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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19
BY gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Dy
one stroke of the pen. George w.
Nickersham, formerly personal at
tOrney for !. Z. Morgan and part
.ner of Brother Henry Taft, Wall
street. New York. and now attor-
ney general of the United States,
has brought 10 naught months Of
patient work III the beef trust re-
bate cases.
Under Roosevelt, James r Car
field was secretary of commerce of
labor and he gathered a vast
amount of evidence against the
beef trust. This was turned over
TO United States District Attorney
Sims of Chicago and presented to
the federal grand jury for indict-
ment.
The work of preparing and pre-
senting the evidence had NOT been
concluded when Roosevelt went out
of Office on March A. No wWicker-
sham has addressed a letter to the
beef trust firms saying that no pub
lie service will be served by press
ing the suits, because he feels sure
the trust did not intend 10 do
wrong.
The beef trust prosecution was
the biggest rebate case pending
when Roosevelt left office Car
ried to its loyal conclusion it would
have meant the trial of a number
OF prominent and rich Chicago men
Interested In packing business-a
trial in which conviction would
have meant fines and jail
One might reasonably suppose
that the grand jury in Chicago and
United States District Attorney
Sims in charge of the case would
be the best judges of the evidence
which has been heard during the
last three months Indeed lawyers
are not wanting who look upon the
action OF Attorney General Wicker.
sham as a clear usurpation OF au.
thority. In any case II is a strain.
Ing of the law to protect the mem.
bers OF the beef trust from threat.
ened criminal prosecutions.
The reason for his action. as
given by Attorney General Wicker
sham, is his belief that members
of the beef trust had no intent to
violate the law. He says;
1T does not clearly appear that
your company intended TO use this
method OF computing the cost
value OF it's product as a device to
affect the charges OF the carriers
transporting such product. and
the department does not believe
that any public service would be
rendered by making at this time q
test case OF past transactions.
Attorney General Wickersham IL
not frank with the public. This case
~ by no means test case; MOI
even a first offenss. Morris a. Co
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BUSINESS FABLE WITH BUSINESS MORAL

upon time. Young who had beauty and
STYLE and considerable WISENESS. gained from
things Broadway Fortvsecond street.
Rich Old Banker for job, this
Il would like the job of Receiving Teller having
qualification"
The Old Banker observed the fashy clothes the GALL
and said Ave honest? Won't have to hire somebody
to WATCH you?"
That's entirely lookout" replied the Young Man,
you OPPORTUNITY YOU expect people
take advantage OPPORTUNITY"
This business principle the Old Banker, who
had been often robbed by und paid employees So he
poyed the Young Man and had him placed he
could steal nothing and the Young being WISE and
having GALL. to and finally 81
of the banks
At another time modest and Sweet Girl, with
BASHFUI MEN and soft VIOLET EYES solicited posi-
ton typewriter lady the Banker got partly
because of SOMETHING in her figure eyes.
But said the Old Banker himself eff she is given
OPPORTUNITY she take advantage of OPPORTUNITY,
and l will have her WATCHED, also
So the Old Banker everybody watching which
wasn't hard. for she really MODEST PRETTY
that Indian couldn't keep
Indeed the Old Banker himself
and often And she and married the Banker
ran him and the Old Bank after.
The moral of these life there's
at least there
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19
BEEF TRUSTS SINS FORGIVEN
BY NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL

land the other three large packers
of Chicago were prosecuted under
indictments almost exactly SINH
lar to these now being quashed,
and each company was fined $15.-
coo, and paid the fine.
This case went on appeal to the
United States supreme court,
where, without any division of the
bench, the convictions were sus-
tanned, This very point of criminal
intent in such cases was settled by
the supreme court in these words:
There is class of cases within
which we think the one under con-
sideratiOn falls, where purposely
doing a thing prohibited by the
statute may amount to an offense."
tArmour Packing Co VS.. the Unit
ed States, 209 L. S. at page So
And now these are the same peo-
pie charged with again doing the
same thing. And the supreme court
has already disposed of their in
tent defense. No use to appeal to
that court again but Wickersham
intervenes.
Morris, Armour, Swift and
! Cudahy-these firms are old offend
ers. The acts for which Wicker
sham gives immunity were commit
ted. in many instances, since the
decision of the aforementioned
case by the United States supreme
court. They We're concealed by the
companies by their practice of
keeping a secret as well as a public
set of books.
The immunity thus extended by
Attorney General Wickersham
would. in a private person, savol
of compromising a felony.
| Whether or not this is too harsh
it is ar least remarkable that pros
ecutions begun months ago under
the previous administration should
not be permitted to take their nat
ural course. If the evidence proved
| Nouid pC ~
dictments. In any case, II the evi
dence at the trial was not sufficient
1.-THE defendant would be indicated
This arbitrary dismissal of the
whole investigator and complaint
this wholesale suspension Of the
federal rate low in favor Of the
packing trusts somewhat start
Ting as an example of upholding
the Roosevelt policies.
IF this is carrying out the Roose
welt policies" said a member of the
interstate commerce commission tc
me. deliver me from having then
further carried out" - --.-
Another member OF the inter
state commerce commission said:
IT Is the moral effect of this &C
tor VI the attorney general which
Is most leplored. With an exam
pie OF this kind before them 1t II
not to he expected that prosecuting
attorneys throughout the countr,
are going 10 display much zeal II
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19
BY G. w. SHEPHERD.
Special Correspondence - 7e Pres

