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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
ASKED FOR s5,ooo.
Frank Fantanna Has Been Awarded
 $50 by the Court.

The suit of Frank Pleasant against the Waterbury Brass company for damages of $5.000 was closed to-day in the superior court. Pleasant claims to have been permanently injured through an accident sustained while at work.
 Tue case of Frank Fantanna against the American Brass company and others for damages of s5.O00 was call. ed next but owing to some unexpected developments judgment was awarded the plaintiff for nominal damages of $50 and costs of s4s.5S. This closed the business for the day.
 There is but one divorce suit on short calendar for tomorrow, Mary A. Rhodes against Clarence b. Rhodes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
THE RAILROAD TROUBLE.
Strike Breaking Up and New Men
 Being Put to Work.

New Haven. May 23.-Indication are that the strike of laborers and section hands along the divisions of the New York, New Haven and Hart forrd railroad within Connecticut will be broken up by the desertion of the faint hearted ones to-day. due chiefly to the show of force by the railroad at the points selected as ral- lying places by the strike leaders. Many men from outside are applying for work and the company will put gangs on the sections as soon as the danger of molestation from the strikers is over. The morning re- ports seem to indicate that there would be no recurrence of trouble at Saybrook or any other point.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
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Albany. May 2s.-The senate to- day passed the hill fixing at s cents s mile fhe rate of passenger fare on all raflroaes or railroad systems over fs0 miles in length In the state. It has already passed the assembly and row goes to the govsrnoF.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
WRIGHT QUITS
The American Ambassador to Japan Has Resigned His
 Position
GARRISON DESERTS

Tokio. May 23.-The resignation of General Luke Wright, the Ameri- can ambassador to Japan, is widely deplored and the Asahi will to-mor- row refer editorially to public feel ing in the matter, expressing deep re- gret at his short tenure of office.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
No Horoscnnes I.sne.a

New Haven, May 25.-Thfs is Tap day at Yale. one of the day of great importance to the undergraduate body. and for the first time h years no horoscopes have been issued on the probable selection of fifteen men for eaen of the three senior societis. Skull and Bones. Scroll and Keys and Wolf-s Head.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
Pollce and strfkers clash.

Buffalo. May 2s.-The police and number Of striking freight han dIers elashed to-day at the Lehigh freight house. Two strikers were placed under arrest. one with a bull let fin hls thigh The police say that twenty-five strikers attacked the freight house. Order was soon re- stored.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23

Belgrade, Servia, May 23.-The Turkish garrison at Uskub, consist ing of about 1000 men. has desert ed. The soldiers asserted that they were given bad food and that other conditions were unendurabe lThey carried of their arms and thus far only fifty men have been captured. Uskub is situated about 100 miles from Saloniki, with which it is con- nected by rail. It is an important trade center and has a population of 20,000, consisting of Turks, Alban- ians, Servians, Bulgarians and Greeks.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
FIRE IN A HOTEL.
One of the Guests and a Chamber
 maid Were Suffocated.

Utica. N. Y., May 23.-In a fire in the Metropolitan hotel early to- day, Annie Sullivan, a chambermaid. and George A, James. of Clinton, a guest, were suffocated. A number of others were more or less overcome and there were many narrow escapes. The loss was small.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
MRS MKINLEY DYING.
Wife of the Late President Stricken
 With Paralysis.

Canton, O., May 23.-Mrs McKin- ley has suffered a stroke of paralysis and her attending physician said this afternoon that she was unconscious and there was no hope of her recov- cry.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
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Lexington. Ky. May 1.-The fury in the case of Judge James Hargis, charged with the murder of Thomas CoekriIl. to-day returned a verdict of not guilty.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
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 The trolley express makes # pos sible for you to buy your furniture from us now and have it delivered st your seashore cottage the next morn- Ing. Free delivery to you.
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
whiskey Goes Up.

Cincinnati. O.. May sss-Ths price of whfzkey was advanced 1 cents gallon in the markes here to- day. selling on . baxis of t1.11 a xxlion-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23
WEATHER FORECAST.

