Connecticut western news., 1907-09-12
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William J. Bryan, speaking m Okla- homa City, said in part: Secretary Taft in his speech made in this terri tory few days ago advises the peo- pie to reject the proposed constitution and postpone statehood until another enabling act can be secured. At first blush one might suspect that the sec retary's advice was due to his personal interest in the next election. He might be accused of advising the postpone ment of statehood with a view of keeping seven electoral votes out of the Democratic column, but the more generous view taken of the matter is that his advice resulted from his hab- its of thought Taft is inclined to post pone everything. He promises to ac- quire the title of the great postponer. He is on his way to the Philippines to tell the Filipinos that while he thinks they ought to have self government after awhile, he wants it postponed for the present. 1t is not strange, there fore, that he should yield to his ruling spirit in the matter of statehood and tell you to put 1t off"
 That about one-third of all the school children in the United States, or about 12O00,000 boys and girls, are behind their proper grades because of physical defects that could be remedied is the gist of report made by a committee of prominent educators, headed by Charles c. Birmingham, former presi- dent of the board of education of New York. This committee has investigated conditions among school children not only in New York, but in Boston, Chi cago and other cities. Based on the physical defects and home conditions of 1,400 school children of New York city," says the report, ''it is estimated that 100000 children of the United States have physical defects, more or less serious, which should receive at tention from parents and physicians" Comprehensive plans for dealing with the physical defects of school children are outlined in the report. These in- clude a thorough physical examination of all children. notification to parents and the enforcement of existing laws.
 Justice Miller in opening the Sep- tember term of the supreme court in Ithaca, N. T., surprised the court at- tendants by refusing all applications for citizenship. We have admitted too many ignorant foreigners to citi- zenship already" he said. q do not propose to admit to the franchise any person who does not know enough about the constitution of the country to cast an intelligent ballot I will not grant citizenship papers to any imml- grent who has not fixed intention of staying in the country and an intelli- gent knowledge of and patriotic inter est in its form of government. An ig- norant electorate tends to be a cor ruptible electorate; an unintelligent use of the ballot Is dangerous to the success of democratic form of gov ernment"
 Attorney General Jackson of New York announced that he would begin action at once against the American Ice company, known as the ice trust, to deprive 1t of the right of doing busi- ness in this state. The complaint will assert that the corporation has violated the laws of the state by forming com binations to create a monopoly and to prevent competition in the handling of a necessary of life. The specific charge is that in 1905, when ice was plentiful, the report of the company showed profits in the state of $4S7, ,0s4.07, and that in the next year, when there was supposed to be n famine, the profits were over S2,o00,000.
 Closing its work of assessing corpo- rations, the New Jersey state board of assessors flied with Comptroller Mor- gan the fifth schedule of assessments of state tax levied against miscellane- ous corporations for the year 100T. This schedule shows assessments against 1,409 corporations with as- lsessed taxes amounting to $302,500.54. The corporation assessment for the year 1907 was $3,3s2 412.13. As com pared with 1906, there is shown an in- crease of 101 in the number of corpo- rations assessed and an apparent de- crease in the amount of tax levied of S133. .365.S7.