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The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
Coopers Want More Paw.

Lawrenceburg, Ind, May 9.-AT OF
the workmen employed in this city by
the Central States Cooperage company
have gone out on strike, the third
strike since the first Of the year. They
demand an increase of 1 cent a barrel
and that they receive their weeks
wages in full. instead of having two
DAYS held back.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
He Killed Gen. zolIicoffer.

Charlottesville, Ind, May 9.-James
Swan, unmarried, 64 years old. a vet
eran of the war Of the rebellion. who
fred the shot which killed General
Zollicoffer. who commanded the Con-
federate forces at the battle of Mill
Springs, Ky. Jan. 10, 1862, is dead
at the Culver Union hospital this
city.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
His Last Game of Pool.

Franklin, Ind, May 9.-Winiam G.
West, who removed to this city a year
ago from Indianapolis, is dead. He
was playing pool in the Haymaker-
Cutsinger room when he remarked: Il
will have to quit playing" staggered
back and fell to the floor He was
picked up and laid on the table where
he had been playing, but life was ex-
tinct.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
Goodness Didn't save Him.

Terre Haute, Ind, May 9. - Harry
Gueis, of East st. Louis, took 500
worth Of jewelry from the room of a
woman student at the Indiana Normal
school. He left the house whistling
and putting on his gloves. He was
caught and given an nindeterminate SEN
fencp
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
Britain Must Purchass Foodstuffs.
CTo BE Continued.) }

Great Britain, it is said, eats in Is
weeks all the $4,000. 000 bushels Of
wheat which 1t grows.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
Using the Mails to Defraud.

Evansville. Ind. May 9.-Mrs. Vio-
let Lancaster. aged 40. and her daugh-
ter Garnet. aged 27. were arrested here
on the charge of using the mails TO
defraud. 1t is alleged that they have
been conducting a matrimonial agency
and have defrauded hundreds of wife
seekers out of money.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09

Indianapolis, May 9.-Changes are
coming in the Indiana life insurance
situation. Not only do some of the
Indiana mutual life companies contem-
plate changing to a stock basis, in or
der to get sufficient assets to enable
them to do business in other states un-
der the retaliatory laws, but there Is
persistent talk of consolidation of sew
eral of the Indiana companies. Indi-
reserve life insurance companies OF
ganized and doing business in this
state.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
FROM DOWN
The STATE
Telegraph News by Direct
Wire from All Over
Indiana.

Indianapolis. May 9-The commits
sion having in charge the unveiling OF
the monument to Brigadier General
Henry W. LawtOn, which will take
place here May 80, has completed the
programme of exercises. which will be
gin at 9 p. m. following a luncheon at
the home of Vice President Fairbanks
in honor Of President Roosevelt. Rev.
d. r. Lucas, ex-chaplain Of the nation
al organization of the Grand Army Of
the Republic, will offer prayer fol
lowed by a brief address by Governor
J. Frank Hanly. James Whitcomb Ri
Icy will read his poem: The Home
Voyage" written after the death of
General Lawton. and the address of
the day will be delivered by President
Roosevelt. The statute will be un-
yelled by Miss Lawton, daughter of
the dead soldier.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
Heavy Rains in the ..Pocket.r

Evansville. Ind. May 8. - Heavy
rains have fallen throughout this sec
ton during thirty-six hours, and many
creeks are swollen twice their normal
size and the Ohio river IS rising.
The Lake County times., 1907-05-09
Will Enforce the Law Anyhow.

