The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1902, Page 2

REJECTED LOVER SHOOTS WOMAN Without Warning Fires Pistol Bullet Into Her Head. TN Then Turns Weapon on Him- self and Dies Almost Instantly. —_—— PUEBLO, Colo., Oct. 30.—An attempt to murder Mrs. Charles E. Cooper by Fred Roberte, allas Arthur Edwards, of Salt Lake, at noon to-day, together with Rob- erts’ death by his own hand on the pub- | lic street a few minutes later, added aa- other chapter to a sensational divorce case. Only two weeks ago, after a trial of five Gays, Charles E. Cooper, who has been | for several weeks a clerk in a prominent clothing house, secured a divorce from | Mrs. Cooper on the ground of desertion. | Tbe man who to-day shot Mrs. Cooper | in the left stde of the face and killed him- | seif was named in the proceedings as a co-respondent. ‘The jury, however, ~held Mre. Cooper to be innocent of improper velations with Roberts. Roberts arrived from Salt Lake, where | Mrs. Cooper had been living, only a few | days ago. This morning he asked Mrs. Cooper to go for a walk with him on the streets. She did this. He asked her to marry him and she declined, whereupon he drew from his pocket a 45-caliber re-, volver and told her that she must at least @le with him if she would not live with him. Without further warning he fired a shot into her head and then fired into his own right ear, dying instanti The shooting occurred on Santa Fe ave- nue, near Ninth street, in the heart of the residence section of the ecity. Mrs Ceoper was taken into a mnearby house @pd given surgical attention. The Cor- oper took charge of the body of Roberts, ©f whom practically nothing is known Zere. The relations between Mr. and Mrs. Codper first came prominently to public attention several months ago when Coop- er went to Salt Lake City and abducted his S-year-old daughter, who was llving with his moth He brought her herc Mrs. Cooper immediately instituted beas corpus proceedings in the Puehlo "L to secure the return of the child to Judge Voorhees put the child into the hands of others pending the termina- orce proceedings and the child 11 in the care of the court. Gevelops that in the divorce - case brought in Salt Lake City. by Mrs, Rob- eris, wife of the dead man, she had| named Mr oper as a co-respondent. She was cc lled, however, to withdraw charge evidence goes to show Roberts was passionately in Cooper, there was no accusation against her, RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASTS o TROUBLE THE POLICE | Doukhobors in the Northwest Terri- tory Refuse to Move Their | Encampment. | YORKTOWN, N. W, T., Oct. 30.—Many | nions are expressed as to of dealing with the Douk- | that mothing is to be them physically. Not in a | e instance have they been reported | creating any disturbance or wlllrull_\i @oing any harm. The mounted police duce them. to change their | them come to the but they positively move northward, although of- r opposition ¥ were camped four miles toward Sait Coates. As were en their way a number deserted es many to join is a | n, but being treated | all from the ranks.| | | The women tered i of spec from joi children are still shel. d are kept under guard ables to g the mer FUGITIVE BANK PRESIDENT [ IS PLACED UNDER ARREST! < { Disappears From Iowa and Is Caught | owr prevent them | of |and abeitors, had turned over to them the wori in a Railway Depot in Missouri. ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Oct. 30.-H. C.| [s nsen, president of the Sharpsburg (lowa) Bank, was ar; he station | piatform in Marysv to-day on| sarge of embe the bank’s | fun The amount which Christensen | §z alleged te be short is not made public, | but it is said to be $25,00. The doors of | the bank ciosed last Monday. At the| same time the president of the institution disappea Christense says he has e the shortage American Engineer Murdered. BUENOS AYRES, been received & mining engineer, ¢ murdered at Guanacos, Neuquen Territory home of an Italian merchant ed Sal- wvador Trotta. Two of the latter's clerks were also murdered.- Signor Trotta was | persecuted by the authorities of Guana- cos, and be started for this city. During | his absence his house was attacked. —— Forged Bills of Lading. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 30.—Thom- as F. Armstrong was sentenced to four | years in the State penitentiary to-day for conniving at the forgery of bills of Jading by his partner, E. T. Blew. The latter was sentenced yesterday to ‘seven and & half years in the penitentiary. T HUB CHASKENM USKCO., EXCILUSIVE & E & o & THAT STAMAP OF EXCL USIVENESS gt INDIVIDUAIL ITY | 1N OUR SUIT FAODELS | SHOUILD APPEAL TO YOU | EVENING CLOTHES THE BEST AT, JMODERATE PRICES. | - * & o o KEARNY STREET THURLOYW BLOCK: Malal, | visiting the TARIFF REFORM AND THE TRUSTS Cleveland Declares That Public Welfare Is Menaced. Says Masses of the People Are Laboring Under an Un- fair Burden. MORRISTOWN, N. J., Oct. 30.