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He Tells Mr. Carpenter Many Interesting Fact

3perity OF the country. 3 h Said he:
..The railroads arc one Of Sthe greatest
interest OF the United States. They
/; rank next@to our farms, and It Is due
to them that the farms are valuable g
For every dollar spent in railroads ttEsls
ESTIMATED that at least ten dollars has
been added to the value Of farm lands.
Ny father paid $125 an acre to the goYT
sernment for his Nebraska q farm, which
now forms part OF our old homestead.
When he bought 1t there was not e. raj
road within sthrea hundred miles aof us,
That land to-day is worth $l25 3perS acre.
and Sit Is the railroad which has made mad
1T alunble. 3s,iS . i.Ss s. !;
}ff'I think IT. was Bacon who said that
the chief element OF ssa# country's pros
3perlty lies In u Its n cilitics Of trans
portation. That certainly has been ono
/ Of tho strong forces a at work in the
building up Of e this country We arc
the richest people RI on II the globo. and
this Is largely due to tho fact tina t we
are the greatest abroad country s{S4 {; on
the globe. 81 here are 81 500, o0o. 900 people
In the world Of whom one !; twentieth v
say rs, 900 OOOi are In the United States,
There ARE altogether less than 500, 900
miles Of railroads on the y globe q no
more than 200, 900 miles are in this cpun-
try. Our railroads are an enormous
asset In oursnational veal they are
worth altogether ~ Is Sestim nat ted, apout
s12, 1000, 900 900 ''53s IN 81
Should the Government Own
~ Railroads
"rhe power q such an . amount y, q p
Il. us 1t not too great to be IN private
hands or In that of corporations 4? Shou "
not the government own the RAJ lroads? ~
esq think not,,le was the reply, ''Su le,
ownership would be bad for the roads
and bnd for the public, Government
ma nagement would soon become 5eNtrhYtt-
giant, and the public would pay more
and receive less than, y now goes ut 1,s
stho present competitive system. Be-
sides tho mower Of such@a machine, N
ono hand would be enormous, II !
were President OF the United States ana
had tho railroads under my control Z !
could keep myself in Office as long as
I liked. There arc about one million
railway employees In this country. ana
probably more than that IN the SISTER
industries OF car works, steel mllls, coal
mines and other things. ~ 2 county "
NlikesthIs I do not think the government
J. should have tho ownership of the roads,
That would be the worst thing tina could
happen.1 fl
A Great Railway Trust.
5.Butg IL there not danger III this era
OF capital combinations that one com,
pany or one man may some time got
possession Of all the railroads Y 81.
"I suppose that may be g possibility,
although / doubt 1T. AS the roads are
now organized they are combined N
great groups. Moody in his book q
trusts estimates that Ave groups con-
troll eb per cent, Of the railroads, in-
/ ciuding mileage Of le5 900. ] think
6suol combinations, properly MANAGED,
are for the good Of the roads and ths
public. but ! do net th1nx that . one''
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exit can only be effected through this
opening. q IA sti Ii AZ 81 II
j Is long bamboo Is thrown across tho
rnoht to servo as a bridge and when this
Is drawn into tho fort tho only way Of
gaining entrance is by wadhg or swim
way ~ It IS q highly dangerous process,
fors.insldo the tia, exactly opposite tho
opening, Is placed a large BRASS cannon
LOADED with nails and bolt heads "a and
stones. and scrap ron, and ut tho critical
moment tho defenders Of the fort blow
this 8ironmongery store right into tho at
ttacking party ~ have in my hAversack
d piece Of sheet iron about an inol square
which was taken out Of tho chest&of one
OF our mon who's killed while storm
ling one Of these ottas. S II. ia. 81 l43
An Interview With a Moro Sul-
n NJ tan. q III Il. sg
April 5th. We arrived last night at
the banks OF the Taraca River and pt tched
camp. We started down river this morn
ing to visit. all the cottas on the loft
bank After about a mile ofspretty rough
going We were hailed + by a ioo II from
inside Gotta over which a big American
flag was flying. AZ ter a while q sultan
(apparently every one who owns q house
In the Taraaa district Is q sultan) armed
to the teeth. came gu t with d small reti-.
nue. OF desperate looking rtifflans and de-.
nanded a parley 3s
Hc said lie was a. friend OF the A1ner-
ioahs, and wished to be4 lot alone. HI Gem
ernl Wood informed him that II he would
allow us 4 to search his Gotta for arms
stolen from tho Americans. and IL It was
found that there We're mono In the Gotta
he would be loft unrfiolest ed u 81 gS92 g
u went in with the search. party and
every things inside pointed to tho fact that
our friendly sultan hid intended ia fight
TX our force had not appeared to ID TO-
greatly superior In d numbers rhrnugh5
the wallis Of the Gotta weih thrust long.
brass cannon loaded with Junk, the gum
powder on the touch holes prot ected by
small strips Of dried Il ,bn pana$ q len f.s Gre-
sticks handy, and spare ammunition and
powder beside each gun. a loWeve Ell. after
a caref III search swe Il ound nothing Ssuapl-
clous about tho GOTTA a nd went our way.
