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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02
The Peoples
Fight Against
the Fish Trust

OF the hSh exclusively local
operations OF the combine Francisco is
the local machinery of the law behalf
the people, but the effects of the fish trusts operations
felt in virtually community northern
thousands outside the state The tribute levied by the
cisco fish trust has been paid by the people who
have been compelled to look for
The of the Monterey that our
helpless fishermen the only felt the
blight OF the trust The tentacles Of the combine source
exoronae profit untouched Nor with out
exhibitions of its force bargains upon
the fisherman The investigation Call at
Santa Cruz disclosed deliberate robbery fish trust supplement-
its noncompetitve bargaining After forcing fishermen to
agree to price OF about its selling price Francisco
and receiving the fish, the arbitrarily settle
SO basis and threatened the bed fishermen with the
dreaded blacklist.
The of the people and the press of the state is fairly
by the Reddng CourerFee Press from which we oo
results breaking benefit the peonle
of the whole
Not only does the control the
land
should still further and other
toodstufs to make general reduction
in COLLECTING
evidence the hshmen
district Attorney Charles
NJ Fkert of San Francisco
In his prosecution of the San fish trust District
Attorney Ficker making fight for law and for all the neone
He is entitled to the unanimous support which public of the
state has been quick to give him.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02
A Bad Day
for the
Traffic MOguIs

upheld the interstate commerce commission in two
involving reduction of rates promulgated by
the carriers The agreed put the burden proof
the railroads President Taft
Portaon mogu rage manpuators aqueous stocks
enge TO battle The president forced fight in the formally
charging the lines Western with conspiracy
and enjonng them from putting effect the freight increases
announced for yesterday.
The action Of the matter of amendment to the
railroad bill significant The decisions of the supreme
were OF tremendous importance to the people By sweeping
opinions the of last affirmed interstate
commerce commissions effectively regulate freight
by ordering reductions promulgated carriers These
was President Taft decision take his foot off pedal
play music in the enemy's territory
The presidents most unwelcome shock to the
railroad magnaes who for months had confidently
executive absenton from anything parang of rough retaiator
warfare As have been expected the the carriers
@ Pah was conspiracy peryeon OF tacts popular deception
and irresponsible denagogue These plants preceded how
ever by unequvoca declarations President
p OF the Santa Fe among the first to declare that the rail
roads would fight the government their tremendous
In substanaon of his allegations grievous injury
PRESIDENT Ripley quoted saying: The shippers who
attended meetings against the personal
knowledge of the subject They by the ring
leaders OF the who have distorted uggIed
with the figures"
Ripley proceeded figure juggling himself in an
attempt railroads earnings were being scaled down
to rnos point and make necessary bettermens
virtually impossible President Rpys conspiracy plant is the
defense OF sleek rascal brought judgment changes
have been necessarily upon the necessary arg-
ment since the inception Of the peoples fight tariffs
The radical change in President Taf attitude properly
for national congauaon Apparently found that
his old fashioned methods would avail him nothing fight
against the The president had conventional PROGRAM
ior the enactment OF remedial legislation without marked public
STIR The and their allies forced him to
proceed against the transportation ndobt-
edy his well settled habit mind The carriers
threw down the gage open by defany scheduling COM
prehensiye increases tariffs twenty-five idcounrv lines
President a has been obliged the challenge It is
time is ripe-has long been ripeor
OF the question OF national domination Fighting open now
with the and the people making cause we NAV
rule this land.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

Broken Wheel" a
novel by Mrs. Flor
ence Land May,
daughter of Justice
Land of the su-
preme court of Lou
isiana, close friend of
Mrs. Eleanor Martin
and a prominent fig
ure in San Fran
cisco society, which
has been published
recently. Und e r
very thin disguises
the main personag ges
of those tumultuous
days are paraded
through a plotless
tale, but the march
past has to be
viewed through the
windows of a draw
ing room. for, above
all things, the writ
er has aimed at ele-
gance and propriety.
The rude. the un-
couth, the vibrant,
the stirring, in the
novel are lacking.
The quick, sharp
shout of anger
which shook the
rafters of Temple
Israel during the
Ford trial is hushed
and its place has
been taken by tea
table tattle of a
most refined and
delicate order. The
echoes of the pis-
tol shot which once
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

language Such wzardry glad
bidding of kind heart and wise head The railroad which numbers
captains with hands and heads and hearts of that kind
does need to do politics in sef-protection.
Things have been infinitely better for the Southern and
the people Glad first came here He
pioneered the for the order of raoadng
he back finish the job May soil
grow up gladsomeness among good
to his kind of people.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02
GRAFT. PROSECUTION
AS MOB HILL SAW IT
Mrs. Florence L. May, a Prominent Society
Woman, Writes Novel on Bribery Trials

writes Mr. MAY possessed sa
foroears Sen
the quality which men
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

