Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 179, 5 May 1910 — Page 4

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see s.e.e s AeWtieava fNaw Yarfc City) baa TTf-fnH sod etrtiasd to ths etreulattoa 1 at this fatasattea. Only the Bgwes ot MtMM a ns report an ' RICHMOND, INDIANA "PANIC PROOF CITY" Has a population of 23,000 snd in growing. It Is the county , seat of, Wayne County, and the trading center of a rich agricultural community. It is located due east from Indlanapoi lis 69 miles and 4 miles from the state line. Richmond Is a city of homes and of Industry. Primarily a manufacturing city, it Is also the. Jobbing center of Eastern Indiana and enjoys the retail trade of the populous community for miles around. " Richmond Is proud of its -splendid streets, well kept yards. Its cement sidewalks and beautiful shade trees. It has H national banks, 2 trust compan lea and 4 building associations with combined resources of over $0,000,000. Number of factories 126; capital Invested 7,000.000, with an annual output of 127.000,000, and a pay roll of 13.700.000. The total pay, . roll for the city amounts to ap- - proximately $6,300,000 annually. There are five railroad com- : panics radiating In eight dif- ' ferent directions from the city. Incoming freight handled dally, . 1.7S0.000 lbs.; outgoing freight handled daily, 760,000 lbs. Tard facilities, per day 1,700 cars. Number of passanger trains dally, 8. Number of freight trains dally 77. The an1 nual post office receipts amount to $80,000. Total assessed valuation of the city, $16,000,000. Richmond has two Interurban railways. Three newspapers -with a combined circulation of 1!,000. Richmond is the great- -at . hardware Jobbing ceater In the state, and only, second in general Jobbing Interests. It has a piano factory producing a high grade piano every IS minutes, it Is the leader In the manufacture of traction englnes, and produces , more threshing machines, lawn mow- : ere. roller skates, grain drills . and burial caskets than any other city In the world. The city's area Is 2,640 acres: ' has a court house costing $500.OOtf; 10 public schools and has the finest and most complete , high school in the middle west under construction; S parochial schools; Rarlham college and the Indiana Business College; five splendid fire companies in fine hose houses; Glen Miller Sark, the - largest and most eautlful park in Indiana, the home of Richmond's annual ' Chautauqua: seven hotels; municipal electric light plant, under successful operation, and a private electric light plant. Insuring competition; the oldest public library In the state, ex- , cept one, and the second largest, 40.000 volumes; pure, refreshing water, unsurpassed; 65 miles of improved streets; 40. miles of ' sowers: 26 miles of cement curb , and gutter combined; 40 miles of cement walks, and many miles of ' brick walks. Thirty' churches. Including the - Held Memorial, built at a cost of $260,000: Reld Memorial Hosrltal, one of the most modern n the stste; Y. M. C. A. building, erected at a cost of $100,000. one of the finest in the state. The amusement center of Kaatern Indiana and Western Ohio. No city of the sise of Rlch- ,. mond holds as fine an annual art exhibit. The Richmond Fall Festival held each October is unique, no other city holds a similar affair. It la given In the Interest of the city and financed by the business men. Success awaiting anyone with enterprise In the Panic Proof City, . lUms Gathered m From Far and Near ' Typhoid. Front the Philadelphia Ledger. The very great decrease in typhoid fever in Philadelphia since the establishment ot the filtration system is in harmony with general experience. According to a recent bulletin of the Vermont state board ot health, the effect of change in the water supply in seven American cities has been to reduce Iho combined annual average death rate from typhoid fever by some 70 per cent. But it must not be forgotten that while polluted water is a main cause of epidemics of typhoid. It is not the only carrier. The same authority believes that about SO per cent of all cases are borne by water or by milk. In the other 20 per cent the disease may be spread by the agency of flies, personal contact, shell's, fish raised in polluted waters, or fruit or vegetables raised in polluted soil. These various agencies will explain why filtration of the water alone does not entirely eradicate typhoid, .while at the same time it Is evident that this is the first and most important step In the suppression ot the disease.

