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News Worth Remembering AN AMAZING story came from the lips of Charles S. Mellen on the witness stand before the Interstate Com- merce Commission last week. The former president of the New York, New...
...Folk...
...I think in 1907," replied Mr...
...Folk, "the records of the New Haven which do not show this contribution are false...
...Folk...
...Morgan's name out of it...
...Judge Lindsey went to New York and asked for an interview with John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
...knew what was paid for it...
...It reached the maximum, $363,000, in 1897, but fell to $23,000 in 1898, and disappeared altogether in 1903...
...Not a pleasant thing to thing about, is it...
...Because of being president of the road I would not take the money and told the directors so...
...Senator Boies Penrose won the Republican nomination for another term...
...The Female (Mosquito) is More Deadly Than the Male" "MOSQUITO time is here...
...I had no right to suspend a law duly and solemnly enacted, simply because my own personal conviction did not accord with its mandate...
...Mellen into notorious connection with the New Haven financing...
...and of all men I make playthings devoid of reason and justice...
...Tom may have put the runners on first and second, but he didn't make the wild pitch that allowed them to advance to second and third, nor was he pitching when the batter singled, scoring two runs...
...If the various leagues, associations, corporations, and local associations for the betterment of farming are able to show in five years from now that the work pays the farmer, that the farmers working according to their suggestions are actually more successful than other farmers, then the whole farming population will insist on going to school as they go to the fields...
...News Notes —Former Senator Foraker of Ohio on May 18 announced his candidacy for the nomination for United States Senator on the Republican ticket...
...Skinner...
...He said that the President would be backed by the public sentiment of the country if he closed the mines to compel both sides to the dispute to arbitrate their grievances...
...The defeat belongs to me, not Hughes...
...asked Mr...
...I tried to find out and failed...
...What J, Frank Hanly, as governor of Indiana, thinks about it is told in a recent letter...
...What would the meetings of the directors of the New Haven been like without Mr...
...The second Russian dreadnaught, the Imperator Alexander III, has been launched...
...MR...
...I lay a heavy tribute upon my most loyal subjects for the maintenance of my establishment...
...One ballot decided Becker's fate...
...The power of clemency was mine, an attribute of the great office I held, a high and solemn power...
...Folk inquired...
...Folk...
...Folk at this writing has not yet determined who will be the next witness, but he probably will have either Mr...
...With evidence of deep emotion, Mr...
...What would have been the effect if this had been known...
...The financial policy of the New Haven railroad was shaped, according to Mr...
...Gen...
...He never tried to exercise any such power...
...I do not mean to convey the idea that anybody got away with money he was not entitled to...
...MELLEN repeated testimony given by him before Commissioner Prouty in Boston about a year ago regarding $102,000 profit he made on the sale of New Haven stook that was turned over to him to be put on the market so that it could be listed on the New York stock exchange...
...In the trolley system Senator Aldrich was a stockholder...
...Yes, that was before he became general counsel of the New Haven...
...Mellen if he...
...Dean William Draper Lewis of Philadelphia, won the Washington nomination for the governorship...
...To heaven, I suppose...
...Mellen in May, 1907, in which the "Little Father at Washington" was referred to...
...Many critics insisted Hughes should be charged with the defeat...
...Answering Mr...
...Morgan lived, the property might have been far more valuable than it is today...
...Morgan treated him brusquely and refused to give him information...
...Physicians' certificates were presented to the Commission stating that the physical condition of William Rockefeller is such that if Questioned his health will be seriously impared...
...That was a hold-up," answered Mr...
...I did not think that was the way to approach Mr...
...A portion of his letter follows: "I have read and thought much upon the subject of capital punishment...
...Robbins for his legislative work in Connecticut in connection with the ratification of the consoldation charter...
...MELLEN told of the transactions leading to the acquisition by the New Haven of the Boston and Maine...
...If it is impossible to get rid of standing water near your premises, oil placed on ponds will kill the larvae when they come up to breathe...
...Morgan," asked Mr...
...P. Morgan, William Rockefeller, Brooker and I think at one time, Ledyard...
...I do not know, but it was worth what we paid for it...
...Was the fact that he was owner of the Boston Herald an inducement to make the loan...
...His team was fighting for the pennant, the game meant much...
...We must be in a position to finance properly the strike in the State indefinitely, until the success of the miners' cause is assured, and a general strike at this time might Jeopardize our position in this respect without adding anything material to the success of the Colorado strike...
...FORMER Senator Nelson W. Aid-rich of Rhode Island, the boss of the United States Senate in the days of Republican Old Guard, was also drawn by Mr...
...A lucky single sent two runs across the plate, winning the game...
...Even in the acquisition by the New Haven of the Westchester property, into which millions of dollars vanished, Mr...
