The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 2, 1911, Page 2

NO STATE CONTROL DECISION OF SUPREME COURT ELIMINATES STATE RAIL- WAY BOARDS. 1 | THE FEDERAL LAW 1S SUPREME| interstate Commerce Commission Has Had Many Clashes With the Other Bodies—Nation to Be Spelled With! a Big “N.” Washington, Oct. 31.— Complete control of all the railroads of the country by the interstate commerce commission, and virtual elimination of the state commissions from such control, is foreshadowed in an opinion banded down by the supreme court of the United States. The court held that hereafter all locomotives, cars or other equipment used on any rail- Toad which is a highway of inter- state commerce, must comply with the federal safety appliance act. _ In its opinion the court held that compliance with federal law is com- pulsory on all railroads which are en- gaged in the transportation of persons or freight from one state to another. Elaborating this, however, it held that the cars or equipment of such roads, even if engaged in such transporta- tion within the confines of a state, must be considered as part and parcel ; of the road and therefore, completely under the jurisdiction of the federal commission. Members of the merce interstate by clashes of authority with unanimous, The decision of the court generally is regarded as of far reaching sig- nificance and importance. It will en- able the commission hereafter to en- force, practically without question, its orders based upon that law. Those who casually examined the} opinion were divided as to its bearing | on the litigation as to whether a state may regulate freight and pas | senger rates on interstate traffic when such regulation interferes, or might interfere, with interstate com- merce, The supreme court is to con- sider the question next January when | it hears the so-called Minnesota and Kentucky rate cases. judgment of those conversant with | the situation, however, that this de-| cision has little, if any, bearing upon the rate cases. More or less friction has arisen be- tween the interstate commerce com- missions, which has rendered it em- barrassing to the federal body in its work of interstate regulation. HOG CHOLERA IS PREVALENT Kansas, Missouri and lowa Farmers Lose Many Hogs—Heavy De- mand for Serum. Columbia, Mo., Oct. 31.—Hog chol- era has never been as prevalent in the Middle West, particularly Kan- sas, Missouri and lowa, as it is now, according to Dean F.. B. Mumford of the Missouri college of agriculture. The college of agriculture has men out in every part of the state in- oculating hogs and is sending out serum at the rate of 20,000 doses a month. The facilities for making the serum have been increased since the epidem- ic started, but is impossible to supply the demand. In most cases the farm- ers use the serum themselves, and where they were unacquainted with its use a farmer comes to the col- lege and receives instruction from the experts here. When he returns home he not only inoculates his own hogs but also those of his neighbors. “Let the Nation Buy Trusts.” Milwaukee, Oct, 31.—Congressman \ victor L. Berger will introduce a bill in the next session of congress to repeal the Sherman anti-trust act. He would substitute a law providing that wherever a pool, a combine or a trust controls more than 60 per cent of the total output in any in- dustry, the government shall take the concern over, pay the actual value in bonds and manage the business for the benefit of all the people. A Tribute to Carry Nation. Milwaukee, Oct. 31.—Every woman attending the National W. C, T. U. convention bowed her head in respect to the memory of Carry Nation when the name of the famous saloon smash- er was read at the memorial service incident to the convention. Sixteen memorial subscriptions of $25 each were added to the organization fund to prepetuate the work of Miss Frances E. Willard. Missouri Mine Strike Settled. . * Oskaloosa, Ia. Oct, 31—An im- pending strike of coal miners in Mis- souri was averted at a conference of coal operators and officers of, the United. Mine Workers of North Amer- fica, headed by John P. White. All differences between the, Southwestern Operators’ association and the kers of strict: : to the Novinger, case were amicably MOPE RAILWAY MEN VOFING ON STRIKE Heads of Five Minor Organizations to Meet at Chicago—M. K. & T,. Employes Taking Vote on Ad- visability of Striking. Chicago, Oct. 31.