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The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Ready to Sign Petition.

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
read with great interest the edi-
torial Shall Woman Be Hanged in
Washington" In Thursdays Times.
am Mississippi Democrat, and I
am unalterably opposed to hanging NO.
men. white or black, anywhere in this
country. 1t is a terrible thing to hang
a woman anywhere, but most terrible
OF an to hang one In the Capital City of
the nation. I sincerely hope President
TAFT will commute the sentence Of Mat
tie E. I-omax to life Imprisonment In
the penitentiary. II she deserves pun
ishment at all.
1t is not for me to criticise the YER
dict of the jury in her case, but should
not be surprised to learn. if the real
facts could be known. that a no-ac-
count, drunken husband abused her to
sIfch an extent as to render her ire
sponsible for her deed.
l am opposed to capital punishment
for any crime except criminal assault
on woman, and I hope to live to see
the day when that will be the only
crime punishable by death. It is such
dtabolical offe1se that the only Just
punishment for it is death.
shall be glad to sign a petition to
the President for the Communication to
life imprisonment Of the Lomax wo-
mans sentence,
JAMES s. MCCARTHY.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04

descending, although reaching to
heaven, was broad based upon the low
ly earth, and perhaps it will not be
regarded as irreverent or highfalutin
to say that when the wings of fancy
have scared to the farthest confines,
in the "desire of the moth for the star y
they are glad to come back and cuddle
close to a juicy steak. 1t is true
enough, in the case of the wife of a
poet, that occasionally, at least,
He calls her to listen,
With glances that glisten,
To songs of his sensitive soul, =
While she is discerning,
BY odors Of burning,
That dinner is done to a coal.
Bat when he comes out of his trance
it will be found that he has an appetite
like hired man, and is ready to con-
cede that the hand that beats the bis
cult is the hand that rules the world.
We would not have taken the matter
from the keeping of Laura Jean but
for the fact that this once she has over
looked the real moral of the communi-
cation in question, and it is not well
that it should be lost to the world.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
THE DISTRICT AS A MANU-.
FEATURING CENTER.

The organized efforts of Washington
business men to bring manufacturing
industries to the District and to ex-
tend the field of those already here are
bearing fruit. In the current number
of the Manufacturers Record-the fac
tory bible--is an article showing the
advancement of the Districts activities
in manufacturing which is highly fiat
tering, especially when considered in
connection with the theory that Wash
ington is not an industrial community.
According to the Manufacturers
Record, the amount of capital invested
in factories in Washington increased
so per cent in the fve-year period be.
tween 1904 to 1909. This was equal to
the increase shown by other cities of
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HOMEMADE BREAD AND
HIGHER CULTURE.

1t should not be supposed that be-
cause the world at large has been abb
sorbed in arbitration, reciprocity, and
the scourge of locusts that Laura Jeans
department of heart throbs has shown
variableness or the shadow of turning
dull Young and old continue to come
to her with their perplexities and throw
themselves at her sympathetic feet.
There is something different" how,
ever, in a recent contribution which
should not pass unnoticed. An anxious
inquirer wishes to know how it is that
men who have read a little" think
themselves $50 far, intellectually, be-
yond a good woman that they would
rather have poetry, history, art, and
music to well-done meat and homemade
biscuit" One answer would be, They
don't, if we may paraphrase Mr.
Punch's advice to those about to get
married. And if this be denied the
answer will be found in the very first
statement made by the correspondent
1t is because they have read little
As soon as they have dipped deeper into
the Pierian spring-when they have
gained a better insight into the things
which make for culture-they will
realize that the noblest of all poetry is
expressed in terms of homemade bread
and that the history of cookery is in
fact the history of our civilization. II
has been pointed out more than once
by observant and philosophical people
that the ladder on which the dreaming
patriarch saw angels ascending anG
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
MORAL IN OPENING OF THE
BATHING BEACH.

