The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-08-23

ahiltv Ia stamp out evils which have
caused social unrest. OF the Wall street
sLmp he asserts, ut is not true that the
president is engaged in raid against all
corporations He denies Roosevelt has
"o,it. Bryaned" Bryan, claiming many rad
zeal differences in the policies favored by
the two men. OF the tariff, he says free
trade " will certainly lead only to dlsas'
ter" but that il is the duty OF the re.
publican party to prevent excessive taflii
rates. There are many excessive SEIZED,
ules. but no attempt at revision should
be made until after the next presidential
election.
There will be no let.up in President
Rooseyelt's attack ON wealth yiolators OF
the law, In his speech at Provincetown,
Mass, Tuesday he drew attention to the
present trouble with the stock market
and the countless requests and sugges
tions that he has received for him to say
or do something TO ease the situation. lie
saws the financial disturbance is world
wide and due to matters not particular To
the United States, or connected with any
governmental action, but he says II may
well be that the determination of the
government which, he says, will not wa,
yer. to punish certain malefactors OF
great wealth, has been responsible Tor
something of the trouble, at least to the
extent of having caused these men TO
combine TO bring about as much llnahcial
stress as possible, in order to dlseredlt
the policy of the government and thereby
secure a reversal of that policy, so that
they may enjoy unmolested the fruits OF
their own evil dongs. But the president
saws il will not alter his attitude. There
will be no change in policy, no let'up IN
the effort to secure the honest observ
ance of the law; for he regards this con
test as one to determine who shall rule
this free governmental people through
their governmental agents, or a few ruin
less and domineering men, whose wealth.
makes them particularly formidable be-
cause they hide behind the breastworks.
of corporate organization There VIII De
no action of a vindictive type, and above
all no action which shall inflict great or
unmerited suffering upon the innocent
stockholders and upon the public as a
whole. In the man OF great wealth who
has earned his wealth honestly and uses
it wisely is recognized good citizen OF
the best type, worthy of all praise and
respect. The presidents aim Is to help
every honest man, every honest corpora
ton, and his policy means, he says, IN ITS
ultimate analysis healthy ana prosper
Gus expansion of the business activities
of honest business men and honest cor
| porations.
! Russia is gradually, but most thorough
| ", rearranging her military dispositions
| and fortified bases in the far East as a
result of the late war, according to late
| mail advices received at Washington from
/ that quarter of the globe Formerly Har.
hin was the center Of the defensive system
| of Siberia, but the displacement OF the
Russians on the Lao Tung peninsula by
/ the japanese and the occupancy by the
/ latter of the important spur from the
/ transSiherian railroad running southwark
/ 10 Dalny has made the existing Russian
/ lines of defense unsafe, and particularly
/ is the only great Pacific seaport, Nladi'
vostock, endangered so far as concerns the
( line OF communication with Siberia ana
I Russia overland. Therefore, according to
/ these adviCes. the Russians have removed
| their military base back into Siberia as
| far as the town of lrkutsk, which Is TO
he extensively fortified with the town OF
| Chita as an advance station. To carry out
the plan for the improvement OF the
| communications of NladtostOck 1t VIII
be necessary to construct another line OF
railroad to connect Chta with that fortl'
fed seaport. which, in the Russian plans,
is eventually to be made even more I'm.
pregnable than Port Arthur was supposed
to be. This railway will be located IN the
valley of the Amur river, running as lar
westward as Khabarovsk, where it is to
connect with the Usuri railway.
4 terrible automobile accident, nearly
eyterminating the family of Charles D.
Root a manufacturer of Bristol, Conn,
occurred Sunday at Ashley Falls, in the
town of Sheffield Mass Mr.. Roots tour
ing car carrying party OF iive, WINE
going at high rate OF speed; crashed
into an express train on the Berkshire Ill,
vision of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad, which was gong at tht
rate of 40 miles an hour. n tnghtiuI
wreck followed, in which Mr. Root, IN,
mother and her sister were killed. two OF
them instantly. and his daughter was
probablv fatally hurt. His niece, the NTH
member Of the party, had an almost MIR
aculous escape from death, but was Sc
yarely hurt. There is no one to explain
for the Automobiles the cause OF the ac
cidcut, but trainmen and spectators unite
in saving that Mr.. Roots automobile was
racing with the train along parable
highway. Apparently Mr.. Root either
tried to Beat the express over a grade
crossing or was surprised by the bend
taken by the highway as 1t approached
the crossing.
A significant legal action was begun II
the supreme court of the District OF Co
lumbia at Washington Monday by james
w. Van Cleave. president OF the ma
tional association of manufacturers, tG
enioin Samuel Gompers John Mitchell
and other officers Of the American tedera
ton of labor and several of its subsidiary
organizations. from using the boycott anc
so.called unfair list" Mr., Van Cleave
institutes the suit in the name OF large
manufacturing company in st. Louis, OF
which he is president whose products are
alleged to have been declared unfair by
labor unions, but the significance OF the
action lies in its being a test case where
in Mr.. Van Cleave, as head of the manu-
facturers' association, seeks to perma
nentlv enioin organized labor from usln&
the unfair or don't patronize' lists II
its fight against firms and individuals. The
papers were filed at Washington in ordel
that personal service might be Immedl
atelv obtained against large number o
the labor leaders named in the complaint
who are in Washington in attendance
!, upon general conference.
Senator Charles Dick of Ohio is eX
: tending his interest in the militia to thu
regular army. A consultation is benz
held between him and officers Of the regu
lar army and navy in respect to a pro