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Opposed to Organized Labor.

Representative McGillicuddy, who
studied the labor condition in the steel
mills, found that the corporation was
opposed to organized labor and preferred
foreign labor.
The result" he says. lis that about
so per cent of the unskilled laborers
in the steel and iron business are for
eigners of these classes. With the
benefit Of skilled American foreman
such a crew can work out results In
unskilled labor production. The profits
of this system of labor employment
go to the steel corporation. while the
displaced American workman shifted as
best he could
In discussing the ownership of rail-
roads and steamship lines by the steel
corporation the report says:
There is no question that public in
terest requires a segregation Of rail-
roads and the steel corporation. The
control of such public agencies by an
industrial corporation carries with it, in
addition to the advantages which this
record discloses, possibilities Of even
greater abuses"
The part that the United States Steel
Corporation, the absorption of the Ten
nessee. Coal and Iron Company Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Wall street finan-
ciers played in the panic OF 1907 are
covered in the report, and the insinu-
alton is made that the panic was an ar
tificial one. designed for the benefit of
the nited States Steel Corporation.
In its comment the committee says:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-02

II you want work read the want col
umns of The Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-02
Infants Dresses
At Nearly ~ Price.

A manufacturers surplus stock
of Infants Dresses on sale tomor-
row at prices that will make our
juvenile section the center OF bar
gain interest for mothers with
babies to clothe.
Long and Short Dresses OF fine
quality nainsook. daintily trim
med in a variety of styles with
laces and embroideries: large as
sortment of styles. Priced as fol-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-02
Supervision of Securities.

Such legislation should provide for
system OF reports. to a commission or
other government agency, giving full
publicity TO the manner and purpose OF
the organization, its methods OF doing
business and its profits. 1t should pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-02
IN PERSONAL REPORT,
Mr.. STERLING FAVORS
GOVERNMENT CONTROL

representative Sterling of Illinois, re-
publican member OF the House commit
tee Of inquiry into the United States
Steel Corporation. disagreed with his col
leagues on the committee, and submitted
tho following 10 the House:
Il heartily favor governmental regula-
ton OF corporations engaged in interstate
commerce. The first step in this direc-
ton is legislation providing for federal
incorporation. Such ieg~lation should
limit the capitalization To the actual
value OF the corporate property. and thus
eliminate from the commerce of the
country that abomiGable fiction OF values
commonly termed 'watered stock
THE extent to which fictitious values
have bevn created by ton
of corporate property has shaken public
cce fidence in corporate securities and
made the public nina distrustful of large
business ENTERPRISES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-02
BLAMES ROOSEVELT
FOR TRUST GROWTH

CONTINUED from First Page,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22
THE TAXING OF RAILROADS

In his brief inaugural message Gov
ernor Fletcher indicated that he would
have something to say later concerning
matters of State policy. He is keeping
his word, and last week Thursday he
created something of sensation at the
Capitol by sending to the Legislature a
message suggesting radical change in
the present method of taxing railroads.
The substance of the message follows:
Under the existing law, the rail-
roads are taxed, first upon an appraise-
ment made by the tax commissioner at
rate of one and one-quarter per cent.
of the appraised value, or, in lieu there
of, the option is given them to pay
two and a half per cent. on their
gross receipts.
cat present nearly all of the railroads
of the State exercise the option of pay
ing tax based on gross receipts. There
fore. for the State to know that the
spirit of the law is strictly adhered to,
it will become necessary to employ a
competent accountant with large force
to review practically every rate made
by the railroads in this State. This
would seem to be very expensive and in
many respects not to be desired.
| after a thorough investigation on
this subject, am convinced, as a mat
ter of State policy, that it would be
better to repeal the gross receipts
clause of the present law, and earnest.
| ly recommend that the same be done. y
The difficulty of getting at the exact
'gross receipts" feature, on the part Of
the State, to which Governor Fletcher
calls attention, will be generally conced
ed; and to the average man the remedy
will appear simply enough. tits not easy
for him to understand why the railroads
should not, in common with all Other
property holders, be taxed according t.
the appraised value of property owned
by them within the State.
What is fair and right for the mill
owner, the householder, and the owner
of farm lands, would seem to be fair anC
right for the railroad companies; and i
is within the province of the Legislature
to do away with this sort of inequalit.
by taking the cue given it by thu
Governor. From the Ludlow Tribune
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22