One of the most wholesome institu-
lions in Washington is the public bath
ing beach, which was opened for the
season with splashing eclat yesterday.
That it is appreciated is evidenced by
the fact that about l.5OO boys founder
ed about in the cooling waters during
the day.
One incident of the opening deserves
attention. About the middle of the
afternoon a gurgling, choked cry of
Help" came from the center of the
small pool. A boy was seen to sink
beneath the surface. Instantly a life
guard, who was there for that purpose,
dived into the water, rescued the lad,
and carried him ashore, where he was
soon himself again. He had become
exhausted while swimming.
Only few hours before boy from
Gallaudet College, while swimming in
the river near the Chain Bridge, was
drowned.
The bathing beach is maintained for
the specific purpose of providing a safe
place to go swimmin'," and its utility
was demonstrated on the first day of
the season, while on the same day the
danger of swimming in the river, away
from possible help, was shown with
sad emphasis.
The moral to Washington fathers and
mothers is too obvious to need elucida-
+;op
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Democratic Tariff
Program to Be Tested

The great test of the Democratic tariff
program will come to the House when
the wool schedule is reported Tuesday
and the general deabte is opened on
Wednesday.
The Democratic discipline demon
strated itself again when the Ways
and Means Republicans tried to defer
consideration of the whole schedule till
next session. Representative Hill Of
Connecticut made the motion in the
meeting of the full committee, hoping
that some of the free-wool Democrats
would stand with the Republicans. But
they didn't.
The Democrats voted as a unit to re-
port the measure on which the caucus
had agreed, and the bill will come out
at once. The committee also Endorsed
the resolution of Representative Ander-
son of Minnesota, calling for all wool
and wool tariff information that the
tariff board has thus far collected.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Athletic Leaders at
Georgetown Honored

Membership in the Pyramid Honor
Society. the most sought for honor in
Georgetown University. has been given
to John P. Fleming, captain Of the track
team: Harold Keats. manager Of the
indoor meet, and Robert s. Hamlin, Of
the football team.
The three were initiated last evening,
and later at the annual dinner in Har-
vey's. the following officers were elect
ed: President, Ernest A. Schreiver. jr. /;
vice president, Carl Fl. Butman; secre-
tary and treasurer, David A. Baer; his
torian, Ernest F. Wenderoth; executive
secretary. and ]. Ralph F'ehr. and ]. st.
C. Brooks. jr.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Addresses Graduates
Of HOltOn-ArmS School

At the commencement exercises of the
Holton-Arms School yesterday the ad-
dress was delivered by the Rev. DIR,
Ulysses G. b. Pierce, pastor of AZ
Souls Church.
He spoke on the efficiency of educa-
ton as a training for after Life. and
traced the marked effect education has
had on civilization.
Miss Jessie Moon Holton, principal of
the school, addressed the graduating
class on the ideals of education for
girls.
The graduates in the classical course
were Miss Frances Hodges and Miss
Mary Addison Webb. The one graduate
in the general course was Miss Minnie
Strayer Stone. Certificates of merit
were awarded to Miss Celestine Page
Finley and Miss Alice Louise Dressed.
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CONTINUED from First Psge.)

senseless when we do such a thing.
cannot believe that the way to stop
murder is to commit more murders.
and 1 therefore am Mortified at the
prospect of the hanging Of Matte Lo-
max.
Il thing 1t is just as inexcusable, as
brutahzing to society, as useless to
hang a man as to hang a woman, and
my conclusions apply with heightened
force when the hanging is to be in
United States for the most advanced
ideas In the practical operation of gov
eminent and In the relations of people
to each other, but II this hanging is
permitted to take place in the Capital
of the United States, the world will
have cause to believe its confidence has
been misplaced.
THE District of Columbia is not a
State-it is, practically, the United
States. If a woman is hanged here the
rest of the world will be justified in
concluding that that is the policy of
certainly don't want any such impress
sion to be spread broadcast over the
globe.
Influence Would Be Bad.
THE influence of a hanging in the
DlSIflCL WOulO also De Ddu WltnIn the
borders of our own country. 1t would
put Washington in the attitude Of dis
couraging instead of encouraging prog
ress. 1t would do more, in my opinion, to
postpone the day when there will be 40
capital punishment than any other one
thing that could happen at this time. On
the contrary, II it was established that
legal murder is not the policy in the
District, the day when capital punish
ment is abolished throughout the ma
ton would be FASTENED.
President Taft has an opportunity
to make a bold stroke for the advance
ment of a human and rational cause.
He has the chance to do what no other
individual could do. hope he will be
broad enough and progressive enough TO
modify the LomaX sentence.
THE question of the color of the
condemned woman has nothing to do
with the case. l would feel the same
whether she were white or black. The
big consideration Is the principle under
lying capital punishment. That is
wrong. The personality of the particu-
lar individual to be hanged should not
be considered"
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
MRS. GORE ARGUES
AGAINSTHANGING
Wife of Blind Senator Views Execution in Capital as
National Disgrace and Hopes Executive Glenn
ency Will Be Extended

