The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-18
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Everybody in Richmod, as well as ~
| good portion of the other part of virginia,
| has talked little else during the past week
/ but Horse Show. The third effort OF Rich-
mond at pulling off a good Horse snow
! has been successful In most respects ana
| the success was achieved in the face or
good many untoward circumstances. the
worst of them growing out Of recent
\ financial sumps, perhaps. However. II
/ was success. the show, and IN some
I respects more brilliant success than mas
ever before been recorded. or course; nv
| Horse Show has now become a perrmlanenI
institution. and VIII come , herealeef u4
| regularly as the month OF Octouef-
Our sister state of North Carolina also
| recorded a big success last week with
blow out The reunion day festivities at
| Greensboro were Immensely enjoyable as
well as profitable in moe ways than than
one. It was an experiment With our Nor ta
Carolina friends. this reunion on, on tn ne
shsred s Of the The res was far IN
advance of the expectations of the most
/ sanguine among those, who managed inc n
union next year sometime of scattered
-VIrgnians? North Caroline. borrowed the
idea from New Englandd. ri LIZ e.. us npp will
come nearer to beating horse show than
anything we can get up.
The decree comes out that there IS
very little If anyA hope of any new finan-
cial legislation at tho for i ,, SEE ses-
sion OF Congress. MIR; j., ALISON :, speda nrIns
the past week. assured the country that
there will be no, such legislation OF any: any
for tSe party ann in the nouae says It
too too i much divided over tho subject to
undertake. ANYTHING in that line osa, at presi
election. on. Currency reform viii wait still
awhile longer so much for all this sum
mer comforting Of Repu5llcan m mel nS
Of talk OF an October Congress session
to forward the matter.
II. as asserted by one Of the vice-prcsiss
dents of the American Federation or
Labor, the labor unions Of the country
post post in tie banks, and if, as threatened;
these deposits should be Withdrawn ana
locked up in safe-depost vaults by way
there 1t would be a serious matter. The
taking of such sum OF money Abruptly
! astrous contraction. The Springfield Re-
publican, after some little investigation.
says: ut is absurd, in the first place. to
sun on deposit. The claim Is that there
are 3 zoo, 900 members OF labor unions In the
country, and this would mean that SlCo
per man had been accumulated in union
funds and is unspent--this after q period
of protractcd and costly strikes draw
ing heavily upon the funds In tho next
sch aGtoR 1or unions
have is not likely to take place IN any
event"
tel Nf NI1r
exports of domestic products for the
month OF September have just been made
public. They show that such exports ports
t mTnb ri 1907 The total was sss.sss, ST.
! This was caused chiefly by the short
supply Of cotton. Of which we exported Up ca
tho large sum of ss.so34l5. There was
also a falling off Of ss.87os61 in exports
of breadstufTs. AS. q small offset we
mineral oils and s11i2,6il in cattle and
hogs For the nine months OF the cal.
endar year the total Of our r,z exports or
an Increase of s3l,470,e42 over last year;
a ane eSp1fi 70 81 sl77ssi an Increase Of
shownF for wf this sapi Nss in spite OF the
| recent shortage.
AZ qraer has Just been ss Wssh at s
tnat hereafter all Increases in allow
ances for substations of ,postofiices IN
the principal cities will be based entirely
OF such substauons, instead OF on the
receipts from the sale of stamps, as
heretofore. This action has been, taken
because it has been discovered at the De,
partment that the superintendents OF
substatlons in many OF the principal
cities OF the country have been. IN the
the sale of stamps and consequently the
! allowances for their substauons by
fraudulent methods. Their practice has
been to pay their grocery, bills drug bills
and household accounts in stamps, plac-
| ing tho equivalent of money in the stamp
! drawer of the substatlon.
Mr.. John D. Long. ex-secretary, Of the
| Navy, seems to have written himself
/ into a little trouble. Last week, IN an
interview with Boston Herald re- r;epq bnns
recent n article in the Outlook, which has
caused such a sensation in administration1
/ circles at Washington. and Is the subject
OF comment all over the country. can
Justly be construed as criticism OF the
conduct of Theodore Roosevelt as As AS.
refused TO discuss the m'.tter at any
length saying, that It was Of little titles con- !,
sequence and a,d to say mueh hennt
standing and endless controversy. He
! was diplomatica evasivee in his answers
to all cues tons and finally gave the r.,
was n sufficiently lucid explanation Of
al! THE questions Involved:
II notice that only part OF the mag
aZne article is quoted in the Herald.
| with reference to Mr.. Roosevelt. who
was then not President but Assistant II
I Secretary OF the Navy. and a very eff
cient one. as have shown In tho artl-
Gle With his usual force, he was eager
to leave nothing undone that he thought
necessary to insure our thorough prepn-
ration for war and to meet the Imminent
| cXlgencics OF the case.
1T was a mighty pressing tins. The
war was Inevitable. and 1t was almost on
us. The Spanish fleet, with its then
dreaded torpedo boats, was on Its way
TO Cuba. Althouh war had not then bee.Y
formally declared. a number Of the, leadt
Ing naval officers thought we ought In
self-defcnso, to meet this fleet and dis
pose of It,. The President and the naval
department, however. were of opinion
that no such action was In order till a
formal declaration of war had occurred"
It is really hard to keep a complete
Of downfall rity