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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1905-07-06
r E. JOHNSTON,
Attorney at Law.

Will practice in the courts of Louisia-
ma and Arkansas, and in the Federal
courts. Office at court house, Benton, La.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
COMING DOWN TO BUSINESS.

We have heard much talk of late
years about practical education of
educating man or a woman SO they
could upon leaving school be trained
for earning a living. The Connecticut
papers tell that at the commencement
this year at the Connecticut Agricul-
tural School at Mansfield the young
women made their own graduating
gowns. and the story goes on to say:
THESE creations were named by "a
first-class New York dressmaker, who
adjudged them to be up to the high
est Paris standard" In view of the
high prices charged for making
dresses up to the highest Paris stan
dard" or below it. young men looking
Injuries will doubtless ''make up" to
these dressmaking graduates.
In a Kansas manual training school
instead of piano solos, recitations and
the like, the girl graduates gave a
public demonstration in cooking,
showing their proficiency in making
bread, cake. ice cream and the like.
Why not join the instruction given
in Kansas to~that given in Connecticut.
SO that the girls will graduate as cooks
and dressmakers from the same insti-
tuition? Then man, looking for a
graduate who would make practical
wife. could be suited and have no fur
Their to go.
Seriously. why should not all young
ing hygiene. something of medicine,
i'm all the schools and colleges instead
of so many 'ologies? Such teaching
will train their minds as we'll as bot
any and algebra. and at the same time
better fit them for the practical duties
of life
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

mission cost would be entirely wiped
out. and the. public would only pay as
an illCgitimatc expense what the poll
ttcianS were nble to steal.
but in the light of recent inyesti-
CATION of commercial houses, | am
constrained TO feel that the public
money is safer. even in the hands of
the politician, than it is with many
of the men who are in control of our
great industries, including those of
some Of our life Insurance companies.
VI believe that the fundamental
reason why there is so much dishon,
esty in politics. and why governmental
enterprises are not economically run,
is largely in the fact that the public
has no direct interest in them; or,
rather, that extravaganza in public Of
flee or in public works does not at
present appear to materially affect the
individual; but as soon as the public
comes in contact with it, as 1t would
if the Government owned the insur-
ancc companies, just so soon would
the public demand honesty in gov
eminent, and the cost of running the
Government would be brought to d
fairly economical basis"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
CORRUPTION ON BOTH SIDES,

Our Joseph Choate is reminded by
the Baltimore Sun that he was doing
his country wrong i'm lauding the in
tegrity of English public officials to
the sky and unfavorably contrast
ing with them those of his own
country when at the very time
British Commission is showing that lii
the first year of the Anglo-Boer war
the Government lost thirty<ti five mil
lion dollars by corruption and Grim
inal waste in connection with wal
stores. Mr. Choate's admiration for
England has evidently made him blind
TO maladministration there. Unfort-
.unately there is too much graft on
both. sides of .ithesVcean. Fortunately
rpahtio stnt ~ Rtfa u e fnaNsS
ing stronger to eradicate 1t, having
even reached Philadelphia where the
public conscience has been sound
asleep for thirty years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
HONORS ARE EVEN.

DR.. Edwin A. Alderman, president
IF the University of Virginia, in q
speech at Richmond, where he caught
mis- audience in the High School, said
Il am not a Virginian, and it seems
Is though | must go through life MAX
ing explanations as to why | am not.
A few nights ago, when during the Uni
verSlty finals, d band came to my house
TO serenade me, the first air that they
played was The Old North State.
and it brought back TO me memories
that l shall hold tender as long as |
live, but it proved that l was not d
Virginian. My little son, however. is
Virginian, and l have no doubt he
will in years to come taunt me With
the truth that | am not one. 81
DR. Francis P. Venable. president of
the University of North Carolina, is q
Virginian by birth. but has spent all
his manhood at Chapel Hill and his
sons Cine young fellows they are too,
worthy of their distinguished grand
ather)-are true Tar Heels.
Honors are even.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
Spirit Of the Press.
VIII be Hard to Make the Public Be-
Iicye That There is No Higher
Up" Power.
Wilmington Messenger.