Soon after we lett this Gotta an armed
Moro rushed out OF tho bush and att
tackled one Of our men. v IIe was shot In
stantly, but not before he had { inflicted
nine wounds on his man. Nothing could
better illustrate tho necessity OF -;using
bullets which will stop n man When @th ey
hit him. III The average European or Amer
loan soldier feels that he has lad about
inll he needs when he has been hit by
the ordinary slender bullet of the me deril
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VI SULTAN OF, JoLo AND ATTENDANTS

Etention OF robblng them. OF their prop
erty, offsubjecting them to burdensoine
taxatior,, or&of interfering with their re-
$ligious Or tribal customs. ex ccpt when
these tan@countcr to recognized princl-
pies OF civilized government. X Y
But these efforts at q peaceful set
Gtlenicnt were unuvaIling. X Americans rs
We'll as Christian Tilipnos, we're murder
cd at frequent intervals, surveying pa r.
ties were attacked, and several Aineri-
car outposts were rushed and arms and
ammunition were captured. $ssssS N 5g5
v - certain amount OF fighting occurred
as q result of these Outrages ;ibutsit was
not until 1903 that nii expedition was or
ganized TO go right round Lake 1lanno
III order to make all xhibition OF force,
which, 1t was hoped, would convinco the
aMoros Of the fatality or prolonged resist
8ance to the American occupati ton Un-
fortunately, this Expedition. which was
under the command OF Captain John II
6Pershing, OF the Fifteen United States
Cavalry. was SO strictly LIMIT ted in its
operations BY specific 9ord ers,r that It
was unable to produce$any serious effect
upon the Moro mind s n sy }5 ".
M The expedition was. 4 In "a ct, forbidden
( to do any fighting unless II s actually
opposed by armed resistance in the limo
Hof itsamarcl, round the a lak e: The res
Hsult OF this WIS t hat 4 the q few Moro
bands which h actual a threw themselves
across tho route Of the expcdi ton We're
attacked and repulscd; but the mass
Sof the Moro fighting men kept Just off
the patti and satisfied themselves with
threats and insults, which y I he AmerI-
can troops were not allowed to resent
When Captain Pershing left the lake
tho Moros had merely gathered the imrs
precision that he and his man were
frightened by what they had seem OF the
Moro forces and were afraid to fight. As
might. be expected, B the Pershing expe-.
$dltion8 was followed BY renewed activity
on the part Of the Aloros; and by the be-
ginning Of 1904. ! had become clear hat
$only&by administering u severe lesson on
the field Of battle could HI he 1oros be
brought into that frame Of mind which
would make 81 possible for peaceful folks
throughout the island Of Mind anaoa to
pursue their avoca tons untroubled by
a constant fear OF Moro 8raids III
3 Between July. 4 900, and the departure
3 Of the Taraca ex petition from Fam
boanga d on March 80, y 1901, & more than
thirty separate acts OF ri lawlessness on
the part Of Aloros were reported ~ and
many OF these involved tho murder Of
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"Bpt you have political ASPIRATIONS.
have you not. Mr.. Secretary q;
NO, my lifo work has been along
business lines and my ami billions are all
connected with business 4 .35,5 f u
But you have no aspirations N the
line OF our public service? Would you
not like to be President sof the United nit g
States ?'Sl 3f n = III 18.
~ have no such ambition" said Mr.
Morton My desire for the presidency
lies only in the direction Of the rail.
road. 4 should like ito be president OF
tho Atchison Topeka and santa re.
That Is nll.", n 53S a AZ v II 52 '9ii-
College Boys il Business.
"Nrr. Secretary, YOU have been a very
successful business man.. Do You think
you lost or gained by not having O COL
lcge education r. 5sias 81 3 sss55ss
,'rhat is ia question:. said Secretary
Morton. AS far as pure business sue
cess Is concerned T. gained by starting
life young. The time 7 might have
spent in college was spent IN learning
business and business methods. learned
a new lesson of one kind +. or another
every day, and as far MS my success in
railroading and other business is con-
cerned i think that this was Fof more
benefit to mo than&a college course w
have had to do with many college grad.
yates Indeed have had hundreds q
them In my employ. Their college ca
reers give them false ideas 81 their Pos g.
