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Evening star., 1916-10-15
TELLS MINERS WHY
PRESIDENT ERRED
Roosevelt Criticises Adamson
8-Hour Law in Speech at
WiIkes-Barre.
SHOULD HAVE ARBITRATED'

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, October IL
Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at a re-
publican mass meeting here tonight. criti-
cised the attitude Of President Wilson on
the eight-hour day for railroad employees.
He declared that arbitration would have
been the proper method Of averting the
threatened nation wide railway strike,
and instanced the application of this prin-
ciple in 1902 when he settled the anthra-
cite coal strike
Col. Roosevelt spoke as follows:
Coal Strike as Precedent.
II have accepted the invitation to
come to Wilkes Barre to discuss the
Adamson law. because Wilkes Barre is
the headquarters of the great industry
in connection with which 1 myself as
President was brought into close and
intimate touch with the labor move
ment in this country. If what I have
to say is of any value it must be not
only because it represents what in
the abstract is right, but also because
in the concrete 1 applied, in actual
practice. when 1 had power. the prin-
ciples which 1 criticise Mr.. Wilson for
not applying now. Therefore, wish
to recapitulate to you just what oc-
CURED in connection with the anthra-
cite coal strike and to contrast it with
what Mr.. Wilson has done in connec-
ton with the law for the increase OF
wages on railroads.
AT the outset, l wish to express my
very hearty admiration for the broth :
erhoods. I am proud of the fact that
I am an honorary member of one OF
them: 1 have usually been in entire
sympathy with them. While | held
public office l found myself in the
>P hi fn orr
them in their demands. because these
demands were right. But now they
have demanded legislation raising their
wages to be taken without investiga-
ton and without the exercise of that
form of judgment shown by compe-
tent arbitration commission; and such
a demand is wrong. and l stand
against it because it is wrong. exactly
of bankers and lawyers, and mine
owners and railroad presidents when
they were wrong. I believe In labor
unions. l am proud that I am myself
But / believe first of all in the Union
to which all of US belong. the union OF
States.
"In the case Of the settlement of thu
anthracite coal strike. the action | tool
was of precisely the kind which Presi
dent Wilson now says the law shoult
make obligatory in all similar cases ir
the future. But Mr.. Wilson himself ad
mits that his own action was so bat
that it ought never to be repeated, fol
he has assured the public that although
Congress has adjourned without doing
anything, it is his intention when Con
gress meets to see that it does some
thing to render it impossible for an
other Preside 1T ever to repeat exactly
what he has just done. In other words
I stood and stand by my action as thu
proper action, constituting the proper
precedent for future action. Mr.. vii
son himself confesses that his actor
was wrong and that the preceden
| thereby set is so evil that Legislation
must be enacted rendering 1t impossible
| for another President ever to repeat th'
Evening star., 1916-10-15
Of AMERICAN
MAY NOT Be PROTESTED
State Department Will Closely Study
Case of W. C. Silbermann
in Paris.

The case of William Chester Silber-
mann of New York, sentenced in Paris
on charge of violating the trading
with the enemy" act Of the allies, is
the first of the kind to come to the
attention of the State Department, al
though they all have had such laws in
operation for many months and there
have been many prosecutions Of citi-
zens of allied states
Siibermann's arrest was reported 10
the State Department by the American
embassy in Paris more than two weeks
ago, and, following inquiries by his
friends and employers. the department
directed the embassy to report the
facts. The report agrees substantially
with press dispatches, but says pun
ishment was fixed at six months i'm
prisonment instead of five years.
Case Will Be Studied.
The case will be studied closely by
department officials. but the impression
at present is that there can be no
ground for protest, because Silber-
mann had subjected himself to French
municipal law by residing in Paris.
Further consideration by the depart
ment may develop ground for objec-
ton, however, because of its basic pro-
test against the application of the
blacklist to American firms.
Acted as an Agent.
| BOSTON, October 14.-Maurice Kings
bury, secretary of the King Rubber
Company. said today that William c.
| Silbermann represented that company in
| Paris as an agent. His only capacity
within our knowledge was to sell rub
| ber gloves to the warning nations" Nj
kingsbury said.
| Company officials. according to the
| secretary, did not know anything about
| Silbermann except that he was recon-
| mended by their New York agents
| Gottwik. Scheffer & Co. as a capable
| man. The company had made certain
representations in the matter to tn =
State Department at Washington,
kingsbury added.
Evening star., 1916-10-15

