Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 173, Hammond, Lake County, 9 January 1907 — Page 8

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

"Business Cwbing" a Menace to The Nation

By JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, the Richest Maa Ii the World 0

F we limit opportunity wo will have put the brakes on our NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Will the individual strive for success if he knows the hard won prize i3 to be snatched

from his fingers at the last by his government ? We are still

too young a nation to begin TEARING DOWN. We must build up, build up, build up for years to come. The very children in the schools should be taught the need of our development. The French people want our money. They want the patronage

of our tourists. They never let slip an opportunity to take quick ad

vantage OF OUR MISTAKES. This is a struggle for supremacy. We must win or they will, and THERE WILL BE NO QUARTER for us if they win. s t And now there is Japan rising in the east to a power we cannot estimate. We cannot foretell what her competition will be, we do not know the resources of the new territory which she controls, we cannot guess the commercial AND INDUSTRIAL POSSIBILITIES of the Japanese. At this critical stage wo are giving the enemy ammunition TO iFIRE AT US. He is quick to seize this advantage. Take the attack we made upon our own packing business, for instance. I know none of the men in the beef trade, I never dealt with them nor was I ever' associated even indirectly with their business or themselves. But it is safe to assume from the proportions of their industrythat they are SOUND BUSINESS itEN. And it is safe to assume, too, that no business could have been built to such proportions on such false principles or by such unsound methods as they were charged with. K I was in Europe when the attack was made at home upon these men and their industry, and I could watch the effect of it there at

close range. Those fellows abroad snatched at our own charges 'AGAINST OUR OWN BUSINESS with the greatest glee. They used them promptly as ammunition with which to attack America and EVERYTHING AMERICAN, especially American manufactured products and trade. I do not believe there was a line of American goods sold abroad that was not injured or an American agent doing business abroad whose work was not hampered by this. K t J "We are too young a nation for. this tearing down. OUR POSITION IS BY NO MEANS SECURE. It is like repeating ABC to say that we cannot consume our total production. We MUST sell abroad or do less business. Reducing the volume of our production means less work, LESS WAGES, less business transacted, at the very least. It is checking our development instead of furthering it. IS IT COMMON ' SENSE, THEN, TO HANDICAP OUR EXPORT TRADE AT HOME, TO ATTACK THE GOOD NAME OF OUR BUSINESS FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR FOREIGN RIVALS? Is it common sense to tell our young men, on whom the future must depend, that they can hope for no other reward for carrying our commercial flag forward than FRENZIED ATTACKS at home and all the handicaps their own government can pile upon their business to satisfy the VIOLENT PREJUDICE excited against them? How to Improve the j

Quality of Immigrants By JOHN MITCHELL. President of the United Mine Workers of America

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oiij.vxivxi.xxwxx Biiouiu do restricted tor tne protection of American labor AS IT IS TODAY. The men who are , now employed in our mines and factories should be safe-

guarded against the new arrivals who are willing to step into their places for LOWER WAGES. This seems to me one of the important reasons for a reform in this branch of our national policy. I believe that the educational qualification for the admission of the immigrant should be raised. He should be able to read and write his

native language reasonably well. Such a restriction would give us a BETTER CLASS of immigrants than we get now and a class less likely to swell tho ranks of TOO CHEAP labor. Besides demanding this educational qualification, we ought to require of theso immigrants that they brinir monev cnourli to trnnsnnrt tliom trt WU,

' C? 1 ' - " "vm I W Y uaic CI section of the country offers tho greatest advantages to them. I believe that a man landing on our shores should be able to follow the trade that he was engaged in AT HOME or turn his energies in any other direction that he may naturally desire. Many immigrants would adopt this course if 'they had enough money to wait for an opening or to pay their way to a point where they might find employment n their particular line. But so many land with just enough in their pockets to get them through the barge office that THEY VRE FORCED TO TAKE THE FIRST JOB which they can find. This is often some other man's job, and the immigrant gets it because ho is willing to do the same work for lower wares.

THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE

HOT HTHIR SOLDIERS

So Says a Texan Statesman in Discussing the Negro in Blue.

BROWNSVILLE WILL NOT BOWS

Breaks Out in the House with Slayden Doing: the Talking.

fiay the Twenty-Fifth Has a Tartlets larly Vicious liecord for Turbulence Two-Cent Fare Discussion.