...Ledyard...
...Applications should be made once a week...
...Roosevelt kept faith with us...
...That was the inception of it...
...Finally we got our bill passed," he added, "by the uprising of the body politic in our favor...
...Morgan told you he had bought the stock of the Worcester Road at 165 from the Mutual Life Insurance Company what did you say...
...Mellen explained that Sherman Whipple was opposed to the New Haven in the matter...
...The death penalty is inconsistent with the highest principles of American penal codes or constitutions...
...Becker Held Guilty Charles Becker, former New York police lieutenant, was found guilty, of murder in the first degree by a jury on May 22...
...Folk, " 'I will lift up mine eyes to the hills' sounds very much like you...
...asked Mr...
...After a few days the larvae sheds its skin and becomes a big-headed pupa which rests at the surface until it splits up the back to allow the adult mosquito to emerge...
...The committee presented its report and it was ratified...
...asked Mr, Folk...
...MELLEN appears to have held the late Mr...
...Prior to 1906 the report continued, lumbermen by open agreement maintained prices...
...With apparent willingness, Mr...
...Why was the provision preventing the railroads from owning steamers left out...
...War!I WAS conceived in passion, hatred, envy, and greed, horn in the morning of antiquity, and have a genealogy whose every page drips with the red blood of murdered innocence...
...Mellen testified that Mr...
...I shall never forget his answer...
...I think my salary of $60,000 was too much," he declared...
...Mothers' Day" Established "We honor ourselves and the mothers of America when we do anything to give emphasis to the home as the fountain head of the state," was one of the declarations in the bill passed by Congress...
...Holy Caesarina Phillippi,' Mr...
...Mellen, "there must be monopoly, and that monopoly is certain to be the United States government...
...Buena Vista is a country community four and one-half miles from Arnott and, like most farming communities, its means of community entertainment are difficult to secure...
...Folk...
...THE EDITOR of Farm and Fireside says that the agricultural colleges face a crisis because private interests of various kinds are robbing them of some of their best men...
...Mellen said that it was principally due to a large floating debt, which was caused in great measure by the Westchester transaction, the Boston and Maine purchase, bad investments, the general feeling in New England and the large expense of improvements to the Grand Central station...
...You say that, I do not...
...Mellen replied, "I do not know...
...Asked to give the reasons for the demoralization of the New Haven road Mr...
...You were getting into the merger habit...
...The Commission is looking into this...
...Did the 'prayers from the hills' of the Hilltown Association have anything to do with the enactment of that legislation...
...Morgan in admiration bordering upon awe...
...The best way to get rid of mosquitoes is to destroy their breeding places, for the adults never fly far...
...We have some legislative agents in different states...
...Manufacturers in many sections, both wholesale and retailers, the investigators found, have organizations similar to the lumber associations...
...Mellen replied...
...Roosevelt told me 'I can only promise you, Mr...
...The baubles of fame I confer on some are the empty shells of false standards wherein the license to commit murder and rapine is held to be the insignia of glory by a mistaken ciziliza-tion...
...So says a member of the University of Wisconsin biology department...
...Mr...
...After Mr...
...In the other two there was no fact or circumstance upon which to base such action, and I permitted the sentence of the court to be carried out...
...That sentence is from the Scripture...
...Brightening Life for Farm Boys and Girls BUENA VISTA, Wisconsin, has dis-covered a way to keep the boys and girls on the farm...
...Mellen replied: "I suppose so...
...Several of the directors were disgusted because they knew so little of the transaction...
...The Bull Moosers, under the title of the Washington party, nominated Gifford Pinchot for United States Senator and Percy F. Smith for Lieutenant Governor...
...The bill provides that the second Sunday in May, hereafter, will be known as "Mothers' Day," and be a national holiday...
...In the earlier years many of the associations openly attempted to curtail the output and to fix the wholesale price of lumber...
...I want to say right here that that $102,000 legally was my money...
...Folk asked Mr...
...Mellen explained that in his effort to obtain information Mr...
...The first prize was won by Mr...
...To keep Mr...
...Judge Lindsey criticized Governor Ammons of Colorado as incompetent and in league with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the owner of the mines...
...A Survival of the Inquisition Capital Punishment Belongs to the Days of the Wheel and the Rack, the Stake and the Fagot WHAT would be your feelings if you were the governor of a great state and were called upon to send a man to the gallows or to the electric chair...
...Director Harris says: "An inspection of the tables for Wisconsin shows that from 1S91 to 1913 the state had no bonded indebtedness...
...Through intrigue I make the intelligent powerful, the unscrupulous wax fat on the spoils of blood-won victories gained by others, and the less learned suffer for their own ignorance...
...Was this in writing...
...Robbins and corrected by Mr...
...Mr...