—Former President Cleveland spoke here to-night at a political meeting held in Lyceum Hall. Special trains brought hundreds of people from other cities and towns in this viciaity and Cleveland was given an ov: tion. He said in part: Mr. Chairman and Fellow-citizens: greel you now 1 cannot smother certain senti- mental emotions which intensify the satisfac tion_which this occasion affor in New Jersey. After a long absence, full of incidents and vicissitudes, 1 have returned to the old State, where I hope to pass the re- mainder of my days and nnd a tinal resting place. I have brought back with me a gen undevigting love, not only for my na- tive but for her old-time, stanch and vigorous Democracy. i am especially pleased to learn that tarifd reform has been made the principal ssue in the canvass you have in hand. Never within :y experience hes there been a time whén this should be more earnestly, persistently and honestly pressed upon the attention Of our countrymen than mow. Of course, sioms duties must continue to be the source of Government maintenance untii another plap is devised, but a tariff con- structed for the purpose of vrotection as its chief object is at all ‘times and in every feature of it an unjust and unfair burden upon the masses of our people. The bold and arro- gant developments of its unfairness and injus- tice in recent years and the new directions they have taken ought especiaily to arrest the attention and apprehension of every thought- ful, sober-minded citizen. When in 1897 the doctrine of the Democ- racy on tariff reform was embodied in an ex- ecutive message to Congress, though all the incidents and consequences of @ high protectivi terill were considered, it was hoped that the plain and palpable fact considered a iarge surplus remained in th: Government treas: v should be in the possession of the people, might as an object lesson from an unusual standpoint effzctually present the situmition. VOTERS ARE DELUDED. Less than a year after this announcement of Democratic doctrine it was made a target for all sorts of attack in a Presidential elzction. The timid were assured that absolute frec trade would follow Democratic success; that the importers paid the custom taxes; and, above all, that if any revision or change was expedient it should be intrusted to the friends of the (ariff. The people were persuaded to continue these friends in political control and they forthwith constructed a new scheme of high protection. The advanced growth'of the arrogance and greediness of tariff beneficiaries and the kindness shown them by those friends of the tariff as exhibited in this scheme de- trated how connidently they relied upon continuance of the people's credulity, which rey had so recently and successfully tested. The bill then passed was 5o full of abomina- tions and so plainly showed the hesdlessness our lawirakers and beneficiaries and their Aisregard of the interests of t. public that the _voters of the land, ugh accustomed to yielding to tariff delu n, were prompt in their revenge and con- demnation. 1t might well be supposed that 5o violent & blow as was then given would admonish | if it did not retorm these promotens of seliish tariff benefits. This, however, s by no means in accord with their natures nor agreement with their machinations. As unregenerate as ever, as Aarrogant as ever, and hoping as confidently as ever for the time when the people could again be led away by false lights, they suilenly surrendered con- | trol of governmental policies and laid in wait for their opportun . The lamentable condi- tions which quickly gave this opportunity are familiar to you all. I am not here to speak of Democratic misfortunes or miscarriage, but to call attention to the unyielding tenacity of high tariff, rapacity and arrogence and to the manner in’which they grow and develop when- ever they have an opportgnity. Sooner than they had the least reason o expect the friends of ithe (aril, on ' in-other words ithose who =ought to grow rich with Government help at the expense Oof the people, with their aider of adjustment of apprgach the tag tar K rates. How did they Was it with a patriotic intention to really benefit the masses of our people and make their burdens lighter? This ihey would hardly deciare without a sly wink. Was it even with the fear of the people be- fore their cyes? Surely nothing indicates it. COMPETITION IS PREVENTED. On the contrary they exultantly relied upon their ability to delude the people, for they had not even yet learned to fear them. Their work was undertuken as they would hav entered upon a privilege—to make the m of it. I have heard authority that _expectant s und the existing tariff la made by their friends —w aily aliowed to construct the sehed- ules by which they expected to profit. This | was quite in keeping with the color and com- | plexion of ‘the _entire in and about it, and scheme, Evidence abounds, indicating that the welfare e of our land e not allowed to disturb in any unpleas degree the serenity of those taking the work in hand. I believe this last exploit of the so-called friends of the tariff in its revision should amply satisfy any thoughtful citizen, unbiased by Interest, that interests of the common peopl w | the pirit of a hich protective duty grows by indulgence and mocks what it feeds upon and that its progressive greed and 'ruthl g becoming m and more a menace welfare and happiness .of our people, When the friends of the tariff last took up the work of combinations had increaseq by hundreds. The consequence of their operation could not fail to be understood. It row that a high protective tariff defends them against foreign competition and by agreement, association and confederacy 1ir ction and defend themselves against compe: home. Is jt not true then that the emcroachments of the doctrine of high protection have been constantly sive? it not true th the heedlessness of its expectant beneficiarie and ‘their disregard for the welfare of the i great mass of consumers is more and more impudently exhibited, and is it not true that to all er reasons for our reform of our ws there is added the birth and death cruel and unmerciful progeny of trpsts and combinations which stand guard against all attempts to seek relief in the field of free comuetition? TARIFF READJUSTMENT. That the present tariff ‘conditions have as- | sumed a complication which. not only requires a check its aggressiveness, but actual amend is at last admitted among those responsible for these conditions, Such a cou cession was made when a dogen or more re ciprocity treaties were submitted to the Sen- ate, but the sincerity of the Concession and the honest intention to surremder the -least advantage as long as it can be held is em- phatically disproved by the fact that session after session of the Senate has pessed without taking the least action on those treaties. 1 need hardly refer to the prevalence just at this time among the supporters of high protectien of declarations and professions in favor of tariff readjustment. We hear it vn every side. What does it mean? It means that they see the handwriting on_the wall as they have never seen it before. Does it mean that they are sincerely willing to do some- thing for the people as against old comrades who have heretofore paid well for the neglect of the people? How can we believe this when we gee still paraded up and down before our sight the hoary-headed, bioated and malodorous old fraud snd pretense that the tariff should be revised by its friends? friends of the tariff done that they should again be trusted? They have quieted the peo. ple’s fears and professed solicitude for their welfare and promised to lead them to pleasant places and, now that shoals and rocks have been struck, they seek by another promise to mend” the whole affair and retain the confi- denct and trust of those they have|deluded. Following the meeting there was a non- partisan reception to Cleveland, at which 200 prominent residents of this city were present. Flathead Reservation Is on Fire. BUTTE, Mont.,, Oct. 30.—A speclal to the Miner from Missoula says that the | Rocky Mountain division headquarters of the Northern Pacifice Railroad has been informed through private messages that ! an ‘mmense forest fire is raging across | the river from Jocke, on the Fiathead regervation. The flames are spreading unchecked and millions of feet of the finest timber in this part of the State are I was born | that what was then | its construction the trusts and | was as plain then as | What have these | | | M. Miller. | | THE SAN FKANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, COLOMBIA’S DELAY ON TREATY 1902. IS DUE TO SALAZAR'S LETTERS Attitude of the Governor of Panama Causes a Hitch in the Nego- O ASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—It de- veloped to-day that Senor Concha, the Colombian Min- ister, is growing restless un- der the delay of his Govern- ment in giving him further instructions in answer to his dispatch regarding the conditions which have arisen since the forwarding of the letter directing him to proceed with tif® negotiations for a treaty with the United States affecting the right of way for the Panama canal, The lega- tion officials, however, are moved to the pelief that the dispatch of Secretary Hay to Minister Hart, sent on Tuesday, will have the effect of accelerating matters and that an early adjustment of the pend- ing questions, which are delaying final action on the treaty, may be looked for. Much of the delay has been occasioned, it is learned, by the attitude of Governor Salazar of Panama, who has been writ- ing letters to the legation here and these more or less influenced Concha in post- poning action on his instructions to pro- ceed with