That the two jurymen were lamp
cred with n tho interest of the de-
PENDANTS no one can doubt. The
mystery about the matter is that
Rogers and Sorrell should have taken
this unlawful and dangerous service
upon themselves without any sugges-
ton even from any one connected with
the case. This is strange indeed All
the testimony before the court,
though. shows that they acted on
their own responsibility in this natter
at least, the court could secure no
evidence that they were instigated by
any one. 1t will be hard to make the
public believe that these two men
acted in this matter of their own ac-
cord and without suggestion from
some one connected with the case.
Who the person or persons were, If
there were such, will, most probably,
never be known The records show
that there was none such.
No matter what the true facts in
the case it is a good thing for the
cause Of justice in this State that the
principals in this outrageous proceed
ing were caught and are now serving
a thirty days term in Jail. Their de-
lection and punishment will be a
warning to others who may be in
clined to tamper, for pay or through
friendship, with jurors in our courts.
That this practice has been going on
in our state there can be little doubt
The people of Wake are to be con-
graduated that it has been put a stop
TO in their county
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

due to the circumstance that justice
was sudden and sure in this instance,
rather than that such. attempted jury
tampering exists, not specially in
Wake county, but in any county In the
State.
The fact that this jury tampering
prevails to some extent in many coun-
ties, is not unknown to the legal pre-
fession. The lawyer who knows" his
Jury hasa power against which testi-
mony and opposing talent of any kind
has small chance Of winning.
friend" for the defendant on 2
Jury, is a powerful factor. and this is
realized by every one whether they
know the intimate and intricate work
ings of the court room, or not f
1t is this outside influence upon
Jurors which leads to disastrous re-
suits not in the occasional convection
and punishment of guilty persons, as
i'm the Wake county case, but places
positive handicap upon the poor man,
who is no more guilty than his neigh
Dor, yet cannot secure the aid TO pro-
tect his interests because of his poV-
erty. against the potent dollar of his
nciGhbor who may check justice
through a tampered-wth juror.
The strength of every civil and
moral institution lies in the absolute
importantly OF our COuItS VI JuotiNSf
and if these can be swayed in defiance
of testimony and law, there is ever
possible the attempt to exact justice
in some form not laid down in the
statutes.
The punishment of Rogers and Sor-
rel is a healthy sign, and may serve as
a precedent for similar treatment in
other cases where jurors are tamper-
ed with, and even more, may serve as
sufficient warning to break up the
practice that may exist in less notable
cases. but which are equally culpable.
and threaten the stability of our COM
m on Wea lth. 81
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
INSURANCE by THE GOVERN
MIGNT.

The day will come-and it will
come before many years--when life
insurance for protection will be Gov
ernmental function. Insurance for in
vestment will always continue private
business. The Government will in
sure the lives of all the people, who
are proper risks. for $1,000 or $4,000,
so that their dependents can never be
a burden upon the taxpayers. In
surance at cost would enable almost
every wage Garner to pay enough to
give his family this protection. In
the June number Human Life"
discussing Games and Guesses of
Life Insurance" arraigns the direc-
tors of some of the great companies
for using the money of policy-hold-
,ers in Wall street speculations. From
that article the following extracts are
taken:
1.-The cashier who wrecks a great
spQIn3fle rcial bank where "a The. deposi-
tors are men of money and who will
neither go hungry nor thirsty at the
loss of it, is a thief; but he may not
be a villain. While he has no right
to steal this money or to steal any
money, he does not, by his thieving,
more than financially in1ure his vic
Tins; but the manager OF savings
bank or of a life insurance company,
who does other than carefully invest
the funds under his control is not
only a thief but is the lowest kind of
a seoundrel. and villain worthy Of
capital punishment. In his hand"
have been played unreservedly the
funds of the great middle class and Of
the poor people who have little OPP
portunity for investigation, who must
take his statement as true state
ment, and who are OF necessity
obliged to trustingly and conf1dingly
place their earnings in his hands eX-
pecting him to honestly care Tor
them.
II can forgive the burglar who robs
me of my silverware, because l may
not suffer for the want of II, but ne
who takes the money l have invested
for my family and those dependent
upon me, and risks 1t in Wall street
or in any irresponsible way, Is the
lowest kind of a scoundrel.
Recent exposures go a long way to
substantiate the correctness of the be-
lief of many of our thinkers and phil
anthropists and those who have
studied our social conditions, that life
insurance. from its very nature,
should be under the control of the
Government; that the Government of
the. people should be responsible for
the insurance of the people, and that
the people should not be obliged to
invest what TO many of them repre-
sents the savings of lifetime in any
trpol lion reRi esented by any other
than the chosen representatives OF the
people, the people, and only the peo-
pie. being responsible to the people
for the peoples protection.
"I.believe that a Government insur-
ance company would give the pubic
It's life insurance at a cost OF one
third less than it is now contributing
TO the life insurance companies for
the protection of itself and its pos
terity.
III the Government owned the life
insurance companies. the agents COM
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
Go Higher Up.

