Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 183, 10 May 1909 — Page 8
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BIG LIBEL TRIAL STIBS THE C0I1G0
Two American Missionaries Are Made Defendants In the Suit.
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CASE, WHICH 18 SET FOR MAY 20, IS TO BE A TEST OF THE CHARGES MADE ON MALADMINISTRATION OF AFFAIRS. London, May 10. Air white men iu the Congo Free State are Interested in the trial for libel of two American missionaries, the Rev. William Morrison, and the Rev. W. II. Sheppard, which will begin in Leopoldville May 20. This case Is expected to be a test between the Belgian government and the American missionaries who have long made themselves a thorn in its flesh by their charges of maladminis
tration and oppression of the natives. The suit is brought by one of the concessionaire companies called the "Kasal trust,v which has' a monopoly of rubber gathering in the Kasat region. It claims $20,000 damages from each of the missionaries for calumnious denunciation. Trie Belgian government holds half the stock of the Kasai trust, and a majority of its directors are Belgian officials, so that the suit may be considered practically one of the Belgian government against the missionaries. Charges of Missionaries. In "substance the charges the missionaries have made are those contained In the official reports of the late American consul general at Boma, James A. Smith, and the British consul, Capt. W. G. ' Theslger. They are briefly, that the officials levy upon the natives oppressive so-called taxes to be paid in rubber: that whole villages, including women and children are Impressed by the soldiers for gathering the rubber; that .they are compelled, to travel many miles to the rubber forests and sleep there for more than a week under, unhealthy conditions; that they are cruelly punished for failure to fulfill the. taxes imposed and that so large a portion of their
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GIVES MORE PLAY TIME If you now begin your work at 7 o'clock in the morning, what would you think about starting at 5. A movement that originated in, the European cities to save time now spent in sleep has spread to this country. It is being advocated at Cincinnati by the mayor and city officials. It is to be put in actual practice at Connersville. Under the arrangement, the time actually employed in work is the same. The start is made earlier in the day, however, and more time then is obtained for recreation or other diversion before night falls. The man who quits work at 6 o'clock in the evening and has but an hour before dark would cult at 4 o'clock. He would put in as much time at work as under his old system and acquire more daylight for his own. The only loss would be in the hours spent in sleep.
The plan is only feasible in the sum
mer months.
time is taken for gathering these taxes that they are unable to cultivate crops and raise food necessary for their support. American Consul to Watch Trial.
Messrs. Morrison and Sheppard are members of the American Presbyterian mission. The American consul, W. H. Handley, has been instructed by the government to proceed from Boma to Leopoldville to watch the trial, which will be conducted by Belgian officials. Some twenty' American missionaries are stationed in the Congo and as nearly all of them have leveled the same accusations against the administration, the outcome of that suit will have an important bearing upon their future there. A judgment for the Kasai trust will be officially a vindication of the Belgian exploitation of the Congo.
ROOSEVELT ASKED
TO EMPLOY MAGIC
Superstitious Natives Believe
Colonel Can Prevent A Drought.
ATTORNEY GENERAL IS
IN SEARCH OF EVIDENCE
Bingham Has Filed Action
Against the Alleged "Insur
ance Trust" and Is Now on
sAn Eastern Trip.
I i fl l Li
CALL HIM SWANA TUMBO
IF IT DOESN'T RAIN SHORTLY AND ROOSEVELT DON'T RE TURN SOON THEY WILL GO OUT HUNTING FOR HIM.
WHEN WOMEN REGISTER. A Hotel Clerk Explain Why a Blotter Is Necessary. "Hotel clerks get te be great observers of human nature." said an old hotel 'lobbyist" "During the many hours out of each day that I spend warming this chair 1 have learned many tricks of their trade which go to prove my-statement "In fact, this clerk here has a peculiar trick of his own which shows how keen an observer be is. If yon watch him at work you will find whenever a woman Is registering he holds a blotter so as to hide the other names on the page. At first when I noticed It I thought that he was merely holding the blotter In readiness to use it on the newly written name, but when I found that be did It only when a woman wa registering my cariosity got the better of me, and I asked the
'Why,' said . he, "women are the most nervous creatures In the world. I bold that blotter up to show that I am not watching them write their names and at the same time to keep them from trying to excel the other handwriting on the page. If they noticed that 1 was watching them closely 1t Is a safe" bet that they would get nervous and make an awful botch of their signatures trying to be fancyl On the other hand. If they saw a particularly pretty signature on the next tine the chances are that they would try to improve theirs with a flourish or two, which generally means a choice blot to be scratched ont by years truly I SceMcd to test his theory by looktnST over; a woman's snootoer while she registered, The result was just what b c It wcs& teVKflwittt to
Nairobi, East Africa, May 10. Two new cases of small pox were reported among the natives at Machakos, forty miles from the headquarters of the Roosevelt party. The Roosevelt party however, is not believed to be in the slightest danger. The medicine men of the Masai tribe "laws and the prophets" to the ignorant natives, have announced that they have seen an evil star which presages a drought and fearful famine and pestilence. There are no signs of a drought yet, but the natives are so agitated that . they are waiting for Bwana Tumbo, alias Theodore Roosevelt, to return, when he is ,to drive
away the influence of the evil spirit. In fact if it does not rain within a few days, the natives will not wait for Mr. Roosevelt's return, but will go In search of him and tell him of the evils that await them if he doesn't use his magic. The last word from the hunting party was that they had found the trail of several giraffes and were beating their way into the southwesterly direction.
