Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1924 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, AUGr 6, 1924
PARDON BODY TO NEAR FORTY-ONE CLEMENCY PLEAS Seven Sentenced From Marion' County Put Cases Before Board, Forty-one new cases, seven of them from Marion County, have been filed with the State pardon board for consideration at the August meeting next week. Applications from Marion County sentences include: Bert Leonard, Juvenile Court, June 25, six months, Indiana State farm, $1 fine, contributing to neglect of child; John Hunter. Criminal Court, Feb. 14, one to three years, Indinaa, State prison, possession of still; Harry Lee, Criminal Court, Jan. 13, six months. State farm. SSOO fine, gambling; John Neely. Criminal Court, same as Lee; Patrick Donnelly, Oct. 7, 1923, one t<j fourteen years, grand larceny, State prison; George Yocum, city court, June 5, thirty days. State farm, $l5O fine, violation liquor law; Roscoe Wisey, Criminal Court, June 5, ninety days. State farm, liquor law. One woman's application is included in the new cases. It is that of Alice Whitehouse, Dekalb County, sentenced to ten to twenty-one years at the Indiana Women's prison on robbery charges May 27, 1922. One of three cases reopened is that of Gertrude Clark, sentenced from Marion County, Jan. 30, to 180 days at the women's prison and fined SSOO on charges of contributing to child neglect. One murder case was opened, that of Edward Rogan, Allen Circuit Court, sentenced to life May 25, 1920. THRILL AT SHELBYVILLE Farmers Are Hunting Big Lion Which Escaped Circus By Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 6. Shelbyville farmers are getting a big thrill. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collins reported seeing a large lion which es caped a circus recently. The farmers are hunting it.
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MY OWN STORY , TWO MEASURES FOR COMMON PEOPLE ■ PASSED B Y CONGRESS By ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE
"MY OWN STORY’ is an exclusive newspaper version of one of the great autobiographies of modern times; La Follettes own story of adventures in politics as written by himself in 1912, together with an authorized narrative of his experiences in the years since then. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS La Follette enters political life, immediately comes into conflict with Wisconsin political bossism: nevertheless is elected to Congress and from the beginning opposes the onslaught of private interests in Government affairs. He takes an active part in the framing of the McKinley tariff bill, which aided in defeating the Republican party in 1892 and then, when the reaction came, was largely instrumental in making McKinley President of the United States. The problem of vast financial power in private hands is beginning to confront the Government during La Follette s years in Congress./ In those years the Government of the United States for the first time began to consider seriously the condition of the common man—the worker, the farmer. While I was in Congress we pasgpd two measures, which I heartily supported, that were destined to bj of incalculable value to the plain people. " One of'them provided for organization of a National Bureau of ftabor, which has since become one of the greatest departments of the Government, with a representative in the Cabinet. The other was the establishment of the Department of Agriculture—the recognition of the great farming industry of the country. Until that time, while manufacturers had been lavishly protected, and while railroads had received vast grants of land, the wage earner and the farmer had received little attention and no direct benefits. It is fortunate that this cooperation of the Government with wage earners and farmers took the form, not of direct financial advantages, but of investigation, publicity and education, which in their nature are soundly constructive. Problem But the great subjects which were dealt with for the first time in those three Congresses were the railroad and trust problems. Real statesmen like Sherman and Reagan saw that the policy, until then pursued, of serving the public interest by assisting private interests was no longer tenable. Private interests had grown so strong that it was felt that either the government must control them with a strong hand or else they would control the government. It would not have availed then
I?; LA FOLLETTE TALKS TO A SUPPORTER. I ■* nor will it avail now, merely to pursue the negative method of remov ing the tariff which has encouraged the growth of trusts and combinations. I believe that the reduction of tariffs will furnish a small measure of relief from the extortion of cer tain combinations, but it will not cure the evil of monopolies in pri vate hands. j Many trusts, such as the Stand j ard Oil Company, the Anthracite ; Coal trusty- and, the whole group of ; trusts based upon monopoly of pat ent rights, do not now depend and never have depended for their exist ence or their power upon a protec tive tariff. Foreign competition will not therefore, cure the trust evil; deed, it will encourage the movement, already strongly in evidence toward the organization of interna
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tional and world-wide monopolies. No, the constructive statesmen of those times saw clearly that there must be positive action of government either to prevent or to con trol monopolies. Two very significant laws, both of which I supported heartily, were therefore passed in those years. In one of these—the Sherman antitrust act—the keynote was prohibition, the effort to prevent coxr.bina tion and to restore competition by drastic, laws. In the other, the act establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission for the'control of rail roads, the" keynote was regulation Os all the legislation of those years none interested me so deeply as the measure for the creation of the Interstate Commerce- Commission, which we passed -in 1887* I was strongly in favor of the regulation of railroads, and while the bill as proposed did not go as far as I should have liked, I worked foR it and voted for it. Efforts in those days to bring about constructive reforms, especially if they struck at concrete evils, met with the bitterest opposition, as indeed they do today, in the case, for example, of so reasonable and practical a measure as that which provides for a parcel post. One single illustration will show the difficulties. Henry Clay Evans of Tennessee was a friend of mine. He was formerly from Wisconsin, and in the convention in 1896, at St. Louis, I seconded his nomination for the vice presidency. At that time Vilas of Wisconsin was Postmaster General In Cleveland’s Cabinet. One of the first reforms he urged was against the excessive rental charge of railroad companies for postal cars. / To Save Half Million After a thorough investigation he showed that for the rental which it
