Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 275, 11 August 1909 — Page 4

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RsMtolph G. Lceda.. Charlea M. Morsao. W. R. PouBdatone . . .Manaatna Editor. Xtm Kdltvr. v SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5.00 per year (In advance) or 10c per week. ; MAIL. SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, in advance $5.00 Six months,: in advance 2.60 One month, in advance 45 RURAL ROUTES. One year, in advance $2.50 Six montlm, in advance 1-50 One month, in advance 25 Address changed as often as desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please remit ' with order, which should be given for a specified term; name will not be entered until payment Is received. Entered at Richmond, Indiana, post office as second class mall matter. Tie Aasociation of AaWtUera (Now York City) ha sssadses aae MTtilioi to the ctreulatfea J t sals yhUittom. Only tke fUrurss t soafuMt la lu tmrt am r M AMMUtloa. J fsTl Oaaaraii BEVERIDGE AND THE TOBACCO TRUST The announcement of the program for Senator Beveridge's work in the next session of congress will meet with general approval in the state of Indiana. There may be some dissenting voices heard in the offices of the American Tobacco Co. Briefly, the senior senator from Indiana has in mind the abolition of cupons and prizes with which the Tobacco Trust is .wont to give battle to the Independent companies. Everyone knows that the resources of the American Tobacco Company are so great that it is possible for them to run their business at a loss while fighting the independent companies. .'In the late tariff war; in which Beverldge gave battle to the greatest corporations in the land, he showed the most exhaustive information of the Tobacco Trust. In the beginning of j the fight in the senate the announcement of Beverldge that within twentyfour hours after he commenced to attack the American Tobacco Company, that agents from all over the United States skilled lobbyists and . attorneys would be In Washington rallying to the defense of the giant trust gives an inkling of what Beverldge has to contend with in his attempts to carry out his program. And then came the agents and the lobbyists then came the men who whispered into the ears of the senators with corporation leanings. Then went letters forth to all the dealers telling them that it would hurt their trade if the American Tobacco Company were injured In the slightest. The result was that in spite of the protests of the company the legislation against it was incorporated in the senate bill. But It was taken out in the conference by the good friends of the trust. Hence the renewed fight in the fall. SA VING THE FORESTS "The Nation that will lead the world will be a Nation of ; homes. The object of the great conservation movement ' Is just this, to make our country a permanent and prosperous home for ourselves and for our children, and for our children's children, and It is a task that is worth the best thought and effort of any and all of us." So spoke Gifford Pinchot at Spokane yesterday. As head of the United States Forestry Service one can read between the lines. He scarcely mentioned forests and the relation of trees to rainfall and the obvious con nection of rainfall with the prosperity of the country. But those who have followed the subject dearest to Pinchot's heart know that that was in his mind. Here In Wayne county where our woodlots are becoming smaller and smaller; and thinner and .thinner each year, this problem of rainfall is becoming greater and greater. ioo mucn ram m one season of the year and none at all In another season creeks flooded one time and dry as a bone the following months that Is the price we pay for cutting all our forests and not replanting, Not the least serious result of defor estation is the soil Itself. Erosion takes place that Is the washing away of the fine top soil which is so neces sary to good crops. That happens every flood time when the water be comes the color of chocolate soda. It takes thousands of years to produce this soil the elements have been working years and years, to produce this fine soliand we in America, are apt to view it with extreme compla cency when the gullies are washing deep In our " pasture lots and corn fields. That Is what Pinchot means when he says that the farmer has a very serious duty to perform as the "back-bone of the country." He means

that the conserving of the country for coming generations is just as important as the production of the present. "Our country began as a Nation of farmers. During the periods that gave it its character, when our independence was won and when our Union was preserved, we were preeminently a nation of farmers. We can not, and we ought not, to continue exclusively, or even chiefly, an agricultural country, because one man can raise food enough for many. But the farmer who owns his land is still the backbone of this Nation; and one of the things we want most is more of him."

