Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 222, Hammond, Lake County, 8 March 1907 — Page 8

PAGE EIGHT

THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES Friday, -March 8, 1907.

I i ; ' ; : ;

AECHIE ROOSEVELT VEEY ILL I

The 1p

Captain of Industry Is Entitled to His Reward.

By JACOB COULD 5CHURMAN, President of Cornell University.

'P to the last century the main functions of government were

the protection of life and property and AFTER THAT administration of justice. But our nation has now become bo complex that the government has been compelled to ex

tend its functions. If anything, I think we are a littlo croo much inclined to extend these functions. The government now passes laws protecting the health of the working people. In Germany and other countries legislation has provided for a compulsory education and the setting up of state banks and insurance companies. No generation can lay down rules which will be binding upon succeeding generations. The conditions and the evik of a generation MUST BE MET BY THAT GENERATION. So far as the governmental function is concerned, I am one of those that believe that the less we are governed the better. But every emergency must be met and settled according to the exigencies of the case, and, above all, we must see that JUSTICE i3 done. Public ownership is still an experiment, and I am not aware that the experiment in this country has appreciably advanced the millennium. I am certainly opposed to government ownership of such utilities as the railroads at this time, a3 it is entirely too risky, and I first want to see the results in the smaller field of MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. The government could not afford to invest billions of dollars in buying all the railroads of the country and then sink other billions in mismanagement and political corruption. MY CONCEPTION OF SOCIALISM IS A VOLUNTARY COMBINATION OF LABOR AND CAPITAL. This is a brand of socialism which will appeal to all English epeaking people. It appeals to us because it is based upon the old fashioned virtues of INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRY and individual intelligence. 'Another idea of socialism confines itself to a protest against enormous fortunes, the idea being to confiscate these fortunes. A few years ago in this country one could count all the men of millions on his fingers, but now we arc all familiar with millionaires and even with billionaires. In the presence of so much wealth we are likely to forget the GENERAL PROSPERITY. Some people are too quick to cry that the few have been enriched through the impoverishment of the many. The truth is that WE ARE ALL RICHER AND BETTER OFF because there has been such an accumulation of wealth. Our very rich men are a help to us so long as they invest their money in enterprises which furnish employment for labor. They hurt the public only when thoy squander wealth. The danger that I see i3 not in swollen fortunes, BUT IN STOLEN FORTUNES. I want to make it clear that a fortune, although big, is not bad. I want to make it clear that we would all bo better off if our fortunes were larger. The danger is not in fortunes, but in the way in which they are made. Here is a country of eighty millions of people abounding with resources. I believe that the man who knows what the people want can furnish it to them. One who knows HOW to take advantage of the conditions that exist and has the means of reaching the market can make a million dollars and can make it HONESTLY. THE CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY IS THE MAN WHO ESTABLISHES AN ORGANIZATION, THE MAN WHO HAS THE ABILITY TO GET HIS GOODS TO THE MARKET. HE IS ENTITLED TO A LARGER SUM OF PROFIT THAN THE MAN WHO HAS NOT THESE RESOURCES.

The "Speed Limit" In Reform. By WADE H. ELLIS, Attorney General of Ohio.

'HEY tell us that all the reforms accomplished during the last

three or four years will be UNDONE. I don't believe the pendulum will ever swing far enough back to make insurance

steals a virtue or adulterated foods a favorite prescription for the sickroom or railway rebates and discriminations a sacred right OR CORPORATE GREED AND LAWLESSNESS A PROTECTED INSTITUTION OF SOCIETY. But if anything is going to make the pendulum swing back it will be the mistaken zeal of some of those who are trying to make it swing TOO FAR FORWARD. The pendulum of public opinion is just like any other pendulum the farther you shove it in one direction the farther it will go in the other WHEN YOU LET GO. I say, therefore, let us beware of the ultra radicals who would right all the wrongs at once. Let us rather see to it that some of them STAY RIGHTED. Let us bag the game we have down before we shoot again. A BREAKNECK GAIT IS JUST AS FATAL TO VIRTUE AS IT IS TO VICE. I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SPEED LIMIT RESPECTED ON THE RACE COURSE OF REFORM.

Men's Wages and Dividends By J. G. PHELPS STOKES. Millionaire New York Socialist.

