NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering THE Lincoln centenary has been the great event of the past week. If Abraham Lincoln had been permitted to live to an age vouchsafed to some 4,000 people in the United...
...This is an extension of the principle laid down by the United States courts in the celebrated Danbury Hatters Case, in which the union was found liable for damages suffered by the employers on account of a strike...
...In the matter of the prevention of forest fires, it is announced that the forest service will use three thousand angora goats in the Lassen national forest in California in making fire guards...
...It does state, however, that iron, steel, and lumber rates have been advanced by the withdrawal of commodity rates and the substitution of class rates which are higher...
...Rainey's attitude, and accused him of collusion with the World, and asserted that the man from whom the accusations originally came are black-mailers and criminals, and their attack on the canal purchase a chapter of blackmailing rare in the annals of crime...
...Rainey has in speeches sided with the New York World in the expressed suspicion that the transactions leading up to the purchase of the French rights to the Panama canal were crooked and grafty...
...He predicts that the Gatun dam will burst and destroy the canal, in which opinion he is supported by Mr...
...The labor unions feel that this line of decisions will be ruinious to them, if adhered to...
...Portland, Oregon, a larger city, is soon to put the modified "Des Moines" plan into effect...
...All others will be arbitrated at the Hague.—John Redmond turned up at Dublin the 9 in indisputed control of the United Irish league...
...The king of England has made the Kaiser a visit, the object being, it is thought, to heal the breach long existing between the two courts, and which was intensified by the Century magazine's interview with the Kaiser, in which he is said to have made bitter remarks of Edward...
...that grain and grain products have been advanced so as to amount to an average of a cent a bushel from the Mississippi Valley to the market...
...The Irish will continue, it is believed, to support the Liberals in Parliament...
...Louis on the 13 for the purpose of heading off any movement for the taking by the State of Missouri of a guiding interest in the Standard Oil Company's business in that state, under a compromise offered by the Standard in the ouster suit, in which the Waters-Pierce and other Standard concerns were ousted from Missouri...
...This is an extension to continental scope of the great conservation movement which has marked the administration of Roosevelt in this country...
...An investigating committee consisting of three members of the Wisconsin senate and five of the house has been appointed to probe the charges made in the senate that Mr...
...The Kaiser kissed Edward three times at parting...
...The law providing for a statement of expenses requires that it be made "in detail...
...Senatorial Elections Both Stephenson of Wisconsin and Hopkins of Illinois are still unelected...
...Secretary of War Luke E. Wright, an ex-Confederate...
...Colonel Goethals, the engineer in charge, declared that there is no reason to doubt the correctness of the plans...
...The article was not published...
...It is said that the steel corporation will extend its operations to farms in the vicinity of the new town...
...Carnegie also said that the great business monopolies must be controlled by a supreme industrial court, with power to fix prices...
...but under the statutes a man must be confronted with witnesses and have an opportunity to defend himself...
...Henry Wallace of Iowa, one of the commission, in discussing a proposed change in the Iowa school law, making the county the unit, rather than the township or district, makes a plea for the centralized school, with "a magnificent hall where lecturers could come from all parts of the country and address the young and old...
...The prohibition campaign is closely connected with this trial, and the entire state is greatly wrought up over it...
...General Wilson, who spoke for the union soldiers, and I. T. Montgomery of Mississippi, an ex-slave, who represented the freedmen, and the negro race, also spoke...
...These seven men elect all other city officers, under a civil service law, and direct the city affairs...
...At this writing the probabilities seem to favor Mr...
...San Jose, owing to a local political condition, it is said, rejected a similar charter presented in the form of a number of separate amendments...
...Panama Controversy in Congress President-elect Taft has a truly Rooseveltian controversy on his hands with Congressman Rainey of Illinois...
...The Wisconsin senator has published a statement of his expenses before the primaries amounting to $107,000...
...Cromwell, Mr...
...New Indictments in Oklahoma Twenty-six new indictments have been found at Muskogee, Oklahoma, for land frauds in town lots...
...Governor Willson of Kentucky...
...Railways Advance Rates The Interstate Commerce Commission, asked by Congress for a report as to advances made by railways in freight rates since the passage of the Hepburn law, have reported that while passenger rates have been generally reduced, freight rates have been advanced in many important particulars...
...for taking it for granted that the railways are willful law-breakers and a general anti-railway tone...
...New City Charters By a vote of 3,173 to 543, the city of Berkeley, California, in which the University of California is situated, has adopted the "Des Moines" plan of city government, with some variations...
