The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1909-02-05

seem 10 be affected with indigestion,
which makes them see darkly, as
through cloud.
Secondly, she has within her con
fines too many theorists, a result prob
abil OF too much Of the higher educa-
ton" said ex-Mayor Edwin u. Curtis,
now United States Sub-Treasurer in
Boston, at a recent banquet of the Mas
sachusetts Bankers Association.
Judge Francis c. Lowell of the Unit.
"a States court, in his address before
the Claiming club the other night,
told how foreign born men were made
into American citizens by naturaliZa-
tion in the courts. He called attention
TO the fact that many foreigners do not
want to become citizens with the pur-
pose of voting, but because they think
they can more easily get work from
the city or state. The state has passed
laws providing that all laborers on
state and city work shall be naturaliZ-
ed citizens, and the foreigner who earns
his living with pick and shovel soon
finds this out Many such foreigners
cannot speak or read English, and
when asked who makes the laws in
America often say Roosevelt"
DR.. Charles A. Eastman, a full-blood-
ed Sioux, spoke in the Harvard union
recently on Indian Wit, Humor, Poet
~ and Eloquence" He concluded his
remarks with fine tribute TO Sitting
Bull. He was the greatest Of our
tribe" said the speaker. Nobody ever
knew OF his great deeds. He never
killed other than white soldiers. He
was never known to kill a white wo-
man or child.
And look you to your own history.
j remember when | was doctor at
Pine Ridge OF the white soldiers dis
arming the whole reservation and then
shooting down the defenceless Indians
and afterward chasing the women and
killing them by the roadside. We have
been barbaric, we have been cruel, but
you take poor negro and cover him
with oil and burn him at the stake. We
have not done this for a hundred years.
And yet you are a civilized people!"
In an opinion handed down by Judge
Brown of the United States Circuit
Court all agreements covering patents
that restrict interstate trade are de-
clared to be in violation of the Sher-
man antitrust act.
ITO limit the application OF the Sher-
man act" said Judge Brown, mere
ly because profits may be made by
patentee in the course of business
strategy, seems to me to be unsound,
for the reason that ii misinterprets the
language Of the patent law, and per
verts its spirit and excludes from the
Sherman antitrust act very consid-
cradle class Of agreements which arc
quite as Objectionable as agreements
covering non-patented articles"
The extension OF the Sherman act to
considerable class OF agreements GOV.
ering patents, as implied by the opin-
ion, is consistent with a movement to
sue under the act, which has become
marked lately in the local United
States Circuit Court.
Assistant City Messenger Charles r.
Silloway had hard time the other
day performing a marriage ceremony
in city hall, the objections of Alder
men Giblin and Curley causing him and
the couple he was marrying to change
their base of operations twice during
the ceremony.
The bride and groom were foreigners
The marriage was begun in the private
room of the aldermen, where it was
suddenly cut short by an objection
from Alderman Giblin. The party
then moved into the aldermanic cham
ber where Alderman Curley raised his
voice in protest. Another adjourn
ment was taken, this time to the com
mon council chamber, where there was
no further interference. When il was
over Mr.. Siloway felt that he had well
earned his fee OF $125.
The objections made by the aldermen
are said TO be that such affairs should
be looked after by clergymen and not
by city Office holders.
Mayor Hibbard will not expend this
year the $150,00O authorized by statute
for placing water meters in the houses
OF this city.
The mayors argument, issued by Sec
retary White is that the installation OF
water meters in the tenement houses
would endanger the public health.
The mayors attitude was criticised
by the legislative committee before
which Commissioner Harmon appeared
Mayor Hibbard in his statement
says:
THE waste OF water in Boston today
is not from open taps, but from
breaks in the pipes caused either by
their age or electrolysis. This is
somet1 ing that a house meter could
never reach.