NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering WHAT is said to be the most appalling mine disaster in the history of this country took its grim toll of 400 lives on the 13th in the little town of Cherry in Illinois. A...
...News Notes E. F. Scales, one of the group, including James A. Patten, which is engaged in an attempt to corner the cotton crop, gave out an interview on the 8th, in which he said that there would probably be a ten-million-bale cottage shortage and that the price would soon go to twenty cents...
...The November grand jury will take up the bomb outrages and inquire into the conduct of the police department, while States Attorney Wayman is continuing his efforts to find the persons responsible for the scandalous conditiens found in the office of the jury commissioners...
...R. A. Bonnell, who is alleged to be responsible for the payment of $45,000 to a contracting company for the excavation of shale rock from a sewer where there is said to have been none, claims that the records of the transaction were stolen from his home, where he had taken them for examination...
...I did not even pledge him the support of my own paper and I never talked with him about securing newspaper support in any shape or manner...
...He expressed his admiration for the Japanese and declared we have much to learn from them...
...That means something...
...West the Center of Finances...
...But on top of this situation comes the news that the condition in the port of San Francisco is quite as "depressing...
...The Glavis story is a tissue of falsehoods and insinuations utterly unwarranted in view of the facts easily obtainable by anybody who wants them...
...Therefore, the first amendment to that instrument was that guaranteeing the right of freedom of speech and press...
...Mothers with babies at their breasts and older children with tear-stained faces pillowed on their skirts, huddled at the entrance to the mine all the night long...
...In it he made mention of Speaker Cannon in the following words: "He is the potential instrument of every predatory interest that infests the halls of Congress, whose tactics are, and whose motto should read: 'They shall take who have the power, and they shall keep who can.'" With regard to the decision of the court, sentencing himself and Mr...
...Free press and free speech were guaranteed that men might feel free to say things that displeased...
...Gompers said: "Concretely stated, the decision of the court declares that no matter whether the injunction of Justice Gould was right or wrong, valid or void, we were compelled to obey...
...New light continues to be thrown on the conduct of Chicago's administration...
...Meanwhile the sugar scandal grows...
...Despatches from Washington state that the Ballinger matter will be the first among the many subjects of importance to receive President Taft's attention as soon as he gets settled down to work...
...Gompers, "that the doctrine that the citizen must yield obedience to every order of the court, notwithstanding that order transcends inherent, natural, human rights guaranteed by the constitution of our country, is vicious and repugnant to liberty and human freedom and that it is the duty, the imperative duty, to protest...
...On November 1, the maximum tariff went into effect on all American goods imported into France...
...In an interview on the 11th, President Charles R. Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin said: "Undoubtedly the attitude of Mr...
...It is expected that a thorough investigation will be made and efforts put forth to stop the vast leaks of revenue...
...Imports showed an increase of value for the month of over $22,000,000 compared with the same period last year, and exports increased about $14,-000,000...
...It is also charged that contracts involving the payment of more than $100,000 were given by the engineering department of Chicago to a manufacturing firm without compliance with the law requiring advertising for bids, and the Merriam Commission is said to have found numerous other irregularities in, the purchasing department of the city...
...Thompson is a Democrat...
...Paul he said the monetary commission has the fullest possible scope of inquiry...
...Rescuers who voluntarily permitted themselves to be lowered into the mine were drawn back to the surface dead...
...At St...
...Ballinger and Mr...
...On the 6th, a terrific storm cut off all communication between the West Indies and the outside world...
...Senator Aldrich in an interview at Omaha on the 10th said: "This is the capitalistic section of the country...
...Glavis presents the evidence upon which was founded his conviction that the conduct of Mr...
...Cannon and Ridder Dispute In a speech at Bloomington, Ill., on the 12th, Speaker Cannon discussed the print paper schedule of the tariff law...
...But I expect that in order to develop our little farms (I being a farmer myself) very soon if we need any repairs to our roofs, we shall have to come to Omaha or to Kansas City to get it...
...This declaration drew forth a burst of applause...
...Ridder on the 13th emphatically denied this...
...The maximum rates of the Payne-Aldrich bill cannot be applied until April 1, 1910, and until that time France has the advantage...
...We do not need this right to please those entrusted with the authority of government...
...President Gompers presented a long report...