QlSL1u = llSl4Cu- nc
was weary OF posing
merely as rich Mr..
Doolittle, the min
ing and oil king.
He wanted distinc-
tion, and he believed
that he had discov-
cred the key"
Calhoun passes un-
der the name of
Crosby, and a very
angelic southern
gentleman he is
made out to be, too.
Thus, one night
while walking home,
he is followed by
Doolittle's spies and:
"a man from be-
hind brushed him
unnecessarily and
peered impudently
into his preoccupied
face. Crosby re-
garded him a sec
ond, decided that he
had been spied upon
an 4 ent h m
sprawling upon the
pavement.
Good night, Sir
Prowler. he gibed.
Leave me half the
pavement next time.
will your and strode
on without a back
ward glance"
Throughout the
novel he is given
the same noble and
chivalrous bearing.
For purposes of lit
eratUre Mrs. Nav
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02
Prospects
of the Income
Tax Amendment


ment, and he explains the situation thus:
think the constitutional amendment adopted I maintain
will adopt before
the fight The the other
legislature refused by be
brought
amendment In
defeated
the miscon the
Hughes in the of
although his objection
who the idea
We expected that New York. England
would be against the amendment
We
make systematic campaign for the
coming fall
The powerful force behind measure is the fact that
is badly needed Neither Payne tariff nor the
corporation tax has brought IN revenue sufficient
deficit and the promised of and
have disastrousy fallen by the waysde whole in
this direction has produced nothing but futile mostly
Moreover the quite likely to be declared invalid
by the supreme
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02
By Way
of Welcome to
"GIad Hand Mac"

shall still choose call him Glad Hand Mac" It is title -
@ man must be bo beside and above achieved acquired
BY that welcomed the Grand Master Of the
niva Order Of Goodfeowshp again place where he
belongs. -
The gadness OF Mr. McCormics famous matched and
equaed by the adness the hand here him in greeting
de not be half pleased good have him back
The magic OF his radiant personality will make seem
and high lower With presence bestowed ON the rot side
OF the Sierra the snowheds be alley of traffic and
the erater brancne train takes the seeming Overland
Limited Everything, after ALL you look but there IS
good deal IN the looked When Mccormick turns
his and his smile crouch away hides He is
antdo and for the i'll that the spir
heir which grumpne have the blues send for Doctor
Mccormick.
Aforetme the Southern Pacific company of main
tanning creation was Mr.
who out here and destroy that unpleasant article
Of Office furniture He promptly accomplished with his
left hand extending his joyous right all California such pur
and effect that before knew what had happened travelling
public had forgotten speak of the railroad company with bad
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

hvellest interest in the investigation which
led up to the Indictment of the members of
the fish trust. They are unit in upholding
the hands of District Attorney Fickert in his
effort to secure convictions The prosecution
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

HE advocates of the tax amendment to the federal
constitution not discouraged by the New York
and other states rafy the pronoson An adverse
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

He last day OF May turned unhappy leaf of the for
the transportation auocrac In exactly corresponding ratio
good day the American people In few vivid
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

Ii California intensely interested appreciaive of
"A hight against the fish much evidenced by
the The newspapers exhibit the
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

vote by state legislature is not final and
such legislative action as has been taken up to
date may be regarded as premature, in the
sense that there has been as yet no expression
OF the popular will on t11a St,hiect Senator
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

hours of Tuesday the railroad aggressionists
met with more resistance on the part of the
servants of the people than they had expert
enced in all the preceding two years.
The supreme court of the United States
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

HIS place habituated and addicted certain ceerulness
disposition IS made not little optimistic by return to
OF T. o. MCCORMICK, the finest intangible assert of the Snnth
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-02

Pacific company. The fact that he has com,
to stay broadens San Francisco's smile O
welcome and puts a brighter polish on tht
sunshine, He brings back more of railroad
rank than he had when he said us ooodhv b,,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
ToDAY'S AGE-HERALD

cne hundred thousand-dollar fund
 atarted to boost Alabama
 Massachusetts people demand tariif
 revision.
 Dr Cook tells a new story. Tributss paid to memory of Mark
 Twain
 prices of steel will not be cut.
 Amazing changes presented Tn British
 campaign
 oRusiness methods used by Anniston. s-Governor deplores liquor vioiatiohs. 1ossemer to have license increase EEditorial comment. k-Delegates return from Ail-Aiaoai'a
 conference.
 Memorial services to be held for pr.
 Handley. . 1arga number of railroad men in city
 yesterday. rerninal board elects new directors. e-policeman fatally hurt by taxicab. birmingham social events.
 Dolly Dalrymple's department Q Testimony nearly ends in rate case. e-Probing facts in ship subsidy case. Governors condemn new nationalism. in -Nethodists meet at Huntsville 1c- Eountain pen manufacturer praises
 Birmingham 12-General Daz will again take offlce' 13-GeneraI declines in stock market. Cotton market is very unsettled.
 Wheat advances on general buying. 14-Big order given by Pennsylvania rail-
 road
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
INSURGENTS WILL
 STICK TOGETHER