Indianapolis, May 9.-W. j. Wood,
one of the members of the Indiana
railroad commission, says that the six
teen-hour law will be enforced by the
commission. as any other law passed
by the last general assembly would
be enforced, in spite of the fact that
the railroad employees themselves were
opposing the enforcement of the law.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
BRYAN AND THE ISSUES

The Washington Post says the dis
cussion among democrats as to what
the national platform in 1908 shall de-
clare is a healthy sign. 1t says that
as a rule a candidate is the platform,
especially when he is the most %cOnspic-
uOus man in his party. Such was the
case with Bryan in 1900 and Roose-
welt four years later. If Mr.. Bryan
should again be the nominee of hi
party a democratic platform would be
perfectly useless; as The Post says, it
might as we'll be written in Sanscrit;
Mr.. Bryan and MI .Bryan's speeches
would be the platform. What Mr.. Bry-
an stood for, the party would have
to endorse or at least ~acquiesce in.
Therefore it is a gOOd sign when the
democrats begin to discuss the terms
Of a real platform for the purpose of
adopting it and then to choose as
candidate a man who will stand upon
it and not one who will insist that the
platform shall conform to his views.
The Post say if the democrats are
serious in making a platform, a real
platform like those of 1856 and 1876,
it might be Well enough to get a Ian
tern and go about looking for a candi-
date.
The democrats who are seriously
considering the platform will demand
a strong states rights plank. Mr..
Bryan favors the Beveridge child labor
bill, which re- beyond all former
proposals Of federal interference with
internal affairs of the states. The tar
if, which the democrats consider a
most important issue, Mr.. Bryan says
will occupy a subordinate place.
The question is will the party hold
ing these views consider them of
greater or less importance han Mr..
Bryan's nomination? If they nominate
him they must give them UP. If they
insist on making them the chief issues
how can they nominate Mr.. Bryan,
with his known views antagonistic to
those issues? 1t is to be principles
chiefly cherished by the party Or Bry-
an as the platfOrm-one or the other;
it cannot be both.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09

in our hunt for a successor to
Bryan"
Governor Glenn's acceptance was
In the allure OF things. Feeling
complimented, he was Immediately
agreeable" But he will probably
not strengthen his case at home by
this move. The question. with his
acquiescence. is now an court, and
on the road to a decision there. His
supposed. but taken as the executive
OF all the people. The law that had
been brought into dispute was on the
books, n must he insisted. be re-
spected with all the other laws-a po-
sition strong in itself. no matter what
differences existed as to the laws wis
dom Or constitutionality. An arrange
ment TO that effect a been made,
and everybody should calmly await
the result of h appeal that
been taken to the proper legal tribu-
nal.
For this reason ii does not appear
best to star" Governor Glenn as a
political attraction. It will detract
both from the dignity and the force of
his true position. AS he is playing
no partisan game. he should not per-
NIT partisans to tax credit for his
work Or to attempt to develop him
as a partisan quantity. The whole
matter in its essence is so high and
important 1t should not, pending its
course through h courts be Jug
gled with for political purposes.
This Brooklyn move is, of course,
not a Wall street move. Governor
Glenn"s portrait will not be limited
by the Belmont-Ryan people for a
place on the line with those of Gull
berson, Gray. Daniel n others.
He does not meet their idea of that
good southern man. who should be
put forward to take the wind out of
Mr.. Bryan's sails. and turn the dem
ocracy back to the good old summer
time when Mr.. whitney shaped plat
forms and made nominations.
A Chicago wOman has solved the
divorce problem, which has given Nor
alists so much trouble. She thrash
ed her husband when she learned that
he had instituted a suit for divorce.
There is one divorce less in that city
than there would otherwise have been.
and there may be many others pre-
vented if the wives will follow the ex-
ample of that woman.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
WHERE TIE REDRESS.