...In this article Mr...
...Senator Aldrich was declared to be a menace to the country...
...Public attention was directed in a striking manner to the record of the General Land Office in handling the Alaska coal land claims, by the publication in Collier's of a statement by L. R. Glavis, formerly Chief of the Field Division, who was recently dismissed by order of President Taft...
...The statement of Glavis has gained nothing either as to its veracity or justification in the interval since its presentation to the President, and in view of the complete vindication by the President of myself and the other officers of the department concerned, I will make no further statement at present...
...Glavis Puts Ballinger on Record Interest in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy is again at a keen pitch...
...Ballinger and some of his immediate subordinates in regard to the "Cunningham claims" was such as to endanger the public interest in these valuable lands...
...I repeat and emphasize this fact," continued Mr...
...Ballinger issued a newspaper interview in which he said the Glavis article was a "tissue of falsehoods...
...W. Cameron Forbes, Vice Governor General of the Philippines, has been named as Governor General to succeed James Smith, whose resignation took effect on the 11th...
...Figures compiled by the bureau of statistics for September, 1909, show a marked increase in the importations and exportations of manufactures and manufacturers' materials, and a decrease of both imports and exports of foodstuffs...
...Demand for reform coming from the people is generally distasteful to those entrenched in power and privilege...
...The new tariff law of the United States is regarded by France as being unfavorable to her and she therefore takes this means of forcing an agreement whereby French goods imported into America will be less heavily taxed...
...The disclosures of stealing from the government by false weights, etc., in the port of New York have been bad enough, it is pointed out, to require immediate "house cleaning" in the customs service...
...The search will be continued...
...Mitchell to prison for alleged contempt of court, Mr...
...The history of the human race has been full of tyranny and the denial to the people of the right of expressing freely by speech or in the press their opinions...
...We shall have to look out for our laurels in the East...
...A few survivors managed to reach daylight through crevices, to tell a fearful story of the horrors below...
...Many ships were destroyed and hundreds of persons lost their lives, while the property loss will mount into the millions...
...Taft Completes Trip After traveling some 13,000 miles in a giant swing around the country, during which he pledged the administration to action on a remarkably large number of important issues, President Taft reached Washington on the 10th to resume his duties as chief executive...
...A fire in the upper works of the St...
...On the 4th it was announced that beginning with the second semester, the University of Michigan would offer a course in conservation, leading to the degree of master of conservation engineering...
...It is the same false coloring of isolated portions of the record and of a series of transactions which in their entirety refute the inferences Glavis wishes drawn from the portions published...
...Cannon must be crazy to make such an absurd statement...
...After two years of searching, federal secret service agents have secured evidence against James F. Bendernagel, sufficient to bring about his indictment and arrest on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government by false weighing of sugar...
...He said in the course of his speech that newspaper and magazine pub-lishers were especially opposed to the advance in the tariff on this commodity, and that he was visited "one morning by the president of the Publishers' Association, Herman Ridder," who asked that print paper be put on the free list Then, Cannon went on to say, Mr...
...Commander Peary, whom the National Geographic Society, after examining his data, recognized as reaching the North Pole, signed a contract with Hampton's Magazine on the 4th, for the story of his exploit...
...Instantly the main shaft was a funnel of flame, cutting off all chances of escape to the imprisoned miners...
...Says Fred Dennett, the present Commissioner of the Land Office: "The article is simply a repetition of the charges submitted to the President, and which the President, after examining all the evidence and the official records, characterized as 'shreds of suspicion,' and so disingenuous that he ordered Glavis' dismissal...
...Ridder virtually offered him the support of the press of the country in his candidacy for President in return for his support of free print paper...
...Louis on the 8th, at Kansas City on the 9th, and at St...
...Against that concept, at least for myself, I enter a most emphatic protest...
...Dennett have confined themselves to general denials without advancing evidence from the records to disprove the statements made by Glavis...
...Labor to Support Gompers At the convention of the American Federation of Labor at Toronto, Ont., on the 8th, the enthusiastic reception given to Samuel Gompers, president of the organization, gave indication that he has the support of his fellow workers in the unions...
...The whole nation has been stirred by the catastrophe and relief is being sent to the stricken families...
