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The Washington times., 1907-05-15
uoteSAlleged Language
of Presidents Friends
in Argument.
By EUGENE V. DEBS.


In "The Appeal to Reason to
be published May Is, Eugene v.
Debs replies to the letter sent by
President Roosevelt to the Meyer
Haywood conference on the matter
OF calling certain labor leaders,
among them Debs, undesirable
citizens" putting them in a class
with Hartman. From advance
sheets OF Debs' article The Times
prints the greater part, as follows:
The letter of President Roosevelt
to the Meyer and Haywood confer
enee of New York is in strange
contrast with the one previously
addressed by him TO the Chicago
conference on the same subject.
The two letters are so entirely dis
similar in spirit and temper that
they seem to have been written by
different persons. In the first the
President bristles with defiance. ia
the last he is the pink of polite
ness. The first letter utterly failed
of its purpose. Organized labor did
not lie down and be stiIl at the
command Of the President. On the
contrary, Il grOWIed more fereely
than befOre; In fact, showed its
teeth to the President who has be-
come so used TO exhibiting his own.
And lO-What change! The
President receives a labor commit
tee, talks over matters for an hour,
and then addresses a letter to the
conference through the chairman,
beginning ~My Dear Mr.. Henry
explaining that he is ready to per-
form his dHty If only the confer
ence will point il ont to him, and
putting the whole blame on ~Debs
and the socialists whom he
charges with using Unreasonable
and murderOus language" but not
a word OF explanation does he
Touchsafe in regard to his denun-
citation of Meyer and Haywood, the
real and, in fact, the only point at
issue.
Sherman Bells WORDS.
The second letter was a virtual apol-
ogy. and nothing less than the firm at
tiJUde OF labor eNtOrted H.
The Presidents position, however, is
not less enviable than before. Since he
seeks escape from casugatiOn for his
outrageous attack upon Meyer and
Haywood upon the ground that Debs
had used reasonable and murderous
language" and that fl was his duty as
President 10 denounce IL. a few CUES
tons will be in order, and when the
President has answered these we have
a few more 10 which answers are also
desired.
Did the President ever hear Of one
Is ii not a fact that said Sherman
Bell Is a personal friend Of the Presi-
dent, and that IN a letter written in
the Presidents own hand he commends
said Sherman Bell in the most exalted
terms2
Has the President ever heard Of the
expression, To hell with habeas corpus,
we'll give EN- post mortems. COM
mended as patriotic by the capitalist
press at the time IL was made?
Does not the President know that IL
was his highly esteemed personal friend,
Sherman Bell. who coined this phrase
Is il reasonable and murGerOus2''
Did the President condemn il?
VIII he do so now2
Would he have done so If IL had been
Debs instead Of Bell2
Why does he conceive IL to be his
duty 10 condemn Debs and not Bell?
Reasonable Language?
Because Bell stands for capital and
Debs for labOT7
Has Debs ever said anything that.
with reference to treason and murder.
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EXCITEMENT OF PARTY
KILLS OLD MILLIONAIRE

PITSBURG,/ May 15.-Excltement
over an approaching social function
which he had insisted on his children
giving, caused the death OF Robert Jeu-
kins. ST. eighty years Of age jenkins
was the first coal operator in the Pitts
burg district. and retired with a fortune
of several million dollars
Last week 400 invitations were sent out
for a reception At the Jenkins home.
When the acceptances began TO pour
in from the ultra-fashionabIe the old
man became so excited that he sue
cNmbed TO an. attack Of heart disease.
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HAS JAPANESE BRIDE
TO TAKE TO SYRACUSE

SEATTLE, Wash, May I5.-Horace H.
Lavine, son OF a wealthy shoe mer-
chant OF Syracuse. N Y, passed
through here with his japanese bride
on his way home. Mrs. Lavine is re-
ported tc be very wealthy. Lavine en-
listed in The First Tennessee Volunteers
and was in the Boxer troubles with the
Ninth Infantry.
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edge-was not exact, and only Skim
med the facts. The Government will
probe deep. When it is finished
with its examination the States, the
nation, and the people of the whole
country viii know that the evil was
only indicated, not uncovered in all
its ugliness, by the Indiana Senator's
horrifving disclosures.
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CARUS0 PAYS $40 FINE
IN MONKEY HOUSE CASE

