Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-01-28

week, IL being the ilrSt direct step tC
have the highest court decide the cousti-
tutionality of the corporation tax imposed
by the Aldricn- Payne tariff act. The
case is that of Stella =. Flint, as general
guardian Of the property of Samuel n.
stone. jr, minor against the Stone
Tracy company of Windsor, VT This is
said to he friendly suit and it is
hoped to have it advanced on the court
calendar ana if possible get decision
before March, the time for filing corpora
ton returns for taxation. 1t is intmated
that this suit has been urged by some Of
the largest corporate organizations in the
country in the belief that the court will
find the act unconstitutional and thus re-
lieve the corporations of the embarrass-
ment of making public their business
secrets
one thousand employees of the govern
ment printing Office here have signed an
agreement to eat no meat for at least 4
fortnight This is in line with a wide
spread movement throughout the United
States TO boycott the products of the beef
trust. Labor unions and other organized
bodies are enrolled for the fight to bring
down the prices of necessaries which
they believe now to be entirely without
warrant The agricultural department
has issued report showing more cattle
in existence in the United States at large
than there were "A year ago. thus disprov-
ing the assertion that high prices are due
to Il decline in the available supply.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson appeared
before the District of Columbia committee
Monday to present his views regarding
the increased cost of living. He showed
that products including meat had adj
vanced ~ per cent. here in the District
and more than 80 per cent. in the New
England cities and New York He stated
that the farmer was sharing very little
in the increase which was largely for the
benefit of the wholesale ana retail dealers
who formed combinations to keep up
prices. He believed it possible for Con
gress to regulate these abuses and urged
an object lesson right here in Washington.
where the law should be invoked to deal
VITA the offenders.
EN- Forester Clifford Pmchot mas as
sumed charge as president of the National
Conservation association with headquar-
tiers here. Mr.. Pinchot succeeds Or.
Charles W. Eliot who will continue i'm
the organization as honorary presi-
dent This office will permit Mr.. Pinchot
to keep in close touch with an association
with which he has acted prominently and
whose objects and work he has faithfully
served. The eX-fOreSter Is receiving al
most countless letters Of sympathy ana
praise, some even limiting to a movement
on foot to nominate him for president of
the United States. Many of these letters
come from New England and are inter-
esting to one who has given so much of
his means ana ability TO conservation
matters.
The National Board of Trade. which is
holding its 10th annual convention here
this week, seconds President Taft's sug-
gestion for an appropriation by Congress
for raising the Inflated battleship Maine.
The board has prominent representatives.
in every state of the Union and this
meeting is one of the best in its history
IBts. l.v,f rs
pitch fork Ben" had a lively little spat
at a dinner given Saturday night by the
Military order of the Carabao The scrap
was occasoned by Tillmans criticism of
the administrations Philippine policy,
the race question ana his facetious in
timaton that the government intended TO
annex Cuba. The South Carolina senator
spoke with his customary fcrVor on the
mistake of our policies which had result
ed in mixing the races and severely Criu-
cised our forced occupation of the Philip
pines. President Taft replied in refuta-
ton Of the senator's expressions, deClar-
ing he had no fear of the race question
and that the United States would not
annex Cuba. He then justified the course
Of the country in taking and holding the
Philippines. The Presidents speech was
received with enthusiasm. even the Sena-
tor himself joining in the applause. In
concluding, President Taft said: There
- no animal lldl Is tne TREND OF the
Filipino like the Carabao. He moves slow
ly, he moves deliberately, but ne moves
always in the right direction, and he gets
there after a time without respect to
obstacles. The carabao represents the
right policy in working out the problems
in the East, and | congratulate you on
having selected that animal as an indica-
ton that you know how to accomplish
things in the Philippines Ill as l was
in 1902 for three or four months, and
confined to my bed in the First Reserve
hospital in the Philippines, Mrs. Moses
sent me full set Of Kiphng's volumes
and in the headnote of one of the chap
tiers, entitled 'Nauahka, l found a verse
that gave me great deal of consolation
and if | can remember it l want to
recite it as a justification for your Sc
lection of this animal as typical of your
policy and our policy, our hopes and
yours, in the Philippines;
Now it is not good for the Christian man
to hustle the Aryan brown;
For the Aryan smiles and the Christian
rifles, and he weareth the Christian
down.
And the end of the fight is tombstone
white, with the name Of the late de-
ceased,
And the epitaph dear, a fool lies here
who tried to hustle the East"
President Taft showed Enthusiastically mis-
fondness for Kiplng's writings the other
night when. sitting in a box at one of
the theatres, he listened with the deepest
interest to the recitation, by one of the
star actors, Of Kiplings soldier story,
"Gunga Din" The pathetic little ballad
brought tears to the Presidents eyes,
while the entire audience was moved
deeply by this exhibition of the Presi-
dents sympathetic nature.
DR.. Ernest Fox Nichols, the newly
elected president of Dartmouth college.
received a triumphant ovation at the 35th
annual dinner of the Dartmouth College
Alumni association at the New Willard
Monday night Eminent men, including
the President of the United States, the |
British and French ambassadors, Speaker |
Cannon, Secretary Ballinger, Alexander
Graham Bell, the minister from Costa
Rica, John Barrett, senators from Yer |
mont and New Hampshire the Vermont |
representatives, and some so odd sons of |
old Dartmouth, We're present and joined |
in the songs and happy college enthusi- |
asm. President Nichols gave a very in |
teresting story of the ambitions of his |
institution, referring to other American |
schools i'm highly complimentary terms. |
feature of this unusually brilliant meet |
ing was the efforts of President Taft and |
Uncle Joe" Cannon to compliment each |
other, the President CHASING "Uncle Joe" |
with Lincoln and jefferson The Speaker |
of the House received a greeting which |
at once put him in the best of humor .
and which led him to eXtol the small |
college and the state university and crit- |
else, in good -natured way. the larger .
university With an air of gentle cour- /
lesy Mr. Cannon said: Il bow to the |
President, "A son of Yale; / bow to the |
late President, a son of Harvard" con- I
Guiding win an eloquent tribute to Ahra- /
nam Lincoln as an Illustration of an
a Tn4 i,.slrn cole