Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 350, 31 January 1908 — Page 1

RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. vor,. xxxii. o. :i.o. JtlCIIMOMJ. 1X1)., FRIDAY KYEXIXG, JANUARY J!K)S. SIXCSIii: COPY, TEXTS.

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VIGOROUS DEFENSE OF POLICIES IS MADE BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN HIS SPECIAL MESSAGE OF TODAY

REPLIES TO THE ATTACKS MADE UPON HIM CHARGING THAT HE WAS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RECENT FINANCIAL DISTURBANCES WHICH SWEPT

THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. PANIC NOT DUE TO JHE ENFORCEMENT OF NATIONAL LAWS Neither Can It Be Attributed to The Punishment of Those Men Who Willfully Violated Statutes of the Country. RECOMMENDATIONS MADE FOR PASSAGE OF LAWS. One of the Most Important of These Is the Employers' Liability Act Which Is Very Important to Nation. NO REASON FOR ALARM. AST MATERIAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY OF THE PEOPLE WILL PILOT THE COUNTRY THROUGH ALL DISTURBANCES. JUST REGULATION NEEDED. Thinks That Fair Methods Should Be Used in Adjusting and Controlling Affairs of the Interstate Traffic Agencies. Washington. 1. C Jan. Presi dent Roosevelt today transmitted to congress a special message of much importance, as it sets forth the chief executive's side of the controversy that has arisen in reference to his policy toward the corporations and law-breaking aggregation of the country, lie advocates the immediate reenactment, limiting its scope so that It shall apply only to the class of cases as to which the court says it can constitutionally apply, but strengthening its provisions within this scope. Interstate employment being thus covered by an adequate national law, the field of intrastate state employment will be left to the action of the several states. With this clear definition of responsibility the states will undoubtedly give to the performance of their eln4y within their field the consideration of the importance which the subject demands. In part the president says: "I also very urgently advise that a comprehensive ju-t be passed providing for compensation by the government to all employes injured in the government, service. "The same broad principle which should apply to the government should ultimately be made applicable to all private employers. "There is a special bill to which 1 call your attention. Secretary Taft has urgently recommended the immediate passage of a law providing for compensation to employes of the goernment injured in the work of the Isthmian canal, and that MOO.Ooo bo appropriated for this purpose each year. I earnestly hope this U bo done: and that a special bill be passed covering the ease of Yardmaster Bantou. who was injured nearly two years ago while doing his duty, lie is now helpless to support his wife nnd his three little boys. "I again call attention to the need of some action in connection with, the Hbuse of injunctions in labor cases. As regards the rights nnd capital, from uid wrongs of labor, blacklisting to boy-;

rotting, the whole subject is covered investor, the wage-worker, and the Jn admirable fashion by the report of; general public. Tho permanent failthe anthracite coal strike commission, j ure of tho man of property to fulfill' which report should serve as a chart : his obligations would ultimately as- j for the guidance of both legislative sure the wresting from him of the pri- j and executive officers. As regards in- j vileges which he is entitled to enjoy i Junctions, I can do little but repeat .only if he recognizes the obligations! what I have said in my last message ! accompanying them. Those who asto the congress. Even though it were sume or share the responsibility for possible. I should consider it most tin- j this failure are rendering but a poor wise to abolish the use of the process service to the cause which thny be-;

of Injunction. It is necessary in or- lievo ili-y champion, der that the com is may maintain their j 1 do not know whether it is possible, own dignity and in order that they j but if possible, ic U certainly elc'irjnay in effective manner cheek disor- j able, that in connection with measures der and violence. The judge who uses i to restrain stock watering and over-

it cautiously and conservatively, but who. when tho need arises, uses it f3iios?lv. confers the greatest sor - Tier upon our people, and his preemijiftit m-cful'ness as a public servant

should be heartily recognJzedv1 IT But hero is no question inmV uitrrd th:it it lias sometimes been "used heedlessly and "unjustly,, and that some of tlie Injunctions issued inflict grave ami occasionally irreparable wrong upon those enjoined. "Xot only should there be action on certain laws affecting wage earners; there should also be such action on laws better to secure control over the Kreat business concerns engaged in interstate commerce, and especially over the great common carriers. The