choose the condition to which he
should be born. Society should not visit
penalty upon him for what he could
not help and 1t did not prevent. 1t
should, of course, protect itself against
him and others who may follow him, but
It has never done this by taking his
life.
1 do not believe that the world has
a crime the less for all the executions
ever done. 1t has rather but doubled its
list, by committing one for each, and
has cultivated mans baser part by the
inhuman fact and the spectacle of capt.
tai punishment.
The murderer kills, II deliberately.
when, like a Czolgocz, he courts or de-
fies the consequences, or else when, like
a gambler, he takes the chances-the
fear of punishment is no deterrent to
him; or he kills in a passion or madness
where no thought or fear of conse-
quence enters-and punishment can be
no deterrent then.
Protection Through Prevention.
Society can protect itself from vio-
lence not through penalization, but
through prevention of crime; not
through EQUALIZATION of it's multitudes
by inhumanity to unfortunates, but by
providing asylums for these victims.
Victims they are, of Inheritance, cir
cumstance, moral or physical disease OF
their own passions, and society owes
them aid instead of destruction.
This thing that is decreed for Wash
ington is enough to make the nation
sick with horrer and shame. If the law
calls for 1t, then the law should be
changed. And meantime l think every
voice in the city should be raised 10
ask for executive action to stay the
course of the law. The plea of The
Times is a plea in the name of ctviliza-
tion-American civilization. of which we
boast and would represent most Of all
in our National Capital.
ETHEL NJ. SMITH.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Hamlin for Law to Keep
Track of All Vouchers

Paying for secret diplomatic serv-
ices by manipulating vouchers OF
charging money to other accounts,
will not be permitted If Representa-
tive Hamlin of Missouri has his way
Mr.. Hamlin is determined to have a
law which will enable Congress to
get full and detailed accounting for
even the funds the State Department
uses for confidential purposes. 1t Is
said the recent Jungle over the pay
ment for a portrait of former Score.
tary Day, could not take place now
but Mr.. Hamlin Is not convinced. He
wants to make all accounts subject
to investigation by Congress.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04

the South, and indicates that the CAPT
tai is keeping pace with its neighbors
The Record article was based on the
1909 report of the Census Bureau or
manufactures, and shows that the in
crease in the capital invested in fac
tories in New England was but 33.7
per cent.
In view of the good work accom-
plished by united, systematic effort in
the District in the past, the movement
for new enterprises and for more bust
ness for those now in operation should
be carried forward with redoubled vigor
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Favors the Execution.

To. the Editor Of THE TIMES:
If / may be permitted to encroach
upon your space. 1 would like to
have published my views regarding
the proposed execution of Matte
Lomax.
This Is a case in which every man
should be interested.
The fact that there has not been
a woman executed here since Mrs.
Surratt, is not a very good reason
why there should not be. The same
hue and cry (about disgracing the
nation) was raised in New York
when they executed Mrs. Place, and
in Vermont when they executed Mrs.
Rogers, and there is nothing on rec
ord where either place was harmed
one iota.
The law is no respector of persons
and should not be, and will not be
Daniel Theodore Wright to expound
and enforce it. l can understand the
feeling which prompted him to con-
graduate the jury who convicted this
woman. They rendered a true YER
dict, according to the evidence and
the law. There is too much of the
maudlin sentiment here. All this
talk about disgracing and bIotting
this beautiful National Capital is but
an invitation for women from other
cities to come here and do murder.
knowing that they will not pay the
extreme penalty or may 60 free.
The law of God says thou shalt
do no murder, and he that sheddeth
another mans blood. his blood shall
be she'd" There is no higher law
than this. and sentiment plays no
part Women expect their rights un-
der the law, and the protection OF
1t also. So when a woman becomes
so hardened as to wiIlfully Commit
murder. then give to her what is her
due the same as the law gives to the
man, irrespective of color or nation
atty. JNO. Z. PROSPERL
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Fourteen Nurses Begin
Careers in Hospital

