Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-02-11

The Minnesota Sheriffs' Association
meeting in st. Paul voted solidly in favor
of putting all sheriffs on a salary basis.
In regard to changing the time of cleo
ton of all county officers from every two
years to every four years, there was a
difference of opinion and no action was
taken as to recommending any legisla-
ton. The matter was left with the ex-
ecutive committee for action.
President Roosevelt and his cabinet,
the Governor of Ohio, the Governors of
all Southern States, Gov.-elect Joseph NJ
Brown of Georgia, Senators Bacon and
Clay, the entire Georgia congressional
delegation, and prominent Southerners
were invited to attend the dinner given
by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
at which President-elect Taft was the
guest of honor and chief speaker.
Former Minister to Spain Hannis B.
Taylor of Alabama, in an article for the
North American Review, asks if the
South is going to continue its attitude of
isolation and its antagonism to industrial
and commercial development. He wants
to know if the South is going to go on be-
ing the pocket borough of one political
party when her industries have become
diversified and when the negro question
has been practically settled. Editor Wat
terson of the Courier-Journal says that
Taylor is a dreamer.
That President Roosevelt had inter-
posed his name and influence to check the
progress of anti-Japanese bills in the Cali
fornia Legislature became known when
his message to Gov. Gillett appeared. He
asked the Governor to take steps to have
said legislation held up until he could be
heard from, saying that a letter had been
forwarded expressing his wishes. The
Governor replied that the bills had been
held up, and that copies of the same had
been mailed to the President. One of the
measures would prevent the the owner
ship of property for more than seven
years by aliens. Another expressly names
the japanese in the law segregating Mon
golian children in public schools Still
another would prevent an alien from be-
coming a director in a corporation. In
his letter to Gillett the President saws
that these measures are most unfortunate
as the japanese government has acted in
good faith on the arrangement as to immi-
grafton concluded two years ago.
At the banquet of the New York Eco
nomic Club, which was attended by manv
millionaires and sociologists, as well as
by several labor leaders of national promi-
nence. one of the speakers was Keir Har-
die. leader of the Labor party in the Brit
ish House of Commons. He told the
company that the only hope Of the Ameri-
can workingmen was to form an indie
pendent political party, and boldly assert
ed that socialism was inevitable as the
logical outcome of industrial evolution.
Warren F. Stone, chief of the Locomotive
Engineers, said it would be agreed by all
that labor creates all wealth. hence it was
evident that labor was entitled TO a fair
share of the wealth it had created.
The cigar makers and dealers in New
York have organized a league 20 oppose
prohibition measures at Albany and at
Washington. They have found from ex-
perience in Georgia and other prohibition
States that the number of employees in
the tobacco business is reduced more than
80 per cent.
Minister Louden of the Netherlands,
who was invited TO a dinner at the White
House the other night, was excused by
the President that he might attend the
dinner Of the Holland Society in New
York.