The News and Observer says that if
it is found that the new railway pas.
senger rate does the Asheboro and
Aberdeen railroad-the Pages road
an injustice it ought not to stand. We
would like to know how the evil is
going to be remedied, if found to exist
before the next session of the legisla-
ture. By hat time the road will have
lOst thousands of dollars. 1t may be
ascertained in a month that the new
rate does it an injury, but it will have
to submit to that injury for a year and
a half before it car get relief-if it car
get it at all-and even if it then gets
relief for the future it will have no re-
dress for the loss incurred by reason
of the enforcement of the act Of tho
Legislature of 1907. 1t was to prevent
such irreparable loss that Judge
Pritchard issued his injunctions in the
other cases-injunctions which no
fair-minded man could object to, be-
cause interests of parties purchasing
tickets at the old rate We're fully pro-
tected. Suppose the next legislature
should find that the former body, by
placing the limit at sixty miles instead
of n hundred, had done the Page
road an injustice and should amend
the law by placing the limit at the
latter figures what redress will the
Pages road have for the loss the legis-
lature will have admitted by such &C
ton that the state had wrongfully i'm
posed on that railroad?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
MORE FOOLISH TALK

The foolish talk about calling out
troops TO enforce the state law in the
railroad fight which was INDUCED in
by some at the time Of the railroad
contest in this state is now being re-
peased in regard TO the contest pre-
cipitated in Alabama in consequence
of the revocation of the license of the
Southern railroad TO do business in
that state. There never was more
foolish talk. No one believes for a
moment that the governor OF either
state has had any thought OF calling
out the militia to oppose the carrying
out Of any orders that the federal
court may have contemplated issuing.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
WHO, KILLED THE RAILROADS?

Yesterdays mail brought US a letter
from a subscriber and friend In an
inland town of the state which ON
tanned words Of hearty approval and
commentator OF the position this
paper has taken editorially ON current
events. We assure our friend that we
greatly appreciate his kind words and
will endeavor in the future to be more
worthy Of such expressions of approx
al. It is gratifying TO us to know that
u labors are appreciated by the class
of men that our correspondent repre-
sents, and expressed approval Of our
efforts by such men is an incentive to
us to work more diligently in the cause
of the people.
Accompanying the letter is the fol-
lowing parody on who Killed Cock
Robin" written by our friend, which
We think too good to be kept from u
readers:
Who hit the railroads. with big stick?
IT, said the governor. p d
quick"
Who routed Pritchard and rushed al
Teddy?
Ct" said the governor. they found
me ready"
Who saved the State. and perhaps
the nation?
'I," said the governor. with proc
lamation.'
Who loves the people. loves 'em
mighty hard?
a." said the governor. "'tis my
drawing card"
Who blows the trumpet. blows it
loud and long?
IT, said the governor-"Stop, I've
answered wrong"
-"State Rights
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
WOMAN'S

From the time whereof the mem
DRY Of man runneth not to the con-
trary' woman has complained that
under the common law of England
and the statutory law of that nation
and Of the United States, based on
that common law, she has been dis
eliminated against in favor of man
because man has always made the
laws. 1t was a woman who said
law that it has been the law from
remotest times in England that the
widow was only given a life estate
in one-third of the lands possessed
bv her deceased husband, while the
widower was given the use for his
life of all the real estate owned by
the deceased wife. From the time
of the establishment of that rule or
principle of law down to the pres
ent day woman has protested against
what she calls the unjust dlscr1mi-
nation made by the law in mans
favor. The latest instance OF this
general criticism by woman of mans
legislation is shown in the following
which we take from The Bohemian,
showing that man is yet under the
ban of woman's disapprobation and
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
THE ALABAMA RAILWAY CASE.

