The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1909, Page 16

er e+ EOI = seo The Bvening W Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. JOSHPH PULITZER, Pres,, 68 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Beo,-Treas,, 68 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Sccond-Class Mail Matter, Subseription Rates to The Evening ) For England and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canaca, Postal Union. One Year..ee . One Month, One Year One Month VOLUME 49 A POLITICAL PERSECUTION. Mr. Roosevelt {s mistaken. He cannot muzzle The World, even though he revive by Executive order the Infamous Sedition Jaw which destroyed the Federalist party and made Thomas Jefferson President of the United States. Although the indictments returned by the Gtand Jury of the District of Columbia yesterday, in form, allege that criminal libel was committed against Theodore Roosevelt, Willlam H. Taft, Elthu Root, J. Plerpont Morgan, Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson and Willlam Nelson Cromwell, the case in reality Is a political proceeding instituted by Mr. Roosevelt as President against the two great newspapers {nu the North which supported the Democratic natio teket last fall. He said in his special message of Dec. 15, referring to certain articles about the purchase of the Panama Canal, “they are in fact wholly and in form partly a libel upon the United States Government,” adding that “the real offender is Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of The World," that Mr. Pulitzer ould be prosecuted for libel by the governmental au- thorities,” and that "the Attorney-General has under consideration the form in which the proceedings against Mr, Pulitzer shall be brought.” In accordance with this form, the first indictments have been found In the District of Columbia under what Flihu Root himself described in the case of Noyes vs. Dana as ‘the same arbitrary and cdious law against which E ine fought in the days otf George I1l.’’ Mr. Roosevelt is employing all his power as President of the United States to use this “same arbitrary and odious law” to smother the freedom of the press. This persecution. If it succeed, will place every newspaper In the coun- try which circulates in Washington—and there are few of importance which do not circulate there--completely at the mercy of any autocratic, vain- glorious President who js willing to prostitute his authority for the gratifi- cation of his personal malice. Few newspapers make large profits. Most of them could be ruined financially by the legal expense of defending them- selves hundreds of miles from the place of publication and against the tre mendous resources of the United States Government al Under this procedure there {s hardly an American newspaper proprtetor | who would not be liable to criminal Indictment In Washington if his news- paper printed something offensive to the President, even though the pro- prietor might have been thousands of miles from his office at the time of Buch publication and known nothing whatever about ft. There is hardly an editor or writer or reporter who would not be similarly lable to indict ment at the whim of a President. In addition to this, all of them would likewise be liable to criminal indictment, as District-Attorney Stimson de- Ciares, "In a numoer of separate and independent surssdicttons’—that is, In the jurisdiction of all the 2,809 Government reservations in which copies of the newspaper might happen to have circulated. If proof were needed that these indictments are in reality a political proceeding, instituted by Mr. Roosevelt against the two leading anti-Repub- lican newspapers in the recent campaign, it would be necessary only to review his conduct during that contest. The articles chiefly complained of appeared in the news columns of The World between Oct. 3 and Oot. 18. At that time Mr. Roosevelt was the actual manager of the Republican cant paign, and had been engaged in violent personal controversies with Mr. Bryan, Gov. Haskell and various