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pgs s po FSTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. she ily Except Sunday by the Presa Puleningg Company, Nos. 63 Published Daily Except Sunday by ie Frans Point RALPH PULITZER, President, 63. Park Row, . ANGUS SHAW reasurer, 6% Park Row. JOSHPH PULITZER,’ Jr., Secretary, 68 Park iow The Evenin ~ ’ ¢ World Da i All In Enteredomt the Post-Office at New York as Becond< lass Matter. ption F 0 The Evening) For England and the Continent an weer orld for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Vniom OAT. ccseee seveeeeess $250/On@ Veoar., seeeeeee oe 88 Month. .ssee 20|One Month. . ‘ “VOLUME 5 .NO. 18,630 THE TRAITORS. HAT sort of men steer Big Business in this country? Th testimony of John D. Archbold, commander and pilot o Standard Oil, should start some hard thinking. M $125,000 to the Republican campaign fund in 1904 on the distine promise of Cornelius N. Bliss that Mr. Roosevelt would know of the gift and “appreciate” it. As Mr. Archbold puts it: Mr, Bliss said: “I will Certainiy tell Mr aved not have any apprehension whatever” Roosevelt. You Mr. Bliss had previously expressed strong belief “that Mr. Roose-| velt would be fair in his treatment of the business interests.” Mr. Roosevelt did “appreciate the gift” and thought he could use $150,066 more, Says Mr. Archbold: 1 told Mr: Bliss we would not give any more, and he said he thought it was a serious mistake. He said: “Speaking per. sonally to you, 1 advise you to make this additional contribu tion, You are making a mistake tf you do not.” But Mr. Archbold would not. tacks on Standard Oil: Garfield and Smith were the puppets to jump when Mr. Roosevelt pulled the string. “Darkest Africa" never saw any- thing like the persecution of Standard Oil by the Roosevelt Ad. ministration. There never was anything like it in the Riatory of the nation. A year after the election Mr, Archbold and H..H1. Rogers went to Mr. Bliss to complain about these attacks: Bliss was not the man to say “I told you eo.” But the inference from our refusal to make a second contribution was very plain. Bliss at that time said it would have been differ. ent if we had done as he asked ua to. Reduced to lowest terms, then, the whole sordid business was simply this: Standard Oil gave $125,000 to get votes for the Admin- istration with a distinctly implied obligation that the Administration was to let Standard Oil alone. The Administration tried delicate] to squeeze a bigger price out of Standard Oil. When Standard Oil wouldn’t be squeezed the Administration handed it hard punches from the law department. The remittance didn’t buy what the re- mitters thought it did. We have quoted Mr. Archbold’s testimony in order to show the astounding theory that lies behind his words. He regarded immunity and privilege for Stand- - ard Oil as something to be bought, quite as a matter of course, from an Administration, for a consideration of dollars and cents! He believed the only reason he didn’t get what he paid for was be- cause he misunderstood the price! What shall we say of Business that dickers with the administra- * tion of a free government on the basis of so much vote money for so much privilege? Standard Oil offers its thousands to get votes for an administration that will be good to Standard Oil! The people play a sorry part in it all. Again we have the spec- ‘tacle of the oppressed being bought with the money of the oppressors to continue the oppression! What must be the feeling of honest men when they learn such secrets of Big Business as that uncovered by the testimony of this Standard Oil magnate ? «When the man who took the responsibility for the publication of E. H. Harriman’s “Where do I ‘stand” letter to Sydney Webster was asked how he felt about this incursion into the realm of privacy he replied: “1 felt as Paulding, Williams and Van Wart did when they pulled off Andre’s boote—that a traitor had been revealed.” Letters from the People nannies cnnate Archbold on the witness stand before the Clapp committee of the Senate declared that the Standard Oj] Company contributed