—A call to the in- ternational presidents of the four other interested unions to meet in Chicago to discuss the advisability of a strike on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, was issued today by James W. Kline, international president of the railway blacksmiths. The officials invited are J. A. Franklin of the boilermekers, Michael O’Sullivan of the sheet metal workers and Martin Ryan of the carmen, all of whom are in Kansas City, and James O'Connell of the machinists, now in Washing- ton, D. C. Officials of the Rock Island here denied today that shopmen were tak- ing a strike vote to force a wage in- crease. F. G. Melcher, vice president in charge of operation, said: “We have been told indirectly that the men are taking a strike vote, but if that is true the question of wagés is not involved.” Practically the only ungranted de- mand, he said, was for recognition of the system of federation, the lack of which caused’ the present strike of shopmen on the Harriman lines. Kansas City, Oct. 31—And now it is the five labor organizations of shop men of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad company that the striking com- commission, who have been embarrassed on numerous occasions state commissions, are jubilant at the rul- ing of the supreme court which was It is the best! men on the Harriman lines say will go out on strike. Following the an- nouncement that the unions were tak- ing a vote of the men on the Rock Island system to determine the advis- ability of a strike, a report came to the strikers’ headquarters in Kansas City, Kas., that the members of the five crafts were planning to take a vote on the “Katy.” A DARING ENGINEERING FEAT Will Attempt to Stop Destruction of Niagara Falls—Water Wearing Soft Spots Away. | Niagara Falls, N. Y., Oct. 31—One | of the most daring engineering feats | ‘ever conceived has been proposed by Senex Smith, an engineer of Wash- | ington. Me recommends a_ surgical | operation on Niagara Falls at the) very point where the deluge hurls it- self thickest. For some years tourists have no- ticed in the Horseshoe Falls a great V-shaped notch, 20 or fore feet deep and from 70 to 80 feet across from leg to leg. The water at this point found a | soft spot in the underlying rock and ; has eaten into it at the rate of five feet a year and threatens to turn the entire falls into a mere narrow gorge whirlpool. Mr. Smith’s plan is for the state of New York and the province of On- tario to erect a temporary dam in the rapids at the very head of the Horse- shoe so as to deflect the Niagara river over the Canadian end of the falls, When the rock had been thus laid bare, the ugly notch would be filled in and built up with concrete and cement to the poper level. After this a Vanadium steel sill would be laid along the entire ledge of the precipice. This would prevent the water from eating into the rocks for centuries to come and would restore to the falls their original natural beauty. “FILLING A LONG FELT WANT” | Missouri Students Start a New Maga zine—Belong to School of Jour- nalism—Prints Cartoons. Columbia, Mo., Oct. 31.—Varsity Life is the name of the new publica- tion, which will be issued from the University of Missouri monthly. The purpose, according to the first issue, is “to bring attention of the students to the yarious phases of college life that have a funny side to them, and, as there is very little that ever hap- pens that hasn’t a funny side, our field is practically unlimited.” With one exception all the mem bers of the staff are students in the school of journalism. The publica- tion is similar in character to the humorous magazines of Eastern schools. The cartoons are by Robt. A. Ball of Kansas City. Marriages Are Void. WASHINGTON LETTER. Special Washington Correspond- ent of The Times. By Clyde H. Tavenner. Washington, D. C.