J. Q. A. Ward. From the New York Times. , The death of "Quincy Ward, as his v rrtenis were In the habit ot caUlng v I Mm, -takes from American art and from' American life a strong, original i ' and aound-mlnded man. who has ren-

SPREADING DEATH. At 8:15 last evening the city street cleaning department was busy spreading disease and the seed of death. The sweeping machine of the city was pursuing its leisurely way down Main street from which clouds ot dust arose, stifling the passersby and filling the air with noxious dust. There is every reason to believe from careful analysis of the street dirt of many cities that it is filled with all varieties of disease germs including tuberculosis. The city is a corporation supposed to be organized for the protection of the citizens. The dust is a menace to health. Men, women and 'children have a hard enough' time in- cities to obtain pure air without the ill advised use of a supposed engine of health being used in such a manner as to be an active agent in the spread of tuberculosis. . This paper is foolish enough to think even sentimental enough to believe that if that street sweeper aided in the spread of tuberculosis to the extent of sowing the germs of deaso in one child that the street sweeping department would be held morally guilty of - criminal negligence. The individual case would bo very hard to locate the general proposition can be proved. 4 The attention of Mr. Genn. who "as head of this department stands directly responsible, is invited to this nuisance. ' It is a source of public danger perpetrated by a public service from public funds the public has a right to demand protection. If the funds of the city are so low that no. sprinkling can be done previous to the sweeping of the streets on East Main the sweeping might be done later near midnight.

ANOTHER CASE. There has never been bo good an example as td who the real Republican senators and congressmen are as at the present time. The occasion is the fight over the Wlckereham railway bill. President Taft was elected with the distinct understanding that he was to carry out the Roosevelt policies as Bet forth in the Chicago platform. Indeed,' in his speech at Cincinnati ' and In other places over the country the then candidate of the Republican party made this his real plea to the people for election. To go back to the beginning of this railroad matter it will be remembered that it started in the west. The people of the great Mississippi valley have long struggled to free themselves from the domination of the railroads. And the fight was later taken up in response to their appeal by Theodore Roosevelt. - Everyone above the age of puppyhood knows the hard fight that Theodore Roosevelt had to get a corporation ridden congress to help him with his railroad and anti-trust legislation and how he wielded the big stick against the Cannon-Aldrich organization to force it through.

In this session of congress what do we behold? The Wlckersham bill drawn up by the Attorney General of the United States sanctioned and defended by Taft and Aldrich and Cannon, is a direct reversal of policy of the former administration! The men who helped Roosevelt to achieve what he did in Congress in his administrations are still fighting along the same lines of progressive legislation. They are called the Insurgents. The corporation agents in Congress under the leadership of Aldrich are protesting that the Insurgents are blocking the carrying out of the Republican promises. The people of the Middle West know better. The Chicago platform of the Republican party read: "We believe," said the Chicago platform, "that the interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to give railroads the right to. make and publish traffic agreements subject to the approval of the commission, but maintaining always the principle of competition between naturally competing lines and avoiding the common control of such lines by any means whatsoever." "

' -.:r;. Day by day Aldrich has refused to pay any attention to that platform he Is not interested in that, nor In the promises to the people who voted for him under the belief that he was to carry out the Roosevelt policies nor in the people in any way, shape or form. He entered into a coalition a day or so ago to strike' Sec." 7 out of the amended bill. And Sec. 7 was a practical compliance with the terms of the Chicago platform that we have just quoted. The Insurgents strove for a compliance with the platform and the wishes of the people. The Republicans who from their affinity for railroad special interest, under the leadership of Aldrich, could not accomplish their pleasure so they drew on the Democrats that they could handle to defeat . the very section which would carry out the wishes of the Republican party as expressed in its pledge to the people! So the Insurgents are to be made out traitors to the Republican party. President Taft is hurrying home not to a garden party this time but to assist Senator Aldrich. President Taft has already placed his sanction on the Wlckersham bill. . The bill as it stood would have allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to be practically destroyed and changed into a Commerce Court of federal circuit judges. The court would have had only the power to have passed on agreements among the railroads to raise the rates. The railroads might raise their rates to any per cent they pleased, in case the Commerce Court did not approve the agreement and " the rates would stand. That .was brought out on the floor of the senate and that is called carrying out the Roosevelt policies. Such a clause would have destroyed the teeth of the law which Roosevelt used in prosecuting the railroads and other corporations for entering' . Into a conspiracy In restraint ot trade.

Now we are told that the Insurgents are holding up legislation. The hold up is a parallel case to that other carrying out of the Roosevelt policies called the Payne-Aldrich tariff. There are many other jokers in the bill, all of which have been opposed by the Insurgents and fought for by Senator Aldrich. We shall no doubt soon see a parallel afterclap of this railway legislation very similar to the Winona speech.

