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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-15

Allen Fl. Eaton. in his new book The
Oregon System (McClurg), In which he
tells the story of direct legislation In
Oregon, points out a moral to other
States which may adopt direct legisla-
ton The moral Is that the appropria-
tlous OF educational institutions should
TO increase the fixed appropriation OF the
state University was held up by the fact
thai some man with grievance against
the town in which the university was
located called a referendum on the ap-
propriation bill. Enough names We're Sc
cured TO his petition 20 cause the blu
TO be held mp for the decision OF the
electors. But the next election wac TWO
wears away and, as q result. the univer-
sity was badly crippled. the instructors
had to work for half pay with the pros
pect OF never getting the other hat.
many of them left and went TO better
endowed institutions. and, in the end,
the measure to raise the appropriation
was won only by a narrow majority,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-15

and well of boz and girl life in Scot
land. There arc two lively youngsters
Of his own age, Richard and Margaret,
home life of children in that country.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-15
BY VANDERHEYDEN FYLES.

with his comed!c record and the full
blown charm of Miss Mary Boland in
the role OF kalleia. But finally Mr.,
Pelling- Drew bundles off the ella ssic
mink TO Greece. with the master s
her travelling mate. while he and his
fair wife are happily reunited. And
none too soon, for by the fourth act
the comedy has become so lLfelessly
eXtravagant and deliberate n s to make
us wonder whether Mr.. !Sutro did not
conceive more than his conscious cpl
grams and Restoration title after a
literary evening with Wycherley and
Congreve.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-15

The whole world has been pro-
foundry shocked by the attempted
assassination of the man who has
been called the greatest living
American.
Dispatches from the capitals of
the world indicate that the news
is regarded there as of the highest
moment.
In Chicago last night, John M.
Harlan and ]. Adam Bede were
denouncing Col. Roosevelt as a
liar and thief at a meeting at the
Auditorium.
In the middle of the denuncia-
ton, the news of the shooting
was brought to George Gordon,
managing editor of the Daily
Press. Gordon jumped to his feet.
MAP OF SCHRANKS
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-10-15

'Mr. Roosevelt has just been
shot by an anarchist" he shouted.
"He is reported to be dying,
There is no further need for ira
ducing him from this platform"
The people could hardly believe
the news at first.
Col. Roosevelt himself is the
most cheerful man in the country.
While kilograms of sympathy and
denunciation of the would-be as
sassin are pouring in today, the
Colonel was sitting up in bed
reading and joking with those
who came in to see him with
grave faces. "
All Col. Roosevelt's speaking
dates in his campaign for the
presidency have been cancelled.
ROUTE CHASING T. R.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26
HEROISNIS PROSAIC END.

A little dispatch from Atlanta concerning the
death by accidental fall of "a centennarian vet
! Gran of the Seminole and Indian wars calls at
ten,ion to how the fates mingle their favors
Fiction and drama are full of the stories of
trose HOPELESS neer-do-wells who. in fit OF i'm
pulse, die glorious deaths Life. the other
hand. is equally full of the records of men who
have faced all dangers without hurt, I'd die
peacefully in bed. or TO succumb to hydropho bia
communicated by flee
Allan G.. Thurman for instance. "Od
Roman veteran of wars military and political,
hale and hearty at an age when the leaf should
have been withered and scar, msclculated
a step. and paid his life the forfeit Other
heroes without number have had tame end
to q stirring existence In the case in point,
an old man of 1o2 years. having fought through
two bloody wars, emerged without scratch
only to suffer fall which broke his hip Fate
must have laughed at all the heroics gone to
waste.
All of which calls attention to the fact that
life is not heroic. That is to say. that he
roles of one and the other sort are the va
Rants of life. The average man esteeras l.
more honor to die turning his face in weari
ness to the wall after life of undemonstra-
tive effort than to 60 down waving flag in
front OF a cannon. or atonins for wasted ex-
istence by the drunken bravado of a twelfth
horr rescue. Which is TO say again that
fiction and imagination. and the quality of he
roism as 1t passes current are the exceptions
which prove the rule of life. and not life itself
Wherefore, a testing fate is very apt to see
to it that the exceptions come to the common
/ fate In the ordinary ~way--tbe, way in which
they are made 70 realize at the end the level
on which they walk with the common man of
everyday, the for whom the whistle
blows and the clock strikes, whose waking
hours are so much given over to the service of
others that those he can call his own are
chiefly given over to the prosaic preparation
Of feeding and sleeping
And. after ALL in the Great Equation which
ia worked out without either pyrotechnics or
brass band, who are tho heroes the men OF
nc ise, or those whose cheers play their accom-
panments?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26
TUESDAY. MARCH IS. 1912.
TAXING THE CONSTITUTION.

