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The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1902-09-19

IhFrata Npon Llfe OF Tho FresIde1i
The poiicu OF Cincinnati, are bold
ing Joseph scmitz, aged 40, on a
charge OF lettering. until they can in
vestigate statement that be has
threatened to take the life OF President
Roosevelt. Schmitz was arrested on
Saturday upon the complaint Of two
elderly sisters living In oliver street,
that he had entered their premises
and insisted ON staying there. The
story Is that he made the threat
against the president TO persons on
Everett street and the police are now
searching for those persons, As we'll as
making AN effort to learn the pa1 his
tory OF the prisoner.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1902-09-19
La,s., Aecoan, OF BOO Moa. rsl.. norror.

Latest Account Of tho Mont Pelse Horror.
Professor Angelo Ieilprin, president
OF the Philadelphia Geographical SO
ciety, who is la Martinique IN the in
tercst Of the National Geographical
society, has made the following report
on the recent eruptions OF Mont Pelee;
The scene OF destruction la the last
eruption OF Mont Pelee far SURPRISES in
extent that OF the eruption OF May s,
when 81. Pierre was destroyed, and in
cludes the broad area lying between
Macouba and Carbet, aud involves
llaute Tours de Bourdrn, liasse Pointe,
Morne Balai and Ajoupa Bouillon,
where alone upwards of 800 persons
were killed, as well as Morue Rouge,
with death list OF probably not less
than 100 persons. Morne Capot aud
the heights somewhat this side OF
| Fonda st. Denis, the blast, however,
leaving the last named place untouched .
Great ciuders fell also over the region
OF Grand Riviere, aud prechcur Is Gov
| cred deep with ashes. In Carbet the
ashes lie one foot deep and nearly the
same amount covers the ruins OF 81
Pierre. All OF Mornc Rouge. with the
exception OF about four houses and the
beautiful church, has been swept to
the ground aud the greater part Of the
town has been burned mp. Al Ajoupa
Bouillion, where one-half OF the town
has been FRUSTRATED, there Is no trace
of lire Of any kind"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
AS THE LEAVES FLOAT DOWN.


A. J. Warehouse In New York Times.
Now watch" she said, how the leaves
float down.,
Drifting, drifting, drifting;
yellow, and crimson, and gold, and brown,
Through shadow and sunlight shifting.
And the gray old earth receives them all,
AS each to her warm heart presses,
For she is the Mother; they hear her call.
And answer with soft caresses:
"'oh, Mother, our Mother. too long, we
VOW
The length of the seasons summing
We have strayed from your bosom, but
now, but now
We are coming. coming, coming
NOW watch" she said. "how our lives
CHEEKY. and dreary, and glad. and wan,
Going-ah, whittier ?-going.
But the gray old earth serenely waits,
For she knows we will seek none other;
When the winter of death Is at our gates
We will turn to the dear All Mother:
"'oh. Mother, our Mother, too long. too
While the mills of fate were humming
We have turned from your side 20 the
needless throng-
We are coming. coming. coming"
The tides swing in. and the tides swing
She whispers no more unto me
I walk with faith to run with doubt,
And the dreams that / build undo me;
The fondest hopes in failures end,
Each chasing a ghostly other,
But sull she waiteth, the ~changeless friend,
And l turn to the dear All Mother.
oh, Mother, my Mother, whose constant
The total Of loves Is summing,
The way is rugged where now / rove
/ am coming, coming, coming,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
VITAL POINT OF THE COAL STRIFE.

