NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering WAR WAS the dominant note during the week in the symphony of world events. International war, political waT, and industrial war. Turkey and Italy held the center of the stage...
...NEWS NOTES — Contrary to the intimation spread through Wisconsin by the press bureau of the brewers, the saloon men of that state will not contest woman suffrage...
...And when a court is doing its duty—when it is trying to interpret the law as it ought to be, to have it condemned and attacked, and its motive questioned for mere political purposes without any solid ground for attack, goes to my heart and I resent it with deep indignation...
...Wiley and sympathetic with his administration of the pure food act, was temporarily appointed to the board to succeed McCabe...
...At this meeting the President discussed world peace...
...The Italians came out of the engagement without loss of life, while the Turks, resisting bravely but feebly, suffered a loss of about a hundred...
...Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, hero of the Spanish-American War, died suddenly while walking in a crowded street in New York on October 2. — The Republicans of the third congressional district of Nebraska have nominated J. C. Elliott of West Point to succeed Congressman J. P. Latta, who died recently...
...In Detroit, Michigan, on the 4th, Geo...
...it is so conceded by all modern statesmen, jurists, and economic writers who have voiced their opinion on the subject...
...The destruction of memoranda and records kept by those who disbursed the money, and the failure to remember incidents and payments, brought forth protests from members of the committee...
...The principle embodied in the statutes is, however, the same, and it must be conceded that the case is direct authority against the position we have here taken...
...cases where the injury is the result of fault on the part of the employer and there is want of fault on the part of the workman...
...At the Public Lands Convention in Denver the President clashed with the delegates...
...Later a charred door with the bolt shot was found on the ninth floor ruins...
...Heretofore these losses have been born by the injured workmen themselves, by their dependents, or by the state at large...
...That is the answer made by the owners of the Triangle Waist Company to the damage suits aggregating a half a million dollars growing out of this tragedy...
...He is opposed by Daniel Stephens of Freemont...
...The investigation into the election of William Lorimer of Illinois will be continued in Chicago this week...
...It was the custom to keep the doors locked so that employees would have no chance to sneak away from work...
...Buffalo R. Co., 200 N. Y. 431...
...William E. Curtis, a special writer for the Chicago Record Herald and one of the most widely known journalists in America, died suddenly in Philadelphia on October 5th...
...They are my ideals on earth that typify what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God...
...Rejects New York Decision Referring to the recent decision of the Court of Appeals nullifying New York's attempt to provide a humane and enlightened system of workmen's compensation, the Washington court says: "In the foregoing discussion we have not referred to the decision of the court of appeals of the state of New York in the case of Iven vs...
...it seems that no matter how carefully laws for the prevention of accidents in such industries may be framed, or how rigidly they may be enforced, there is an element of human equation that enters into the problem which cannot be eliminated and which invariably causes personal injuries and consequent financial losses to workmen engaged therein...
...In handing down the decision the court said in effect: A business that seeks a profit at the risk of the life and limb of human beings is subject to regulation, and that law is, or ought to be, a progressive science, and the constitution must be construed in the light of our changed conditions...
...He further announced to the members that the committee was determined to get the facts and would not tolerate any suggestion of a "whitewash...
...Governor Noel of Mississippi is trying to bring about an arbitrary settlement between the railroad heads and the strikers...
...The common law does not purport to afford a remedy for the condition here found to exist...
...He defended the leasing system for the public domain, saying to the delegates, "Your proposition is that the leasing system won't bring capital to the west, and my proposition is that it will...
...The answer sets up that the persons injured or killed assumed all the risks and dangers of their employment and that the various catastrophies were due to the negligence and carelessness of "fellow servants" and not to the negligence of the employers...
...Accidents to workmen engaged in the industries enumerated in it are all but inevitable...
...A striking part of the decision is as follows: "That the statute here in question has the attribute of reasonableness, rather than that of capriciousness, seems incontrovertible...
...Something of a sensation was created when Senator Heyburn announced the intention of the committee to put the burden of proof upon Senator Stephenson and his attorneys to show that his election was lawful...
...Shop Men Face Injunctions and Militia The strike of the car workers of the Illinois Central and Harriman lines assumed a more serious aspect last week when rioting broke out at several points on the two lines...
...What distinguishes this country from any other one is the Supreme Court we have in Washington that often has stood between us and errors that might have been committed that would have been greatly injurious to this country, and to turn upon that court and to question its motives, and to attack it, seems to me to lay the ax at the root of the tree of our civilization...
...Compensation Law Upheld The workmen's compensation act of the state of Washington is declared by the Supreme Court of that state to be constitutional...
...After the formal resolutions had been adopted, a separate resolution was offered pledging the support of the convention to Wilson for the presidency...
...The owners of the shirt waist business were Isaac Harris and Max Blank...
...Taft Warns Trusts Warning to the trusts to obey the law, explanation of his tariff vetoes, and denunciation of all who have criticized the judiciary, were the features of President Taft's speeches in the West last week...
...Turkey and Italy held the center of the stage in their armed struggle over the possession of Tripoli, with the odds in favor of Italy...