NEW YORK. May 15.-Frederick W.
Spelling. counsel for Enrico Caruso, the
tenor, has paid the $40 fine imposed on
the singer last November. and an
nOunced that the appeal to the appel-
late division Of the supreme court had
been withdrawn. This ends the case.r
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RAILROADS RAISE RATES
ON GRAIN PRODUCTS

CHICAGO, May 15.-Western roads
will advance rates on grain and grain
products from the Missouri river TO the
Mississippi river and Chicago II cents
per hundred pounds on July J. This is
IN practlcaI defiance of the action Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Editor Taft, Of Cincinnati, says: Il
don't see that there is anything fer me
to say" 1t viii violate no confidence 10
say that If Editor Taft had seen things
that way quite while ago he would
have given a great impetus TO his
brother.s Presidential boom.
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The Chicago judge VINO advises that
it is proper to lie like "A gentleman TO
shield a woman has at least the support
OF the very distinguished gentleman
who is now King Of England, who origi-
naly announced that principle IN the
ethical code Of a true gentleman.
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A soda water tank in a Massachusetts
town blew up and killed two people.
but the aggregate OF sorrow will not
compare TO the effect in this town OF
raising the price Office cream sodas
from 5 10 10 cents.
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Japan is going 70 have as many allies
as Great Britain pretty soon If she keeps
at IT, Hard TO understand what a coun-
try with so much liking Tor war means
by CLOSING all the avenues 70 trouble
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Freacner who married the Coreys
says the match was made in heaven.
ms ought TO be accepted as final refu-
'aton OF the slanderous report that the
match started in a swimming tank.
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SODA TANK EXPL0DES
TWO MEN ARE KILLED

HAVERHILIl, Mass, May 15.-By the
explosion Of soda water tank at the
bottlihg works OF o. A. Smith here, TWO
men were killed, and a third severely
injured. The building was wrecked.
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Business Papers Optimistic
About Commerce Chambers
influence on CHy's Gozvth

Of
hearty part journals
country May Journal of
Baltimore appears following:
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These hotel men have \ rotund. sleek
appearance that suggests that maybe
they nave a system Of getting the real
old home cooking for private consump-
ton
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Ambassador Bryce promises ulti7
mately TO develop into the WI Ting
fang Of his diplomatic day
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II has been PLAIN 10 any seeing eye
mat Marshal Collins vas certain. sooner
or later, 70 become an international
complication.
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The Ruef prosecution has been hav-
ing ruef time getting a jury
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LITTLE BATFFSF

When wheat goes up. stocks 60 down.
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If Case Were Reversed.

Were a mob Of wOrkingmen 10 seize
Theodore Roosevelt and chain him u a
post on a public street In Washington
IN broad daylight. as mob Of his CAPT
talist friends seized and chained work
ingmau in Colorado; or throw him into
a foul bulIpen. without cause or provo
cation. and prod him with bayonets as
was done ir. scores Of observation-disclosures
cases in both Colorado and Idaho, would
he then be in the mood To listen COM
placently 70 hypOcritiCal homilies upon
the temperate use OF language the
sanctitv of law and order and the
beauty Of exact justice 10 aI2'
And If he heard Of some man who had
sufficient decency 10 denOunce the out
raaes he and his family had suffered.
would he then conceive Il 10 be MS
duty" as he tells Us, 20 condemn the
language Of such man as 'treasonao.e
and nlurderous" and the man himself
as melting bloOdshed." and therefore
an undesirable citizen?'
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Undesirable Citizens.n

Undesirable citizens" though Meyer,
Haywood, and Petubone are. they are
the loyal leaders Of the men who have
toiled in the mines and who have been
subjected 70 every conceivable outrage;
who have had their homes broken into
and who have been beaten. bound.
robbed, insIlted and imprisoned VINO
have been chained 20 pests in the public
highway, deported from their families
under penalty OF death. and buIlpenned
while their wives and daughters were
outraged In the light OF all these
crimes perpetrated upon these men Il
violation Of every law by brutal u0bs
led by the Presidents own personal
friends. as the Official reports Of his own
labor commissioner viii show. without
a word of protest from him. Il requires
sublime audacity. 10 put IL mildly, for
the President 20 affirm that he stands
for exact justice 20 all" and that he
'-conceives Il 10 be his duty TO de-
nounce reasonable and murderOus'
language.
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can be compared 10 this expression OF
his boon companion, Sherman Bel2
VIII the President please answer
Again. has the President ever heard
Of one Lieut. T. r McClelland2
And Of the expression. To he'll with
the Constitution made by McClelland-
Is this reasonable language
Did the President condemn fl?
or. Is II patriotic language when used
In defense Of capital and reasonable
only when used in defense Of Iabor2
Does the President know one ACSs
Gen. Buckley Wells, the officer Of Tia
law who forcibly seized Meyer, Hay
wood. and Pettibone and special
trained them 10 IdahOS
Does he know that his Labor Commits
sioner, Carroll j. Wright. condemns
said Buckley Wells as a mob leader
n his official report Of the Colorado
trOubles2
Does the President approve mnbs2
And cOnsorr with mob leaders,
While GencUnCing mobs2
Has he denounced Buckley Wcus2
MlIl he do 500
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
An Ambitious Prince.

