Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 179, Hammond, Lake County, 17 January 1907 — Page 8

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By MARK TWAIN

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Mark Twain

There is a nat-

X ural human inS stinct that is ' gratified by the -J sight of any- " 1 .iJ tViinT hallnnrH

. . ' ,j by association .' : ' with a great -1 man or with ' i great deeds. So -",'.. people make '. - pilgrimages to . . , " the town whose

streets were once trodden by Shakespeare,

and Hartford guarded her Charter Oak for centuries because it had once had a hole in it that helped to save the liberties of a colony. But in most cases the connection between the great man or the great event and the relic we revere is accidental. Shakespeare might have lived in any other town as well as in Stratford, and Connecticut's charter might have been hidden in a woodchuck hole as well as in the Charter Oak. But it was no accident that planted Lincoln on a Kentucky farm, half-way between the Lakes and the Gulf. The association there had substance in it. Lincoln belonged just where he was put. If the Union was to be saved, it had to be a man of such an origin that should save it. No wintry New England Brahmin could have done it, or any torrid cotton-planter, regarding the distant -Yankee as a species of obnoxious foreigner. It needed a man of the Border, where civil war meant the grapple of brother with brother and disunion a raw and gaping wound. It needed one who knew slavery not from books only, but as a living thing, knew the good that was mixed with its evil, and knew the eil not merely as it affected the negroes, but in it3 hardly less baleful influence upon the poor whites. It needed one who knew now human all the parties to the quarrel were, how much alike they were at bottom, who saw them all reflected in himself, and felt their dissensions like the tearing apart of his own soul. When the war came Georgia sent an army in gray and Massachusetts an army in blue, but Kentucky raised armies for both sides. . And this man, sprung front Southern poor whites, born on a Kentucky farm and transplanted to aa Illinois village, this man, in whose heart knowledge and charity had left no room for malice, was marked by Providence as the one to "bind up the nation's wounds." His birthplace is worth saving.

ized and determined to develop it into a Lincoln National Park that should stand forever as a shrine of patriotism and peace, a fitting memorial to the great citizen who was born there. Thelfarm is ideal for such a purpose. Consisting of one hundred and ten acres in the rolling blue-grass region of Larue

County, Kentucky, it is crossed by a picturesque stream, has many shady groves, and possesses the famous rock spring near which it is proposed that the Lincoln statue shall be erected. But a short distance away, along the turnpike, stands the old mill where Lincoln used to go with his father, the boy seated astride a sack of corn on the broad back of the old mare. When the park is developed it is said that the Louisville '& Nashville Railroad will establish a branch terminal near the entrance. The plan of the Lincoln Farm Association is very simple, and seems to have been inspired by a profound belief in the individual patriotism of American men and women. Instead of appealing to a wealthy few to carry out the work, the Association has given its cause to the whole people, asking "every man, woman, and child iri whose heart is the love of country and a reverence for the memory of Lincoln" to become a member. Each member is called upon to contribute whatever amount he or she wishes, provided it is not less than twenty-five cents or more than twenty-

CAIII1I IS WITH ROOT

Thinks Minimum and Maximum Tariff the Coming System for Uncle Sam.

WOULD TJSE IT AS A "BIG STICK

Says Reciprocity Is a "Sweet Word" WMch "Depends."

Defines Way

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the liittaner Bill in a New -Treaties the Supreme Law

Brownsville Debate Blowing Over.

aertake tbepresident's defense because of my infatuated devotion to the man. I have a great admiration for that strong, brave, large-minded gentleman the secretary of war. My admiration for the president is more temperate and subdued. The president once said that he would gee a certain member of the Tennessee delegation in hades before he would do anything for him. I fare so little for the hasty ebullitions of that remarkable man that I can eee what he himself could never see in any man who expressed an opinion contrary to his own I can gee the good as well as the bad in his public conduct."

