NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering WAR PREPARATIONS and the movement of federal troops have in a measure diverted public attention from matters of immediate public policy to the boys in khaki and the...
...Public Discusses Ballinger Coming, by an interesting coincidence, on the same day, the news of the movement of the federal army to the Mexican border might have been expected to minimize newspaper accounts of Ballinger's resignation and attendant popular discussion...
...It is reported in Washington that efforts will be made by the Interior department to bring about a settlement of the railroad troubles in Alaska and that the solution may be a partnership between present owners of the railways and the government under which the latter would have a large part in the ownership and extension of the carriers...
...Within the next month the Wisconsin and Michigan Legislatures will take up the platform promises of the initiative, referendum and recall...
...The country was told through the press that it was merely play war— "manoeuvres...
...Those indicted are Wilbur W. McAlpine, George W. Ross, F. D. Andrus, A. H. Roehm, A. L. Holmes and M. C. Lebeau of Detroit and J. M. Bush-nell of Chicago...
...The Wisconsin Legislature, without regard to party lines between Republicans, Democrats and Social Democrats, passed resolutions censuring and condemning Senator Isaac Stephenson for supporting Lorimer, and commending Senator La Follette for his loyalty to the people in fighting for his unseating...
...The San Francisco grafter was taken to the penitentiary at San Quentin to serve a fourteen year term...
...Michigan and Minnesota are expected to pass compensatory acts within the next two months...
...This sudden and spectacular movement of the federal government to bolster up the crumbling Diaz dynasty in the interest of American and foreign capital invested in that country has served to emphasize the serious nature of the rebellion—an uprising that this country has been led, by the scanty, pro-Diaz news permitted to leak across the border, to believe only a trivial disturbance...
...The Kansas Legislature, after a brief period of investigation by a special committee, has created a statute requiring employers to compensate workmen or their dependents who suffer through industrial accidents...
...that he meant to force the agreement through Congress if he lived...
...Following closely upon the sudden arrival in Washington of Ambassador Wilson, who came from Mexico on short notice, the War Department was ordered by President Taft on the 7th to dispatch 20,000 troops immediately to Texas...
...The indictments charge that the seven men are guilty of fraud in inducing more than two hundred persons to become stockholders in a Michigan company by making "fraudulent and fictitious" entries...
...Then, in the form of an inspired dispatch from the Associated Press reporter on board the presidential, south-bound train, it was admitted to the country that the mobilization of the U. S. troops upon the Mexican border was for the purpose of aiding Diaz in crushing the rebellion against his "iron rule...
...NEWS NOTES — After a delay that exasperated Californians and hurt the public belief in courts and their ways of administering justice, Abe Ruef, political boss, briber and corruptor of public morals, went to prison on the 7th...
...Corporation Tax Upheld The corporation tax provision of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law was upheld on the 13th by the U. S. Supreme Court, thus assuring to the government an annual income of at least $26,000,000...
...Right after the close of the session of Congress, Representative Campbell of Kansas announced his determination to spend three weeks in Canada studying the reciprocity situation at first hand...
...Others take a less tolerant attitude, holding that since Taft long ago made Ballinger's fight his own fight, he could not gracefully say anything else...
...Reform Needs Emphasized The destruction of the little village of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, and a landslide which buried a score of miners in Northern Minnesota last week, emphasized the need for workmen's compensation laws in the two states which just now are foremost in bringing about this reform...
...Fisher has become better known nationally through his high connection with the National Conservation Association, of which Gif-ford Pinchot is president...
...There are those who take the view that Taft sincerely believed Ballinger's administration in the public interest...
...The Minnesota disaster left widows and orphans...
...On March 10, Baron Uchida, Japan's ambassador at Washington, denied that there had been any negotiations for a naval base in Mexico...
...The fact that Diaz is 83 years old, and is unable to cope with the present uprising with the "iron hand" he wielded of yore, lent color to the story...
...Holland, in the Chicago Tribune, printed a report on the 10th to the effect that President Taft, when urged by personal friends to refrain from calling a special session to take up reciprocity, pounded his desk with his fist and said that his mind had been made up...
...But the public knew enough about the situation in Mexico to greet that explanation with suspicion...
...The largest donations come from the estates of John Steward Kennedy and George Crocker...
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...In speeches in the South last week the President urged approval of the agreement...
...A. C. Frost, one of the leading spirits in the railroad company, now is in London...