constitution contained, but upon the
universal repute of whom 1t was VINO
had proposed the constitution. Even II
they had not been able to discover the
dangerous things in 1t, they Would
have known that it was full of dan
gerots things.
Temper of the People.
THAT is the temper of the people OF
the United States, not to exchange
handsome certainty for an unhandsome
uncertainty. See how big the time Is
with possibility. At this present moment
Il want to repeat this because perhaps
the country has not realized it enough
at this present moment 1t is almost I'M
possible to do anything positive IN the
field of foreign affairs, because foreign
nations have been led to suppose that
there may be a change in our foreign af-
fairs. Foreign nations have been led To
believe that q dominant element in the
republican party is in favor of drawing
the United States into the European war,
and they have been told. with abundant
evidence. that it is probable that If the
republicans succeed we shall enter upon
policy of exploitation of our neghbors in
Mexico. That is the whole moral Of
every criticism that I read, and until
the people of the United States have
spoken il is extremely difficult to come
to any definite conclusion about any
Europe or to Mexico. l, myself, DO not
doubt the result. but there are some who
affect to doubt It.
"Will Fight for Mankind's Rights"
Il want you to realize the part that
the United States must play. 1t has
been said. my fellow citizens, been said
with cruel emphasis in some quarters,
that the people of the United States do
not want to fight about anything. That
is profoundly false. But the people of
the taited States want to be sure what
they are fighting about, and they want
to be sure that they are fighting for
the things that will bring to the world
justice and peace. Define the elements;
let us know that We are not fighting
for the prevalence of this nation over
that. for the ambitions of this group of
nations as compared with the ambitions
of that group OF nations; let us once be
convinced that we are called into a
great combination to fight for the
rights of mankind. and America will
unite her force and spill her blood for
the great things which she has always
believed in and followed.
Something Greater to Come"
America is always ready to fight for
things that are American. She does not
does know what it would be to be
challenged. And when once she is chal-
lenged, there is not man in the United
States. I venture to say. so mean, so
forgetful of the great heritage of this
nation, that he would not give every
thing he possessed, including life itself.
to stand by the honor Of this nation.
What Europe is beginning to realize is
that we are saving ourselves for some
= r. 1trtr trr- bot
saving ourselves in order that we may
unite in that final league of nations in
which it shall be understood that there
is no neutrality where any nation is do
tions which must in the providence of
God come into the world where nation
shall be leagued with nation in order
to show all mankind that no man may
lead any nation into acts of aggression
without having all the other nations of
the world leagued against him.
Evening star., 1916-10-15
Choice Bigger Than That

80 nat il all comes down, nly fs!-
10" citizens, 70 d very sirnpIe PROPOSE
t!cn. ATe you going 20 leave your gov
er"melt under the control Of people
Nsno d. know a@d wno will tell vo,,
IA. tnsy are going 30 90, or are Won
iEoine > pat il in the hands o? men who
Mi not ten you what fkcy ara. going
- do nj VIII serve their private in
iE.erts- The cAolc5 is bigger Jhan that.
, GEde- stand from the leaders OF the
republican party that nothing that mas
been done has been done right, They
"c .. say ts.at The thing that was done
vas ".wa>s wong, but the way in
ThIcH !, was Done wsH always wrong
sacy C" rot venture 20 say-that * 10
s. ). the private counsel does not ven
igre I" l;ty that We wanted ANYTHING
but peace, bat they would have pre.
ierred some other way. not disclosed
Of opt4LriHg peace. The vocal par,
says, We wanted war The silent paI I
intimate that We wanted peace. bu,
"ante" another kind OF peace. They
never "an get over that fundanentaI
ohessihess' gentlemen. that America f.
IN Charge Of somebody else than them.
selves.
Evening star., 1916-10-15
Presidents Action Deferred.