Interstate commerce commission : guilty by the courts 0r criminal misshould be empowered, to pass upon i conduct; both have been sentenced to any rate or practice on its own inltia- j pay heavy fines; and each has issued tive. Moreover, it should be provided and published broadcast these state-

that whenever the commission has reason to believe that a proposed advance in ;i rate ought not to be made without investigation, it should have authority to issue an order prohibiting the advance pending examination by the commission. The Interstate Commerce commission should be provided with the means to make a physical valuation of any road as to which it dooms this valuation necessary. In some form the federal government should exercise supervision over the financial operations of our interstate railroads. ''I think that the federal government must, also assume a certain measure of control over the physical operation of railways in the handling of interstate trafiie. "In this connection I desire to repeat my recommendation that railways be permitted to form traffic associations for the purpose of conferring about and agreeing upon rates, regulations, and practices affect ins interstate business in which the members of the association are mutually interested. "In reference to the Sherman antitrust law, I repeat the rocommendations made in my message at the opening of the present congress, as well as in my message to the previous congress. The attempt, in this law to provide in sweeping terms against all combinations of whatever character, if technically in restraint of trade as such restraint has been defined by the courts, must necessarily bo either tutiie or mischievous, and sometimes (both. The present, law makes some i combinations illegal, although they I may bo useful to the country. On the other hand, as to sonic; huge combina tions which are both noxious and Ule gal. even if the action undertaken i against them under tho law by the government is successful, the result may be to work but a minimum benefit to the public Even though the combination be broken up and a small measure of reform thereby produced, tho real good aimed at can not be obtained, for such real good can come only by a thorough and continuing supervision over the acts of the combination in all its parts, so as to prevent stock watering, improper forms of competition, and, in short, wrongdoing generally. The law should correct that portion of the Sherman Act which prohibits all combinations of the character above, described, whether they be reasonable or unreasonable; but this effective and thoroughgoing supervision by tb, National government of all the operations of the big interstate business concerns. Superficially it may seem that the laws, the passage of which I herein i again advocate for I have repeatedly advocated them before are not eounected. Hut in reality they are eonj nected. Each and every one of these laws, if enacted, would represent part 'of the campaign against privilege, part i of the campaign to make the class of : great property holders realize that i property has its duties no loss than its rights. When the courts guarantee to the employer, as they should, the rights of the employer, and to property the rights of property, they should no less emphatically make it evident that they will oxaet from property a.nd from the employer the duties which should necessarily accompany these riehts; and hitherto our laws hae failed in precisely this point of enforcing the performance of duty initio man of property toward tho man who works for him, by the man of great wealth, especially if he uses that wealth in corporate form, toward the i capitalization there sneuld be ; urea taken to prevent at least the exos - . s?r forms of gambling in securities and commodities. Mich as necking: , large sales, of what men do not pos- (