...The Senators present at the investigation are Heyburn of Wyoming, Sutherland of Utah, and Pom-erene of Ohio...
...Says President McCormick, "We shall be glad to treat with the federal authorities at any time without the necessity of resorting to legal proceedings, and I am therefore in hopes that matters may prove capable of adjustment...
...Railroad employee is at grips with railroad employer on the Harriman lines, with the outcome not yet in sight...
...W. Perkins, former partner of J. Pier-pont Morgan, addressing the Board of Commerce, urged reform of the Sherman Anti-Trust law...
...At Lincoln, Nebraska, President Taft and William Jennings Bryan banqueted together...
...Furthermore they "assumed the risk...
...We shall offer no criticism of the opinion...
...The act the court there had in review is dissimilar in many respects to the act before us, and is perhaps less easily defended on economic grounds...
...The sub-committee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the United States Senate, is conducting the inquiry into the charges that a large part of the $107,793 admitted to have been spent in Stephenson's primary campaign was corruptly and illegally used...
...The officials of the Harriman lines assert that the strike has not so far impaired the operation of the roads...
...The delegates are to be bound by the popular vote for presidential candidates...
...Referring to the trust prosecutions now in progress, President Taft expressed his hope that all of the big trusts would "recognize that the Standard Oil and Tobacco decisions were epoch-making decisions...
...He contended that the law shall be changed so that the "good" corporations should not be punished for the evils done by the "bad" ones...
...that it did not apply to all alike and was class legislation, that it was contrary to the provisions directing uniform taxation and that it violated the right of trial by jury...
...The decision was written by Judge Ful-lerton...
...Fights occured at New Orleans and at Housten, Texas, where one special officer was shot and killed...
...Progressive clashed more grimly with Tory the world over...
...It declares the Association had never been in politics and further declares that the saloon men of Wisconsin favor the adoption of the amendment providing that woman be given the right of the ballot...
...This time it is the wall-paper trust that has met with prosecution...
...President Taft and his administration are eulogized...
...The calm, judicial attitude of President Taft in the voice of unreasonable clamor for hasty legislation and ill-advised remedies," are endorsed, and "his determination to apply business principles in the treatment of the policy of the day," is approved...
...Indeed, so universal is the sentiment that to assert to the contrary is to turn the face against the enlightened opinion of mankind...
...With Wiley in supreme command, the board will find itself unhampered in prosecuting food adulterators and drug "dopers...
...Indications are that the Senate committee conducting the investigation is determined to gather up every scrap of evidence that can possibly be found in Chicago and Springfield before making its report to the United States Senate...
...That was the floor upon which the seven hundred girls worked...
...That, he contended, was the prerogative of the voters themselves...
...Derna, Cyrenaica, and Tobruk fell successively into the hands of the Italians...
...In his toast to the President Mr...
...In my opinion it would take seven hundred girls three hours to reach the street by the one fire escape...
...According to the indictments, thirty-seven other concerns from coast to coast are members of the Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association, and twenty-seven concerns are members of the jobbers' organization, practically controlling the country's wall paper trade...
...The hearings may extend throughout the whole month...
...This was announced on October 6 in a signed statement issued by John F. Langan, president of the Wisconsin Retail Liquor Dealers' Protective Association...
...The fire marshall said he was convinced that a cigarette lit by a cutter and thrown into a heap of clippings started the fire...
...Wilson immediately moved that the resolution be laid on the table and the convention acquiesced...
...President Markham, it is reported, has agreed to attend a conference at Jackson, Mississippi...
...I am appealing against your decree...
...the only rescue from that would have been state socialism...
...The evil it seeks to remedy is one that calls loudly for action...
...Louisville, Kentucky...
...At the expiration of the time limit named in the ultimatum, the Italian cruisers proceeded to bombard the city of Tripoli, whose fortifications were reduced to ruins on the 4th...
...the struggle in the United States between these two forces within the Republican party taking on an increasingly exciting and formidable aspect...
...Senators Face Investigation Investigation of the election of Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin, by the special committee of the United States Senate, in Milwaukee last week, developed a remarkable lapsing of memory on the part of the managers of the Stephenson campaign funds...
...Nine-tenths of the employees cannot speak English, yet I could not find a sign in Yiddish or Italian pointing out the fire exits...
...During the week several minor naval engagements took place, in which the honors invariably fell to Italy...
...Investigators after the Triangle fire found that doors at exits swung inward...
...At Winona and Dur-rant, Mississippi, fights took place when crowds of strike breakers attempted to take supplies from the stores without paying for them...
...Solicitor George P. McCabe, the most active foe of Wiley within the Department, was suddenly retired from the pure food and drug board last week, and Associate Chemist F. T. Dunlap, one of McCabe's closest associates, was given a vacation until the President returns...
...Let Voters Choose"—Wilson Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, stirred the press of the entire country to wondering comment when he refused to permit the Democratic state convention to adopt a resolution endorsing him for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...The objection raised by Governor Wilson to, this endorsement of himself, was that it was contrary to the spirit of the Geran election law for a state convention to endorse anybody's candidacy...
