Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-25

made contracts with several local com
panies, by which it was agreed that
they should give long distance con-
nections to compliments and permit
no connection with any other company
for period of ninety mine years Com
plainants alleged that breach of these
agreements was induced by the unlaw-
full acts of defendant, and prayed an
injunction restraining further interior
ence with their contract rights. The
United States circuit court draws a
distinction between the telephone bus
mess and the sleeping car business, in
which it was held in Chicago, st. L.
& n. o. r. Co. VS.. Pullman Company,
1879 U. S. 70. II supreme court, 400, IS
L. Ed. 81, that contract for exclusive
rights for the term of fifteen years to
furnish sleeping cars to a railroad COM
pany was not invalid It is possible for
all travellers to obtain like accommo-
dations on sleeping cars. notwithstand-
ing they may all be furnished by
single company; but where there are
different telephone companies, each
having its own list of subscribers, it is
impossible to give them like service
unless each company be allowed the
right of connection with the local ex-
changes. This being the case. the con-
tract in question would necessarily
prevent local companies from carrying
out to the full extent their duties as
public service corporations. The agree
ments were held invalid and injunction
denied.
HALF ENGLISH, HALF MONGOL-
IAN.
| The applicant for citizenship in the
case of In re Knight, III Federal Re-
porter, 299. was born upon a schooner
flying the British flag, in the Yellow
Sea, off the coast of China. His father
was of English birth and parentage;
his mother was half Chinese and half
japanese, having been married to APP
plicant's father in Shanghai under
British colors. Applicant was 43 years
old, intelligent, of good character, and
had served since 1882 in the United
States navy, and had won medal for
service on the flagship Olympia in the
battle of Manila Bay. The naturaliza- :
ton statute applies to aliens, either
white or of African nativity or descent.
A person half white and half some 9TH
er race belongs to neither Of those
races, but is literally a half breed. This
holding would appear to exclude null
attoes. The application was refused by
| the federal district court.
IMMORAL CONSIDERATION.
| "A book agent sold a set of Voltaire'
works representing them to contain
! fine reading matter fit for anyone tc
read. On a more thorough inspection
the purchaser declared the books of g
licentious, lassivious. and lewd char
acler. not fit to be read in any family
and refused payment on the ground
that the consideration of the contrac,
| was immoral. In st. Hubert Guild VS.
| Quinn, 11S New York Supplement, $50
the New York supreme court thought
it no part of the duty of tribunals tc
exercise censorship over literary pro-
| auctions 1t is clear that no contrac,
| for the sale of book can be declared
! illegal unless it violates the crimina
| law. That some of the passages
! judged by the standard of our day mai
rather than enhance the value of these
books can be conceded without con
! demning the sale as illegal. Court:
will take the same knowledge as the
community at large of matters of lit
erature. and can not fail to recognize
that the genius of Voltaire has en-
riched many fields of knowledge. The
rule against the sale of immoral pub
locations can not be invoked agains
those works which have been general,
erocgniZed as literary classics.