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®’ work ont their own develop. ment in peace and liberty. MEXICO HAS NO GOVERNMENT— MERE DESPOTISM. “Mexico has no Government. The Attempt to maintain one at the City of Mexico bas broken di id mere military despoti«m haa be t up! which has hardly more than the sem- ) Dlance of national authority. It origins ated in the usurpation of Victoriano ? Muerta, who, after a brief attempt to play the part of constitutional Presi- dent, has at last casi aside even the pretense of legal right and declared himseif dictator. “As a consequence a condition of af- fairs now exists in Mexico which has made it doubtful whether even the most elementary and fundamentai rights either of her own people or of cltizens of other countri n long be nd which to imperil the interests of peace, order and toler- the south of us. “Even if the usurper had succeeded {n his purposes, in apite of the constitus tion of the republic and the rights of ite people, he would wet up noth- ing but @ precarious and hateful power, whieh could have lasted but a little while, and whose eventful downfall ld have left the country in a more deplorable condi than e HUERTA HAS FORFEITED RE- SPECT AND MORAL AID. « , “But he Mas not succeeded. He has for- « felted the reapect and the moral sup port even of those who were at ona time willing .t0 eee him succeed. Little by little he has been completely isolated. By a little every day his power ané prestige are crumbling and the collapse is not far away. We shall not, I believe, » be obliged to alter our poliey of watch- And then, when the end — gomes, we shall “hop. to see constitu. tena] order restored in distressed Max- fee by the concert and energy of such of her teadere a8 prefer the Liberty of their people to thelr own anfbitions, a Dill for the reform of our system of Danking and eurrency, for which the cmd weiss with impatience, as for fundamental te its whole Dostnese ree tite and neeessary to set credit free from arbitrary and artificial re- I need mot say how earnestly 1 hope for its early enactment into law. able life in the lands immediately to} reduce a of that debatable ground by further and more explicit | legislation. and should also supplement | that wreat act by legisiation which will hot only clarify it, but also fi ate ite administration and make it falrer t concerned ‘0 doubt we whall all wish and the country will expect, thin to he the cen- | {Al subject of our deliberations during the present seseion; but it Is @ subject 80 many-mided and o deserving of oare- ful and discriminating dimcussion {hat T shall take the linerty of addrosmng YOu upon It in a special message later date than this it ix of capital portance that the business men of this country should be relieved of all ur | certainties of law with regard to enterprises and investinents and a ¢ |Path indicated which they can travel! | without anxiety. It in as Important they should be relieved of em: | barrassment and set free to prosper as that private monopoly should oe de Stroyed. The ways of action should be thrown wide oben “1 fee’ © that I do not misin- | torpret the wishes or the expectations of the country when I urge the prompt Sactment of legislation which will pro- | vide for primary elections througho' the country at which the voters of the Several partics may choose their som- tnoce for the Presidency without the ta- orvention of nominating conventions. I venture the suggestion that this legie- thee ff a cally st z earryiag them iato OBLIGATIONS TO OVER-SEA er eee sh maltese of vital do- them, out- of our own in which our affections as well as our consciences, there stand out our obligations toward our territories over » Ilere we are trustees, Porto Rico, Hawall, the Phil- to do what wo please with. Such ter- T take leave ¢o beg that the whole rey and attention of the Senste be paid trated upon it till the matter is | euccessfully disposed of. And yet I feel ; that the request is not needed—that the Members of that great House need no | urging (n this service to the country. ESIDENT SPEAKS FOR PARM- MEN. “I presest to you, in addition, the ur- gent necessity that special provision Le Lacon also for facilitating the credits y te farmers of the country. Upon Its passage they will quit of many of the — cient business, of wide co-operativ: fort, in quick touch with the mar- sete for foodstuffs. The farmers and the Government will henceforth work Nearly and where many intelligent plans are already being put into exe- ‘sution. “Turn from the farm to the world of Dusiness which centres in the city and factory, and I think that al) thoughtful observers will agree that the immediate service we owe the buni- nese communities of the country is to prevent pi e@ monopoly more ef- 1 fectually than it has yet been - vented. 