Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-12
LEADERS TALKING.
Senator Knox and Former Sec
rotary of Treasury Shaw
in Keynote Addresses.
LATER DRAWS COMPARISON
Saws President Is Like School Teacher
Who Trounced Big Pupils
One at a Time.

Marshall. Mich, Feb. 12.-Former
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M
Shaw in speech last evening to the
Republican club of this city compared
the Roosevelt administration task in
enforcing the law to that of the coun-
try school teacher of so years ago
who subdued an unruly lot of pupils
by locking the door, mailing down the
windows and then proceeding to lick
each big boy in turn. The teacher
opened a carpet bag and took there
from a revolver, a bowie knife and
blacksnake whip. The chastisement
proceeded. and. having finished it, the
warlike pedagogue unlocked the door
and dismissed the school, There were
no lessons that day and the teacher
quit, leaving the labor of school in
struction to his successor.
should Have Nerve.
Mr.. Shaw used this tale to bolster
I'D his contention that it is now time
to reassign the lessons without lower
ing the standard of discipline, but the
successor of the man with the whip
should possess nerve to meet possible
outbreaks. However Mr.. Bryan is an
InOuncing, according to Mr.. Shaw, the
unwise policy of a foolish Hebrew
king, My predecessor chastised you
with whips; if elected. | will chastise
you with scorpions. My little finger
shall be thicker than my predecessor S
thigh" Mr.. Shaw said that Mr.. Bryan
seemed to take the position that the
knife should ever be kept on the table,
the whip regularly cracked and the
, revolver discharged through the open
window morning, noon and night.
Knox Supports Roosevelt.
/ Kalamazoo, Mich, Feb. 12.-United
, States Senator Philander c. Knox of
! Pennsylvania. addressing the Lincoln
club of this city last night on THE
People, the Railroads and the National
Authority" strongly supported the pol
icy of the Roosevelt administration in
dealing with railroads and other great
corporations. Senator Knox treated
the matter calmly and judicially, trac
ing the development of the railroad
and showing that the gradual super
vision of interstate lines by the federal
government had served to promote
commerce, protect the people from
abuse and afford them comfortable
means of travel, and to lend strength
TO securities put out by the companies
themselves.
Gives Attorney General Power.
Senator Knox referred to the suit:
in the federal courts against corpora
ton that have had secret understand
lings with the railroads, declaring tina
this legal procedure by the govern
ment had established for the first time
the right Of the attorney general Il
appear in a court of equity in behal
of large numbers of people and sec
tons of the country affected by vic
lation of the law.
The senator made a hit when in re
ferring to the declaration by high raj
road authority that it will be neces
sary during the next two years t
spend S5,500,00O,0 900 in extensions. h
said: 1T is of the utmost importanc
that the $5,5O0,OOO,0O0 OF securitie
shall purchase the full $5,500000,0 90
worth of improvements. and not b
subject to wholesale though surrel
titious subtractions."