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The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

OF ADDRESS
in SENATE
Against The League Of
Nations By Senator POin-
dexter Who Is In Lead
Against The President
UNITED Press Service)

WASHINGTON, Sept. S.-The first
reply from the floor of the United
States Senate to President Wilson's
''Contemptible Quitter" charge came
from this afternoon from Senator
Miles Poindexter, of Washington.
In his speech Senator Poindexter
declared that France and England are
under obligations tv this country,
while the United States is under no
obligations to them.
Said Mr.. Poindexter: "The Presi-
dent says that if we reject the League
'of Nations we will be contemplate
q1itters.' And what would we be
quitting? He says "We must stay in
the game" What is the game, and
when will the game 9e finished if it
is not finished now?"
Continuing Mr.. Poindexter said:
President Wilson asserts that
1--WE won the war for France and
England; and having done so it would
be dishonorable for us to abandon
them now. How did winning the war
for France and England put us under
obligations to them or to the rest of
Europe? Is it not the truth that
services we rendered Europe in the
war put Europe under Obligations to
the United States, and did not impose
any obligation upon the United
States on behalf of Europe, or any
nation in Europe"
The speech of the Washington SEN
ator was carried on in the same ten
or, and it was the first in a line of
speeches and addresses intended to
combat the propaganda of the Presi
dent at every turn.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
IN A PECULIAR QUANDRY

Passport regulations and practices
as carried out along the border since
the United States drew the line and
began insisting upon passports for all
persons crossing into Mexico or COM
ing out, have developed some strange
circumstances, some of them making
good reading.
One of the strangest and most in
teresting relates to a mining engineer
doing business in Mexico. He had
resided in California from childhood,
and was a graduate of Stanford Uni
versity, as also were two sisters and
a brother. At twenty-one years of
age the young man registered and
voted. Their birthplace is a large
city on soil over which floats the
American flag, and they supposed
they were native born American
citizens.
But when the gentleman mentioned
(it is not necessary to call his name,
although it is ore seen on hotel reg
listers in Nogales at times) needed a
passport, and applied for one, he
found that he was almost literally
"a Man Without A Countrywide
Higginson's Phillip Moan, of the
Burr conspiracy, a century ago.
Here is what developed: The man is
the son of British subject-a man
born in Australia. He removed to
> Hawaii, making his home in Homo
lulu. At that time Hawaii was a
monarchy. The four children of his
! Britisher were born under that mo-
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09
AN AMERICAN
MURDERED IN
CHIAPAS
Herbert S. McGill Is Way
laid And Killed From Am
Bush. Usual Red Tape
Omitted Press Service)

WASHINGTON, Sept. Son Au-
gust 30th Mexican bandits murdered
Herbert S. McGill of Chicago, at
Coapas, in the state of Chiapas, Mex
ico-the state Department is advised
Representations in the matter have
been made to both local and national
Mexican authorities.
McGill was riding horseback when
he was attacked from ambush,
wounded, fell from hrs horse, and was
beaten to death. His body, wich
was thrown into the Coapa river, was
recovered afterward and buried at
Coapa.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09
WASH( UTS SOUTH

Information from the railway
agent, Mr.. T. G. Wright, is to the af-
feet that heavy storms beyond Her
mosillo have washed out tracks in the
vicinity of Torres and Ortiz, with a
result that no trains are apt to be
running in that direction for several
days. The train due to arrive at No
gales yesterday evening is cancelled;
and it is reported that the one going
south this morning will be abandon
ed also.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09
Relations Between
i. S. And Mexico
Under Investigation Before
Sub Committee Of For
eign Relations Committee
Of United States Senate
Omitted Press Service)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-A gen.
eral inquiry into the relations be-
tween the United States and Mexico
was started this morning before a
subcommittee of the Senate Com
mittee, headed by Senator A. B.
Fall of New Mexico. The other men,
bers are Senator Marcus A. Smith of
Arizona, and Senator Frank B.
Brandagee of Connecticut.
Reverend Doctor Inman of the
League of Free Nations, New York,
was the first witness.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