Special Correspondence - ae Press
PHILADELPHIA, April 19.-lf
congress raises the tariff on stock
ings, who's going to be protected
in Philadelphia?
If the American consumer has to
pay 20 cents more a dozen for hose
and stockings, who's going to get
the money.
1t won't go to the factory girls.
I'VE won't raise the wages of
the factory hands" said F. w. Sim
ons to me. Mr.. Simons ought to
know. He is president of the Ma
tional Association of Hosiery and
Underwear Manufacturers.
Salaries won't be raised if the
tar f on hosiery is increased" said
f. Park Moore. He's the chair
man of the national association
above mentioned.
We'll, where will the worker
benefit" | asked him.
They'll get steadier work. he
replied.
And that answer is enough to
give you the horros, after you have
seen the knitting district.
more hours cramped up, over knit
ting machines. 1t means fewer Holt
days. 1t means less rest. 1t means
all these things to 10000 women
and girls in the Philadelphia fac
| tories.
No more wages; no fewer hours.
For goodness sake, whom is the
proposed tariff on stockings to pro-
tect?
| Here's little Anna Morgan, for
instance. Her parents are poor and
her father is i'll; he gave 20 years
of life to the factories.
I've been working 10 weeks in
the factory" said Anna, proudly
as she was on her way to work the
other morning at quarter to
o'clock. THE first week | worked
for nothing. | was learning then
but the next week ! earned 81, The
next week | earned So, and after
that | got steady salary of $4.2C
week. When | get older I'll gel
more money. like the big girls do
| Annals face was bright and smil
ing. The fact that she had to work
until quarter past 6 that evening
didn't seem to worry her. 1t was
all new and exciting to her. She
said she was Is years old.
Down the street / saw coming
the terrible thing that Anna ought
to be protected from; the terrible
thing that these millionaire hosiery
manufacture, that no tariff pro
tects-a girl who had lost hel
smile!
That's the second stage of the
factory girls life. This girl, in the
second stage, was wan and worn
Her eyes were still bright, as |
| there was a just tiny bit of sun
| shine that simply couldn't leave
| them until her last hope had gone
| But her face was immovable
Little Anna had smiled when tn,
photographer took her picture
This girl was willing to have he
picture taken, but she didn't smile
There was something terribly oil,
about her. Hope was departin,
from her; few more looks in tn,
glass would drive it away forever
| saw hundreds of these girls e,
up the stairs to the factory doors
in the sunshine of the early morn
ing, to bury themselves in work il
their fight for life.
Then there were the women Il
the third stages. Their faces toll
the stories of their hopeless lives
They moved like machines,
] When the photographer turne
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saw coming down the street
the terrible thing-a girl who had
lost her smile!"
I his camera on them they stood
stolid and eXpressionless.
What do you want the picture
for?" asked little Anna, who had
an interest in life, smoothing her
hair.
II don't look dressed up" said
the girl in the second stage.
But this woman in the thiro
stage didn't seem to care what the
picture was for or whether she
looked well.
And, in view of these terrible
sights-these little working girls,
these girls who have lost their
smile, these hopeless, machine
women-the masters of these mills
even while they are crying to con
gress for protection, confess that
their protection" will give these
| women nothing more than steadier
| work.
Il saw girls who are as good as
murdered | told Mr.. Simons, after
| | had visited the factories. Their
lives are crushed and ruined If
| they remain in the factories. Will
| more work protect them?'
1T will give them more money
| he said.
do they think they'll be pro-
tected?"
We'll, I'll admit a lot of them
are free traders" Then he added,
| They read so much in the papers
about free trade that they begin to
believe it's best"
| He showed me a letter in which
a fellow manufacturer asked him
how, in the midest of his tariff agi.
tation, he kept his help contented
Didn't this tariff business worry
them?
Il pay them as much as | can
replied Mr. Simons.
These manufacturers, from the
headquarters in the Drexel build
ing in Philadelphia, sent out {
story that they might hav a parade
of factory girls in Washington t.
further the hosiery tariff bill.
But they won't. 1t would be {
sight that would almost make peo
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19
PASSENGERS CHOKE WHILE
CONDUCTORS CLEANUP

