The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 2, 1905, Page 9

MAGAZINE SECTION: The Butler Week —— 4 PART TWO. Times. VOL, XXVIII. BUTLER, MISSD@RI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1905. NOQ. 1 MONEY FOR POLITICS. LEGISLATION TO PROHIBIT COR- 3 PORATIONS MAKING CAM- : PAIGN PAYMENTS. Question of Taxing Patent Medicines to Be Discussed by Congress—One Method Suggested to Meet Deficit- There are prospects that two pieces of legislation will be strongly advo- cated at the coming session of Con- gress, both of which, however, will be vigorously opposed, They relate to the EX-SENATOR W. E. CHANDLER, + practice of making political contribu- tions and to the question of taxation upon certain patent medicines, al- though this latter is but a feature of the general subject of overcominz the Treasury deficit, It is expected that the President wiil refer in his annual message to the question of campaign contributions, and it is known that there are many Senators and Representatives who would favor prompt action in the en- actment of prohibitive legislation, Chandier’s Bill to Prohibit Con- tributions. As far back as 1901, Senator Chand- ler of New Hampshire, introduced ¢ bill to prohibit those national banks or corporations which do an interstate or foreign business from making any po- litical contributions, and to prohibit any corporations from contributing to “campaigns involving the election of United States Senators and Represen- tatives, The bill was almost imme- diately favorably reported~to the Sen- ate, but it was near the end of the short session and it failed of passage. The evident fact that it could not be taken up and passed may account for the entire lack of opposition to it. What strength will develop against such a measure this winter is problem- atical, It is no secret that many cor- porations regularly contribute to both political parties, Mr. Havemeyer, of the sugar. trust, has declared in plain language. that he has contributed to the Democrats and Republicans alile. Publishing the Donations. The discussion next winter is likely to centre largely around the Presi- , dent’s plan for the publication of all | campaign contributions, with a view | t6 framing such a law as will prevent practices, | fssues properly contested there is a certain need of money. The publica- tion and distribution of speeches and all classes of literature is quite gen- erally regarded as not to be condemned, but as of advantage in having th: questions of the day properly under- stood by the voters. Leaders in Congress are but a unit in declaring that it is only when money is expended in order to-corrupt voters that the expenditure can be crit icised. But it is generally believed that this subject will give rise to an im- mense amount of debate in the next Congress. There are a score of Sena- tors and a large number of Represen- saying. ings. about. the corporations saying abou! e CO) ns and the practice of corporations mak- ing contributions to political cam- paigns...-_ -—-—_- Propose Tax On Medicines. The question of the taxation of pat- ent medicines, which contain consider- able alcohol, is bound to receive seri- * ous consideration by Congress, espe- cially if the present rate of the Treas- ury deficit continues. The deficit is running about $5,000,000 a month now, which is considerably less <a last may alee 5 id * .Patent Medicine Men Will Fight. money from being spent for corrupt; Every one recognizes that | in order to have the great political) REAL HEART OF THINGS, its Found Not in the Great Cities; ' But in Country Homes. “In time the great'cities may be- come dominant, but it will be many years hence, and I would be sorry should I live to see the day,” said James J. Hill, President of ‘the Great Northern railroad. “The national wel- fare depends upon the prosperity of the farm lands, the mining districts, the lumber camps—not on the growth of big cities. The \agricultural inter ests in particular represent the great- est strength of the country, and will for many years to come. Yet men stand appalled at the spec- tacle of a metropolis. Let us take New York, as our most striking ex- ample—where the visitor gapes at the crowded markets, the endless traflic, the hurrying throngs, the skyscrapers, the roaring factories, the bustle of commerce, all the urban reek and riot, and heedless of what lies behind, the hidden motor power, — cries: “Here is the heart of things; here is the pulse of the national life; here the life blood of the nation centers, life blood which,flowing through the veins of commerce, gives vigor to all the land.” New York, the heart of the country? Rather New York the par- asite—the blood sucker. A Giant Exhibition. At best, New York is but a monster exhibit of the products of mines, farms, cattle ranges, mills and factor- les, and of the rural homes where gen- jus is born, nourished and inspired. | P® What more speaking symbol of these things than the city’s skyline. In it- self that skyline of marvelous archi- tecture, save as it excites wonder, ad- miration and(a sense of enterprise and activity amounts to nothing. What it signifies in each ascention and depres- sion is the comparative values of the country’s material resources, Concisely, it represents capital, la- bor and raw