Verse and Worse REVAMPS FROM THE OBVIOUS There was once a young Sparrow named by his Fond Parents (who were of English extraction) with the appel lation of Pierrot which has nothing whatever to do with the story. Pierrot was a rugged, roving Roisterer. Ha lived in the street and looked with envy up at the Window wherein there a Beautiful and Gilded Cage. His great enemy was a Robin who made great sport of Pierrot. Every morning the Robin would greet him with the sarcastic remark: "It's the Early Bird that gets the Breakfast Food." This began to wear on the nerves of Pierrot Not long after the wear and tear had started Pierrot on the way to the insane ward, a vagrant Eyetaliano craftily caught him in a trap. Not content with that he put a coat of yellow easter egg dye on him and sold him to the Very Rich Persons who owned the Gilded Cage. To the Robin who is scratching for his breakfast there is left only the alternative of being a Philosopher or a Socialist. Pierrot will hold his job a3 an occupant of the Gilded Cage until he takes an overdose of Bird Food. All of which is slightly immoral but Obvious. Quite Obvious. . C. B. FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received. Editor Palladium: With our city election a little more than two months in advance of us at which time we as citizens will be call ed to make choice as to who shall constitute our city government. I think the present, now, a measureable opportunity to study what qualifications should be produced by the man seek ing our suffrage to maintain the pres ent high standard of our "Panic Proof City" which requires no exaggeration in saying, is the most beautiful city in the state. Unquestionably efforts will be made to create a partisan division of our citizenship, and great stress will be laid upon "Party loyalty." but fellow citizens in the selecting of officials for municipal honors, is it not time to vote as men and not as partisans? 1 have no crow to pick with any one, nor is it my intention to make personal references. What I want to see is a city government presided over by a mayor who can be liberal minded enough to allow the city needs to take the place of party principles or dictation. Our mayor should be the embodi ment of honesty, sharp and decisive, but none the less just in his rulings. whose business tact and previous life bears the mark of morality, integrity, veracity, the trinity of virtues that will Insure confidence. There are a number of events on the agendum for future consideration. events which means the saving, or ex travagantly spending thousands of dol lars. These expenditures are made with your money, the city business is your business, and the officials of the city government your employes, and applying the principle of general bust ness to that of the city business wha significance can be placed on the fact that any man applying for a position of trust is termed a loyal supporter of any party? None. Absolutely none. Why deviate from the business pru dence and sagacity applied to private affairs in your employment of city em ployes, known as city officials? The fact is patent to all observers that Graft and Corruption is always to be found where public office has been monopolized by any one party for any unusual length of time and the best preventative is to see that the candi date measures up to the standard of your conception of what he should be, and under no circumstances to allow his partisan endorsement to dwarf your judgment. I should be glad Mr. Editor, if space is available, to contribute from time to time, the various features and ques tions likely to confront our councilmanic body, and thereby emphasize the necessity of careful judgment In selec tion, which care can not but perpet uate the state wide reputation of be ing a progressive up to date city. Yours truly. ALPH. Items Gathered in From Far and Near Teach the Children to Swim. From the New York Evening Mail. The present summer has brought forth no bit of reading more distress ing than the report of Supt. Longfel low of the United States volunteer life saving service for the month of June. According to his document there were 1,126 drownings In the