...Ballinger, that those wanting water power sites and coal lands can obtain them unless Congress takes action, is eminently satisfactory to the corporations, and if all that is necessary to secure the sites is to prevent legislation withdrawing them from entry, the legislation will be prevented...
...We used to loan money to this section of the country, those of us that had money to loan...
...Paul Coal Company's mine caused a series of explosions of coal gas and ignited the timbers...
...Other subjects dwelt upon in President Gomper's report were, child labor, immigration, convict labor, industrial education, employers' liability and workingmens' compensation, injunctions and boycotts, and his European tour...
...This has led to the hope that miners sought the deeper levels and that those still surviving have been firing blasts as signals of cheer to those above...
...At Richmond, Va., on the 10th, the President repeated his declarations with regard to conservation, trust regulation and railroad laws, and added "when I think of the number of things Congress ought to do I am staggered lest it may not find time to do them...
...Morrison and Mr...
...New Senator From North Dakota Fountain L. Thompson, a "dark horse," was appointed by the governor of North Dakota as United States Senator to fill the unexpired part of the late Senator Johnson's term...
...On the following day experts in the geological survey were lowered into the mine, but after three descents reported that no signs had been found of the unfortunate men whose escape had been cut off...
...After our people established a government they recalled that they had omitted to safeguard this vital right in framing our constitution...
...Meanwhile farmers have reported that jarrings of the ground above the portion of the mine that extends deepest into the earth have been felt...
...Curtis in a Washington dispatch of the 2d to the Chicago Record-Herald, states that Senator Cullom of Illinois has suggested to Secretary of State Knox that the Chinese ambassadorship be offered to former Vice-President Fairbanks...
...At St...
...When a judge so far transcends his authority, and assumes functions entirely beyond his power and jurisdiction, when a judge will set himself up as the highest authority in the land, invading constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens, when a judge will go so far in opinion, decision and action that even judges of the Court of Appeals have felt called upon to characterize his action 'unwarranted' and 'foolish,' under such circumstances it is the duty of the citizen to refuse obedience and to take whatever consequences may ensue...
...Paul on the 13th, he repeated his views expressed to the businessmen of Chicago on the 6th...
...Right of Appeal Demanded The National Industrial Traffic League at its convention in Chicago on the 8th decided to work for an amendment to the Hepburn act which will give the shippers a right to appeal from decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...At Augusta, Ga., on the 8th, he said he would recommend the establishment of a national board of health to "study questions of health under all conditions prevailing in this country, so that by the circulation of the knowledge obtained it may enable the people to live hygienic lives...
...He is to receive $1.20 a word, and the story will run serially for eight months...
...Bendernagel has been for more than thirty years superintendent of the Havemeyer and Elder sugar refinery in Williamsburg, the largest plant of the sugar trust...
...For four days the islands were devastated by earthquake shocks and a hurricane and during that time forty-eight inches of rain fell...
...Aldrich Talks On Currency During the week Senator Aldrich continued his tour of the Middle West, discussing currency legislation...
...Hysterical grief soon gave way to silent misery as the long vigil wore on...
...What we want to do in this country," he said, "in a concrete way, is to establish in the people a feeling of confidence that there can be an extension of note issue and of credits whenever they are absolutely demanded...
...Grange Opposes Central Bank The National Grange Association in Des Moines on the 12th unanimously passed a resolution opposing the establishment of a central bank...
...It is noted that both Mr...
...The statement," he said, "is absolutely false and ridiculous...
...A similar course is being given this year at the University of Wisconsin by President Van Hise...
...Customs Frauds to be Probed Despatches from Washington state that Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh has been aroused to action by reports of frauds in some of the customs houses of the leading ports of entry...
...Oxygen helmets enabled the experts to penetrate the smoke-filled corridors with a minimum of danger...
...The disaster has drawn public attention to the effort being made by the federal government to prevent explosions of coal dust in mines...
...My attention," he said, "has been directed to the text of an article purporting to have been written by L. R. Glavis which is to appear in Collier's Weekly...
...The scenes about the fated mine were heartrending...
...Speaking at a banquet in honor of the visiting Japanese commercial commission on the 3d, Secretary Knox dwelt on the strong commercial ties that bind Japan and America, and of the growth of the peace movement, which will eventually settle all disputes by arbitration...
Vol. 1 • September 1909 • No. 46