Railway rate matters present a more
serious aspect, if possible, in Alaba-
ma than they do in this
state. A state official has
revoked the license of the Southern to
do business in that state. That means
that the company cannot open an Of
fee to transact business, cannot re-
ceive for shipment or delivery to a pa
iron a pound of freight, cannot sell a
ticket to a man who wishes to take a
journey, cannot run a freight or a
passenger train a mile within the bor-
derS of that state. In other words,
that all cities, towns and communities
in that state which are connected
through the Southern railroad with
other cities, towns and communities in
that state or other states over the
lines of that railroad alone shall be
cut off from all such communication.
What the Southern Railroad Com
pany is going to do we have no idea
whether it will go into the courts and
attempt to show the unconstitutional
ity of the law; ignore the same, OF
comply with the order Of the secretary
of the state and for a while suspend
the operation of it's lines in that
state.
Suppose that it should pursue the
last mentioned course and, say, foc
ten days or a month close it's freight
and passenger offices in that state, an
null all its passenger and freight
trains; and withdraw all it's engines
and cars from that state. in other
words completely abandon its passen-
ger and freight business in that state,
what would be the effect on the com
mercial interests of the people Of Ala
bama? The Southern operates about
fifteen hundred miles of railway in
Alabama. Let traffic suspend on those
lines for ten days or a month and the
whole state would be on the verge Of
bankruptcy. Scores and hundreds Of
business and, financial houses would
go to the wall; financial chaos would
result. SO 80" *
BY such course the railroad COM
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
WE PASS IT UP.

The Messenger received the fol-
lowing letter yesterday. not being
posted as to the ability or willing
ness of the railroad companies to
pay the sum for the purpose men
toned we will pass our correspond
ent's query up to hen:
Jacksonville, N. c., July 81.
Editor Wilmington Messenger:
Dear Sir: In your editorial col
umns of your issue of July Goth, you
quote, seemingly with approval, the
following from The Greensboro
Record:
while Senator Overman may be
feeling easy he might be made to feel
otherwise in the event Gov. Glenn
wins out in this rate fight. No power
on earth could prevent him being
elected United States senator. 1t
seems too little to think about, but
some Of the railroads in this state
would spend half a million dollars
rather thar to see him go to the SEN
ate"
Now do you not think that the rail-
roads that are able to spend half a
million dollars to defeat any man for
the office of United States enatO are
able to have the rates cut to 2A
cents per mile?
Yours truly,
J. w. BURTON,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
OURS A GREAT GOVERNOR

1t has been heralded all over the
state that Governor Glenn, because of
his supposed victory in behalf of the
people against the railroads, had been
invited to make a speech before a
democratic gathering in Brooklyn on
the 26th instant. Among some uR-
thinking people this was considered
to be a great feather in the cap Of
granted him to display his eloquence
before a new audience. On the an
nouncement, however, that this invi-
tation had been extended him some
papers warned him against allowing
himself to be drawn into politics and
letting himself be made a tool of by
designing politicians, but the governor
has considered himself wiser than his
advisors and has allowed the polite
ians, whose game was to make or
ruin the state, to use him as a plant
tool in their hands. This is the mild
est, but We must say, not the most
complimentary manner in which We
can describe the action Of u govern
or in regard to those railroad cases.
The desire to appear on the rostrum
overcomes every other feeling Of in
clination of duty to state and people.
He feels that he has won a notable
victory over a certain class of the peQ-
II ~ hio Ourp c%o+o on1 In rannnr ro~
sist the temptation to rush to a New
York audience and tell the people there
of the wonderful victory he has won.
We suppose it would be the same had
the invitation come from a society in
Patagonia were the transportation ia
%cilities to that point as great as hey
are to New York over the railroads
whose al of easy transportation he
is using the power of his official posi-
ton to destroy.
Among the papers which warn the
governor against allowing himself to
be drawn into politics in this matter
is Washington Star which says edi-
torially:
Governor Glenn has been invited to
BROOKLYN by a democratic club to
speak on the railroad controversy IN
North Carolina, and has aliepted. An
audience of ten thousand is assured,
and if ~up-to-date advertising methods
are used the number should reach
twenty thousand. Such a midsum-
mer attraction" should go" with
a whir1.
- -~7 f- nnfa-
tics. The BrooklyniteS are st1rlng
while the iron is hot. They want to
see and hear from Governor Glenn
while his claim of victory Is fresh
upon him. As he Is a democrat
they hail his action as partisan, n
want TO utilize it. Come over" Is
the substance of their invitation,
"and tell us all about it. Maybe
you are the man we are looking Tor
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09
TRANSPORTATION CONTEST IN
ANCIENT TIMES.