SHAKES UP THE OHIO MAN

The above article by the great American author and humorist refers to the "movement on foot to make of the Lincoln Birthplace Farm a national park of patriotism. Considering the preservation of Mount Vernon, the Washington Monument the classic tomb of Grant, and the score of other memorials to lesser heroes of our Republic, it is really remarkable instance of national neglect

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By permution

Abraham Lincoln

that more than forty years should have passed without a fitting tribute to the ) memory of Lincoln, who bore the hcaviI est burden ever carried by &n American President and fell in harness, a victim of assassination. There is no knowing when any action would have been taken had it not been that the Lincoln Birth-place Farm was put up'at auction in .- August, 1905, that the proceeds might be used to pay the back taxes. All but one. of the bidders represented some m '. business concern, anxious to get control pof the property for advertising purposes; . but this one bidder saved the farm and ; averted what would have been a national disgrace. He represented a private citizen, who believed the historic ground should be the property of the American Eeopls, and, having acquired the place, e turned it over to an association of I public-spirited men, who quickly ofgan-

Ssunt-Gmndens' Lincoln It has been suggested that above the famous Rock Spring from which Lincoln drank as a boy, a copy of Saiut-Gaudciu' famous Statue of Lincoln be erected

five dollars, and to every member is issued a large, handsomely engraved Certificate of Membership, bearing the seal of the Association, with the autographs of the officers and trustees. The name of the member i3 then entered in the Permanent Catalog, which is to be kept forever in a place of honor in the Historical Building to be erected at the Park. Thus the funds are being raised by popular membership subscriptions, and already the names are coming in by hundreds from every State in the Union, more than fifteen thousand having joined before November i. The labor unions, fraternal orders, historical - societies, women's clubs, and organizations of all sorts have pledged themselves to spread the work during the coming winter, and seventy-five per cent of the daily newspapers, recognizing the broadly democratic spirit and typical Americanism of the movement, have promised to give the tremendous weight of publicity to it. The Officers and Board of Trustees of The Lincoln Farm Association, which has its offices at 74 Broadway, New York City, are as follows: Joseph W. Folk, President, Governor of Missouri; Joseph H. Choate, ExAmbassador to England; Henry Watterson, editor of Louisville "CourierJournal" ; Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore; Edward M. Shepard, law

yer and author; August Belmont, director of Louisville & Nashville R. R.; Horace Porter, Ex-Ambassador to France ; William Travers Jerome, District Attorney of New ork County; Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Director Lincoln Centre, Chicago; Charles A. Towne, Congressman from New York ; "William H. Taft, Secretary of War; Lyman J. Gage, Ex-Secretary of Treasury; Norman , Hapgdbd, of "Collier's"; Ida M. Tarbell. bicgTapher of Lincoln: Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"); Augustus Saint-Gaudens. sculptor; Albert Shaw, editor of "Review of Reviews" ; Thomas Hastings, architect; Robert J. Collier, of "Collier's"; Clarence Mackay, Treasurer. President Postal Telegraph & Cable Co.; Richard Lloyd Jones, So, retary.

Washington, Jan. 17. Speaker Cannon extended an informal reception at the Capitol to 30O delegates to

the convention for the extension of foreign commerce. Chairman William McCarroll, of New York city, made a brief address presenting the appeal of commercial interests for tariff changes and ship subsidy, and Cannon responded in a happy vein. The speaker declared that the Republican policy is to monopolize the home market, and then establish a foreign market for the -surplus?. "Reciprocity is a sweet word," said the speaker. "Its meaning depends upon the man or leader who uses it." He reviewed the reciprocity labor of Blaine and showed how the Democratic party, as he said, undid Blaine's work. Would Use It as a "Big Stick." A statement of Cannon that maximum and minimum tariff is practicable was greeted with applause, and the speaker explained how carefully such a tariff must be drawn to afford protection to American interests and clothe the executive with power to retaliate when other nations discriminate against the. products of the United States. Cannon declared that the

maximum tariff would be a "big stick" to be used In compelling other powers to behave themselves. The speaker reviewed the provisions of the Littauer ship subsidy bill, which is about to be reported to the house, and said the assistance to mail lines provided for In the measure should not be called a subsidy, but merely "the spending of the money we get from sea service to promote sea service." He Racks Up the President. In discussing the right of the;general government to enforce treatlife made between this government and a foreign government, Representative Foster, of Vermont, took pronounced ground in support of the president's contention that the government should see to it that the treaty between the United States and Japan is rigidly observed. "The constitution," said Foster, "confers upon the national government tbe treaty-making power without qualifying words, and provides that all treaties made under the au

thority of the United States shall be

a part of the supreme law of the land." Must Be Enforced if in the Treaty.