After days of fencing between Presi-
dent Mitchell and the phalanx of learned
counsel representing the transportation
and mining corporations, a colloquy be-
tween the former and Justice Gray
touched the heart of the matter so far
as the public interest is concerned. Mr..
Mitchell, in answer to the crucial ques-
ton of the president of the arbltrating
board, affirmed that under existing con-
ditions it is possible absolutely to stop
the coal supply Of the country either by
a coalition of the operators or by a gen.
eral strike Of their organized mine
workers.
This possibility, ~far-reaching and fatal
in it's effects, is the result of modern in
dustrial developments. There was no
such possibility when the coal supply
was in the hands of innumerable indie
pendent proprietors. 1t was practically
out Of the question for either side eff
f~ectually to combine to so extreme u
point because the dominating principle
was competition, and an effort either on
the part of miners or of proprietors
competition inevitably interviewed to re-
plenish supply.
1t marks nothing less than a indus
trial revolution when combination as a
practical fact supplants competition.
The situation now is a union Of the pro
prietary interest by successive combine
ton of independent firms and companies
into constantly larger concerns, until the
lively few hands. 1t is all the more
manageable because the same hands
hold in their grasp also the means of
transportation from the mines. To meet
combination with combination, the only
possible defense, the counter movement
among the mine workers has so far per-
fected organization that they are able
universally to stop labor In the mines
and thus to cut on the fuel supply, as
was notably done in the anthracite
region.
The developments of the investigation
thus signally vindicate the fundamental
position taken by President Roosevelt as
the volunteer and appropriate repre-
sentative, neither Of the n nor the
other contestant in the strike, but Of the
great third party, the public, whose in
c~omparably greater Interest in the fuel
supply is directly involved by the con-
troversy when an indefinite deadlock
between them is actually established
The general community cannot permit
the supply of a prime necessary like fuel
to be cut of. 1t infallibly Will command
the supply by whatever means may be
necessary, and the interests Of both par
ties, the labor and the capital, directly
engaged in the supply will be subordl-
mated to the supreme public Interest.
The vital question now being tried is
whether those parties can agree, whether
they can adjust all their relations with
out deadly interference with the public
interest, which is to nave sufficient fuel.
II they can It viii be fortunate for them.
fortunate for all. II they fail, nothing
is more certain than that the public viii
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
NEW RAILROAD TAX ON GRAIN.

There is absolutely no legitimate ex-
use for the proposed advance of gain
rates which has just been announced
for all western shipments %eastbound
or southbound. 1t is simply an exercise
Of arbitrary power on the part Of the
transportation companies to tax the
productive capacity of the agricultural
west to the limit of what 1t can be
made to bear. Just at the moment when
the grain crop of Nebraska is beginning
to be disposed of the farmer is met at
the toll gate and refused access to mar
ket except on penalty of paying 3 cents,
over and above the ruling rate, on every
bushel of wheat and corn he has
raised.
In all conscience the rate of IL cents
on wheat and IL on corn, per 100 pounds,
high enough. 1t was enormously m
nerative to the roads. The net earnings
Of all the grain carrying western roads
have been swelling to such magnitude
that lucy udIuly huOW uO" W ulSpOSe
of their profits and some have had to
remanipulate their capitalizations to
conceal so far as possible the real facts.
At the same time out of profits, all paid
by the producers of the freight, the
roads have so improved their facilities
as to reduce immensely the cost of
carriage 1t is known to every intelli-
gent railroad manager that grain can
today be transported from the Missouri
river to Chicago at a higher net profit
on a 10 cent rate than it could be some
years ago on an IS cent rate.
1t thus appears that the carry
ing corporations have first taxed
grain raisers for providing facili-
ties for reducing cost of transpor-
tation, and her raised the tax
after the cost has been reduced. In
any other country but this such arbi-
trary exactions would raise a popular
revolt. The railroad corporations of this
country have, however, so habitually
exercised the sovereign power of levy
ing tribute on producer and
that their latest performance scarcely
creates surprise.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21


The free trade papers have eagerly seized
on one passage OF President Roosevelt's
speech at the Chamber Of Commerce din
ner. The president said ut is a pleasure
TO address a body whose members possess
to an eminent degree the traditional Ameri-
can self-reliance Of spirit which makes
them scorn to ask from the government.
whether Of state or OF nation, anything but
a fair field and no favor-who conhde not
In being helped by others but in their own
skill, clergy and business capacity to
achieve success"
Aha" gleefuliy shout the free trade
papers. "see how the president scouts aud
scoffs at the whole idea of protection and
ship subsidy" And in this precipitate and
unrefecting conclusion they illustrate one
Of the fundamental fallacies Of their rea-
soning. Before stating It, we may remark
that the president is quite as clear and
logical a thinker as his headlong free trade
friends. He is a lifelong protectionist by
conviction, and an avowed advocate Of the
upbuilding of an American merchant marine
by a policy OF government protection. And
being such and being at the same time a
sound reasoner. It may be assumed that he
did not say anything inconsistent with his
settled views.
And he did not. The fallacy OF his sud
den and deluded free trade admirers is that
they mlsinterpret a deliberate national
policy adopted by the nation for the well
fare Of the nation as a policy Of individual
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