...I observed," Mellen offered, in that gentle voice he always assumed when speaking of Morgan, the man, "that his was the Master Mind wherever he was...
...Brayton was the agent in Rhode Island, and to the best of my recolllection he was paid from $6,000 to $7,000 a year...
...Mellen, "that in disagreeing with Mr...
...In the case of funds and investments the securities advanced steadily from $5,516,000 in 1891 to $6,668,000 in 1912...
...I was a great admirer of President Roosevelt...
...the reasons I gave him why it seemed to me desirable to buy the Boston and Maine shares, he said, appealed to him, and if there were no legal ques-tions involved, and if he were in my place, he would be disposed to do what he plainly saw I was disposed to do, that is, acquire the shares...
...he had started at $50,000...
...That memorandum shows that in the McKinley campaign four years previously $50,000 was donated...
...Testifying concerning the purchase of the Westchester lines, the witness told of being humiliated by Mr...
...One hundred and seventy-one season tickets were sold in advance...
...Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, with the support of the Wilson Administration, received the Democratic nomination for United States Sena-ator over Henry A. Budd by 50,000...
...I wanted to know what had been paid in campaign contributions in former years...
...And that was the famous $100,000 that I gave the Republican campaign funds," added Mr...
...In 1881 it fell to $1.31, decreasing constantly until 1913, when it amounted to 93 cents...
...Meyer have anything to do with getting this money...
...Not on your life,' said Mr...
...He sent me to cuss the matter with Mr...
...It represented my sentiments then and it represents them new...
...During this period and since," said the investigators, "the lumbermen through their associations and otherwise, were industriously striving in concert to maintain or raise prices...
...I saw him and he was anxious, apparently, that Morse should be checked in his acquisition of control of steamer lines...
...Since then a "variety of new methods have been adopted to carry on, in es-sentials, the practices ostensibly abandoned by the associations...
...Morgan's name out of what...
...Folk...
...of New York got $10 more a share than had been paid to others...
...Mellen said: "The grand jury proceedings commenced in New York and I was indicted...
...Morgan...
...A dramatic climax marked the close of the sensational testimony of Mr...
...Gird on your swatting armour and go forth...
...Folk, counsel for the Commission, Mr...
...Foraker criticized President Wilson's Mexican policy and opposed the repeal of the Panama Canal tolls act...
...What reason did you give him for desiring to acquire the shares of the Boston and Maino Railroad...
...I paint the midnight skies a lurid glow from the burning homes I have ravaged, and I turn peaceful scenes of rural beauty, where God's own creatures dwell together in amity, into a raging hell...
...My directors approved everything I did before I did it, but my directors could not force me to disclose the confidential conversation I had with the President of the United States, and I do not think they ever tried to...
...Concerning these, Mr...
...Folk...
...Following is an extract from the editorial: "The agricultural colleges face a crisis...
...The writer said also that he expected that he would bo made the "goat of the entire business...
...Mr...
...Yes, I think so: all prayers of that kind towards the right are efficaclous...
...Were you afraid of Mr...
...Famine, want, and misery follow in my path...
...Folk's questions as to how he left the New Haven, Mr...
...The former president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, who was "proud to be known as Morgan's man," unfolded the details of the Wall Street financing and upbuilding of a giant Morgan monopoly that fairly took the breath of the audience that packed the hearing room...
...Then in trying to get all his speed on the ball, he uncorked a fast one that got away from his catcher, allowing both runners to advance...
...Folk asked if this transaction was not to evade the Connecticut law that prevented a railroad from increasing its capital stock without distributing it to the stockholders...
...I respected Mr...
...asked Mr...
...The males lead a comparatively tame existence subsisting on the juices of plants and fruits...
...The American Magazine offered prizes for the best letters on capital punishment...
...the heathen I make a fiend incarnate...
...In all $35,0000,000 was paid...
...Wisconsin's State Debt Is Smallest in Union Wisconsin was paid a high tribute by Director Harris of the United States Census bureau in a statement showing that the state's debt is proportionately in better shape than that of any other state...
...that he (Mellen) looked after the interests in New York himself, because there was little down there...
...Folk...
...Others may go to Carlsbad or to some other cure, but somebody has to stay and fight it out...
...Questioned by Mr...
...Why didn't you remonstrate with him and ask him how he came to do this...
...What was the value of the Westchester at the time of its purchase...
...Brayton was called the bind boss of Rhode Island...
...That's the only 'if' in the whole matter—if it makes good...
...Martin G. Brumbaught, superintendent of Philadelphia's public schools, was nominated by the Republicans for Governor and Frank B. McClain of Har-risburg for Lieutenant Governor...
...We paid about twice the value of the properties," said Mr...
