Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA BEE Is the most powerful business getter in the west, because It goes to the homes of poor and rich. VOL. XXVIII—NO. 290. OMAHA, THURSDAY POLITICS IN TARIFF DEBATE Republicans and Democrats Taunt| Each Other About Dissensions in Respective Parties. GOVERNOR JOHNSON CRITICISED Senator Bailey Objects to Statement of Minnesota Executive, FREE RAW MATERIAL HER™® Texan Says Democratic Party Long Since Repudiated. PRICES PAID FOR SUGAR BEI Senntor Clay Charges that Schedu is Fixed by Head of Mormon Charch in Interest of Factorien. | WASHINNGTON, May 19.—The senate iropped into a party discussion late today and demecrats and republicans using at times strong language in a kood natured taunted each other with the degree | dissensions each party had suffered way during the consideration of the tariff. The debate was precipitated by Mr. Bailey, who charged the republicans with entering into a conspiracy by exaggerating demo- cratic discensions in order to hide their own difficuities. He sald he had by care- ful observation recently become convinced “that a deliberate and systematic plan had been inaugurated to obscure the diffcrences on the republican clde by exaggerating and even misrepresenting the differences on this side. This statement calied Mr. Hale to his feet, Mr. Balley readily glving way to the senator from Maine. Mr. Hale assured the senator from Te that there was no reason for such words and added the fact wa that the newspapers selzing upon dis- sension in either party, diplay themselves prominently as pleturesque features. He awsured the Texan that nothing beyond that, in hi opinion, existed in respect to his suspicion of conspiracy. Mr. Hale de- clared that when it was all over all the republicans would support it and all the democrats would oppose it Criticlsm of Johnsoh. Mr. Balley, resuming, read a published intefview with Governor Johnson of Min- nesota eriticizing the minority in the sen- ate in its attitude toward the tariff bill. “If this represents the views of Mr. John- son,” Mr. Baliey said, “‘then he might bet- ter be at home studying the tariff question than seeking democratic favor in other states. If this interview was authorized or eanctioned by Governor Johnson he was utterly reckless of the truth and is dis- qualified for any station. His explanation is that the rallroads of the south have in- terested themselves In this legislation and have overcome the consciences of some sen- ators. He eught, if he knows that, In the cause of truth to specity who are the men to whomn he refers. Defining the democratic attitude toward the tariff question, Mr. Balley declared that the day when democrats should favor | free raw material had passed and sald that doctrine was expréssed by democrats in the past who had hoped by such favor to attract northern manufacturers. Free Haw Materinl Heresy. he demociatic party,’ said Mr. Bailey, “repudiated the heresy of free ruw ma- terial He defended the vote of the democrats, who favored a revenue tax on iron ore. He ridiculed 5 pet cent reduction” in ar- ticles of the pending bill, which, he said, were for the benefit of manufacturers | using the articles pending the reduction. | The discussion then shifted to the iron | and steel schedule. | ‘I was called upon and asked to vote for & duty on iron ore by men who repre- | sented the United States Steel corporation or subsidiary companics’ sald Senator Smith of Maryland, when pressed by Mr. Tillman to say how he knew the steel cor- | poration wanted a duty on iron ore. Mr. Smith defended his idea for free ore as | ane to encourage competiing steel corpora- | tions, 1 Jafl tor Trust Law Violators | Mr. Bailey, again rising, sald he proposed to votet o place oil and its products on the frea list, because, he sald, a duty on It | would produce no revenue and would only increase the price of oil to the people who use it g { “And yet,' he sald, “two excellent gentle- | men contly called on me and spent an hour trylug to convince me that the | Standard Ol company wants gil on the | free list.’ | Reforring again to the antl-trust law, Mr. | Balley said that it he were attorney gen- . with competent assistants he could break up all unlawful combinations. It would only be necessary, he sald, 1o put a few of the violators of the law in jai i In the southern states recently,” he sald, WO men we put in jali ror violating the | ti-trust law and those sentences wiil | dissolve the turpentine trust.” | Seuator aRyner also defended his vote | In favor of free iron ore, which he said he | had cast to help In breaking up the United States steel corporation. “Whenever I can vote for a free raw n terial that wil| destroy one of these monop- oiles,” he said, “1 will vote for it. 1 will never voie for a protective duty, but al-| ways for a duty for the purpose of reve- | nue." Declaring that Joseph F. Smith, the head | of the Mormon church, every year fixed the price of beets in the interest of the beet sugar factories of Utah, rather than in faver of the producers of beets, Senator | Clay In the senate today called forth a characterization of his statement as “abso- lutely untrue” by Senator Smoot, himself an officlal of the Mormon church. M Clay declared that Mr. Smith ,as president of the beet sugar factories of Utah, re- celved §20.00 mnnual salary. “He is always in favor of the factorics and against the srowers® said Mr, Clay. Upon Mr, Smoot's denying this statement, Mr. Clay declined to be Interrupted further Mr. Clay declared that votes already taken In the senate demonstrating that the finance committee had full power to obtain greement on its tariff bill as re- ported, he favored an early vote on the bill a8 delny was useless in affecting the rates carried by that measure —_— FIRE RECORD. . Ohlo Town Wiped Out, KENTON, O, May 18.—~The town Alger, twelve miles west of here, was almost entirely wiped out by fire today The loss 18 estimated at 360,00 of | Martin B. Madden, i b SaysAMadden Took Money and Then Called Off Strike State’s Attorney Severely Arraigns Chicago Labor Leader in Opening Addres; CHICAGO, Wayman May 19.-State's Attorney today outlined his case against president of the As soclated Bullding Trades Council, F. A. Pouchot and H. J. Boyle, labor leaders, charged with extortion in the calling and \ettling of a strike called on the Joseph {licka company of Chicago. Mr. Wayman told how the men at work * the Klicka company, When ordered out a representative of Madden refused to #0 for some time, not knowing of any vance. Later Mr. Wayman declared, the men had struck, officials of the company were approached by ries of Madden and his associates, ye told that it would cost $1,50 to ae strike. S5 won't pay 1t; it's an outrage.”” Klicka replied, according to Mr. Wayman. Later, the prosecutor said, George 8. Andrews, an engineer, went to Klicka and told him he thought he could settle the trouble for $1,00. “We will show,” continued Mr Wayman, “that later Andrews, after getting the money Klicka, went to Madden and Boyle offered Madden $1,000 In $100 bills. “'You can't touch me that way,' Madden maid and then threw the money on the floor. Andrews then placed the money on a table and covered it with a blotter. Then Madden picked it up. Soon after the strike was called of! Hangs Self With Bed Clothing om and Miss Katherine Stuckey, Secretary to | President of Kansas Normal, a Suicide, KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 19.—Miss Kath- erine Stuckey of Emporia, Kan., secretary to the president of the State Normal school there, committeed suicide at a sanitarfum | In Grand View, Kan., across the line from here, early today, hanging herself with a rope made from her bed clothing. Miss Btuckey entered the sanitarium three weeks ago following a breakdown due, it was stated, to overwork. Miss Stuckey was 33 years of age and came of a prominent family in Kansas. TRIED TO KILL GUITEAU, NOW FACES MURDER CHARGE Willlam Jones, Who Attempted to Avenge Murder of President Garfleld, on Trial. WASHINGTON, May 15.—~Wiliam (Bill) Jones, who many years ago attracted na- tional interest when he attempted to ivenge the killing of President Garfield by shooting at Charles Guiteau, the assassin, while the | latter was belng removed from the court house to the jail In this city, was placed on trial today charged with. the murder of John A. McPherson, a former marine, who was employed by Jones as a farm hand. McPherson was killed on October 11, 1908, in Jones' home, about two miles from this city, during a quarrel. Jones pleaded self-defense, FORTNER CAUGHT IN PARIS St. Louls Forger, Missing Since Feb- ruary, is Run to Ground in Europe. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 19.-M. Dwight Fortner, a St. Louls real estate operator, was arrested today In Parls according to cable messages recelved here. Fortner has been missing since February 17. He is under indictments on charges of obtaining $11,600 by means of a forged in- orsement on a check given him in a real estate deal which falled of completion. He is also accused of having forged his wife's | signature to several trust deeds and of ob- taining money thereon. His stenographer, Miss Hildegrande Hallen, who was also a rotary public, was arrested for taking the acknowledgemrents of signatures on these documents, but was released a week ago. REVOLUTIONISTS TO PRISON| Mexicans Convicted Under Neutrality Law Given Eighteen Mont! Sentences. TOMBSTO! Ari May 19.