NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering ANEW Republic was born on October 5, when Portugal, for centuries misgoverned successively under absolute and constitutional monarchical forms of government, threw off the...
...Representative Townsend, who ran as a progressive and defeated Senator Burrows, was arraigned by speakers at the Democratic State Convention held in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 7. Townsend was declared to be posing as a progressive, while voting as a regular in Washington...
...It may hear additional testimony before making a report of its findings...
...At the time of the suspension of the act, nearly 400 of the 900 state banks of Kansas had complied with its requirements...
...A new ministry was appointed and order restored without delay...
...Successors to the late Chief Justice Fuller and to Justice William H. Moody, whose resignation was accepted by President Taft on October 4, have not been appointed by the President, who will probably not make his selections until the early part of December, when the Senate will be in session, and can confirm the appointments...
...Several months ago the Bucks' company announced that it had reached an agreement with labor officials...
...At the present writing the Supreme Court of Illinois is deliberating on the constitutionality of the state primary law...
...The case against the use of the boycott is being prosecuted by the American Anti-Boycott Association, composed of manufacturers who oppose labor organization...
...The committee will meet again, in Washington, at the beginning of the next session of Congress...
...A Brief Revolution The present revolution broke out early on the morning of October 3, when riots in the streets of Lisbon began because of the killing of a prominent Republican by an army officer...
...Other cases involving the interests of labor which will be decided by the present Supreme Court are concerned with the employers' liability, the safety appliance, and the hours of service laws...
...News Worth Remembering ANEW Republic was born on October 5, when Portugal, for centuries misgoverned successively under absolute and constitutional monarchical forms of government, threw off the yoke of royalty and became a republic...
...On the next day it was announced that the Standard Oil Company had purchased 550,000 acres of valuable coal lands located in Pennsylvania and in West Virginia, for which $100,00,000 was paid...
...Pinchot Warns Southerners That centralization of control is not confined alone to the oil and fuel fields was made clear by Gifford Pinchot on October 7, when he spoke before the Southern Conservation Congress in session at Atlanta, Georgia...
...For generations the country has produced hardly enough food for its own inhabitants...
...This bill provides for a system of agricultural high schools, with experimental grounds attached to each, for preparing teachers of elementary agriculture in established normal schools, and for conveying to the adult farmers of each state agricultural information by means of an elaborate system of college extension work to be inaugurated by the agricultural colleges...
...The constitutional convention which on October 3 met at Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the purpose of drafting a constitution for the newly-created state, was controlled by the conservative element, which holds President Taft's view that a state constitution should be a "purely fundamental" document, without provision for such specific agencies of government as the initiative and referendum, primary election acts, etc...
...big cases postponed Because of the two vacancies which exist in the Supreme Court, only those cases involving private interests will be considered during the time which will elapse before the President can appoint and the Senate confirm a new Chief Justice and an Associate Justice...
...that he has abused the appointive power by selecting men unfit for office...
...Religious Strife Involved One of the first acts of the new government was to order the expulsion of members of the great religious orders which hold a large part of the wealth of the country...
...Within the last year it became certain that a revolt was bound to occur within a short time...
...He urged the passage of the Dolliver-Davis bill, introduced at the last session of Congress...
...Several times revolutions have occurred, but even when successful these have wrought no permanent improvement of economic conditions...
...On the same day, the price of oil exported from New York by the Standard Oil Company was reduced 10 points...
...A full court will pass upon the cases brought by the government for dissolution of the American Tobacco Company and the Standard Oil Company on the ground that they are combinations in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law...
...Shall this government be and remain a mighty agency of civilization, the protector of all, or shall it be run as a close corporation to enrich the few?' "During the past few weeks the people of many states have answered this question in no uncertain tones...
...The latter involves the question of the right of labor unions to "boycott" an individual or a corporation for alleged unfairness to labor...
...In a collision between two interurban electric cars near Staunton, Illinois, on October 4, thirty-six passengers were killed outright and thirty-one were injured...
