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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27
Memorial Service
Especial to The Times-pispatcho

Doe NSptCIIH 10 The Tlmes-Illspatch.)
DAVIDSON. y. c.. January 81 I'm
pressive memorial services were held
"Wednesday in the college chapel IN honor
OF Rev. jethro RUMBLE, y, D.. of Sails
bury. N, c., who died SATURDAY mt Red
Springs, at tho ago OF 10,
DIR. ]. b. Shearer WAS in charge Of
the services, and paid a touching tribute
to his lifelong friend and faslow-worker.
Addresses We're also made By DIR, James
r. Wharey, DR.. a. II. Graham and Presl-
dent Henry Louis Smith,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27
Entertainment at City Home.

An entertainment was given at tho
City Home last night for the benefit OF
the inmates ut that institution.
The programme was as follows, and
was most enjoyable one:
instrumental selectiors-The West End
Angels.
Song--Harry Lucy.
song-"Lindy Lue." by George and
May Lucy.
song-"Georgie," May and Mr.. Harry
Lucy.
Blue Bells-Misses Olivia Harris. Annie
Dolan, Mamie Gray. Jessie Staples, Eliza
beth Dolan. Fla lie Grgsby and Mr.. w.
II Lucy.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27
Held on Suspicion.
Especial to phe Times-plspatc

(speoial to phe Times-Dispatcho
ALEXANDRIA. VA, January ed-As n
result OF suspicion, excited by the man
ner In which they gave their evidence.
and the contradictory nature of It. Leroy
Beach and James German, two witnesses
who were examined this afternoon, were
arrested on auEtslon OF knowing more
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27

about the circumstances attending the
death of Curtin than they would tell.
After Il number of other witnesses had
been examined, court adjourned ut 8
o'clock until tomorrow morning.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27
Strangers.

Mrs de Fashion (at a children's partly
.--',Marie!'' Nurseglrl-"Yes, sma'am"
home Which Of these children ~ niaeS
--Home Chat :, " Il
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-27

old and his death was caused by pneu-
monia. He is survived by i've brothers
and three sisters.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
The Money Question

Thus far 1 have dwelt upon subject,
which may not be REGARDED as strictly
pardon me If in this presence [ betray
my interest in those policies for which
the democratic party stands. / have mo-
had on opportunity to make a demo
not even a political enemy-could be SC
cruel as to forbid me to speak of those
policies on this occasion. Our opponents
have derived not only partizan pleasure,
but also partizan advantage from the
division caused in our party by the
money question. They ought not, there
fore, begrudge us the satisfaction that
we find in the fact that unexpected con-
ditions have removed the cause of Our
difference. and permitted us to present
a united front on present issues. I'm
lookedfor and Unprecedented increase in
the production of gold had brought a
victory to both the advocates of gold
former keeping the gold standard which
they wanted. and the latter securing the
larger volume Of money for which they
contended. We who favor bi-metalism
are satisfied without victory if the
friends of recommendation are SAT-.
with theirs. And we can invite them to
a contest Of zeal and endurance in the
e1fort to restore to tue people the rights
which have gradually been taken from
them by the trusts.
Campaign Contributions.
The Investigations which have been in
progress during the past year have dis
closed the business methods of those who
a few years ago resented any inspection of
their schemes. and nd their rascality un-
der high sounding phrases. These inves-
legations have also disclosed the source
of enough campaign funds which have
been used to debauch elections and cor
rupt the ballot. The people see now what
they should have seen before, namely:
that no party can eXterminate the trusts
so long as 1t owes it's political success
to campaign contributions secured from
trusts. The great corporations do
not contribute their money to any party
or clearly implied. The president has
legislation on this subject.
but so far his party has failed to respond.
this baneful influence is eliminated, and
l hope hat the democratic party will not
only challenge the republican party to
bring forward effective legislation on his
but will set q example by re-
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08