so ss and cornering" the market. legitimate purchases of commodities

and of stocks and securities for investment have no connection what ever with purchases of stocks or other securities or commodities on a margin for speculative and gambling purposes. It would seem Una the federal government could at least, act by forbidding the use of the mails, telegraph and telephone wires for mere gambling in stocks and futures, just as it does in lottery transactions. I inclose herewith a statement issued by the chief of the bureau of corporations in answer to certain stat ments made by and on behalf of the agents of the Standard Oil corporation and a letter of the attorney general containing an answer to certain statements, made by the president of the Santa Fe Railway company. The Standard Oil corporation and the railway company have both been found ments, asserting their innocence and denouncing as improper the action of the courts and juries in convicting them of guilt. These statements are very elaborate, are very ingenious, nnd are untruthful in important particulars. The letter and inclosnre from Mr. Heney sufficiently illustrate tho methods of the high officials of the Santa Fe and show the utter falsity of their plea of ignorance, the similar plea of the Standard Oil being equally without foundation. The attacks by these great corporations on the administration's actions have been given a wide circulation throughout the country, in the newspapers and otherwise, by those witters and speakers who, consciously or unconsciously, act as the representatives of predatory wealth of the wealth accumulated on a giant, scale by all forms of iniquity, ranging from the oppression of wageworkers to un fair and unwholesome methods of . crushing out competition, and to do-! fratiding the public by stock jobbing! and the manipulation of securities.! Certain wealthy men of this stamp, whose conduct should be abhorrent to every man of ordbrary decent eoiv-o science, ami who commit the hideous wrong of teaching our young men that ; phenomenal business success must or-, dinarily be based on dishonesty, have during tho last few months made it apparent that they have banded togeth-; or to work for a reaction. Their on-j deavor is to overthrow and discredit' all who honestly administer the law, to prevent any additional legislation' which would check and restrain them, ! and to secure if possible a freedom from all restraint which will permit; every unscrupulous wrong doer to do what he wishes unchecked provided hf! has enough money. The only way to counteract the movement in which these men are engaged is to make clear to the public just what they have dono in the past and just what they are seeking to accomplish in the present. The administration and those who support its views are not only not engaged in an assault, on property, but are strenuous upholders of the rights of property. Under no circumstances would we countenance attacks upon law-abiding property, or do aught but condemn those who hold up rich men as being evil men because of their riches. On The contrary, our who'.e effort is to insist upon conduct, and neither wealth nor property nor any other class distinction, as being the proper standard by which to judge the actions of men. Sweeping attacks upon all property, upon all men of means, without regard to whether they do well or ill, would sound the death-knell of the republic: and such attacks become inevitable if decent citizens permit those rich men whose lives are corrupt and evil to domineer in swollen pride, unchecked and unhindered, over the destines of this country. We act in no vindictive spirit, and wo are no respecters of persons. We seek to protect the property of every man who acts honestly, of every corporation that represents wealth honestly accumulated and honestly used. We seek to stop wrongdoing, and we desire to punish tho wrongdoers only so far as is necessary to achieve this end. The books and pamphlets, the controlled newspapers, the speeches by public or private men to which I re fer, are usually and especially in the (Continued on Page Seven.) S GIVEN SALOON KEEPERS Must Keep Minors Out of Busi ness Places. The police yesterday notified the proprietors of all saloons and pool rooms that they would be prosecuted unless i they took prompt steps to prevent min-! nrs from lo.iflntr in their nhieps Thi 1 police also state that all minors found loafing in sn!oons or pool rooms be p'osecuted for a v iolation of a ordinance coverijis this o3eae. will city

WALTER MILES HOPES TO WIU Will Represent Earlham in the State Contest.