the negotiations of the treaty. il @ LIVERNASH SQUIRMS, — Continued From Page 1, Column 7. e undetected. Ethridge’s room in the heart of the city and several other families lived in th same building. * * * After th mssault, when he was confined at ti 3 a Asylum, he was fitfully in the same state, going in and out of it very suddenly. Even as he grew bet- ter his mind clung persistently to the notion that he had shot Judge Eth e. sen instead of “Livernash was then sane a man as 1 ever saw,” conclud- ed the witness. * * * Dr, Gardner stuck pins through the flesh of his hands, his cheek and his ear. He did not winece, Certainly if he was. shamming he had an almost super- human control of himself. Never- theless Dr. Wachendorf was not sat- isfied. “It is simulation,” he said,-as he me back to the District Attorney. * * Then the witness told of wanderings up and down omn the streets: of buying the paper and writing the note to Ethridge asking him to sit mp. * * * e contin- uned: “I went to Cloverdale to work out a scheme I had. In the first place, T “thought I'd follow pp behind Judge Overton’s buggy and finish them up before I got to Cloverdale —Overton, Geary and the whole crowd, The crowd consisted of fif- teen—George Washingion, reincar- nated: Benjamin Harrison, James A. Garfield. reincarnated, too; M. Chas- set, Judse Joachimsen, Barein: Henley, Tom Geary, Thomas Rut- ledge, W. Weaver, John Liver- nash, Frank McElarncy, M. Mina- han, John Seasongood, Darius Eth- ridge and A. P. Overton, I was not to go until I go rid of those. Sea- sonzood was reincarnated. * ¢ ¥ I pulled my two revolvers and held them up to him. #iAre you Ethridge?’ I said, “Yes,’ he said; and commenced to squirm arcund in the chair. He Joachim e ea H was afraid it was my time now. # * * Now, make your will, I said, ‘and make it mighty quick. Will all your property to me. Don’t leave anything to your relatives.’ “He wrote a couple of words and turned sround as g.ick as a flash and grasped-ome of my revolvers Then there was no foolishness, If he got that revolver I was a goner. 1 feit as weak as I could. He struck | out and Rit me, bubt do you supposc he could hurt me? Not the least particle. 1 was invalnerable. He fought like a tiger, but it had no efiect. 1 kept shooting at him, judge forty-three times.” * * ¢ From this the somnambulist went on telling the story of his arrest and subsequent events, just as th‘(-'y wit- ad been narrated by other nesses, hut with his eerie, in philosophies permeating it al became again the King of Siam, but answered all questions directed at bim by those he was commanded to amswer. He ignored all others. = * + Dr. Robertson explained at length the conditions of hypnotism and the stages of hypnosis, and then told of the abnormal develop- ment of Livernash's brain. “He s one of the most brilliant men 1 have ever listened to,” he said} #but I believe that when he com- mitted this offense he was absolate- 1y irresponsible, He was not in a condition to know the difference between right and wrong, When he appeared on the streets of San Francisco dressed in female gard he was in a somnambulistic condi- flox.n. n.nd I so testified at the trial,” She was to nll appearances rather tall and thin young negres She made a rush for the 4:30 hoa She tripped over her traveling uls ter and stopped. * * % So they tooi him to the Central office and charged him with wearing female attire. S In his traveling hag wa a pound hottle of chlorofor: y botiles of hydrocyanic acid, a raz- or, blackface paint and some other things., among them half u dosen trunk keys and two door keys. Among the speakers last night were P, H. McCarthy, T. T. Williams, Walter Macarthur, Dr.’ A. M. Gardner, Dr, J. W, Robertson, the Rev. Father Meiler of Healdsburg, Andrew Furuseth and H. B. Several letters and telegrams were read from persons in other parts of the State and in the East. The addresses were all of the same tenor, telling with almost frank brutality of Mr. Livernash's condition ten years ago and of his restora- tion to mental and bodily health: L i ] ] PARDEE 15 BECEIVED WITH CHEERS Continued From Page 1, Column 2. were accorded to him on his departure to fill other engagements. MULTITUDE CHEERS PARDEE. The banner meeting of the evening was held in Woodward’s Pavilion. It was 10 o'clock when Pardee reached the place, but despite the lateness of the hour more than 1000 men and many ladies were pres- ent to welcome him. The arrival of his carriage was made the occasion for lusty cheering, so that when he walked up the main aisle toward the rostrum all knew that the standard bearer was pres- ent. Men rushed from - their seats to grasp his hand, while women, less dem- onstrative, waved their handkerchiefs or clapped their hands.” By the time he reached the steps leading to the raised platform he was surrounded by a dense throng o@admirers, who-vied with each other in doing him