that It Is legitimate for him to vote for
the congressman who. whatever their
opinions on other subjects may be. will
legislate larger dividends into his pockets:
believe that they should have no higher
aim in voting than to raise the price Of
WOO, and laboring men have been urged
to make their wages their only concern.
Fat Frying.
For a generation the fat" has been
fried out Of the manufacturers by the re-
publican congressional committee, and
then the manufacturers have been reim-
conscience educated to believe that this
open purchase of legislation was entirely
proper, no wonder that insurance cOmpa-
MES have used the money of their policy
holders to carry elections; no wonder that
trusts have FASTENED to purchase i'm
munity from punishment with liberal do
nations. Nor can we draw a moral dis
t1nction between the man who sells his
vote for five dollars on election day and
the manufacturer who sells his political
influence for fifty or a hundred thousand
dollars, payable in dividends? How can
we draw a moral line between the senator
and congressman elected by the trusts to
prevent hostile legislation and the senator
or congressman kept in ongress by the
lion? The party which justified the one
form OF bribery cannot be relied upon to
condemn the other.
The Time for Reform.
mere never was a time when tariff
reform could be more easily entered upon.
Tor the manufacturers, by selling abroad
cheaper. as many of them do. have not
only shown their ingratitude toward those
who built the tariff wall for them, but
they have demonstrated their ability to
sell in competition with the world. The
nigh tariff has long been a burden to the
in the United States, and it is
growing more and more a menace to our
foreign commerce, because it arOuSes re-
II provokes retaliation.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08

! 1t is worth while to consider whether
a ploW may not be struck at the trusts
by a law making it illegal for the same
person to act as director of officer of two
corporations which deal with each other
ness.
A still more far-reaching remedy was
proposed by the democratic platform of
lions to take out a federal license before
engaging in interstate This
remedy is simple, easily applied and com
prehenslve. The requiring of a license
would not embarraSS legitimate cornora-
tlons-lt would scarcely inconvenience
them-while it would confne the preda-
tory, corporations to the fate of their
origin. Juht as a license to sell LIQUOR
leaves the possessor of the license to sell
only in accordance with the laws of the
state in which he resides. so a corporate
license granted by a federal Commission
would not interfere with the right Of
each state to regulate foreign corpora
tons doing business within it's borders.
a federal license. the federal government
could then issue the license upon the
terms and conditions which would pro-
tect the public.
Corporations Have No Natural RIGHTS.
A corporation differs from a human be-
ing in that it has no natural rights. and
as all Of it's rights are derived from the
statutes. it can be limited or restrained
according as the PUBLIC, welfare may re
quire. The control which congress has
over interstate commerce is complete.
and If congress can prevent the ~transpor-
tation of a lottery ticket through the
mails, by the express companies, or by
freight, it can certainly forbid the use
of the mails. the railways and the tele-
graphs. to any corporation which is en-
deavoring to monopolize an article of
commerce, and no party can long be cred
tied with sincerity if it condemns the
trusts with words only and then per
mits the trusts to employ all the instru-
mentalitieS of interstate In the
carrying out it's nefarious plans. 1t is
far easier to prevent a monopoly than
to watch it and punish it, and this pre-
vention can be accomplished in a prac-
teal waI by refusing a license to any
certain proportion of the total products
this proportion to be arbitrarily fixed a
a point. which will give free operation to
competition.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08

which win make a private monopoly i'm
possible.
There must be no mistskIna Of issues,
and no confusion Of the line of battle. the
trust, as an institution, will have fen
open defenders.
The policy of the trust magnates will
be TO insist upon reasonable legislation.
and then they will rely upon their power
to corrupt legislatures, and to intimidate
executives. to prevent the application of
the trusts.
Our motto must be. "a private monopoly
Is indefensible and intolerable,' and our
plan or attack must contemplate the total
ana complete overthrow of the monopoly
industry.
Need Not Quarrel Over Remedies.
we need not quarrel over remedies. We
must snow ourselves willing to support
any remedy. which promises substantial
advantages 10 the people in their warfare
against monopoly. Something is to be ex-
pected from the enforcement of the Grim
mai clause or the Sherman antitrust law
but this law must be enforced, not against
a Few trusts as at present. but against all
the trusts, and the aim must be to i'm
prison the guilty, not merely to recover a
fine. What Is a fine of a thousand dollars.
or ever ten thousand dollars. to a trust
which makes a hundred thousand dollars
while the trial is in progress? II the GRIM
inal clause is not good to be enforced. 1t
ought to be repealed. If Imprisonment is
too severe a punishment for the eminently
respectable gentlemen who rob eighty
Illllons of people of hundreds of millions
of dollars annually, the language of the
statute ought to be changed, for nothing
is more calculated to breed anarchy than
the failure to enforce the law against
rich criminals, while it is rigidly enforced
against petty offenders.
Advocates New Legislation.
But 1t is not sufficient to enforce exist
ing laws. If ten corporations conspiring
together in restraint of trade are threat
ened with punishment. all they nave to
do now is to dissolve their separate corpo-
%rations, and turn their property over to
a new corporation. The new corporation
can proceed to do the same thing that the
separate corporations attempted, and vet
not violate the law. We need. therefore.
new legislation, and the republican party
not only fails to enact such legislation,
but fails even to promise it. The demo-
new and efficient legislation.
No Man Can Serve Two Masters.
Recent Investigations have brought to
light that nearly all crOokedneSS revealed
In the management of our large corpora
tons has been due to the duplication of
directorates. A group Of men organize
or obtain control of several corpora
tons doing business with each other. |
and then proceed to swindle the stock
holders of the various corporations for
which they act. No man can serve |
two masters. and the director who at
to do so will fail. no matter how
much money he makes before his failure
is discovered. Many OF the trusts con- |
troll prices by the same methods. The
group of men secure control of
several competing corporations, and the
management is thus consolidated.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
Closely Allied With Trust ouestio

