Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 October 1901 — Page 2

The Tribune.

Established October 10, 1901.

HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. R. B. OGLESBEE, Editor.

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freight

Never before has so much

passed through Plymouth as is moving now. Cars and engines are to be had only in insufficient numbers, the factories being unable to turn them out as rapidly as they are wanted, and men are scarce and find promotion as fast as they can earn it by meritorious service. New firemen and brakemen are eargerly sought all along the lines. Look back to 1894.

The Indianapolis Sentinel disingenuously remarks that Mayor Taggart is taking some interest in the city campaign now being waged. Naturally enough. It is his campaign and Maguire, the ostensible candidate is a mere figurehead. Taggart is making the speeches, writing the letters, furnishing the interviews, providing the alleged facts, directing the battle and standing as the paramount issue. It is Taggartism, a sort of peanut duplication of Tammany, that is at stake in Indianapolis and it would be strange if the boss did not "take some interest" in the con-

test. Even Croker takes some in-

terest in the municipal campaigns of New York city, and he is the "real thing" in his line.

GOVERNOR DURBIN'S DUTY.

The only reason that actuated Governor Mount in his refusal to send

Taylor and Finley back to Kentucky

to be tried for complicity in the mur-

der of Goebel was his apprehension

that a fair trial was improbable under

the circumstances. There was ample

ground for such apprehension and Gov

ernor Mount did not have to search

for it---it was thrust upon him daily.

W. E. Curtis, one of the best known

and most reliable newspaper correspondents in the country, went to Ken-

tucky during the trials of the three men

who were arrested. He was sent by

the Chicago Record, a paper that was

criticising Governor Mount severely

and hoped that Curtis would report

facts to justify its criticism. Here is

an extract from the report Mr. Curtis

made: The most learned lawyers in Ken-

tucky tell me that the proceedings in all these cases are without parallel for

partisanship by the courts and jury in

the history of American jurisprudence, and that the Dreyfus case is the only

one within the present century that

can be quoted in the same connection.

The proceedings before Judge Cantrill

at Georgetown remind them more of the Spanish Inquisition than anything

in modern criminal prosecutions. The juries that convicted these three men

were not drawn from the regular pan-

el, although sixty names were left in

the wheel, but were summoned per-

sonally by the sheriff from among his personal acquaintances. Members of the State Bar Association have pre-

pared and published a statement of the cases, addressed to the members

of the American Bar Association and

lawyers throughout the United States,

setting forth the facts. It is a ter-

rible arrangment of the Kentucky judiciary, but they tell me here that

there is little public excitement over the convictions, because everybody

knows that the court of appeals will overrule the judgments and set

aside the entire proceeding.

The trials that were had completely

justified Governor Mount in his de-

cision upon the requisition and there

is plenty of democratic evidence to

sustain him.

The three men were convicted and

the court of appeals did set aside the

proceedings, as was anticipated, and

new trials were ordered. But upon

mere technicalities of such trivial na-

ture as to be ridiculous in a less serious

connection the new trials are postponed

and the men are held in prison for months beyond the time the trials

should have occurred. The appropriate political moment for these trials has not yet arrived.

The men who have recently appear-

ed before Governor Durbin say bland-

ly that the bitter feeling which they

admit existed during the previous trials has died out. Has it? Judge

Cantrill, who presided at those pre-

posterous proceedings, is now making

a canvass for the United States senate,

basing his claims on the part he took

in convicting Powers and the rest

and the whole subject is before the

people of Kentucky in all its phases.

Cantrill and his bloodthirsty gang

were quick to seize upon the assassina-

tion of the President and present it

to the excitable citizens of their state

as in some manner a parallel for the murder of Goebel and to make it impressive they rushed to Indianapolis with the dusty and spider-webbed requisition, knowing that it would again be refused, as they know it ought to be. Every circumstance points to the fact that there is less reason now for surrendering Taylor and Finley than there was when Governor Mount mercifully refused to give them over to torture and persecution.

ROOSEVELT CHILDREN ATTEND PUBLIC SCHOOL President Roosevelt openly resents any attempt to pry into the private affairs of his family, even if it is taken for granted by many that their every act is public property, now that they reside in the executive mansion. He

does not pretend that modesty or a desire for exclusiveness has impelled

him to take this course, but insists

that there is a great chance that much

notoriety will have a serious effect

on his young children who are just at

an impressionable age. He wants

them shielded as much as possible

from the inevitable. Mr. Roosevelt realizes that the doings of the white

house children are of more or less

public interest, but he says their

heads must not be turned by too much

attention.

When he was making his arrange-

ments to come here as vice-president,

the plans included the placing of the

children in the public school. When

President McKinley was assassinated and the children along with their

father were placed in the most con-

spicuous position in the nation, it was

predicted that these plans would be

changed and that the children would

either be placed in private and ex-

clusive schools or that they would be

taught by a governess or tutor who

would live at the white house. It was

urged that the attendance of the Roosevelt children in the public

schools would make them constantly

unprotected objects of cranks if the not actual kidnapers.