There Is another point of difference
and vital point. The action I took
was intended to meet the situation at
once. The action that Mr.. Wilson took
has been deferred so that it shall not
take place until considerably after cleo
ton.
president Wilson in his speeches of
August 2s and September % has fur
nished his own condemnation out of his
own mouth. In them he explicitly con-
demns exactly what he has done and
actually demands legislation which will
make impossible the repetition of such
d proceeding, This is so extraordinary
an attitude that l quote his own words.
He said he wished to provide against
the recurrence of such unhappy situa-
tions in the future by securing the
calm and fair arbitration of all Indus
trial disputes in the days to come This
is an explicit assertion that arbitrati
Of all industrial disputes is the right
method of action; and therefore that he
had adopted the wrong method of ac-
tion-although In the case of the an
precedent in point, by following which
he would have enforced the right
method.
President Wilson further says: This
is assuredly the best way of rindicat ting
a principle-namely, having failed to
make certain of it's observance in the
present to make certain of it's obser-
vance in the future On the contrary.
this is the very worst way of vindicating
a principle. Indeed. it Is impossible to
devise worse way of vindicating a prin-
ciple than to finch ignominiously from
enforcing it in the case at Issue and at
the same time to seek to cover the ig-
nominy by vociferous protestatio
about applying it in the nebulous flu
ture. The same paper. the New York
Times, from which l quote the above
sentences, contained statements from the
leaders of the brotherhoods whom he was
befriending, in which they said that they
would never consent to the legislation
providing for future arbitration for
which President Wilson asked; and Pres
ident Wilson kept a weak and nervous
silence about this defiance. He did not
get the legislation which he declared was
essential to 'vindicate the principle in
the future. All that he ACCOMPLISHED
was the violation Of the principle in the
present. in the concrete case at issue.
The only law he secured established the
precedent of violation of the principle.
All that he did was to establish the
most evil of all precedents for democ-
racy, the precedent of violating a prin-
ciple under the duress of threat an
menace. 1t is q precedent which will
return to plague US throughout all fu-
ture time whenever we have in the White
House a President who is timid in the
face of threat of physical violence or
who subordinates duty to the hope of
personal political profit.
Evening star., 1916-10-15

The tremendous volume of advertising in
The Star is the natural consequence of The
Stars great circulation, both daily and Sunday.
Evening star., 1916-10-15
10Y RIDERS TAKE CAR
TWICE IN ONE WEEK
Albert Lee Thurman's Auto Last
Seen by Policeman Travelling a
Mile a Minute.

passenger automobile be-
longing to Albert Lee Thurman, 2219
California street disappeared from in
front of his residence last night about
5 O'Clock for the second time during
the week. 1t was taken from there
last Sunday night and found aban
doned in front of Wardman Courts
Some time after it disappeared last
night Bicycle Policeman Showalter
saw 1t in southeast Washington and
made an effort to overtake it
ut was impossible for me to over
take it," he reported to his command
ing officer. There was a man in the
car and he was speeding at the rate
OF almost mile a minute Dirt and
dust was thrown up in my face, max
ing it difficult for me to follow through
the cloud of dust
A dozen complaints of automobiles
taken by JOY riders and others during
the last week were recorded at police
headquarters. TWO of them were not
recovered. One belonged to Charles NJ.
Ashton, 1923 F street northeast. 1t was
taken from in front of the owners
house last Sunday afternoon and was
seen at Berwyn. Md, later in the day
in charge of three men, who are
thought to have stolen a car in Phila-
delphia and abandoned 1t at Berwyn.
Evening star., 1916-10-15

the power to do anything. But those
wEo are nominated for office are care
fully avoiding saying whether they
will do What their vocal element
promises. In other words, they are
putting up as their spokesinen OF
policy those whom they do not even
pretend to trust with power.
Evening star., 1916-10-15
Newspaper Advertising

The following are the figures of the total
number of lines of advertising carried by the
Washington newspapers for six months end
ing September so for the past three years:
Evening star., 1916-10-15

constitution contained, but upon the
universal repute of whom it was who
had proposed the constitution Even II
they had not been able to discover the
dangerous things in it, they would
have known that it was full of dan
gerors things.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
Russian Victories.

The first great military victory OF
modern Russia was satned on the
bloody field OF Poltava 207 years ago,
when the army OF Charles XII OF
Sweden was completely defeated by
the forces led by Peter the Great.
The ambitious and powerful Swedish
monarch began his Russian invasion
Of 1907 at the head Of $4,000 we'll
trained veterans, following almost the
same route as was chosen by Napo-
leon more than a century later. In
the first clashes he was successful but
he pursued the Russians with such
haste and recklessness that his army
was soon hopelessly involved in
swamps and marshes. Peter reorgan-
led his forces and made his stand a;
Poltava and the battle fought there
on July 5. 1909, ranks among the great
est in history. .-g.
The Russian bear. often whipped
now fought ferociously The Russ
ans overpowered the army of Charles
XII by force Of numbers. Charles
XII was wounded before the battle
commenced. and directed the move
ments OF his ragged and half starved
troops from a litter. in which he was
carried about the field. The Russian
artillery worked havoc in the army OF
the Swedish king, but Charles, with a
few men, managed to escape and made
his way to Turkish soil. where he
found refuge from the wrath Of the
cZar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
Albion News.