Then began the Government at- a f t| | | Mere About “Vegetable Parks.” ‘To the Maitor of The Evening World In answer to J. Reich, who suggests that the city grow vegetables in its parks and sell them to the poor at cost, T would tke to ask him how the city could protect these vegetables, It would NOt be #0 hardin the day time, but how Mt at night? He says that he would Iike to buy nice frei tomatoes | ft one cent each. How many thousands feel ike he does about \t? But I think that if the clty should do as he suegeste they would lose on the proposition, R. M'CARTHY ‘or Skyscraper “Time Bi To the Editor of The Evening World The average person vs « or lew interested when the subject rect time” is mentioned. One who the vicinity of the Western Union Bull ing at noon has the advantage of © ing up with the “time ball.” The © ball,” as I understood It, is truly correct | time, obtained from the observatory at inington daily, where It is obtained from the stars nightly by means of proper instruments. Nothing, it seems 40 me, can be more accurate. Conatella- tions ‘have been going the rounds for | thousands of years and are always on ‘Vie dot, Now for the “time ball.” How | many people can see it? Only those ‘within a certain distance, The Municipal ‘ané Woolworth Buildings are now in a state crhere, I think, time bails cou! be erected on them, And each du'iding | hould have one of large size on a high pole so they can be soen for miles @round and both drop simultaneously at noon daily, This could also be done on other skyscrapers, Tho United States Government furnishes the correct timo, And I think it la up to the city of New York 10 get tt from the Government and Give it to the people. 3D, The “Paradox” Once More, Me tive Mbitior of The Brening World: ‘Tho fallney of the “Zeno Paradox’ Mea in supposing) that because a thing fo “Infaiiely divisible" it te also “in- ke me | finite.” ploded by Introducing the element of time. footed” Achilles five toime starting at the the end of five minutes Achilles would | be 100 yards behind the tortoise, but at the end of the next Achilles would be nearly 900 yards ahead, To the Raitor of ‘The Evening World laden team look one of these horses dropped, apparently from utter exhaustion. saw tai One | fon that @ more independent, « more en- | The fallacy 1m at once ex- Let u Up) one that the “swift n run 1,000 yards in Both he and the tor- ne moment, at minutes. Some te Mesa 6G] WISH you had looked over that ] trunk after the Janitor brought {t up from the store room in the basement, and before you packed it!" Srowled Mr. Jarr. “It looks more like &@ piece of Bwiss cheese than @ Sara- dopa!” { ‘Now please don't commence fuss- | ing!" said Mra. Jarr, “All It needs ts to | do nailed, here and there; and to be roped and have new straps and hinges on it; and it will be all riggt. It hasn't ‘Deen used except by Aunt Metty to take back some things I gave her this spring.” “That's the way with your relation: @neered Mr. Jarr, “they come with a carpet sack and leave with a packing case, Well, It'@ a wonder they sent the trunk back, but I'll bet they did it C. on TT ‘e's your relations for you!" five minutes you, they are YOUR relations, My re- lations are not lke that!" erled Mr: Jarr. WILLIAM 8, PELLETREAN, Cruchty to Animals, bet your relations aren't like that!" retorted Mr. Jarr. “Your re- Jations ive in a two-family house in Brooklyn, and you ean put your hand down the chimney of it and open the front dogr, and when the front door sticks in damp weather you have to ‘ou 1 saw ri stly # team hauling a heavily ‘United States Mati" truck, ‘The “all in” and as I watched, After the driver removed tho harness of both horses I 4oMar sores on one of them. can easily imagine the pain this horse suffered pulling a load with a heavy, badly-fitted collar, [ have read there is a revenue the U, 8. Government makes from the mail, But why does this money have to be made with cruelty to animals? T have never heard of a 8. P.O. A. man stopping @ truck of this kind, Is it because tt (s “against the law to stop the matla?” T realize | that one man cannot dp