NVESTMENTS are not, as a rule, made to protect property ALREADY POSSESSED, but to add to that property

through appropriation of some portion of the wealth PRO

DUCED BY OTHERS. Stockholders receive dividends produced by the labor of others without so much as lifting a finger to render reciprocal service. Dividends do not simply fall from heaven or materialize from thin air. They consist in every case of WEALTH CREATED BY HUMAN LABOR, and there is no justification in taking them from those who have produced them unless fair compensation is given in return. The position of nearly every stockholder is analogous to that of rAN AUTOCRATIC SOVEREIGN who levies taxes upon his people regardless of consideration of the relation which his income bears to the burden sustained by his people. FOR, MANY YEARS THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF DIVIDENDS AND OTHER UNEARNED PROFITS APPROPRIATED WITHOUT REGARD TO RECIPROCAL SERVICE HAS APPROXIMATELY EQUALED THE ENTIRE WAGE PAID FOR SERVICE TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN INDUSTRY.

E COUNTY

.G.A.CENTER

Report of the Indiana Association is Made on Five Cities.

y.ii

2 RSILROMMMtOES Plan Is Suggested to Have Organizations at Hammond, Whiting and Gary.

The 37 auunal report of the Indiana Young Men's Christian association contains a statement of the results of a recent Investigation of the cities of Lake county, which was made with an idea of determining the practlblllty of organizing associations In them. The interest in the project to establish a Y. M. C. A. in this city has grown apace and as mention is also made of the railroad association which has been established at Gibson and another which is to be established at South Hammond the report Is an interesting one. The northern part of Lake county stretching 17 miles along the ehore of Lake Michigan, with the Little Calumet river a few miles away and almost paralleling the shore line, Is developing rapidly into one of the greatest industrial regions of the world; we now commonly allude to It as "the Calumet region." The communities at present comprised in our consideration of this region are as follows: HAMMOND The officers of the incorporated association which suspended active operations several years ago are growing anxious in view of the rapid growth of that city and the great need of provision for the multitudes of young men to not only rehabilitate the association but provide a permanent building and equipment for it. Some of the ablest business men there have manifested a special interest in this enterprise, and the association directors appointed a committee to take the matter up with us and to proceed also with reference to railroad branches at South

Hammond and "Gibson Yards" the latter

yards of the new Indiana Harbor road having recently been annexed to the City of Hammond. The Monon company's plans for South Hammond are not yet final and our recommendations concerning the operation of the resthouse there are still before the management. "WHITING Renewed calls for an association in this needy "Standard Oil town" have come to us, and after careful investigation we are taking up the matter in the way that promises to

be most effective; this also involves a

new building. EAST CHICAGO Practically between

the two towns already mentioned is

this other growing industrial commu

nity, and while we would advise against organization there until a building can be provided, we believe considerable numbers of the young men would be benefited by associations at Hammond and "Whiting, there being frequent steam and trolley service between all

of this group of towns we are outlining. INDIANA HARBOR "We have inves

tigated this new field and view it about

as we do East Chicago, i. e., it is prob able that for a few years at least a con

siderable number of Its young men

could be taken care of by the neighbor ing associations.

GARY This new but widely-heralded steel city is rapidly rising out of the

sands and the president of the company

(who was formerly a member of our state committee) is our authority for

saying that we shall have there within a decade a city from 60,000 to 75,000 people. The company is planning admirably to guard against such conditions arising as have long existed at

South Chicago and desires that we sub mit plans for a complete association.

"We are considerably perplexed as to

the best course to pursue with respect

to the insistence of the International

committee upon taking the lead in the Gibson and Gary enterprises. We are

not averse to continuing the co-opera

tion that has been customary for so many years but we doubt if the best results can be obtained by leadership from the eastern sea-board rather than

from Indiana.

One Reason They Hate the Rnss. Lodz, Russian Poland, March 8. During the funeral of Captain Cber-

kesskij. -who- was murdered here two

days ago, the officers and privates es corting the hearse took It upon themselves to attack with swords a nuni

bor of people on the street who did

not remove their hats as the hearse went by. Many persons were wound

ed.

Four Greeks Killed by a Train.

Roanoke. Va.. March 8. Four

Greeks employed on tidewater railroad

construction work were struck by a

Norfolk and Western freight train near Roanoke, nnd killed. The dead are

Marcous Lazouler, Danayetes Cattel-

anov, Demert Asemus and Sageler

Stoneon.

Finkertons locate "Walker. San Francisco, March 8. Fir.kerton detectives state that they have located W. F. Walker, of New Britain, Conn., In this city. Walker is wanted on the charge of embezzling $rr.(XX from the saviugs bank of New Britain.

SEEMS TO SEE LIGHT

Harriman's Recent Experiences Have Taught Him Something He Didn't Know Before.

MAGNATES HAVE MADE ERRORS

Thinks Also That the "Regulator" Idea Has Been Too Sapid.

Diphtheria in the School. Washington, March 8. The Friends Select school, which Archie Roosevelt had been attending before his illness, has been closed on account of another pupil having contracted diphtheria. .

Ready Now to Co-Operate in Making

the Situation Better What the Iloads Have Done for the Country.