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At the meeting of the directors of
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building. That purchased at the be
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NOT DRUGS Food did it.
After using laxative and cathartio medicines from childhood, a case of
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Grape-Nuts, in a few days. "From early childhood I suffered
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digestive organs were partially para
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(Special Correspondent.) Indianapolis, Ind., May 10. Attor
ney General Bingham has gone east
to get evidence to use in the suit which he filed in the superior court in this county Saturday afternoon to break up the fire insurance trust. He
believes he will be able to get valuable
pointers on the trip.
The suit filed by Bingham is of
great importance to not only insurance people, but to the business people of
the state. All of the 130 companies against whom the ' suit is directed are foreign companies, that is they belong in other states. No Indiana companies are included. It is charged in the complaint that all of these companies have entered into a combine known as the Western Union, the purpose of which is to fix rates for fire insurance. This Western Union has its headquarters in Chicago, and has a state bureau in Indiana, with a branch local bureau .in every city in the state. The branch bureaus are in charge of some local insurance man whose duty it is to Inspect every policy written by any agent of these companies and see that the rates fixed by the Western Union are maintained and that no policy is written at cut rates.
Liable to Expulsion. Any company that writes a policy
below the rate fixed in the Western
Union schedule is liable to expulsion from the union. There are a good many companies that do not belong to this union, and most of them maintain the same rates that are charged by the companies that belong to the union, though some of them write business at cut rates.
The complaint alleges that the com
panies in the Western Union use what
is known as the Dean schedule In fixing rates for insurance in Indiana, and that their-rates are made uniform by that schedule. It alleges that this schedule enables the companies using it to fix rates at an exorbitant figure.
In other words, it charges that the in
surance rates in Indiana are too 'high, and that this condition is due to the
tact that the 130 companies have en
tered into an illegal combine for the
purpose of keeping insurance rates up.
Collects Long Time. Mr. Bingham has been collecting ev
idence for some time to use against the companies in this suit, and he says he is prepared to show unlawful conspiracy among the companies.
The complaint asks the court for an injunction to , prevent the companies
from doing anything under their com
binatlon agreement. If the permanent
Injunction is granted at the end of the
trial it will mean that no company will
be allowed to compel its agents to send
his policies through the local inspec
tion bureau for inspection and approval, because the Inspection bureau Is the
representative of the combine. In that case an agent would send his report direct to bis company, and no other company would know what rate he was charging for insuranme. It might
mean a war of insurance rates, but it
would mean the breaking up of the in
su ranee trust that has held sway in In
diana for years.
Prom every part of the state there
has for a long time been a complaint
against the rates insurance companies were charging for their policies. The
rates have been denounced as entirely
too high, but no relief has ever been given by the companies. It was this
general wall from over the state that caused Attorney General Bingham to
start his suit on behalf af the state to
break up the fire insurance trust.
WAY .
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Banquet Given By District Of Columbia Citizens Fruitless
Washington, D. C, May lO. Wash-i
ington is still rubbing its eyes In amazement over the jolt handed to it last
night by President Taft, when he
spoiled the pretty plan our leading citi
zens had framed up to get from the president the political favors for which they havo been crying ever so long.
One of the soro spots In the District
of Columbia has always been that its
residents, had no voto either in their
own affairs or in the nation's; have no
representative in congress and have
nothing to say about their taxes. Tbe
president appoints the district com
missioners and the judges and con
gress handles the laws and the taxes.
So our leading citizens fed Mr. Talt
a beautiful $20 plate banquet and whis
pered all kinds of: soft things in his ear to win their point. The dinner was announced as merely to be a good fellowship affair, with plenty to eat and drink and a lot of the usual kind of laudatory speeches.
When Mr. Taft had stowed away the
$20 wdrth of food and had beamed on
everybody, so heartily that they saw Immediate ; victory in sight, the little plot was sprung. Instetad of a long list of toasts there was just one speech. That was by Justice Wendell P. Stafford of the supremo court of the District of Columbia. And he got right' down to the
point It was a plea for suffrage, for
one senator and two representatives
In congress for the district and for
home rule. , . ' , When he got through and the beam
ing president arose everybody figured it was all over and they would get
their hopes at once. But they did not President Taft told them he was not in
favor of suffrage for the district, was
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opposed to the idea of congressional representation and was., considering cutting out the present board off three commissioners and centering all pow
er In one man.
Too
The Penalty of
Bo Ton dent seem to care a
whether I mm comfortable i re not as good a wtfo as
was to her husband. As lane an he lived she Was pel foe My devoted n him and never tired off seeling his happiness. Che-Yea, and what wan the result? lie got to lere her to wc3 till ho made n provision in hie wCl that
she shoold not
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