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PAGE FOUR | Summary of TLbents as They Happen The McKinley Mausoleum. At Canton, 0., in the presence of 50,000 spectators the $600,000 Mau soleum in honor of President McKin ley has been dedicated. Addresses were delivered by President Roose velt, former Secretary of State Wm. R. Day, and the Governor of Ohio. The mausoleum is a stately struct ure rivaling those to President Grant at New York and President Garfield at Cleveland. Jno. D. Rockefeller Talks. The old man is growing garrulous. Since our last issue he has talked about three columns to the reporter of the New York Journal. The sub ject of his few remarks was the beau ty of “combination,” and its great work in our economic system. He opines that it is a natural evolution, that those gentlemen who have been engaged in perfecting the system are patriots and public benefactors, that the system will continue to grow with no steps backward, and that the time is not distant when everything will be combined, prosperity will be uni versal, and happiness will be every body’s portion. May be so, may be so, but we have our doubts. Human nature is powerful contrary. When a little fellow who wants to run a small grocery, or dry goods store, is “combined” into a sl3 per week clerk in a big department store, he has a knack of being dissatisfied. He may be dead wrong, but the is to make him see it. It may be true that we would all be happy if we would only employ say six Rockefellers and givfc them five hundred millions each to combine and run everything, but the Lord has so constituted us, that we would rather remain “uncombined” and take our chances of happiness, than to be combined and made happy in spite of ourselves. Mr. Rockefeller, no doubt, spoke in all sincerity, he is too honest to speak otherwise, but we opine that most of the folks pre fer more liberty and less combina tion, and unless we are mistaken they are getting ready to fix things that way. The Looting of Alaska. In a late issue of the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, Fred. M. Brooks tells of the looting of Alaska now in full tide. It is the old story over again. When a few years hence the people begin to wake up on the wonderful resources of Alaska it will be discov ered that the Smelter Trust owns the country and another trust owned rot ten borough will be knocking for ad mission to the Union. It seems that in the long and rugged coast range of the Southern and Eastern part of Alaska there are only five practicable passes to the interior. I’he Smelter Trust have grabbed four of these passes. The fifth one lies near the town of Valdez and when the peo ple of that town started to build a railroad that would go through the pass the Smelter Trust fortified it, put so-called U. S. Marshals on duty and when the other people got there with their construction gang, proceed ed to shoot dow> four or five of them. ~ WATSON’S WEEKLY! JEFFERSONIAN. This stops all operations and while the courts are threshing out the mat ter the trust will quietly fasten their grip on the pass for all time to come. Hindus in Canada. It is now charged that the influx of Hindus into the Canadian North west is being promoted by the Cana dian Pacific Steamship Company. This being so, it is evident that the C. P. S. Co. is twin brother to the Atlantic Steamship lines which for years past have been so busily en gaged in promoting immigration of low grade Europeans into our own country. The desire for dividends on the* part of corporations seems to be the ‘ 4 one touch of nature which makes all corporations kinfolks.” A Bigger Navy. Admiral Bob Evans has been inte> viewed and says we must have a big ger navy or quit. The Admiral is clearly of opinion that we must have the biggest navy in the world or cease to be a world power. Great thing to be a world power, isn’t it? Never mind the cost. We must be IT. What is the good of our fruitful plains, and golden hills, our mighty rivers and splendid harbors, if we are not going to outshine everybody else! These things were not given to us to enable us to build a great, prosperous, peaceful, just, contented nation at tending wisely to its own affairs and giving other people a chance to at tend to theirs. Oh, no! They were given to us so that we might get to be the biggest fish in the stream, the leader of world powers, the maker of civilization to order for lesser na tions, a cleaner up of the premises of other people even if our own backyard is full of tin cans, old newspapers and chicken bones. If we insist on being a mighty “w’orld power” with all the trim mings, by all means let us have the big “navee.” The President Talks. The President on his trip down the Mississippi made several speeches not however making any new points until at Memphis he brought out the fact that he has decided to call a Nation al Convention for the purpose of dis cussing how best to preserve our Na tional Resources and stop the prodi gal waste now going on. The plain people of the country could probably give some pretty straight tips on this question. The Cost of Rail Roads. The Tallahassee (Fla.) Sun has devoted much space in its last two is sues to showing that the State of Florida has given for the construc tion of railroads in that State 17,- 000,600 acres of land, or more than the entire area of Massachusetts, Ver mont, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island. Or to put it another way, four and a half million people now live on an area less than that given away by the State of Florida to secure railroads. On this same line the New York Journal shows that not one penny of any private