...The nation emerges from "Lincoln week," inspired with new faith in the principles of democracy which guided Lincoln's life, and with renewed determination that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth," Metamorphosing Warfare The triumph of the wireless telegraph in calling aid to the sinking liner Republic, two or three weeks ago, has created opinion to the effect that all ships to which it is likely to be of use should be equipped with the new device, and President Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress recommending the passage of laws—bills for which are pending—requiring such equipment.—Gold medals have been awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright by the Smithsonian Institution for their achievements in aerial navigation.—Hiram Percy Maxim, last week, demonstrated in New York his new device for silencing the report of guns...
...Three great needs of farm life are pointed out...
...Stephenson violated the Wisconsin act to prevent corrupt practices in these expenditures of his...
...even in the face of criminal proceedings actual or threatened against the World...
...First, co-operation among farmers to place them on a level with the organization in other business...
...All over the nation similar meetings were held, and in London, Paris, and other foreign lands, the stir of the Lincoln inspiration was felt and observed...
...This is a part of the same investigation in which Governor Haskell was indicted last week...
...Carnegie Recommends Tariff Commission Andrew Carnegie on the 14 stated that it is impossible for Congress to fix just tariffs, and that the tariff should be controlled by a permanent bi-partisan commission of experts...
...and that packing-house products have been advanced three cents a hundred on the principal shipping lines...
...Taft, returning from Panama, found his plans as to Knox disturbed by this law, though the senate judiciary has already announced its conclusion that the ineligibility could be removed by reducing the salary to the point from which it was raised...
...Ten thousand negroes gathered in one room in Chicago, to observe the event, and there were nearly forty distinct meetings in that city at the same time...
...Lindon Bates of London, an eminent engineer...
...Jury Accepted in Calhoun Case After a month of effort, a jury has been found to try Patrick Calhoun at San Francisco...
...Attacks on Lock Type Canal In the meantime, the attacks on the lock type canal have been renewed by Senator Kittredge of South Dakota, Senator Fora-ker, Senator Teller, and M. Bunau-Varilla, the French engineer who engineered the birth of the republic of Panama that he might sell the canal zone and the French rights to the United States...
...The railway men are especially exercised because the commission says of a railway: "It is not a private enterprise—it is a public servant, discharging as the agent of the government a public function...
...for contradictory statements...
...The commission, however, says that it cannot give complete information for the reason that so many changes have been made that it would take 230 clerks more than three years working every day to go over the documents...
...Taft, or anyone else...
...A Steel City for Wisconsin It announced that the United States Steel Corporation will enter at once upon the building at Superior, Wis., of a new "steel city," on the general lines of Gary, Indiana, one of the wonders of present-day industrialism...
...This is regarded as a proof of close amity...
...Lovering and the President-elect, said: "When I make my final speech I shall not apologize to President Obaldia of Panama, Mr...
...I will deliver the goods...
...The independents fear the strengthening of the Standard's position by alliance with the state...
...A rifle fired in a small room is reported to have been silenced to the point of making no more noise than a slight hand-clap, and Mr...
...Conservation for the Entire Continent Representatives of Canada, Mexico, and the United States are now in session in Washington, on invitation of President Roosevelt, to consider the great questions growing out of the desire in all three nations to conserve and economize the natural resources of the continent—the soil, the mineral wealth, the forests, and the water resources...
...The process of metamorphosing warfare is making surprisingly rapid progress, almost week by week...
...Third, better means of communication, including good wagon roads and parcels post...
...It will be governed by a mayor at a salary of $6,000, and six councilmen paid $4,000 a year...
...Maxim stated that this invention will silence the greatest cannon more effectually even than small arms, and render the naval and land battles of the future inaudible, as smokeless powder and long-range guns have already gone far to make present-day battles invisible...
...ex-Governor Folk of Missouri, who is president of the Lincoln Farm Association, organized for the purpose of developing the Lincoln birthplace into a national park...
...The city has made a profit of $17,222 on this utility for the last year...
...Second, a new kind of schools in the country, which shall prepare children for country life, instead of town life...
...Taft, however, returns from the canal zone reassured as to the plans, and in view of the fact that he was accompanied by a committee of great engineers among whom were Isham Randolph, of Chicago, and Arthur P. Davis, under whose direction some of the greatest dams in the world have been built by the reclamation service, the average citizen will feel assured that the dam will stand and the canal be finished as predicted—by the year 1915...
...Japan Relations Again Quiet The California and Nevada legislatures have dropped their anti-Japanese legislation, and all is quiet along the Pacific...
...The Country Life Commission Reports Roosevelt's "country life commission" has reported, and the report has been sent to congress by the president...
...It prohibits it...
...If this be true in Iowa, it is probably so in other states.—E...
...It has the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, and puts all authority in the hands of a few men elected at large...