1 Lar it will be easily agreed eth erman Anti- unaltered as it is, about ft, but that we should as much as possible SOAP Because of its extreme purity, delicate emollient properties and refreshing fragrance. Assisted by Cuticura Ointment it is equally effective in the treat- pry they are part of the domain of public conscience and of seviceavle and enlightened statesmanship. “We must administer them for the People who live in them and with the @ame sense of responsibility to them but the performance of our duty toward the Philippines is a more difficult and ‘A duty fa us with regard to Alaska which seems to me very pre ing and very imperative; pernaps 1 should say ® double duty, for It cor Flat development of the Territory, The people of Alaska should be given the full territorial form of government, and Alaska as @ storehouse should be un- locked. One key to it is @ system of railways, These the Government should {taelf build and admthister, and the ports aid terminals it should Itself con- trol in the interest of all who wish to tse them for the service and ment of the country and its peopl “But the construction of railways ts only the first step; is only thrusting in the key to the storehouse and throwing buck the lock and opening the dobr, How the tempting matter, to which I shall take the lib erty of from time to time calling your attention, for it is @ policy which must be worked out by well-conaidered stages, not upon theory, vor Upon lines Of practical expedienc: it is part of our general problem of PSE Mth _——— FINE TWO MEAT PACKERS UNDER PURE FOOD LAW _ Sulzberger Pay $250 and Confectioner Is Caught for $75, Swift and Company, meat packers, who have @ plant at No. 409 Eleventh avenue, were fined $250 last night in Part V., Special Sessions, having been found guilty of having on thelr grounds 110 pounds of pigs’ feet prenounced by the Board of Health “unwholesome, de- composed and unfit for humen con- sumption.” The case was neard before Justices Moore, Fleming and O'Keefe. In the aame court the George Hotch- kins Beef Company was fined $100 for having forty pounda of rotten beef on its p s. In both cases the eum- mons was served upon the vice-pres: dent of the companies, The Sulaberger & Sons Co. was fined $80 to-day in the Court of Special Sea. sions tn Jamaica for havin, seanion at its Jamaica branch at Twombly place and Division street two hyndred pounds of lamb (five carcansen), ard fifty pounds of pork alleged to be unfit for human consumption Kune ti the mtu int establishment during @ visit there on May 14 law Swift) and Each, und fectioner at No. 208 | h street, was fined ulphuroue acid tna Was welling, He paid Pennies and dimes, atep » You'll be in Politics next.” “What am I daar’ of vite fuice in tppines are ours, indeed, but not ours |’ i } THE EVENING WORLD, No Hospital Trains for Wounded Mexican Rebels; Cared For on Fiat Cars by Women Camp Followers TUESDAY, DECEMBE SHEPPARD KNAPP & CO. IN HANDS OF RECEIVER; LIABRLITIES UTES $250,000 Jamen E. Foye, the $75-a-month clerk One of Best eer Furnitures and Carpet Houses in City | in Bankruptcy, An Involuntary petition in bankruptcy against Sheppard, Knapp & Co, of No. % West Twenty-third street, one of the oldset and best known furniture and t houses in this city, was filed this afternoon in the United States Court ‘by the Englander Spring Bod Company of Brooklyn, The liabilities may run $20,00, The known a 3 » which is made up of $1%5,- 000 for wagons, automobiles and stock, $5,000 for accounts and $30,000 for con- tracts, Judge Holt appointed Payson Merrill and George J. Kingsley joint receive: under a bond of $100,000, Sheppard, Knapp & Co, waa estab- Mehed In 1857, and before moving to the Went Twenty-third street address was located at Sixth avenue and Thirteenth street. According to the Cepartnership Cor- Poration Directory for W13, the officers of Sheppard Knapp & Co. are James R, Gilmore, President; Hiram M. Knapp, Vice-President; James D. Mott, Secre- tary, and Thomas Develon jr, Treas- urer, ‘The capital is given as $300,000, According to the e nource of in- formation, the directors of the company are Hi M, Knapp, James R. Git. more, *. Daly, James D. Mott, Thomas Develon jr, Carl K. Ward and Frank A, Witbeck. ——= MITCHEL ON WAY HOME; ASSAILED IN SAN JOSE m Mayor-elect Failed to Get Shot at Tiger, Though He “Potted” One in Fourteenth Street. ABOARD THE STEAMSHIP TENA- DORKS (via wireless and Colon), Dec. 3. Mayo John Purroy Mitchel has left Limon and is homeward bound Friday Mr. Mitchel t inland with Several companions on a tiger hunt. He fs an enthusiastic hunter, but no tigers came his way and not a tiger was shot. Saturday and Sunday Mr. Mitcnel was in San Jowe, where he exchanged cour- tesies with the President. While -here th yor-elect was severely attacked in @ local new » Which accused him of being a representative of President Wiison, who had sent him theme on a spying :nisaion, PACKEY IS PERFECT, SAYS BRIDE-T0-BE Margaret Loughran, Engaged to Chicago Boxer, Tells Virtues of Her Ideal Man, Special to The Krening World.) CHICAGO, 2 8 Margaret Dec, 2 Loughran of Joliet, the daughter of M. F. Loughran, @ wealthy retired real es- tate dealer, ie engaged to wed Packey MacFarland, the famous Chicago jight- welght boxer, She met Packey in he: home town where he was g! exhibition for a church affair, Miss Loughran considera Packey her fdeal and declares he » rirtues, drink, emoke, he doesn't chew, h out late nights and he is nev Jend Trust Company, forged signatures $200,000 FORGER SENT TO PHILADELPHIA Clerk at $75 a Month Forged Blank Stock Certificates He Stole From Trust Company. AVIATOR WHO CARRIED CHURCHILL IN FLIGHT IS KILLED BY FALL Chief of British Army Flying; Corps Had Notable Record | for Feats in Air. who stole blank General Electric stock certificates from the Farmers’ Loan to them and sold them to a Philadelphia broker named Brown for over $200.00 wes taken to Philadelphia to-day stand indicted there last of receiving money under false pretences by means of forged documents, Foye was ready to call fer Europe with the proceeds of his forgeries when Brown called up bag Farmers’ Loan yy telephone on (seg handed Foye $100,000 and iearvea of the bolo De- tectives arrested Foye here he stepped off a train from Philadelphia About 8 per cent, of the ri sq About #0 per oon money Foye t has Mhoreto. Foye aft imeelt aye @ lot of unenviabl fety a few years ago when hi had nis his old mother arrested because she insisted that he should contribute to het sup- port. EASTCHURCH, Kent, England. 2.—Capt. Gilbert V. Wildman. ton, commander of the British nav: flying corps, with whom Winton Spence Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, made a long flight on Saturday, was killed to-day at the naval flying ground here by a fall with his biplane. ‘The well known aviator was flying with @ brother officer, Capt. Henry Fawcett of the Ro: Maries, who was piloting the aeroplane and who suffered slight injuries when It crashed and was pplin- tered into matchwood, Capt. Wildman-Lushington belonged to the Royal Marine Artillery, but had been! attached for aol time to the Naval) Flying School here. Dee. Shortly after 8 o'clock Deputy Sher- {ffs Nathan Metzgar and Thomas Win- ter, accompanied ‘by Property Clerk | Thomas O'Connor of Police Headquar- ters, walked up to the cashi vindow in the Waldorf-Astoria and asked for information concerning James G. Foye, arrested recently for stealing « large mumber of bonds. Foye had taken apartments at the hotel, paying in ad- vance for them, and had been given a @afe deposit box in the cashier's office. Metzgar showed a court attachment for $107,000, secured on behalf of Charles T. Brown & Co, of Philadel- phia against Foye. The cashier, ac- (Continued from First Page.) cording to Metagar, sald that