A great decrease in our agricultural
products, and
A great loss to consumers and to
farmers.
The insect pests are preying upon
everything of. the vegetable kingdom
that man is producing, and upon many
domestic animals as well. AS their bird
enemies decrease the insect hordes in
crease. When 2,577, 600 acres of wheat
are destroyed in Indiana and Ohio in
one year by the Hessian fly Q90O,) does
any one believe that such an occurrence
does not raise the price of wheat? Of
the loss to the wheat growers we are
absolutely sure.
In 1904 the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture made a study of
the annual losses to the people of this
country by the ravages of destructive
insects. So far as we know, the esti-
mates published in the yearbook for
1904 have not been disproven or dis
puted. Behold some of the figures:
OUR ANNUAL LOSSES BY INSECT PESTS.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22

tinually day and night, and very few
passed without a prolonged screech.
There was no necessity for the noise;
and upon investigation it was found
that an engineer had grudge against
the man and had passed the word on to
make him as uncomfortable as possible.
There is no better class of men than the
engineers: but some of them are fond
of noise; others like to notify their
friends when they are passing at one
O'Clock through small villages, or signal
to their families; some undoubtedly use
the whistle and ring the bell for the
sake of variety. But it is perfectly
safe to say that at least eight-tenths
of the use of these implements of aural
discomfort are simply expressions of in
dividual taste and inclination. The same
thing may be said of the use of the
automobile horn. In many cases it is
absolutely essential, and in those cases
it is often neglected.; but an automo-
bile is an intoerable nuisance in many
places simply because OF the unnecceS-
sary noise which it makes.
We are rapidly succeeding in getting
rational Fourth Of July. The coun-
try nowadays roars more gently with
cannon, the sharp reports of the pistol,
the irritating explosion of innumerabIe
frecrackers, or with the dull, heavy
reverberation of boms. We have dis
covered that there are ways of keeping
the National holiday which we need not
borrow from the lower classes of the
Chinese. What we need now is a
National crusade for quiet. 1t is not a
matter of sentiment, nor even matter
of comfort; tits matter of sanity, of
thoughtfulness for the sick, and of
decent consideration for the nerves of
a nation.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22
WOMEN VOTE LIKE MEN.

Can anyone discover in the election
returns from Western States in which
women exercise the full right of suf-
frage, the slightest evidence that they
changed the result of the contests at
the polls? Is there one State in which
it can fairly be argued that the out
come of the election would have been
different if the women, who voted like
men, had not possessed the right of
suffrage?
In Colorado an especially interesting
demonstration was made of the fact
that the sexes will not separate widely
or often in their use of the ballot
Many amendments to the State con-
stitution and laws submitted under the
initiative were passed upon by the
voters of that Western State. Some of
these measures were supposed to be
especially interesting to women and
sure to command their support. Yet
the rdsult was the defeat of most of the
propositions which were considered sur
est to receive an overwhelming majority
of the votes cast by women.
One of the bugaboos made much of by
opponents of woman suffrage is reduced
to nothingness by such object lessons
as the result of the recent elections in
half dozen States where women are
equal with men at the polls. There is
not the slightest sign that woman suf-
frage would entail any risk of antago-
nism between the sexes, or that it
would result in such defeats for meas
ures strongly supported by men that
they would bitterly resent the inter
ference of their wives, daughters and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22

WHICH iiluSI ne lOltIdIeu DeSduSe IL 10 eS-
sential in calling together great num-
bers of workingmen-is really useless
nuisance; the signal for beginning work
is not the whistle on the roof, but the
starting of the engine. Many of the
largest factories in the country use no
whistle or signal of any kind. The army
of five million railway employees is not
summoned by air-piercing sounds. They
come to their work by the clock. And
that intolerable development of saw
agery of modern machinery, the siren,
has no justification whatever. If it is
necessary to make loud noise-and the
cases in which that necessity arises are
few-there is no reason why the
noise should not be musical. To the
lover of beauty one oil the saddest
things in the modern world is the siren
which is sounded every morning on the
lower part of the Grand Canal in
Venice.
A number of the large cities in this
country have already abolished the
blowing of steam whistles and the ring
ing of bells at the freight yards; and it
is we'll known that most of the disturb
ing noises made by locomotives are
made because it gives the engineer
pleasure to make them. Several years
ago gentleman who has large place
on one of the railways running out of
New York found the blowing of the
locomotive whistles an intolerable nui-
sance. Trans passed his house con-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22
CONSIDERATION URGED IN BE-
HALF OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