umberton Argus.
1t is passing strange that Rogers
and Sorrell should have been so per
sonaIly interested in the case of Kilgo
that they should commit so seTioustan
offense to do him favor and ittfs
puzzling to conjecture who inspired
the attempt at corruption. The de-
PENDANTS swear they didn't do t. and
their lawyers plead not guilty. Strange
too, that both men are Republicans,
zone is a Republican and one is. a
Editor.) Certainly Judge
Moore ought to probe the matter TO
the bottom. Every jurgman for the
session should be sworn as TO any at
tempt upon his integrity. The NeHs
and Observer is right when it demands
an investigation "higher-up.' IL as
Rogers and Sorrell pleaded, they didn't
know the men whom they approached
were jurors and if the unfortunate af-
fair is the result of a fortuitous COM
bination of circumstances, this would
be the more apparent if no one else
had been approached
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
GOOD TRINITIEs.

In st. Louis, there is saying that
the people of North Carolina believe
in three things: hell. calomel and De-
mocracy-a mighty good trinity, each
in its place.
In a speech at Richmond this week
in tribute to Robert E. Lee, the new
president of the University of Vir-
Ginia, DR.. E. A. Alderman. said amid
great applause:
IL havessaid before. and | repeat it
now, that we of the South are the only
people in all the world who still read
Sir Walter Scott, fear God and vote
the Democratic ticket.
Both are good trinities,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
Hnrrah for judge Moore .

Little River Record.
We hear that Judge Moore was very
firm in his determination to break up,
as far as he was able, the Illegal sale
and manufacture of whiskey, by inn
posing heavy penalties. He said that
the people of Harnett county had ex-
pressed a desire that whiskey be not
sold in the county and he was determ-
ined to break up the violation of the
law. And every law abiding citizen
says amen" No man who thus de-
fies the law and rides rough shod over
the will of the people can be called
good citizen and the time has come
when all good citizens must unite IN
condemning and putting down this
great curse, which strikes al the foun-
dation of all law and order and threat
ems to make drunkaris out of. our
children
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

sired day comes. on which corpora
ton officer goes to Jail Cor something
less than cracking a safe, the common
people will begin to feel that there is,
after all. justice in America. and that
the law is at last catching up WIN the
new type of law breaker whom ms,
trict ATTORNEY Jerome described
so wei! last evening. Mr.. Je-
rome cannot make his CORE
spondents believe that the acts OF
men in the management of the Equita.
BILE differ essentially from those of
Larry Summerfield, confidence man.
Mr. Moody will have to exert all his
great ability to make such honest If
out of date people appreciate his rea-
son for differing with Messrs. Judson
and Harmon as to his duty of prose-
cutting the avowed law breaker Nor
ton, associate of Presidents and FIN
anciers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
THE CHARGES AGAINST MORTON