honor., The band played “See, the Conquering Hero Comes,” but in the hubbub raised by the shouting multitudz the strains were all but lost. Chairman McGowan was unable to introduce Pardee aullibly amid the clamor and the standard bearer was forced to stand for several minutes ere he was privileged to proceed with his address. There was frequent applause and the speaker's logic was most convincing. The dignified tone of his address, as well as his personality, made him at once en rapport with his hearers, as was evi- being destroyed. It is believed that only denced by the vociferous manifestations a heavy rain or snowfall will serve to Of @pproval which greeted his utterances quench the fire. at intervals. The lateness of the hour prevented Par- ———————— i You get but littie information dee from visiting Washington Hall, where concerning Amendment No. S on u..l the Latin-American Ciub-was holding a ofiicial ballot, tiations Concerning the Isthmian Canal. g Jrshs e Grand Jury in New York Files a Scathing Presentment. B NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The Grand Jury of Westchester County, in session at ‘White Plains, made a presentment to-day concerning the death some days ago of Esther Quimby of White Plains. The presentment recites that the attention of the Grand Jury has been directed to the treatment of infective and contagious dis- eases by persons who are not regularly licensed physicians and surgeons, where the rules of the local and State Boards of Health are violated.” Continuing the pre- sentment says: We have iven careful consideration to a complaint made to us concerning the deain of a seven-year-old child from neglect, the child being treated by a so-called Christiun Scientist from the city of New York, who made many visits to the home of the child and mingled with the inhabitants of the coua- ty, both upon the street and in public con- veyances. This child was ailowed to dle with- out any of the remedies known to medical gcience being used and medical men calied testified that the life of the child conld have been saved had proper treatment been used and proper remedies applied. This so-called Christian Science treatment was used at the instance and request of the parents of the child, the father daily attend- ing to business after nights spent in the sick- room. 2 We feel that flagrant viclations of ‘the health laws in this respect should be sought out by the local boards of health throughout this country and that a copy of-this present- ment shouid be sent to the State Board of Health for the purpose of enforcing more stringent laws regarding the quarantining of contagious diseases. METHODIST BISHOPS IN BXECUTIVE SESSION Report That Eighteen Million Dol- lars Was Raised by the Thank Offering Movement. ‘WILMINGTON, Del., Oct. 30.—Two ex- ecutive business sessions were held to-day by the House of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church who are holding their semi-annual meeting in this city. Seven- teen bishops were present, the -only ab- sentees being Bishops Hurst, Bowerman and Foster, who are ill. Bishops Foster, McCabe and Warren were appointed a committee to prepare an address to the Methodists of the country setting forth ‘what has been accomplished by the twen- tieth century thank offering movement, by which $18,000,000 had been realized. During the course of an address to- night Bishop Moore referred to Delaware politics and said: ““There is a silence in the upper house of Congress when Delaware's name is called that is far more eloguent than if there had been a résponse. The minister ‘who neglects to take an interest in pol- itics has no place on this planet.” B s e al sént to the president of that body, notify- ing him of the inability of Pardee to keep his engagement, although it had been his earnest desire to pay his respects to the Latin-American voters of the city. Al- though somewhat disappointed, the mem- bers of the club accepted the Inevitable mh equanimity and sent the assurance t the foreign-born Republican voters would line up for Pardee and the entire Republican ticket on Tuesday. Pardee will address the workingmen of North Beach at Harbor View at noon to-day. In the afternoon he will visit the workshops in ection and in the evening some half. n gaf will be addressed. s ———— Livingston Jenks deserves your vote for - | jargely attended meeting. A message was | Superior Judgg. Remember the name. * “dn AT WORK IN THE CUT OF THE CULEBRA. COLOMBIAN MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES WHO IS GROWING IMPATIENT AT THE. DELAY IN NEZOTIATIONS RELATING TO PANAMA CANAL TREATY. SCENE ON ISTHMIAN WATERWAY. 2 IEATH OF CHILD - |GREAT SCARCITY DUE T0 NEGLEGT) OF READY MONEY London Banker Gives His Views of Financial Situation. LONDON, Oct. 30.