President Roosevelt laughed at

these fears when after the children had arrived and the question of their education came up. Mrs. Roosevelt, however, was not so certain. Finally

it was arranged that the boys should attend the public schools and that

Ethel should go to the Cathedral

school in Woodley lane. This is an

institution under the supervision of Bishop Satterlee of the episcopal dio-

cese. Ethel will board at the school

during the week, but she will return

to the white house to spend Saturday

and Sunday with her parents. Ker-

mit, who is a sturdy little fellow with

many of his father's traits and who

has an ample supply of self-reliance,

will attend the Preston school, and he

gave it out cold on the day that he

was registered there that if any of the

other boys tried to have fun with him

because he was the president's son he would make it hot for them. Archie

will attend the Force school. Here

he will have as classmates many of the little sons and daughters of the mem-

bers of the diplomatic corps who reside in the aristocratic neighborhood in which the school is located. Theodore, Jr., will continue to attend the boarding school in Mas-

sachusetts which he entered last

year, and Miss Alice, the oldest

daughter of the president, who is ex-

pected to make her debut in society this winter, will not attend school. Quentin, the baby, is too young to go to school, and Mrs. Roosevelt will take care of his instruction until he becomes old enough to learn his A B C's.

be benefited to a greater extent than the cost of the work in front of and adjacent to it, to the center of the street, for that would be a manifest absurdity; therefore, if any lot is assessed less than the cost of the paving pertaining to it the difference between

the assessment and the cost must be paid by the city, for it cannot be tacked on to other property. It would not be right or even reasonable

to go back and assess property fronting on some other street, for that property might be assessed again for its own improvement and subsequent boards of city commissioners might make such assessments as would lead to gross inequalities, for they would not be bound to adopt the same theory as that of their predecessors. We regard it as fair and safe that each street should pay for its own pavement and we think that the city should not be required to pay for any part of the work in front of any lot. We feel that there is one, and only one, just and equitable method of determining the amounts of the several assessments, and that is to tax to each lot the cost of paving to the center of the street in front of it, leaving the street and alley intersections to be paid for by the city out of the general fund. The benefit each lot derives from the improvement, as defined by the statute, is the cost no more and no less and that is the only right way to assess it in a case, such as this, presenting no irregularities in

shape or grade.

THE ASSESSMENT FOR PAVING. In another place we give in common language a synopsis of the statutory method of fixing and collecting the liens for street paving, but nothing is said therein concerning the basis for determining the amount of each assessment by the city commissioners. A great responsibility rests upon these officials, for, with little guidance other than that of common sense, they must find a fair and equitable method of distributing the cost

of the improvement. If one man is permitted to escape with less than his

proper share another man must pay

more; if the city is burdened with a greater assessment than is rightful

that sum must be paid by the entire

body of taxpayers and other improve-

ments must be deferred until it is

made up, for the city sets no time on

its portion of the expense. The statute says that the commissioners, after viewing the property

affected, shall assess the costs of the paving in proportion to the benefits

derived therefrom, but not in excess

of such benefits; they shall report the

lots and tracts benefited or damaged and the several amounts of benefits

and damages; the word "benefits" is

defined as meaning special benefits peculiar to the property as assessed, as distinguished from general benefits to the city at large. It is manifestly contemplated by the law that the owner of each piece of real estate affected by the paving shall be liable for the amount of the benefit he derives from the improvement and shall be allowed the amount of the damage to the property by reason of the work. On Michigan street the lots are of uniform depth and there is no fill or excavation, or other alteration, sufficient to constitute a damage. Eliminating the question of damages, as may fairly be done, the problem is one of benefits alone. If the benefits derived by all the property affected equal the total cost of the work, that is the amount to be distributed among the owners; if the benefits are less than the cost, then the city must pay

ized that the salvation of the railroads and the best interests of the territory they serve required harmonious cooperation in the carrying out of a conservative yet progressive and enlightened policy, insuring fair, equable and

stable rates to all, of which there was

no hope since the transmissouri de-

cision, except by unity of control. This, after many strategic moves, some bloodletting and record-breaking

financial transactions, they have ap-

parently secured."

RAILWAY MANEUVERS and EQUITABLE RATES.

A transportation official who keeps

in close touch with railway matters said in conversation: "The extent to which the community of ownership

has been carried and the results there-

from which are to benefit the shippers

can best be demonstrated by drawing

a line from San Francisco to Newport News, passing through St, Louis, and

another line north and south from the

lakes, through Chicago and St. Louis,

to Galveston. This divides the coun-

try into four parts, which may be de-

signated respectively northeast, south,

northwest and southwest. The northeast section contains what are gener-

ally known as the trunk lines and

their immediate connections. Out-

side of the Wabash, Clover Leaf, New

York, Ontario & Western and a few

minor lines lines of road the railways

are controlled by the Pennsylvania-

Yanderbilt-Morgan companies. The

Pennsylvania group consists of the Pennsylvania systems owned and con-

trolled roads, Baltimore & Ohio,

Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk &

Western; the Vanderbilt-Morgan

group of the New York Central sys-

tem, owned and controlled roads, Erie, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna,