Washington, November 3o-(Spe- cial. )-Those who have been spreading the word around Washington for the last week or so. that the insurgents will join hands with the administration when Congress assemblies and support the Taft programme through thick and thin, it Is asserted, are not well post ed as to the plans of the insurgent leaders Cooperation with Taft from the insurgent standpoint depends who'll ly upon the character and kind of Taft programme and the auspices under which il is presented.
 Neither. Cummins or LaFollette has yet reached Washington but those who have been in communication with them are thoroughly convinced that there has been mo change in their attitude. They insist that there is no likelihood of their combining blindly to support Taft administration programme in the short session
 To take any other course than that of standing squarelys by the doctrines for which they fought in the last ses- sion would, it is claimed, mean the im- mediate stultiication of the leaders and the movement which they led It is no secret that some of these leaders re- gard the insurgent movement as the basis for a new republican party and that their hope and aim is to make the whole party insurgent before they are through.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
AMAZING CHANGES PRESENTED
 IN THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN

London, November 30-The present cleo tion campaign is one of amazing changes. Lord Lansdowne's unexpected presenta- ton of scheme for the reform of the House of Lords has been surpassed in suddenness by MT. Ba1four's throwing over tariff reform as an issue of the cleo tions Lord Rosebery, in the course of a speech today at Manchester, said:
 "The House of Lords has ceased to exist: it has surrendered its powers to the nation. This is a fact of enormous im- rortance"
 Lord Rosebery admitted that it was deathbed repentance, but he contended that deathbed repentance, if sincere, was valid and valuable.
 Mr Balfour's adoption of the referen- dunn is generally attributed to pressure from an influential section of unionist free traders, led by Lord Cromer, all though it is acclaimed by the bulk of the unionist party, once their surprise was over, as a master stroke of skilfull electioneerng. The opposition leaders change of tao tics took the older conserva- tives completely aback and caused con- sternation among the ardent protection ists.
 The liberals, on the other hand. char acterize his attitude as adroit slipperyness and opportunism. The liberal leaders, who were surprised equally as much as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
DEMOCRATS WILL
 WORK IN HARMONY

Washington, November %.-(Speciai.)- One of the best-known democrats in the country, and one who will play part hardly second to none in party affairs during the next two years, says: All democrats should be willing to make some concessions for the good of the demo- cratic party, and I earnestly hope we may be able to reach a compromise Tn the caucus that all will be willing to stand for. We have too many vital ques- tions at stake for the country, and We must not tear ourselves apart on mat ter of procedure
 He referred. of course, to the compar- atively trivial differences among demo- crats over the rules, difference out ot which the republican press is assiduously attempting to form a mountain from the proverbial molehill. The democratic members of Congress arriving in Wash ington are discussing among themselves the merits of the appointment of the com niittees by the speaker or their appoint ment by an elected committee on com mittees. It is being done, however, with out bitterness or acrimony, and there IS one thing all of the democratic congress- men are united upon. and that is that this matter and all others coming before the
 -,-second House is going to be de- ,i by the democrats and not by the re- .i.hf can insurgents, the republican stand 3if ITS or the republican press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01

the conservatives, have not yet had time to adjust themselves to the changed con- ditions,
 David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, speaking at Llandrinded Wells tonight, reiterated that the cost of a ref erendum would be $10, O,O00 It was a mere device, he said, to put more effec- tive weapon in the hands of the wealthy classes. The liberals would have none of 1t.
 Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland, spoke at Bristol, and said MT. Balfours proposition for the referendum was delusive, dangerous and unavoidable and calculated to destroy free representa- tive government
 The home secretary, MT. Churchill, ad- dressed two meetings at Sheffield tonight He said that no day passed without some Tory leader overthrowing some ancient principle of the Tory party. Nothing was more astonishing in this wonderful cleo ton than the panic which had overtaken that once-proud and powerful party.
 MT. Churchill was again subjected to suffragists disturbances, several unruly persons being elected from the hall The flood of election oratory Is unabated, but it consists mainly of repetition of well-worn arguments.
 The Ulster movement is growing apace throughout the province. The Ulster men have taken a strong stand against home rule and offers of subscriptions to a fund which is to be devoted to the purposes of organizing a regiment and purchase of arms have risen from $50,0O0 to $120, 900 in the last two days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01