—*There is undoubt- edly a strong movement toward paying off the American indebtedness in London, but whether it can be done with food- stuffs and merchandise or whether it will necessitate the importation of gold the best posted man in the world could not tell at the present moment.” This is the opinion of the head of the best known ‘Anglo-American bank in Lon- don, who in discussing the financial situ- ation sald: Of course bringing gold fro.» New York at this time of the year will not be a normal course of things, but the controlling factor in the situation is the amount of New York's debt to London and that 1o one could estimate without going through every bill box in Lon- don and also ascertaining the actual amount of stocks held on the Stock Exchange for American commitment. There is no special reason, so far as I am aware, why a large amount of gold should be wanted here now. No large national loans are impending or any- thing of that sort, but on the other hand there {8 s0 much money tied up In profitiess investments that really it is & hard job to get cash to pay the butchers’ bill. Take South Africa, where they have shot away about $500,000,000. That makes a big hole in the nation’s savings. ' The list of South African securities on the Stock Exchange represents about $1,500,000,000 tied up in stock that does not average 3% per cent dividend. quently ready money is searce. There is market here now for anything and nobody i buying for investment, but whether it will come to taking gold from America I am quite sure nobody is yet in a pesition to say. 0 s There is no legal limit on the number of employes in Amendment No. 8. —_——— POLITICAL RIOTING , IS RENEWED AT PONCE One Man Is Killed, Several Are Badly Wounded and Business Is Suspended. SAN JUAN, P. R, Oct. 30.—Political rioting at Ponce was renewed yesterday evening. From 9 to 11 o'clock the city was in the hands of a Republican mob, alleged to have been aided by the mu- nicipal police. The Federal Club was fired on. One man was killed and several ‘were wounded, but not fatally. The riot- ing wae renewed to-day. Busines at Ponce is suspended. Another man was kiiled during to-day’s ettacks of the Republicans, which began early this morning, and a number of men ‘were severely wounded. The rioters an- nounced that they intended to attack the Federation of Labor Club and another club during the day, which caused the clesing of all stores in Ponce. A Spanish dramatic company which had been play- ing at Ponce appealed to the Spanish Consul for protection, and it is rumored the Consul communicated with the Span- ish- Minister at Washington. Shooting and rioting occurred inside the theater Tuesday evening, and since that day the company has been unable to perform. —_— . Roosevelt Contributes. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—At State Repub- lican ‘headquarters to-day the following statement was given out: Chairman Dunn of the Republican State Committee from has received a letter - President Rcosevelt in which the President ex- pressed interest in the success of the Republican ticket in New York State, In addition to his good wishes the Pres'- dent inclosed a substantial contribution to the campaign fund. 4 WILL REGULATE THE BAD TRUSTS Secretary Root Outlines| Policy of the Repub- | lican Party. SEbh N Says That Our Present Pros- perity Is Sound and ‘Wholesome, | NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Cooper Union | was filled to-night with'people who had come to attend a Republican meeting, the principal 'speakers being Mayor Low, Governor Odell and Secretary of War Root. Mayor Low eulogized Governor Odell and his administration of State af- fairs. Governor Odell followed in an ad- dress in which he cast aside as absurd the prediction that his majority would be | as small as some prophesied. Secretar: Root spoke after the Governor and fin- ished. He began by pralsing Governor Odell, declaring that the people of the State owed the Governor a debt of grati- tude for what he has done in their inter- est, he having shown himself a strong man and an honored one in the Gover- nor’s chair, as he has always been in | business and in polities, The Secretary said that the national is- sue of this political campaign in its most important political aspect is whether President Roosevelt shail be sustained in Lis administration of the National Gov- ernment, Discussing the work of Congress, Secre- tary Root said: The one case of urgent necessity for action which failed of response was the bill for a just measure of reciproclty with Cuba, and that was defeated by a cumbination between the Democrats in Congress and a small mi- nority of the Republicans retusing to go with the majority of their party. Tnere i3 reason to belleve that tne measure ceed at the next session. What is there which calls for a change? Is the reason to be found in a desire for the curbing of trusts, for an effective treat- ment of labor troubies, or for a revision of the tariff? Certainly not, Our Democratic- friends