other opponents, If he belleved that the Panama articles printed {n The World and the Indiangpolis News were a libel upon the United States Government, or upon himself or Mr. Taft or Mr, Root, or upon anybody else, that was the time to join the issue and submit it to the judgment of the American people at the polls. Yet, al- though Mr. Roosevelt's political activities were unceasing, never once dig he refer to this Panama matter, never @ complaint did he make in regard to these articles, never did he challenge the Democratic party or tts candidates or any of its supporters to meet thts dssue of criminal Kbel which he now | By Wanting to Go to a Show That’s Not Respectable}. Even in his letter of Dec. 1 to William D. Foulke, viclously assalling , / raises on the eve of his retirement from office. Delavan Smith for what the Indianapolis News had printed about the Panama affair, Mr. Roosevelt made no charge against The World and made no claim that anybody had been Iibelled. On the contrary, he was careful to explain that “he would prefer to make no answer whatever !n this case.” ‘‘My plau,” he sald, “has been to go ahead to do the work and let these people and those like them yell.” It was not until The World in {ts issue of Dec. § reproached Mr. Roosevelt for grave inveracities In his attack upon Mr. Sm!th and Mr. Laffan, and urged a Congressional investiga tion to establish the full truth about the Panama Canal purchase, that he raised the question of “a {bel upon the United States Government” and an- nounced in a message to Congress his determination to have Mr. Puwiltzer “prosecuted for libel by the governmental authorities.” This threat was only one element !n the Reign of Terror which Mr. Roosevelt instituted as soon as the election was over. He had already slandered citizens and Congress and the courts. An assault upon the free dom of the press was logically the next step In the gratification of hig re venge upon everybody who had dared to interfere with his policies, proj- And ment of the United States to punish newspapers whieh have fearlessly eritt cised hitn he has let ft he known, {n the words of the Tribune's Washing ton correspondent, that federal officeholders charged with these proceed ings ‘iil earn his gratitude if their efforts are successful." The for the actual offense wh fense of The World ple Mr. Roosevelt's jingolem ects or purposes, n carrying omit his scheme to employ the Govern. nial charges in the Indictments bear only a nominal relation to The real of on princi. his centrallz- h the President seeks to prosectute that for vears !t has consistently opposi his militarism, th usurpations, ing policies, his cawhoy ods of ad ration and his government by denuncia and never hesitated to tel t truth about him when orld Daily le | Out With a String By Maurice Ketten i} “ | | Soy Tea SESS ‘| Aunt Prue, From Philadelphia, Astonishes or Mrs. Rittingly?’ asked Mr. Jarr. Why, Gertrude, of course, Jane. ‘T don't belleve that Kittingly |! “And you'd better stop in a couple of \ By Roy L. McCardell. |, 207.°2 bowling alley or a billiard UNT PRUDENCE wants us to parlor, you'll be sure to find out there 46 take her out to-night,” sald |aiso,” sald Mrs, Jarr, sarcastically. \ Mrs. Jarr, when her husband| “Well, I don’t see how we can both | came home the|go out to a revival meeting with her,” |day and night, and she never confides! pi { other evening. sald Mr. Jarr, evading Mra. Jarr's re-|in Gertrude as to where shi | hell conducting meetings this week | said Mrs. | Harlem.” | | "I don't belleve tn those doctrines,” woman has any nerves. Gertrude says) 6aid Aunt Prudence sourly. “I wouldn't she {s never home—out all the piney | ate to any man who tried to take all ! a been or | belief to be ® co Magazine, Thursday, February 18, 1909. 