Washington, J.an. 9. An echo of the

Brownsville affair was heard in the house, Representative Slayden, of Ttxas, telling anew and with considerable detail the story of that August rUsht of last year when the colored troops, as alleged, "shot up"' the town of I'.ownsville in his state. Incident to the story of the shooting and defense of the citizens of Brownsville Slayden devoted much time to a careful analysis of the conditions of the white and black races, and said that race prejudice was at the bottom of the assault. Unfit for Soldiers, He Says. In, declaring the negro race to be un-fit-f or United State. soldiers the Texas representative said he had in view only

the circumstances of their service. He

did not impeach their physical courage.

"This is a virtue," he said, "that belongs to nearly all men, and if there is tiny difference between savage and

civilized man in this respect the superiority possibly lies with the savage.

who is undeterred from rash ventures

by thought of the consequences." Slav

den spoke of the sympathy that welds

people into a homogeneous political and social mass, but said that "it has

never existed and never will exist be

tween Negroes and Caucasians."

Regiment Has a Bad Record. Slayden said that the Twenty-fifth Infantry has "a particularly vicious record," and going into particulars said that while stationed at Fort Meade, S. P., In the summer of 1SS3, a corporal of that regiment murdered a citizen, and the people of the community lynched the murderer. About three weeks after the lynching fifteen or twenty negro soldiers raided and "shot up" the town of Sturgis, which Is only a mile and a half from the post. According to Slayden's narrative rVm-no'KiRi-a, New. was the next scene of a criminal outbreak by this regiment. Then came outbreak at Fort Niobrara, Neb., where a' "wanton and cold-blooded murder" was committed. Olr;er instances of lawlessness by negro troops were also detailed. Discussed in the Senate, Too. The discussion in the senate of the president's course in discharging the negro troops was resumed as soon as the floor could be secured, Daniel being the first speaker. In the main he supported the president He did not, however, indorse the position of the president in forever debarring from entering the civil service the men discharged from the army. "I think in that respect," he said, "the arrow from his bow went too far."

rattle of Mobile bay. It was In this fight that Craven went to the bottom on the monitor Tecumseh, and also when Farragtit gave his famous order: "Damn the torpedoes; go ahead." Handsome Illustrations adorn the vol-ume.

Senate and Houae in Brief. ?'? Washington, Jan. 9.. The senate occupied itself in discussing to a more limited extent the Brownsville (Texas) affray, Daniel making a speech and there being somedesultory debate. Senator Overman cf North Carolina addressed the senate In opposition to the proposed federal child labor laws, his opposition being based on the broad ground of state rights. The house began the consideration of the military appropriation bill. Slayden of Texas made an anti-negro speech on his bill to enlist no more negroes in the army, and Zenor of Indiana spoke cgainst ship subsidies.

SHAH OF PERSIA DEAD

London Paper Has a Special That Says So Public Announcement Is Held Back. London, Jan. 9. The Daily Mail's correspondent atTeheran in a telegram pent last night at 11:50 o'clock says: "The shah of Persia died this evening.

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MONEY WITH HIM WILL AID, TOO, IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF IMa t n a am, mmm,

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Is the World Going Crazy? By Dr. FORBES WINSLOW. Eminent English Alienist

CCOIiDIXG to the statistical fibres on insanitv. it can K

shown that before long there vrill be actually MORE LTJ

XATICS IX THE WORLD THAN SAXE PEOPLE.

The burning problem of the day is how to prevent this increase of insanity. What is the use of casting time and enercy on education when we have before us this absorbing problem, the "contemplationof AX IXSAXE WORLD, to deal with?