talk as if some capitalists securing undue profits and some tariff provisions becoming outgrown with changing conditions and some stubborn con- tests between employers who want to pay less and wage earners who wish to be paid more | for labor, were new and strange phenomena, threatening our social and political system and calling for desperate and revolutionary rem- ed}es. They are not new or strange or threat- ening. . CURBING UNFAIR TRUSTS. They are but reappearances in slightly varied forms of some of the difficulties which have always accompanied material prosperity since the beginning of successful enterprise. Unfair and oppressive trusts, so called, are weeds in the garden of prosperity. It is easy to kill them it you Kill the flowers and the fruit aiso, but If you would keep the weeds down and have the garden grow you must devote your- self, not to desperate and destructive remedies. but’to a patient, discriminating and unceasing process, pulling out the weeds and leaving the useful plants. So in curbing and regulating those combinations of capital which are in- jurious to the public, either because they monopolize the market or the sources of sup- ply or the avenues of employment, sr prevent competition unfairly and oppressively, care must be taken not to stop great enterprises which have legitimately reduced the cost of produetion; not to take America out of the race of competition for the markets of the world; pot to close the mills and mines; not to throw millions of workmen out of employ- ment and deprive the farmer of his market for the raw material of manufacture. The evils complained of are an outgrowth of the process of the industrial development of the age. Their regulation is also a neces- sary part of that process. Our industrial His- tory shows that the steady course of the pro- has will sue- ° centration; that the great, body in the United States are climbing up above the hard conditions of poverty which have been the rule.in the world's life, into general comfort and independence to a degree not here. tofore known; that our prosperity is sound and wholesome, and that courage and hope are justified rather than despondency. The wonderful scientific discoveries and In- ventions of the last half century have enor- mously and agsressively increased the pro- ductive power of mankind. 3 There has been greater increase in produetive power during the last century than in auy thousand years before. HIGHEER WAGES FOR LABOR. This encrmous addition to the productive | reiterate the statements made GONVGTED THX FXER WEAKENS Reveals to Puplic Prose~ cutor Part of the Conspiracy. Says the Fear of Detection Drove Two Associates to Suicide. CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—The Dalily News to- day says: To State’s Attorney Deneen and his uncle, Police Inspector Wheelex, the convicted tax fixer, has revealed in all its ramifications the gigantic plot that collapsed with the discovery of the Ma- sonic Temple tax frauds. To-morrow, un- less the present programme is changed, Wheeler will go before the Grand Jury and in a formal declaration under oath to the prosecutor. Wheeler's conviction places him in a new light, and if accepted liter- ally removes from him the stigma of the charge of building up a defense with the tombstones of the dead. The conspiracy, or rather the series of conspiracies, drove two men to suicide, according to the con- fession. ‘According to Wheeler the Masonic Tem-~ ple fraud was merely incidental to an ex- tensive series of operations reaching back into the past and made possible through Jax methods, coupled with a desire on the part of responsible, prominent busi- ness houses to evade taxation. Moreover, according to Wheeler's decla- ration, the promissory notes he was piaced on trial for forging were bona fids and legitimate paper. He sald that a public official at Springfield sought to blackmail the clique, threatened exposure and prosecution against one in particular and worried him into ending his life. The second suicide involved in the case was due, Wheeler says, to fear that the fug' tive (Wheeler) would confess when he was brought back from Canada. The State comventions of both parties declared against Amend- ment No. S in their platforms. ————m STRIKE ARBITRATORS VISIT THE COAL FIELDS They Display the Greatest Interest in Every Feature of Under- ground Mining. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 30.