—Magon, | Villareal and Rivera, the three Mexican | revolutionists convicted in the federal | court of violating the neutrality laws in directing an armed expedition into Mexico, were sentgnced this morning by Judge Doan to eighteen months each in the ter- ritorfal prison. The court stated that in- asmuch as the jury recommended mercy, no fine would be imposed. Notice of ap- peal to the supreme court will be filed and a strong effort made to secure a new trial | | project to the accomplishment of which the { & line which opened up a bituminous coal | | $40,000,000. Mr. Rogers had embarked on his | HENRY H.ROGERS DIES SUDDENLY pany Passes Away at His Home in New York. DUE TO STROKE OF APOPLEXY In Ill-Health Since Similar Attack Two Years Ago. FUNERAL FRIDAY MORNING Body Will Be Taken to Fairhaven, Mass.,, for Interment. ILLNESS LASTS LESS THAN HOUR Expecting Quick Sammons, Prepared Business Affatrs for It and Properties Will Be Little Affected. NEW YORK, May 19.—Henry H. Rogers, vice president of the.Standard Ofl com- pany, moving spirit in the organization of the Amalgamated Copper company, builder ot rallroads and philanthropist, died at his home here at 7:3 o'clock this morning trom a stroke of apoplexy. Death came a little more than an hour after Mr. Rogers had risen for the day, mentioning to his wife that he was feeling il At 7 o'clock he lapsed Into unconsclousness and before the family physician arrived he was dead. Mr. Rogers was 69 years old. Mrs. Rogers, three married daughters, a son, H. H. Rogers, jr., and Dr. W. J. Pulley, a phy- siclan who was hastlly summoned, were at the bedside when the end came. While Mr. Rogers' death was sudden and unexpected, he had been in indifferent health since he suffered an apoplectic stroke In 1907, and was almost gonstantly under a physician’s care. His end at this time, however, was a great shock to his family and business assoclates, as yester- day and last evening he was cheerful and apparently normal, even to the extent of going down to business sterday morning, where he lunched as usual In the Standard bullding. In the evening he visited the homes in the city of two of his sons-in-law, Urban H. Broaghten and Willlam R. Cve, where he played with his grandchildren, and later, returned to his home for what proved the last mortal step of his great career. Funeral Friday Morni Final arrangements for the funeral had not been completed tonight, but it has been decided to hold services In this city at the Church of the Messiah, a Unitarlan institution, of which the Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer, a lifelong friend pf Mr. Rogers, is pastor, Friday morning. Dr. Collyer will conduct the services, after which the body will be taken to Fairhaven, Mass, Mr. Rogers' native town, for interment. Ser- vices also will be held there in the Uni- tarian ehurch on Saturday. The list of4 pall bearers had been only tentatively agreed upon tonight and accordingly was not made publie. The news of the death was a surprise to Wall street. Mr. Rogers was at the office of the Standard Oll company yesterday and appeared to be in good spirits. His health had been failing somewhat for several years and he had curtailed his financal operations to some extent on that account, but he continued to perform the duties of | vice president of the Standard Oil com- pany. Mr. Rogers was for many years one of the most prominent financiers of the coun- try. He took a leading part in all of the enterprises undertaken by the Standard OIl group of capitalists, was vice president of the Standard Oll company, and was the active spirlt in the organization of the Amalgamated Copper company of which he was president up to the time of his death, | He was interested in a number of rail- | roads, serving as a member of the board of directors of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chicago, Milwaukee & Bt. Paul and the Union Pacitic. Just Completes Big Railroaa. The death of Mr. Rogers follpws closely upon the completion of the great railway energles of his later years, his genius for | organization and a considerable portion of his private fortune were devoted. This was the buillding of the Virginia rallway, country In West Virginia, extending 443 miles from Deep Water, W. Va., to a tide- water terminal at Sewalls Point, Va. This road was distinctly an individual under- taking of Mr. Rogers and he personally | bore the greater part of the cost of its | construction, which has been estimated at | venture prior to the financial panic of 1907 | which checked similar undertakings by other large rallroad companies, but the work of bullding this line went on to its finish. Aftdr receiving the congratula- | tions of the officials and business men of Virginia upon his