Bill for That Universal Rate Is Sub jected to Criticism. Washington, Jan. 9. The Sherman bill for universal interchangeable railway mileage books at the rate of 2 cents a mile was the subject of a hearing before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce. II. L. Bond, second vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio railway; T. B. Harrison, representing the Louisville and Nashville, and a score of other railway men attended the hearing. George T. Nicholson, third vice president of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe. was the chief speaker. He said the bill wn so broad that it practically amounted to the fixing of 2 cents a mile as the maximum rate for all railroods in the United States on all passenger business, and urged that it would work great hardship on many railways to make such a reduction In their earnings. Nicholson discussed railway passes at length, and urged that the new antipass law should not be given as a reason for the reduction of railway fares. He said his railway found that 12 per cent, of its passenger traffic in .Tune of last year was on passes to railway employes, but that of its passenger business only 2 per cent, was on I -asses. Others spoke against the proposed measure. Criticism was made in the senate of the I.aFollettebill limiting the hours cf continuous employment of railway train crews, and several letters from railway employes in opposition to the measure were put in the record.

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SHAH OF PERSIA

though no public announcement of the

fact will be made until tomorrow. It was evident yesterday that the end was rapidly approaching and four injections of camphor were employed to prolong the ruler's life. All the shah's vital functions were suspended today. Soon after sunset the doors of the harem were closed. This was the sign that all was over." Muzaffar-Ed-Din was born at Teheran. March ,r, 1S."V, and succeeded his father, Nasr-Ed-Din, on the death of the latter, May 1, 1S9C. The late shah leaves many children, and will be succeeded by his eldest son, Mohammed Ali MIrza, who was born in 1S72, and who is now at Teheran.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER

White Officers at Fort Reno the Alleged Objects linowles Case Developments. El Reno, O. T., Jan. 9. Belief of tho army officers at Fort Reno that a conspiracy to murder every white officer at Fort Reno, beginning with Captain Edgar A. Macklin against whom nearly every negro soldier at the post entertains a personal grudge as a result of the affair at Brownsville, Texas, and the discharge of the negro soldiers that followed and then proceeding down the list of officers, became known as a result of the preliminary hearing in the case of Edward L. Kuowles, corporal of compaony A, Twenty-fifth infantry, who was held on a charge of assault with intent to kill Captain Macklin. Knowles was bound over to await the action of the Canadian county grand jury at the opening term of the court. All of the officers now go heavily armed and protected throughout the night.

Cullom Opens Headquarters. Springfield, 111., Jan. 9. Senator Cullom's headquarters have been opened in room 5 at the Leland hotel. State Senator Corbus P; Gardiner is in charge, and with Senator Orvllle F. Berry and James K. Paddock, who wa? .secretary of the senate last session, received a large number of members of both houses who called at the headquarters. Senator Cullom is not expect cd here until the latter part of next

week.

"Wisconsin Republican Caucus. Madison, Wis., Jan. 9. Assembly

man Herman L.Ekern, of Trempealeau

county, was nominated for speaker of

the assembly at the Republican cau

cus on the first formal ballot, receiving

OS votes, to 34 for Lerov and 11 for

Estabroolc. At the senatorial caucus Senator Stout, of -Menomonie, was selected for president pro tern, and A. U.

Emerson for chief clerk.

TELLS OF NAVAL DKEDS

Especially of the Rattle of Mobile Bay and Farrasut's Order. Washington. Jan. 9. A valuable contribution to the history of the late rebellion is volume 21 of the official records cf the Union and Confederate navies in that war. This treats especially of the naval operations on both sides from the Gulf of Mexico to the Rio Grande, when the Union west gulf blockading squadron engaged in many brisk engagements with the shore batteries, while there are exciting tales

of blockade running by the Co: ate ships. The feature of the volume. I?

li the description of Farrasu

Must Execute the Laws. Madison, Wis., Jan. 9. The su

preme court has derided that city

cevneils must revoke licenses of saloonkeepers violating city ordinances.

The Madison council last su;nmer re

fused to revoke the licenses of vio

lators. The circuit court declared the action obligatory, and this declaration the supreme court sustains.

Bishop Spalding Goes South. Peoria, 111., Jan. 9. Bishop John Lancaster Spalding has left reoria for a trip to Hot Springs, Ark., where he will spend the remainder of the winter. Since his stroke of apoplexy two years ago the bishop has only partly recovered, and lias attended only to the more important questions of the diocese.

DIAZ IS ASTERN RULER

Rioting and Incendiary Strikers Are Put Down at the Rifle's Muzzle.

THIRTY OF THEM ARE KILLED

Eighty Others Wounded, When They Resist the Troops.