material. Of these three the city produces not onein appreci- able quantity. The raw material, the men to handle it, the gold to buy and sell the finished product, come out of the ground and from the open spaces. New York, Chicago, St. Louis, or any other city, has its inception in the open country, and its existence is and ever will be dependent upon the latter. None recognizes this more quickly than the city man. He knows from experience that the city suffers first, last and most from any national dis- aster. To go no further back than the coal strike of three winters ago—New York faced for weeks a coal famine that paralyzed her activities and al- most killed her poor. Manufacturers could not secure enough fuel to run their plants and women on the “east side"paid ten cents for as much coal as would fill a quart pail. The suf- fering in this city was out of all pro- portion to that of the rest of the coun- All_ food products come from the outside. New York uses three million eggs every day, and beef arrives in whole train loads daily. The city must go to the country for its building ma- terials, for wool, cotton. everything that is needed to run its factortes, stores and banks: Dependent on the Country. The reckless expenditures of the city dweller are continuaily giving rise to the question, ‘Where does the mon- ey come from?” From the country, of course. Every wild-cat scheme that is hatched in New York, from Wall Street to Madison Square, in- augurates its proceedings by , send- ing circulars into the country, to catch the dollars of the farmer. The operations of the stock ex- change are all based on the condi- tion of the country. A short wheat po giump in the production of gra! or the prospect of one, turns the floor of the change into a pande- monium. Year by year ple of the in are to the moneyed interests earth, figuratively speaking, and the keenest minds of the metropolis are speculating as to what success the farmer is going to have with his aw The results of that speculation involve she even produce the men to handle them. A glance at biographies wil show that her captains ef industry, merchant princes, men of art, profes- sions, laborers, are country bred, from A. T. Stewart (to go.no further back) to the Rockefellers, Clewes, Depews and all the rest of the present day leaders, Even The People From The Country. Dr. John H. Girdner, an eminent New York physician, sald recently: “Build a wall around New York city illow no new men to enter, and in fifty years the city will depopulate itself. This city makes too many demands upon those who live and work in it. Thousands drop out each month. It is the fresh country people flocking bere day by day that furnish the brains. sinews and pluck to carry the metro) olis to its destiny. Its success in the past has been due to this out-of-town element and will continue to be.” “Men, men, men,” is the constant ery that New York sends out over th. country and the response is adequate eager and satisfying. It is in this fact that assurance of the city’s stil! greater advance lies. Capital flow- ing in from the country made Wall street a by-word to all the world Material drawn from the coun- try has made her the greatest mman- ufacturing town in the United States Men attracted from the country have made her financial mistress of the western hemisphere. Cities Not Self-Dependent. Not only is she dependent upon the open spaces for men, material and money, but even for trade. As con red to the amount of money spent in this city by out of town buyers, th: sum expended by its own inhabita dwindles into insignficance. In rec nition of this, the Merchants Associ- tion of New York annually arranges with railroads for cheap transporta tion, and with hotels for rock botton rates, and runs excursions to gathe: in the out-of-town buyers. During the month of August over 400 buyers from the south and west were in New York, and during Septem: | ber this number largely increased. | Reckoning under the average of past years each merchant spent more than $10,000, and thus through the efforts of the Merchants Association alone more than $400,000,000 is left in the city each year, But this is merely a} fraction of the trade which the city receives from the rest of the country A conservative estimate places the gross income at $1,250,000,000. ’ Each American city isa clearing house for the rural or mining distr surrounding it, and New York the pi RTT THEATRE TRUST. WAR THE INDOMITABLE BELASCO GIV- ING THE SHOW COMBINE A FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE, Threatened With Extinction, He Has Organized an Opposition Which Has Attracted Some of the Brignt- est of the Theatrical Stars, David Belasco for a number of years has been waging a war against the theatrical trust. He has beer assisted in years past by Minnie Mad- dern Fiske, the wife of Harrison Grey Fiske, owner and editor of the Dram- atie Mirror, This year the Shubert Brothers broke off ali business rela tions with Klaw and Erlanger, the moving spirits of the theatre trust,and now a combination with a capital of $1,500,000, of Belasco, Harrison Grey Viske, John C. Fisher, Frank L. Per- fey and the Shubert Brothers has been formed, acquiring about thirty thea- tres, extending from Boston to St.Lou- is, in which they might