Thursday afternoon Mrs. Herman
Rechtmeier entertained at her home
the NJ. S. c. OF Albion, thirty guests
and children being present. The at
ternoon was spent with music and in
contests, which were won by Mrs. G.
L. Martin and Mrs. H. A. Rechtmeier
AT the close Of the afternoon the host
ess served refreshments, assisted by
Mrs. Gertrude Meyers.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Methodist church was held Fri
day afternoon at the home Of Mrs. D.
S. Collins. Following the business ses-
sion an interesting talk was given by
Rev. c. E. Luce on "Mohammed and
Mohammedanism." A piano solo by
Miss La Verne Christeson. Of Mar
shalltown. was enjoyed. Refreshments
were served by the hostess.
At the Methodist church Sunday
morning Rev. c. E. Luce will speak on
the subject, "A New View" t
About seventy-f1ve attended the So
cial given Friday afternoon by the
Ladies' Aid Society Of the Presby-
terrain church at the home OF Mrs.
Harold Moninger. A short program OF
readings and music was enjoyed and
Mrs. VIII Moninger read some letters
from her daughter Margaret, who is in
China. Refreshments were served at
the close Of the afternoon.
Rev. r. B. Fisher returned Friday
morning from the installation service
of Rev. s. c. Wadding at Maxwell.
Rev. Mr.. Fisher preached the sermon
and was assisted by Rev. E. V. Fisher
and Rev. Hugh Smith, Of Cedar Rap
ids. Rev. S. c. Waddng was Rev Mr..
Fishers predecessor at Albion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
RECEIVER SUES PACKERS.
Action Brought For Co. operative Com
pany Against Britain & Co.

Action Brought For Cooperative Com
pany Against Britain & Co.
Acting under order of court. w. H.
Arney, receiver for the Britain Co
operative Packing Company. has filed
suit in the district court to recover
$4,000 paid Britain & Co. in 1915 on
the option Of purchase for the packing
property that was to be taken over
by the cooperative company that was
organized for that purpose.
The cooperative company was
thrown into receivership last year af-
ter if failed &c exercise it's option for
the Britain & Co. property. The pc
tition alleges $4,000 was paid Britain
& Co. June Is, and $4,000 was paid
June IS, 1915. on the option.
The petition alleges as cause for
action that George H. Beebe, then
president Of the cooperative company,
and E. L. Hoag, then treasurer, who
paid the money, acted without author
ity. 1t is even alleged that they were
not officers of the company. The ex-
istence of contract or obligation un-
der which the money was paid is de-
MED in the petition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
MERCURY AWAY UP AGAIN.
Temperature Climbs to 1902 and Equals
Summers Record.

A return of the excessive heat made
a torrid day of Friday and expanded
the mercury in the government Their
mometer until the seasons heat rec
ord of 102 was equaled. The maxi
saa:r for the day was reached about
3 o'clock in the afternoon Following
the high temperature little relief was
found from the heat during most OF
the night The temperature staid very
high until late in the night, and at 10
time dropped below 70.
Part Of the city, especially the Fourth
and Fifth wards, were visited by a
light shower about o'clock this morn
ing. The rainfall was .l3 of an inch.
In the extreme western and northwest
ern parts of the city no rain fell
The temperature at I o'clock this
morning was II. the same as at the
corresponding hour Friday morning
indicating that the temperature will be
again high today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
STABBED N Fight:
hSSAlANI Is HELD
ROY VAN TREESE BADLY WOUND
ED-U. S. kINsEY ARRESTED
BY POLICE.
KNIFE PUNCTURES
VAN TREESE'S INTESTiNES
Wounded Man Taken to Deaeoness
Hospital, and His Condition Is De-
cIared Serious-charee Of Attempted
Murder Filed Against kinsey by the
Police-kinsey Found Near Scene.