Pillage, Jail Delivery and Incendiarism the Strikers' 'Weapons Property AVorth $1,500,OOO Destroyed.

Two-Cent Fare in Oklahoma. Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 9 The commit

tee on railroads and public service cor-

Trf reported to the constitution-

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City of Mexico, Jan. 9. Reports received here from Xogales, in the Orizaba mill district, where the striking operatives resorted to the torch, indicate that the government has completely mastered the situation. The strikers have ceased all acts of violence in the presence of the large body of troops rushed there from the capita! and nearby garrisons. The seriousness of the affair, however, was realized when It was made known that thirty of the workmen were killed out

right and over eighty wounded by the soldiers, who were compelled to fire on the main body of the rioters before they could be dispersed. Stores Pillaged ; Jails Thrown Open. It was learned that the men, after pillaging the stores at the Bio Blanco mills, became emboldened by their success, a part of them rushed to Nogales, a short distance away, where another mill Is located. Telegraph, telephone and electric light wires were cut and pawnshops, and even private houses, were pillaged. Then the jails were thrown open and the prisoners set free. Residents of the mill district fled in terror to the city of Orizaba. Mob Is Mowed Down. When the strikers reached Nogales one mill official and a gen d'arme from Orizaba made an ineffectual attempt to check them. A striker named MoreI03 threw a huge stone at Senor Herrera, mayor of tho city of Orizaba, striking that official on the head and badly wounding him. Herrera arose from where he had fallen and shot Merelos, killing him instantly. A body of troops arrived, and as the strikers attempted to resist a volley was fired Into the mob, killing thirty and woundirg over eighty. Charged Them with Swords. After this the mob was scattered, tho strikers gathering together in groups at various points. A body of 700 collected on a railroad track and held the train for the city of Vera Cruz for several hours, the engineers not daring to run through the crowd. Finally troops arrived and charged the men with broadswords, scattering them. The government has learned that a committee of strikers: has left Orizaba for Tlaxcala, Puebla, and other cities to incite laborers at those points to strike. All of these men are being pursued by the federal authorities. ; Outbreak Costly in Property. It is learned from a telegram from Orizaba that the value of the property destroyed by the strikers totals $1,f.00,000. All of the destroyed property was owned by Eduardo Garcin, a citizen of France.

,WoqEes(iav. .Tan. 9," 1907,

OUR OWN STYLE OF THUG

One of His Featc in Pennslyvania Barely Fails of Being Terribly Successful. Tittsburg, Jan. 9. After being beaten by highwaymen, and with. his son unconscious nearby, Frank Mason, a farmer, was tied to the tracks of the Pennsylvania road near Beaver and escaped being crushed to death by wrenching himself free of his bonds just as the Cleveland-Pittsburg flyer was thundering down upon him. Mason was driving along a country road preceded a short distance by his son with another team. Tvj men jumped for Mason and demanded his money. Mason showed fight and was battling with the robbers when his son, missing his father, turned back and was almost instantly knocked - unconscious. Tho older man, infuriated by the treatment of his son, renewed his fight and was beaten into insensibility with stones. His body was then dragged to the railroad tracks and tied to the rails.

n recommendinsr a 2-cpnt

I the enacting of a fel-

Plot for Wholesale Murder. Oklahoma City, O. T., Jan. 9. A message from Fort Reno states that during the examination of Corporal Knowles. colored, charged with shooting Captain Macklin on the night of Doc. 21, it was developed that there vras a plot to murder every white officer at the post. Hale to Oppose "Bob" Taylor. Washington, Jan. 9. Representative

Hale, of Tennessee, has been advised

that the Repul iicans of that state, in caucus at Xasliviiie, have selected him as the Republican candidate for United States senator to oppose "Bob"

Taylor, the Democratic nominee.

Bryce at Washington Feb. 124. London. Jan. 9. James Brvce. the

new British ambassador to the United

Mates, ha3 now deflnitelv arranged tr

reach Washington Feb. 24. thus permitting him to pass a few davs at the

capital before congress adjourns.

Japs Not Hungry for War.

Los Angeles, Jan. 9. Bishop M. C. Harris, read of the Methodist church In Japan, said: "The statesmen of Japan do not regard war with this country as a possibility. They are cultivating the arts of peace,"

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