splendid courage which | had carried his wprk to tne finisn in the | (Continued on Second Page.) | milllons in May wheat; gossip about how Omaha grain dealers have made fortunes in a few days or over night; hearsay in the shops and on street cars, has made the wheels go around, and scores of Oma- hans are buying options in wheat and have been for weeks, some losing heavily and others making money by thelr ventures. In the opinion of graiy dealers, the com- mission houses are doing a better business than for many yeard. The grain dealers themselves have had the best of the deAl all along, watching constantly as they do the ticker. There are and have been “lambs." They have been cleaned many times because of the slump a short time ago. Those who stayed are id to have made blg money, as wheat is now higher than ever. One option buyer, who recently gave $25,000 to & charitable institution, had $14,00 in Wt obe time aid #icid & chance to lose & greater part of It, but he sold on a higher market, and when settiement was made he received the §14,00 and another check for $12000, which represented his profits. The market bas been changing so sud- 'Big Sums Made and Lost . on Wheat in Local Shops Stories of how “Jim'" Patten has made)denly that it has been diffteult to play without constant attention. A fluctuation of 2 cents elther way has not been unusual in a few hours. If the man who has money In is unknown and cannot be found, he is wiped out when his % of 1 cent margin is | gone. If the market goes up, it may go down again before the order for selling is given. While bankers deny knowledge of any losses by business men, it is asserted by experienced ones that losses have been heavy and could not be otherwise when only a short time ago May wheat was 10 cents under the present price and had fallen 9 to 10 cents within & few day Cash dealers have not lost and few grain dealers have lost a cent on the option buying. The cash price on the Omaha market has been above the option quota- tions for more than a month. It is predicted that some of the losses will come to light. Bpecial agents of more than one bonding company have been sent 10 Omaha to look into the affairs of some salaried men who have been furnished bonds because of reports of the ambition of the men under such bonds to become MORNING, MAY 20, 1909—-TWELVE THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEATHER FORECAST For Nebraska-Partly cloudy Towa- P weather tly ele report PAGES. General Strike is Doomedto Failure Reorganized Plan Was Voted by Hot- heads and Against Better Judg- ment of Conservatives, PARIS, May 19.—The lite of Paris was in all respects normal up to noen today, and the general strike, decreed by the General Federation of Labor to commence today with the bullding trades, promises to be a | huge finsco. The movement, &0 be followed by strikes on the part of all the other trade unionists of France, was voted by the hot-heads agalrst the better judgment of the conservatives, who realized that the time was not ripe for such action, and that the whole proletariat movement, which has been preparing for se long, was likely to be compromised for years to come by failure. The government now regards the agita- tion as purely revolutionary and as fore- doomed to failure. The developments of this afternoon are expected to furnish the first test of the extent and serfousness of the movement. A soldier on duty in & branch postoffice was attacked last night and almost stabbed to death by three discharged postmen. Roosevelt Bags Another Rhino Chases Wounded Animal Into Bush, Six Shots Being Required to Finish It. NATROBI, British Bast Africa, May 19.— Theodore Roosevelt has begun his hunting expeditign from the Ju Ja ranch of George McMillan, whose guest he is. He went out last Bunday and bagged a female rhinoceros. The first shot wounded her in the shoulder and the animal fled to the bushes. Mr. Roosevelt followed on horse- back, and six more shots were required to bring her down. The head and skin welghed 532 pounds. Today Colonel Roosevelt added a hippo- potamus to his big game bag. The animal was killed a short distance from the Ju Ja ranch. Edmund Heller, the Roosevelt expedition, this morning after bringing here about fifty &pecimens of animal and bird life to be cured and preserved. Aged Pair Elope ifrom Poor House zoologist of the returned to camp Woman of 54 Imagines She is Young Girl and Runs Away with 0ld Man. WATERLOO, la., May 18-Mattie Cor- Nes, B4 years old, an.inete-of the poor Copyright, 1909, by the Mall BOOSTERS HAVE BIGC DAY Twenty-Four Towns Smile on Omaha Excursionists. hotise for 4l years, elopedrlast night with'| SOHOOL CHILDREN 00T 1N FORCE Charles Dale, an ex-convict, who was also an inmate of the poor house. The woman has no conception of time, belleving she i still A girl. LAUGHED AT HUSBAND. SWALLOWED A PIN Surgeons Are Now Trying to Relieve Sad Plight of Woman at South Bend. SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 19.