...This is the largest transaction in coal lands in the history of Pennsylvania...
...Centuries ago Portugal led the world in commerce and enterprise, but tyrranical measures, and especially the expulsion of the Jewish population, crushed enterprise and Portugal soon sank into obscurity and decadance...
...The Congress reiterated its declarations for conservation of natural resources and control of public service corporations...
...A Republic was proclaimed, and The-ophila Braga chosen President...
...They are beginning to see this great danger as plainly as Newton Booth saw it thirty-six years ago...
...Trips in special trains through Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska will be made by these men...
...Hoke Smith, who represents the progressive element of the Democratic party of Georgia, carried practically every county of the state in the election held on October 5. He was opposed by Governor Joseph M. Brown, a reactionary Democrat...
...The queen mother is said to have transferred large sums of money to English banking institutions some time ago, in expectancy of the revolution...
...that he has permitted Seattle to become a home and refuge of the criminal classes, and that his continuance in office is a menace to the business enterprises and morality of the city...
...Worst, speaking before the Congress, advocated the teaching of agriculture in all the common schools of the country...
...La Follette's had done bully work, our little California Weekly and San Francisco Bulletin are in the front ranks >triking sledge-hammer blows for decency in public life and the business world...
...Farmers Favor Physical Valuation The Farmers' National Congress which met in Lincoln, Nebraska, last week adopted resolutions on October 8 favoring the physical valuation of all railroads, and the passage of suitable laws to regulate and restrict the issue of stocks and bonds by interstate roads...
...Petitions for the recall of Mayor Hiram C. Gill of Seattle, Washington, were put in circulation on October 8. The petitions declare that the mayor haa shown himself incompetent and unfit...
...News Notes The Kansas bank deposit guaranty law, the operation of which has been suspended for several months by in junctional proceedings brought by national and state bankers, again became effective on October 4. The U. S. Court of Appeals dissolved the injunction, but the case will be carried to the Supreme Court of the nation...
...The labor men paid no attention to this injunction and were sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of court...
...l. d., San Francisco...
...the peonage and the Chinese importation cases, and the Arkansas "full crew" act...
...A consideration and decision of the corporation tax case will also be delayed until the full court is present...
...This will be Smith's second term of office as governor...
...The European area of Portugal is hardly larger than the state of Maine but colonial possessions have a total area 22 times as great...
...Corruption in every branch of the public service and work has long existed and this, coupled with the drain of the great number of clergy supported by the state, has financially ruined the nation, causing the most dire and widespread poverty...
...The resignation of Justice Moody was due to ill health of long standing, and was accepted by President Taft in a letter which expressed his sorrow at the necessity of the retirement from the nation's highest tribunal of one of the most efficient members it has had in its entire history...
...The new government plans to separate immediately the Roman Catholic Church from the state, and to reorganize the educational and financial systems of the country...
...The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia issued a sweeping injunction against Gompers and other officials of the American Federation of Labor, restraining them from boycotting the products of the Bucks' Company...
...If it appears that the leaders of the Republic can maintain order, it is probable that the new government will be officially recognized by the foreign powers...
...This is believed to presage a long battle between English oil interests and the American trust for complete control of all foreign retail oil markets...
...famous "boycott case" up Chief among these are the Gompers' contempt of court, and the anti-boycott case...
...Among the important cases which will be brought before the Supreme Court within the next few weeks are a number which involve the interests of labor...
...His appearance on the street caused large crowds to assemble, cheering him enthusiastically...
...The company has secured the services of noted experts from the Iowa Agricultural College...
...It is rumored that the English interests may carry the fight into the United States...
...Before the court convened, Charles Evans Hughes resigned the office of governor of New York and was sworn in as associate justice of the court to take the place of the late Justice Brewer...
...There they disembarked...
...The agreement was a full concession to the labor organization and pledged a "closed shop...
...The reports of the truancy officers of Kansas City show that one out of every three children who attend school in that city receive improper nourishment...