—The Demo- crats, according to even Republican newspapers, ought to win in 1912, All they have to do is to organize and pull together. The Republican party cannot defeat the Democratic candidate for the presidency. The only possible thing that can prevent the election of a Democratic president in 1912 is the Democrats themselves. The opportunity is here, and from all parts of the country reports are reach- ing headquarters that the Democrats realize it and are already laying plans for a campaign that will result in the Democrats sweeping the country in 1912, There seems to be no way for the Republicans to avoid defeat if the Democrats get together and work, as they are now starting out to do. If Mr. Taft is re-nominated the insur- gents will slash him, and if Senator LaFollette is nominated the ‘‘old guard”’ will slash him. Indiana Will Go Democratic respondent, Angus McSween, to In- diana to report impartially on condi- | tions there. This is a part of the report he sent bark to his paper: ‘Indiana is hoplessly lost to Presi- dent Taft and the Republicans. From | no indications is it possible to reason that they will be as strong as they were in the last election, when they lost every congressional district but The Philadelphia North American, ; Republican, sent its Washington cor-! The Only Combined Safe in the World Bates County. Savings Banks. Capital $50,000.00 W. F. DUVALL, President The Farmers Bank of Bates County HAS A BURGLAR PROOF _CORLISS: Fire and Burglar Proof We offer the best securities and protection of the deposits of our customers. We have the largest deposits and the largest surplus fund of any bank in We pay interest on savings deposits and furnish handsome little Home O. A. HEINLEIN, Vice President BUTLER, MISSOURI The Corliss Safe Has Never Been Burglarized Surplus and Undivided Profits $38,000.00 HOMER DUVALL, Cashier ; H. H. LISLE, Ass’t Cashier Were it not ‘for the sugar tariff this package would but the sugar trust. cost 2 cents a pound less. Urge your congressman to repeal the tariff on sugar.’ This is not an extract from a politi- catspeech. It is a statement of fact one, and control of the legislature. Since then the rapid development of; progressive Republican sentiment into | an open hostility to the Taft adminis- | tration, and the reactionary policies whichthe advocates, make it obvious | that with Taft as the Republican can- didate again, the vote against him in! this state will be overwhelming.” The Way the Wind is Blowing A canvas of Green county, Iowa, | made by mail, may be accepted as a} thermometer showing how the politi- | cal wind is blowing in that section. | One hundred and twenty letters were | sent out to Republicans only, and | ninety-seven answers were received. Some of the questions presented and the answers received are as follows: | If Taft should be nominated, will you support him? Yes, 21; no, 64; blank, 12. Do you approve of the Payne- Aldrich bill? Yes, 12; no, 85. Do you approve of Taft’s action in the Ballinger matter? Yes, 2; no, 91. Do you approve of the attack of Dr. Wiley? Yes, 3; no, 81. Do you approve of Taft’s veto of the woolen schedule as passed by the last Congress? Yes, 18; no, 70. Do you believe the Taft administra- tion favors the farmer and laborer or the trusts? Farmers, 6; trusts, 58. The Aldrich Plan. Ex-Senator Aldrich, chairman of the national monetary commission, has revised his proposed scheme for financial legislation. But inthe main, the Aldrich plan, which would place the public’s credit under control of Wall street, is unchanged. Nobody can read his plan in detail without realizing that it is a central bank of issue that he proposes. The government had one experience with acentral government bank. It was manned by politicians and operated for their benefit, bringing on panics and bank failures. Realizing the hostility to a central government bank, Mr. Aldrich gives his scheme the title: ‘‘National Re- serve Association.’’ It is practically acentral government bank under a different name. A Staggering Blow The Department of Agriculture fre- quently issues a small pamphlet, telling of the outcome of suits filed by the department against violators of Oklahoma City, Ok., Oct, 31.—Mar. riages licenses of which there were about 100-issued in Swanson county since the court declared the county defunct, are now all found to be void. Many of the newlyweds. are. obtaining new licenses from the other counties. Stop Football After a Death. Bozeman, Mont., Oct. 31.—Follow- ing the first football fatality in Mon- tana, in which Charles Lange, a freshman at Montana agricultural college lost his life, the game has been discontinued at that institution for this season, at least. Attacks Modern Business. Philadelphia, Oct. 31.