Foster would not say whether there

was contained expressly or Impliedly

in the treaty with Japan a clause that

we would have to provide schools for the Japanese In our midst. That, he said, rested with the executive depart

ment of the government to determine but "if it is contained in the treaty. It is binding upon the con

science of the people of the state and

It Is the sworn duty of the president

to enforce Its provisions aa a part of the supreme law of the land. In doing this he shall not be charged with attempting to coerce a sovereign state."

TO SSW 110 MONEY

So Say the Men Accused of Negotiating for the Sale of Votes.

SUSPECTED ACTION EXPLAINED

Municipal League Men the One Whose Ballots "Were in Iemand in That Xew York Matter.

Doesn't Think He Is a Good On to Sit in Judgment. lie then turned his attention to Foraker's criticism of Major Blocksom, which he said was due to the fact that "his father was a Democrat." Continuing he said: "I can remember with

wnat frantic energy he used to wave' the bloody shirt a shirt dyed with

the crimson of his own rhetoric; I re

member how he used to go raging

over the land, a glfurcated, peripatetic volcano In perennial eruption, belching

fire anJ smoke and melted lava from

his agonized and tumultuous bowels.

"I would not have to go back forty

ye?rs,ormake any Inquiry into the sen

ator's pedigree, to prove by such evi

dence that the senator from Ohio is the

last man to sit in Judgment In a case of

murder where a negro was the mur

derer and a southern white man was his victim." But he declared the Ohio

man was not half as bad as he looked. Paying his compliments to Tillman Carmack said: "The senator s speech was powerful, it was picturesque. It wa9 full of good and striking points, but It seemed to me that his premises was upon one side of the earth and his conclusions upon the other, with no bridge between." Concluding his speech Carmack declared that the whole Brownsville matter in the senate was a fight against Roosevelt, but the case chosen was unfortunate because therein Roosevelt was right. Senate and Hons in Brief. Washington, Jan. 17. The senate occupied the whole session in the discussion of the Brownsville affair, except for a brief executive session. The fortifications appropriation bill was passed by the house without amendment, an unusual thing with appropriation bills. The appropriation bill for the District of Columbia was taken up and Sheppard of Texas delivered a carefully prepared political speech, in which there wasn't a reference to the District.

REFLECTS ON EPPEESON

END IS NOW IN SIGHT

Indiana State Mine Ipspector Hit by a Resolution in, the U. M. W. Convention, Indianapolis, Jan.' 17. A resolution was presented to the United Mine Workers' convention by members of Indiana district No. 11 reflecting on the record of James Epperson, as state mine inspector, and expressing grave doubt of his ability to administer the affairs of the office. The resolution was apropos to the recent mine disaster at Clinton, Ind., in which eight men lost their lives. The resolution was referred to the committee on resolutions. The expected split In the convention over the right of certain delegates to be seated was averted by a provisional arrangement that the delegates guarantee the unpaid dues owed by the locals they represent, these dues to be paid by April 1. Those refusing will not be allowed to vbte on any question before the convention.

Nw York, Jan. 17. Nino members of the board of aldermen were examined by the grand jury in an investigation of the alleged plot to buy votes in the election for a recorder to succeed John W. Goff, which the district attorney charges was unearthed in the arrest of Alderman William S. Clifford

and David Mann, the alleged go-between. The aldermen who appeared be-. fore the grand jury were elected on the Municipal Ownership League ticket, and they were subpoenaed for the purpose of explaining their action in changing their votes at a meetng of the board from ex-Judge Palmier!, whom they had supported In a body during the balloting at previous meetings, to ex-Juge Rufus B. Cowing. When the Votes Were Changed. The district attorney charges that the shift in the vote occurred after the alleged $0,000 "boodle fund" was in the hands of a representative of Alderman Clifford, who is accused of having pledged in consideration of the money to swing the Municipal Ownership League vote to Cowing. The aldermen examined were: Henry Clay Peters, Joseph Falk, William Rowcroft, Thomas J. Mulligan, John B. Cronin, O. B. Newan. William Torpey, Charles Kuntze and E. J. O'Neil. , Explains the Change of Vote. All the aldermen stated before entering the grand jury room that they knew" nothing of the events leading to the

arrest of Clifford and Mann, and that

no attempt whatever had been made to.

