The Washington herald., 1909-04-11

/ <hILIOnd, 10 succeed lION. klDDeF, and
! George L. Young TO be secretary OF the
( Territory.
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
| Coolidge has approved a plan for giving
uniformity TO the designs~to the notes and
coin certificates Of the same domination
/ in each class.
Political.
The municipal election at St. Louis
| Tuesday resulted in a sweeping victory
for the Republicans headed by Frederick
II. kreisman for mayor. The city cOun-
Gil is solidly Republican. and likewist q
majority Of the house OF delegates.
Republican supremacy in the Chicago
city council viii continue as a result OF
Tuesdays election IN that city. The
Democrats increased their number OF
seats from twenty-six 20 twenty-nine
In a speech before the Texas leglsla-
ture at Austin Monday William j. Bryan
arEaigned that body severely for its fail
ure to carry out the Democrat pledges.
! and especially criticised the opposition
10 a law guaranteeing bank deposits
The Texas senate has passed and the
house was sure 10 pass also bill increas-
ing the maximum penalty for violating
the antitrust law from $50 a day TO $3.50
a day and authorizing prosecution In any
county.
A big drought was heralded In nine
teen OF the twenty-seven counties of
Michigan. where local option elections
were held last Monday. and 600 saloons.
together with ten breweries. were voted
out Of existence.
On no ear1a Far- ono mora ~nsr,t,- fr
Kentucky Joined the dry column-Boyd-
making the total ninety-six prohibition
counties in the State famed FOR its dis
tilleries
The rural section OF Long Island. n
Y. voted to license the saloons for the
next two years
Hartford, Conn. went wet by a re-
GCced vote Monday.
The Alabama Supreme Court has up
held the State prohibition law unani-
mously, this being the second decision in
favor Of the Statewide law. Its enforce
ment will now be begun vigorously.
Gov. Shallenberger has signed the day
light saloon bill" under which the sale OF
liquor will be forbidden except between :
IN. and .. m. after July s.
on Tuesday two more counties voted
wet in Indiana-Cass and Blackford-but
by close. majority. and the drys claim
inS Cass. Official vote 10 decide.
The fact was noted last week that in
the recall election in Los Angeles. Cal.
the Socialist candidate had made a strong
run. The official returns show that the
victorious recall candidate for mayor.
Alexander. had 1903 votes 10 12.3n for
Wheeler. the Socialist.
/ Several Of the prominent Socialists have
made replies 10 the Roosevelt attack In
the outlook on their political faith. these
generally appearing in the Socialist pa
pers- But one. that by Joseph MediB
Patterson. the wealthy Chicagoan. ap-
peared in the Chicago Record Herald OF
recent date. As 10 the charge that So
cialists preach free love. Patterson re-
plies, They dO-in this sense: That they
believe woman should be economically
Independent. so that when the time comes
Tor her TO marry she may give herself 10
the man she loves. not sell herself in
married prostitution 10 the suitor with
the most money" He adds that two
/ former members OF the Socialist party
we're expelled for writing a book advocat-
ing sex promiscUity. and asserts that
the percentage OF Socialists who advo-
cate sexual promiscuity is less than the
percentage of plutocrats who practice it
As 20 the statement OF Mr. Roosevelt
/ that extreme Socialists hold that all
wealth IS produced by manual workers
&c-. Mr.. Patterson has this to say.
They don't hold anything Of the sort.
| What they do hold is that all wealth Is
produced by labor manual and mentaD
ana that 40 wealth is produced merely
BY owning a vacant lot and waiting for
it 10 rise in value. or by cutting coupons
from bonds They do not believe that
the entire product OF labor should be
handed over TO labor every day. In
fact, they are the very ones who advo-
cate enormous masses Of social capltal
which Is wealth withheld from distribu-
ton"
The Chicago Daily Nsocialist saws.
Roosevelt simply proposes that abuse
and vllifiCatiOn shall be mixed win a
proper proportion OF reform IN the hone
that the real Socialist movement NAV he
destroyed"
The upstate public service commission
or New York has ordered the railroads
operating lines in the AdirondacIs m ,,sc
oH-ourhing locomotives from April Il TO
November 1 each year. the cost OF eIe,
trihcatiOn being found to be prohibiri,,.
The object is to prevent the starting and
spreading Of forest fires.
On account Of the decision unfolding
the section of the New York State in
surance laws prohibiting a company from
dong more than SI50, 600 OF new busi-
ness IN one year. the New York life
Insurance Company VIII dismiss on Nav
81 about 1000 of its agents. This stem Is
/ likely to be followed by the withdrawal
Of some Of the foreign agencies. but an
effort viii be made to have the law re-
pealed.
Owing to the charges of coIlusion be-
tween the leading express companies
which were made before the senate in
dietary committee last week. Frank II
PLATE, son Of the ex-senator. and in ac-
tive control of the United States Ex-
press Company, is said TO have taken
back at par 20,c00 shares Of his company
from the rival American and Adams
companies.
Prices for all deliv veries Of wheat were
lifted TO new levels Wednesday in the
Chicago wheat pit with a wave OF buy
ing. May wheat sold at I252 and July
at 112 top figures in April for twenty
years. The bulls took profits on a colos-
sal scale. and it was a day of triumph
for James A. Pstten. who had predicted
these conditions last year. Patterns prof.
its are estimated at 81, 10000 in the last
week The selling of the bulls while
realizing enormous profits to them was
the salvatich Of the shorts Sun higher
prices were predicted The rise was stin-
ulated by heavy foreign orders and by
the government report estimating at 50
the condition OF winter wheat This is
"a points below the ten-year average for
April.
Foreign.
Committees from every state in Mexico