Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-17
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| today, President lait lauus III ub
measured terms the leadership o
President Diaz Of the Republic o
Mexico on the occasion Of the cele
bratinn OF the Mexican centennial. MIR
Taft said: Upon this great anniver
sarv allows me to add to the message
of cordial friendship taken to your excel
lency and the government and people
Of Mexico by the special ambassador
as the delegate of this neighborinG
republic my own sincere fellciatlon'
and also to offer my best wishes anc
congratulations to your excellency
whose name will ever be associated
with the splendid era Of which today
is the centennial" The message,
which was sent yesterday, was acknow'
lodged by President Diaz.
Intimate friends Of Secretary OF the
Interior Ballinger here today declared
that he will come TO Washington next
week prepared to fight to the last ditch
TO hold Office. 1t was asserted that
Ballinger does not believe President
Taft has turned against him and that
he will maintain his attitude Of being
ready to resign at Taft's request but not
otherwise. Balllnger is not party
man. - declared one Of his friends to-
day. Arguments about the welfare
of the organization will not appeal to
him much. when compared with the
oreat DersonaI interests he has at stake. "
The Ballinger men stated that he would
return defiant They predicted that II
he is forced out of the cabinet, at the
coming meeting, it will be after a
struggle and only when the president
forces it. Ballnger's repeated state
ment Il will not resign" will be made
good in any event they argue, because
resignation at the request OF Tart, III
reality, would be removal.
Shin Wing and 10 Wen Chuang,
Chinese delegates OF the international
Prison Congress, which will be held in
Washington next month, will arrive IN
New York on the Kaiserin Augusta
Victoria about September "a, according
to information received at the State De-
partment today. A number of the
delegates of other countries have al
ready arrived.
Papers have been prepared for suit
demanding the dissolution OF the Sugar
Trust and will be filed by United States
Attorney Wise in New York, as soon
as Attorney General Wickersham gives
the word. This information was OBJ
tanned at the Department OF Justice to-
dav and it was stated that Wickersham
was in New York ready to order the
action instituted. The charges against
the sugar trust are similar to those
made against the Standard Oil Com
pany and the tobacco trust. Decisions
in the suit 70 dissolve those combina-
tons will be given the U. S. Supreme
Court next winter. 1t has been under
stood that the government would not
attack any more Of the great corpora
tons until the opinion of the Supreme
Court had been rendered in the oil and
tobacco cases. The strength OF the
evidence is said to be so great, however,
in this case that it was not considered
necessary to await action by the court.
Preparation of the evidence has been
done under the personal supervision OF
Attorney GeneralWickersham and he is
reported to be highly gratified over the
showing that will be made by the
government The trust was organized
in 1891. II has had control OF the
sugar industry and it is alleged that the
amount Of its profits have been limited
only to the tax, in the form Of the price
Of sugar, that it desired to lay OH the
people. The trust not only is alleged
10 combat all production ofretined sugar
but it is credited with the ownership OF
more than half of the beet sugar
factories.
So far as is indicated by the census
figures to date there is little increase OF
the percentage of growth Of American
cities between the decade just passed
and that Of 1S90-1900 A recapltuia-
ton of the enumerations of cities OF
over %, 900 thus far announced issued
bv the census bureau today shows that
for twenty cities having a pOpula-
ton Of over 100000 and aggregating in
the 1910 enumeration 1885, 19 in
habitants the rate of increase for the
last decade was 81 per cent and for the
decade 1S90-1900 was 913 per cent.
This slight decrease it is expected
will be overcome by subsequent returns.
The increases of the smaller cities,
however, is far larger. Fifty four cities
having population between $4,000
and 100000 have so far enumerated
and show an aggregate population OF
of ,, 723, 49S. The rate of increase for
them in the last decade is 43.2. This
is regarded by the census experts as
phcnomenally high. Two of these
cities, MuskOgee, Okla, and Niagara
Falls were not included in the 1890
census. Omitting them for the purpose
of comparison, the remaining cities
show a rate OF increase in the last
decade Of ~ percent as compared
with 29.7 in the decade 1S90-1900.
The increase is equally distributed over
the country. OF four OF the larger
cites showing the greatest increases
one, Atlanta, is southern; two, Newark
and Bridgeport, are eastern; and four,
Detroit, Denver, Kansas City and CO.
lumbus. Ohio, are scattered well over
the middle west, two east and two west
of the Mississippi
A statement eXonerating the builders
from any blame for the recent accident
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