Fsitlon and duties. They look down upon
ordinary work. and are not willing to
begin at the bottom, us they must 90
|ito succeed doubt much whether the
long college course makes tho BOY q
better business man, ''.i8I& 4t N
III syou had u boy would you SEND
him to college III 4,
1T might. ] cannot say, Ny brothers
are good business men. They We're
reared as Twas and started into their
working life from the common schools.
Neyertheless they are giving their own
boys college educations, might d, the
sane huff IS N pure business PROPOSE Ton
I doubt Its Instability
e."Your father was college bred, was as
he not ?'fF MI ~ 8s s 4 ,$f III.
eyes, ia was educated at Ann 4-Arbor
and vas q graduate Of Union College
New York but l,ei did not believe N IN
college trimming for business 4 men. IN r alt
Morton family, In fact seems for gen-
terations to have alternated between ne
college and the business office IN train
Ing It's boys One of my great era M !
fathers was a college man noted for
Ills classical learning, His son. my
Erandfnther was II business man educated
Lin tie school of experience, Father Went
| 10 college, Ills sons were trained 70
business 1, and my brothers. sons are now
I'm college again. AS to my brothers
| would say, that the business school has
been success. They stand high IN
| the commercial world, and, starting with
nothing, have made themselves men OF
Large interests and high business stand
Ing.
Our Great Railroad Interests,
aThe conversation here turned to rail-
road matters, II and Secretary Morton
spoke Of the part they had IN the pros
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n ttIII s: wi cdSureS y 2IIeu.33545l43 58 a q
yor the first thren years of the Amerd-
In occupation every effort was made to
iercolne tho intractable opposltton1 OF
!. " hioros by peacefu Jul means. They were
red that tho Americana had no In II,
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Americans, and at least ono tho cap-
Eturo and cnslavement OF Christian Fill
Spinos. ii AZ Vi (li.ss i n N ~
Story Of the Expedition 70 Ia
III Il raca. "A. \. Al III
In his report on the ,raraca expcd ition
General! Wood describes tho purpose J Of
the expedition 4 IN Vi the foil owing terms:
'yrhe purposes OF the recent expedition
Ito Iarnca were to bring 10 y an end the
condition Of armed resistance and open
defiance OF OUR authority to compel the
surrender Of certain Christian Filipinos
held In slavery to- blish5 a garrison It
the mouth8of the Taraca river, to recap
ture as many Of the stolen q rms as pos
slble and to occupy and destroy all hos.
tile forts. i q ss4 b
Tho expedition was rendered neces-
saryEby the failure OF all peaceful meas
ures. Invited the Sultan OF Taraca to
d meeting at Camp Wears. assuring him
personal safety for the purpose OF adjust
Ing Tnrnca affairs by peaceful means II
possible. The letter to the 4 ultan was
duly delivered d week prior to the date
fixed for the NEE ting. which. was 4 March
9 !, 904 4 53s s5 IA,
81 arrived lat Camp VI cars on this date
and learned that the suit tan had not come
Elm and probably 9;WOulu no u COIIle flI5 gpul
that on the contrary he was making ex-
8tenslye preparations for hostili Ties. sss1
I'd eluycd at Camp Tears until the morn
Ing Of the. 20 OF 4 April. on which to-.
the troops having assembled, tho adj
vance was commenced = sft5 3 3{f4
What follows Is taken from my diary.
kept during the course OF the campaign.
III April cd. At II A. NJ. ~ g eneral Wood,
h his staff and myself started :ou t on horse
back on the first day, Of he IA "a ca ex II
Fpeditlon. We were eccdcd BY o. cou--
pie OF companies OF infantry q and follow
led by moro infantry. two ba ttcries Of
mountain guns. the pack train and a rear ar.
guard s i "a X, u.s. !.