much to help | these poor animals, but I hope there ts some way, R 6. The Answer. Dickens a Prophet? To the Exlitor of The Krentug World Ts it possible that Charles Dickens | had any present day candidate in mind | when he wrote the following quotation | trom Pickwick Papers (Chapter 18)? | “Both (candidates) oxpremsed their opin- Naghtened, a more public-spirited, a more noble-minded, a more disinterested set of men than those who had promised to vote for him never existed on earth; each darkly hinted hig suspicion that | the electors in the opposite interest had certain swinish and besotted infrmitics which rendered them unfit for the ex clse of the important duties they were called upon to discharge,” J, Ly Hy “Did ne pay you the money he owed you, or what?” “What.” Conyriabt Papi The New It 3% ( ally climb into the place ty the window, for if you pulled too hard at the doo: the front af the house would come off, And here Mrs, Jarr started to sob. $$ i -_ PAIG OOREEEEEEFESOESESSESEE EROS EESESEE AES ASER ESE SEROSEL Harlem Is Deserted! The Jarrs Are Setting Forth on Vacation PPISSISSIIISIS IIS SIIISISIISSIIIIIS SITES SSFESECCC008 “I won't go at all, now. You can go!" sniffed Mrs. Jarr. ‘You didn't want me and the children to go, and you know It. You have been growling and (" ide Z finding fault right along, I'm sure I do not care to stand in your way, Go on your vacation alone. Let the chil- dren and me stay here. If the worst The poe THE SAILOR. “ye By Al Conyrigtt, 1012, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World), U look as thopgh you're per | turbed,"" I remarked. “I got yuh,” she answered, ‘an’ Tam! It's them buyers, Yuh know the papers sald the other day that most, of the buyers in the city now wux wkirta. | Well, the papers| wuz right. A few, years ago it used to) be that the men) buyers'd come along to New York an’ bring the whole “They are not my relations, thank, '@™ly with 'em fer a free spree, an’|I did, when I introduced a citizen of times hasn't changed; only now it's the jlady buyer that brings Paw an’ brother Sam with HER!” “Well, what difference does it make |to you? What are you worrted about?” T asked with a hint of reproof. “I'm worrled about a couple of things," she answered slowly, ‘they worry me every year just about this time. “In the first place I c'n spell all the ree-tined names there ts, an’ I don't never have no trouble In the winter, when folks has to be paged. But I'll be massaged if I o'n even guess at the letters in the names of them buyers, A bunch come in from Sapphire Falls, Missourl, the other day, an’ the pack- between ‘em wuz enough go upset the police department! “An’ blamed If every one of ‘em d&in't get a call while they wus down in the rathskeller bathin in gin riokeya! Well say, Claude an' me (he's my fav'rite page yuh know), we had a double frac- mo.’ An’ the letter my finger fell on I'd put down,” “Constance! T ald sternly, our long acquaintance, too! Bhe smiled mischievously and squeezed my hand. “I wuz exaggeratin’ @ Mitle,” she oon- fessed, “but I'm that sore at that col- jection! Yuh know I ain't one to put om lugs, even when I'm travelin’ with @ apeakin’ wad! An’ I'm alwayp ready “After VS Conquests Of Constance (SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR AT 7HE HOTEL RICH) comes to worst, the netghbors will not gee us starve.” “Holy Tomatoketchup,”” exclaimed the exasperated Mr. Jarr. “Don't let's fight tll I get this trunk so it will stand the journey back to the old farm. Where's the nails? Where's the ham- mer? And, say, {f it will not wound you in your tenderest emotions to tell, where did! you get this ple box, anyway? At the five and ten cent store?” “It's @n ‘Ironclad Indestructible Tourist Trunk,’ and it ts guaranteed for ten thousand miles travel,” sobbed Mrs, Jarr, “Packed tn cotton wool and shipped by water,” sneered Mr. Jarr. “Well, than our Grecian pool; an’ our Rewian (there! Maybe the baggage smashere tearoom 1s enough to knock the eye ous W!!! have pity on tt, I'll chalk on it: of Napoleon! Yet, you lead these yaps ‘Don't Hit @ Cripple, Boys! This Trunk ma Woodward close-fisted cucumbers from furrin parts has my goat! “There ain't nothin’ finer in the world t 24 Price of a Ue pa | Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World). . 