According full credit 10 the fiscal zeal of
that in his attempt to bring municipality owned
public service corporations under assessment
for State taxation he has left tho true trail for
rabbit track.
Auditor Moore !nstructs the various commits
sioners OF revenue. that in all cases when the
assessors have failed 70 such institu-
tons as city water. gas and electric plants,
uey shat orthwith proceed TO assess them, in
order that, ike other persons and corr ra-
tons. they pay their taxes 10 the State In ac-
cordanee with their holdings of property
When the corporation commission is cited to
HIM as having held these utilities exempt he
-retefts that II has TO do merely with ordinary
corporations, and not with those which are
part and parcel of, and subsidiary TO. NUM-
cipai corporations Thereupon he pulls the
Constitution, Section 1873 fsubsection 'a").
prescribing property consttutlonaliy exempt
from taxation, as follows:
Property directly indirectly owned by the
State however held. and property lawfully
owned and held by Counties cities, towns
school districts used wholly and exclusively for
county. city. town. public school purposes.
and obligations issued by the State since the
fourteenth day Of February, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two or hereafter exempted by law.
The contention here evidently is that gas
plant. for instance, which is owned by a city.
but for OF which the public is charged
Zee. is not used wholly and exclusively for
city purposes 1t seems that this is a
audible and straining after something that a
reasonable construction OF the Constitution
does not justify, The city is its people, A
municipal gas plant is beneicent monopoly.
for the benefit of the people 1t Is run Of, by
and for the city. It's profits. IL any. go back
10 the public treasury. Upon what theory is
such plant not used wholly and exclusively
instance, If the city owned thcater. which it
let. and where the lessee had the leeway OF
making profit ON his investment. But in the
case of municipal department financed by
the public funds. run for the public convent
ence. and whose profits absorbed for the
public use, 1t is difficult to what other per-
son or thing so benefits as to negative the
requirements of exclusive" use.
OF course this is a constitutional question
thing that is always abstruse and frequently
surprising. Until we are otherwise enlight-
ened. however we shall be 10th TO anticipate
the spectacle of Richmond paying tax to the
State for the privilege Of furnishing her cit-
gems with water and supplying those few VINO
deficient in the natural commodity with
high grade OF artificial gas
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26

jrst and orders the railroads In the particu-
lar case to establish interstate rates between
the two States In conformity to tho reason
able rate established by the State OF Texas.
AS we stated, the vice in this decision is
not in the fact. but in the reasoning; for the
Interstate Commerce Commission does not hold
it's inquiry to whether not the Texas rate is
reasonable. or the interstate rate unreasonable
j. goes further and declares that in all rates
the Federal authority is supreme whether the
rates established relate to interstate traffic or
not. In other words, we understand the
case the effect of the decision is that, had the
interstate rate been esteemed reasonable, the
rate established by the State of Texas would
have had TO give way; and that regardless of
, whether not the rate established by the
State of Texas was within the limit of juris-
diction of the rate-making authority. reason
able in itself, or unreasonable
The whole matter of rates and rate-making
Is so complex that even an honest expert is
free to admit that the science consists large
ly OF unreasoned precedents. At the same time
the corporation and railroad commissions of
the various States came into being for the
purpose of doing within the State. and In pur-
suance OF the remaining shreds OF States
, Rights" what the Interstate Commerce Com
mission neglected to do They have done a
gerat work in the past. within the limits by
which their power was prescribed The ten
dency of the present opinion is to take from
them even their power to go before the courts
against the familiar objection that they are
taking property without due process of law"
That at least left TO the court the duty of de-
termining whether within the State lines the
rates prescribed were a reasonable compen-
sation upon the esryice and the investment.
The present decision would seem to take away
even this right, and 10 hold that Federal
agency founded with the idea of controlling
il terstate traffic 1t has been defined under
constitutional authority. has also the veto
power over related State commissions whose
scope is to deal with traffic conditions within
the respective States.
| We imagine that this decision though nom
inally against the railroads will be hailed by
them as the victory of decade An issue of
this character having been raised 1t should
not cease to be contested until it has reached
the Supreme Court of the United States. 9th
erwise, the Office OF corporation or railroad
comes an empty honor and idle sinecure.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26