When Prince Edward, son of the Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne, was about nine years old he said to his nurse one night before going to sleep: You know that some day I shall be king. We'll. when I am I shall do three things. First, shall make a law that no one is to cut of puppy dogs tails. for that is very cruel. Then I shall make law that no one is to put bearing reins on horses, for that is another cruel thing. And I shall try to do away with all sin"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
W E N ZEL, 7, E.
 EXCHANGE PLACE.

A letter declared to have been writ, ten some days later to Lappe says in part:
 Well. dear, no word yet. so I guess we will go for Mir. Hartje. But first we are going to telegraph and say that is what we are going to do. and, you see. dear. \that will give him fair warning. If papa says he will give ua money to live on. why. I will not go for MT. H., but if he does not I am going to get even that way. and you know Helen and l and Edith's letters will certainly win his case for him.
 "J. M. F. Scared" Says Letter. One letter to Lappe, signed Helen, says in part:
 Tt sure was a great thing the way you and l did make some people come to time. For one Mir. J. NJ. F. was the worst scared man I ever saw the day I went to his office. and so was the other party the night before. She knew she had carried things far enough"
 Here is q letter alleged to have been written by Mrs. Hartje in London to Nadine in Ireland:
 Dear Tom-While I was out yeSter day Mary L. (NIary Louise HartjeI was in the room alone with her papa. He seemed well all day and had just taken one of his large pills. when he tainted and fell to the floor He was nearly dead. as he was cold all over. Now. if anything should happen I will send for you to help me and if he gets better I will 20 home in two weeks. am not sure you will get this. or would write the feeling in my heart this minute. am living on your promise. try again did my part and will do again. will send you some money. and this is what you must do: Bring home some of that 1 have in my box or another kind. did not have enough, hope you under stand I am so sorry did not bring the other kind too
 Further along the letter says:
 When I left the room yesterday night before NIT. H took sick put my hand on my Iccket and said. All for tho one I want and love I must tell you I put the pill in his mouth. and it is all so hard. the way it turned out. will tell you all when we are at home. but do not come without what I said Please burn this. as you know what 1t means for uS Izoth-~
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
AIRGRAM COMES 11.OOO MILES
Msreoni Operator h Nova Scotia Picks
 Up Message From Manila.

Sydney. N & Oct s.-whIIe the MarcOni experts here were testing sew eraI new receiving cones at the tor Of tho towers at Morien station the op- crater in the rom below picEe,i up the wireless station at Manila The mes sage was that the United States cruis- CT PhiladeIphia had arrived at that port and that an vras well.
 Inc NsTeaz5 pe1p5e account for the reB-zTkatle haFFezinS O1 the pTesump- ton that the reeeivinE esze zt y0rien must have been in perfect tune with that at Manila The distance from Norien to Manila Es. roundIy speak- ing 11Ieoo niIes- The best previous
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Collections
STEAM YACHTS.
These Expensive Luxuries Are Numer-
 ous In This Country.