The tariff question is very closely al
lied to the trust question, and the re-
duction of the tariff furnishes an easy
means of limiting the extortion which
the trusts can practice. While absolute
free trade would not necessarily make a
trust impossible. still it is PROBABLE that
very few manufacturing establishments
would dare to enter into the trust of tn.
president were empowered to put on the
free list articles competing with those
controlled by a trust. While I shall take
occasion at an early day to consider the
tariff question more at length. l can not
permit this opportunity to pass without
expressing the opinion that the princi-
pie empodied in the protective tarif has
been the fruitful source of a great deal
of political corruption, as well as the
support of many of our most %iniuuitors
trusts. It is difficult to condemn the
manufacturers for uniting to take adyan-
tage of a high tariff schedule, when the
schedule is framed on the theory that the
Industries need all the protec ion given.
and 1t Is not likely that the benefciaries
of these schedules will consent to be re-
formed by it's friends.
Tariff and Votes.
But one of the worst features of the
tariff levied not for revenue but for the
avowed purpose Of protection, is tina it
fosters the idea hat men should use their
votes to advance their own financial inter-
ests. The manufacturer has been assured
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08

than because of lack OF sympathy with
those who toll. The removal of work from
the house to the factory has separated
the husband from his wife and the father
from his children, while the growth of
our cities has put an increasing distance
between the home and the workshop
Then, too. more is demanded of the labor
ing man now than formerly. He is a citi-
zen as well as a laborer, and must have
intelligent sovereign. To drive him froU
his bed to his task, and from his task
back to his bed, is to deprive the family
of his company. society Of his service.
and politics of his influence.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
Nominate Bryant Brooks.

Casper, Wyo.-The republican state
convention made the following nomt
nations: Governor, Bryant B. Brooks:
secretary Of state, William R. Schnit.
ger; treasurer, Edward Gillette; audit.
or, Leroy Grant; superintendent a
public instruction. H. D. Cook.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
AGAINST Draqo Doctrine.

London-The powers, the Standards
correspondent at Rome asserts, are
exchanging views on the Drago doc
trine, with a view to concerted action
at The Hague against the United
States, should an attempt be made to
uphold it. v
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
Woman Golf Chamrion.

Chicago-Western Woman Golf
Champion Mrs. c. l.. Deering won her
game in the women's championship
tournament, defeating Miss Llewellyn.
5 I'D and 3 to play.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
Flood In Mexico.

Ell Paso, Textile Santiago river,
in Mexico, has overlooked it's banks,
and a number of towns have been
flooded. Crops greatly damaged, and
the Mexican Central suffers from
washoutS.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
A Young Woman's Awful Fall.

Omaha, Neb.-Lena Jeffries, a tele-
phone operator, % years of age, IN
the employ of the Nebraska Telephone
Co., was killed by falling from the
third story of the Douglas Street Ex-
change building.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08
A New Dancer

Rate regulation was absolutely neces-
sary, and it furnishes some relief from
the unbearable conditions which previous
ly existed; but we must not forget hat
the vesting of this enormous power in the
hands of the commission appointed by the
president introduces a new danger If an
appointive board has the power to fix
rates, and can, by the exercise of that
power. increase or decrease by hundreds
Of millions Of dollars the annual revenues
or the railroads., will not the railroads
feel that they have a large pecuniary in
terest In the election Of a president friend
ly to the railroads?
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-08

The railroad question is also interviewer
with the trust question. Nearly all the
private m~onOpoiies have received rebates.
or secured other advantages over Compel
ltorS. Absolute equality of treatment at
the hands of the railroads would go far
toward Gripping the trusts, and 1 rejoice
that the president has had the courage to
press the question upon congress While
the law. as it was finally distorted by the
senate, is not all that cOuld be wished, it
deserves a fair trial
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-20
Are Ministers' Sons Bad:

A bishop marked the names Of those
whom he deemed worthy Of rcmem-
brance for some service performed in
religion or politics or literature or sci
onCe or art or commerce or philan-
thropy or warefare, or some other as
poets of the various life of the nation
OF such names he found 1910 who
We're the children of clergymen or min
listers, taking no account of those who
were grandchildren OF clergymen or
more remote descendants. OF the chill
dren of lawyers, there We're 80, and
of doctors $50. The sons of clergymen
who became themselves clergymer
were $50. He further asserts that the
superiority which the clergy enjoy in
respect to their children to the other
professions lies beyond dispute. The
superiority has been not of numbers
only, but of degree. From clerical
homes have sprung more distinguished
sons than from the homes Of any secu-
lar profession.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-20

Experiments have been made with
founders in order TO determine whether
the whitcness of the under sides of
those fish is due to the exclusion of
light. and the presence of color on their
upper sides TO exposure to light. The
fish experimental upon We're kept liv-
ing in glass tank, having a mirror
placed beneath, SO as to reflect light
upon the under sides of the fish. one
of these prisoners survived for three
years under conditions SO strangely diff
ferent from its ordinary habits of life,
and all of them exhibited the develop
ment of spots of pigment on their lower
surfaces. The experimeuters conclud-
ed that it is exposure 10 light that
causes the celebration Of the upper
parts OF the bodies. not only Of foun-
ders, but of other fish. and. conversely,
that it is to the comparative absence
of light that the wilderness of under
sides of fish is due. they extend the
same principle to explain the coiorless
condition of the skins of many animals
that pass all their lives in caves.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-20
GrcoHc In Wool brica

Few pcrsoas realize when they pu
on wooden garments what large
amount of animal fats wool contains
for to the touch woolens are not greasy
In the big clothing shops where men:
garments are cut. however, the floors
around the tables where electric knivc;
clip out the odd shaped pieces soon be
come as slippery as though they wer'
waxed for a dance.
why do you wax the foors-to keeI
the fabrics clcan?" is a common query
from visitors.
But the clothing cutters explain thai
this accumulation Of grease comes
from the friction Of wool cloth over tho
wood. The woods pores soon become
so charged with it that they feel greasy
to the touch, and even the harder wood.
in the cutting taulcs absorb from The
wooden 0berS so much of the ANNA
fat that to all appearances they might
be in steady use in the rendering dc
partment of an abattoir.-New York
Press
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-20

Naturalists have long been puzzled
as to how birds learn to sing. Does it
come natural to a bird of a certain
species to sing the song common to its
kind or does it learn to initiate what
ever song it most hears during the
early days of its life? Experiments
made by we'll known student of bird
life proved that most birds simply learn
by imitation. He placed young linnets
to be reared by skylarks, wooda rks S,
titlarks and other breeds. and in every
case the linnet learned the song of his
foster parents. Again, a number of lin
nets We're reared where they had no
chance of hearing the song of any
bird at all. In due course they began
to sing, but their song was entirely
original. The cuckoo, however, seems
to be an exception, for although it is
almost invariably reared by foster
parents of any species but its own,
it always sings to perfection its own
peculiar song, quite uninfluenced by
the vocal efforts of its guardians.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-20
ShndelesS Forests.

Large tracts of dense forests in Aus
tralia are practically shadeless. Many
kinds of trees in that strange country
turn their edges instead OF the fiat sur
face of the leaves to the sun, and thus
one may stand under n tree of enor-
nous size and be as fully exposed to
the sun as though he We're in the open
plain. Travel through these forests
is said to be exceedingly arduous work
as the trees, while they do not cut off
the sun, prevent the breeze from
reaching the ground, and thus the tray
eler experiences sitting heat
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-08-20

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The learned ladies IN olucn times tool!
great comfort and pride in their skill
in medicine. With tr-!e profcssion1
scoln they looked down upon the regu
lar doctors as upon qUaCk9. For Gods
sake beware what Tedic:@cs ye take
of any fyssissyans CT London. l shall
never trust to them because Of yOul
father and my uncle, whose souls Cos
assoil." SO wrote lady in conscious
pride. STE knew size could have saveG
the lives Of her unfortunate relatives
If she had only had a chance to dose
tncm with S2Inc OF her wonderful con
cOctkOns or to have put upon then
some such piastcrs as those for which
Dame Margory Pastor was famous
Her husband sent for one of her plas
tiers for the kings attorney. James 1Io
barst, who was suffering with an ache
in his knee and to whom Sir John Pas
ton felt himself sentincntally indebted
He Is the man who brought you anI
me together" he wrote to Margery
"and | had leaver than $40 that yc
could with your plaster part Linn and
his pain"