New York, March S. "I am ready to make the advancement of a scheme of co-operation between the government and the railways my chief interest," said E. II. Ilarriman, president of the Union Pacific railroad on returning from Washington. "We men at the head of great corporations are coming to a better understanding of what the government expects of us. We are getting the point of view of the administration. I am of the opinion that the administration is beginning to renlize that it has been a little too radical in its attitude toward the railroads, and I look to see its opposition take on more of the spirit of co-operation." Their Foresight Was Poor. Speaking of agitation against corporate wealth, he paid: . "They we all of us, ought to have considered the possible effects of this agitation before It was begun, or before conditions that made its growth possible wero allowed to continue. If we had ali met on common ground and cooperated for our mutual benefit nobody would be worrying over the situation as It is today. We all made a mistake In this. I realize the mistake. I'm more than willing to give my support to such a process of enlightenment. I'm ready to make the advancement of such a scheme of cooperation my chief Interest. Surely there could be few conditions iniaglnablo that would be of wider public benefit than to eliminate hostile friction. Managers Must "Do Things." "Railroad managers have, I am willing to admit, in the past neglected to build up a strong harmonious relationship between themselves and with the government and the public. This matter had been left to subordinate officers, and the result has been that such relations have been completely neglected. Now we must take the matter In our own hands In order to bring about i better understanding and co-operation. ; PAST POLICY A MISTAKEN ONE

But the Railways Have Done a Lot for the Country. "Our policy in the past has been a mistaken one, but it cannot be said that we have neglected our service to the public. When one considers what the railroads have done to develop this nation we cannot believe that the railroads have been anything but beneficial to the nation. The marvelous development of the country has been due to a very large degree to the enterprise of its railroads. Since the time we took hold of the system of railroads of which I am the head the sum of $2TO,00O.OOO has been expended in rebuilding the roads. This has all been done since 1000. As another instance of what the railroads are doing to add to the general prosperity of the nation I'll tell you that the roads of which I vm the head purchase about 1,000,000 tons of steel rails yearly, and during that period we purchased about 4,000,000 ties. "All this adds to the welfare of the nation, and the development work which the railroads have done has in some cases, as it now shown, resulted In the building up of so large a traffic that they are unable to handle it. Combination really benefits the public. The public may think otherwise, but it will learn the real truth in time. That time will come sooner if combinations are legalized. I believe in control and regulation, as I declared before tjie Interstate commerce commission, but I think within the limit of such control corporations ought to be allowed to combine as they find it necessary or beneficial." Ilarriman said that the railroads had frequently been at fault in the past by their failure to live up to traffic agreements. In this "way there had come a lack of confidence among railroad men, and the public naturally grew to lose confidence In the acts of the railroad men. Restrictive legislation, Ilarriman thought, must tend to reduce dividends unless met in seme other way. The fact is plain, he said, that there is a lack of confidence by capital. He cited the price paid by the New York, New Ilaven and Hartford Railroad company for its recent loans In France. "Do you expect to go to Washington to see the president again soon?" he was asked. "The president knows where I am," he returned. "If he wants to see me I am ready to go." Key's Flag Is Safe. New York. March 8 Mrs. George Livingstone Baker, of New Brighton, S. J., is authority for the statement that the star spangled banner which flow over Fort McHenry during its bombardment in the war of 1S12 and inspired Francis Scott Key to the composition of the national ode. is now in this city, the property of Eben Apcleton. of this city, her brother.

Looks A'ery Like the White House Family Will Be Bereaved of One of Its Members. Washington, March 8. Archie Roosevelt has had a sinking spell, and Drs. Rixey, Kennedy and Mason held a consultation. Dr. Alexander Lambert, of New York, who had been hurriedly summoned earlier, arrived at 0 p. m. and joined In the consultation. Just previous to his coming anti-toxin was Injected into the patient. His condition is critical. It is reported that the president has telegraphed his sons Theodore, Jr., and Kermit. the former at Harvard and the latter at Groton, to come to Washington, although at the executive offices this would neither be confirmed nor denied. Drs. Kennedy and Fryor or left the White House at 0:3o p. m. They stated that If Archie's vitality holds out through the night there would be hope for his recovery. Archie Roosevelt went to sleep at 2 n. m. and the president and Mrs. Roosevelt retired.

BONILLA'S FORCES VICTORIOUS

Fight in Which the Nicaraguans Get the Worst of It, According to Honduran Claims. San Salvador, Salvador, March SThe representative here of the Associated Press has received a message from General Manuel Bonilla, president of Honduras, from Choluteca. a strongly fortified town sixty-eight miles south of Tegucigalpa, as follows: "One of the Ilondurian scouting parties attacked the enemy Wednesday at Narnasiquo, in Honduras, close to the Nicaraguan frontier, and not far from the Pacific ocean. The enemy was in considerable strength. "The Honduran troops ' occupied three advance positions and compelled the enemy to abandon the town. The enemy was then repulsed from the heights, suffering heavy losses and proving an easy target for our artillery. The enemy is now disbanding by the hundred. We succeeded in capturing a number of rifles and a quantity of ammunition. The battle lasted five hours."