est In the commercial reform of China.
This country has been largely lnstru-
mental in bringing other powers not
only to a proper recognition of the
rights of the Chinese empire, but also
to a sense of the wisdom and eXpe-
diency OF establishing equitable CONNER
cial relations with China. Our govern
ment has contended for the principle
Of the open door in trade, so that all
countries doing business with that en-
pire would have an equal chance, a fair
field and no favor" There is every
reason to believe that this principle will
prevail and it will undoubtedly have
a most earnest advocate in Mr.. WI,
who has shown himself to be in hearty
sympathy with the American position
respecting the commercial interests of
his country.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
MODERN MOTIVE POWER.
Pre-Eminence of Steam Not Much
Diminished.
Sam Francisco cal

San Francisco Call.
Sanguine persons who have been INDUCING
the belief that we have passed the age of
steam and reached the age Of electricity
will find a shock to their fond imaginings
by reading the census on the motive power
Of our manufacturing establishments. II
appears from the figures that electric
motors in the census year furnished less
than 3 per cent of the motive force OF our
factories.
The statistics reveal the fact that in 1900
we employed to carry on our manufacturing
an energy equal to IL, 30s, 0s1 horse power.
The return for 1890 was 1854. 655. for 1880
Z, 410, s3S horse power. More than three
fourths Of the power employed in 1900 was
FURNISHED by steam engines, and about IS
per cent by water wheels. Electric motors
are credited with but 81 per cent Of the en-
tire power employed in American manufac-
turing industries.
OF course the horse power employed in
manufactures is far short Of the total mo-
tive force employed In American industry.
For the operation of railroads alone there
is required an Immense addition to the fac
tory energy. and the street railways add an
other vast sum Of energy to the total. II is
In street railways that electricity would
have made its best showing as motive
power. though It would also display a large
amount of energy in statistics Of horse
power employed In various services in Of
hce buildings, laboratories and even in the
homes of people.
While steam continues to hold by a long
distance the foremost place in our motive
power II may be said to have attained the
climax OF its supremacy. From this time
on electricity is very sure to gain upon It,
and in many parts OF the United States the
gain will probably be rapid. Improved
methods Of converting water power into
electrical energy with means for its trans
mission across great distances with small
loss will enlarge the use OF electrical
motors in factories as we'll as in railways.
We are then In the dawn OF the electrical
age even II we ave not yet attained the
full day. Steam has been a glorious servant
to mankind. but despite his power and his
utility electricity will eventually be able
| 20 surpass him.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
A Free Trade BIunder
PhIladelnhla Press lrep.l

Press (rep)
service for individual benefit. They mis-
represent protection as a measure entered
upon to help particular benehciartes,
whereas II is a measure intelligently under
taken by the nation to help itself, The
nation determined to develop its own re-
sources and build up its own industries.
In order to do this Il decided to protect
American labor against cheap foreign labor
and to secure the American market for the
American producer against cheap foreign in
vasion. 1t was a national policy for ma
tional advancement.
OF course. individuals have been helped
by It and have prohted by Il. So indi-
viduals profted by the government aid to
the Pacific islands But the nation granted
such aid, not for their benefit, but for its
own. and the advantage accruing to II
was immeasurably beyond any advantage
to individuals. They took the early risk
and encountered the early hardships, and
the later profits they reaped came with a
far greater harvest to the nation. Indi-
viduals have derived advantage from the
protective policy, because the advance OF
the nation is the advance Of its individual
members, but the advantage has been
equally open to all. Among Americans It
has been "a fair field and no ia, or"
President Roosevelt did not stultify him
self In his ut~teranoe. His words are en-
tirely harmonious with his long settled
views. The only error in the case is the
complete misconception OF the free trade
papers.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
srooE,s IN THE PHlLIPpIEEs.