Foye had | left nothing of value In the hotel. In . Perea teat ey. saad ‘al pairs) raged at the marriage and {ried hard! clothes, shoes, w #ult-1 15 force hia aon to leave hia wife. She was, asa necondary fact, ten or fifteen years hia senior, In the course of this morning's examination there was frequent re to Lewls Einatein “leading a prope: and rrying respectably."" In COST HM NOTHING SAYS SIR CHARLES they selned. In Foye'n wa: posit box Metsgar found three gold notes, Mets giving the cashier pt for them, COUPLE AT PIER TO MEET SON WHO DIED ON SHIP Life" this connection Mr. Leventritt compeiled Lady Waldstein to testify that her broth- er had been ,suc and finally first « bansies at Paris, Londo and Peking, American ely third, second ry of the em- Constantinople mmissioner at Aged Couple Grief Prostrated at] the Alsecir conferen:0 regarding 4 . Morocop, American Minister to C News That Haller Was Rica, where his s.ccessor has just re: ‘ San Neved him, and the author of a number Buried at Sea. of scientific and Iterary works, All the When the steamer Zee of the Rea | examination wan meant to show that there had en @ secret agreement be- tween Lady Waldstein and her father to the effect that Part C was Intended for Star line docked to-day there was at the pier to meet the liner an aged couple, Mr. and Mrs, Haller of Neponset, L. 1., wiio had journeyed to the city to greet | ¥ewis the son. thelr son, Godfrey Haller, thinty-four, | Shortly after her death in tan Lady | whom they had not seen for twenty | sete ait of Part C to Solomon A. Fatman years. When they were told that God-| Of ‘New York, one of the trustess of frey Haller had died on the trip over| her father's, Will. and had been buried at sea their grief wax pitiful to behold. Godfrey Haller had been in business Subsequently Lady Waldstein made a second will In which she divided the much Utigated part between her own in Switzerland, the native land of the {children and those of her sister, Are, ’ Spingarn. a was aft Hallera, and after years devoted to hin| AMY ERUEMLY oO ear with ane affairs there he had planned to make a| brother to pay him $20,000 a year. Prior viait to the old people here, Me had been in failing health for some time and after the steamer sailed hel nk rapidly and succumbed on Nov, to this agreement Mrs. Lewis Kinatein | had been offered the same amount it she would give up her husband. She refused. The following morning, during a @|TOLD HER BROTHER SHE WOULD y the burial service was read | NOT TOUGH PART Cc, over the remains and the body cone | Finally just before sh : country to attend this trial Lady W steno fo ine Sete stein made & third will In which disinherited the children of Mrs, Spin- WILL PAY ATHLETIC COPS, arn, ner aister, and divided Part her death betw: = thone of Lewis. #! Lewls is now childl American Olympian Point WE WH Recrive Back Salaries, Tho Hoard of Ali ‘g resolution ordering paid the cla the members of the New York Police 9! Department who took part in the Olym- {plan games at Atiens, London and Stockholin, covering a period of twelve wrmen to-day passed uid not toueh a penny of part C," detein in answer to a did you tell unt it w. 1 hia t im that if you ntiment about n't it true that you got that feelin y ¢ Martin J. Sheri- of sentiment from your father, b years, ‘The athletic cops the most manly man I oa) think he is perfect. He always amile when he hits a man or gets hit him- self. Tha him at first, They win be migriiet in She. merried in the apring, EDEL SD See a ae nd Se ded it for hi dan, John J. Flanagan, John J. Eller, | '¢ inten {Matthew MoGrath, Egon Erickson, |. 