The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1908, Page 10

PaBiishea Dally Except Sunday by the Press tk Row, New Yor a J. aNGt Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second M Gubscription Rates to the + Canada, t Bvening World for the United States. One year...eee 0686.75 $3.50 30 | ne month 00 IS THERE NO Wo OME one S of the subwa Mr. Tatt’s reply is given as knows, I do not.” judge, Secretary of War, President Roosevelt's friend, and as} candidate for the Republican nomi- | nation for President, Mr. Taft stands in a position where he should | be glad to answer this question if he could, A satisfactory answer would | be welcomed by tens of thousands of worthy men who a few months ago were busily engaged at useful toil and who now are without employ-| ment or wages. : Why is this and whose fault is it? "In some few cases it is the fault of the men themselves. Some men} rill not work if they can find any way to live without work. Some men are hoboes by instinct. Some men would frequent the Bowery “distil- leries” and sleep in the Bowery lodging houses rather than have steady work and support a family. i But such men are very few. ‘© The instinct to work is natural in man. The aversion to sign of inherent self respect. Preferring to earn one’s own li than to be dependent is both prevalent and praiseworthy. Always there has been more work to do than there are men on earth to doit. There is no lack of work now. | Until no one is hungry there will be the nec duce food. Until no one is forced to dwell in a crowded, unsanitary tenement house there will be the necessity for work to build better homes. Until every one is warmly clad and shod there will be the necessit) for tailors and shoemakers to toil. | Even if everybody had an abundance of the necessities of life, of | food, clothing and shelter, there would still be the desire for luxuries a the necessity for work to produce them. New York City needs more sub Work would build the Work would produce the structural steel, the concrete, the cars, motors. Only work could dig the trenches and lay the tracks, Why are not men at work who would be glad to work? | arity isa ing rather ity to work to pro- In the first place because Wall street gamblers last fall precipitate. | a panic. Everybody was at work then. To keep everybody workin, | required the active employment of a large amount of capital and the con- | stant use of money in the payment of wages. | The Wall street gamblers wanted this money themselves to gamble with. They bid for it by offering absurd rates of interest—309%, 40%, 50%, and one day as high as 200%. No legitimate business could bic as high. So the banks stopped paying out cash for payrolls, and merchant and manufacturers whose credits were curtailed discharged their em ployees. In afew weeks the money was drawn from business to Wall Street. The rates of call loans have now gone down to 2%. The prices of stocks have gone up. The gam- fj blers are making money again. But what a price the industry and legitimate business of the United States has had to pay! And what a price it had to pay for other Wall street panics! And what a Price it will have to pay again when Wall street has again put up price of stocks and again | So long as the prospe all street gamblers is regarded as the | proof of the prosperity of the United States, so long as the ticker quota- tions are regarded as the test, that long will the question which was asked Mr. Taft have to go unanswered. Letters from the People. The Sabwa To the FAltor of ‘The I I thi mornings this week Ir aged to Bixty-eighth st the t rates for gambling purposes! tral in less Perhaps with a few 1 aise | thelr 1 y Phat ieee fand encouragement 1 net CLERGYMAN pometiy mace at ars : nitlation, and in co tin : from Harle 1e Ba Ed! ft EF 4 minutes ia t ‘ Views on Dive A v 1a fave found the me aaa rue Rome-atiding citizens, ovided [Held at pening "owen well as inward, fer khelr (GOAND +e The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, January 27, 1908. ‘The Day of Rest, By Maurice Ketten. > \BECoNFoRTABLE YES yAtbort Poysonlerhua No. #2—-CIVIL WAR.—(Part X.) The Fall of Richmond, OR nine months the mighty armies of Lee and nt had lain facing F one another across the trenches at Petersburg. Each was too strong for the other to attack with any success. But Sherman and Sherk had meantime so riddled and undermined the Confederacy else ihe that (with the exception of Lee’s army and a force of Johnston's in North Carolina, the South was practieally ecru 1, Sherman, even now, , Was pressing Johnston to the latter's fi defes Lee alone be- tween Grant and Richmond; between the Confeder and utter collapse. | Grant calmly waited hfs great opportunit At last the moment ca | On March 24, 1865, he began a general advance, first attach ng the right wing of Lee's army, Lee, as a counter move, sought to check him | by attacking the Union centre, but his attempt failed. ‘The Confederates | were beaten back with a loss of )00 men. Grant had made Sheridan |commander of all the Union cavalry and now sent him to ride around Lee's army and to get between it and Richmond. Lee almost cleared Petersburg of defenders in order to checkmate this move. On April 1 | Sheridan, in carrying out Grant's order, met and defeated the bulk of Lee's army at Five Forks, where the Confederates had been rushed from aches! to stop his flank movement. Sheridan in this battle took 5,000 | prisoners, Reeling under this double blow, Lee's troops could offer no