Walter Miles, of Earlham, who will represent the college in the annual oratorical contest in Indianapolis, has been spending much time on his oration and hopes to carry off the t'ir-t lienors this year. Mr. Miles represented Earlham at the state contest last year, but was awarded fifth place. A number of the students will go to the capital city to attend this contest. A rate of ?l.."o has been secured with the privilege of a stopover until Sufiday night. The colleges in the contest this year are Hanover, Franklin. De Pauw, Butler, Wabash, Notre Dame and Earlham. BUTLER TO ADVISE CARE OF INSANE Will Probably Make Recommendations for the Care of Those Unfortunates Awaiting Admission to Easthaven WILL ADVISE SPECIAL QUARTERS IN JAIL. Plans for Erecting Building for The Insane Is mpractical, It Is Declared and None Will Be Erected. Timothv Nicholson today notified County Auditor Deinas Coe, that Amos! W. Butler, secretary of the state board of charities, would appear before the county commissioners when they meet Monday of next week. It expected that Mr. Butler will adviso the commissioners in regards to the proposed plan of providing suitable quarters for insane people for whom the eounty is responsible pending admission to tho Easthaven insane hospital, lie will also give his opinion concerning the improvement of the present county jail conditions. It is not known whether Mr. Ihitler will recommend the erection of a newjail building or the remodeling of the present jail. Whatever recommendation is made. it. is regarded as an assured faot that Mr. lhitler will advise the quartering of the insane in the jail, a special department being provided for them. The plan of erecting a building for the Insane at Easthaven or the county infirmary, is regarded as impractical, it is thought by Mr. But lei . About three months ago. at the instigation of the county board of charities Mr. Butler made a thorough inspection of the Wayne couuty jail, so he is fa - miliar with the conditions existing in that institution. The county commissioners do not. favor the erection of a new jail or a work house, owing to the heavy expense. It is stated that the cost of I erecting sfich a building would be in j the neighborhood of siooioo. To secure funds to build such an institution J it would be necessary to increase the tax rate and to float another bond isj sue. This county is still paying interest on court house building bonds and recently a bond issue was made for the bridge which is to be placed over the Whitewater river in the south end of i the city. VIOLENT SPORTS NOT NEEDFULTODEVELOPMENT President Eliot of Harvard Is Skeptical. Boston. Jan. 31. The "violent and fierce" sports of the present day are not necessary to the development of a martial spirit, declared President. Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard univerI sity. last night, in an address on "Har vard Fifty Years Ago." To prove this statement he stated that fifty years ago strenuous athletics were comparatively unknown, yet Harvard sent to distinguished military service over l.'JoO graduates and students. Interesting comparisons of Harvard fifty years ago and the present day were made by the speaker. Should the university grow as much in the next fifty years as in the last fifty, he said. Harvard would havo r.T.e.iOO students. THE WEATHER PROPHET.! INDIANA Snow Friday night: ly warmer: Saturday snow. slighti 1 OHIO Increasing cloudiness and not 1 cold Saturday.

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WILL II BE PRISON, FREEDOM OR INSANE WARD FOR THAW?

Jury Sitting in the Famous Trial Was This Morning Charged and Sent to Deliberate the Case. JEROME'S FINAL SPEECH WAS WEAKER THAN LAST. Not Once Did He Attempt Oratory Confining Himself to Plain Statements of Facts As He Interpreted Them. New York, Jan. ol. Judge Dowliuj charged the Thaw jury this ruornin; and the jury retired at 11:34 this fore noon. The judge told the jury the burden of proof was on the prosecution and warned the jurymen to weigh the evidence carefully. The court then adjourned subject to call. Before the jury in the Thaw trial yesterday, Jerome laid down the last argument of the people in the case of the murder of Stanford While. As in Mr. Littleton's speech, District Attorney Jerome began his address in a low, conversational tone, which only reached the heights of eloquence after he had been speaking for an hour or metre. Thaw listened to his arraignment with apparent indifference, lie listened to a change of front on the art of Jerome that was amazing. For Jerome, in the course of his speech, said: "I believe that Evelyn Thaw's story, in its essential details, is as she described in her story. It is true that these places were supported at enormous expense by a band of degenerates and perverts." It must be said that Mr. Jerome's argument was far weaker than that he put forth in the first trial. For a time it seemed as though he were summing up for the defense. He attacked Stanford White, saving that he was associated with degenerates. At this period of the summing up j Evelyn Thaw wore a "smile that would ! not come off." letter on, when the shame of her own life was revealed, ! she became more serious. Mr. Jerome throughout his speech j was argumentative, but not oratorical. In his speech last year Mr. Jerome i passionately defended Stanford White, ch clariiig that his spirit hovered e ver near the courtroom crying out to be heard in defense; 'crying for some one to tell the truth and protect a charac ter Evelyn Nesbit had sought to blacken. J The prosecutor yesterday took up one by one the acts of Thaw on the roof garden and immediately followin;; the tragedy, and asserted they all fell upon "the monster" who had done him many wrongs, against whom he had many grievances, and the premeditated murder came to startle the whole world. Thaw's movements were char- ! acterized by the utmost deliberation, Mr. Jerome said. "We find Thaw armed on the garden armed for a single purpose -.armod for the man he walked up to and killed by three bullets. Was He Really Insane? "Is there anyhing insane about all of this? He was nervous as a child; he had fits of tantrums; he didn't like algebra; he was always pah with a staring eye; he may have had outbursts here and there, but what has all that to do with this case? You are to consider only if Thaw had the capacity to know he had a pistol in his pocket, if he knew it was Stanford White toward whom he w as w alKing. and. if he knew the at was against the law. That is all. "The law specifically says that a weak or disordered mind is no defense for criminal responsibility. Partial or incipient insanity is no excuse when the accused is capable of forming a correct perceptiou of the nature or quality of his act. That is all. Concede that Thaw was crazy on the train: concede that be was crazy in London, in Monte Carlo, in Paris, in Pittsburg, where you will, but is there any eontent ion here that Thaw- has been crazy during all of his years of life': Is there any contention that he has been crazy during the two years he has been in the Tombs? Is there any contention that he is crazy as he sits here before you? Then why crazy when h calmly and deliberately shot. Stanford White? He read again to the jury the affidavit made by Mrs. Thaw last year, in which she declared that for four genorations in the direct line of descent there had been no epilepsy or trace of insanity in the family of the defendant. This affidavit, the District Attorney asserted, swept forever out of the case all talk of heredity. Mr. Jerome finally entered upon a detailed con- ( Continued on P.igo 5. v n.)