other in the industrial development OF the
country. IL is that henceforth both strikers and
capitalists are to be held TO a public accounting
for the righteousness of their cause The mill
owners of Lawrence have learned a lesson La
Dor in hundred places owes itself the duty not
10 seek arrogantly TO attempt to use what was
done in Lawrence in justice TO the ends OF in
Justice, In that event, the public approval that
follows the victorious end of the strike In
Lawrence will automatically condemn those at
tempting TO misappy its moral
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26
A STRIKE AND ITS MORAL.

The Lawrence strike OF cotton mill opera
t;yes Is worth everything that It cost in time,
and money and suffering. If 1t shall have served
To each to the representatives of capital the
criminal folly Of testing with those who. mis-
taken or not, are seeking the higher levels of
Neutrality-suspicious. ., ..s.4 ..s..>. .4.@..-
For it exactly a Jest. and cruel one,
which was the foundation of this strike Act
ing within their rights. tho operatives went TO
the Legislature aud advocated a bill reducing
tie number OF hours which should constitute q
weeks work They won their fight, on tho
argument OF commercial policy and good
morals Rut instead Of accepting the verdict,
the mill owners, by d forced constrnc-
ton of the statute. undertook to make their en-
pioyes pay for the time to which the State had
declared them entitled. The operatives struck.
and they won. We glad OF 1t.
Throughout, this strike has demonstrated
the old idea which all capital once had that
dollars are omnipotent II saw power once
more attempting to exercise itself in the crea-
ton OF right 1t heard the old, contemp,uous
query, "What are you going to do about it?'
1t saw political and financial influence prostl-
fute municipal government to the rankest sort
OF old world tyranny. The result--higher wages
strikers, demands met notice of the power of
labor to have its way. when the things it de-
mands comport with jusuce-meets, practically,
with public approval everywhere. Also, it is
worth all the trouble and all tho economic loss.
VI It shall once more lash before arrogant cap
itai the notice that the Twentieth Century is
not the time for capital arrogance.
We do not. ~ = rule. throw up a hat at a
sfriksrs' victory. az such. We have had occa-
sioa u condemn the causes Of strikes and the
rssthods ana motives OF those who promoted
then. but II ono thing Is clearer than an
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26

The Woman's Missionary society of
Leigh Street church will have Mrs.
Julian p. Thomas, corresponding sec
rotary Of the State Board OF Baptist
Missions, with them on Thursday at
ternoon at o'clock. Mrs. Thomas
will make an address. which will be
followed by social hour. during which
refreshments Will he served. Evefy
one interested in missions Is invited
and members are urged to attend.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of Union
, Station will serve a0 oyster supper
this evening at Masonic Hall on
! Twenty-fifth street. An appettzing
,nenu has been prepared. and friends
are asked to accord them a liberal
patronage.
! There will be al called meeting OF the
Junior lakewood Memorial Association
| this afternoon at 4 o'clock, In the home
OF Mrs. c. w. Massie and members
are urged to attend. Business of i'm
portance will be brought before the
meeting.
Rev. w. II. Edwards Is holding a
series OF meetings this week In the
interest of the Missionary Brotherhood.
| Miss Carrie Clarke read the opeffnx
chapter of Over Against the Treas
ury' last evening. and Mrs. J. l.. Wilt
shire win be the. reader tonight, ,Mr.
Clarence Hughes and Mr.. Smither will
read during the week. and a general
discussion viii take place Friday night.
Everyone will be welcomed.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Leigh
Street. viii hold another delightful all
day meeting today. at the church
Lunch will be served at 1:l5 o'clock.
and male members Of the society as
we'll as the husbands Of members.
are invited TO take lunch. Sewing
VIII be .the. arder OF the day. and ar
ticles will be made for a fancy sale
to be given in the near future.
The death of Councilman John Lynch
came az a shock to his many friends
on the hill. who were sanguine In
their expectations OF his recovery. His
funeral will take place Wednesday at
~ O'Clock from ST. Peters cathedral.
Revival services are in progress ct
Leigh Street. and will continue this
week and next. The pastor. Rev. ].
~. Wicker. Ia preaching each night
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26
ENTERS MANS ROOM,
TAKES HIS NONE Y