The soldiers carried a rifle, bayonet, lao
rounds OF ammunition, blnnke t roll ter
bottle and 4 haversa OK. = he dismount!e.d
cavalry hal h revolvers ms tead y, OF bayo
nets. The men were dressed IN q ak 81
trousers, either ktlaki coats or blue fan
mel shirts and slouch felt tats-not BY
any means "a pretty oking crowd. but vt
Very busIncsslike. Am feeling pretty
clad that j am not a follower OF his
btilghness the sultan OF Taraca !. If
5s a about s. In the evening we reached q
K spot on the extreme south stern cor
ner OF Lake Lanao and camped on the
hillside. It Is interesting to see the bus
giress like rapidly With which the camp
was formed. ! should say that within
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rifle.nnd, therefore. for what II may oaI 4
civilized warfare the modern small otl- 4
let suffices But 1t Is not 80 with II the \
savage tribes Of IL Aainl Two or three 4
wounds from modern bullets ,of ,,fins CALI!
ber II they are not In VII tai spots, DO -
moro to- check "a doro than shooting MN
with d. pea rifle ss Il have even seem ~
Moro, ter being hit square On the chest
Iby1a bullet from q AZ Colt eoaial
right Of, and kill his man sE
April II. u Tho Tarara sexpe daoions q oysns
AS a bold and advent,ro1is napatSnG g.
tfiro warfare It was q miserable faAura.i
AS successful Insxoh tt,rossgh an stteuaS AL
country FOR the purpo6o ct N fr1gheenaool,
him Into a reasonable state OF f1sall 4 -
was br;il lant s,lcoess.
We saw very little fighting, ast3,nA
NO found everywhere elaborate prepasa "a
ttons 10 resist us. This fact 10 that Ganes
oral woods wisdom II ii taking 81 Oyer.
wheln,ing force into tho sTaraca vafaeJ.
achieved almost Without bloodshed WhAA
a smaller force. would not hsYs achieved
at all even after severe hgl1ti
WoF SO = out u to show tic Moro tha4g She'
United States was master ot h Nfinaanats
and TINT IT did not propose to allow alAvsl.:
l;raidin & armed Eobbary or 4 attacks upon
merioan y troops in & "a rison. We went
through out the len 9Th and fbreadt "a TIE
Taraca every Moro We q
attacked u.s. caugh t 81 ght LET HIM;
We scared every other Moro into h1dins;;s
We captured and burned more than 2o0st
forts, and Ii am very much mistaken r.
the Moro sui tana will 10 Ok for any mosss
trouble with the Arnert can soldier
Ifthcre Isl little In my nal r live " lols
snancks OF the great and sa ring game
Sof twur, \ it Is because our der stratlon
81 force mad war imp slbl q for The 9th
err side. sSs re
lgS5The two Il things which impressed me
most IN j my tour with 81 General Wood
were the care which tho general u ools A oS
l.hnve every detail Of his york ~ lioLig
out ii advance, and the excel lent boot
Iing az lle4troops. was due Ito tho Cor-5
liner feature OF the camp ign that vi
thing happened when It was b led toas
pan; that N en- and an Inn lsf were Well
fed ana in fine 5condl ton the VII 81
| THAT only one man In q column nearly
ll,5OH strong was on the sick list & to- tie
Halter feature may DO ascribed The fact
THAT In a week Of desutory fighting there
|swas not q singl % enemy Y who n came II i y,
sight OF our troops who ever got away
to tell " hat he 81 had u seen,--( Copyrig ht,s
I 1906, by the Boston Herald Company,)ssE
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combination Of a one-man A ownership
would do at oil"
But how can you prevent such Is a
possibility, Mr.. Morton r. asked.
Il ri One way. In which It might be pre-
vented, replied Mr.. Morton, would be
" the legalization ofSpooing,s and also
by certain congressional acts to regulate
railroad buildings and to control the
railroad. II pooling were permitted tho
power of the trusts Or large shippers
would be limited and 1t would be pos
Hsible to have fixed rates of freight and
} to give tho same advantages u to tho
small business rs to the large business.
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a quarter OF i an hour of the time the
s"halt,' was sounded tho tents OF the men
were Up, the hospital tent erected camp
fires lighted. mules tethcred and out
posts placed I'd, Il ..5 T. WI
E75 Scarcely had we cainped when we ere
fired into By hostile Moros from the sur
rounding wood Il. The We ~ first shot Kill
ed IN }Sinfantrynar, Il smashing three OF
Il his ribs. = AZ few a;volleys were fired BY
our men 4 Iii the direction from which Y
was supposed the shot had come, but as
III was neaily dark, and as the cam b WIS
completely hedged mon three sides ny
almost impenetrable Jungle, 1T was III
guess work 3s3 rs u 81 \
IS. After d. while things auieted down and
we had supper. Canned hash was tho
basis sc our meal, but it was garnished
With few hard tacks az plenty Of. good
hot coffee. Everybody Jared the Same,
the general aid his staff getting exactly
the Same ration as the men jg
fss AS we were to make an early start in
the morning we turned in as soon as t,p-
per was over. We made our beds by cut
ting grass and laying 4 on The ground.