In his speech at Memphis President
Roosevelt expressed unqualified satisfac-
ton with general conditions In the
Philippines and entertained no doubt
that the results attained will be lasting.
He declared that the progress of the
islands both in material, well being
and as regards order and justice has
been astounding and there can be no
doubt this is the universal opinion, ex-
cept among the few people who call
themselves antiiimperialIsts. While there
is still some trouble from the depreda-
tions of ladrones and brigands, the
president said the islands have never
been as orderly, peaceful and prosper
Gus as now.
AS to the declaration Of the president
that the United States will continue to
discharge it's duty in the Philippines,
giving the people good government and
promoting the development Of the islands
industrlally and commercially, 1t will
be concurred in by the American peo-
pie with practical unanimity. There are
very few men in this country of any
responsibility or influence who now ad-
vocate any other course and as an issue
so-called imperialism no longer possesses
any interest. A great work has been
done in the Philippines in behalf of
civilization and 1t will be continued.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
COMMERCIAL REFoRM IN CHINA.

Mr.. WI T~ng-fang, for FIVE years
Chinese minister to the United States,
is returning to his native land to take
the position of minister OF commerce,
in which capacity he will revise and
systematic the commercial laws and
treaties Of China. The new conditions
in that empire, brought about within
the last three years, render this neces-
sary and the task imposed upon Mr..
WI and those who will be associated
with him is a most difficult one. At
present the commercial treaties Of
China vary widely, some countries en-
jOying advantages and privileges not
accorded to others. This must be
changed so that all shall be placed upon
an equal footing and to do this is not
going to be so easy a matter as might
be supposed from a superficial considera-
ton. Then the revision Of the CONNER
cial laws Of China, which have been
In operation for a very long time, some
OF them probably for centuries, will be a
task Of the most arduous character, for
no people are more tenacious OF old Gus.
toms and usages than the Chinese.
The United States has q great inter,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

As a result Of the late election Sena-
tor Harris is left as the last remnant
OF the representation OF Kansas pop
ulism In congress, and the congressional
directory the term democrat" win be
substituted for 'populist" as descrip-
tive OF him, He explains the substitu-
ton briefly and completely by saying:
"Populism is dead" This is the theory
on which the democrats in nearly all
OF the western states are working.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
LINES To A SMILE.

Cleveland Plain Dealer. They say our
currency should be moro elastic
We'll. I'm willing they should stretch
a little more my way"
Philadelphia Record: AlthouR hate
WORK" unused Idle Tim, der is one Job l
wouldn't mind takin."
what Job is dat?' queried Dusty Den.
why. colorin' neerschaum pipes"
Chicago Tribune: Just then IN automo-
bile went by.
WELL" remarked the delivery wagon
horse, II can see my finish"
That's more than 1 can" responded the
thoroughbred with the locked tail, making
an EFFORT to do so and giving 1t up.
Washington Star: There are good trusts
and bad trusts, said the hopeful man.
Yes" answered the cherries citizen:
much profit and power that I'm afraid it
won't be long before the good trusts are led
Into temptation"
Somerville Journals: Mr.. wiggles-when
I die / want only the truth carved upon
my monument.
the truth according to your neighbors?
GhieSgo, Post; 81 wish I belonged to a
ut isn't necessary"
'oh, no. Just walk FIVE niles in Ieisurely
fashion and every twenty or thirty yards
MT the pavement a hard whack with your
Philadelphia Press: THE evidence shows
SAID the magistrate, that this woman
threw a brick at the complainant, her hus-
band"
mot so fast" Interrupted counsel for
the defense. The appearance of the man
is evidence that the brick hit him, which
proves that she must have thrown 1t at
somebody else
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
working in Hard Lines.
Philadelphia Press.

The free trade newspapers have hard work
in making their articles on the tariff intel
ligible, in view Of the great increase in i'm
ports. In ten months OF this year the i'm
ports were 1921. 900, 900 greater than in the
corresponding time OF 1898 and 361. zoo, 900
more than in the same months of last year.
Still the democratic cry is for sweeping
away the tariff. The truth is that the tariff
has made the nation so prosperous that 1t
can afford to buy more Of foreign goods,
Injuries as we'll as raw materials.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

Court injunctions have no terror for
the mayor and board of aldermen Of
Denver when it comes to an extension
of street railroad franchises. The nat
ural inference is that the example of st.
Louis has had no terrors for the Colo
RADIO tramway promoters and municipal
franchise dispensers.
2. S.-According to latest advlces the
mayor of Denver has gone to Texas md
will probably remain there until the
court has cooled off.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
John Mitchell as a witness.
~Philadelphia Press.