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-23

of the so-called New York recount bill
 which provides judicial procedure for the recounting of the ballots cast in the McClellan-H Hearst mayoralty cleo
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04

scrupulous man of unlimited means from buying his own way into office. There is very radical measure which would, I believe, work a substantial improvement in our system of con ducting campaign, although I am
 well aware that it will take some time for people so to familiarize themselves
 with such proposal as to be willing
 to consider its adoption. The need for collecting large campaign funds
 would vanish If congress provided an
 appropriation for the proper and leg
 itimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ann
 pie enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be
 made that no party receiving cam paign funds from the treasury should accept more than 8 fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor;
 and the necessary publicity for re-
 ceipts and expenditures could without
 difficulty be provided"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
Labor Legislation.

The President strongly endorses the eight-hour principle for all employees of the government. He also renews his previous recommendation for a com pulsory investigation of industrial dis putes. He calls for honesty in purpose and spirit" as an essential element in solving the conflict between labor and capital. In speaking of farm labor the President says in part: NO growth of cities, no growth of wealth, can make up for any loss in either the number or the character of the farming popu- lation. We of the Unified States should realize this above almost all other peo- ples. We began our existence as a na- ton of farmers, and in every great crisis of the past a peculiar depend- ence has had to be placed upon the farming population; and this depend ence has hitherto been justified. But it cannot be justified in the future If agriculture is permitted to sink in the scale as compared with other employ ments. We cannot afford to lose that eminently typical American the farmer who owns his own medium sized farm. To have his place taken by either 8 class of small peasant propri- etors, or by class of great landlords with tenant-farmed estates would be a veritable calamity The growth of our cities is good thing but only in sd far as it does work (which calls for the exercise of both body and mind Prog ress cannot permanently exist in the abandonment of physical labor, but in the development of physical labor, so that 1t shall represent more and more the work of the trained mind in the trained body, Our school system is gravely defective in. so far as 1t puts a premium upon mere literary training and tends therefore to train the boy away from the farm and the work shop. Nothing is more needed than the best type of Industrial school, the school for mechanical industries in the city, the school for practically teach ing agriculture in the country, The calling of the skilled tiller of the soil the calling of the skilled mechanic should alike be recognized as profess sions, just as emphatically as the call- 
 ings of lawyer, doctor, merchant, or clerk, The schools should recognize this fact and 1t should equally be rec- ognized in popular opinion The young man who has the farsightedness and courage to recognize 1t and to get over the idea that 1t makes difference whether what he earns Is called salary or wages, and who refuses to enter the crowded field of the so-called profess sions, and takes to constructive indus- try instead is reasonably sure of an ample reward In earnings, in health, in opportunity to marry early, and to establish home with fair amount of freedom from worry. It should be
 one of our prime objects to put both the farmer and the mechanic on a higher plane of efficiency and reward. so as to increase their effectiveness in the economic world, and therefore the dignity the remuneration, and the
 power of their positions in the social world.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
New Enterprises.

The President renews his enthuslas- tic advocacy of the development of the inland water ways and the work of reclamation. The care of the public lands he demands shall be enforced with a larger spirit of justice and de- termination. The protection of the forests is urged in order to avoid 8 timber famine, and in this connection the President urges the repeal of the tariff duty on wood pulp. The mineral lands are briefly discussed, proceeding an enthusiastic discussion of the Pan- anna canal A postal savings bank is commended and also the extension of the parcel post especially on the rural routes" He approves placing the fourth class postmasters in the classified service. Self government for Alaska is renewed. Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico come in for brief consideration along lines of greater political independence. A number of additional topics follow of passing interest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
Employers Liability.