produce theat rical productions without the dictum of the trusts, ‘ David Belasco, ever since his sever- unee of relations with the trust: has made strenuous efforts to acquire a theatre in the nation’s capital, as he has found that the cosmopolitan na ‘ure of its people assists him greatly in determining whether new produc: BLANCIL BATES, One of Belasco’s Stars. tions will be a suecess or not. In Sep- tember, however, announcement wis made that he, in conjuntion with the} rustle of autumn leaves, to be up with | the lark, to wet one’s feet in the dew Shubert Brothers, had acquired con- trol of the Lafayette Theatre in Wash- ington, and also had taken up a 99- year lease on the ground on which the theatre is built, giving them absolute possession of the property. A Famous Theatre Site. Lafayette Theatre is a comparative- ly modern playhouse, and occupi site on which formerly stood the ard mansion, in which Secretary Sew- ard of Lincoln's cabinet lived when an attempt was made to assassinate him the same night President Lin- THE REAL HEART OF THINGS main clearing house for the whole country. All the mighty spectacle of commerce is merely the dramatic and gorgeously staged representation of the nation’s money, material and men, which build up the metropolitan mech- anism and set it in motion. _—]______ Prehistoric Sculpture. An idea of the small brain capacity of primitive man can be gathered from a crude stone head, now on ex- hibition, which was recently found in a field at Moriches, Long Island. The head, while crude in its work- manship, is pronounced by ethnolo- gists as doultless true to nature— a representation of some savage and prehistoric people who lived ages ago. The head is not a particularly pleas ing bit of sculpture, as it calis up a vision of men and women with small brain development and huge repulsive jaws but a degree above the other animals, eC Fortanes in Chureh Steeples. It is the opinion of Rev. Dr. Forbes, Secretary of the Board of Extension of the. Methodist Episcopal Church, — enough money has been expended, or It may be sald wasted, in buildin; steeples, to pay off all the church debts of the country. Besides, he says, steeples are a relic of barbarism, and money used in their construction can be more usefully expended. A good many people will hardly agree with the reverend doctor in his opinion that church steeples are useless or serve no eoln was shot. In later yenrs the house was occupied by Secretary Blaine, Last year David Belasco found all theatres in the national capital with closely barred doors. Te was arrang- ing to make the initial production of “Adrea,” Mrs. Leslie Carter's latest suceess, and found no building in Washington suitable for a conversion into a theatreexcept Convention Hall, probably the largest auditorium south of New York, and in years previous used for an ice palace, for six day bi- eyele races, athletic meetings, and other institutions requiring great space, This had a hall some 150 feet in length by 125 feet in width, with a roof carried on huge semi-circular ar- ches rising to a height of nearly fifty feet above the floor, Such a barn as this Mr. Belasco in a few days con- DAVID AND GOLIAH. From Life, verted into a modern playhouse through the magic touch of gold, which he has found to be the most of- fensive and defensive weapon against the combine. Money Spent Like Water. The regulations of the District of Columbia to protect theatre patrons against the danger of fire, are ex- tremely rigorous, and it was these that the trust used as a weapon to thwart Belusco in his endeavor to have this last production first appear in Washington as have other plays, which are known as general successes. The burden of expense for this work did not fall upon the owners of Con- vention Hall, but upon Mr. Belasco, who paid, in order to make this hall into a modern fire-proof theatre, an amount aggregating nearly $25,000. The present theatrical combine or “trust,” had first conducted a legiti- mate booking syndicate, charging for the service five per. cent,of the prof- its, an enterprise advantageous alike to actor and manager. The success of this plan opened a larger vista of profit, and the securing of all the thea- tres in the country has led to the de struction of competition with the two formidable exceptions noted. In the other theatres the manager has be-| come the “janitor,” while the syndicate | dictates prices, attractions, and other features, Loosing the Dogs of War. But it is now war to the knife be- tween the two forces, trust and anti- trust, thrust and anti-thrust. Wheth- er the trust will be successful and absorb the independents, remains to be seen. Probably not, so long as it has to deal with men who know their actor proteges, know the method of the trust, know how to produce a play with unsurpassed taste and know that the American people will pay admis- sion to witness an Incomparable pro- duction all the more willingly because of the herculean efforts made to pre. sent it to them. Belasco, in the new combination which he has organized seen to have gotten his knife well in between the ribs of his antagonist and is beginning already to twist it vigor ously, jaan ENVIRONMENT A MOULDER OF CHARACTER, By H. S. BIGELOW, The other day I saw a group of boys carefully scanning