...Municipal Ownership in Ottawa A report has been made public of the municipal operation of the city electric light plant at Ottawa, Canada...
...If Abraham Lincoln had been permitted to live to an age vouchsafed to some 4,000 people in the United States,—100 years—he might have seen on February 12, 1909, the greatest uplift of spirit ever witnessed in America, by reason of any anniversary,—the centenary of his own birth...
...The New Cabinet The president-elect some time ago announced Philander C. Knox, now senator from Pennsylvania, as his secretary of state, and made the rather remarkable statement that Knox would have much to say as to the personnel of the cabinet...
...Inasmuch as it is now thought that all the Roosevelt cabinet will go except Meyer—even Wilson—it has been surmised that Knox had little use for the present cabinet...
...The law requires that the candidates state that it is "as full and explicit" a statement as he can make...
...The gathering of the National Tariff Commission Congress at Indianapolis this week is proof that Mr...
...Lovering of Massachusetts on the 12 attacked Mr...
...The statement filed puts the $107,000 in eleven items only...
...The injunction does not prevent crime...
...Some 1,600 acres of land have been laid out, and the Gary working crews will report at the new city for work in the spring...
...Japanese immigration will continue to be restricted by the state department and the Japanese government, as now...
...President Roosevelt journeyed to Hodgenville, Kentucky, and took part in ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the corner stone of a memorial building to mark the site of Lincoln's birthplace...
...Knox's presence as a member of the cabinet...
...Baron Takahira, embassador from Japan, signalized the occasion by delivering at Peoria, Ill., a speech full of friendly assurances...
...Gompers violated the law or did not...
...The law forbids a senator or member of Congress from taking any office, the salary of which has been raised during his term by act of Congress...
...There was much interest manifested, therefore, when last week it transpired that Knox was ineligible, because he was a senator when the Senate voted to raise the salary of the secretary of state...
...Amity With Venezuela Commissioner Buchanan has arranged a protocol with Venezuela said to be mutually satisfactory...
...Wallace charges that the opposition to such reform comes from school-book publishers and from the 5,000 school treasurers in Iowa who profit from the $5,000,000 of moneys in their hands...
...Railway men have not been heard to deny these statements, but they attack the 22nd annual report of the commission for "statements of facts which a superficial investigation would show to be untrue...
...He settled the most vexations controversies "out of court" by getting the claimants and the Venezuelan government together...
...the statement asserts only that it is "true and correct to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief...
...And the statutes do that...
...Carnegie has many supporters in this view in all parties...
...The committee has not at this writing begun its labors, and there are rumors that the supporters of Stephenson will seek by injunction to prevent any further proceedings on its part, and will go before the United States Senate and demand the seating of Stephenson on the claim that he is already elected...
...A jury has also been accepted by both sides to try Colonel Cooper, his son, and another for the murder of ex-Senator Car-mack in a street affray growing out of political enmities at Nashville, Tenn...
...Rainey, in giving notice of a future reply to both Mr...
...Critical Condition of Labor Unions At White Plains, N. Y., this week, the Supreme Court gave judgment against the International Association of Machinists for $3,847 damages in favor of the Jones Speedometer Company for money paid out by the company for strike-breakers and special detectives and other extraordinary expenses necessitated by a strike called by the union...
...G. Cooley, for many years superintendent of schools in Chicago, has resigned to take the presidency of a school-book publishing house...
...for not giving the railways due credit...
...Rainey has taken this allusion to himself...
...At a meeting in the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on the 14, to protest against the Gompers decision, Louis F. Post said: "I am not here to discuss whether or not Mr...
...A law was enacted in England some years ago to protect labor-union funds against such damages, and to legalize the secondary strike, the boycott, and the peaceful picket, all of which are habitually prohibited by injunctions in this country, and for one of which—boycotting— Gompers, Morrison and Mitchell, are under jail sentence...
...Taft agrees with this, and wired congressional leaders his wishes that the salary law be repealed and Knox made eligible...
...He was chief engineer on the canal in the De Lesseps days...
...But the independent oil dealers of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Illinois held a meeting at St...
...The goats will be herded along trails, and are expected to denude these narrow strips so completely as to make perfect fireguards...
...The important question is whether he was accused of it and confronted with witnesses, and received a fair trial by a jury of his peers...
...Taft, returning from Panama, made a speech at Meridan, Miss., in which he asserted that the Panama work is being honestly done, that the plans for the canal are correct and practicable, and that people should not be led astray by "buncombe speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives...
...In three years of public ownership the number of customers has arisen from 1,314 to 3,164, and the gross revenues have increased 200 per cent...
...He is accused of bribery of public officers in connection with certain franchises for his street railways...
Vol. 1 • February 1909 • No. 7
