Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1908-04-02

PRESIDENT kOOSeVelt Will nave tue
support of the public in his de-
termination to exclude from the
mails If the law gives the authority
an Anarchist paper published at
Patterson, urging the use Of dyna-
mite and counseling the murder of
United States soldiers.
1t is crime by statue and at the
common law to incite to crime.
Opinion is free. The right to free
speech is protected by the Consti-
tuition and the laws in the United
States and in every State.
But whatever the opinion, it cannot
be supported by plea for violence in
its behalf. Congress has airerdy pro.
hiblted the immigration of the
Anarchist. The mails are closed
by statue to frauds, to lottery tick
ets, to obscene publications and to
articles. Any publication which
urges violence, which counsels, as
does this Patterson paper, murder
and arson, should also be excluded
and those who mail it should be
liable to indictment.
AS the Supreme Court held in the
Delaware lottery cases, the United
States if it assumes the exclusive
right to conduct the post office and
sends its mails into every COM
) munity, is bound to prevent the
mail bags from being used for any
criminal or immoral purpose. Every
region has its unbalanced minds.
Infiamitory publications breed crime
among such by suggestion. Con
, gress ought to see to it that the
mails are not thus used. If no law
excludes such publication, law
should be passed giving the needed
power.
, 1t is reported that during the deer
season a large number Of does were
killed and left lie in the woods.
Hunters who shot them were afraid
to remove the carcass on account OF
the law. They were unable to de-
eide before shooting and after the
. deer was slain discovered it was q
, doe instead of a buck. One mar
who spent week in the woods
r lately reports that he counted II
dead does during his week prospect
ing. This shows that there is {
weak point IN the law as 1t now ex
lists and the female deer is not pro-
tected as intended.
Orders were issued last week bv
the Philadelphia and Reading coal
company for the general resumption
of work in all of its 35 collieries and
ten washeries. The order gives steady
employment to more than 5000 men.
Its to take effect on April l.
The colleries and washeries have
been operated on half time for the
lust two months. Nine of the collier.
les which were closed down entirely
a few weeks ago are included in the
general order The company oper-
at's 30 collieries in Schuylkill, Lu.
zerne, Carbon and Northumberland
'ounties. The resumption order will
affect all of these as soon as they can
be placed in fit condition to start the
work of mining.
| Miss Marie Comtois, Franciscan
nun. was assigned by her superior to
work among the lepers of Molokai,
in the Hawaiian Islands, the scene of
the famous Father Da;nien's labor.
Miss Comtois is 20 years old, and
went to her home in Worcester
Massachusetts, to bid farewell to her
parents, brothers and sisters before
starting on her errand of mercy, from
which she expects never to return.
All of the states and territories
have at various times enacted la vs.
regulating the employment of
women and children, and during the
past year no less than twenty.eight
of them added to or modified their
laws relating to this subject.
The Bureau of labor, of the De.
partment of Commerce and labor,
has just issued a bulletin giving in
full the text of the laws that have
been enacted UP to the end of 1907
for the purpose of regulating this
character of employment. Another
article presents the laws relating to