United States and. 106 in Canada In

that one month, as against 621 in-the United States and eighty-one in Canada in the month of May. In the state of New York during the thirty days of June 114 persons met death by drowning, fifty-two of whom were children. The drownings in Pennsylvania numbered ninety-eight, of whom fifty-seven were below the age of twenty-one. Massachusetts reported eighty-one cases and Illinois sixty-one. These figures tell a heartrending tragedy of the outing season. How many of those who lost their lives in our rivers, lakes and canals might have been saved had they been able to swim no one can say, but the figures as to the ages of the victims indicate that a large proportion were children and presumably unable to take care of themselves in the water. There is in effable regret in the thought that many of them might still be among the living had they been instructed in youth in one of the simplest and most healthful of outdoor recreations. The art of swimming is so easily mastered that there is little or no ex cuse for ignorance of It in any community bordering a lake, a pond or a stream, be it large or small. It is as graceful as dancing and tenfold more wholesome; as stimulating as tennis and far less difficult to do well. One might almost wish that there were at tached to every school, public and private, a fully equipped swimming pool in which, under capable instructors lessons in swimming should be com pulsory on every pupil. Bingham to Chicago? From the New York Times. If Chicago can get Theodore A. Bingham to fill the position of chief of its police, Chicago will be well served. He has had the benefit of richly varied experience in a similar office here, and has qualities that should help to make him popular wherever he goes. The reformation of the Chicago police force is not likely to be an easy task, but Gen. Bingham has never shirked hard work. We understand that he has made no effort to secure the place lately vacated by Chief Shippy, but that the movement in favor of his ap pointment originated in Chicago. Tip for Dr. Eliot. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Eliot would have more support if he had suggested getting up a new political party. Revenge! From New Orleans Times-Democrat. Can it be that Georgia's proposed tax on soda water is aimed at the ladies who electioneered for prohibition? TWINKLES (By Philander. Johnson.) Unimpressed. "There was a time when they put men in jail for debt," said the bill collector, severely. "Well," answered the fretted citi zen, "I don't know but a good, stout jail, where your creditors couldn't send in cards or call you up on the telephone, would be a great deal of a comfort." "Don't go 'roun' complainin' 'bout de way yoh friends has treated you," said Uncle Eben. "When a man air got de right kind o' friends it's giner' ly because he didn' deserve 'em." A Stinging Retort. Said the glowworm, "Behold me, a marvel complete. A noted example of light without heat." Said the bee, "And I, too, unto fame have a right For the way I exemplify heat without light." The Help Problem 8olved. "Some of the servants in your ma jesty's household are spies." "Good!" answered the oriental monarch. "Cut down their wages and tell them we're going to take a house in the country. If they are on the enemy's pay roll they will have to stay with us." The One Exception. Isn't your climate rather changeable?" "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel, "I reckon we have about every kind of weather there is, except good weather." Mere Labor Temples. The erection of labor temples Is rapidly becoming a prominent feature of the organized labor movement in this country. It is announced the organized workers of Superior, Wis., are to build a $40,000 labor temple and clubhouse. LABOR GOSSIP. So far organized labor has sent $109, 000 to Messrs. Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison to be used as a defense fund. By a referendum vote the membership of the International Workers un ion decided not to hold a convention this year. Montana laboring men have sixteen card men In the house of representatives and two men carrying union cards in the senate. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has erected a monument at Camden, X. J., over the last resting place of P. J. McGuire. who organized the brotherhood. The National Letter Carriers association has purchased 100 acres of land near Colorado Springs as the site for the proposed sanitarium. The ground adjoins the Union Printers' home and Is picturesque. , "Of course ytm'd have been happier if you hadn't married me. "Yes, love, but I wouldn't have known it." New York Press.

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SLACK AMBITION VERY HARD JOLT L. Ert, Pride of the Democratic Party, Fails to See Where He Has Chance to Beat Out Albert J. SENIOR SENATOR IS VERY POPULAR MAN By His Stand on Tariff Ques tion He Has Made His Posi tion in This State Almost Impregnable One. Indianapolis, Aug. 11. L. Ert Slack of Franklin, has returned from Wash ington and he denies that he ever talk ed with Senator Shively, Judge Shea, of Seymour and Crawford Fairbanks, the Terre Haute brewer about becoming a candidate for United States senator in case the democrats carry the legislature next time. Slack admits that he was in conference with Shively and Shea in Washington, but he says they happened to meet at the office of Congressman Lincoln Dixon and that they talked over the political situation in Indiana but that they did not discuss the senatorship. Judge Shea and Fairbanks also have returned and they cay, too, that they did not talk about the senatorship with Slack. In fact, Fairbanks says he did not go to Washington. Wants Senatorship. Slack, however, announces that he will go after the senatorship if the democrats have a majority in the legislature so as to elect a democrat to succeed Senator Beverldge. He says it has always been the highest ambition of his life to be United States senator and that he will not be satisfied till he gets the place. Shea was the manager of Shively's campaign for the senatorship last winter, although he comes from Slack's district the fourth, represented in congress by Congressman Dixon, who managed Slack's campaign for senator. Slack made his fight on the grounds that he was opposed to the brewery interests and that he was a temperance man. The breweries favored Shively in the race. But after the senatorship was settled and Shively was elected Slack appeared before the legislature and worked for the repeal of the county option law, on the ground that the democratic party was committed to its repeal and the substitution of ward and township option instead. Washington Story. The story sent out from Washington recently was that Slack would be a candidate for senator again, and th'at the next time he would have the back ing of the brewery interests in payment for the work he did in trying to have the local option law repealed. This is the part of the story that Slack denies. He says he has no promise whatever from the breweries that they will support him for sena tor. It is becoming more evident every day, however, that the democrats are going to have a mighty hard time to carry the legislature next year. Sen ator Beverldge has unhorsed them and has made it more certain than ever that he will have the united support of the republican party next year as well as the support of many democrats because of the great fight he made in the interest of tariff revision downward. When Beverldge and the rest of the progressive republican senators were making their fight against the provisions of the Aldrich bill democrats were loud in their predictions that when the time came to vote on the passage of the bill Beverldge and the others would line up for it and vote for its passage. They argued that because President Taft would sign the bill, Beverldge and the rest of the progressives would line up for it at the last minute, rather than offend the president. Would Have Been Fatal. If Beveridge had done this he would have been a dead one in Indiana. There can be no doubt of that. But he did not, and in this he disappointed the democrats, who had hoped that he would act foolish at. the last minute and vote for the bill. He stood by his gun. to the end, and voted for the principle which he fought for all through the long siege. This made him more solid than ever in the estimation of the people of Indiana, because he made it plain that he was not playing politics, but that he was doing what he believed to be right. And the democrats are not in a position to point a finger at him, for the reason that right alongside him during all of the fight and with him on nearly every vote stood Senator Shively, his democratic colleague from Indiana. They voted the same way nearly every time. So the democrats cannot attack Beveridge for his course on the Aldrich bill. Senator Beveridge stands for what the people of Indiana stand for In the matter of tariff reform. This was never better shown than In the multitude of letters and telegrams which were poured in upon him during the special session of congress. They came from all parts of the state and from business and professional men as well as farmers and laboring men, and in every instance the writers congratulated him on the fight he was making and the stand he had taken. All of this has developed since the democrats made up their minds that theyScfa chance to win at the next