fore getting downtown, where the
city street cleaning process oper-
ateS.
There is no question but this
plan is an imposition on the public,
an unsanitary. 1t demands the at
tention both of civic authority and
the health board. There is no eX-
cuse for it except the small town
transportation policy the company
still clings to in some respects, re-
gardless of Spokane's present
status and future prospects. Nisi-
tors from eastern cities will doubt
leshly b. greatly impressed by hav-
ing to tide sn a car upoa which a
conductor is performing the resu-
lar toilet. but the impression is
not one the street car companies
themselves would be anxious to
promote were their official atten-
ton called to the present practice.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19

II YOU can possibly avoid it, keep
off the last street cars going in at
night. On this "trip the conductor
sweeps his car, and it is impossi-
bic to ride with him without
clothes becoming covered and
lungs filled with the accumulated
dust of the day The debris is
swept out on the platform and
scattered along the street. The
plan is a matter of penny economy
at public inconvenience. as it elm
mates the necessity of employing
car cleaners at the barns and also
the necessity of burning refuse
there when the days run is over.
The Residents along the street get
the benefit of the trash scattered
along in front of their property, as
the conductors seemingly make an
effort 10 finish the cleanup job be-
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the preparation or Inauguration of
new cases. The arm of the Chi
cago prosecuting official, raised to
do his duty, has been struck down,
not by the9common enemy, but by
his own chief; by the new attor-
ney general OF the United States.
Let no one suppose that the Sc
cret rebate has been wiped out.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
are paid every month to favored
shippers under various deceitful
guises. The implied promise of i'm
munity from the penal sections of
the Hepburn act will be the signal
for the secret rebate to renew it's
youth and flourish
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19
KNIGHTS INSTITUTE
NEW COUNCIL

Moscow, Idaho, was the gather
ing points of the knights of Co
lumbus of the Inland Empire Sun
day, the occasion being the insti-
tuition of a new council of the or
der in that city. A special train on
the Inland electric line carried the
Spokane council and knights from
Occur d'Alene and Wallace, Idaho.
Visitors from Walla Walla, Lewis
ton and Pendleton, Orekon, were
also present The Occur dAlene
council conferred the first degree,
assisted by r. l.. McWillams of
Spokane. Lewiston gave the sec
ond and the Spokane degree team,
headed by Dr. Henry B. Luhn, the
third An elaborate banquet was
served in Odd Fellows hall at the
close of the ritualistic work.
The Moscow knights extended
the Spokane visitors vote of
thanks for their assistance and
promised to be here in force on
Sunday, May 2, when the Spokane
council will have initiatory exer
cises.
The trip to Moscow, through the
rolling hills and green fields of the
Palouse, was great treat for most
of the Spokane delegation, The
fertile country in the vicinity OF
Moscow, stretching for miles or
either side of the city, form g
beautiful picture, a duplicate Of
which cannot be found in the
famed agricultural regions of the
middle states.
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suggested 1t at the Chapman fac
tory In Easton, Pa, but it would be
too expensive to take them all
down to Washington"
You bet there won't be any
parade.
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Then there were the women in
the third stages. Their faces told
the stories of their hopeless lives.
They moved like machines"
pie stop wearing stockings, if the
parade looked like the throngs that
entered the factory buildings in
Philadelphia the morning i saw
them.
There won't be any parade"
said Mr.. Simons. 81 think somebody
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19
DEATH ENDS VISIT,

Mrs. Mary Omlar died at the
home of her daughter. Mrs II. Rob
erts, S721 Fisk, yesterday, aged
62 years. She was on visit from
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-04-19

The cyclonic orator isn't neces.
sarily long winded
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the east. No arrangements for the
funeral have been made.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-13
NEWS" THAT MAY WELL BE
SUPPRESSED.

