued against any other citizens of onr country,” declared Mr. Gompers. Continuing, he said: “It is an attempt to deprive citi zens of our country, when these citi zens are workmen, of the right of trial by jury. It is an effort to fasten an offense against them when they are innocent of any wrongdoing. It is an indirect assertion of a property right in men when these men are workmen engaged in a lawful effort to protect or advance their lawful rights and interests. “The injunction as issued in trade disputes is to make outlaws of men when they are not even charged with doing things in violation of law, stats or national. The writ of in junction js in itself a beneficent writ for the protection of property rights, but it never was intended and never should be applied to deprive men r' their personal rights, or the right man’s ownership of himself. Labor asks no immunity for any man, workman or other, who may be guilty . of unlawful or criminal conduct. But we do insist that when a workman is charged with a crime he shall be tried by the same process of law as every other citizen. “So far as I am concerned, let me eay that never have I, nor ever will I, violate a law. I desire it to be clearly understood that when any court undertakes, without warrant of law, by the injunction process, to de prive me of my personal rights and my personal liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution, I shall have no hesi- ' tancy in asserting and exercising these rights. And it may not be amiss to sound a word of warning and advice to such of the rampant, vindictive and greedy employers who seek to rob the working people of our country of their lawful and con stitutional rights by the unwarranted injunction process. The full power of labor has never yet been exercized in defense of its rights; it is not wise to compel its exercise.” Mr. Hearst said, in part : “There should be no prejudice en tertained by the capitalist toward the laborer, and there should be no prejudice by the laborer toward the capitalist. There should be an ap preciation of the essential part which each plays in the creation of wealth. “The working man is worthy of his hire, the business man of his profit. The man who digs the pre cious metal from the earth is worth his wage. The man who tells him where to find the gold deserves his profit, too. The great financial pro moters, organizers, executives of America, are worthy of recognition and reward. “They wori< as hard as any of us, and their work is absolutely neces sary to the full protection of the riches out of which are paid here in America the highest wages in the world. Through many an anxious day and many a wakeful night these men have planned and prosecuted the great enterprises which have develop ed the wealth of the nation and have given employment to millions of men. Let them have a liberal share of that wealth as long as that is the incen tive which stimulates them to useful activities. Let them have wealth as long as it is honestly acquired through enterprises that benefit the whole community. The riches they amass and call their own are seldom spent in extravagance and luxury up on themselves, but are put back into new industries, to produce more wealth and give employment to more men. “The true captain of industry is the general of our industrial army. He csnnot do without soldiers, and yet. no matter how well the soldiers fight, the victory depends very large ly on the general’s skillful conduct of the campaign. “The great business man is the manager of the enterprise in which we are all embarked. He is as ne cessary to us as we are to him, for, no matter how well we work the suc- cess of the enterprise and the profit of it depend very largely on the abil ity of his management. “To achieve the most complete suc cess for all there should be the great est harmony between promoter and wage earner and an ungrudging ap preciation of each other’s value. To win the fullest victory there should be confidence and concerted action between the commander and ths men behind the guns.” Mansfield Buried. The body of Richard Mansfield waa placed in the steel vault in Gardner Cemetery', scarcely 300 feet from the late actor’s residence, Seven Acres, New London, Conn., where he died Thursday morning. The funeral services were held in the famous actor’s study. The Rev. Alfred Poole Grint, Ph.D., rector of St. James Church, conduct ed them. The services were attend ed by a large number, most of whom were from New London. Several from out of town were present, how ever, among them A. G. Andrews, who had been a member of Mr. Mans field’s companies for the past sixteen years. Following the services at the house the procession to the cemetery start ed during a heavy shower. The honorary bearers were Benja min L. Stevens, of New York, Mr. Mansfield’s manager for many years; Paul Wilstach, of Chicago, his lit erarv adviser; Commander John Parker, U. S. N.; Rutger Jewett, Robert Appleton, Col. A. C. Tyler, Dr. William Appleton and Roland Keasby. Black Hundreds Shoot Men, Women and Children. The Black Hundreds began rioting at Odessa, alleging that the Jews were responsible for the explosion of the bomb in the courtyard of the Cen tral Police Station on Saturday morning, which resulted in the killing of an artillery officer and four police men, although it was stated at the time that it was accidentally dropped by the officer. The rioters ran through the streets inhabited by Jews, firing promiscu ously right and left. Three men were killed and from fifty' to sixty wounded. The mob indulged in other brutal excesses and beat down many victims with flexible rubber sticks. The Jew ish Cemetery, where thousands of Jews were praying at the grave sides of their dead, was the scene of a fleice onslaught by membets of the Black Hundreds, who shot down manv ot the mourners with revolvers. A panic broke out in the cemetery and many persons were injured in the wild rush to escape the vengeance of the organized mob. Platt Bays Odell Will Again Lead. That Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., would be the next chairman of the Republi can State Committee was the predic tion of Senator Platt, who has just returned to his apartments at the