19 \ NYY \ NN NN " \ ’ \ } \ Ns the Jarrs easure out of my belief! I want my fort to me." SooddavaaDEssdaDIDBODDDAgOAGOAD 08 - Battling’ Cupid’s » Reminiscences 8 i® His Career in the Ring of Love BOSOOIO® Sooo By Nixola Greeley-Smith ie as in the mush column, and, ¢o tell you SECOND EVENT. Bye LN Ae | How I Nearly Lost to Swveet iz aariieisoaant Re as e them Si ring. Well, y said on the sporte ixteen. Ing page of the en of Eden Gazette, PIGHTE two blows were struck, one when Sweet | A Freatest €0-/ sixteen handed me a heart blow and) emy 18 over | ong when T hit the foo: confdence, Ive! wiuctling Cupid, ehamplon of the found that axlom} wong, against Sweet Sixteen!’ called to be just as true |i, referee, and as we shook hands she of the love ring as of the prize rin vest little about It— It was the bi no bluft smiled at me, smile you ever saw Paha we WSR | and, do you know, the fact that tha Sq ue ezepenny 1) ttle kel wasn’t artakt of me knocked me cold, Hardened sinuers, seasoned Feally belleve that) wiggws had grown white when T tapped there wasn't a woman an earth I | couldn't defeat with one hand tied behind my back» So when @ match was arranged between me and a skinny young person of six- teen, with big brown eyes that made her | |1ook Mke a newly-hatehed robin, I don't | mind saying that I thought I was a winner, I cut out all training and when | I went into the ring I was as fat and) | short winded as an alderman, A ten- | dency to obesity {s hereditary fn the | them ever so light!v. But, you see, that |Cupld family, and {t's harder for me to | funny Ittle muct didn't know enough to jlose a few extra pounds than to win a|be scared. There restriction | fight. Also I'd been celebrating the | about fighting and of course [Pose 010 | Tana tp) was no Squeezepenny victory in fine style. {when they're as young as that that's My opponent was that singular kind | the way to win them, Get ther {n clos® of ingenue one meets only tn America | quart and then bowl th over with the girl who has read everything on, What that Bernard Shaw p calls the earth from Ovid to Elinor Glyn, but | Llfe-Force, Ie wrote the life of a barn fighter called Cashel Byron, who has had no more actual experience | he's talking at t of the world than an unweane. kitten. | She was like those fellows that write long treatises on the theory of fig I tried e ropes, but shi ish her to t f jdanced a who wouldn't run @ heavier-th little smile wo the time, machine {f the world's salvation de-| ‘Don’t you kr sa man dying pended on ft, At least I thought she /of love for s T sald was like that when I stepped Into the) “How f * she laughed “Don't you know th number of [Repan sem TO) the most beau women in New Yorke | waar Fou’nean| j been mad over hint and that {t le Se a great condescension f notice }you at all Poor old thing!’ she sighed, dodgings | “He's worth $10,000,000," I added, alms Ing franitcally at her cupidity, “But there's such a d{sparity In our ages.” she countered. "But, of course, since he’s as crazy about me as all that he can speak to inamma—if that’s what ring. My side man of forty, 0 graduates that twixt star and er this time was a of those Broadway have been wed out | star and have taken to It wasn't at & falling {n love with an unsophisticated | knocked me co 1 a3 @ sort of emotional Muldoon's,|my second $u You know how you feel sometimes when | his arms around Sweet Sixteen and your appetite goes back on you and you| began calling her his dearest Baby and look at the bill of fare and reallze that|telling her he never, never could be all the kangaroo steaks and rhinoceros| grateful enovgh to her for accepting ribs and ‘possums are nothing but dif-|him and bringing back ail his {deals of ferent cuts of the same tough old steer | womanhood. disguised with a fancy sauce, and then| I claimed a foul, of course, but tt | order cornmeal mush. [wasn't allowed, ‘The referee mercifully Well, I had Sweet Sixteen sized up called it a draw. you mean 1] what I meant, but 1@ Seeing I was helpless, ped into the ring, threw — en 'g Abraham Lincoln As |! Saw Him. By Walt Whitman. | > SEE very plainly,” wrote Walt Whitman in his Washington note book. | under date of Aug. 12, 18¢f, “Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with | the deep cut lines—the eyes—always to me with