...Later, he said, two members of the committee that had arranged his retirement said the matter of compensation was causing them embarrassment and asked if he would relieve them of it...
...said Mr...
...My convictions concerning it are deep-rooted and firmly established...
...This not only means draining swamps and filling in ponds, but gathering up tomato cans, putting netting over horse troughs and rain water barrels, and watching the eave troughs...
...Mr...
...But it was not mine to use at will or to arbitrarily exercise, or, indeed, to exercise at all, except for grave and public reasons...
...Roosevelt...
...Morgan...
...The international covenant on safety at sea signed at the conference in London last January has been rati-field by the German Reichstag...
...Mellin, "I think probably that was President Roosevelt...
...He had nothing to do with receiving or soliciting it...
...I AM WAR...
...A memorandum indicating the payment of money as campaign funds, shown by Mr...
...I imagine it was because Mr...
...Mr...
...Kerosene or any light fuel oil will serve for this purpose...
...To get efficiency and economy," declared Mr...
...The other Republican nominees were unopposed...
...He tells of another expert who has gone from a Western agricultural to become farm adviser for an Illinois company, at a salary of $4,000 a year...
...In 1909 it maintained an aggressive lobby in Washington to defeat a reduction of the tariff on lumber...
...Did you have a conference with President Roosevelt concerning the Boston and Maine purchase...
...Mellen, "but we thought they soon would be worth what we gave...
...When was a loan of $300,000 made to Haskell of the Boston Herald...
...Mellen explained that Police Inspector Byrnes of New York City, with whom he dealt, in acquiring the majority of the Westchester stock, told him that much of the stock was held by people in Fourteenth street, New York, "where, you know, Tammany Hall is located...
...Mr...
...better aid our gallant brothers in Colorado by remaining at work, thus insuring in a financial way our fullest support to the men, women, and children, who have been long engaged in the great struggle in Colorado...
...I am amenable to no law, and I am in myself the law and the last resort...
...Asked if he had employed Prof...
...Griffith requested that Johnson relieve Hughes, although the great pitcher didn't even have time to warm up properly...
...Mellen described his steamship transactions with Charles W. Morse...
...Oh, governor," exclaimed Mr...
...Depending for its authority upon 'what dead men have written in old books, it has no place among the just, merciful, and solemn enactments of a free, enlight-ened and Christian people...
...Who was the 'Little Father at Washington?' " he asked...
...Mr...
...later, because of fear of the law, they disavowed any such purpose, but the practices they professed to abandon were continued by subterfuge and indirection through the same groups of men who had formerly done them in the associations...
...Perhaps there was some measure of cowardice about my feeling...
...between 1897 and 1907...
...He would not do physical harm to any one...
...Folk read a letter from H. M. Whitney, written to Mr...
...Skinner shouted, 'what have you been doing here with $11,000,000 of New Haven money?' " 'I'll appoint you a committee of one to find out,' I suggested...
...Mcilen explained that after the meeting of the board in which the report was adopted S. C. Hemingway, a director entered his office and said: "We're flying high here, spending $11,000,000...
...One of the members of the committee writes: "The courses are backed by reliable farmers who arc interested in furnishing a class of good, clean and instructive entertainment for their boys and girls in order that they may make farm life more attractive...
...Every fiber of my being, physical, mental and moral, revolts at it...
...Folk, counsel for the Commission, had shown that the total investment of the Boston and Maine in the Worcester Road was $7,925,000, he asked Mr...
...I set neighbor against neighbor in deadly combat, and I incite the brother to slay his brother...
...In 18S0 the per capita debt was $1.87...
...Folk, was taken up by Mr...
...In answer to questions he said Gen...
...Mellen did not say so, the "man close to the directors" is admitted to be J. P. Morgan, Jr...
...Had Mr...
...Were you afraid to remonstrate with him...
...I never did know what the real motive for the deal was...
...Mellen, "have you not read the Bible...
...I then practically made them a present of the $150,000," Mr...
...Morgan himself headed this committee...
...that he did not know whether the law would permit anything of that kind...
...Upon the joint recommendation of Secretaries Lane and Garrison, the President has withdrawn four tracts of public land in Alaska for military reservations...
...Now that opening sentence," said Mr...
...Mellen as the solution of the Ameri-can railroad problem...
...and I nearly killed everybody in the office to keep Mr...
...Kocher-sperger, in charge of the finances of the New Haven," he said...
...The money was not so much for what he did, but to keep him from doing certain things...
...Though mosquito larvae always develop in water, they must breathe air and frequently come to the surface...
...What did Mr...
...In 1880 a bond issue of $11,000 was recorded: The floating debt was small...
...Four times out of the six I set aside the penalty and commuted the sentence to life imprisonment...
...There was always something pending in the Massachusetts legislature...