Reading, Big Four and Lake Erie &

Western. While the result has not

been all that the projectors had reason

to hope for, there has been less cause

among shippers for complaint of unstable and discriminative rates than

for some years past, and the curtailment of the practice of making secret

rebates to the large shippers has left more net revenue in the treasuries of the carriers. Whether or not there

will be as much success in maintaining rates in times of lean traffic is yet to be determined. "In the northwest section James Hill, of the Great Northern, and some of his friends in 1895 acquired over a quarter of a million of shares of

Northern Pacific stock at $16 a share. Some disputes caused a severance of relation between the properties; but in 1900 it became evident that Mr. Morgan and Mr. Hill were co-operating. Their plans looking to an outlet for their lumber led them to try to secure the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul in the interest of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, but the price asked by large holders of St. Paul being too high they abandoned the attempt. About the middle of February of this year, when Burlington stock was selling at about 140, Morgan and Hill commenced to acquire the stock and in six weeks had secured control, the stock in the meantime having risen to 190. For this stock the Northern Pacific and Great Northern jointly guaranteed bonds issued at double the par value of the stock. The Burlington is a competitor of the Union Pacific, which had just before acquired the Southern Pacific company 's properties. To protect itself the Union Pacific undertook to purchase a majority of the Northern Pacific stock, and this resulted in the Northern Pacific corner, when the stock sold at the fabulous price of $1,000 a share. The result of the fight was a comprehensive agreement dealing with all the important interests between the Mississippi river and the Pacific coast, including the Great Northen Pacific, Union and Southern Pacific, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chicago & Northwesttern, owning . and controlling 45,000 miles of road and earning some $300,000,000 annually. Thus all the transcontinental roads except the Atchison are brought into close relationship, controlled by Morgan, Hill, Harriman and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., acting for themselves and those whose interests

DENUNCIATION OF

ANARCHY'S ALLIES. Speaking at a reunion of the Twen-

ty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry Colonel P. W. McWhorter said in part:

The killing of President McKinley

was unprovoked by any of the influences which obtained in the cases of President Lincoln and President Gar-

field, and was the result of what is

generally believed to have been a plot of anarchists against the lives of

various supreme rulers of this and

other governments. The people of

America have become so aroused over

this dastardly conspiracy that every

possible safeguard will now be brought

into requisition for the protection of

our public servants, and a relentless

prosecution of such vipers as Czolgosz,

his advisers, or adherents will at once

be entered upon. In my judgment people who advocate anarchy should

not be allowed to live on this conti-

nent, and steps should at once be taken for their banishment from be-

neath the protecting folds of the

American flag.

The liberty of free speech and press,

should be defined by law to restrict

the wicked and silly violence of politi-

cal opponents, who presume to indulge

their evil and dangerous propensities

in the abuse of these blessed privileges,

to the danger of human life and the

existence of our free institutions.

During the past two years we have seen the lamentable spectacle of one

of our republican United States sen-

ators opposing and denouncing our President in and out of his seat in

congress, even in time of war, joining hands with.such men as Edward Atkinson, Henry Wade Rogers, Edwin

Burritt Smith, and others, who

were openly charging the executive

with tyranny and murder, thereby en-

couraging anarchy and the enemy

with which our army was contending.

To these utterances is attributable the death of many of our brave soldiers in the Philippines, who gave up their precious lives as did our immortal McKinley. Well may such men now come to realize their awful work. Well may they now be in 'sackcloth and ashes,' and by every effort possible attempt to escape the torture of regret and remorse. Well may they now strive by

voice and pen to erase the blot they have stamped upon the fair fame of the land of their birth and adoption. They are guilty of sedition: they have encourged resistance to our

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the difference. It will not be con-

tended that any piece of property will are in their charge. These men real-

government, violence against the President and his adherents, and are, in a sense, criminal as accessories before the fact, and should not be spared the just scourge of universal public condemnation. I need not be misunderstood in my reference to one of our United States senators. The people of Illinois remember him well; remember his threat to resign, and how promptly republican clubs, individuals, and the

entire press of the state demanded that he do so at once; remember that he betrayed the trust reposed in him

by the people of Illinois; remember how he disgraced himself by his efforts

to force the country into war with Cuba before the President was pre-

pared, and how he allied himself with

the present day copperheads, the sympathizers of Aguinaldo, thereby

giving encouragement, aid, and com-

fort to rebels in arms against our flag

and country.

How can we consistently wholly blame anarchists for taking up the

cry of 'tyrant' given them by even republican members of the United States

senate, the apostles of prohibition,

ministers of the gospel, and leaders of

the Woman's Christian Temperance union, who would teach them that

our President was an 'unprincipled de-

bauchee,' a 'military despot,' 'shooting down a brave people who were fighting for their liberty?' So thoroughly had Senator Mason identi-

fied himself with the opposition to the President, and his war policy as to be advertised as one of the speakers at the Central Music hall Atkinson antiexpansion meeting held in Chicago.

The newspapers that cartooned Mc-

Kinley and openly denounced and vilified him in their editorials also furnished fuel for the fire of anarchy---encouraged hatred and inspired the assassin until the life of our President was taken. And while we now seek to punish the wicked murderer, let us

not forget those whose pens incited the deed.

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