Captain Albert C. Chase, of
Faribault, Minn., who was re-
Gently placed in command of the
Inland Waterways of the Amer
lean Area of Occupation in Ger
many. Captain Chase super
vises the traffic on the Rhine in
the American area and the
searching of the vessels for con-
traband.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09
TIRED OF JAIL
THEY MAKE KEY
AND WALKED OUT

Colusa, CAL, Sept. 6.-Growing
wearisome of Jail, Thomas Mar
tin and Otto Cole, having fash
ioned a key from a prison spoon,
unlocked the Jail door and walk
ed forth. Today they are free
men.
The men were charged with
stealing an automobile. The
spoon was made of pliable ma
terial:
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

The next great attraction at the
Royal Theatre tomorrow and Thurs
day will be "The Red Lantern" which
presents the great Ali Varimova il
a new and remarkable role. 1t is
bound to draw crowded houses.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

Mr.. Earl Shelhamer, VINO is manag
ing the great picture of Nazimeva,
'"The Red Lantern" at the Royal
Theatre, will present it in Nogales,
Sonora; Cananea and Helmosillo. He
will go to Cananea Saturday and the
picture will be shown there Sunday
and Monday. Returning he will go
to Hermosillo later in the week.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09
CONCERT PROGRAM

By the 25th Infantry Band, In the
City Park, Nogales, arizona, Tues
day Evening, September 8, 1919, at
500 P. M.
1. Mareh-"Semper Fidelis" -.
...........-.....--. John p. Sousa.
2. Overture Morning, Noon and
Night in Vienna" F. V. Suppe.
8. Hungarian Dances Nos 5,
and -......-.--J. Brahms.
Old Folks at Home and IN
Foreign Lands -. CT =. Ro-
berts. Arr. by V. I a1ranek.
5. Vocal Selections-"a Tand
Dunes" ..... ron Gay.
b, NJazz Baby" - X. jerome
s. Excerpts from the Comic
Opera "Hitchy-Koo" ,--..-
----..--.-..-..-.-...---. E. Ray Goetz.
z. March-"Torero Hidalguense"
....--...........- Abundio Martinez
Arr. by Asst. Band Leader,
Dillon Poison. Poison Con-
ductor.
Leslie King, 1st. Lieut.. 25th In
fantry, (Conductor.)
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

Sunday Mr.. Louis Hudgin and ia
mily returned from Tucson, where
they had been to matriculate Louis
Hudgin Jr., in the University of Ari-
zona.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

1t is reported that Mr.. w. HI. Smith
former town treasurer of Nogales is
in Honduras. This information is for
inquiring friends, who keep poster
ing "The Oasis" to cell them where
the gentleman may be.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

: Mr. Gus Holmes Jr., of Salt Lake
City, noted mining engineer. is
visiting Santa Cruz County, making
mine examination for a syndicate of
eastern Investigators.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

Jack Harris, of Chicago, ILL.,,
one of the many American
heroes who served with the
British forces during the war,
returned home recently aboard
the steamship Caronfa. Harris
enlisted in the early days of the
war and was attached to the
famous Middlesex Regiment.
In an engagement shortly before
the signing of the armistice he
received wounds which resulted
in the loss of his leg.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

Yesterday Mr.. and Mrs. Rob Roy
McGregor and family, with Mr..
Charles Johnson, from the Vaughn
country, were visitors at Nogales.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

There is still considerable moisture
in the air, and now weather sharps
are predicting a continuance of rainy
weather until next Spring.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

Yesterday evening Doctor John r.
Magruder, one of the old time mining
operators in Arizona, New Mexico
and Sonora, arrived from Tucson.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

Sunday Mrs. Allen T. Bird Jr., with
her little son, Master Allen T. Bird
III, returned from Los Angeles,
where they had visited several weeks.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

DR.. E. E. Houle from Empalme is
visitor at Nogales.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

The battles occurred at Durango,
San Gabriel and Nombre de Dios.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-09-09