A subscriber" wishes to know the
charges against Paul Morton, the new
head of the Equitable that the Presi-
dent and the Attorney General deter
mined to hush up" and because OF
which his retirement from the Cabl-
net was welcome relief to the friends
of the administration. The New York
Evening Post, in a carefully prepared
article, thus gives the charges against
Mr.. Morton:
'Mr. Morton's statements and those
of other officials who were concerned
led to such an outburst or protests
from the entire West that there was
nothing for the Government to DO eX-
cept to proceed, with view TO pun
ishing the guilty. Testifying on De-
cember 10, 1901, in regard to a GER
tain contract, Mr.. Morton said under
oa>h: Yes, sir it was an illegal con-
tract. 1t was illegal when we maze II
and we knew it, a year previously
this same witness had said to the same
commission: L think the corporation
should be fined whenever 1t grants d
rebate, and the shipper should De
fined and forced to disgorge what ne
has received year later In l9O2,
this same Paul Morton, then vice
president of the Santa Fe, was IN
especial charge of freight traffic. his
subordinate, w. p. Biddle, freight traf-
fic manager of the Santa F'e, admitted
last January on the witness stand,
that he had given a rebate on coal
shipped by a certain company. MT
Morton openly defended his Nsubordin-
ate, saying: What Mr.. Biddle did
was exactly right in my Judgment
Everybody did just as we did, and they
had to, or go out of business Conn
missioner Prouty characterized this.
action as "a barefaced violation of the
law.
But these samples of Mr.. Morton's
unblushing activity as laW-breaker
do not complete the indictment. In
1902, his brothers, Joy and Mark Nor
ton, owned a salt mill in HUTCHINSON
Kansas. which was part of the Trust,
known as the Hutchinson-ka Kansas salt
Company. Inspired by the example OF
the Standard OIL perhaps, the Trust
decided to freeze out its Independent
competitors by obtaining speclai
freight rates. The Mortons were the
men of the hour; they had previously
built side tracks and switches less
than mile in length, to connect their
mill with the Atchison and the ROCK
Island railroads. JOY and Mark Nor
ton sold to themselves these sidings
for $4,000, and formed. the Hutchinson
and Arkansas River Railroad Com
pany. Without being possessed of
single car or a locomotive, they APP
piled to Brother Paul for a tralnc
agreement-and got it. A few months
later this fake railroad received $15,+
3O139 as it's share of the freight rates.
although the saffron the Morton mill
was "billed i'm the same way. was
taken out by the same engine was
transported in exactly the same man
rer as it had been Thanks to TINS
clever scheme, the Morton mill mad
an obvious advantage over the indie
pendent mills"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

1t would be a good thing for North
Carolina if DR.. Charles Lee Smith, who
has resigned his chair in William Jew
ell College at Liberty, Mo-, could be m
duced to return to North Carolina. He
is scholar and gentleman of the
type needed here in his native State
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

Why would Mr.. Ryan pay $4,000
900 or $2,500,C0O. Zone report says he
paid the first amount and another the
second), for stock upon which he can
get only $3,514 dividend? Is the an
swer to be found in his connection
with great traction interests that need
to sell securities?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

The Presbyterians have always been
leaders in education in North Carolina
THE Educational Record, of Whining
ton Presbytery." is an admirable paper
issued in the interest of the James
Sprunt Institute and Clarkton Mile
tary Institute. both of these thorough
and practical schools being under the
control of the Wilmington Presbytery.
The issue is full of interesting and
valuable articles by prominent Pres
byterian divines
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
Scuints Of tho Pen.

Greenville Reflector.
Men who instigated the crime Of n
fluencing and buying jurors In the
Gattis VS. Kilgo and Duke case ae-
serve to wear stripes. 1t viii not 90
to stop with sending two men 70 jan
for a month";
Go higher up!-News and ODscfNef.
We differ from Brother Josephus IN
the direction which they should go
They should go further out-aDout
the penitentiary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
MORNING TONIC.
(Enerson.)