individual went into the coastnictiun of the Uu* ion Pacific and Central Pacific Rail roads. It is well to have these facts kept before the public in these days of re form, “lest we forget.” The Cotton Convention. The big convention alluded to last week is now in session in Atlanta.. It is composed of Foreign and American Spinners and American growers. It is largely attended and attracting much interest. The city is gaily dec orated and the delegates are being entertained sumptuously. As near as we can judge of the 72 hours which the convention will cover, 12 hours will be devoted to business, and the remainder to entertainment and rest. If the convention can devise some plan whereby the cotton grower can grow, harvest and market his crop in one-sixth of the year, it will cover it self with glory. Some of the delegates tell us that there is a strong senti ment among both spinners and grow ers against the speculators. It is to be hoped that this sentiment will crys tallize into action. Reform in Georgia. It will be remembered that last year a reform campaign was fought and won in Georgia. It will also be re membered that the Atlanta Constitu tion was “agin” the reforms. After the election The Constitution became a sort of reformer too, but uneasy because fearing the reformers would go too fast and too far. On last Sun day its young man having made a round of certain prominent bushices men in Atlanta, the Constitution made report. It seems that a majority of these business men share the anxiety of The Constitution and fear that we are too radical We notice however that some of the business men are nut “skeered” and assert strongly that they do not fear any evil effects on business from the doing a little jus tice. In the editorial columns of the same issue, The Constitution prints the powers of the Canadian Railroad Commission from which it appears that our little commission is to the Canadian commission as a cooing dove is to a roaring lion. Independence League Organization. Hearst’s Independence Leaguers have been holding a convention in New York with representatives from 32 states and their action looks sus piciously like the shying into the »ing of national politics of the “Castor” of a new political party. Ohio Municipal Campaigns. In addition to the very lively cam paign in Cleveland, both Cincinnati and Toledo have very interesting con tests. In Cincinnati the Democrats have renominated Mayor Dempsey, who has made a good record. The unsavory Boss Cox is again in charge of the Republican machine and has nominated Leopold Markheit who is described as a “close personal friend of President Roosevelt* In Toledo, Brand Whitlock, suc cessor and disciple of Golden Rule Jones, is running for re-election as an Independent, with good prospects of euccaee. To Check Emigration. It is reported that Italy, Sweden, Norway and Spain are hunting for a means of stopping the emigration which it is claimed is weakening the productive power of those nations. They have our best wishes in this laudable effort. Traction Frauds in New York. The affairs of the rotten street rail ways in New York have at last got ten into court and the stench is some thing dreadful. Hearst’s American and Journal estimate the direct steal age at a little less than 50 millions of dollars. Yellow dog funds, rotten stock and bond issues, huge sums ex pended without vouchers and the checks destroyed, all go to make np a bit of “high finance” not sur passed in our annals by the high financiers who have given us so many object lessons in the past few years. Socialists Riot. Socialists made the most riotous demonstration ever seen in New York last Sunday afternoon in the Cooper Union, where they made a determined effort to break up a meeting of the Federation of Italian Societies, called to protest against the recent action of the Italian government against lhe clergy and the outrages to which Car dinal Merry’ del Vai, Papal Secretary of State, among others, hid bean sub jected during the present agitation. For twenty-five minutes 4 he dis turbers, who were all Italians, held the police at bay, and it was not un til Captain Short with twenty men hurried over from the Fifth street station to the rescue of Lieutenant Powers and the eight men on duty that order was restored and the meet ing was permitted to continue. Nine men, supposed ring-leaders, were arrested and a hundred more were beaten by the police and thrown out into the street. In the Night Court eight of these men paid fints of $3 each on the technical charge of disorderly conduct. “If you fellows want to protest against the Pope,” said Magistrate Crane, in fining the men, “go hire a hall for yourselves. You cannot go into a peaceful gathering of citizens and act in this manner. If you de n’t like the Pope, go back where you came from and tell him so.” The call foi the meeting had been sent out to eighteen different church es and long before the time set for the opening, three o’clock, every seat was taken and hundred* clamored at the doors for admission. On the platform sat some of the most distinguished priests of the Roman Catholic Church in N. Y., laymen of varying creeds and clergy of other denominations Among them were the Right Revs. Lavelle, Rector of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Mooney, of Old St. Peter’s; Kearney,.the ven erable rector of the old St. Patrick’s Murphy, of the Church of the Immac ulate Conception; the Rev. Father Mclntyre, of St. Teresa’s; the Rev. Dr. Dennis F. McMahon, of the Church of the Epiphany; the Rev. Dr. Demo, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii; the Rev. Fath er Quirioi, of the Church of the