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FEATHERBED CAUSES DEPARTMENT RUN Small Blaze at Home of Moses Gee.

There was groat excitement in the north eiid of Richmond yesterday evening about supper time. The cause oi the excitement was a blazing feather bod at the home of Moses G. e, colored. Fourtot nth and North F streets. Smoke poured out of the dwelling in clouds and when the firemen arrived on the scene it looked as though the building was doomed. Investigation disclosed the fact, that nothing but a feather bed was atire. It was extinguished in short order. STRANDED ACTORS SHOVELING COAL Two Members of Stetson's Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., Defunct, in the City. LODGERS AT CITY BUILDING REMAINED THERE SO LONG THAT THEY WERE PUT TO WORK TO PAY FOR THEIR LODGINGS 'TIS THE SAME OLD STORY. " 'Twas the ghost of a troupe Which was stranded in Hamilton. 'Twas the ghost of a troupe Which was only out for glory." badly murmuring this popular refrain Tom Hobart and Frank Scott, colored, who are survivors of a Stet son's Uncle Tom's Cabin troupe, finan cially wrecked at Hamilton, O., wan dered into the city the first of this week and took tip lodgings in the base ment of the city building. Today it was discovered that the men were still guests of tho city. Janitor Frank Posther of tho city building dtx-s not object to the accommodation of transient unfortunates but be objects to uninvited guests becoming permanent lodgers. The case was reportedkto the police -I this -Worn ins and the two stranded troupers were brought before Sergeant McManus. They stated that they wero at broke and that the clouds contained no silver linings for them. "When the company lit in Hamilton, tho manager's wallet was as empty as a vacant lot. Our reception committee was a 'house' which contributed, all told, about. $ t.T.O. This was the blow that put the company on the rocks. Link: Eva went weeping back to mamma. I'lie-lo Tom got a job as bctotblack, while mo and Scott hit the grit for Richmond. Sail tale, aint it boss?" was the statement made by Hobart. To pay for their lodging and to escape imprisonment, Hobart and Scott were placed at work this morning carrying coal into the city building baso-me-nt. When this job has been eompletedi tho two companions in adversi ty will leave Richmond via National road, for Columbus, O. GAMBLERS WORKING AGAINST MEASURE Do Not Like Governor Hughes Race Track Bill. Albany, X. Y.. Jan. ."1 Seldom has the legislature had as hard a nut to crack as is presented in the Hughes anti-race betting bill, which became an active issue toeiay. l no femes committee of the two houses will hold a public hearing on Fe-b. 1!. Senator Agnew, who introduced tie main bill in the senate, said today all persons opposed o gambling will bo lined up in its favor. The racing in te rests, represented by the Jockey club of New York, have been working quiet ly and their pressure is being felt. ROBERSON GAVE SECOND LECTURE Entertaining Event Was Last Night at Earlham. Frank K. Roberson of Chicago, gave the second of his series of lectures on South America in the auditorium at Earlham last night. His subject wa-5 "Brazil and the East Coast." The lantern slides which Mr. Roberson use are very vivid, having been colored un - der the microscope. The fact that Mr. Roberson is a very interesting talker, makes the lectures worth one's while to attend.