...asked Mr...
...They got in touch with the University of Wisconsin Extension division and bought a five-number course at a cost of $135...
...I had sworn to enforce the law...
...Morgan I would be wrong nine times out of ten...
...So, too, it, was with the acquisition of the Worcester, Nashua & Rochester Railroad...
...He told the President that he had received an offer of $20,-000,000 from Morse for the New Haven steamship holdings and felt inclined to accept it, because thus the New Haven would be able to turn the property into cash...
...Morgan...
...Mellen, "'that you go and find cut...
...Then what did you do after the interview...
...I think I said 'Jerusalem' or some-thing like that...
...Didn't Morgan have more power than any state government under which you operated...
...Herbert Knox Smith and Commissioners Prouty and Knapp were present, having been called in by Mr...
...In efforts to get control of the Worcester street railroad it was necessary for the New Haven to have a bill passed by the Massachusetts legislature...
...Mellen testified that he made a $2,500,000 contract with the New York Contracting Company, to change the Harlem division from a two-tread to a six-tread line and that he has heard that James E. Gaffney and Charles F. Murphy were interested in the contracting company...
...These farmers are willing to open their homes for the entertainment of lecture course people...
...Miners Will Not Call a General Strike There will not be a general strike of miners at the present time...
...big New York cor- porations were looking after things affecting them in that state and the New Haven hid in their shadow, AN ABSOLUTE monopoly of trans-portation under government regulation and control was suggested by Mr...
...Bid you write that letter...
...Mellen, for myself, that if you do not sell your lines I will promise you so far as I am concerned while the law remains as it is, you shall experience no trouble from me in your ownership of what you now have.' " "When was the bill put in by Attorney General Bonaparte...
...Mr...
...Based on this I made the same contributions to the campaign of 1906...
...I have learned through my counsel—I did not know it at the time— that he was subpoenaed and his subpoena was quashed or nolled...
...Folk asked...
...Billard," Mr...
...Morse," the witness said, "had acquired practical control of nearly all the steam lines of the Atlantic coast...
...I make puppets of kings, princes of paupers, courtiers of courtesans, and thieves of respected subjects, and empires melt before by breath as does mist before the morning sunlight...
...Mellen, "that he was not a lawyer...
...They argued Hughes had allowed both runners to reach first, because he had issued a base on balls to each man...
...Morgan had not died, how far would you have gone in this dream of consolidation...
...Did Mr...
...Buena Vista hap decided to take on a course next year that will cost nearly $200...
...Hanly...
...Folk turned to a financial transaction between the New Haven Railroad and the owner of the Boston Herald...
...Rockefeller Turns Down Lindsey Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver and a delegation in which were wives' and children of striking min-ers who survived "the Ludlow massacre traveled to Washington last week and submitted to President Wilson the judge's plan for the settlement of the strike in the Colorado mine fields...
...asserted that disorder and violence will - again break out if the federal troops are withdrawn and declared that a republican form of government does not exist in Colorado...
...Folk...
...To me 'afraid' suggests physical violence...
...The merger was approved by law and we liked the merger plan," said Mr...
...The female mosquito gorges herself with blood in order that the eggs may have abundant nourishment She deposits her little egg raft on the surface of quiet water during the night and it floats there until the larvae hatch...
...The shares were going to be sold, in my judgment, and they were likely to go to lines possibly out of the country, notably the Canadian Pacific the Grand Trunk...
...But Buena Vista is composed of an energetic farming population...
...At that time I was president of the Northern Pacific...
...Mellen said he approved the fee of $100,000 paid to Mr...
...It was unanimous for conviction...
...I pillage the land of its resources but contribute nothing of benefit to mankind, leaving pestilence to stalk ghostlike in my wake and complete the work of destruction...
...Six times in my life I have faced the responsibility of its infliction, holding within my own will decision concerning it, with power to suspend it or let it be imposed—the power of life and death over its intended victim...
...He told me, as near as I can recall," said Mr...
...Aldrich while a member of the United States Senate, was instrumental in selling the Rhode Island trolley system to the New Haven and paid between $19,000,000 and $20,000,000...
...Ah," said Folk, sarcastically, "his was the Master Mind of the New Haven and the Boston & Maine...
...The labor representatives insisted that labor unions should be specifically exempted from prosecution under the Sherman anti-trust law, but the subcommittee said they would take their fight to the House...
...Out of the whole proceeding...
...to the hatred and the furies of a time long gone, fitting only the iron hand of a Nero, the metallic soul of a Bismarck...
...As it turned out, I think it would," replied Mr...
...Morgan, saying, "1 do not remember his doing a single thing on which he made a dollar in connection with the New Haven while I was president...
...This may have been so," answered Mr...
...I sold the stock and was fortunate in handling it so that it made a profit...