GOOD PAPER TO SUPPRESS

Russian Monk Urges Patriotic Russians to Slay All of Liberal Opinion. St. Petersburg, March 8 The holy synod of the Greek church has ordered the suppression of a monastery paper edited by a monk, Father Iliadore, having a wide circulation among the lower classes, and in which for several months reactionary articles of the most virulent character have appeared, exhorting patriotic Russians to rise and slay all the Liberals. One article, which has been reprinted in all the reactionary papers, elaborated full plans for the impressive execution of Count de Witte, for treason, by hanging him in the great Red Square of the Kremlin at Moscow.

ADAMS JURY COULDN'T AGREE

Stood Seven to Five for Conriction Many Hours Last Ballot Six to Six. Wallace, Ida., March 8. The jury in the trial of Steve Adams for the murder of Fred Tyler, after being in deliberation over thirty hours, announced that it was impossible to agree upon a verdict, and was discharged by Judge Woods. The jury for many hours stood at seven for conviction and five for acquittal, and it was only on the last ballot that the jurymen stood evenly divided, six for conviction and six for acquittal. This means that the Steve Adams case must be tried again.

Story Is Not Impossible. Salt Lake City, March 8. A man who gave his name as M. A. Conley, and who alleges that he was formerly alderman from the Eighth ward, Chicago, and afterward a member of the Illinois legislature from Chicago, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary here. Conley also said he had served as a factory inspector at Chicago.

AVife and Children Frozen to Death. Chippewa Falls, Wis.. March 8. According to a letter received here from Ole Overby, a former resident of this county, his wife and four children were frozen to death at their home in Ward county, N. D., during the recent cold spell. They ran out of fuel after burning all the furniture and everything else available.

Lawyers Talk in the Davis Case. Danville, 111., March 8. In the trial of Will J. Davis, charged with manslaughter in connection with the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago, Attorney Levy Mayer, for the defense, took up the entire day addressing the court in an attack upon the validity of the Chicago ordinance alleged to have been violated.

Five Negroes Die on the Rail. Moultrie, Ga., March 8. Five negro employes were killed in a wreck on a road near Sunset Mills, and three others were seriously injured. The train, consisting of fiat cars, was backing out when it struck a tree across the track.

ill ilir

i, ....

ill IVb. 1 ' ' V '14 1 I" II lit

Li,

tIUHt

"Th Admirals Star for the Jolly Tar" Admiral and tar tip their hats to "Star" it's everybody's good chew. It's both the best and most economical chew made. " Star" is honest value. Every plug is full 16 oz. weight, and always has been. " Star " quality is the highest as it always has been for over forty years.

PLUG CHEWING TOBACCO

still costs the same as when it was first put on the market because it couldn't be cheaper and be so rood. But "Star" is really the most economical plug you can buy because the ripe, fine-bodied leaf in "Star" is elastic and makes a lasting chew it chews clean rich and juicy twice as long as " cheap " chews. "Star" is the standard chew standard quality, standard price, standard value sales equal those of any five other kinds. J50,000ooo ioc. pieces sold annually In All Stores

LINCOLN PARK

Lots $50 to $200 $25 Down $5 Monthly NO INTEREST NO TAXES FREE ABSTRACT

FOR MAPS OF Gary and Lincoln Park WRITE United States Land Co. WALTER C. PIPER, President,

American Trust Building

CHICAGO

See Our Local Agent, TOLESTON, IND. Office Next Penn. Station FREE CARRIAGE

I Advertise in THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES. y $ v ?1i

High School Fraternities Prohibited.

InitPl.-fl Kan Morcli C Tlio con!iti!

has passed the anti-fraternity 1111 already passed l,y. the house, -which makes it unlawful for high school students to belong to fraternities.

Botha Their Only Hope. Johannesburg. March 8. Four hun-

dred unemployed paraded through the streets carrying banners inscribed with ! the -words '-Premier Botha is our only

YOUR STATE STREET FRIEND, HAMMOND, IND.

our

OLD MISFIT.

hape v,

LOSES ITS BEAUTY, IF

V'OU WRAP IT IN ANY

I'M PARTICULAR!

GIVEN THE TAILOR

YOUR TAILOR SHOULD BE

PARTICULAR. IF YOU DON

BELIEVE IT. ASK MAYMIE,

T

T V

oung ivian

Bra

t .

?-' r t t