Charged with having robbed w. T.
, Williamson OF SIC last Friday night
Lizzie Stokes, alias Big Lis" wal
yesterday morning arrested by De-
tectlves Bailey and Bolton. and lock-
ed up at the First station.
Williamson lives In bachelor anart-
ments at No. I72s East Main street.
TIE has suffered Losses frequently dur-
Ing the past months. his total
amounting to several hunEred dol
lars. Up to the present case. how
ever, he has been unable to place
He claims that the woman entered
his apartments on the evening OF the
date mentioned. and struck him over
the head with some blunt instrument.
She thcreupon. he claims relieved
him Of the money. The womAn, the
detectives state. denies that she
struck Williamson. but does not deny
taking the money.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26

human rights--between God and mammon. II
any one wishes to ask why, II that Is true.
do not accept THEODORE Roosevelt as our
prophet and champion considering his Co.
iumbus speech as laying down what ne desires
TO have people take for Just that, as a declare :
ton of his principles), / answer We do not
trust him. foS while he claims to want what we
want e.. human rights placed In undoubted
supremacy-he refuses to acknowledge the
wrongfuness of the tap root of privilege. that
is the profit system"
In your editorial of the 13th. you declare
that a condition Of society which neeessrates
that there shall thenceforth be no opportunity
for the individual to separate himself IRON tne
mass, is Socialism," and further, that the nope
Of Socialism lies in those whom the success OF
tho principle would instantly impoverish ana
cause. to commence to work--and consequently.
to cease to think" If you really believe TINS.
1t L. quite natural and proper that you SHOULD
have mo patience with the sociaiistic doctrine
as philosophy" But those who believe such
nonsense have simply never given one hour 10
the serious consideration and examination
from reliable sources of the SOCIALIST docuine
as a philosophy Inasmuch Mark Hanna $
prediction has come true. that the presidential
campaign OF 1912 would be fought upon the
issue of Socialism, would it not be wise Tor you
and your readers to dismiss prejudice. ana
soherly examine this ugbear-'Soclalism: oh.
| know it Is not admitted that this is the issue
But II is. just the same. and the squeals OF rage
and fear that are raising from the press all over
the country Teddy's candidacy. are caused
by the fact that his declarations have tended 10
uncover the real issue. and increase the DIM
Guilty of disguise There are few Socialists
who don't see this yet, blindness Is pardon
able in others.
Let US go. by preference. 10 "A nonsoclahst
source for information to what Socialism Is
and few other things are.
Individual sm.-The quality OF being IN
dividual; individuality; excessive or ex-
elusive regard to ones personal interests; SELL
interest: selfishness. "-Websters Dictionary.
.'Socialism-A theory Of society which advo-
Gates a more precise, orderly and harmonious
arrangement of the social relations of man
kind than that which has heretofore pre-
vailed. "--Websters Dictionary.
THE ethics OF Socialism are identical with
the ethics of tianity."-Encyclopedi Brit
tan4eav--
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26
CHURCH HILL NEWS
column Be sa Of ~ CAsr
Bomk, or 'phoned 70 Modsann 1888

in the main auditorium. All are IN
vited.
Undertaken Edwin Phaup accom-.
panied the remains OF Mr.. Tucker TO
Hanover yesterday for interment. Mr..
Tucker was droW ned In November, his
body being recovered carly Sunday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Clarke. OF
Kentucky. are the guests OF tho Tor
,ptr's .,notl1Ers yrs. Id Clarke. OF
'ChimborazoN Park.
Mrs. r. Harvey Peace who was
operated on at the Grace Street Hos
pital on Thursday last. 10 improving.
The condition. OF Mr.. W. J. Vest
wood. OF 2SI0 East Broad street. y
causing his family and frienda much
anxiety. Mr.. Westwood recently cels-
brated his eightieth birthday. ana
though he has been sick only q rev
days, his condition Is regarded -
critical.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26
ANOTHER ASSAULT ON STATE AUTHORITY