6G] 'VE Just been to the most fascinating meeting at ‘The Mere Woman's ] Club,’ Mr, Cutting!" exclaimed the Rib excitedly, as she flung down her frilly sunshade, and began pulling off her long white gloves. “Somebody lectured on politics and things; and we all chose our candidates”— YOUR candidates? For what? interrupted the Mere Man, fn surprise. For President of the United States, of course,” explained the Rtb eweetly, “We haven't got a vote yet, you know: but we've all got a VOTER—some of us two or three—aplece. And we expect to do a LOT of good!” . “I see!” exclaimed the Mere Man. ‘The gentle feminine ‘nfluence't’* “Yes,” gurgled the Rib, “and some of us are going to work for Wilson, and some for Roosevelt.” “How sweet,” murmurtd the Mere Man, “But why not some for Taft, too, and some for the Socialist candidate—whoever he is? It Nets etl you all up {nto just so many more factions,” he urged. “You really SHOULDN'T negieot @ny opportunity to divide up your forces. It would be SO unwomanly! “Do you mean that to be funny, Mr. Cutting?” inquired the Rib, glancing am from her teacup haughtily. “Oh, not at alll” the Mere Man assured her. ‘Tt isn't funny; it's tragiel Now, if you were mere men, you'd all stick together, pick out the candidate yeu thought the easiest—I mean, the most amenable to reason—and figm ike ‘Trojans in @ solid phalanx to elect him. Then you'd have the ballot in no tke, fn every State in the Union. “When men want anything they get together in @ solid body and rush the enemy and GET it. You women prefer to go on scrapping among yourselves nd pulling in different directions. But don’t let ME influence you. Keep up the fun! Go right on with the good work. As long as you can be kept busy fight- ing one another there isn't any danger of your succeeding”— “Oh pshaw, Mr. Cutting!” interrupted the Rib. “I don't know what you're talking about. And anyway, it doesn't matter. What I invited you here for was to find out if I could put you on MY Met.” “Your LIST! For what? “To vote for my candidate,” cooed the Rib, taking out an fvory pad, and @ Uttle gold pencil, with a business-like flutter. M. exclaimed the Mere Man, putting down his teacup. “Me VOTDT Never again!” and he raised his right hand to heaven dramatioally, “What!” crled the Rib, in shocked amazement. “Do you mean to say that you are not going to take advantage of the glorious privilege of the franchise?” and she faced him accusingly. But the Mere Man only cowered and shook his head. “I can't afford {t!" he protested. “It costs too muc! “Costs?” inquired the Rib in astonishment. “Why I thoughj-er—you got PAID for voting. I didn't know it COST anything.” “Listen! said the Mere Man, leaning toward her tmpresstvely, “Until the first, last and only time I voted, I was a happy American oltizen, enjoying life, liberty and the pursuit of the almighty dollar. I had never served my country and my country had never ‘served’ me. From the day on which I put my name down on the register I was a marked man. I had served my country—and two weeks later my country served me with a notice that I was called for atx weeks’ jury duty. SIX WEEKS away from my business, mind you, at an approximate cost of a couple of hundred a week!" “Oh, was THAT all?” inquired the Rib sweetly. “ALL!" repeated the Mere’ Man wearily. ‘o, It wasn't ‘all’, When I ot back to my office I found a tax collector waiting for me with a bill for sixteen dollars taxes on a set of office furniture that I would gladly have sold for $15.98," “Sixteen dollars!" cried the Rib indignantly, “for that old desk and carpet and chairs of yours? That was sheer robbery, Mr, Cutting.” “Oh, well, you just wait until you get the franchise, and have to sit shut up in @ jury box every day for #1x weeks, while your friends are playing bridge or off on a motor trip,” warned the Mere Man. “You just walt until you get @ vote and they tax you for everything you own, from your toothpowder to