a theatre poster, The picture showed a man in the act of plunging a dagger in the throat of a woman The boys did not run or scream, But their eyes were big and the intensity of their faces showed that the horror of the picture was not lost upon the ¢ by were two younger child ng together in the gutter. Their faces were smeared with the mud made by the dish water running over the sidewalk, and the {children were amusing themselves fonting cigar stumps in the disgusting pool, Reflecting upon that sad sight there eatue to mind other childhood scenes, There stood out in memory a little lake that nestled among the hills where sweet-breathed cattle browsed and where the branches of great trees were mirrored in crystal waters. There were the boathouse and the imming- hole and the spring-board; and there were summer nights, too, when the | lonves were still and stars were bright j and the spirit of the child looked up in silent wonder Tn the race of life, in the contest of physical endurance, in the moral tests that come, that child has not a fair chance who has sprung out of the mud }of the streets. To know the breath of lilacs and the of the pasture, to go to bed with the song of the whip-poor-will—these mem- ories are like guardian angels, The children whese horizon brick wall, who must play on cobble stones and go swimming in the canal und be chased by the police, if they do hot grow up to be ideal citizens, shall we, of holier memories, sit in judg- ment upon them? Shall we not remem- ber their bonds? —_—_—_—— | Worse Than Tobaceo Cigarettes. London is reported to be in the throes of a new vice—a vice which is not only | getting society into a turmoil, but is also attracting the attention of the medical fraternity. It is the tea-leaf | cigarette habit—one in which women | are becoming the chief adepts, and which they tind great difficulty in over- coming. Once the taste for the new} |“weed” is acquired, it is said the sen- | jsation of smoking tea cigarettes is | quite pleasant. Dizziness is caused by }constant smoking and the victims jeluteh madly = for — invisible and imaginary objects to support them- | selves, They finally drop in an ex-| hausted and stupefied condition, and | then follows that wild state of dream- is a jdent of the United States. land said to be as varied as that caused | 4. pat, MARY, MOTHER OF WASHINGTON “Handsome Monument Erected by Patriotic Citizens. The monument of Mary Washing- ton, the mother of George Washing- m, stands on the western side of wdericksburg, Virginia, almost und- er the shadow of Marye’s Heights, of bloody Civil War memory. Mary Washington died of cancer, August 25, Ww it was in April that year, that Washington rode from Mount Vernon, to say farewell—a_ final farewell to his mother before starting for New York to be inaugurated first Prest- In a let- ter to his sister Bet Washington, who lived in Fredericksburg, Wash- ington wrote, after learning of his mother’s death, “When I was last in Frederi¢ksburg I took my final leave of my mother, never expecting to see her more.” Neglected Tomb. For a hundred years the grave of this wl woman liy unprotected, on what had been part of the farm of her daughter Washington, but a common of the city Fredericksburg. For half a cen tury the grave was marked by a little stone slab, but this disintegrated, ppeared. Various — fruitless efforts were made to build a monu ment, and in 1830 a New York bank er, Silas E. Burroughs, offered to give an eliborate monument, The corner stone was laid with imposing « j monies by President Andrew Jackson, but Burroughs met with financial re- | MONUMENT 10 MARY WASHINGTON, verses and the work on the monument Was suspended. In 1SSY some patri otic women formed the Mary Wa ington Monument Association, and by subscription erected the monument after buying the land in lwhieh the bones of Washington's mother rest. — A Story on Balzae, The Freneh alienist, Esquirol, om being asked by a student, is there any sure test by which the sane can be distinguished from the insane? invited | his questioner to dine with him and obse » When the student entered the dining room two other guests were Seut- one an _— eleguntly-dressed and apparently highly educated man, While the other was) somewhat un- couth, noisy and extremely con- ceited. As the pupil bid his host good night, he remarked: “The prob- Jem is very simple afte Wy the quict well-dressed gentleman is certainly distinguished in some line, but the other is evidently a lunatic, and ought to be locked up at once.” Smiling at his pupil, Esquirol told him that he was wrong, “The quiet well- dressed man,” he said, “who talks so rationally, has for years labored under the delusion that he is God, the Father, while the other is M. Honore *, the greatest French writer by powerful narcotics. Every reader of this pap of the day.” \ er should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. - at By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Published August st 18TH i THOUSAND ALREADY All Bookstores, $1.50 Missourian The romantic adventures of John Dinwiddie at the Court of Maximilian in Mexico, where Driscoll (nicknamed ‘The Storm Centre nis secret mission comes into conflict with that of the beautiful Jacqueline. 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