Roy Van Treese. a laborer living az
Summit and Twentieth streets, is lying
seriously, and perhaps dangerously.
wounded at the Deaconess hospital.
and L. S. Kinsey, painter living at
204 Twentieth street, is in jail charged
with assault with attempt to commit
murder, as a result of a fight in the ex
IRENE western part Of the city Friday
evening. Van Treese has three knife
wounds. two in the abdomen, one Of
which punctured an intestine. The
third is in the arm.
kinsey was arrested near where the
fight took place about 9 o'clock Friday
night by Officer Starn and Merchant
Police Cummings, while Sheriff Edgar,
Officer Campbell and Merchant Police
Markey We're searching the neighbour
hood for him. Kinsey was found lying
under a tree In a pasture west Of
Twentieth street. He still held in his
hand the heavy jackknife with which
he Is charged with having slashed Van
Treese.
Fight Over Boy.
According to the story learned by
the police, and that told by Mrs. Kin
sey this morning, the trouble between
kinsey and Van Treese was over the
latter sons George, aged about Ia
Kinsey and young Van Treese had
been fishing in the afternoon and re-
turned to kinsey's home afterwards.
kinsey is said to have wanted young
Van Treese to get him some whisky,
and the boy refused. kinsey is said to
have abused the boy, who told his
father.
When Van Treese returned from the
John Sieg brick yard. where he is en-
ployed, the elder Van Treese came to
Kinsey and took up the boys quarrel.
Words led to blows, the fight start
ing in the street near the kinsey home
According to Mrs. kinsey Van Treese
struck kinsey first The men clinched,
and while in the clinch kinsey is al
legged to have stabbed Van Treese.
Kinsey evidently made no effort to es-
cape. The police say Kinsey had been
drinking A pint bottle Of whisky, part
ly full, was taken from Kinsey when
arrested.
Van Treese's Wounds Serious.
Just what will be the outcome OF Van
Treese's wounds can not yet be fore
told. DR.. H. H. Nichols, who dressed
the wounds, found that the wound in
the lower part Of the abdomen on the
left side punctured an intestine. The
wound on the right side, just below the
ribs. showed the knife to have pene-
trated the tip of the lung and the liver.
There is danger from both pertonitis
and infection, and If peritonitis should
develop there viii! be no hope for the
injured man, Dr.. Nichols said. The
slash across the left arm, about mid
way between the wrist and elbow, was
deep, and from this wound Van Treese
lost much blood. The mans condition
was considered very fair today, and
he was resting quite comfortably. His
condition, however. was pronounced
serious.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
Real Comfort.

It is a mystery why some people cling
to old and Anticipated methods Of get
ting hot water for the bath. An Ohio.
NJ" Instantaneous Non Vent Pipe Water
Heater over a bath tub will instantly
furnish hot water any hour of the day
or night. Have your dealer place one
on thirty days trial. Write for book
let and full particulars. Dayton Manu-
featuring Company, Dayton, Ohio.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
PLEADS GUILTY; COURT LENlENT
John stapley, Of Green Mountain, Es.
capes With SUSPENDED Sentence.

cdPeS VIII oUbPeTIueu osFteIce'
John Stapley, the Green Mountain
farmer boy who was arrested for steal
ing parts of the Robert E. Johnson
automobile, pleaded guilty before Judge
WilIett in the district court this fore
noon and escaped with a suspended
sentence. Judge Willett imposed a
sentence of not more than ten years in
the Fl. Madison penitentiary, chen sus-
pended the sentence until further order
Of the court.
Stapley was indicted for larceny from
building in the night time. He stc
an automobile casing and tube, electric
battery and search light from the car
while it was stored in the L. 6. Marsh
garage. After Stapley was. indicted he
was released on bond.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05

have the lad examined by q physician
in an effort to see whether or not the
boy is mentally deficient.
Ross and James Campbell, sons Of G..
c. Campbell, sos South Second street.
were also up for inorrigibility. The
lads were discharged for lack Of evil
dence
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
AMUSED ENTS.
At the Casino.

Pretty Jose Collins appeared In the
picture, "A Woman's Honor before
two fair-sized audiences at the Casino
Friday evening. The story. as the title
suggests, tells of the dramatic ven
geance girl takes upon two people
who caused her ruin and is well por-
trayed by Miss Collins without bringing
out too many morbid details. Miss Col
Inns Is ably assisted by the rest Of the
cast.
Some interesting events were pic
tured in Pathe News pictures which
preceded the picture.