DEFYING CONGRESS
Defying Congress IF A TOWN has a law regulating the speed of automobiles to twelve miles an hour, what happens to the driver who is caught by the constable making twenty miles! If a city has an...
...E. P. Ripley, President of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, issues a defiant statement...
...He stepped over it and let bis feet slide down the pilot until his right foot rested on a small step at the bottom...
...And we all know what our captains of industry and our masters of finance say about the "disturbers" who show disrespect for "law" and "order...
...Mathews was tied to a rope and lowered head first to the child...
...His statement is given publicity in...
...William E. Van Dyke, aged thirty-five, captain, died, helping to save Charles Davies, aged twenty-two, seaman, and assisting in an attempt to save an unidentified man from an explosion, Baltimore, Maryland, March 7, 1913...
...He grasped the child's upraised arms and was hoisted a few feet with him...
...Van Dyke and his crew knew the nature of the cargo on the ship...
...Not seldom are we thrilled by deeds of heroism where men or women are injured or lose their lives in attempting to preserve or rescue their fellows...
...For the most part they receive no medals...
...Neither was injured...
...Some of the refugees who had boarded the tug begged Van Dyke not to go to the ship, and they asked the engineer not to respond to Van Dyke's signals...
...The heroes of barbarism maimed or killed theirs...
...Van Dyke and his engineer decided to try to get teh men, and the tug was turned and run full speed toward the ship...
...ButWhen Congress passes a law fixing eight hours as the standard for the workday of railroad employees, what happens...
...then with his left leg swinging free, he turned to face Bernard and grabbed him with his left hand...
...Perhaps we have not been accustomed to looking up high enough to find it Heroes of Peace WAR records bulge with deeds of individual heroism...
...he answered: "Teach them what they will do when they are men...
...THE NATION that has the schools has the future...
...Bernard walked on a railroad track and stopped between the rails at a moment when a passenger train was approaching at a speed of about thirty-five miles an hour...
...The tug was then backed at full speed...
...When the train was four hundred feet from the child, Perkins ran out along a running board, swung down over the steam-chest to the bumper-timber and without holding to anything, leaned down and grasped an iron rod above the bumper-timber...
...The workmen at once became panic-stricken and fled...
...From the last report of this Commission we take a few examples of the heroism of Peace that claim the applause of all who thrill at brave deeds...
...It is only fair to the public and to our employees to say that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company does not intend to comply with the law until ordered to do so by the court of last resort.'' The law-respecting citizen may well ask: Where IS the real seat of anarchy in this country...
...Plain Citizen when HE defies the law...
...He put a loop at the end of a rope under Benjamin's arms and both were hoisted to the surface...
...Benjamin fell into an abandoned well twenty-five or thirty feet deep and thirteen inches in diameter...
...Charles A. Perkins, Sr., aged twenty-nine, locomotive fireman, saved Bernard A. Starker, aged one, from being run over by a train, Royal, Texas, April 9, 1914...
...Davies, two members of Van Dyke's crew, and other men on the tug were badly injured...
...Their acts of heroism go often unheralded, particularly those in the hazardous industries...
...Debris fell at a distance of two miles and killed persons on shore...
...If Congress passes a tariff law, what happens to the person who is discovered in the act of smuggling...
...Decorations are conferred daily on men of the armies and navies who, in many cases, have shown degrees of courage almost beyond belief...
...such the heroes of civilization...
...Henry T. Mathews, aged twelve, delivery boy, saved Benjamin J. Grant, Jr., aged three, from suffocation, Dothan, Alabama, March 26, 1912...
...More than an hour had been spent trying to get a boy who would enter the well...
...But Peace, too, has her heroes...
...then the child slipped from his grasp...
...Mathews was hoisted to the surface...
...We all know what happens to Mr...
...in the wages of the best paid men in railway service...
...Da-vies was one of the men on the ship, but Van Dyke and his crew did not know either of the men...
...They are to be found in every walk of life...
...It was about seventy-five feet from the ship when the dynamite exploded with terrific force, utterly demolishing the ship...
...Some got on Van Dyke's tug, and the tug was run away from the ship at full speed...
...and they dropped onto the tug...
...Van Dyke and his crew of three men were in a tug, waiting beside a ship in the Pa-tapsco River while stevedores transferred dynamite from a car-float to the hold of the ship...
...Bismarck...
...The engineer applied the emergency brakes and reversed the engine...
...They call them "anarchists...
...The founder of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission wrote in his Deed of Trust: "We live in an heroic age...
...Other men got on a launch and were taken to safety...
...Dense black smoke was pouring from the hatches of the ship, and the smoke and flames increased rapidly...
...If a city has an ordinance prohibiting "spitting" on the sidewalks, what happens to the man who is arrested for that offense by a policeman...
...Van Dyke, one of his crew, the man who had been with Davies, and six others were killed...
...Van Dyke got his tug four hundred and fifty feet from the ship and then it was discovered that two men were on the bow of the ship...
...The child was not injured...
...He lifted the child and held him until the train was stopped with the pilot twenty feet beyond the point where the child had been...
...If Congress passes a law to protect the integrity of the postal service, what happens to John Smith or Bill Jones if they openly and defiantly tamper with the mails...
...He made another unsuccessful attempt to get the child, and then was lowered a third time...
...every nook and corner of the country...
...After many boys had refused to be lowered to get him, Mathews went to the well and said he would go...
...A small explosion occurred in the hold of the ship, and a fire started...
...Is the heroism of saving fellowmen any less heroism than the heroism of destroying fellow-men...
...Listen to this amazing utterance: "Congress, hastily acting under a threat of four leaders of labor organizations, enacted a so-called eight hour law, which is nothing more or less than an advance of 20 to 25 per cent...
...WHEN a Spartan king was asked, three thousand years ago, "What shall we teach the youth...
...The bow of the tug was run beneath Davies and his companion, who had got down on the anchor-chain...
Vol. 8 • September 1916 • No. 9