CONTINUED on page ~
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

the union assembled figures which
they said proved that even the coun-
trys peak production of 6S5, ,000,0 900
tons of bituminous coal in 1918 was
not the limit of the industry. They
said this was dug with the mines
averaging only about seventy per
cent. of capacity and with the skill
ed working force reduced by S0,-
600 miners in the Army and Navy.
Out of a possible PIP working days
in the year, they said Western Penn
sylVania miners averaged $50, In
diana 249, Illinois 22S and Ohio 224.
The bulk of the bituminous tonnage
comes from those states.
Present Statistics
Against this record they set fig
ures for 1919 which they said show
ed that the mines had operated at
not to exceed fifty per cent. of the
time. Despite this reduction in time,
they said the 1919 production of the
country up to October IS was 379,-
100000 tons, only 103, 100000 tons
less than in the same period of 1918
They estimated that the mine work
ers will not average more than 1SO
working days in 1919 and claimed
that full working force working
steadily throughout the year , car
produce S00,000,000 tons if need be
They said the estimated needs of the
country for 1920 were 550,0O0,0OC
tons.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

off in car orders after the middle of the
year was duly reflected in the decline of
business until at the end of 1910 tho
probabilities of 1911 were clearly fore
shadowed.
"The decline in general business, to.
gether with the falling off of railway
purchases, continued throughout almost
the entire year of 1ol1 but at its close
a buying movement on the part of the
railways set in. The total number of
cars ordered for the year was l35.74O,
nearly 800 of which were placed at the
very end of the year, and necessarily car
ried forward into 1912.
1--WE reached high point in railway
purchases about May, 1912, continuing
with normal purchases for most of the
remainder of the year, again reaching
high point at the very end of the last
quarter the total car purchases being
230,4Oo, the l1sgcst number in any year
since 1906. Ills here significant to note
hat the foregoing conditions >in railway
purchases were followed by a phcnom-
cnal revival of general business during
the last half of 1912; this too in the
face Of national election fraught with
more uncertainties as TO its outcome
than any we had had for years. Busi-
ness seemed TO ignore these conditions.
however, while the heavy purchases
made by the railways filled the steel
mills of the country with orders toward
the close of the year, so overtaxing their
capacity as to compel buyers to antici-
pate deliveries by orders placed four,
six, and even nine months in advance
of shipping date-a condition thereto
fore unprecedented, while general busi-
ness assumed almost the aspect of a
BOOM
Railway purchases sharply declined in
1913 to very low level foreshadowing
the memorable depression of 1914; but
the European War, resulting in tremen-
dous war buying, supplantcd railway
| DuyllS ttllu UlOuSll lllS IOuiIlly Ill IPlO
and 1916 to "a high point of business
prosperity.
"This controlling current, issuing
forth from the railways, proceeds first
to the great car-building plants; thence
on to the iron and steel plants and to
the very large number of railway supply
industries. By the latter it is again
directed toward the iron and steel and
other ndustries-thcncc in turn influence
ing highly increased number of other
and contributory industries, until this in
fucnce has reached or set in motion the
entire industrial machinery, while at
every turn and in every direction it has
furnished employment TO labor. Pros
pcrity and employment are synonymous
terms, as conversely are stagnation and
unemployment
Adequate railway revenues are essen
tial to adequate railway purchases; ade-
quate railway purchases are fundamen-
tally essential to general business pros
pcrity; general business prosperity means
the prosperity and we'll being of the
entire nation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31
Operators Welcome
Investigation Of Situation
by Federal Tribunal
By Associated Press

Cleveland, o., Oct. 31.-The exec
utive committee of the central COM
petitiVe coal field, employing ap-
proximately 100000 soft coal miners
in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, in conference
here to-day to take action on the
nationwide strike of miners sched-
uled for midnight, adopted a reso-
luton welcoming an investigation by
a tribunal appointed by President
Wilson to investigate the threatened
strike. The conference then ad-
journed.
Shortly before noon a committee
was appointed to draft a resolution
setting forth the operators position.
After presenting the resolution and
its adoption by the conference,
Chairman Brewster, of the executive
committee, made public the resolu-
tion as follows:
we have accepted in its entirety
the Presidents proposal of October
"a and reaffirm that acceptance We
welcome an investigation by tri-
bunal which the President may APP
point, as suggested by him in the
last paragraph of his statement oil
October 26.
I'VE hold ourselves ready to com
ply at all times with any commands
which the government, acting in the
interests of the whole American peo-
pie, may deem it wise to issue"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31
900 Troops of First
Division Patrolling
West Va. Coal Fields
By Associated Press