—For many hours surgeons at the Epworth hospital have tried unsuccessfully to remove a pin from the base of the tongue of Mrs. Frank Meak of Mishawaka, and she is steadily growing weaker. On Monday night Mrs. Meak was sewing and she placed a pin between her lips. She laughed at a re- mark from her husband and the pin was drawn iInto her throat. DANGER OF FLOOD IS OVER Kansas City Forecaster Says Condi- tions in Kansas Have Been Exaggerated. - KANSAS CITY, May 19.—Dangers of a| flood In this section are over, according 4o Local Weather Observer Connor. “The rapid rise of the Kaw and Missourl river sald Mr. Connor today, “wag due to the fact that both rivers were low and there- fore in small channels. The heavy rains in Kansas are practically over now. This means that the flood danger is gone. The reports of five and elght-inch rains in Kansas were exaggerated." SCANDAL IN BINDER PLANT‘ Michigan Ex-Warden Says Bribed Him to Accept Old Machinery. DETROIT, Mich, May 19.~A Journal dispatch from Jackson, Mich.,, says ex- Warden A. N. Armstrong of the prison there today made an affidavit that Milton A. Daly of Chicago paid him $1,500 for | helping get a lot of second-hand machinery accepted for new materi the state binder plant as Miss Mo TON, 8. D., Scores Success. May 19.—(8pecial Tel- Miss Myrtle Moses, an Omaha contralto, in the college recital Tuesday evening, scored a great success in her second appearance here before a large audience. Miss Moses is now at Mitchell YAN egram.) Many a woman makes herspending money by using Bee WantAds. Are you one of them? Don't let old things accumulate —=ell them. Don't buy something new when you can find a bargain in one for which some one has no further use. It makes no differ- ence what it is—a laundry stove, or a plano. Everybody reads the Bee want ad pages. They are the bargain hunter’s best hunting ground. Buy or sell—the cheap little want ads certainly rich “because Jim Patten did.” do the business. Agent | Rain at Ide Grove at End of Day Gives Weary Pllgrims Chance to Ease Off After Most Strenuous Period of Trip So Far. IDA GROVE, la., May 19.—(Special Tele gram)—Rain In torrential quantity has been falling this evening upon such of the Boosters as have ventured out of doors! and a comparatively quiet night is follow- ing a day of the most strenuous kind Twenty-four towns—count 'em, twenty- four (24)—were visited today and all this section of lowa has heard the big noise. Not even the thunder which rolls through | the heavens tonight could equal it Receptions by school children were the order of the day. In nearly every town visited the pupils were out as a part of the reception committee and at Liverpool and Mapleton they formed a double line through which the trade excursionists ran a peaceful gauntlet. Onawa furnished the banner event of the day, that city having mustered enough automobiles, without un- duly extending itself, to convey all the visitors through the city. Mayor Harlan headed the reception committee here. In another town a one-mile march up hill was the order of the day and none side- stepped it. Little Sioux voiced a protest at being overlooked, by means of circulars. The trade excursionists are formally ex- pressing thelr regret that they could not stop off there, but it meant too much of a detour. The moving picture show arranged for tonight in Ida Grove had to be called off on account of the weather, but the return of Leroy Corliss among the missing of yes. terday has offset this. Mr. Corliss over- taved his time, and, though he sprinted, could not catch the special. However, hul followed along on the first regular train. | COPY TWO CENTS. Urge Reform in Consular Service Manufaoturers’ Association Favors " Comipleting Work Begun Under Recent Act, NEW YORK, May 19.—Resolutions call- ing upon Its members to urge congress to enact legislation that would complete the | work of reform of the consular service be gun under the reorganization act of 1906, were passed today by the National As- oclation of Manufacturers. It was also resolved to recommend to congress the passage of a bill similar to that introduced in the last congress and advocated by President Taft, providing for | sufficlent postal compensation to establish a swift and regular service in American built steamships to the principal countries of South America and to ports of Australla, Japan, China apd the Philippines. 