Fourteen young women trained in eff
cheney. patience, and kindness, COM
prise the graduate nurses class of the
George Washington University Hospital
this year.
At the exercises last night Rear Ad-
mIral Charles H. Stockton and DR..
Henry G. Boyer, of the Naval Medical
School, gave them the call to the high
ideals of modern nursing.
The class consists of Misses Adelaide
Parsons, Katherine A. Berger, Mary
Balser, Jessie Whyte, Wiome Brown,
Dora Kiebs, Ruthe Tappen, Fay Greene
Butler, Teresa Starkenthaler, Mamie
Moncure, Lucy Lanon, Lily Hughes,
Ellen Lennon. and Ella Warner.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
PRESIDENT TAFT'S Reel
PROCITY ARGUMENT.

The address of President Taft in
Chicago, calling on public sentiment
to come to the support of the reci-
procity measure, is by far the strongest
presentation of the case that has been
made by any OF its advocates. The
argument does the President great
credit in more ways than one.
In the first place, the declaration
that reciprocity will carry if the
people insist that it shall carry, and
the frank call upon the public to make
its real views Enthusiastically known to
Congress, is evidence that the President
has developed measure Of confidence
in and purpose to rely upon the judg-
ment of the people, that he has too
rarely displayed during his Administra-
ton 1t is a sharp reversal of the
position taken during the tariff session
of 1909 and the railroad legislation ses-
sion of 1910, when the Administration
was willing to throw to the winds all
consideration of the public's feeling,
and force legislation through Congress
in the form that either the standpat
managers or the Cabinet advisers had
framed it.
His argument for reciprocity shows
that the President has equipped himself
with a store of detailed and accurate
facts. He presents these, and his con-
illusions from them, in a mastery
fashion, and with an air of conviction
that will not fail to impress the coun-
try.
Illustrating the advantages to be de-
rived from close commercial relation
ships, the President cites the experience
of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philip
pines. Under reciprocal or free trade
arrangements, advantages have in every
case accrued on both sides of the bar
gain. Porto Rico was never so pros
porous as now, and it was never so
profitable a customer for the United
States. OF Cuba the same is true,
though we are not on a free trade
| basis with Cuba. The President
might well have used the argument,
also, that annexation of Louisiana,
bringing a new empire into the free
trade area of the Union, benefited both
the annexed and the original territory.
Who doubts that the original thirteen
States, as well as the Mississippi val
ley, are better off today because they
established commercial union? Who
has misgivings whether the admittance
of Texas was alike good for Texas and
the rest of the country?
The Presidents answer to the argu-
ment that free agricultural products
from Canada would injure farm land
values here, is complete and sweeping.
Why, he asks, did not farm lands in
Illinois and Iowa lose value from the
development of immense areas farther
west? They, in fact, increased most
rapidly while the new West was set
Ting most rapidly. The older and newer
sections complemented each other in
perfeeting our agricultural system.
just so, Mr.. Taft points out, would
Canada and the States complement each
other and bring fuller, better develop
ment to both
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Wants Sentence COMMITTED.
Editor of THE TINES

