NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering PRESIDENT TAFT outlined the position of the administration toward the insurgent element of the party in his speech before the League of Republican Clubs at Washington on the...
...The convention, in speaking of President Taft, "aid that no Eresident had ever begun his administration with such universal favor and good-will and extraordinary training...
...Beveridge Enthusiastically Endorsed The Republican state convention held in Indianapolis last week was the center of political interest for "regular" statesmen...
...It is probable that the council will be organized on a nonpartisan basis...
...He failed to mention, however, or else the dispatches took no notice of his explanation, that the men convicted were not those "higher up" but were for the most part minor employees—weighers, superintendents, etc.,—while the men who benefited by the steal have not been indicted or prosecuted...
...Dealers in large cities report that the sale of meats, eggs, and butter during the last few weeks has decreased to an amazing extent, owing to the inability of consumers to pay the high prices demanded...
...Support for his administration in any efforts to secure the enactment of genuine progressive legislation was pledged...
...The Republican majority, howeverj was reversed and the Democrats again secured control of city affairs...
...Railroad construction is going on apace, the finances of the country are in excellent condition and industry generally is growing remarkably...
...Liability Bill Waiting The bill awaiting President Taft's signature, amending the employers' liability law, makes it possible for an injured employee to sue a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce in the circuit court of the United States where he res-sides or where the accident occurred, instead of compelling action to be brought in the jurisdiction in which the home office of the defendant railroad is situ-ated...
...The day after the convention had adopted its platform it was announced that the President would not speak :n Indianapolis in May, as originally planned...
...Last year over ninety thousand citizens of the United States took up land in Canada and immigration from other countries is increasing rapidly...
...Labor, it is thought, will take a hand in politics on its own account in the next elections...
...Wickersham gave an interview to newspaper men in which he said there was no danger to the party from the Insurgent movement, and intimated that it is a "mirage," as Secretary Ballinger has said...
...and that such flour can not legally be made or sold in the District of Columbia or in the Territories, or be transported or sold in interstate commerce...
...For these reasons flour bleached by the Alsop process is adulterated within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906...
...The fight for a clean city council in Chicago was successful...
...Shortly after the opening of the first session, Senator Beveridge addressed the convention...
...Bleached Flour Condemned Flour bleached by the Alsop process contains added poisonous and added deleterious ingredients which render the flour injurious to health...
...The convention was held for the purpose of nominating a state ticket to be voted on at the fall elections, and whether the state would back Senator Beveridge's stand on the tariff was a question of supreme importance...
...Limitation of the power of injunction, the abolishment of child labor, the direct election of United States Senators, campaign contribution publicity, and revision of court procedure and statutes to do away with the technicalities which now so often shield the guilty, were recommended...
...In a circular containing this information for "manufacturers, venders, and consumers of bleached flour," Secretary of Agriculture Wilson adds that "flour bleached by nitrogen peroxid is an adulterated product...
...Many famous paintings and a large collection of valuable rugs were sold at auction last week when the Yerkes' collection was disposed of...
...No Hope for Ship Subsidy The week marked the absolute death of hope for a ship subsidy measure...
...He asked for the support of all members of Congress who call themselves Republicans, and declared that a representative could be read out of the party only by himself...
...Five hundred women when they found that the prices of meats had been advanced stormed several shops and had to be dispersed by the police...
...Throughout the country, and especially in the Middle West, the issue was whether or not to abolish the saloon...
...Big Case* Get Rehearing Securities which had been lifeless and rather depressed for some time, took an upward jump on the 21th when the Supreme Court of the United States assigned the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust cases for rehearing...
...In this connection it is interesting to note through the returns the breaking away from party lines which is taking place in many municipalities...
...The committee thinks this bill would tend to lower the price of many food products...
...Successful candidates in large and small cities alike ran as nonpartisans...
...Senator Beveridge was endorsed...
...Beveridge traced the history of the Payne tariff bill, and declared that while he believed in the principle of a protective tariff, he would not vote for a bill framed in the interests of Privilege and which extorted from the people of the country money with which to swell the already dangerously large accumulations of wealth...
...Roosevelt's name brought forth tremendous cheering...
...The bi-partisan character of the machine which carries out the wishes of Special Privilege in Congress was emphasized, and the remedy for existing tariff conditions was declared to be a tariff commission, uninfluenced by politics and with full power to secure information for the benefit of the whole country...
...The eggs are being put into cold storage...
...It is said that the President if speaking in Indiana would feel constrained to endorse the tariff law which the state Republican convention has condemned, and for that reason did not wish to meddle in Indiana politics...
...Peru and Ecuador are at arms and on the verge of war as a result of a boundary dispute which has arisen between them...
...This, and the growth of the commission plan for city government, seems to foreshadow the complete severance of national and municipal politics and policies in the near future...
...Taft...
...Canada is making remarkable progress...
...John A. Penton, secretary of the Merchant Marine League, the subsidy organization, was convicted by a District of Columbia grand jury of criminal libel in connection with efforts to secure passage of a ship subsidy...
...The action of the court was caused by the death of Justice Brewer, which left but a few members of the court to pass upon the most important cases that have come before it in many years...
...Chairman Lodge of the Committee which is investigating the high cost of living has introduced in the Senate a bill providing that food kept in cold storage for more than one year shall be considered adulterated and that any food taken out of cold storage and erroneously marked as to the time it has been in storage shall be regarded as misbranded in violation of the pure food law...
...Mention of Mr...
...The Attorney General also pointed with pride to the record of his department in securing the conviction of fortyeight out of forty-nine men indicted for complicity in the sugar weighing frauds...