1 A committee on pure food recommended | that the association support the enforce- ment of the pure food laws, Secretary of | Agriculture Wilson and the referee board of consulting sclentific experts of the De- partment of Agriculture, and that the as- | soclation should favor harmony between state and national legislation on food ques- tions On behalf of the members, Ludwig Nis- sen presented to James W. Van Cleave, the | retiring president, a check for $10,00, a | bronze plaque and a stickpin The nominating committee’s cholce of | John Kirby, jr.. as president, and other of- | ficers so selected wi generally accepted by the delegates. FIGHT OVER ROAD LICENSE Missouri Attorney General Demurrer to Writ of Pro- hibition, Files JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, May 19.—At-! torney General Major today filed in m»% supreme court of the state a demurrer to an alternative writ of prohibition against Secretary of State Roach to| issued Seventeen Stops Today. i The excursionists leave Ida Grove at| 7 o'clock Thursday morning and will make | seventeen stops during the day, nmndm‘; the evening at LeMars, one of the largest | towns on the route, where it is plannd | to have a big time and give, with one ex- | ception, the largest moving picture show | on the trip. The party will not stop at| Sioux City, but go through that place at 7:15 and reach LeMars, twenty-two miles | (Continued on Second Page.) prevent that officlal from revoking the | license of the Missouri and Arkansas Rail- | road company for removing & case pending | in the Newton county circuit court to the | federal court. The case, which is to he considered Saturday, involves the constitutionality of | a law passed two years ago, which gave the secretary of state power tn revoke l]w‘l licenses of forelgn corporations, which remove cases from state to federal courts without the consent of the partles In controversy. GRAND 1SLAND, Neb, May 19.-The State Bank of Cairo, nineteen miles north- was blown up about 4 o'clock this morning and badly wrecked and 35,000 se- cured. Citizens heard three explosions, but | the town had last night celebrated the carrying of water bonds and it appears to have been in the mind of everyono that | the shots were fired by belated celebrators. | No one arose and It was not until 7 o'clock this morning that the true nature of the explosions were known. The bullding was | badly wrecked, including the The men, evidently two or three in num- ber, took & hand car and ditched it four miles northwest of this eity. Deputy Sherdf Lelser with hounds has taken up the trail where the hand car was ditched. The loss Is insured, the bank at once continuing to do business, securing the necessary cash here this morning. The bank is located in a small frame buliding. Two explosions, cne of which | west Cairo People Think Bandits Are Only_l}glited Jollifyers blew the door of the safe through the « posite wall of the bullding, were heard The safe was completely ransacked. The bank's books showed a cash balance last night of $63%.3, and only a few dollars in small siiver appeared to he under the debris The vault door was also blown, nothing was taken from the vauit. forty-four revolver was taken from bank, while the robbers left some of their tools. Dr. Plerson was hitching his team to make a professional call when he heard but A |and their devotion | establish | limitless TAFT PRAISES BLUE AND GRAY Glory of the North is in Beating ar Enemy So Strong and Valiant, s PRESIDENT AT SHAFT UNVEILING Memorial for Pennsylvania Heroes Dedicated at Fort Mahone, EULOGY BY MAJOR BROWNELL Beautiful Tribute to Bravery of Men on Both Sides. TAFT STARTS FOR CHARLOTTE Executive W Speak at Celebration of Annleversary of Mecklenberg Declaration of Independ- ence Today. PETERSBURG, Va., May 19.—Paying a tribute allke to the soldiers of the north and of the south, President Taft today witnessed the unvelling of a herolc statue In bronze erected at Fort Mahone, on the Petersburg battletields, In memory of General Hartranft and the Pennsylvania volunteers who fell in the stubborn fight about this outpost of the confederate cap- ital. The president arrived in Petersburg shortly after 9 o'clock in his private car, the Olympla, which was detached from the regular Washington train at Richmond and was run as a special from there. The president went immediately to Fort Sted- man, where a tablet was unvelled, and then proceeded to Fort Mahone, where ho made his first address of the day. The day was warm, but the sky was overcast throughout the morning and the heat was not serfously felt. The president coupled with every tribute to the union soldiers & eulogy of the valor of the con- federates. “We could not dedicate this beautiful and enduring memorial,” he de- clared, “to the volunteer soldiers of Penn- sylvania with such a sense of its justice