your Angora kitten!” “It's outrageous!” exclaimed the Rib, “but who GOT that sixteen dollars, Mr, Cutting? TAMMANY?” “Ot course not,” explained the Mere Man patiently, “the State got 1 “The STATE,” repeated the Rib. “Oh, I see! MR. DIX got tt.” ja,” @aid the Mere Man wearily, “the President got it and spent it for golf ball “Ol exclaimed the Rib in a horrified tone, “Just watt until women oan vote! WE'LL do away with taxes and things like that. Just walt “We'll try!" murmured the Mere Man fervently, “but at present, Allah ts merciful % The Week’s Wash By Martin Green, | Copyright, 1012, LL," remarked the head pol- isher, “the police graft in- vestigation has moved along @ few In the pas week.” “Quite 99," agreed by The Press Publishing Co, (The York World), has a bank account ts no justifioa for the charge that he Is rafter. are all in favor of turning on the light, ut let the Ught hit a definite person ind not a Certain Party whose person- y can be shifted from day to day Wy the laundry man.|‘o suit the returns reaching the lght- i “They have now|ning change artists in the District~d reached a Certain| torney’s office. The people of New York Party. The {den-| ‘ounty don't select their District-Attor- tity of this Certain] ney © he is gifted as a prophet.” | Party varies from day to day in the fi i descriptions given Speaking of Graft.” out by the office of the District-At- “S KAKING of graft," said the torney, head polisher, “it etrikes me MARTIN GREEN, «Monday, for in- that the United States Senate (s stance, he is @ turning Out some stuff that makes bet- gently by the hand into all that clase, Is Suffering From Nervous Breakdown age of monakers that that outft divided | ture of the dictionary ‘fore we got through fillin' out the, cards! We Sus’ took a bunoh of letters al I closed my eyes an’ said: ‘Keny, meeny, miny, and -A Shattered Constitution.’ “Much they'd care,” said Mrs, Jarr. "Well, here's the expressman.” ‘The news that the Jarre were going away on vacation had spread through the neighborhood. Mr. Jarr had warned everybody not to tell the policeman on ithe blook. “You can't trust anybody these day Said Mr. Jarr, ‘and I don't know who Jumping Rock, Minn., to a drink that; has the flat-robbery concession on this has nectar beat both ways from the|block, the Central Office Strong Arm ting point; @ drink that only one|Squad or the men of the precinct.” man in New York can mix and he gets! Little Izzy Slavinsky, was foremost @ bank president's salary! ‘The Jumping mong the throng at the door. He Rock-er smacked his lips and said; | Pressed a large ball of putty into “Tastes somethin’ ike ginger beer,|Master Jarr’s hands and @ Second-hand ; don't it?—-only not so snappy!” putty blower, “That's them!" she agreed. “Oh, well,| “You can shoot people in the ears and what's the use 0’ gettin’ riled? August’ll|¢yes as the train goes by and they be over soon,’ can't ketch youl” whispered Master “Go on; get busy," I commanded, look- | Slavinaky. ing at my watch,” who's next? Gus, the cafe proprietor, too awed by “Oh, he's short an’ sweet. She frowned |the presence of Mrs. Jarr to appear slightly, “He wuz a eatlor!"” himself, sent Tony, the bootblack, with an’ they hum an’ haw an’ say: “Oh, yes, it ree-minds me somethin’ | of the Stewart House, out hom “Pretty, ain't it!" ow wouldn't that casserole yuh? “Oh, Connie, Connie,” I laughed, “you're SUCH a New Yorker, such @ wonderfully loyal resident! I can un- derstand how you feel, though. Just as “You should have known better,” I/a@ bottle of private stock for medicinal | commented. purposes en route. “Well, he wuz goin’ to do everythin'| Wash Shing, the Chinese Jaundryman, jin the world fer me, Why, the third | day I knew him he bought me a soli- taire, It wuz only a quarter of a karat (small but deep, yuh know). Then the next day we wus walkin’ through Twenty-third street lookin’ in the windows, when all of @ sudden one of them dames that sit on the eldewalk an’ selis lace Jumps up an’ throws her} arms around his neck! I wuz eimply frazzled! An’ finally he beat her off an’ when We wuz about @ mile an’ @ quarter from