One of the greatest drawbacks
to the publication of a real live
newspaper is the fact that in near
ly every instance where there is a
good news article which is per-
fectly legitimate for publication
and which the general public is
entitled to know there is some
person who will come to the office
of the publication and ask that
the article be not published saying
that 1t will do no good to publish
these things. "-Covington News.
There is one class of news that peo-
pie do not ask suppressed, and
that is the class of news the dissemin-
alton of which is beneficial to the
highest material interests of the com
munity. No one ever came to a news
paper office and asked for the suppress
sion of an item about a new business
enterprise, new factory, new pro-
ject in an industrialway, a plan for q
new railroad connection, large sale OF
property, the coming of new citizens
the erection of a new building, the inn
proyement of a homeplace, the build
ing ola new good road, the opening Of
a new street, the making of an extra
ordinary large crop, the experimenting
along new line in agriculture. And
after ALL these are the real genuine
news items that tell for the good of the
community.
What people ask for is the
suppression of items that bring
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Americas, Ca, November IS. 1909.
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR is DUE.

The fact that Sumter county will
secure the first prize as the county
having the best roads traversed by
the Automobiles in the run from AL
bany to Atlanta naturally awakens a
feeling of pride in the heart of every
true Sumter county citizen. 1t is a
tribute to the progressive policy Of
this county and to the effective man
ner in which its road work has been
conducted that every one must appre-
ciate Coming from candid and I'M
biased critics, who have covered the
roads in a score of counties of the
most prosperous section of the state,
such an award has value as an adj
yertisement that is almost without
price. 1t carries conviction with it
wherever the fact is published and
draws attention to Sumter county as
almost no other fact concerning it
could do.
While we are congratulating our
selves on such a recognition of the
superiority of the recently constructed
highways in this county it is but prop
er that due need of praise should be
rendered to the man who has been
most signally identified with the
good roads movement that has made
such an award possible. We refer to
Mr.. Frank Sheffield, chairman of the
county commissioners. If Mr.. Shelf
field is not the father of good roads in
this county he is at least the foster pa
rent of them. For years he has talked
good roads, zealously labored for the
awakening of the public mind to &
full consciousness of the value of i'm
| proved highways, and finally, in his
official capacity, in the past two years
has been instrumental in giving to the
county several roads, aggregating
many miles, that do not yield the palm
for superiority to any roads in the
state built out of native material.
The construction of good roads
under Mr. Shefield's craftsmanship Is
yet in its infancy, despite the progress
already made Another fine highway
is now nearing completion and others
are in prospect. Before the close Of
his four years term of Office Sumter
county will be gridironed with fine
highways, And when that term has
expired it will be a colossal blundel
on the part of our people if they dc
not unanimously retain him in the pc.
sition in which he has shown sucI
singleness of purpose, such devoted
ness to the highest public interest, anC
such determination to establish Sum.
ter county on the highest possible
plane. His work is today one of the
chief factors telling for the future pro
gress of the county AS such it should
| be eheerfully recognized and he anG
his associates on the Board of County
| Commissioners should be given hearty
encouragement in their plans fol
further betterments along the same
line.
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WILL TAFT HELP TO BREAK DOWN
DEMOCRACY IN THE SOUTH.

The political effect of Presideat
Taft's trip through the South is the
subject of a long editorial in the Sa-
vannah Press. Reading tie accounts
of the hearty reception accorded the
President throughout this section, re-
alizing that there is considerable
growth of what may be termed local
protectionism, as we'll as distant an
ti-Bryan feeling not confined to any
locality, and approaching that in the
natural course of events it is quite
probable that the white men of the
South will differ in their views on
public policies and divide into antag-
onistic political parties, Editor Stow
all, keen student of Southern and
national conditions, endeavors to care
fully and impartially analyze the ten
denotes that may have been accentu-
ated by the Presidents recent visit.
AS he viewed it, it is impossible to
deny that the coming of Judge Taft
tended to strengthen the party 10
which he belongs" He has been very
tactful in the South" he continues,
"and unless we are mistaken the
strength of his reception was some
thing more than social" The Presi-
dents tour has been made the oppor-
tunity for a reiteration of the appeal,
not by him, but by others, to the South
to break away from it's long time pro
vincialism" and political isolation"
and the assertion of the claim that no
reason now exists for it to continue
its adherence to the traditions of the
past and remain a section, cut off
from amalgamation with the politics of
the remainder of the common country.
Editor Stovall insists that the prop
er answer to this plea is that the Pres
ident is mot real type of his party"
He insists that Taft is not even d
dominant part of his party, but that
there are men in his cabinet, and In
Congress, who will hold him down 10
the rule of the politician, who will
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-13

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if it
fails to cure. E. w. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. 25c.
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Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened BY OVer-WOTk.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood

Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re-
sponsible for much sickness and suffering,
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therefore, If Kidney
trouble is permitted to
continue, serious re-
suits are most likely
to follow. Your other
organs may need at.
tention, but your kid
neys most, because
they do most and
should have attention
first. Therefore, when
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IS YOUR
MONEY
INVESTED
WELL :?

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