Under the heading NOah's Hard Luck
and the Regulation of Rates on Arks'
81 Fairbrother contributes a long ar
ticle to the last number of his Every
thing. He shows up the opposition
there was to Noah securing a monopO-
1y in the ark transportation business.
He gives an account of a meeting OF
Armenians held soon after the land
ing of the ark on Mount Arrarat for
the purpose of taking action in the
matter of transportation monopoly,
undue influence and improper rate
charges that would be sure to come if
Noah was not checked by stringent
laws in extending his power and in
fuence.
The record of proceedings Of the
meeting have just been discovered,
! says Everything, and a friend of Ed
itor Fairbrother has sent him a copy
of the same, from which the latter
quotes some of the speeches and the
resolution adopted containing an act
to be presented TO the general counsel
of the kingdom Of Armenia regulating
the transportation business Of arkers
or artists.
Many of the speeches We're SINH
lar to those one hears these days from
a certain class of politicians on the
! railroad question. There was but one
speaker in the whole assembly who re-
cognized that there were two sides to
the question and recommended con-
sentative action. When this member
asked, concerning a very drastic pro-
| posal that had been made regarding
freight matters; But what good will
that do the consumer? a dozen voices
| yelled: Damn the consumer. What we
want to do is to pinch old Noah"
The proposed bill was endorsed, only
one member voting against it. Noah
was notified of the proceedings. He
put up strong pleas in opposition; said
told that the populace and the popu-
lists Were determined to destroy his
enterprise, but the old man would not
agree to run the business for nothing.
The closing paragraph of the report
says that old man Noah quit the ark
business; went out some distance from
where he saw his property co~nfiscated;
started a vineyard and grew grapes
and was so respondent that he filled
himself with wine and got gloriously
drunk"
Everything's Armenian correspond
ent closes his article by saying that
from that day to this the Great Noah
Line Of Arks has been out Of commits
sion and the country lying around Ar
rarat has never been settled; the pop
ulace is still waiting for high water
and an attempt 20 pinch the next man
who undertakes a line of arks.'
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-08-09

because OF the general public senti-
ment among the Cubans In its favor
the courts do not or cannot put II
down: that IL, on Juoiclal inyest.ga os
Of a fatal duel. IL is found that 1t was
fought according 10 the code ami on
fair terms, the survivor is never pun
ished
This is the Cuban unwritten law that
they regard TO be above the written
law against murder. Our government
is asked TO interfere and wipe out that
unwritten law.
In this country we have two unwrit-
ten laws in reference to murder, or
rather there are two kinds of murder
TO which the unwritten law has been
made TO apply. One is the right TO kin
any man charged with Offering gross
insults &c a woman. The other is i'm
munity from punishment TO every
member of a mob which takes from
the custody Of the law and hangs or
shoots TO death any nan charged with
a serious crime. The courts in this
country are powerless TO punish muir
derers Of either Of these classes.
Who can deny that the American
unwritten law is more cowardly and
more barbarous than hi of Cuba?
Under the latter the victim is given
equal chance with a single opponent,
both armed alike. Under the Ameri-
can law the man either is shot down
without notice or warning when
caught utterly u~nprepared TO defend
himself and given no opportunity to
defend himself and given no opportu-
nifty to clear himself of the charge, or
else he is, while totally defenseless,
seized by a mob of armed lei and
done to death in most brutal and a
age manner?
Between the two countries which
shows up the worst under its unwrit-
TN Jaw? Would not there be as much
pYop-iety in Cubans making complaint
about crimes under the unwritten law
in this country as there is in the COM
LIANT and retition of those Americans
in Cuba? We should punish lynchers
and c0ld-blooded murderers in his
country before We undertake TO put a
stop TO dueling on fair terms in Cuba.