election and to carry the legislature to elect a democrat to succeed Beveridge. In other words, they cackled

before they had laid the egg. A COMMITTEE MAP Arrangement of Fall Festival Organization Is Displayed. ARRANGE FOR AMUSEMENTS A large map containing the committees of the Fall Festival association has been posted on the north wall of the headquarters in the Masonic building. The different committees have not been entirely completed as yet but will be within a few days and published. One of the most important committees, that on amusements and entertainment, will meet this evening for the first time. Charles Morgan, chairman of the comiittee. has been in the east for a month and has several propositions to present to the committee. The executive committee meeting Thursday evening will be an important one as the program will probably be completed at this time. VALUE u UttUAMZATION. What Teachers Might Do if Formed Into a Union. Speaking of organization, writes Frank Sundermnn in Pennsylvania Grit, I will present some points on the subject made by William E. Chancel lor in a department of a magazine edited "under auspices of the North American Teachers' league" and on the subject "Why Organize?' Mr. Chancellor finds that teachers cannot teach as they ought that is, do their work in best possible manner until they have gained certain things, which they can get. in bis opinion, only through organization. These things are: Either sufficiently high salaries to enable them to save money for old age or else guaranteed pensions. A year of rest every seventh year for recreation and study. The legal rights to make courses of study, to choose text books, to fix rule: and regulations and to supervise sctaoolbouse construction. The legal right to establish the condi tions of membership and to pass upon all questions of admission to the pro fesslon. Mr. Chancellor gives these reasons, among others, why teachers should organize: At present they pay the price fixed by the merchant or professional man when they buy commodities or medical attendance or legal advice. When they sell their labor they mast take what the buyer offers. Organized, they would not have to do this. Organization tends to increase the public respect, and when organization results in improved economic conditions the new respect is solidified into actual power. Teachers should organize for mutual protection, to keep out undesirable aspirants for admission Into their ranks and to become better teachers. What Mr. Chancellor says to teachers by way of argument could be said, often with added force, to other unorganized wage earners. It may be noted that Mr. Chancellor stands for a "closed shop" and wants teachers to exercise the same rights enjoyed by lawyers and doctors, who determine who shall practice these professions and under what conditions. And certainly the other wage earners ought to take heart and help the teachers all they can, for If the teachers of the United States get organized on the basis outlined every schoolhouse, whence come lawmakers and Judges, will be a place where the most closed kind of closed shop and the strictest kind of unionism are taught and prae tlced and instilled Into the receptive minds of r -rr to be lost.

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