bribe them. Alerman Peters, the leader

of the Municipal Ownership League men, said that he alone was authorized to negotiate for the members of the Municipal Ownership League; that negotiations had been under way for

two weeks but were incomplete, and

that money was never considered In his talks with other members. He said his

colleagues were sincerely supporting

Judge Falmierl, and voted for Judge

Cowing Tuesday merely to test the sincerity of the Republicans and In the hope of breaking their ranks. "Not one

penny was suggested for our support

of Judge Cowing," said he.

Jerome Is After Some More? The hearing in court In the case of

Alderman Clifford was adjourned until next. Wednesday. The adjournment was taken upon the request of Clif

ford's counsel. It was reported that four additional subpoenaes were pro

cured by District Attorney Jerome for

the appearance before the grand jury

of a Republican member of the board

of aldermen, two Republican political

leaders and an employe of the board of

elections.

MAKES A NEW PRECEDENT

I j Celestial Signs. "Yes, sir," Isald old Uncle Billy, i who comes in occasionally with country produce, via the East Point road, "I shore do see wonders in the sky these nights.- Only last night I seen 16 stars fall all at one time, an' one of 'em come so clost to ma my hat wuz knocked onesided, an' a hole burnt in the brim. Night before that, whilst I wuz a-surveyin of the heavens so to speak I seen a perfect plctur' of a sword, 'bout where the moon would 'a, ben at that time ef she hadn't been latel then there wuz a big crack in the sky, like a winder shutter suddenly throwed wide open, an' I hearn sweet singin',4an" harpplayin', mot distinct. Oh, there's wonderful things goln' on above you that you' don't know nuthin' about I tell you! An' there's trouble in store fer this ol' country, shore's you're born. You'd better hold yer cotton fer ten cents an better. An Co you want any fresh eggs this mornin'. at SO cents?" Atlanta Con

stitution. .1

Falcon as Ship's Mascot. Ohio Fred is a large falcon with a curved and wicked looking beak and claws which command respect from all. He was captured by Chief Officer F. G. Mills when the vessel was about 100 miles inside of Unimak Pass, on the voyage north. Mr. Mills only secured Fred after a hard struggle. The bird alighted on the foretop of the steamship one afternoon. There was a heavy wind and the big bird was tired out. Mr. Mills' climbed aloft and after a struggle succeeded in bringing Fred to the deck., Fred, however, almost took them both overboard on the way down from the foretop. He struggled with his large wings and nearly took the officer from the rigging. Mr. Mills, however, clung to his prite, and the result was that Fred became the pet and mascot of the ship. It was only with his captor that he would become friendly. To anyone else approaching he shows his beak and threatens them witSt his claws' and they keep their distance, Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Brownsville Debate Near a Finish Carmack Arraigns Republicans. Washington, Jan. 17. 'Senate leaders regard the end of the Brownsville discussion lu- sight, and it is confidently expected that a compromise resolution offered by Foraker just before the close of the session will be adopted. Foraker had the floor to make what he expressed the hope would be the concluding speech on the subject, Whether he speaks today or tomorrow It Is expected that a vote will soon follow, although it Is possible that other brief speeches may be made before the end is reached. The feature of the debate -was the arraignment by Carmack of Republican senators who have criticised the president for his action in the Brownsville matter. He regarded It as an attempt to "dethrone" the president as theleader of the party, and declared that either the president musjt be renominated or the platform on which he stood returned to the Democrats. Stone. Money and Knox followed, each upholding the authority of the president to fake the action he did and favoring an investigation of the facts connected with the Brownsville affray. Carmack's speech was long, but mighty Interesting to his hearers. At one point he paid his respects to the president as follows: "I think It proper to say that any' report that senators may have heard that the president personally solicited my support in this matter, that he urged me to forgive and forget certain energetic personal remarks and begged me to stand between him and those twin enemies of his administration, the senators from South Carolina and. Ohio, is a gross exaggeration. I will not say that it is an Infamous falsehood, because such language belongs to the vocabulary of presidential controversy rather than that senatorial debate. 1 "Nor Is it true, as senators may have