Louisville, KY, Oct. 31.-Under
instructions from the Central De-
partment of the Army, 900 troops of
the famous First Division, composing
two provisional battalions, are ready
to patrol the coal fields of West Yir-
ginia in the disturbed mining dis
tricts should a strike of coal min
ers go into effect Saturday.
Colonel w. S. Harrell, comman-
der of the Sixteenth Infantry. is
commanding the contingent, which,
1T is said will refrain at Huntington.
w. Va, and scatter in various towns.
Infantry and machine gunners, the
necessary medical detachment and
staff officers left here on the first
train which left shortly after a. m.
Other trains followed, carrying more
than twenty army motor trucks and
machine guns, rifles, small arms and
ammunition.
Ammunition is being taken for
extended service, said Major General
Charles 2. Summerall, commander
of the First Division He said he
had received on October II from
the Central Department headquar-
ters request from Governor Corn
WELL of West Virginia, for troops in
event of a strike. This resulted in
the selection of $500 troops from
the 16Oth, 1S0th, 26th and 2Sth In
fantry regiments, LOO of whom re-
main at Camp Taylor under tele-
graphic instructions to be ready for
entrainment for strike-affected CEN
ters
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31
10000 Miners in
West Virginia to Quit

Charlestown, w. Va, Oct 31.-
Union coal miners of the bituminous
fields of West Virginia, 100000
strong, will leave their underground
workings tonight, not to return un-
til the controversy between the oper-
ators and the United Mine Workers
of America has been settled. This
was the word from union leaders
here early to-day, and they en-
phatically declared that the coal
diggers of the 468 mines in union
fields of West Virginia would heed
the call of their organization to
strike.
State officials. mine workers and
representatives of the union express
ed much interest to-day in the an
nouncement that 500 seasoned SOL
diers of the regular army were en-
route to Huntington, w. Va, from
Louisville. KY, to perform guard
duty in the various mining centers
of the\ mountain state Little was
known about the capitol of the
movement of the troops, but the
opinion in official circles was that
the soldiers, with headquarters in
Huntington, would be used mainly
in the southern coal fields OF West
Virginia.
OF the ten big fields in the state,
six, listed in the "nonunibn" class
employ some $4,000 men in 422
mines Just what effect the strike
will have on these fields is not
known, for neither the union nor
operators have approached the SUBJ
ject.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

believed that nearly 100000 men are
employed in the railway supply indus
tries and another 100000 working for
the railroads themselves. If the rail-
roads were able to construct new lines
and purchase new equipment that are
sorcly needed, many thousands more
men would be employed.
But l am not arguing in behalf of
either capital or labor as classes but in
the general interest of the'whole nation.
That is why favor tendency underlying
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

the welfare of each and every element
IN the population; first, for the sake of
each element, and second; for the sake
of the country as a whole, all of the
units being regarded as prospering by
the prosperity of each. Until few
years ago this was the attitude towards
the railroads and the frame of mind in
which members of Congress are listening
to the testimony of citizens seems to
give promise that the attitude towards
the railroads may soon become such
again. l
Nov it ought to be pretty evident
that the prosperity of Our largest indus
try, excepting agriculture, and Our great
est single buying industry, is going to
determine directly the prosperity of the
country as whole. Let us test this be-
lief by a glance at business conditions
during recent years.
"For quarter Of century have
noted that when the railroads enter tho
field of substantial purchases general
business prosperity invariably follows
Likewise the cessation of such purchase;
always means decline in general bust
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