These Expensive Luxuries Are Numer-
 ous In This Country.
 Twenty-Five dollars an hour seems a big amount to pay for ones pleasure, but with the millionaire expense is of no consideration where his comfort is concerned. He has taken to yachting with a zeal that is increasing every year, and his floating home is a marvel of beauty-his supreme luxury"
 There are registered in the United States over 1,200 seagoing steam yachts, representing approximately $60O00,000 Of these more than 300 fly the flag of the New York Yacht club. Others steam under the colors of the Corinthian Yacht club of Marblehead or the Atlantic Yacht club or smaller clubs. There are more steam yachts registered in this country than in Eng land or France or Germany.
 Probably not one of the dozen big steam yachts in the New York Yacht club fleet cost to build and equip less than S500O00. But the cost of mainte- nance is quite another story. No one knows. of course, just how much it costs Mir Morgan to keep the Corsair going. But if such a yacht, for exam pie, carrying crew of sixty men, is kept in commission for six months out of the twelve the payroll will run close to S30OO0. To feed the crew. to pay for coal and oil. for docking and other necessary expenses will call for an expenditure of from S30,000 to SJ0.- GOO or more Then there is the ex- pense of entertaining the owner, his family and his guests on cruise, a matter of s20.0O0. bringing the total cost very near the s10O.OOo mark. New CT in all history was another such costly and luxurious vehicle. Any one of a dozen American yachts now skim ming the seven seas is costing its owner from s15.Ooo to s20.Oo0 a month. This means an outlay running from $500 to STO0 a day. or approximately S25 an hour. If the owner is enter taining a party of eight persons on a foreign cruise. exactly sT5 a day, or $500 per cruise, is spent ou each in- dIvidual guest.-Broadvay Magazine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
The Name lusitania.

The Cunard company, following its long established habit of naming it's ships after the classic subdivisions of Europe, lighted upon "Lusitania" and "Mauretania." The first is the ancient name of the country inhabited by the Lusitanii, which included the greater part of modern Portugal and ran over into the present Spanish provinces of Esdremadura and Toledo. The second, of about the same age. comes from across the strait of Gibraltar, where the Mauri lived. the present Morocco or thereabout.-New York Times.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
1hr.ad Eron Wed Fiber.

xyioin is the name given by its man. Ufacturers. a German firm at Plauen. to a kind of paper thread made from
 wood fber- According to the descrip- tiols given in various technical pubii- cations. this new product can bs used fn the looms in the same way that cot ton and linen yarns are used The thread Is not brittle and has hard surface It has great tensile strength and Is cspab9e of being woven into e1 manner of cloth from pocket haBdker- chiefs to noc- carpets. Xyloin neither shrinks nor stretches in any apPrects- De degree, and moisture has 10 par
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Collies as Scouts.

This years army maneuvers in Italy are signalized by the introduction of the dog as an clement in tactics. A small group of scouting and messenger dogs is attached by way of experiment to the First army corps, and if the re- suits are deemed sufficiently good dogs are likely to be largely used by the intelligence department. It is worth noting. too. that the dogs se- lected as pioneers in this work are Scotch coIlies.-London Globe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
confesses Freish. Car Robberies.

Jersey City. \. j.. Oct. s.-Josepb Williamson was arrested here charged with being implicated in extensive rob. berries from freight cars on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail, road. The detectives say the losses from theft in the past few years will exceed S1O0O00. They say Williamson has confessed duplicating twenty oth. CTS. including several tugboat captains
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
seienee and Cancer.

The results of the long and thorough research into the nature of cancer con ductcd at the Pasteur institute in Paris are uIl. except as showing that the dis ease Is neither eontagio1s nor heredi- tary and that 1t can be conbated only by a surgical operation It seems eb- visus that nearly everything yet re- mains to be learned about ezncers- Boston Globe
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Approve American Peace Plan.

The Hague. Oct. S.-The entire An. glo-American project providing for ob ligatory arbitration was approved at last nights session of the committee on arbitration by a vote of 31 to 0. The opponents of the measure were Germany. Austria. Hungary. Switzer- land. Belgium. Roumania. Greece. Fur key. Bulgaria and Montenegro. Italy. Japan and Luxembourg refrained from voting. and one delegate was absent
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Ernnrh n.rnr-tinn.-

There are today at the Pslais Bour- bon half a dozen ushers who wear the ''palmes academiques" on their black coats. We have also a guardian of the peace who is an oficer of the academy. only this brave policeman modestly does not exhibit his ribbon. As for the holders of the palmes aeademiques who scarcely know how to read and write. they are Iegion.-Paris Intransi- geant.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Planned Wreck to See Sweetheart.

Planned wreck to See Sweetheart.
 Rochester. Ind, Oct S.-Miss Iva Wagoner, seventeen years of age, the daughter of a well known minister, is under arrest here on charge of try. ing to wreck Lake Erie and West. ern passenger train. endangering fifty lives. No less strange is the accusa- ton that the wreck was planned by Miss Wagoner in order that she might get to see her sweetheart, who is em. ployed by the railroad company and who would have been summoned to the scene of the wreck had it occurred
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Bacon May Succeed Tower.