...This emerging business is a delicate operation which cannot be carried out successfully during windy weather...
...Not, exactly afraid," remonstrated the witness, "Morgan was a polished gentleman...
...Roosevelt say...
...So you did by merger what you were prohibited from doing by law...
...The larvae are the 'wigglers' or 'wiggle-tails' which are seen in ponds and rain water barrels the world over...
...The fact is, a germ was working in the public mind in our favor and we obtained thereby the legislation we needed," Reading the "prayer from the hills," Mr...
...Robbins...
...After declaring that Mr...
...As I wanted a change myself I welcomed the suggestion," said Mr...
...An appeal for aid was issued...
...Morgan very much...
...The Democratic machine showed strength in the large cities but appears to have been overwhelmingly defeated in the rural sections...
...Two years or more before notes of Haskell were sold to Mr...
...Mellen said...
...Morgan...
...After reciting that "price combinations among lumber manufacturers have usually been effected through association" and declaring that in practically every region of lumber production, associations exist, it sums up the findings as follows: "While some of the avowed purposes of the associations are to bring about and foster practices that are beneficial both to producer and consumer, the chief purpose apparently has been to increase profits by advancing prices...
...Mellen explained, he felt it desirable to confer with Colonel Roosevelt, who then was President of the United States...
...This partial report is part four of the findings in a complete investigation of the lumber industry and deals only with combinations to restrict trade or raise lumber prices...
...It is so great a war that our force of officers becomes too small for the enormous armies of volunteers...
...Mellen was questioned at length regarding a proposition to acquire steamship lines to operate through the Panama Canal...
...Although Mr...
...This was the decision of the executive board of the United Mine Workers in session at Indianapolis recently...
...We went back to the Connecticut legislature and an act was passed approving the merger...
...I thought...
...Mr.Mellen left Washington for New England to take a rest...
...Do Agricultural Colleges Face a Crisis...
...He admitted that neither he nor any of the directors of the New Haven ever had the temerity openly to oppose Mr...
...When corn-belt counties are willing to pay $4,000 a year to practical scientific men the field of scientific agricultural work becomes suddenly so expanded that nobody knows where the trained men are coming from to carry it on...
...I told Mr...
...Twice I let the thing he done...
...I wrote that letter at the instance of Lewis Cass Ledyard and Edward D. Robbins...
...We believe," says the board, "that we can...
...He urged me not to sell...
...Mellen, "some time in the spring of 1907...
...Mellen saying he was sick and disgusted over the Westchester transaction and feared that many reputations might be damaged on account of it...
...In such a revolution in matters agricultural, the agricultural colleges will need the best thought of the state governments, and the sanest sort of management, or they will be lost in the rush they have started and are now leading...
...At the present time about 2.5 per cent of the total population of the United States would be found in the state of Wisconsin, and .07 per cent of the total debt is attributed to that state...
...Lane, who was then Interstate Commerce Commissioner, and I went and talked with Mr...
...asked Mr...
...Needing only four more wins to break the record, most pitchers would have been rather particular about when and where they worked...
...Recently the people got together and decided that they wanted a lecture course...
...If, on the other hand, it turns out that even under the best instruction farming still remains the same steady, slow, close-figuring old business, that the results of the better methods are so small as not to be very apparent, then the movement to carry salvation to the farmer will wane, and the professors who have left the agricultural colleges for commercial life will go back and the deans "will be relieved of the fear that their dearest professors are likely to be kidnapped overnight...
...At whose instance did you write that letter...
...He asked why William A. Read & Co...
...had been raised to $60,000, and when the salaries of all employes was cut 10 per cent he cut his own to $54,000...
...Walter Johnson, True Sport I UMPIRED the plate in the game in which Walter Johnson suffered his first defeat after a run of sixteen straight victories two years ago, writes Umpire Billy Evans in Harper's Weekly...
...These things never come in writing, but they reach the spot nevertheless...
...asked Mr...
...But the average size of the audience was 185...
...Morgan's plans, although he said he sometimes disagreed with him...
...Louis got two men on and only one out, Manager Griffith was none too certain of the game, with only a one-run lead as a margin...
...Mellen, who declared he did not approve of the purchase, in-sisted that, had Mr...
...Lumber prices, according to the report, had advanced from SO to 200 per cent...
...Only a pardon or interference again by the court of appeals can save Becker from following to the electric chair the four gunmen who shot the gambler Rosenthal two years ago...
...A subcommittee of the House Judiciary committee, after conferring with American Federation of Labor leaders and Representative Lewis, chairman of the House Labor committee, decided to make no change in the trust bill...
...I thought he did good work and I favored paying him the money," said the witness...
...At that time there was no legal or ethical objection to corporations making political contributions...