dered varied and great service. We think of him as characteristically American because his study as well as his work was all done in this country, and because the work was largely connected with the commemoration of our great men. American he certainly was, by ancestry, training, instinct and adaptation to the conditions of our national existence. But the qualities in him that were essentially American would have made him a marked man in any community in which his lot had been cast. Old as Mr. Ward was; and long as his career had been, no one can safely undertake to assign his place in art. But no one who has watched any considerable part of that career, or is familiar with its fruits, can reasonably question the high value of the service he rendered. Income Tax Amendment. From the New York Tribune. The legislature of Rhode Island having defeated in both houses a concurrent resolution ratifying the income tax amendment to the federal Constitution, the record of action so far on the amendment stands: Rejection, 2; approvals, 7. The states rejecting are Virginia and Rhode Island. Those which have approved are Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Oklahoma. Mississippi and Maryland. The New y0rk legislature will soon act, and other states whose legislatures, will have a chance to vote in 1510 are Massachusetts, Ohio, Georgia, Louisiana and Vermont- It is evident that the contest for ratification will

be long and close, and interest in the constitutional and economic questions involved is becoming more "' pronounced. ; Vagaries of the Law. From the Baltimore American. A. woman in New York obtained $20,000 damages from a railroad company because she was so badly burned in a collision with her automobile that the scars preclude her from, ever wearing decollete gowns. The famous decision 1s yet remembered of a New Jersey judge wbo ; decided that parents of children killed in an accident could not recover any but nominal damages, as the children had no money value. The vagaries of the law are certainly hard for the lay mind to understand.

Poetic Justice. From the Boston Advertiser. Amundsen's determination to lock himself in the ice for seven years, to await scientific arctic developments, calls for admiration and suggestion as to his comrades. Why not poetically select from among those who control the cold storage of products for the advancement of prices? ' - Money Laundry. ' From the New York Herald. An attache of the Treasury Department ; has perfected a machine for laundering paper money., just imagine ; what Rockefeller's laundry bill would be. Most of us don't wear our share long; enough to get It soiled.

IMPROVE THE ALLEYS

Alleys at their best are not the most pleasing things to look at, but when littered up with papers, tin-cans,' broken bottles old ash barrels, and cast off family clothing, it would be .difficult to find anything' less attractive or more offensive to good taste. Even the uncemented alleys, if properly cared for and kept clean, need not be a reflection upon our city and a menace to the health of the community, ir every person had his own refuse receptacle, and took care that all paper and varirus other articles were placed in it, even the meanest alley in town would assume a more respectable appearance. It is probably just as easy to see that the ashes are put carefully into the can, as to fling them over the fence with no regard as to when or where they will alight. Another thing that makes the alleys so ugly, is the way the barns and fences are kept, or rather, not kept. The fences bulge, boards are out, gates are broken down, and barn doors are sagging. If they were repaired they would last much longer as well as present a much better appearance. Emily. M. Fletcher, English, 9 A.

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Roosevelt Talks On International Peace Before Nobel Prize Committee Gives His Views on How War Can Be Avoided and Tells the European Powers to Study the American Constitution.

HAAX0H VH.. N0E Christiania, Sorway, May S. C'61onei Theodore Roosevelt delivered an address before the Nobel prize commission on "International Peace,' as follows: It is with peculiar pleasure that 1 stand here today to express the deep appreciation I feel of the high honor conferred upon me by the presentation of the Nobel peace prize. The gold medal which formed part of the prize I shall always keep, and I shall hand it on to my children as a precious heirloom. The sum of money provided as part of the prize by the wise generosity of the illustrious founder of this world famous prize system I did not. under the peculiar circumstances of the case, feel at liberty to keep. I think it eminently just and proper that in most caars the recte'ent rf ttjs nriay? Uojel'i

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WAY'S HEW KUTO. keep for his own "use thepriz5rin fts entirety. But in this case, while I did not act officially as president of the United States, it was nevertheless only because I was president that I was enabled to act at all, and I felt that the money must be considered as having been given me in trust for the United States. I therefore used it as a nucleus for a foundation to forward the cause of Industrial peace, as being well within the general . purpose of your committee, for on our complex industrial civilization of today the peace of righteousness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, is at least as necessary in the industrial world assit Is among nations. 7 There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part Of fV WOtlil oZ -f-iiJ try cnah