...The possibility of American invasion of Mexico received added interest by the report that the Mexican administration had entered into a secret agreement with Japan under which the Mikado was to have a naval base and coaling station on the Mexican coast...
...There is a widespread feeling that the intemperate language used by the President is unfortunate, and, like the ill temper shown in the letter pardoning Fred Warren, is strangely at variance with "judicial temperament...
...Uchida's announcement was followed closely by a statement of Mexico's ambassador in which he said that the Diaz administration would resent any attempt of Uncle Sam to intervene in Mexico...
...that this agreement had so alarmed the Washington government that it immediately had taken steps to prevent the dangerous cession to Japan...
...The people of Illinois long had demanded the right to direct legislation, he argued, and it was time that they be given their rights...
...The new secretary is 49 years old and has practiced law in Chicago since 1888...
...For a day or two only did the President and his Cabinet stick to it...
...Merriam urged particularly that the resolutions providing for constitutional amendments for the initiative and referendum be placed before the people in advance of the other proposed amendments...
...Practically every state will have its representatives at the mobilization of troops and these militia officers will have the opportunity of witnessing the American artillery, cavalry, infantry and naval forces ready for action...
...Illinois Favors Referendum Following a notable argument made by C. E. Merriam of Chicago before a committee of the Illinois Senate on the 8th, the resolutions paving the way for the initiative and referendum were reported out for passage and the Legislature is expected to adopt them before long...
...The baron's denial, however, has not quieted the rumors...
...Recently Mr...
...But this did not happen...
...The new secretary of the interior, Walter L. Fisher of Chicago, has taken up his work in Washington and has been welcomed by those who were instrumental in forcing Ballinger to...
...Ballinger Quits" and "On to Texas" shared honors for space in the daily press and for zest in discussion, from club to street corner...
...He will work in the jute mill of the prison...
...On the same day, Jose Limantour, Mexican minister of finance, conferred with J. P. Morgan, Jr., and other financiers in New York City...
...One story from Washington claims that this is but an incident in a titantic struggle between Morgan and the Rothschilds for financial control in Mexico, and that the federal army is being used to assist Morgan...
...Persistent rumors that Diaz is dead, and that news of his demise was being kept secret for fear of more serious disorders, were circulated on the 9th, but these were as persistently denied...
...A more intimate interest in the movement of the troops was aroused throughout the Union by the invitation of the federal authorities to the National Guard officers of every state to be present at the "manoeuvres" for "observation and instruction...
...Comment on the remarkable series of letters that passed between the President and Ballinger prior to the resignation is interesting...
...A grand jury in Chicago also is making an inquiry into the operations of the Alaska Central railroad...
...Taft Proves Insistent While Premier Balfour in London is fighting against the passage of the Canadian-United States reciprocity agreement, President Taft and Prime Minister Laurier of Canada are continuing their campaign for ratification of the joint commissioners' conclusions...
...His tact and business ability in giving relief to users of Chicago's public carriers have excited the admiration of municipal students everywhere...
...While the Illinois legislature promises to pass resolutions censuring Senator Cullom of Illinois for his support of Lorimer, the legislatures of Wisconsin and California have taken definite and unmistakable action...
...Gifts aggregating $2,000,000 to Columbia university were announced at the trustees' meeting on the 6th...
...He has served as a leader in the Chicago Municipal Voters' league and was special traction attorney under Mayor Dunne when the city forced the street railways to give efficient service...
...News Worth Remembering WAR PREPARATIONS and the movement of federal troops have in a measure diverted public attention from matters of immediate public policy to the boys in khaki and the prospective smell 6f powder...
...Lorimer Vote Denounced Since the United States Senate decided by a vote of 46 to 40 that William Lorimer was entitled to his seat despite the fact that bribery entered into his election by the Illinois legislature, various civic and religious organizations, state legislatures and individuals have been denouncing those Senators who voted for the Illinois Republican boss...
...hence his "manly indignation" at the "personal persecution" was truly noble...
...Illinois legislators now are considering a bill somewhat similar to the Wisconsin measure...
...The Wisconsin powder-mill explosion did not end many lives, but under different circumstances it might have snuffed out the existence of scores of supporters of wives and children...
...Alaskan Clique Indicted The local federal grand jury in Detroit, Michigan, on the 6th voted indictments against seven individuals in connection with alleged coal land frauds in Alaska...
Vol. 3 • March 1911 • No. 11