—The seven Commisioners appointed by Roosevelt to adjust the differences existing between the anthracite mine workers and their employers made a tour to-day of the ex- treme upper coal flelds and saw every step taken in the production of coal from the time it is blasted from the ground, hundreds of feet below the surface, up to the point where it is sent to market ready for the use of the consumer. The arbitrators had an interesting day and returned to their hotel at 6:30 o’clock to-night, grimy from coal dust and tired after eight busy hours of observation and investigation. The trip was a novelty to most of those in the Commisjoners’ par- ty, some of whom never had been in the hard coal regions. The Commissioners displayed the greatest interest in every feature of coal mining, and went about their work in a manner that was pleasing to behold. The mining superintendents accompanied the Commissioners. The seyen arbitrators had to endure many discomforts, make their way through wet places {in the mines, crawl along some of the gangways in the workings and pass through clouds of coal dust in the breakers. Notwithstanding this, their eagerness for information was not dimin- ished, and they expect to put in another hard day’s work to-morrow in this vicia- ity. —_———— No community will have control of its own aflairs if Amendment $ is passed. @ inimiieiiieiie e i @ power of labor was due first to the brains (hazj capital’s proportionate share of the new wealth Made the discoverics and inventions that or- ganized the great combinations of capital necessary to utilize the mew powers and the new methods necessary for their use; and, sec- ond, to the capital that bulit the machines and the mills and the railroads and was wasted in the unsuccessful experiments aud the renewal of material superseded by new inventions and teok - the chances of loss to gain the rewards of successful enterprise. Botl: the brains and capital havé come from every part of the great country amd. their in- terest In the enterprise to which both of them have contributed is represented by the stocks and bonds of the corporations which own the mills and the mines and the railroads. It is plain that - in the distribution of this newly acquired wealth the brains that invest and that organize should have their share: the capital that constructs and maintains should be rewerded for its investment and its risk; the laborer should have higher wages, be- cause his labcr. is progucing more, and the consumer should have lower prices because the product which he purchases is produced with Sreater ease and t fess cost. Capital and bra. s always get the advantage at fust, but our tndustrial history shows that the laborer and the consumer slowly and surely wrest this advantage from capital and secure it for themselves. The organizers of the sreat sugar trust made a great deal of money for themselves, but we are getting sugar now for less than it ccst to make it be- fore the trust was formed. The organizers of the Standard Oil Company have made a great deal of money, but the poorest American | tarmer Is lighting his little house to-night at a wifling cost more brilliantly than palaces were | and are to come hereas lighted a century ago, and these are the con- is constantly decreasing and labor's propos- tionate share of it is constantly increasing. “Not only have the wages of labor in- creased, but the cost of food and cloth- ing has decreased,” said Secretary Root, following at considerable length with some _ statistics in suppert of his state- ment and summing up his review by say ing that every dollar of the wage earn- er's pay would in 192 buy meore food and clothing tham it would thirty years be- fore. Continuing he said: The result of this process is a diffusion of wealth among the people. the contemplation of which makes the comparatively few large for- tunes seem of trifiing jmrortance, Thig steady increase fn the earnings of labor as compaved with the earnings of capital, this wonderful difusion of wealth among the men who work with their hands, has been accom- plished in spite of the fact that we have been contipually adding to our population by the immigration of the poor of other countries without means to the extent of 17,249,377 since the year 1850, and these continual addi- tions at the bottom of the scale of prosperity and earning power have continually kept down the averages of earnings and popuiar wealth. Let us not in fixing our gaze upon small evii forget the greater good. The auto- mobiles are of little account. ‘“Who owns the farm wagons?” is the important question. Let us keep our faith in American institutions and deal with the evils that are before us now r along the lines of same beneficent system which has dealt the sumers’ share of the wealth created by the | so successfully with every phase of the distri- brains 2nd capital of the sugar company and | butfon of wealth in our past. the Standard Oil Company. COST OF LIVING IS LOWER. ‘While the relations of capital seem great he- cause they are massed together and the returns of labor seem small because they are scattered, The Republican party proposes to follow thiy course, to regulate and curb and suppress tin bad trusts rather than to destroy the good the bad together, 4nd with them the perity which brings such benel to alf our country. A pre tion of forethought' Quick-as-a-wink | I