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the cruef greed'and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism la International relationships. . Peace Generally Good. We must ever bear in mind that the great end lu view is righteousness, justice as between man and man, nation and nation, the chance to lead our lives on a somewhat higher level, with a broader spirit of brotherly good will one for another. . ,v Peace is generally good In itself, but it is never the highest good unless It comes as the handmaid of righteousness, and it becomes a very evil thing If it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth or as an Instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarcby.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether In private or public life. But we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man Is worth calling a man wbo will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see .those that are dear to him suffer wrong. No nation deserves to exist if It permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues, and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all absorbing com merciallsm, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease or to the deification of a warped and twist ed sentimentality. Moreover and above all let us remember that words count only when they give expression to deeds or are to be translated into them. .The .leaders of the red terror prattled of peace while they steeped their hands in the blood of the innocent, and many a tyrant has called it peace when he has scourged honest protest into silence. Our "words must be Judged by our deeds, and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods, and if we cannot attain all at one leap we must advance toward It step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make seme progress in the right direction. Now, bavins freely admitted the linritations to our work and the qualifications to be borne in mind. I feel that I have the right to have my words taken seriously when I point out where, in my judgment, great advance can be made In the cause of international peace. I speak as a practical man, and whatever I now advocate I actually tried to do when I was for the time being the head of a great nation and keenly jealous of its honor and inter est. I ask other nations to do only what I should be glad to see my own nation do. How to Secure Peace. The advance can be made along several lines. First of all there can be treaties of arbitration. There are, of course, states so backward that a civilized community ought not to enter into an arbitration treaty with them at least until we have gone much further than at present in securing some kind of international police action. But all really civilized communities should bave effective arbitration treaties among themselves. , -- - I believe that these treaties can cover almost all questions liable to arise between : such nations If ftcy iart drawn with tho explicit agreement that each contracting party will respect the other's territory and Its absolute sovereignty within that territory and the equally explicit agreement that, aside from the very rare cases where the nation's honor is vitally concerned, all other possible subjects of controversy will bo submitted to arbitration. Such a treaty would insure peace unless one party , deliberately violated it. Of course as yet - there is no adequate safeguard against such dellberfate violation, but the establishment of a sufficient number . of these treaties would go a long way toward creating a world opinion which would, finally find expression in the provision of methods to forbid or punish any such violation. Secondly, there is the further development of The Hague tribunal, of the work of the conferences and courts at The Hague. It has leen well said that the first Hague conference framed a magna charta for the nations. It set before us an ideal which has already to .some extent been rr.rzed and to

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ward the foil reiuvjatkHf of wtsfck we .. can all steadily strive. : Tb second conference made further progress. The . third should do yet more. Meanwhile 7 the American government has more , than once tentatively suggested meth- : ods for completing tne court of arbitral justice, constituted at the second Hague conference, and for rendering It effective. - Study the United States. It Is earnestly to be hoped that the various governments of Europe, working with those of America' and of Asia, shall set themselves seriously to the task of devising some method which shall accomplish this result. If I may venture the suggestion. It would be well for the statesmen of the world. In planning for the erection of this world court, to study what has been done In the United States by the supreme court. v I cannot help thinking that the con- , stitution of the United States, notably In the establishment of the supreme court and in the methods adopted for securing peace and good relations among and between the different states, offers certain valuable analogies , to what should be striven for in order to secure, through The Hague courts and conference, a steciea of world . federation for international peace and justice. There are, .of course, fundamental differences between what the United States constitution does and what we should even attempt at this time to secure t The Hague, but the methods adopted in the American constitution to prevent hostilities between the states and to secure the supremacy ot the federal court in certain. classes of cases are well worthy the study of

those who seek at The Hague to obtain the same results on a world scale. -. In the third place, something should be done as soon as possible to check the growth of armameuts, especially naval armaments, by International ; agreement. No one power could or should act by itself, for It is eminent- -ly undesirable from the standpoint of the pence of righteousness that a power which really does believe In peace should place Itself at the mercy of some rival which may at bottom have no such belief and no indention of acting on It. Limit Sise of Ships. But, granted sincerity of purpose, the great powers of the world should' find no insurmountable difficulty in reaching an agreement which would put an end to the present costly and growing ; extravagance of expenditure on naval armaments. An agreement merely to limit the size of ships would have been -very useful a few years ago and would still be of .use. but the agreement should go much further. Finally, it would be a master stroke If those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a league of peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force If necessary, its being broken by others. The supreme difficulty In connection with developing the peace work of The Hague arises from the lack of any ex- . ecutive power, of any police power to enforce the decrees of the court. In any community of any six the authority of the. courts rests, upon acv.'; tual or poteutiat force, on the exist-V ence of a police or on the knowledge that the ablebodled men of the country are both ready and willing to see thst the decrees of judicial and. legislative bodies are pot into effect. . In new and wild communities where there Is violence an honest man must protect : himself, and until other means of se- -curing his safety are devised It Is both foolish and . wicked to persuade him ' to surrender his arms while the men who are dangerous to the community -. retain theirs. He should not renounce the right to . protect himself by bis own efforts until ; the community is so organized that it can effectively relieve the Individual : . of the doty of putting down violence. So it is with nstlons. Each nation must keep well prepared to defend Itself until the establishment of some form of International police power competent and willing to prevent violence as between nstlons. As things are now such power to com- ; mand peace throughout the world could best be assured by' some combination between tborp great - nations which

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