An opinion of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, just rendered in the case Of rate
Determinations as between inter-Texas points
and between points in Louisiana and Texas Is
perhaps right in its result. II is full OF dan
ger In its tendency
The controversy arose upon the complaint Of
Louisiana shippers, that rates from their
State TO points in Texas were unreasonably
high considering rates charged under prac-
ticaly similar conditions between points with
in the State OF Texas.
The railroads replied that the Texas rates
were fixed for them by the State OF Texas
upon intrastate traffic. and that therefore the
State OF Louisiana not TO be heard to
raise objection against an intrastate rate as
discriminatory against rate established by
State authority.
AS result. the Interstate Commerce Com
raisson holds that the rate is discriminatory
incidentally holding that the Texas rate Is
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26

tante4v
"Competition.--The act of seeking or endeav-
oring to gain what another Is endeavorng to
gain at the same time; common strife FOR the
same Objects strife for superiority; emulous
contest struggle opposition: jealousy. Web
sters Dictionary
Government and corporation In all
things and eternally the laws OF life: anarchy
and cop,petition eternaIIy and in all things the
tho laws Of death '--John Ruskin
Having these definitions clearly in mind. let
us consider that we have single States which, II
nronerlv conducted under scientific manage
ment could feed the whole country Yet We
have many toms of thousands In this country
constantly on the verge of starvati and the,
nroblep, Of underfad school children. 1t ap.
,aarr ., ,s ,nsana 70 sunport a system of pro-
d1cfioy and distrbu,ton which results in a
constantly, Increasing army of the unemployed
,,, th1 ora hand and IN army If the overworked
Ih,t attn underfed) on the other. We see that
No raai rausa of such results lies In the system
yrbich nroduces no, f,r use but FOR profit We
A. ~ b,,,la ,a,,sas =, live IN ,ut Ia rant and to
se,i' Nv rn az ~ msks tooa and clothing 10 cat
ona ~ war INV Va sal NJ E, nroet
~,bara aro iust thraa essentials ia tho oryani-
yai.n s ,,oaorr societ, these arc natural re-
~onrcas iahor power and machinery. The
lalnr ,,ovyar ha,onys To the lahorinp class and
rannot ha senarated from H. IT Is In their mus
10. ,d ~ tnaS, Nv at,. wbe,,- thaJ haic .ny-
w - ~, ,,s thar, Thara ara undisnu,ed
ana indisnutable facts which show that the
o,ynersbin and control Of the first and last es-
santiais We hean nroyressive,v senarated from
the Iaborinp class and handed over to an
ownine class-tbe capitalist class II Won please
Result DER cent. Of the population owns so
a L., ~ ~ u..at,b tnr,ndins naturaI 70
pa',,cas acc,r,u1atod ranital ana manhiner,.
Modern marhine nroduction divorce, the Ia
horer from ownership Of tho tools Of produc-
creat;nr snacial nriyileaes did the rest Now,
I,,.narshir ~ :, thiny nresunnosea cor.ro, of
i, and the control of tbesa things results in
the systen, which nermits the owning class to
heny sne A''rng t, has fish. s on the ars 80
produce the necessaries Of life for himself and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26
PEOPLES FORUM
Ho, for Socialism.

Editor The Virginian:
Sir-1n your issue of the 18th instant. un-
der the editorial caption OF "Dilletante Social
ism," you make certain statements which /,
a Socialist Of more than ten Years. consider alb
soiutely misleading and untrue. The issue be-
tween Socialism and nonsocialism is simply
stripped OF detail and verbagc. the issue be-
tween "property-RIGHTS" so-called. and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26

The ethics OF Socialism are identical wit
the ethics of christia nity."-Encyclopedia Brit
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-26

Definition OF an outlaw; free man entirely
surrounded by detectives