To the Editor of The Free Press:
We are hoping to unbind the hands of
woman in this State and give her the
power of suffrage, not with the expec-
tation of any sudden and revolutionary
improvement in our laws, although our
legislators at Montpelier will find, if
they will take the time to examine the
statutes of those States which have had
equal suffrage for an appreciate length
of time, that the laws of such States
with respect to score of educational
economic and sociological problems are
noticeably more advanced than similar
legislation, or lack of legislation, in our
own State. But it is not for the sake
of our laws primarily, but rather to
benefit woman herself, that we urge
the adoption of equal suffrage. A
larger field for thought and action,
deeper sympathies and wise visions,
tempered and disciplined by organized
effort for civic good and the protection
of the home-all means a more intelli-
ReuI a Scll-
respecting motherhood. Democracy
put the citizen on level with his ruler,
while a government by limited num-
Der, no matter how enlightened, renders
the dsfranchsed class but serfs or
slaves.
There is an impression among some
good people that woman was predestined
and eternally condemned to the vacuum
cleaner, the bridge whist table, and the
board of foreign missions, from the
time she was served with a writ OF
ejectment from the Garden of Eden.
Our anti-suffrage friends forget that
woman has gone out from the home into
the school, the factory and the office
The gentle recipient of Carnegie pen
sion may not realize her personal need
of the ballot, but in fairness, she SHOULD
not seek to withhold it from those who
may, perchance, be less fortunately
favored.
E. A. BRIDGMAN, M. A.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22
Burlington, VT.
CATTLE INDUSTRY COMING BACK

Southwest reports quite boom in
cattle industry as results of bumper
crops of feed and roughage. All range
steers are scrambling for stock stuff for
settlers, and as cattle will not have to
rustic" as usual during the winter,
there should be small losses. Middle
Western States have made innumerable
contracts for Southern cattle to move
to pasture next spring, although aver
age depreciation of S. a head at the
principal primary markets since the
September slump began has discouraged
many growers IN the corn belt temper
airly. Feeding and breeding will con-
tinue through the winter. There are
millions of tons Of silage to be con-
sumed, and much of the bumper hay
crop will be fed from stacks that dot
the prairies everywhere. Chicago has
begun to get some cattle from Ten
neessee.
Consumers will not have to depend up
on this country for relief, as Mexico,
when out of her revolutions, and
Canada and South American countries,
the whole agricultural world, in fact,
will follow suit, unless the PackingtOwn
authorities are mistaken in their calcu-
latons. The big packers here have
spent millions entrenching themselves
in Argentina and add to their extensive
interests in Canada continually. 1t
seems strange that with all these
preparations and with recent deprecia-
ton in cattle values retail prices stand
right up. Feeding operations will not
be confined to cattle. Colorado is ex-
pected to finish 1,50O, 600 lambs during
the winter. Montana and the Dakotas,
however, are not kindly disposed
towards sheep, and mutton and WOO
supply may be short for months.
Western Canada is expected to supply
much of the deficiency. 1t is estimated
that the wool clip this year throughout
the world is not sufficient to keep K
per cent. of its loom capacity in steady
operation. Boston News Bureau.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22

sisters.
The truth is that women and men liv-
ing in the same communities and con-
fronted by the same problems, will or
dinarily deal with public questions in
about the same way. They will seek
the same remedies for existing evils
and follow the same leaders. Woman
suffrage is not going to divide homes,
set the sexes at war with each other,
or in any other way annual the laws of
nature or turn the world upside down.
From the Cleveland Leader
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22
SLAUGHTER OF USE
Full BIRDS.
Necessity of Federal Law to Protect
Migratory Birds in the South, Most
of Which are Protected by State
Laws in Their Northern
Homes

The American people must awake to
a realizing sense of certain facts that
seriously affect the cost of living. The
five million men and boys who are
slaughtering our birds are levying
tribute on every American pocketbook.
Do you wish to know something about
the total that they add to the cost of
living? An immense number of birds
of great economic value are being
slaughtered annually. Many of our
best bird species are on the toboggan
slide toward determination.
The destruction of these birds means
A great increase in the armies of
destructive insects.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22
A CRUSADE FOR QUIET.
From The Outlook. 1

There are many discomforts in this
world which cannot be removed; there
are others which are entirely unnecces-
sary and are permitted to exist simply
because people are ignorant or indif-
ferent, and among these is the increas-
ing discomfort of noise.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22
CORNWALL

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Atwood have
returned from visit in the west.
While away they visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace James in Cedar Rapids. They
also visited Mrs. May Stevens in Chi
cagO,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-11-22

Dyspepsia is Americas curse. To
restore digestion, normal weight, good
health and purify the blood, use Bur
stores. Price, $l.00. adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-05
STEAM ROLLER IS
CRIPPLED BY CAR
Street Car Dashes into Big
Machine and Escapes
Without Damage.

The Terre Haute and Eastern Trac-
ton company demonstrated Saturday
afternoon that no road roller tactics
go, putting one big roller out of COM
mission while very little damage was
done the city street car which meted
out the punishment for obstructing it's
right of way.
The small city car which makes its
regular journey to Easthaven avenue
at 2:15 p. m, was approaching Earl
ham College. when the big road roll
er driven by Charles NcManus for
the J. F. Cronin contracting firm ran
across the track in front of the car.
There was crash and few splinters
flew. When the debris was cleared
it was found that the running board
OF the car was slightly damaged, and
a casting holding the front wheel of
the roller broken. superintendent
Gordon withheld the name of the mo-
torman. Passengers on the car jump
ed before the collision.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-05
POLICE WILL STOP
SALES TO MINORS
Stirred to Action by Drunken
Youths.-One Saloonist
Being Watched.