...The sugar trust may again have to bear the gaze of an aroused public.—The Imperial Window Glass Company and sixteen officials and directors were indicted by a special federal grand jury in Pittsburg on the 8th on three counts,—conspiracy in restraint of the hand blown window glass trade of the United States...
...By progressives, the action of the Indiana convention is regarded as an index to the feeling of the whole people with regard to the attitude of their representatives toward the tariff...
...that the character of the adulteration is such that no statement upon the label will bring bleached flour within the law...
...Flour bleached by the Alsop process is mixed, colored and stained in a manner whereby damage and inferiority are concealed...
...City Elections Arouse Interest Elections held last week in various cities of the country were for the most part of only local interest, but in several instances they served to arouse national interest...
...It is stated that seventy-two million eggs have been purchased by speculators in order to keep the prices at their present high level and that a corner of the entire crop for this year is being attempted...
...Everywhere, it seems that the principal sentiment against the saloon is in the smaller villages and towns while larger cities are almost unanimous for its retention...
...Trusts In Trouble Representative Martin of Colorado, who a week ago caused a sensation by his charges in connection with the disposal to the sugar trust of friar lands in the Philippines, is pursuing his investigation of the subject and has called for many papers bearing on it...
...The convention adopted a platform declaring for a protective tariff based on the difference in cost of production here and abroad, recommending the creation of a permanent non-partisan tariff commission, demanding comprehensive conservation laws and an income tax in times of war or in other emergencies...
...In Michigan, both sides claim victory, the wets securing a majority in sixteen counties, and the anti-saloon forces winning in twenty counties...
...Charges that this organization is really a trust have been made many times and for a long period of time...
...The effect of these amendments is to reduce the expense of action, making it easier for employees to secure justice...
...It is probable that labor men will be urged to support candidates who pledge themselves to work in the interests of labor...
...The tariff law was endorsed with the rest of the measures which have been passed by Congress in the last year, and Mr...
...Wickersham placed the responsibility for the nonfulfillment of any party pledges on Congress, and more directly upon the insurgents, whom he charged with being "traitors" and selfish obstructionists...
...News Notes Governor Harmon of Ohio has signed a bill requiring the nomination of congressional candidates and delegates to national conventions by primaries...
...Wickersham Lauds Administration Attorney General Wickersham's long-heralded Chicago speech delivered on the 9th, summed up what the administration has accomplished thus far...
...High Prices Still Pinch The agitation against the high price of food products is Hot a thing of the past by any means...
...of Flour, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana...
...The bill goes into effect before the next elections...
...The President of the Chicago Federation of Labor has announced his candidacy for the nomination for Congress in the fourth district of Illinois...
...Employees, who are unorganized, are compelled to work twelve, fifteen and eighteen hours each day for nine cents an hour and up, according to the labor men...
...The law also expressly confers jurisdiction on state courts in suits brought under the law...
...It has asked for an additional appropriation of $65,000 in order to complete its investigation, which will require four months, according to estimates...
...Through a program of intimidation and the bringing of libelous charges against those opposed to this grab, it was hoped to pass the bill, but the congressional investigation now being made of the efforts of the Merchant Marine League have dispelled any possibility of such action...
...attempt to monopolize interstate trade.—The Department of Justice has assigned an investigator to secure information in regard to the Elgin butter board as a combination in restraint of trade...
...Drys claim that in many places the large liquor interests of the country imported voters and used money in securing votes, but thus far the charges have not been substantiated...
...The taking of the decennial census of the United States for the purpose of determining representation in Congress, will begin before this magazine reaches its readers...
...News Worth Remembering PRESIDENT TAFT outlined the position of the administration toward the insurgent element of the party in his speech before the League of Republican Clubs at Washington on the 9th...
...Before leaving Chicago Mr...
...Steel Workers in Protest On April 7 representatives of the striking employees of the Bethlehem works of the Steel trust appeared before President Taft and laid bare the conditions under which the employees of the trust have to work...
...Senator Beveridge urged more thorough regulation of railways and great industrial combines, and urged laws for the prevention of the evils of child labor...
...Wickersham grew enthusiastic as he spoke of the policy of retrenchment and economy instituted by his superior...
...In Wisconsin, also, the results were a disappointment to anti-saloon people...
...Recognition of popular discontent with the misrule of Cannonism was made by the President when he spoke of the likelihood of a Democratic vietory at the next Congressional elections...
...engagement in illegal competition...
...Support of the measures pledged in the Republican platform, during the remainder of this session, will constitute the test of Republicanism, said Mr...
...Wickersham discussed the tariff law, the trusts, the corporation tax, the issuance of irrigation bonds, the amendments to the interstate commerce act, and conservation, from the view point of the President, for whom he was speaking...
...However, the counties remaining wet are more populous and contain a much larger number of saloons...
...Before the convention met, President Taft had been asked by Indiana political leaders of the old school to take a hand in the situation for the purpose of securing an endorsement of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, but this the President refused to do...
...Flour bleached by the Alsop process contains a substance known as nitrites, which reduces, lowers and injuriously affects the quality and strength of the flour...
...In Illinois the wets won a decisive victory, gaining six counties...
...The cases probably will not be retried for a year—until the next term...
...So decided Judge Rufus E. Foster on March 15, 1910, in the case of the United States of America, Libellant, v.420 sacks, et als...
...Next to the result in Milwaukee, interest centered in the outcome of the battle between the "wets" and the "drys...
...A dispatch from New York on the 5th tells of a riot on the east side...
...Speaking before an audience that applauded enthusiastically, Mr...
...In discussing his own department, he pointed out that the tobacco, oil, and coal trusts have been prosecuted and decisions are now pending...
...Over two million dollars was given at the sale for the works of art collected by the dead financier...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 15