—*No success- ful business man of these times can be honest,” asserted the Rev. Regi- nald John Campbell of City Temple, London, in a lecture at the First Bap- tist church. i the pure food laws. One of these pamphlets, No. 1103, tells of a New York concern having.plead guilty to using arsenic in the manufacture of a food product known as “‘Light Shade Egg Color.”’’ The .food poisoning firm was fined $25. Pamphlet No. 1100 tells of a concern pleading guilty to foisting upon the public a food product consisting in part of “dirtand eggshells” and ‘‘a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.’’ This manufacturer was fined $10. Now that'these staggering blows have been struck, is it not likely that other food dopers will Pang sy coar eee ic and ‘‘putrid animal. in food} . products? Yes, psa Cause of Ten Cent Sugar. “The high tariff benefits nobody | by Pittsburg grocers to their custom-| ‘other monopolies have not /ers to show the latter who is not to) ; blame for the robbery charges on/| ‘sugar. The quoted paragraph is printed on the paper bags in which the | grocers put up sugar. The effect of | | the inscription on a 25-pound bag is; significant. It medns that the tariff| : has cost 50 cents on that one purchase. President Taft’s Defy | President Taft again defies anyone to name a single monopoly that ought | to be condemned as a violation of the! anti-trust law which ‘‘could’”’ not be| |reached under the decisions of the! supreme court. In other words the! President infers that every illegal |monopoly ‘‘could’’ be reached, prose- | cuted, broken up and the guilty trust/ magnates sent to jail. Then why| doesn’t he ‘‘reach” them? The Re-| publicans have had complete charge of the prosecuting machinery of the government sixteen years, and now, when they are about to go out of} power, declare the monopolies ‘‘could”’ | be reached. The beef trust, the sugar | trust, the steel trust and a dozen| been “reached,’’ and nearly everyone |’ agrees with the President that they | “could’”’ be reached if prosecuted in| good faith. But all of these concerns are big contributors to Republican campaign funds, and a great many persons believe that this is one of the | reasons why, although they ‘‘could be reached,”’ that they haven’t been. Dispersion Sale. Sale will be held on farm one-half mile east of Virginia, Mo., on Friday, November 3d, 1911, 45 head thoroughbred Duroc Jersey hogs— Consisting of a few extra good boars and gilts of September, 1910, farrow; 2 tried brood sows; the bal- ance are boars and gilts of May, 1911, farrow. 3 calves—One early spring heifer; 2 summer calves, 1 steer and 1 heifer. TERMS—$15 and under, cash in hand; over that amount 9 months time will be given on bankable note with interest at 6 per cent. 6 per cent dis- count for cash. No property to be removed until terms of sale are com- plied with. JAS. H. PARK, Butler, Mo., Route 5. J. K. Harmon, Auctioneer. Percheron Stallions Mares and Filleys for Sale You don’t have to go out of Bates county to get the- best Percheron | stock. All registered in Percheron Society. Call and inspect stock. Farm 3 miles east of . Butler. WW: W. Barnhart ‘Butler, Mo: Car Potatoes areHere Just received a car of Minnesota Bur- bank Potatoes. We also have a bill for acar RED RIVER seed potatoes— if you want to save money on your seed potatoes BUY NOW. Will-have another car table potatoes "next week. Just Arrived—Another Car “OLD GLORY FLOUR” LOOSE-WILES CRACKERS by the box 6c pound | Butchering time will soon be here. See our display of butcher knives—you will need one when you butcher. CHRISTMAS Get your presents now before the rush—table silverware makes a beautiful, useful present. We have Community Silverware, 1847 Rogers Silver- ware and Townley’s Quarter Century Silverware guaranteed for 25 years. One and 2 men cross-cut saws. Buck-saws and saw-bucks. Axes—all kinds and sizes. Iron wedges. Saw handles. Ax-handles, all kinds, the best quality made. Look over our line. Yours, Norfleet d Ream Phone 144 TheOnly Independent Grocery and Nardware Store. White Front BUTLER, MO. West Side Square New Jewelry Firm , WE HAVE purchased the Geo. W. Ellis Jewelry Company’s entire stock and will continue to run the busi- . Resssits present location. We. - > ‘hopeto merit the confidence and patronage of former cus- tomers and make new ones. Yours for Business, Walin Mathers nels Co, Successors.to Geo. W. Ellis tis Jewelry Co... )