/ on the top Tof this We put Il stout 8pioce
Of canvas. On wt ich we lay, and then we
covered ourselves It'll Il couple OF blan-
kets, laid our heads on q bundle Of spare
clothing and soon fell .asl eep. Vs. III fS
E8 There vas good deal Of firing during
tile night, and We all slept with |revolyers
handy. for IN felt Il cry tfkely that tho
Moros would rush the camp inSthe dark
ness From their D standpoint t would
have been the best thing TO- do, for once
they were in the camp, withga knife In
each hand they could have cut us up
pretty badly, t he moro so as IN the con-
fusion which would have resulted It would
have been imp ossible to- allow any pro-
,mlscuous firing on our. side. e ISL
American Attack On the Moro
Stronghold. II.
M April g. It requires Ia little practice to
sleep soundly i n a camp In which every.
now and then you hear the Sslz-z-z-z 8 E q
bullet over your h cad !, foil owed b svolley,
firing only a few yards from who're you
lies nndF#I was not sorry when at s
o clock the s''reYellles.fEwns sounded II After
we had eaten our I fill of bareback and
bacon we started OF on the trail. BY 40
o'clock we had reached a low hill over
looking the plain Of Maciu. Il 33Sy i}5
Here We encountered THO first visible
evidence that the Aoros intended to put
up q fight. Down IN he plain we could
see amid thick punches OF bamboo dozens
Of small forts flying the red flag, which
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You may say that such discrimination
Is already prohibited by law That ID
so, but there are a dozen different ways
Of getting around the law, and the re-,
suit Is that both tho roads and the
country suffer. Some OF the greatest
corporations Of the United States which
now pay the legal rates for their freight
were built up by the discrimination which
they forced the railroads to give them
In the past. . ,sa. 5
f9,eThere Is not much use in discussing
whether the government should have
the right to regulate the railroads, = tho
Secretary continued. oThe people think
10, and certain amount OF Fedoral
control Is bound to 20 exercised /. !
government W,,i should protect the railroads.
/ Il should prevent the building ot parallel
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! BY Allynye Ireland.

IS ~ ILAlD the good fortune 10 ar
q rive at Za1nb oarga, tho capital
OF Moro province Iii the Philips
t ~ pin Island, q few days before
4 = tho departure Into the intc-
n tho T,araca expedition, and q en-
ls god very kindly asked ma toaac-,
IN the #cxpcditl OH as q IA super,
s3s !rary on his staff. 515S S3i 81
VA order TO understand the objects Of
b expedition It Is necessary 10 de-
Sc the general conditions Of tho Moro
TRY OF which, the Taraca Valley
N $ fa part. Lake Lanon Is In the cen;
II OF the Moro country, and the flat
q try which lies between tho lako and!
hills which nnclrclc 1t h Is inhabited
number of tribes Of Moros, who arc
bmetnii Mnlays. These Moros had
In been conquered by the spaniards,
very few White men had ever pcnc-
4 ID into their country prior to tks
( rdcan occrpati on.S Il
4 t although the headquarters 5ofS the
4, power was at Lake Ihnao, the cx-t
4 ice OF these tribes was q constant,
" ico to the peaceful Christian settle
Ii IS down on the coast 81 \ the island.
q Iindanao, for the Aforos a organized
timo to time armed raids into tho
&, towns. and the objects OF thu raids
B to obtain plumber and to carry. ! 81
al en- to be held las slaves by the Moro
!, A,$ or sultans and dnttos ns they are.
& d according to their lmportance. @
q ) Spanlnrds had made several In
tuals n attempts to check the Moro;
and the Yimpunity With which the.
ks werc usually carried Il out gave
q horos a feeling OF security which
IN their adopting an open policy
s lance toward the Spanish authority.
Il + in tho Americans occupied the coast
a cts OF Alinda mo as part Of the,
al plan for the establishment of
4 rican control 3through the Islands.
,ff8 found ~ themselves con fronted by
II the same probe ans as heir pred eces.-;..
3s4 tho SpanIarls. hat Is to SAL. u hoy
q devise y SOM Ian BY means /, ofs
y 81 they could protect their peaceful
ls from the incur ions Of the Moro ~ no
N Its. N 5sa24s \; ID ,.;St;s}
orc e Tried When Peaceful
Measures Failed
or the first three years of the &Amerd
occupa ton every effort was made to-
rco1ne the intractable opposition OF
4 Aioros by peaceful means 81 They were.
red that tho Americans had no in