...Prior to this change came the announcement that Jasper Wilson, son and private secretary of Secretary Wilson, will retire from the Department...
...Bryan prayed that God would give him wisdom to discharge aright the duties resting upon him...
...It affords relief to an injured workman in only a limited number of cases...
...It was the belief of the legislature that they should be born by the industries causing them, or perhaps more accurately, by the consumers of the products of such industry...
...These changes are looked upon as but the beginning of swift and certain retribution for the plotters in the Department of Agriculture who have been friendly to the food and drug interests and antagonistic to Dr...
...We will only say that notwithstanding the decision comes from the highest court of the first state of the Union, and is supported by a most persuasive argument, we have not been able to yield our consent to the view there taken...
...The constitutional questions raised were that the law deprived individuals of their property without due process of law...
...For the greater number of injuries traceable to the dangers incident to industry, no remedy at all is afforded...
...The most serious outbreak was at Mc-Comb City, Mississippi, where martial law was imposed for several days, following a pitched battle between the strikers and state troops in which one man was killed...
...These charges resulted from two investigations—one by the Assembly members of the Wisconsin Legislature, who submitted a pro-Ste-phenson report, and one by the Senate members who demanded that Senator Stephenson be unseated and that the United States Senate undertake an investigation of its own to bring out further facts...
...that they are bound to change the course and tendency of business," and, he added, "if they had not, gentlemen, I do not know where we would have gone—everything would have been in a trust...
...The platform as adopted by the Democrats approved without reservation the progressive legislation enacted during Wilson's administration...
...So far as I can discover," Fire Marshall Burr said, "there never has been z fire drill in the factory...
...Wiley's Foes Demoted "Doc" Harvey W. Wiley, Uncle Sam's chief chemist, is now in complete control of the pure food and drug board of the Department of Agriculture...
...Perkins approved the Standard Oil decision putting the "rule of reason" into the Anti-Trust law...
...Italy established a garrison and a governor there and later in the week besieged other ports on the coast...
...Popular Preference in Louisiana Democratic Voters in Louisiana will have an opportunity to express their preferences for presidential candidates according to a dispatch of October 3. The state central committee decided to hold a Democratic primary early next summer to elect by district and from the state at large delegates and alternates to the next Democratic national convention...
...It is hoped that Turkey will relinquish Tripoli in return for a cash settlement...
...that they have been able to keep the mechanical departments in working order...
...The case has, however, been the subject to extended consideration in the briefs of counsel and it is urged upon by counsel for the auditor as conclusive of the questions at bar...
...He said, "I love judges, and I love courts...
...the principle has been enacted into law by nearly all of the civilized countries of Europe, by Australia, by New Zealand, by the Trans Vaal, by the principal provinces of the Dominion of Canada, and in a partial form at least by one or more of South American republics...
...Also they found the crumpled fire escape in the air shaft with one fire escape blocked by iron shutters when opened, an empty water tank on the roof and the practice prevalent among cutters of lighting cigarettes a few minutes before quitting time...
...Last week there was a "shake-up" in the Department, which is looked upon as the forerunner of other "shake-ups" to come when President Taft returns to Washington...
...It is so treated by the learned cqunsel who have filed briefs in support of the auditor's contentions...
...That the principle thus sought to be put into effect is economically, sociologically, and morally sound, we think must be conceded...
...The act, therefore, having in its support these economic and moral considerations is not unconstitutional for the reason suggested upon this branch of the argument...
...and Houston, Texas, forbidding interference with the operation of the railroads by striking employees...
...Burned Girls Charged with Negligence Those sewing girls—145 of them—who lost their lives in the Asch Building in New york last spring were guilty of "negligence" and "carelessness...
...Wiley...
...R. E. Doolittle of New York, who is friendly to Dr...
...Temporary injunctions were granted by courts at McComb, Mississippi...
...While all the world powers are maintaining a neutral attitude, it is reported that several are trying hard to bring about a peaceable settlement between the two fighters...
...Governor Wilson's forces admittedly controlled in the convention and the Governor himself was chairman of the committee on resolutions...
...Any attempt to carry the war into Europe will be frowned upon by Austria and Russia...
...Not one of these objections was sustained...
...Italy Fights Victoriously Since formally declaring war, Italy has been carrying out her intention of annexing Tripoli by decisive action...
...Eight indictments against four wall paper manufacturers and four wall paper jobbers, charging them with conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman law, were returned by the federal grand jury at Cleveland on the 5th...
...Wall Paper Trust in Toils More trouble for trust magnates developed last week...
...Meanwhile the International Harvester Company, through its President, Cyrus H. McCormick, announces its willingness to come under some form of federal supervision...
...On the same day—October 3—the Republican State Convention of New Jersey adopted a platform which its own sponsors characterized as "conservatively progressive...
...94 N. E. 431, which holds the Workmen's Compensation Act of that state to be in conflict with the due process of law clause of the state constitution, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
...I Love the Judges" In a most remarkable utterance the President exalted the judiciary and assailed the critics of the courts...
Vol. 3 • October 1911 • No. 41