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paid annually the Government could actually build outright, equip, and keep in repair all the cars it used — and then save $500,000 a year. Evans had been appointed to the House Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads, and when he got hold of Vilas’ report it amazed him —as it would amaze any one not connected, with a railroad company. It seemed to him that he had only to make the abuse corrected. He came to me these facts known in order to have and said very earnestly; • “I am going to get a provision adopted by the committee to stop this abuse and, secure an appropriation sufficient to enable the Government to build its own mail cars.” It seemed the sensible, honest thing to do. I encouraged him and told him that, if he could get the matter before the House, I would help him. A few weeks later he gave me the result of his effort in committee: “I put that thing up to the committee," he said, ‘‘with a good plain statement which should have convinced any man, and I couldn't even get a vote in support of the proposition.” If he had tried to get it uphn the floor of the House there would not have been a corporal’s guard to sustain him. The railroad lobby outside and the railroad members inside would have prevented any action. Seventeen years afterward, when I came to the Senate, I looked this matter up, and there was the same old abuse. During all those years the Government had been paying enough r -ntal every' year to the railroads to buy the cars outright. I took up the old Vilas report, interested Victor Murdock of Kansas, then on the House, Committee on Postoffices. and attempted to get sometriing done. But when the postoffice appropriation bill came over to the Senate. I offered an amendment providing for an investigation in order to bring the Vilas .data down to date. I believe legislation should always be preceded by accurate information. I knew my proposal was subject to a point ojajrder as an amendment to an appropriation bill, but it was so manifestly rigjit and in the public
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combination and still lower prices for the consumers.” I always felt that McKinley represented the newer view. Os course, McKinley was a high protectionist, but on the great new Questions as they arose he was generally on the side of the public and against private interests. And this the people instinctively sensed. Jn my own. State of Wisconsin, durin?f-the campaign for the Republican nomination in 1896, I was strongly for McKinley, but the old machine leaders, Bayne, Sawyer, Pfister, and Keyes, all woi*ked vigorously for Reed. Reed hacf big business with him; but the sentiment in the State was too strong for the bosses. The Wisconsin delegation to the St. Louis convention, of which I had been elected as an anti-machine member, was instructed for and stood solid for McKinley. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) B(Cantinued in Our Next Issue) CUPID CAUGHT NAPPING Leap Year Fails to Keep Marriage License Up to Mark Marion County women apparently are not particular whether they establish a record for marrying or not, even if they do have the chance. Records in the county clerk’s office reveal that while 3,098 couples obtained marriage licenses for the first seven months in 1920, leap year, only 2,288 have been filled out this year. The first seven months of 1923 showed 2,625 licenses issued. Miss Margaret Mahoney, clerk, assigned the decrease to the fact that fewer persons are financially able to marry and to refusal to Issue licenses if the female applicant is a non-resident of Marion County. Senator Ralston to Speak Senator Samuel M. Ralston will be the chief speaker at a dinner of the Indianapolis Traffic Club Thursday evening, Aug. 24, at the Severin. Felix Renick, of the National Institute, will speak before the club at noon Thursday at the Severin.
FEDERALISTS JAIL BRAZUANREBELS Prisons Crowded With Political Offenders, By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Aug. Hundreds of military officers and civilians have been arrested in many parts of Brazil in connection witn the military uprising in Sao Paulo, according to special dispatches to La Prenza today. All available jails in Sao Paulo, Santes and Rio de Janeiro are crowded with political prisoners, including many high army officers, intellectuals and political leaders. Among the prisoners are Admiral Macrenz, Capt. Newton Braga of the Aviation Corps, Mario RodrigUM, director of the Rio morning newspa-' per; Gorrio da Manha, Felix Duarto, its manager; Paulo Bittencourt, editorial director, and several exdeputies who have been friendly with the newspaper. Rebel forces, who evacuated Sao Paulo City last week, are reported to have reached the borders of Matto Grosso, closely pursued by the Federate. Com Swindle Charged By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 6. Alonzo Tudor is in jail here charged with having obtained money under false pretenses. He is said to have mortgaged several hundred bushels of com which he ifl&ver owned to a local loan company. • Golden and Silver Wedding By Times Spicial NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 6. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. White observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary Tuesday. At the same time their son, Bert, Und his wife celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
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