Washington, November 30.-tSpecial)- J. James M. Curley, representative-eleet in the Tenth Massachusetts district is in the city for the purpose of conference with democratic leaders
 In relation to the political situation in New England Mir. Curley said:
 "The demand of the people of New England is for an immediate revision of the tariff, downward, upon articles of daily necessity and particularly upon those products which are controlled by the trusts and the ringing voice of New England is not to be denied.
 ..state issues in our recent guberna- torial election in Massachusetts were swept aside as dust in the balance, and inc overwhelming defeat of the republican party resulted from its ill-timed, but nat ural position, upon the question of tariiI revision The repudiated tariff promises of the republican party, as pledged in the rational platform of 1908 were fatal 10 it's further supremacy.
 "Senator Lodge, for the first time in his life. was compelled to take defensive position from the outset of our recent state campaign, and he was highly Ill at ease throughout the contest
 After had proved to my constituents the fact that my republican opponent in the recent congressional campaign was hound as with chains of steel to Henry Cabot Lodge, l might have with perfect eouanimity retired from active campaign ire. So great is the unpopularity or sen ator Lodge that my election was assureh when the voters became aware of his ln- trusion and an endeavor to dominate the affairs of our district.
 "Were Senator Lodge candidate TOT election to the United States Senate In Massachusetts by popular vote tomor- rfw he would be defeated by majority Inf anywhere from 5000 to 100000 votes
 .The political revolution in New Eng land and the sweeping character or the democratic victory, was surprise to even inc most optimistic members of our ,arty who foresaw the handwriting upon the val The people of New England are tremendously in earnest, especially in ln- dustrial centsrs, in demanding an honest tariff revision. .rio,,a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
NEGRO BANDIT IS
 SHOT AND KILLED

Memphis. November 30-Jack Thomas, negro. of Blytheville, Ark. turned bandit tonight, terrorizing and robbed passengers aboard a west bound Frisco fast train and in the end was shot to death by A. E. Walton, railroad watchman.
 The train. the St. Louis Memphis lim- ited, had just started across the bridge over the Mississippi river on the outskirts Of Memphis when Thomas, revolver in hand, emerged through the doorway which separates the white and colored smoking compartments.
 In true frontier style the negro com manded: Hands up!' and without fur ther ceremony score of hands went up. Then he passed his victims along into the negro section of the car, emptying their pockets, as they went along. Four had teen divested of their purses and trinkets when Walton appeared on the scene, sum- moned from the rear platform by fare collector, who had escaped the eye of the negro.
 Walton fired as he entered the coach the bullet striking the highwayman just above the heart. He staggered and att tempted to aim his weapon, but Walton continued his fire, two others of his bull lets finding lodgment in the negros body, Thomas toppled over when the last bull let struck him and was dead when the watchman made his way through the now ranic-stricken passengers. One of Wal tons bullets went wild striking an un- known negro and nflicting a slight wound.
 The train was stopped at the next sta ton and the body of Thomas taken off A coroner's jury was empanelled on the depot platform and Walton acquitted. Then the train proceeded on It's way after the negros pockets had been stripped of the money and trinkets and return made t0 tAs owners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-01
People Of Massachusetts
 Aroused OUer The Tdrift
Revision Downward Is the Keynote of the Democratic Con- gressmen From the Old Bay State Who Represent the Sentiment of Those Who Repudiated the Republi
 can Policies In the Recent Election
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEr

, highly protected manufacturers of New England is an amusing sign of the times. They have rushed to the quar- ters of Senator Lodge in the Hotel Touraine in Boston for the last fort night and implored his aid and succor in the coming hour of their grave ne- cessity. William Whitman, the high tariff lord of the Massachusetts cot ton mills, has been the chief mourner at the republican bier
 "I am in favor of tariff revision, schedule by schedule, or any means of immediate relief that will help bring about a reduction of the present high and intolerant. cost of living and es- peclally by reducing the tariff duty upon the daily necessities of life.
 AS to a change in the rules of the House of Representatives, particularly as regards the prerogatives of the speaker, that, it seems to me, is a matter that should not be hastily judged until the sentiment of the dem ocratic members elect of the next House has had due opportunity to crystalline.
 "It seems to me vital that the dem oeratic party which has been so splen- didly supported and sustained in the nation should make haste slowly upon all minor matters that are as moth ing to the vital and supreme ques- ton or the nour, an honest ana Senu- inc tariff revision.
 q believe that Senator Lodge will be retired to private life. Every sign of the times points in that direction. He has served in Washington a quar- ter of a century as the representative of the privileged and highly protected interests and the people of Massachu- setts absolutely refuse to longer toll crate his equivocation and economic sophistry.
 My recent campaign in Massachu- setts was confined largely to the issue of comparative cost of living during 1898, before the trust era began with the passage of the Dingley bill, and the cost of our daily necessities today. The people were aroused to the tre- mendous importance of change in our economic condition and I increased the democratic plurality from votes in 1908 to 4562 in 1910. My vote was the largest in the history of the Tenth Massachusetts congressional district and also the largest received by any congressional candidate in Massachu- setts.'