and appropriateness had they not been confronted by an enemy capable of re Ing thelr assaults with equal vigor and fortitude. Pennsylvania's pride must be in the victory achleved by its men against so brave, resolute and resourceful an enemy.” The president declared the battle between the states had to be fought and that endur. Ing good had come of it. President Taft sald In part: “My fellow Citizens: We are met to- day on the soll of Virginla to dedicate a memorial to the bravery of the sons of Pennsylvania exhibited in a contest to the death with the sons of Virginia and the south. We stand here in the center of the bloodiest and most critical operations of the last year of the civil war, only a few miles distant from that dramatic scene at Appomattox between Grant and Lee which marked the great qualities of the | heart and soul of each ana which was n‘\ el real end of the terrific struggle batwe: the two sections. “To Pennsylvanin, as ons of the grest statos bt the unfon, ‘engaged I the de- termination to save it, fell the burden of furnishing tens of thoutands of men for the struggle in the early part of the line of attack, but especlally In the army of the Potomac was the force of her people to the cause felt ‘In the time which has passed,” the president continued, “the bitterness of the internecine siruggle has passed away and we now treasure as a common heritage of the country the bravery and the valor of both sides in that controversy. Theé &rmy of the Potomac under Grant and Meade was seconded and supported by & generous government. Tt was hardly so with the confederate forces. Scantily clothed, rarely on more than half rations and for consid- erable periods reduced to an allowance of bacon and meal hardly sufficlent to sustain life the long winter through, their shiv- ering infantry manned the ever extending slege works and made head against the vigorous assaults of the union army until {thelr depleted ranks were no longer equul to the defense of thelr attenuated lines, and they gave up a contest which by many other soldiers but the tried and seasoned veterans of the army of northern Virginia would long before have been abandoned. Pride in Enemy's Strength. nsylvania’s pride must be in the vie- tory achived by her men against so brave, resolute and resourceful an enemy. That we can come here today and in the pres- ence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of northern Virginla and. of their descendants such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sec- tions and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end the result has inured to the commen benefit of all. The men of the army of northern Virginia fought for & principle which they believed were be right and for which they to sacrifice their lives, their which men hold most to willing all, indeed, contending forces of now half a century ago have given place to & new north and a new south and to & mofe en- during unfon In whose responsibilities and whose glorfous destiny we equally and gratefully share.” Eulogy Major Isauc men of both the by Brow Brownell eulogized the biue and the gray and ex- pressed the hope that the government of the United States, and all the states of the Amerlcan union, may, in & fraternal and loyal spirit, unite in the building of & joint monumeni to the confederate and union soldiers “which shall be commensu- rate with the great sacrifices and the un- surpaseed bravery wm/“rharnrlerllm the American soldlers in the great slege of Petersburk.” 1o ar a familiar phrase of old war time ' sald Major Brown, “upon the red soll of old Vir- ginia, made forever hallowed in the unpre- cedented clash of arms and the shedding of American blood, do two great common- wealths extend fraternal greetings. Look- ing backward, not in bitterness, not in re- sentment, but in pathos and venerstion— In tears tor the sacrifices of thelr chivairie sons. and In veneration and pride for their valor. Yes, reverently do we obey the command to look backward when it is glven In the name of American blocd and American bravery, but in all else our thoughts are of the future; cur enterpris the explosion, but it did mot occur to him the bank was being robbed, and no inves- tgation was made by him or by other citizens who heard the two reports. Last night a gang of five tramps was seén near town, two of them being well dressed. Aside from this there is no clue. our energles, our ambitions, our fondest hopes are in the promising future wherein we look for the mdvancement, the uplift- ing and the greater Instrumentality for good of this reunited American republic.” Nature Sings Requle There was pathos. said Major Brown, in the sighing of the pines, grown to great dimensions on the Ume-worn fortifications, 4