...At the time of his retirement his salary was $54,000 a year, he said...
...Mellen said he thought Morgan might have been willing to yield to him in some matters of "ordinary business...
...He struck out the first man to face him...
...In the middle of the season the treasurer's books showed that all expenses had been paid, with $50 left over in the treasury...
...Vance McCormick, Palmer's running mate on the Democratic ticket, received the nomination for Governor...
...About as tame as a lot of cows without a bull...
...The report opposes any effort to exempt lumber associations from the operations of the Sherman anti-trust law...
...it made no difference to you what party was in power...
...Well, we always tried to get under the best umbrella," responded Mr...
...Bruce Wyman of Harvard, at $10,000 a year to deliver lectures in the interest of the New Haven, Mr...
...1 felt," said Mr...
...You are at liberty to form your own conclusion...
...I did, and I did it for the sole purpose of shielding Mr...
...Folk...
...The cash changed naturally from year to year, the largest amount recorded being $3,162,000 in 1912...
...Mellen, "somebody must bear the burden...
...Folk questioned Mellen concerning the New Haven's acquisition of the Worcester Railway and Investment Company...
...Twelve men decided Becker was a participant in the Rosenthal murder...
...Let's see, 1907," replied Mr...
...When late In the game, St...
...Mr...
...Did you write a letter to the district attorney taking the responsibility...
...I make of religion fanaticism...
...My duty seemed to me to be aptly defined by Justice Samuel F. Miller of the United States Supreme Court, in sentencing a prisoner found guilty of murder, in a case over which he presided while on the bench: " 'The penalty which the law attaches to your offense is one which my private judgment does not approve...
...but from my standpoint, assuming that I told him the story as if wan, it seemed to him that if he were in my place he would be inclined to make the purchase...
...Mellen said a contract was offered him by which the New Haven would retain his services in an unofficial capacity, to give advice, etc., for five years at an annual salary of $30,-000...
...And he added, "I recall no case in which Mr...
...The areas withdrawn are prominent points on navigable waters on the Alaskan coast having strategic value for the protection of coal fields and railroads...
...I'd like to know something about it...
...He is subject to recall at any time...
...It belongs to the days of the Inquisition, the wheel and the rack, the stake and the fagot...
...that the New Haven asked for little legislation...
...I am opposed to it in any form...
...asked Mr...
...Penrose—Palmer—Pinchot Pennsylvania's first state wide primary for the nomination of candidates for United States Senators, Congressmen, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, a number of judges and a host of local officials was held May 19...
...This was curtly refused...
...Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrived in New York May 19 from his exploring trip in South America...
...The Republican organization won throughout the state...
...Keeping Up Lumber Prices Lumber manufacturers' associations through combination and agreement have increased the price of lumber and endeavored through lobbying to influence legislation, according to a partial report of the lumber industry made public April 29 by Commissioner of Corporations Davies...
...Roosevelt that as it was expected a bill being prepared by Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of Corporations, would contain a clause preventing railroads from owning steamships, it would be to our advantage to accept the Morse offer...
...Who represented you before the legislature—Mr...
...asked Mr...
...He said it was intimated by "a man close to the directors" that a change was considered desirable...
...I squander the vitality and lives of those who serve me faithfully, yet return to the world nothing but ruin and ashes...
...Suppose,' I suggested," said Mr...
...It was prepared by Mr...
...It is a part of the old penal system of torture and of bodily mutilation, a system founded upon retribution...
...I believe $25,000 is enough for any railroad president, and if he hasn't the ability to live on that he ought to go elsewhere...
...What did you mean by saying that reputations would be damaged and that you world be made the 'goat' of the transaction...
...I was at the time governor of a great commonwealth, The law provided for the death penalty...
...Morgan, greater than of any other man I ever met...
...And the campaign for skilled agricultural demonstration and instruction has not even begun, if it makes good...
...asked Mr...
...Mellen answered the questions put to him briefly and unhesitatingly...
...I signed it in their presence and sent it to the United States district attorney...
...Not many players with a wonderful chance to break a world's record would have accepted so severe a reverse in such a manner...
...Mellen: "Would the Boston and Maine not have been better off if it had continued to lease this road...
...The money was sent to Cornelius N. Bliss...
...I respect neither the feebleness of gray hairs, the helplessness of infancy, nor the sacredness of virtue, and walk, iron-shod, ruthlessly and impartially over the form of the weakling or the form of the giant...
...About one ounce of oil will cover fifteen square feet...
...He said the plan was abandoned when the act was passed prohibiting the operation through the canal of railroad-owned ships...
...I fear neither man nor God...
...The wholesale prices of lumber have been higher because of the associated activities of lumbermen...
...I know nothing personally of the McKinley contribution...