liearcL that I'hare been moved to nn-

Friendly Bout "Was His Death. Chicago, Jan. 17. William Freund, 18 years old, Is dead of injuries received a few hours earlier in a friendly boxing match with Joseph Silverberg. Young Freund fell, his skull being fractured when his head struck the floor. NEWS FACTS IN 0TJTL1H JS

Judge O. B. Gould, of Winona,

Minn., chairman of the Minnesota board of control, is dead at Minneapo

lis.

Southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma are 'covered with ice from rain

that froze as fast as it fell.

A typhoon hag swept the islands of Samoa and Leyte. P. I., resulting in the loss of 100 lives and much prop

erty. At Fargo. N. D., damage to the ex

tent of $li0,000 was done by fire to

the wholesale house of Bristol & Sweet. Four firemen were seriously burned

at New Castle, Pa., when a quantity

of phosphorus exploded, setting their

clothes afire. D. J. O'Donoghue, one of the promt

nent leaders of labor in Canada,, is

dead at Toronto.

Professor Matteucci, director of the

the observatpry at Mount Vesuvius,

reports increased agitation of that volcano coincident with , the Kingston

earthquake.

To the horrors of the famine in

China have been added an outbreak of

smallpox among the refugees at Sing Iviang.

The electric plant of the Laclede Gas Light company at St. Louis was

totally destroyed by fire, entailing loss of 1300,000.

Secretary of State Root will address

the Canadian club at Ottawa, Ont., on

Tuesday next.

A. T. Clinton, one of the pioneer business men of LaCrosse, Wis., la

ded, aged 7(.

Von Buelow, German Premier. Will

Take the Stump in the Electoral Campaign.

Berlin, Jan. 17. Prince von Buelow,

the chancellor, has decided to take part

in the electoral campaign. This is a

step contrary to tradition and Is

brought about, it is1 saidbytheunfavor

able election prospects so far as the

government is concerned. The chan cellor is expected to take the stump Sat

urday and will appeal in behalf of the

imperial policy as against that of the socialists and other opposition parties. The speech will be made to a select audience at a banquet, but it will be sent broadcast throughout the country. The move is supposed to have been inspired by the kaiser.

King Haakon Sistributes Honors."" Decorah. Ia., Jnn. 17. Information Is received here that King Haakon of Norway has made the following citizens of the United States knights of the order of St. Olaf. B. Amtindsen, publisher of the Decorah Posten, Decorah; N. Grevstad, editor of Skandinaven, Chicago; Consul E. H. Hobe, St. Paul: Trofessor Dr. n. O. Stub, Luther seminary, Hamline, Minn.; Professor J. N. Kildahl, president of St. Olaf s college, Northfield, Minn., and Halle Steensland, of Madison, Wis., ex-Norweglan-Swedish consul.

Anarchists Are Released., New York, Jan. 17. Emma Goldman, who was arrested Jan. 6 on a charge of delivering an alleged incendiary speech at a public meeting In this city, has been discharged from

custody, Alexander Berkman and John R. Coryell, who were arrested at tne same time, and who have been under bail,, also were released. The grand Jury has refused to indict the woman. Murder t the National Museum. Washington, Jan. 17.. E. F. Van Iteson was shot and Instantly killed, at the National museum, by Otto Sellhorse, of Philadelphia. Van Iteson was a Hthograhper temporarily employed at the museum. The victim was shot three times by Sellhorse with a repeating rifie. Sellhorse was arrested. It is understood that the affray was the result of family troubles.

Has Been Piping Off the 3Ioon. London, Jan, 17. Ernest W. Brown, professor of mathematics at Haverford eollese. has been awarded, a trold med

iae most severe sleet storm intwen-j ai bv tae noyal Astronomical society ty years prevailed, in the middle and 1 in recognition of his researches into northern cortlons of Missouri- I the lunar theorz. I

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