a latent sadness in | the expression, We have got 89 that we alwa change bows and | very cordial ones, None of the s have caught the if J and he J pe with that funny *} “Well, let's take marks, “you have no girl to stay what she has been dot | “Well, Ihave no doubt there's aome-| Subtle and indirect expressions of this man’s face, And as T her out--and lose with the children, so you go with her) wceremide is a pean,” said Mr, Jarr, thing going on In some of the caurcnes | Mvselt heard or saw of the mighty Westerner,” continues the p irra? cout) ealcer TUN ricky fists GRETA cy lume eS ‘she was always! of interest, lectures on Palestine or | Morial which he contributed to the “Reminiscences of Abraham I, Jarr. can go some other time.” out and we had to stay tn, and from | something,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “for, of | the Harpers recently tssued, “and blend tt xAith the history and it AA) of m "Sess-hi"" She'll | No, if T have to go you will have to t you tell me the only times shelcourse, you don't want to go to the| “8° and of what I can get of all ages, and conclude { h his death, W seemsh hear you," said | go, too,” said Mrs. Jarr. “I have some! ever did any work for us has been since rev’ \ | ke some tragic play * * © vaster and ftercer and more vvulsionary for this | Mra. Jarr, “we jone who will stay and take care of the|sovenae sive hos been pacing hoe fa of ours than Eschylus or Shakespeare ever drew for Athens or fom must be nice to children and took after them tn case ce she oblects to her mistress taking! priied i ; Eth A ay | par ial ay F | le asked the old lady. fo ees her, she may sor fire so many evenings off. Opn eo 7 leave the children! “\Who?’ asked Mr. Jarr. “The Jant-| oo ., ‘i Say Saar lie x a something in her | tor's wife? eset ee he eee ua as mince Hur’ or ‘Th pard Kin| a) N 8: © Jar. jertry he! * aed af "i i} eb sShil's Be isi she would |ate! we vsod tolnave, will stay with tne come {0m a Rood family and hay al|plasing anywhere in town?” asked MMe Rex Beach Heroes Are Real. Sere. AS oo back home tojchiliren, She says the way Mra, Kit.| "2S been wed to social activity, Bho | Jars. “or may be Aunt Prudence would| ; NU piire re Peo e aeons 3 >hiladelphia Ungly acts no self-respecting girl could | oesn't like betng left atone like that religious play ‘The Servant tn suppose she wants to go to some stay ‘All right, let her do our work; let | the House’ but T think that's gone.” with her, She wants her place! “Maybe Aunt Prudence knowns wh = EX BEACH ts often asked whether the Characters In his Alaskan novels revival meeting,’ grunvbled Mr. Jarr, her take care of the children, then, and are real, and his answer is that they are, tn main, although “that means going to Brooklyn, there's t does Mrs. Kittingly do that! we'll go see what brand of punishment | She'd like to see,” suggested Mr. Jarr, changed to sult the motives of the story. In ‘The Barrier,’ for exe always @ revival @ on in Brook- shocks the sensitive Gertrude?’ asked| your atint Prudence from Philadelphia! ‘Certainly Aunt Prudence knows ample, No-Creek Lee, who never made a gold strike in his life, is real, lyn” Mr. Jarre. prefers as amusement.” sald Mr. Jarr, what she wants to see!” piped up the The author tells some good stories about the old fellow, who was ones “We'll have to take her to whatever ‘Well, Gertrude has been In a half, So the two consulted thelr visitor, ey old lady. “I want to see one of those| eyed and melancholy, and told Mr. Reach that he firmly belies at if ever he she wants to see, said Mrs. Jarr. “T dozen times helping me with the work,, find that Gypsy Smith, the revi plays that aren't respectable, for, of! made a strike the creek itself would get up in the night and move, “The sight puppose {t will be something like that, ,and she gave she anit Han pacnaunilgald eaty course, I wouldn't dream of going to! of a woman,” sald Mr, Reach, reminiscently, “terrified him beyond deseription, or a lecture by a returned missionary.” with Mrs Kittingly is at work In saving see them in Philadelphia!” I was with him bnce when one came up and spoke to him, and he stood taking: Vii go out and ask Gus tf he knows wreck over the way tl where there's a revival or a mission- on sald Mr. Jarr, | st fall, Aunt Prudence. 