effective dan stood resistance next day, when Grant once more attacked Petersburg. The [es _ outer fortifications were captured, and the city | Ome t t , s | Petersburg’s tet Choe Ct) ber ia of any ort be- | SlOetenses' Broken, n the Unton forces and Richmond) was at the assailant’s mercy. Grant had work | campaign as carefully as though it were a tough problem in chess. His process was slow, but it v terribly sure. This shabby, grim little Westerner, chewing on his eternal, half-smoked elgar, had few points of resemblance to the glittering, glory enshrouded, dashing warrior one reads about. Yet he had a deadly way tripping War of its laurels, putting it on a business basis, anc t 1 ing. Lee, his lines smashed, his men hungry and footsore, his defending Richmond lost, had but one chance. If he could ms eee 1 out the whole st hone of ch into North Carolina and there jo!n Johnston he might, in the n | continue for a while a sort of guerrilla warfare agai his t foes. So, sending word to President Davis to e' hmond, Lee fled | Southward. But he was not to escape so easily. Hot on his | Shertdan, harrying and beating him, giving him not a mom nor allowing him to choose his own course. The onee Invincible Army of Virginfa was on the run ruined. Whenever {ts wornout soldiers sought to halt age the thundering hoofveats of Sheridan's pursui | ears, and off they were driven again in hopele | 40,000 Co ates began ¢ | one corps of the flying Southe owed peace numbers dwindled to 28,085. their guns in the in weakness and confu thefr pitiful Ap ged Lee to stop The two rival gen | account goes, was clad {na cord and a beautiful sword. oat covered with ing on t at to dise ‘orm, his Buty! Now we'tu pruce new un Grant, with ms tu down 13, lest celebrate the victors Johnson wished to } t the United Th the conque Lee and of Johnson. April S 3 had come from Lee tha: must be evacn, Union t > bearing down 11) erson Davis 1 countle 1 od Panic and Flight ¢ at Richmond. 3 g100 By Roy L. 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You should try to run and go shopping, Wien 3 yw what auaaan work was.” ; it “I guess so,” sa! that I'll have to Aunt dite \ ne work late, so, “I supp gat me, but 1 aid Mrs. Jarr, ‘Hut . 1% you w pthing for me you own and a 1 ry mail them. nt this one to be registered, in ttt 1 saya promised Co: Jenny to send stmas, You can take nis Hanks Jn his recollections of Lincoly in the Mirada Aarerantt paatia nicerindireristenin is iL reckon 4 Arabian Nights’ a dozen times an’ knowed “T ean, but T won't!’ said Mr, Jarr de “Doggone it! Do you think YY heart. He RY Or! uch else af I've nothing else to do Dut to run errands for you?" He penhonoticoreitlonaiatogyallt ofa ke Tt “You needn't make such a fuss ove Mrs. Jarr calmly. “T might see dha yoxer tie: Suvigats io! half the ni We'd |Inavecknown better than to ask you to do one tet Noel bensonoeatnhe Abe Clay's speeches so many yarns to Miss Lonely Consults a Fortune Teller About Mr. Man © © ByF.G. Long. You witt MEET YOuR FATE SOoN- LOOK OUT FoR A LIGHT MAN WITAA BUNDLE ME TO RELIEVE YOUR BURDEN~ YOU ICE MAN: THERES My LIGHT MAN WITH Al BUNDLE |) yuld make a ju arn at ‘em. r dtd you git so blamed many les? a story larns you a yire easier fur common folks t enn parabl ood }esson You Loon VERY LonESomE- ) | ISN'T IT WONDERFUL THAT “—~ | FATE SHOULD BRING US TOGETHER s On 2 S2200N. By Upton Sinclair. of the number of people t ing to go the there are seven thousand m lonalres in this country say there aro twenty thousand in New ¥. own a million they're spending the Income of it pacef ¢ don't o the or if the which amounts J | same thing. You can figure that a man who # ten thousand a year | for rent {s paying fifty thousand to 1} nd there's Fifth avenue—two miles of {t, !f you count the uptown and do wn parts; and there's Madison avenue and half a dozen houses adjoining on every side street; and then there are the | hotels and apartment houses, to say nothing of the West Sido and Riverside T And you meet the mobs of people In the shops and the hotels and the theatres, and they all want to be better dressed than you. [sa woman here to-day that T never saw in my life before, and T heard her say st thousand dollars for a akerchtef; and {t might on asked to pay ten thousand for a lace shaw! at a bargain a common enough thing to see a woman walking on Fifth avenue with twenty or thirty thousand dollars’ worth of furs on her. I know women who have a dozen seta | of furs—ermine, chinchilla, black fox, baby lamb and minx and sable, and I | know a man whose chauffeur quit him because he wouldn't buy him a fanay fur coat! And onee people used to pack thelr furs away and take care of thay; but now they wear them about, and you can fairly see them fade, Or else thefr out goes out of fashion, and so they have to have now ones!—American Magazine, pose AeA ae A Story About Justice Brewer. USTICE BREWER, of the Supreme Court, on circuit was once taking testle mony in an Ohio court. One of the witnesses called to the stand gave his name as J. Curtle d paid two ve been true, for T've How OARE YOU SPEAK To MY. HUSBAND! J | Greene. Mr. Gepene’s condescending manner did not appeal to the Court's sense of the fitness of things, Finally, Judge Brewer's patience being sorely tried, he asked: “What did you say your name was?" “J, Curtis Greene with an ‘e’,” replied the witness. “What does the stand for?’ was the next question. “Jullus."” “Proceed with the testimony of Mr. Jullus C. Greene with an ‘ manded the Gazette-Times,