the spot he say “*A old flame of mine from Byria! Just careless like that ell, say, you could ‘a bought me fer @ bull moose bandanna! I didn't|Mr. Jarr, even stop to say farewell. I got on @) But Mrs, Jarr said ehe was sure it Sixth avonoo car that wuz movin’ up-|Mra Stryver was in town 0! town @n’ the conductor nearly jawed | Mudridge-Smith they would have \his head off at me ger doin’ eo careless. |bon voyage baskets ne came up from his basement to bia them godspeed, “Hopee have a goodee samee!” said he, lanta luck, Meester and Meeses |Jarr,” sald Tony, the pootblack, grin- ning. Mr. Slavinsky came hurrying UP. “Go by boat," he advised, “tt Ms | cheapest.” “Gracious!” cried Mrs Jarr testily, as the family got in the surface car for the depot, “have you no fricads but that sort of people?” ’ “I guess that sort of people are the only real friends anybody bas," Said time, all to be tol’ things, An’ eay, 1 ain't seen ‘em when I ain't; but thie cluster of Only, in my hurry I fergot to give the| And thus the Jarrs dey q nagted f¢ sailor the quarter karat—Stoopid of me,jbelated two woeks an from oruan't st” Harlem home, leading goltticilan, holding a State office and very, very well known in New York, indeed, He 1s the mainspring of the system. Tuesday he {sa man who was formerly connected with the city admin- istration, but 1s now in private life, hav- ing time, however, to keep his eyes and mitts open. “Wednesday he 4s a lawyer—a vague lawyer—who appears in the public prints as aweartng a mustache alone, side whiskers alone, a vandyke beard and moustache and @ smooth face simul- taneously, Thursday the Certain Party !s @ hotel proprietor, Friday he is the Vice-President and General Manager of a banana stand, Saturday he is a big theatnical producer, Gunday he is a person connected with the Police De- partment, And then it starts all over “Most of the descriptions of the Cer- tain Party as he changes from day to day are easily recognizable, Hundreds of thousands of citizens know who ts meant by each of these disguised refer- ences to the leading figures in police sraft, And it is @ lead pipe cinch that most of those designated are not in- volved in the scandal, “When they do turn up the real graft- ers, what about the men who have been accused by innuendo? They will have no redress. The smell of the tar will remain whenever thelr names are men- tloned and the knockers will repeat the old, old story, ‘Oh, they got it, but they covered up their tracks.’ “It the District-Attorney has the goods on grafters he should keep under | cover until he gets indictments, Any-| fhing in the way of rumor gains cre-| dence nowadays when it comes from the District-Attorney's office, but the fact) that a man rents a safe deposit box and ter reading than our local scandal,” What Interests me in that Senate in- vestigation,” said the laundry man, the way some of our vetbran statesmen have discovered that corporation money {8 bad medicine, I remember When practically nothing but corpora- thon coin formed the sinews of cam- paign war, And the patriots who han- died the coin usually went out and made some discreet investments within @ re sonable period after the free and un- trammelled electorate had registered {ts will, “One thing ‘ proved by the Senate Investigation, Theodore Roosevelt thinks about/elght years ahead of bis rivals and associates. Away back tn 1904 he framed up an allbi on that $100,- 000 Standard O11 contribution, He filed the alibi away against the time when corporations should boost themsely: into a position of extreme Public un- popularity and when the proper moment arrived he pulled {t out of his alibi box and spread it before an amazed and wondering populace. A man whose mental processes run elght years ahead of the times ds reasonably aafe ¢rom pureul! 66] SER.” said the head polisher, ] “that women are taking @ more Prominent part in politics this year than ever before." “The explanation 1s simple,” declared the laundry man, “Our politics has bee come so surcharged With hysteria that | the males are Incapable d& handling tt without the assistance of hysteria ee porte,”