...Ledyard or George F. Baker of the New Haven directorate on the stand the present week...
...One moment, however, before you go;—'the female is more deadly than the male.' "Among mosquitoes the members of the 'fair' sex are fierce blood suckers who inject an irritating poison into our skin, and they may accompany the dose of toxin with a few fever germs...
...They authorized me to make the political contribution...
...The lectures were given in a discarded church that had a seating capacity of 180...
...And people drove six miles to attend the entertainments...
...I had," replied Mr...
...Folk...
...This question was put to Johnson on the bench the next day in discussing the affair...
...I have barked my china trying.' "After the meeting of the board there was quite a sanhedrin in my office...
...Tears streamed down the foreman's face as he announced the decision...
...The original theory was that it should cost the New Haven about $5,000,000," said Mr...
...I can offer no excuse for my having come into existence, nor can I give one plausible reason why I should not cease to be, other than that so long as men who wield influence are permitted to gratify their selfish desires and ambitions at the expense of the many who must carry the burdens and endure the suffering, that long will I continue to exact my toll of sorrow, devastation, and death...
...If Mr...
...Morgan "took a very active part in the negotiation" for the exchange of the Ontario and Western with the Grand Trunk, Mr...
...Just beginning...
...Taking up the consolidation with the New Haven of the New England Steamship Company and the Consolidated Railroad Company, Mr...
...That is one reason why there are more mosquitoes on quiet evenings...
...One question, however, he appeared not to relish...
...I suppose I did," replied Mr...
...In a letter Mr...
...Who dictated it...
...and he could not assure me, if I was in violation of the law, that I would not be treated just the same as anybody else...
...It locks as if 1 was a prophet when I wrote that letter...
...I dictated a letter, which was redrafted by Mr...
...Mellen said he was practically "fired...
...Morgan been subpoenaed in that matter...
...He tells about a teacher in a Western agricultural college, who has taken a year off to give a company engaged In development work in the South the benefit of his almost unequaled equipment in soil management...
...Mellen declared that the late J. Pierpont Morgan was responsible for the Grand Trunk negotiations on which Mellen was indicted for criminal violation of the Sherman Anti-trust act and that he himself "took the indictment that belonged to Morgan, believing it would have killed the aged financier if he had been in-dicted...
...The President is directed to see that the day is observed as such throughout the United States by the raising of flags on all government buildings and by public proclamation calling on all citizens to display flags...
...MR...
...Folk offered in evidence a letter written by Mr...
...When trouble befalls any large enterprise," responded Mr...
...I lay waste green fields and still the hand of industry...
...It would have given us a reputation for literary talent that we did not deserve...
...Mellen, "that I was entitled to know why we were paying $11,000,000 tor a great big basketful of stuff (Westchester stock) that we did not know the value of...
...inquired Mr, Folk...
...We wanted to be left alone...
...When Mr...
...Mellen, "but at the time things looked different...
...He interjected a eulogy of Mr...
...Mellen, by a committee of throe or four directors—"J...
...The average in forty-eight states is $3.52.6 per capita, while in Wisconsin it is 93 cents...
...It was certainly not a- bad induce-ment," "What was pending in the Massachusetts legislature at the time of the loan to Haskell...
...But to my dying day I shall not be able to acquit or justify the law that imposed the awful responsibility upon me...
...Mellen on May 22...
...Asked how this stock reached Tammany Hall, Mr...
...According to this memorandum, then," insisted Mr...
...So the prayer from the hills, supposed to come from the people, in reality came from the New Haven...
...An intimation came to me that if we wanted legislation it would be a good idea to trade for stock...
...But I have no more right, for that reason, to refuse to obey the law, than you have to resist it' "In the four cases in which I extended clemency there were palliating circumstances that seemed to justify executive mercy...
...He said he learned that the American Express Company wanted to sell its holdings in the Boston and Maine and that some of the other large stockholders would do the same...
...For I am pitiless—devoid of all feeling...
...for I do not believe that capital punishment is the best means to enforce the observance of the law, or that, in the present state of society, it is necessary for its protection...
...Lane, and then went back and saw the President, and I got this statement from the President, that he could not help me in any way, shape or manner if anything I did was found to be in violation of the law...
...Bought...
...Mellen threw additional light upon the relation between President Theodore Roosevelt and the Morgan crowd that was then engaged in building up the transportation monopoly that has become a stench in the nostrils of the nation...
...Tom Hughes, who had been pitching brilliantly, was showing unmistakable signs of weakening...
...Morgan did not have his way...
...I stood in great awe of Mr...
...It was ruled that the defeat should be charged to Johnson, breaking his run of victories...
...The National Lumber Manufacturers' association has been active in its effort to shape legislation...
Vol. 6 • May 1914 • No. 22
