The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20

| tCu III oIdZII anu Icdu dL lu0 jefferson
day banquet at Washington, says
AN item of news has just come t.
my attention. President Taft, in hi:
Lincoln speech at New York February
IL, attributes the present high prices
mainly to an increased production o.
gold and consequent enlargement o.
the volume of money. This unexpect
ed Endorsement of our party's PROPOSE
ton in 1896, when we demanded more
money as the only remedy for falling
prices, is very gratifying"
A bill appropriating $4,000 for re-
payment of citizens who advanced
that sum for the ransom of Miss Ellen
M. Stone, the American missionary
abducted by Bulgarian brigands in
| 1901, passed the senate at Washing
! ton.
| Scores of ragged women, made
widows by the mine disaster at Cher
ry, ILL.,. last November, mobbed several
deputy sheriffs and stopped a train
that was removing the rude fans that
had sustained the lives of their hus-
bands 4S hours.
The biennial meeting and banquet
of the National Democratic League of
Clubs were held in indianapolis, many
of the most important members of the
party being present.
Action will be deferred by the de.
partment of justice at Washington
against those combinations or trusts
believed to be operating in violation
of the Sherman antitrust law, where
the vital points of attack on such cor.
porations are similar to those in the
suits awaiting settlement, as a result
of the postponement of a decision by
the Supreme court in the Standard Oil
and the tobacco trust cases, because
OF the desire of that tribunal for a re.
argument of the issues involved.
The significant development in con.
nection with the meeting at Porto
Maurizio, Italy, of Theodore Roosevelt
and Clifford Pinchot was the announce
ment that Mr. Roosevelt had accepted
an invitation from the former chief |
forester to address the national con.
servation congress late in the coming |
at a time and place yet to be
fixed.
The house Insurgents are showing
of another outbreak, and
before the present session closes the
house probably will be called upon tc
vote again on resolution to unseat
Speaker Cannon. The persistent bit
ter attacks of Mr. Cannon upon the In
rankle. He keeps inviting
4 movement to unseat him, and many
want to accommodate him. Whether
enough votes can be mustered to de
clare the speakership vacant is prob
ematical.
"A beefy, red-faced, thick-necke6
financial bully, drunk with wealth anc
power, who bawls his orders to stock
directors, courts, govern
nents and nations" This is char
acterization of J. Pierpont Morgan de
ivered by Senator La Toilette in the
course of an attack on the administra
ton railroad bill.
Inc wage dispute between the train,
men and conductors of the New Yorl
central railroad and the officials OF
ne company Is to be settled by arbi
ration. All points of difference will
'e arbitrated by E. E. Clark, member
Il the Interstate Commerce commits
Ion, and P. B. Morrissey, president OF
ne Railway Employers and Investors
ssociation. They will appoint a third
arbitrator if necessary.
BY majority of $50, which is 66s
otes in excess of the majority of
ear ago, Lincoln, Neb., voted at
e1erendum election to keep out the
aloons.
A shirtwaist factory owned by so
IRIS, former factory employees, and
onducted along cooperative lines,
i'll be opened in Sedalia, Mo-, as soon
the equipment can be shippe, from
t. Louis.
At the opening of the electoral cam
align by Premier BRAND at Saint
hamond. France, anarchist and revo.
ltlonary groups interrupted the pre-
hers speech by smashing windows
nd firing revolvers.
Great Britain's ninth battleship of a :,
readnaught type, the Colossus, was p.
lunched at Clydebank. Scotland.
Editor Frank Skala of the Christian
ournal, Belgian publication, after ,
reaching a sermon in the Second ,
resbyterian church mission of Woods =,
un. North side. Pittsburg, Pa, was -,
not dead as he stepped from the ..
hurch, by Michael Rewdicz, a re- ,,
gious fanatic who also tried to kill
lder John Gay of the church mission. ,,
ay is in hospital with three bullets ..
his body and can scarcely recover.
lille the murderer of Skala escaped.
Unwilling at this time to render de-
slons in the dissolution suits against ,
e Standard Oil company and the so. !,
lied tobacco trust" the Supreme
'urt of the United States ordered a
argument of these cases. This post :
mes the final disposition of the ap- !.
lcatlon of the Sherman antitrust law )
these corporations for weeks and
Obably until after next Octoher Tho Z