1, Kno™ nothing about my fathe + | teelin P, Giles and Petrick MoDonaid. er more than two hours of crosé- total amount of the claims, which mination, Lady Waldetein left the: it the salaries the patrolmen|stand and her husband, Sir Charles while they were on the otheg| Waldetein, was called. Sir Charles is a) ielte of the of she Atlante ‘casing shot. dlecu®) professor in the University of Cai Chief of Staff to Gen. 4 the Shah by the court physicians. R 2, 1918. | ~ TO TAKE CY Chihuahua State, which is reported huahua would be made the base of Just when forces will be sent to pur- sue Gen, ador Mercado, Huerta’s military Governor, who is reported to be fleeing to the United 1 to say definitely, advi toward Mexico ® snanavrowar wEws sBawscy VILLA’S STAFF CHIEF, PEOPLE FORCED FEDERALS TO EVACUATE CHIHUAHUA. With 3,500 rebels and slxt fleld JUAN MEDINA, JAILED | pieces advanced as far as Carrizal, BY EL PASO POLICE, |""¢ty miles south of Juarez, on the way to Chihuahua, Villa will remain here to communicate with Gen. Carranza before he personally proceeds south. At Chi- EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 2—Juan Medina, Francisco Vill is in the El Paso County charged |M¥ahua he expects to Join Gen. Chao With bringing stolen property to the |@fd other rebel leaders and, with a com- Value of over $9 into tie Sta He was | dined force of 8,000, proceed toward Zac- arrested last night when he came to El Paso, J. ©. Stansel, Chief of City De- tectives, making the arrest, pte aaa AMERICAN HELD BY MEXICANS FOR. RANSOM. atecas, the first important city south of Torreon. Other rebel forces, Villa said, are to proceed along the west coast to- ward Guadalajara. According to late repo: which Villa said he received by couriers who trat elled overland 130 miles to Villa Ahu- mada, where the telegraph line has been connected with Juares, the cesertion of Chihuahua by the Federals was brought about by the pressure of the citisens. ‘The people. it w id, protested that {f the Federal garrison resisting the fighting would result in the wholesate 108 ANG ‘Windham, f Pasadena, now superintendent of a ranch at Quimichis, Territory of Tepic, mer nator Bard of Oxn saying he Was being held by rebels 1 til he pald a ransom of $5,000 gold. killing of non-combatants, that the poor| accuracy of service and at a Dr. W. 8. Livingston, President of | were half starved and that the wealthy | LOWER COST than any other Quimichis Ranch Company, residents could not “expect mercy at to the State Department at W asking that a demand for protection be sent to the Carranga Provisional Gov- ernment at Hermosillo, SEES SES | FEDERALS EVACUATING - CITY OF GUAYMAS ? HERMOSILLO, Mexico, Dec. 2—Much activity was reported here to-day among the Federal troops at Guaymas and one of the two Federal gunboats lying in Guaymas harbor steamed down the gulf. This was taken by Constitutionalist of- ficialn here the Federal garrison had hegun an evacuation of the Callfornia Gulf port, stubbornly held by iHuerta (troops since the beginning of ithe revolt in Sonora. de MARINES ARRIVE AT PENSACOLA. the hands of the invaders. Gen, Mercado is sald to have decided ‘on flight to the American border so that ‘| he could communicate with Provisional President Huerta, Communication be- tween Chihuahua and Mexico City has been impossible for weeks, —G— REBELS READY TO ATTACK MONTEREY. + Dea 2~—Reports re- id here to-day stated that rebels Were mobilizing at Candela for an at- tack on Monterey, The revolutioniste, it is said, have not molested the railroads, and wiv: ing: non-combatants every opportunity to leave the city. Color is given to the Allen's Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder. PENSACOLA, Fia., Deo, 2.—The trans- E 1 port Prairie, bearing 7% marines, ar- | It relieves painful, smarting, tender, ner-| | rived here to-day from Philadelphia, | vous feet, and instantly takes the sting The men disembarked immediately. pail ln O'ROURKE GETS LICENSE; WILLARD BAN IS LIFTED. 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HINKS.—On Dec. 1, MICHARL, at hie residence, No. 1074 Park a a a Ot. wie VILUA RUSHING AN ARMY General, With Federals in Flight Be- fore Him, Boasts He Will Soon Have Clear Way for Dash on Mexico City. | JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 2.—Hasty preparations were under way to- day in the rebel ranks for the occupation of Chihuahua, the capital of | erals because of threatened starvation of its 35,000 population, Pointing | out that of the important Federal strongholds in the north only Monterey and Guaymas remained, Gen. Francisco Villa, the rebel leader, said Chi- =| 597 Broad St., nr. Hahne's, Newark. SSE SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES |= Allen's! 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