II anybody was in doubt about John
Mitchell's ability to present labor's side of
the case TO the strike commission when
confronted with the able counsel retained
by the operators, 1t seems that he may be
at ease. 1t is apparent from the way the
labor leader is holding his own when sub
iected to the most searching questions that
he knows his case better than any lawyer
could possibly learn it in a short time, and
that he can handle it as we'll as any lawyer.
The reports of the hearings show that the
interests Of labor will not suffer because
of lack OF ability in their counsel or from
an inadequate presentation of their side Of
the controversy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

one Of the number. One Of the servants
became alarmed when $3.50 in cash, some
silver and a quantity of other things had
been purloined. Confession was made 90
the senator, who refused to prosecute.
Instead he closed his home and took rooms
In an apartment house.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

While 1t is generally conceded that
the Panama canal at S%4O,OOO,OOO is a
good bargain, still some who are well
informed assert that much Of the work
will have to be done over again.
Some Of the engineers estimates Of
the French engineers were designed
for the benefit Of credit mobilier
contractors and most of the ma
chlnery that has been employed on the
canal will have to be discarded and
dumped into the scrap pile.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

If the district court judges are willing
and eager to assume the extra duties,
as they seem to be, the ~canvassing board
to check up election returns and issue
election certificates should be abolished.
Any clerk can do the job subject to
oSurt revision.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

The democratic lamentations over the
lack of a competent party leader fail
to take account of the fundamental fact
that leadership depends at least as much
upon the led as upon those who as
sume 10 lead.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
AMERICA A TEMPERANCE NATION.
General sObrIety of the People n
MRrked Characteristic.
New York World.

aNNW aNAh
The remark attributed to Lady Henry
Somerset upon completing her tour in this
country that she had been surprised by the
general sobriety Of the American people"
is the more impressive in that her stay
included the closing days Of tho campaign,
when liquor flows freely and treating" IL
most a nuisance. But Lady Henry's OBJ
servation agrees with that Of all disin-
terested observers.
The Americans still consume much Of
what are classed as alcoholic drinks"
but the proportion of alcohol consumed is
smaller than in any other great non
Mahometan nation. The substitution OF
beer and wine for spirits has been a great
Improvement. Early temperance reformers
established q brewery near Boston; the
benencent "wsshingtonian" movement Of
the '40s looked to moderation, not alb
stinence, and in both respects the reform
ers' instincts we're sound.
Even abstinence is more common than in
the past. The drink habit yields not only
TO a better understanding of health, but to
business necessity. Our vast railroad sys-
TENS are run, from the bottom nearly to
the top. by teetotalers. A drinking man
nnds It every year harder to get or to
keep an eXacting post. and thus the spur
OF ambition carries men past the screen
doors. Even the circus is temperate; the
Greatest Show on Earth" was organized
by p. T. Barnum as a band OF non
drinkers. Social ideas have also changed:
a president Of the United States would
hardly own and run a distillery today, as
George Washington did in 1897.
Accurate and recent comparisons OF the
liquor consumption of various nations are
hardly obtainable. The following figures
are sp~proximate:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

The tax theorists have no difficulty in
working out a beautiful scheme of taxa.
ton which produces perfect justice for
every t~axpaying citizen. When it
comes, however, to putting the theories
into practice they would run up against
numerous %perplexing snags.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21

The earliest political bird on record
is George w. Clark, Of Dallas county,
who has formally announced his can
didacy for the speakership Of the next
Iowa house. The members of that body
win not be elected till a year hence.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-21
The Poor, PInched Trust.
New York World

The poor but pious Standard OIL company
has been obliged to cut It's dividends for the
last quarter down to sfO-making the total
for the year only s45, 900, 900, or 40 per cent
upon its nominal capital, instead OF s4s, OO0,-
900. or 4S per cent. as Ibrethe last two years.
No wonder the trust has lately found it
necessary to add a cent a gallon to the
price of refined DILL