...It was stated that he had voted for every schedule in the Payne-Aldrich tariff, which the Democrats assailed as a betrayal of the people's trust...
...J. H. Worst, president of the North Dakota Agricultural College, to the presidency of the next Congress...
...Mayor Gaynor returned to his desk in the New York City Hall on October 3. for the first time since he was seriously wounded in an attempt at assassination...
...It threatens the purity of legislation, it threatens the integrity of the courts, it threatens the sacredness of private rights...
...A dispatch of October 6 from Baltimore stated that the great oil corporation having secured control of the gas and electric light and power companies serving the city, was about to reach after the city and suburban trolley lines...
...One train will carry experts who are familiar with hog and corn raising, while the experts on the other train will devote their time to the teaching of methods for the improvement of soils by proper drainage, planting, rotation of crops, etc., and the value of good seed and scientific cultivation...
...The Senate subcommittee investigating the election of United States Senator Lorimer of Illinois, closed its hearings in Chicago on October 8. The seven members of the committee took the testimony of practically all the important witnesses in the two criminal court trials of Lee O'Neille Browne, charged with bribery of Democratic members of the Illinois legislature in the interests of Lorimer...
...Formerly the Standard Oil Company and the foreign interests worked in harmony...
...The Michigan platform also endorses the new primary law, which in its first statewide trial resulted in the defeat of Senator Burrows for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate...
...They have taken their appeal to the Supreme Court...
...that he has not enforced the criminal laws...
...If the law is found unconstitutional, as several other Illinois primary laws have been, political chaos will result...
...Political Notes Republican state conventions meeting in Michigan and Massachusetts on the 5th and 6th respectively, adopted platforms indorsing President Taft, the Al-drich-Payne tariff law and the enactments of the last session of Congress...
...He warned the southerners that great interests already have a foot-hold in their section of the country and are actively working to gain complete control of the South's natural resource...
...King and Queen Mother Flee Although no general uprising took place in the provinces, it is generally believed that the country people will support the new Republic...
...Railroad to Educate Farmers An interesting campaign for more intelligent farming has been inaugurated by the Rock Island railroad company...
...For several years Portugal has been rent by internal strife between supporters of the monarchy and the Republicans...
...The people are beginning to sit up and take notice...
...Bully Work" "Insurgency is almost nation wide...
...For Agricultural High Schools The Dry Farming Congress which met in Spokane, Washington, on October 4 elected Dr...
...Standard Oil Tightens its Grasp The Standard Oil Company within the last few weeks has evidenced unusual open activity...
...The civilian rioters formed a coalition with the strongly Republican army and navy and after a few hours' battle with the officers and men who remained loyal to the king, gained complete control of the city...
...The basis for the action was the institution of a boycott several years ago by the American Federation of Labor against the Bucks' Stove and Range Company...
...The young king Manuel whose father and brother were assassinated on the streets of Lisbon two years ago, fled with his mother to Gibraltar in the royal yacht...
...Stops are to be made at hundreds of country towns, where lectures will be given to the farmers who assemble in response to advertising posters spread broadcast over the trains' routes...
...In 1875 Ex-Governor Newton Booth— then U. S. Senator from California—said: " 'The Rebellion struck at the nation with bared arm, in broad day and with naked sword, and there is a danger more alarming, because more subtle, that comes as the stealthy poisoner, creeping in the dark...
...Pinchot stated...
...supreme court changes The Supreme Court of the United States began its eight months' work on Monday, October 10...
...Fears have been expressed that the illiteracy of the population as a whole may make unstable a Republican form of government...
...It means this...
...Dispatches from Lisbon, the capital, were at first contradictory and disconnected, but within a few days the course of events became clear, as order was restored...
...The Gompers' case grew out of the other...
...Your water power resources here in the South are completely in the hands of the Duke interests and of the General Electric interests," Mr...
Vol. 2 • October 1910 • No. 41
