Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-09

AT Chicago thirty men have organized
the Chicago Mems Equal Suffrage League
to work for the granting of suffrage to
women.
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
The cigar makers and dealers in New
York have organized league to oppose
prohibition measures at Albany and at
Washington. They have found from ex-
perienee in Georgia and other prohibition
States that the number of employees in
the tobacco business is reduced more than
30 per cent
The Minnesota Sherifs' 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-
President Roosevelt and his cabinet,
the Governor of Ohio, the Governors of
lal Southern States, Gov.-elect Joseph M.
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
81 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 saws that
Taylor is dreamer.
Gov Patterson of Tennessee vetoed the
Statewide prohibition bill which had
passed both branches of the Legislature.
His principal reason was that experience
had taught that no arbitrary prohibition
law was ever obeyed, and that its enact
ment makes no settlement of the question.
but rather leaves it like a burr on the
body polite to irritate and in1ame" He
objected also because it would destroy
property and reduce the revenue of the
State In the name of temperance he re-
| fused to assent to an ''intemperate meas
ure," and in the name of morality he
would not sanction "a law that would
/ foster hypocrisy and invite evasion and
deceit in the people" Afterward the bill
was passed over Patterson's Veto in the
Senate 20 to Is and in the House 81 to
Sc, the vote in each case being followed
by wildly enthusiastic demonstration.
Just before the veto message was received
the Senate passed bill to prohibit the
manufacture of liquors in the State after
Jan. 1, 1910.
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 many
uiIlionaires and soeiologists. as well as
bv 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
pcndent politicsl 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 il would be agreed BY all
that labor creates all wealth. hence it was
evident that labor was entitled 10 a fair
share Of the wealth it had created.