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Many honest people are hoping that
the President will heed your appeal, and
commute the sentence of the negress
who is under judgment to be hanged
here on July 81.
Since the days of the great French
writer, Eugene Sue, the arguments in
favor Of the abolition of capital punish
ment have been pretty thoroughly
threshed out in all civilized countries.
1t has not had the effect of reducing
the number Of capital crimes; IL has
not lent any dignity or ecIat to the
general execution of the laws-and II
has resulted in the judicial murder of
innocent persons a sufficient number Of
times to make 1t resort of dubious
expediency.
As you justly point out, many of the
States Of this Union have abolished it
do so, the Federal Government might
well promulgate a law to end the bar
barrie rite in all the national domain, re-
serving the right to except from the
operation Of such a law the traitor who
betrays his country to the enemy.
The highest military authorities are
agreed that occasions arise in times of
great stress and military rule when
there Is no other effective means to
maintain such discipline as will render
military operations possible.
While the life of the common criminal
has little or no market value, It Is none
the less true that all human life Is a
mysterious and wonderful thing, and
that a living human being may still
perform some useful service, while a
dead one Is of no avail whatever. The
right Of society itself to do judicial
murder is but survival and relic of
the barbaric age
Let US hope this negress will not be
executed also that neither she nor
Jesse Pomeroy, the New England mon
ster whom certain sentimentalists are
now trying to free, will never again be
turned loose upon society.
]. A. MCKNIGHT.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
DiaZ Reaches Cuba on
Way to Exile; Warmly
Greeted by Diplomats

HAVANA, June 4.-Late this after
noon the Ypiranga, bearing former
President Porfirio Diaz into exile, will
proceed en- its journey across the At
lantic.
Upon the arrival of the Diaz family
here yesterday an enthusiastic greeting
was given Many of the diplomatic
friends of General Diaz visited him
briefly, but he declined to give out any
authorized statement.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
ONE KILLED, THREE
HURT IN WILD RIDE
ONPREC|P|CE BRINK
R. S. Licenring, of Allen
town, Pa, Victim of Yose-
mite Hills Runaway.

YOSEMITE, Cal, June 4.-One tourist
is dead and three are badly injured from
the crash into the hillside which ended
a wild sta ge-coach runaway down a
narrow mountain road, with precipices
on one side and rocky walls on the
other and sharp turns every few rods
in the Yosemite hills.
r. s. Licenring, of Allentown. Pa, was
instantly killed, and the injured are
Miss Martha Weber, of Boston, arm
broken; Miss Diesenderfer, of Boston.
broken shoulder; Mrs. A. Jacket, of
New York, cut over eye and serious
bruises All are members of a Ray
mond Whitcomb touring party of forty.
The driver of the stage escaped with
a sprained ankle, and the other seven
passengers Of the coach were cut and
bruised.
Wild Ride Down Mountain.
The entire party occupied four coaches
in making the trip yesterday through
the hills. and the first of the four was
the one to meet disaster. AS 1t reached
one of the most dangerous points on
the steep cliffside road down into
Yosemite valley the four horses be-
came frightened.
Brakes failed to hold. and then the
wild ride down the road began, a road
dangerous enough when taken at easy
speed. In a few seconds the horses were
going at q mad gallop. nearly beyond
control of the driver.
Topping Over Precipice.
On the turns the driver managed to
steer the leaders around. but again and
again the coach barely kept in the
track. hanging on the edge Of the preci-
pices, and the driver realized that the
whole coach would go over sooner or
later. if the dash was not stopped.
Then he turned the horses into the
inner bank. and horses, coach and pas
sengers were piled in one mass. The
coach turned completely over, and all
the horses were either killed or so badly
injured that they had to be shot.
Mr.. LiCenring was thrown out of the
back OF the coach. He landed on his
head. and his skull was fractured. kill
ing him instantly. The seriously in
jured tourists were all found under the
overturned coach.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
CourtS-Martial to Fix
Penalty for Desertior

According to recommendation Of thu
general staff of the army, courts-martia
for desertion shall hereafter be per
mitted 10 exercise a good deal of dis
erection in melting out punishment.
AT present deserter may be sen
fenced to dishonorable discharge ant
three years Imprisonment. The genera
staff will recommend light punishment
for new recruits who desert.
The Washington times., 1911-06-04
Schoolmates to Bear
Boys Body to Grave

The funeral of Charles w. Hudson,
the eleven-year-old son of Albert M.
C. Hudson, SIS Fifteenth street north
west, who was drowned Friday after
noon, will be held from the family
residence tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock The Rev. Donald c. Macleod,
of the First Presbyterian Church, will
officiate. Interment will be In Rock
Creek Cemetery. The pallbearers
viii be six Of his Sunday school
mates, -