Efforts to stop the sale of liquor to
minors in this city is to be undertak-
en- by the police, following the appear
ance in police court recently of num-
Der of boys, ranging in age from Is to
20 years, to whom liquor has been sold
illegally.
The police are closely watching one
establishment mentioned by young
Edward Underhill, aged Is, as the
place where, Saturday night, he bought
a pint of whiskey. He drank a good
quantity of the whiskey, and went to
the Athletic park to see the Pain cele-
bration The firewater caused him to
see more fireworks than were sent up.
Keeling and staggering, he passed
the door keeper without rendering a
ticket, and the attention of Officer Vo-
gelsong, on duty at the grounds, was
called to the lad. Vogelsong arrested
Underhill. and before the patrol had
arrived, the lad had been so sickened
by the liquor, that he fell to the
ground. 1t was necessary to carry him
into the patrol
This morning in police court the boy
admitted his guilt, and said he was
fifteen years old. On a previous occa
sion in court he gave his age. as II
to escape the reform school. He was
promised 140 days in Jail if he was 16
years old, or the reform school if he
is under Is, He will be sent to Jail il
the law can hold him on this score
but If not he will be held for the jul
venile court
Underhill stated that he had pur
chased the whiskey at a Main street
saloon, that he had not been asked
his age and that he did not volunteer
his age, merely asking for a pint OF
whiskey, getting it, and paying for 1t
The police may draw up an AFFIDAVIT,
! charging the proprietor with violating
the laws regulating the sale of liquor
| to minors
Underhill has been in much trouble
and is regarded by the authorities as
incorrigible. He ran away from home
twice some months ago He was also
arrested for jumping on a moving
train. and was given a fine.
This morning the boy admitted in
police court that he did not know how
old he was, but his father, John Tn
derhill, OF Sheridan street, produced a
family record showing the boy to be
fifteen years old.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-05
SAYS PENDER ACTED
LIKE CAVE MAN

Clarence Pender, 206 South Eighth
street was arrested Saturday night at
the traction station, after, il is alleged
he had insulted Miss Margaret Lau-
der OF New Paris, o. Miss Lauder al
leges Pender seized her by the arm,
and tried the knock 'em down and
drag 'em out" methods of the cave man
TO force his attentions on her. Pender
denies all guilt and pied not guilty to
the charge when arraigned in police
court this morning. His case was con-
rinued until Wednesday morning. He
iS out on bond.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-05
1t Will Be Presented to
Roosevelt for His Approx
al and to Embody Any of
His Recommendations.
A FIRM sf4ND ON
RECALL QUESTION
Tariff Commission Provided
and Labor Questions Are
Dealt with in an Intelli-
gent Manner.
(Nationa1 News Association

tNdlioHdl 4sc"S <ASSoSAdlioAS
CHICAGO, Aug. 5-The tentative
draft of the national Progressive plat
form has been completed. 1t now
awaits the approval of Co. Roosevelt
and any suggestions he has to make
will be incorporated.
Members of the platform committee
selected, but who will
doubtless be on the regular commit
tee, said today, that the platform
would undoubtedly be regarded as ex-
tremely radical and would provoke a
great deal of discussion throughout
the country.
It will demand that the light of pub
licity be thrown upon scales of wages
and other labor matters; that all in
cidents and diseases arising from en-
ployment shall be reported to the pro-
per national and state officials; that
workmen's compensation laws, both
state and national, shall be enacted; !;
that commissions, both state and ma
tional be created for the purpose of
fixing the minimum pay in the vari-
GUS industries in order that the wage
worker may live, educate his children
and enable him to save something
against old age. In addition the new
party will stand firmly for old-age pen
sions.
The platform will come out square,
ly for the recall of judicial decisions
his Columbus speech last spring. II
will not directly indorse the initiative
referendum and recall, but will in
ferentially approve these principles
for state use, if deemed advisable.
1t will advocate woman's suffrage
So far as the tariff is concerned, il
will adopt the view taken by Colonel
Roosevelt in favor of a revision Of the
tariff which will assure the diversion
of a part of tn protection to the pay
envelope of the wage Garner.
1t will provide for tariff commits
sion and scientific revision, schedule
by schedule. Reform of the currency
enforcement of wise conservation, in
cluding the employment of the Pana
river, in order to make the nationa
government responsible for the con
troll of this great waterway, and feder
al regulation of corporations engaged
in interstate commerce, also will be
provided for in the platform.
The draft of the platform is short
er than the documents of the Republi
can and Democratic conventions. L
has been purposely made brief, the
object being to present each plank II
terse but clear language. so every sen
tence shall annunciate a principle.