There is always reason, in. the
man. for his good or bad fortune, and
so, in making money. Men talk as If
there were some magic about this, and
believe in magic in all parts of life. He
knows that all goes on the old road,
pound for pound, cent for, cent-for
every effect a perfect cause--and that
good luck is another name for teaacity
of purpose.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

DR.. Evander McGflvary has been
elected to the chairs OF Philosophy and
European History in the University of
Wisconsin. He is one of the most ac-
complished men the State has pro-
duced. He graduated at Davidson
College and spent several years in
Siam. where ne translated the gospel
into sthe Lilo dialect of siamese. He
has been a professor in Cornell for
several years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

Spain has case that has been in
the courts longer than the Gattls-
KiIgo- Duke suit. 1t was begun IN
1917 and has not yet been settled.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
ontsidc Innucnce Upon Jurle.

New Bern Journal.
The conviction and prompt SEN
tence of imprisonment upon Rogers
and Sorrell in Wake county, who were
found guilty of tampering with jurors
in the Gattis- Kilgo case, has caused a
sensation in this State.
Probably the sensation is largely
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21
THOMAS B. WOMACK.

AS to the above it seems good to say
one thing in the beginning that judse
Womack is welcome to such comparl-
son as he can win the consent of his
mind to harbor between the attempt
of Judge Purnell TO hold the editor OF
this paper in contempt for speaking
his~opinion of his court and the pun
iyhment of Messrs. Rogers and Sor-
rell for attempting to directly infiu-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-21

The story that Chief Justice Fuller
is to resign and to be succeeded by
Secretary Taft turns out to be a fake.
Mr.. Taft good naturally says: We
heard that / was going on the bench
a lot of times, but never from an au-
thoritative source" Chief Justice Full
Ter is also quoted as saying with a
laugh: You know no chief justice
has ever resigned. and | shall not
initiate the practice" The fake *
charged up to Forakers supporters.
Morton will investigate the affairs
of the Equitable" says a dispatch
Who will Investigate the affairs Of
Mr.. Morton In violating the anti-re-
bate laws?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-02-16

would feel the influence of the great
change, for India would be as safe
from invasion as herself, and, being
safe, would be apt to indulge in
dreams of large ambition.
From province after province of Rus
sa come up stories which show that
the suspicion of the proprietary class
so long smoldering among the peasant
ry is breaking into flame; that cha
teau after chateau is menaced; that
in district after district the landlords
are sending their families or flying
themselves for protection to the great
cities.
The plumber to which the reservists
so often betake themselves is as much
an expression of hatred to the rich as
OF desire for a final revel. and is &C.
companied in many instances by a
destruction o. property which can in
no way benefit tie mutineers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1905-02-16

first saw him he was addressing q
meeting of workingmen. He began
in low mumbling voice, vibrant will:
power and force. Before he had com
pleted his first phrase you could feel
the magnetic spark entering your soul
that would hold you until the last syl-
liable fell from his lips. Those work
ingmen whose cause he has made
his life's effort sat and listened to
him with glowing eyes and beating
pulses, and their passions rose with
his. In many ways he is a born agi'
tator.
His hold over the people has been
a source of fear and alarm to the no
bles, for his hand stretches cut over
the entire empire. | have heard him
talk in Moscow and st. Petersburg.
and in both places he is followed and
worshiped blindly. So great an in
fluence has he obtained over the Rus
sian people that none of those in pow
err have dared to harm him. And
their fear of him has increased from
year to year. Were he not man of
such dominant will and such mighty
influence over the minds of his fol-
lowers. he would have been member
of the Siberian chain gang many
years ago. But they have feared him
and always will fear him.
1T is not at all strange he escaped
in Sundays frightful massacre. No
soldier would Willingly fire upon a
priest or upon one who held in his
hand a cruciax or an icon. Then this
man is beginning to have an everin.
cerasing influence over the soldiery
and this is the greatest fear Of the
Russian government. for he may soon
gain the same tremendous power as
a leader with the troops