19 papers that from a new sect 1S are going ‘Who's the nervous wreck, Ger that don't belleve intn They had to get the tickets from a © 8 a preacher speculator, but Aunt Prudence paid for| ® vem. off his cap fifty times and bowing with agony. It was more than an embarrassing ent; it was an adventure, and he used to talk about er after, The one that rivalled {t was a bleycle. Lea had naver seen a bleyela except In but he used to talk for days about the sensation of riding he said tt was | sub | magazine Mlustrat! ke flying.” ne, Yor e just f Mt The rea} offeuse of the Indianapolls News {s that {t refused to support 4 ~~~ ress ‘ ry Voges ne jab Aree ee osm ae the Republican t g the Indiana R i the Cone a | filets ane aeceall Ri Have You Met JOHNNY QUIZ? & & wg By FG Long | . resentatives in table State. Mr. Roosevelt is |, Racer | | Thumbs and Their Many Uses. nov Pat POWer as nt and prostituting his great au: | thort nt to explolt his political malice. These libel proceed: ~ NAW, yoy 1/)Pin" THE DISHES ©) HAROLD, DEAR- I74 | 1 7 ) | FADE AwAy-You | HE disparagement of the usefulness and importance of the thumb {mplied {ngs have no other object than to enable Roaeaveltatctem nicemens ~ GALoor! 175 se LEERY PRACTISily G 1, P47 |AHI GETTIN’ HeIGHEDY TORSELESS CHBBHGE GaNTRereeeraealonvluidlalangars (arayall) (humbaatemmandeagreediin ma United States Goverr t ei nersonalides|rel SHOOTING STARS aN A INGLA: } (Im winoing uPS—f\~ | | view of the important part the thumb formerly played in the soctal cuss fi ge ss real Cen) \ (GRAN'PA'S toms of the people, and the very important part it plays In our own 1 rei § fod lives Say this relnetantly; but we say { out qualification, because Lord Erskina, In his ‘Institutes,’ states that among certain of the lower {t Is true, And we eay further that w dictmenta Mr. Roosevel | ranks in Scotland the final settlement of a bargain was always signalized by the y cause listinet and independent juris: 5 | licking and Joining of thumbs. Pulitzer or aga aa itora ae @ Selden, in ‘Titles of Honor,” says that kissing the thumb was a mark of sery r ist editors | vility, The clergy, the rich and the great, were in receipt of this honor from there u ANE n the | / tradesmen. | / From the remotest days of antiquity the practic> of licking the thumb hay, 2 1 | | been regarded as a solemn pledge or promise, existing, according to Taqitus ani other authorities, among the Goths, the Iberians and the Moors, and tt ma f also be! ‘ t 1 ea | traced througl successive perlods down to our own times,—tilustrated! Sunday, ' a ae ‘ Magazine ne st 5 I 4 1 | SA ofS yr AG 9. | ——— aoe t = (Yess Rare eee Oe 9 You SMOKE.) (BE STILL, SAOHEAPT|/ D NOT PRE- i i L sf t | leheerneée) ri abr dereeteh |(Manew’ a, g Cesecr recurc 7 | |} x The Day’s Good Stories # | é It Means “Pien Reply.” ase & SJ : ao 3 V. P.,"" printed $12,0¢ pes RT RRY A DE MOUTH eH The Former Is Correct. en you and FJ. A reader oeing $2,800 in Dustness, A a! vo partnership A receives 6 How m: olore? id each have at Grat? My solution fol-) QUEST. + ~~~ § Ai TADPOLE | 52 My dear sir,” interposed a meek pase! fenger, “your statement is too aweepe ing. When | travelled in these cars last summer they were not cold at all,’* Bad Fix. HE leutenant rushed to the bridge [ and saluted. “Captain,” he shouted—for the if r of the artillery was deafening—i “the enemy has got our range.” The captain frowned. so the nck,’ he growled. “Now how can th cook get dinner?’ — Nand Leader, Supstitute, Rs. WARE 1\Y) ements | go to the matinee Mr, Wade Parker—Honestly, I haven't | Corrected. | got more than 30 cents, and-—~ ‘“ HESE cars are always cold Mrs, Wade Parker—Oh, well, [ growled the shivering pa-|have that, and I'l! go shopping troa, soreness | Cleyelaud Leader, I I want to let me \ PARKER—Dear, h@ ( | . ye iN " y ¢ t