Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-10
From Washington.
Correspondents of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington, Aug. 10.


ment activity against the Standard vi
Company, Chancellor James r. Day, o
syracuse, N. Y, University, has pre-
pared for the United Press Association
signed interview commenting on recen
sourt proceedings and federal reports IL
which the big corporation has been
placed on the defensive. In addition tC
| his prominence as AN educator anC
clergyman, Chancellor Day has come
prominently before the public through
! his criliscism of similar government activ
| tiles In the recent past and his questioning
of the wisdom OF the administration
policy in matters concerning the coun
try's corporations. Mr.. Day expresses
himself as follows "You request m,
opinion of the Standard Oil fine. The
question is wider than one corporation
| fit we're only the Standard Oil it could
be left TO that company and its successful
competitors but the assault is upon busl'
ess institutions, which, under charter o.
| the States, have built up the most gigantic
commerce the world has eyer known.
The serious feature il the use OF the
court and the prosecuting machinery Of
the country to direct The frenzy created
by long and persistent yeii@w aPpeal
OF demagOgy. The Standard Oil case u
plain enough. 1t was begun by the
Presidents attack before Congress to
bring pressure upon the senators who
hesitated to pass the Hepburn bill. 1t
has been dragged before judges appointed
by the President and tried in parts of the
country VIGOROUSLY hostile to the trust
assailed by commissioner in a report
untrue to fact, as the trial was about to
begin; in utter violation of common
fairness, sentenced twenty-nine times
more than the capital of the company
tried. The sentence pronounced is
violent harsngue, showing spite and
vindictiveness, followed at once by an
other assault of the commissioner again
untrue on the facts and purile in reason
ing, held back six days according to Mr..
Loeb, either by the authorities at Wash
ington or by singular and unheard Of
lack of newspaper enterprise 80 that
it is timed to the judges decision by
striking coincidence. These are
some of the startling elements in this
remarkable case of square dealing
Some day you will be judge in the
calm of history. In the meantime it
remains for the American people to say
how far they can safely permit the courts
to be used in the same game Of politics.
If it is the settled determination of the
people to harrass and destroy the CEN
tiers of manufacture and commerce and
the great railways of the country, |
propose that we have the third term by
unanimous reclamation, Mr. Bryan for
Vice President, Mr.. Hearst for secretary
of State, James Lands for Attorney
General and let the good work 90 on to
the rough completion. This is the only
political issue and all of the leading
candidates of the different parties are
agreed upon it, and the most violent ele-
ments of the country are carrying their
banners"
The cruiser Buffalo, at Puget Sound,
has been directed by the Navy Depart
ment to proceed for duty in the suppress
sion of pelsgic sealing in Berring Sea.
Under the award of Paris, this duty was
conferred on Great Britain and the United
States Jointly, the purpose being to prevent
Americans, Canadians and Englishmen
from killing seals in the open seas. The
waters W thin the thlee-mile limit of the
Pribylof Islands are patrolled by Amerir
can revenue cutters, and it was for pOach-
ing within this limit that the two jap
Rnese schOoners we're seized week or
Two ago. Japan was not, however,
party TO the agreement limiting sealing
in the pelsgIc sea, which extends from
thirty to ninety miles, and there is moth
ing TO prerent Japanese from taking ouch
seals as they can catch in this open sea.
The Buffalo is under the command Of
Commander @. F. Pond. She carries
six guns and has recently been used as
a transport In the Philippine service.
In official circles here the story from
Berlin that Japan is seeking loan of
so million dollars for the purpose of
buying the Philippines is regarded as
the veriest nonsense. Japan may be
trying to borrow money but that she
has any idea of approaching the United
States with q proposition to purchase
for so million dollars an archipelago
apon which this country has already
expended oyer 800 millions is. it is
stated, not creditsble to the intelligence
of the person advancing it. Japan, it
is recalled, hes repeatedly denied that
she wanted to buy the islands and the |
United States has, on more than one &C.
cssion, emphatically declared that she |
would not sell.
William R knight, jr., U. s. Shipp-
Ing Commissioners st Philadelphia, a
classified employe, was removed from
office today By order of the Commissioner
Of Corporations. He was found guilty
by the Civil Service Commisson of Sun
due political activity" and when called
upon far an explanation declared that he
bis political work.
Uuited States Minister Gummere, at
rangier, confirms, in a dispatch to the
State Department today, the press dis
patch to the effect that the Moroccan
minister for foreign affairs has requested
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