The President would have a federal officer appointed whose business it should be ''to investigate all accidents on interstate railroads and report in detail the causes thereof" In regard to the employers liability act, he says:
 "The National government should be a model employer It should de- mand the highest quality of service from each of it's employees and 1t should care for all of them properly in return. Congress should adopt leg islation providing limited but definite compensation for accidents to all workmen within the scope of the fed eral power, including employees of navy yards and arsenals. In other words, model employers liability act, far-reaching and thoroughgoing, should be enacted which should apply to all positions, public and private, over which the National government has Jurisdiction. The number of ac- cidents to wage-workers, including those that are preventable and those that are not, has become appalling in the mechanical, manufacturing, and transportation operations of the day
 It works grim hardship to the ordin- ary wage worker and his family to have the effect of such an accident fall solely upon him; and, on the other hand, there are whole classes of at torneys who exist only by melting men who may or may not have been ! wronged to undertake suits for negli- gence. AS a matter of fact a suit for negligence is generally an inadequate remedy for the person injured, while it often causes altogether dispropor- tionate annoyance to the employer The law should9be made such that the payment for accidents by the employ. CT would be automatic instead of be. | ing a. matter for lawsuits, Workmer should receive certain and definite compensation for all accidents in in dustry irrespective of negligence.
 "The employer Is the agent of tho public and on his own responsibility and for his own profit he serves tho public. When he starts in motion agencies which create risks for oth. CTS. he should take all the ordinary and extraordinary risks involved; ana the risk he thus at the moment as
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
Injunctions.

Instances of abuse in the granting of in1unctlons in labor disputes con- tinue to occur, and the resentment in the minds of those who feel that their rights are being invaded and their H. berty Of action and of speech unwar- rantably restrained continues likewise to grow Much of the attack on the use of the process of injunction Is wholly without warrant; but am constrained to express the belief that for some of 1t there Is warrant This question is becoming more and more one of prime importance, and unless the courts will themselves deal with 1t in effective manner, 1t is certain ulti- mately to demand some form of legis- lative action. It would be most un- fortunate for our social welfare If we should permit many honest and law abiding citizens to feel that they had just cause for regarding our courts with hostility. earnestly commend to the attention of the congress this matter, so that some way may be de- vised which will limit the abuse of injunctions and protect those rights which from time to time 1t unwarrant- ably invades Moreover discomfort Is often expressed with the use of the process of injunction by the courts, not only in labor disputes but where State laws are concerned I fefrain from discussion of this question as l am informed that 1t will soon receive the consideration of the supreme court.
 l "The federal courts must of course l decide ultimately what are the re- ] spective spheres of State and nation i in connection with any law, State or National, and they must decide de- ! ffnitely and finally in matters affecting individual citizens, not only as to the rights and wrongs of labor but as to the rights and wrongs of capital; and the National government must always see that the decision of the court is put into effect. The process of in- 1 junction is an essential adjunct of the courts doing it's work we'll; and as preventive measures are always better than remedial, the wise use of this process is from every standpoint com mendable. But where 1t is recklessly or unnecessarily used, the abuse should be censured above all by the very men who are properly anxious to prevent any effort to shear the courts of this necessary power. The courts decision must be final; the pro- test is only against the conduct oi individual judges in needlessly antici- pating such final decision, or in the tyrannical use of what is nominally temporary injunction to accomplish
 what is in fact permanent decision.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
CAUSE OF TROUBLE AND THE REMEDY

The president sent his annual mes sage to congress yesterday. The mes- sage entire would fill more than three pages of almost any paper. It recom- mends:
 Further regulation of interstate cor porations.
 Amendment of the Sherman anti trust law.
 A more elastic currency.
 No tariff changes till 1909.
 An income and inheritance tax.
 Compulsory Investigation of strikes. Repeal of tariff on wood pulp.
 LA national gallery of art.
 An extension of the ocean mail act. Higher pay for officers and men in the army.
 Four new battleships.
 The President in his message at- tributes the stringency In the money market to the hoarding of money in the banks by an alarmed people. He, however, asserts that business as a rule ifs conducted with honesty and probity," He repeats the warning he gave in his message to congress in December, 1905, to the general effect that Hunfiinching perseverance in the war against successful dishonesty must continue.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04