BANK OFFERS TO BOY OFF CANDIDATES FOR ' TREASURER

Frank B. Jenkinson Made Sensational Charges in State ment Published Today That May Lead to Investigation. SAYS HE WAS APPROACHED INDIRECTLY WITH OFFER. He Refused It However and Will Stick to His RaceBank's Candidate May Be Scratched From Ballot. Frank R Jenkinson in an advertisement appearing in the Palladium today, makes sensational charges that u local bank, tho name not being mentioned, has attempted to bribe him to withdraw from the republican nomination for county treasurer. The bank in epiestion. Jenkinson avers, is supjtorting one tf the candidates for this office' and alarmed by the progress its candidate's opponents are making, is prepared to buy off all opposition. Mr. Jenkinson iu bis advertisement, charges that recently he was indireetly approached by an official of tho bank and told that in case ho would withdraw from the race, all tb-j expenses he has acquired up to da'o would be paid and In addittoti ho would be given for each day he has campaigned for the office. Ac cording to Jenkinson he refiist d to act-opt this bribe and he as-sures hi." friends that he is In the fight to tho bitter end. If Jenkinson can provo the sensational charges made bv him. it will lit up to the county central committee, in compliance with the primary election regulations recently made, to scratch the name of tho candidate attacked by Jenkinson from the ticket. The primary election rules prorldo that no candidate shall use money or knowingly sanction the use of money by his supporters In Tin"VTfbrt to secure the nomination for the office ho desires. The charges preferred by Mr. Jenkinson will be thoroughly Investigated by the central committee without loss of time. Mr. Jenkinson makes his charges as follows: "A certain bank in Richmond atked a trienel of mine to itioitoso to mo m behalf of their candidate that thf would pay all the expenses I have been at up till now and would pay me .'. per day for my time tip till now if I would conse-nt to withdraw in favor of tluir man. I sent word to them I was not for sale and under no condition could I be bought. I am in this race for treasurer of Wayne county to a finish, and I hope the voters of Wajne county will stand by me with their support. CUBAN ITCH IS NOW PREVALENT Physicians Assert That There Are a Number of Cases In Richmond. DISEASE IS DESCRIBED. IT IS VERY SIMILAR TO SMALLPOX AND ORDINARY GRIP AT THE BEGINNING, BUT ERUPTIONS COME QUICKER. Do you think you have tbe grip. or the smallpox, or the chickenpox? Maybe you haven't any of these di-se-ases. In all probability you have the Cuban itch, which is a blood relative of all thee. At the present time, physicians folate there are seori of cases of this nature in the -ity and it is probable that it w ill be tsorne time before the contagion is stamped out. In th- first st.-ures of the Cuban itch, loe-al physicians have had great difficulty in distinguishin it from the smallpox or tho chickenjiox. It also has many symptoms of the grip. "The Cuban itch is a degenerate form of smallpox." a physician described it today. It breaks out all over the body anel c-auses much sufferim?. There are several cases of smallpox in the city ; and many homes In the city where i there are cases of Cuban itch have ! been quarantined on first report, on ; the supposition that the victims were suffering from smallpox, The breaking out on tho body of a j Cuban itch victim comes quicker than I the iuptions which appoax on the ! body of a rmallpox victim. In the I first stage of smallpox the victim Ui first seized with &ohR of the etr-marh. I and a general body wiren-s. Fever sets in rapidly. After a lapse of two i j or thro days ' that eruptions it is the general will appoar. thn rule pus .ill form in each eruption.