Berlin. Oct. sit is reported in well informed quarters that Assistant See retary of State Bacon will he appoint e1 as Ambassador Towers successor. NIT. Tower has asked to he relieved as United States ambassador to Germa- ny on account of his private business affairs.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
His Literature Leaked.

Winkley-Hear about the joke or Jagley?
 Binkley-No. What is it?
 Winkley-Since he moved into pro hibition suburb he has had his eN hilaration sent by express in a plaiI box marked Books" Binkley-Well?
 Winkley-The other day he got pos tai from the express agent reading Dear sir, your books are leaking Please come and get them.""-Judge.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08

ticular effect upon it. It is susceptible to dyes to a considerably greater ex- tent than cotton and linen, while the price is only one-third that of the for mer and one-tenth that of the latter material.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
1901 3ft
HE HERO OF THE DAY.

See, he comes, a warrior bold. Somewhat like a knight of old, With football panoply,
 There's no hero such as he! Legs in pads and nose in shield He will fight upon the field. He will do his level best With an energetic zest From his foe to take a fall In a scrimmage or a maui. Hero with disheveled hair! Hero loved of all the fair! If you're in the fashion now, To his prowess you must bow! La Touche Hancock in New York Press
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Ida's Letter to Lappe.

Here ss an alleged part "f oue of the "Ida- set;ers to LaPpe:
 Now. dear. We have given them un- til next Wednesday tO say they will give us sO much money a month. and if they don't we are going to telephone Mr Hartje and tell him we will win his ease for him. Now. dear. keep this absolutely to yoGFself. for if it gets oui Mir FTerHan and 5he other parties would simply kill IFS I.efoTe they wOIIo iet Us % Bat that Is what We ars going to do. deas. and a1otber thing dear. + thst ! will he more happy sitter I can rell fhe truth Now. mt case is coming up on tEae Gth O. Nay 50 TOu sec ue may have tg cnze tc PiItshurz fer il if we go f0- 1Ir HartIe. 90 until that time we VII have to wait. and then yOz can cone baGk with us.-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
A Las. Rssort.

The parsons small boy had bee desperately trying to run away from his new nurse At last he spied [ park guard
 Mister. are yoa p'liceuanT
 The giant ia brass buttons bent low CT.
 ~Why. res. sonny. beg -.-a
 Then please arrest this woman Sh won't stop folerin- ne aroundr-L17 uf1cwtss
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
BETRAY MRS. HARTJE
Husband Buys Alleged Corre- SpondenCe of Her Sisters.
TO BLACKEN NAME OF WIFE

LOTtlOn - TtNhSpuT9 SdJS
 coachman Nadine Gave Missives to
 His Agent.
 Philadelphia, Oct S.-Claiming that they have letters which passed be- tween Thomas Nadine. cOachman, and Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje which will result in a complete reversal of affairs, counsel for Augustus Hartje, the w.lthy Pittsburg manufacturer, ap- pe,.red before the superior court here to argue on a petition for reopening the sensational suit for divorce which be brought against his wife.
 MT. Hartje recites that since the hearing in the case he has secured let ters written by Thomas Nadine. the coachman. while he was in Ireland to Mrs. Hartje while she was at the Ho- tel Victoria, fin London. and others which she wrote to the coachman from there. He relates that he is in a po- sition to prove that Mrs. Hartje ar
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Jursk yok.

Hello. Jumbo bzntered the suzs monkey If pig ears are the sign e generosity Yoa shOald be very ge7eE o1s
 T am. Jocko.- replied the biz els plant as be made a ezick lanr Have q trunk o1 H-
 The siuia7 was tossed to the trg zost hrznrh of q eacnzz1t t---
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Earl DurrOr. . conf.s.r.s. Captain

Earl DUnusore Confederate Captain.
 It is not generally known that as Captain ChaTses Murray the deceased Ear Dunmore served with the Con feieTacy of America for three years. and in 1SS2 he was a participant in the adventures attempts at blockade run ming of that period He commanded the steamer Nashville when il ran the Federal b1oskzde oa AprH 24. 1ss2 Afterwzrd he joined General Robert E. Lee and remained with him for sev- erzI uouths-Loudoa IelezTz1b =
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-08
Hill Dividend of s2.25o. 900.

New York. Oct S-James I. Hill surprised the stockholders of the Great Northern Railway company by an nouncing an extra dividend of S2.25O,- OO0 to be paid on Nov. 1.