business combinations, Modern indus- trial conditions are such that combina- ton is not only necessary but inevita- ble It is so in the world of business just as it is so in the world of labor, and 1t is as idle to desire to put an end to combinations of labor. Corporation and labor union alike have come to stay Each if properly managed is a source of good and not evil. Whenever in either there is evil 1t should be promptly held to account; but it should receive hearty encouragement SO long as 1t is properly managed It is pro- I foundiy immoral to put or keep on the statute books law, norninally in the interest of public morality, that really puts premium upon public immorali- ty, by undertaking to forbid honest men from doing what must Joe done under modern business conditions. SO that the law itself provides that it's own infraction must be the condition precedent upon business success. To aim at the accomplishment of too much usually means the accomplish ment of too little, and often the doing of positive damage.
 ''The antitrust law should not be \ repealed; but it should be made both more efficient and more in harmony with actual conditions It should be 50 amended as to forbid only the kind of combination which does harm to the general public, such amendment to be !, accompanied by, or to be an incident I of. a grant of supervisory power to the government over these big concerns i iengaged in interstate business. This I should be accompanied by provision | for the compulsory publication of &C., lcounts and the subjection of books and papers to the inspection of the govern ment officials. A beginning has already been made for such supervision by the establishment of the Bureau of Cor porations.
 Those who fear, from any reason, 1.-the extension of Federal activity will | do we'll to study the history not only of the national banking act but of the lpure-food Jaw, and notably the meat inspection law recently enacted. The pure food law was opposed so violently that it's passage was delayed for a de- cade; yet 1t has worked unmixed and immediate good The meat inspection law was even more violently assailed and the same men who now denounce the attitude of the national govern ment in seeking to oversee and control the workings of interstate common carriers and business concerns, then asserted that we were "discreditina and ruining great American indus. try Two years have not elapsed, and already it has become evident that the great benefit the law confers upon the public is accompanied by an equal ben eft to the reputable packing estab. lishments. The latter are better off un. der the law than they were without it."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
Political Contribution.

Upon the subject of campaign ex-
 penses, the President says: Under our form of government voting is not merely a right but a duty, and, more over, a fundamental and necessary duty if man is to be good citizen. It is we'll to provide that corporations shall not contribute to Presidential or National campaigns, and furthermore to provide for the publication of both contributions and expenditures. There is, however always danger in laws of this kind, which from their very nat ure are difficult of enforcement; the danger being lest they be obeyed only by the honest, and disobeyed by the interruptions, so as to act only as a penalty upon honest men. Moreover, no such law would hamper an un-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
NEW HAVEN MORNING COURIER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19o7


 sumes will ultimately be assumed, as it ought to be, by the general pub lie. Only in this way can the shock of the accident be diffused, instead of falling upon the man or woman least able to bear it, as is now the case. The community at large should share the burdens as well as the benefits of industry. By the proposed law em- ployers would gain a desirable cer- tainty of obligation and get rid of liti- gation to determine 1t, while the workman and his family would be re- lieved from crushing load With such a policy would come increased care. and accidents would be reduced In number. The National laws pro- viding for employers liability on rail- roads engaged in interstate commerce and for safety appliances, as we'll as for diminishing the hours any employe of a railroad should be permitted to work, should all be strengthened wherever in actual practice they have shown weakness; they should be kept on the statute books in thorough going form.
 'The constitutionality of the em- ployers' liability act passed by the preceding congress has been carried before the courts. In two jurisdic- tions the law has been declared un- constitutional, and in three jurisdic- tons It's constitutionality has been affirmed, The question has been car ried to the supreme court, the case has been heard by that tribunal, and 8 decision is expected at an early date Tn the event that the court should af- firm the constitutionallty of the act I urge further legislation along the lines advocated in my message to the preceding congress"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04

dozen years or so" fresh scrutiny of the tariff laws says: "The question should be approached purely from a business standpoint; both the time and the manner of the change being such as to arouse the minimum of agitation and disturbance in the business world, and to give the least play for selfish and factional motives. Tn sole consid- eration should be to see that the sum total of changes represents the public good. This means that the subject can not with wisdom be dealt with in the year preceding a presidential election, because as a matter of fact experience has conclusively shown that at such a time it is impossible to get men to treat it from the standpoint of the public good In my judgment the wise time to deal with the matter is immediately after such election.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-04
Question of Taxation.

The President believes that "an in- come tax and an inheritance tax" should be part of the system of fed- eral taxation, though he does not re- commend their immediate enactment. He congratulates the country upon the fact that no complaint can be entered against the enforcement of the law in the case of wealthy offenders. '' ''The course of the department of justice during the last few years has been such as to make it evident that no man stands above the law, that no corporation is so wealthy that 1t can not be held to account. The depart ment of justice has been as prompt to proceed against the wealthiest male factor whose crime was one of greed and cunning as to proceed against the agitator who incites to brutal violence"