ment when they will does not pro-
tect or justify them in such con-
spiracy.
THAT is the kind of conspiracy
the bituminous coal miners propose
to begin on the first day of Novem-
ber. The extent of the suffering
that they plan to impose upon the
public cannot be measured. The
suffering will be entailed on those
who are so poor that they cannot
buy their coal in advance. 1t will
fall upon the poor wage-earner
whose employer will have to shut
down for lack of coal. Congress has
full power, If 1t has not already
done so, in the interstate commerce
law, to condemn such u cruel con-
spiracy as an offense
THE locomotive fremen are
threatening a similar strike. If they
enter upon this plan, it will consti-
tutc conspiracy to starye the peo-
pie of the United States into some
kind of action to compel the au-
thorities to pay the wages they
demand. Congressman condemn this
as an unlawful conspiracy, too"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

many of the bituminous mines will
also continue to work.
I'm the Connellsville field, where
the miners are. not unioniZed, work
will go on without interruption and
possibly production will be increased
by increased hours of labor. Reports
received at the Department from the
various districts indicate that in
eight or ten of the thirty districts
large number of the men will re-
main at work, probably $4,000 in
the aggregate.
The threat of a coal strike is al
ways alarming to the people be-
cause it brings to them visions of
discomfort and hardship that would
inevitably result from the lack of
fuel, but strange to say the disas-
trous effect upon the vital industries
of the country, the paralyzng of all
business in which coal is the most
important factor, is a phase of the
strike menace that is rarely ap-
preciated by the public.
The commanding importance of
coal as the most essential element
in the operation of the machinery of
the world receives little considera-
ton. 1t does not occur to the aver
age person tnat deprived OF this
fundamental source of power, there
would be an almost complete cessa-
ton of creative work and conse-
quently shortage in many of the
most necessary commodities of our
everyday life.
"The people really need to be
educated regarding this great ma
tural resource and the many benefi-
cient purposes it serves. They should
know that the pre-eminence of
Pennsylvania as a manufacturing
center is due to its intelligent use
of coal; they should know that our
great Commonwealth is the largest
depository of coal in the United
States, producing almost one-half of
the total output and almost one
fourth of the entire output of the
world. These things they should
know, as well as many others con-
nected with this vast subject. The
history of the Goals of Pennsylvania
should be a part of the instruction
in all the schools of the Common
wealth."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31

plements and tools purchased by the
railroads bears about the same proper
ton to similar materials purchased by
the manufacturing industries. The value
of the railway cars and locomotives is
three times as great as that of all the
arm machinery, implements and tools in
the country In other words, the rail-
ways of the country together with the
concerns supplying them with equipment
constitute the nations greatest industry
next to that of agriculture.
$50 much for the Importance of the
railroad industry in respect to the cap
ital. How about its bearing upon labor,
the second and equally essential element
in the nations prosperity? Investigation
shows that no occupation except agricul-
tufe employs so many people as do rail-
roading and providing the needs of rail
roads. Sometimes the building trades
are ranked second to agriculture in the
number of employees. But it must be
remembered that very large proportion
of building trades employees are en-
gagged in making railway structures or
the material for those structures. 1t is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31
Declares All Union
Miners in Pennsylvania
Will Join Walkout

Pittsburgh, Oct. 31.-Operations
in hundreds of coal mines of West
ern and Central Pennsylvania will
cease tonight when thousands of
miners will go on strike. according
to representatives of the United
Mine Workers of America, who an
nounced to-day that the program
for the walkout, complete in detail,
was ready to be put into effect.
While official figures were not avail
able to-day on the total number of
miners involved in the Pennsylvania
fields, union leaders said that $4,000
men in District No 5, the Pittsburgh
section, are ready to quit work
In the fields of Western and Cen
tral Pennsylvania outside of the
Pittsburgh district. all members OF
the United Mine Workers will. strike
at the hour set, union officials de-
clared.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31
Taft Condemns the
Proposed Strikes Of
Miners and Firemen
Rn Associated Press

Maiden, Mass, Oct. 31.-Former
President William II. Taft, speaking
last night at political rally, de-
clared that the bituminous coal
miners in calling a strike were "en-
gagged in an unlawful conspiracy"
and that Congress had full power
Ito condemn such-a cruel conspiracy
as an offense."
I'm an ordinary strike" he said,
Incidental annoyance to the public,
which is negligible, does not render
the strike illegal. But when enor-
nous combinations of working men
deliberately enter upon a country
wide plan to take the country by
the throat and compel the country
to compel the employers in that
particular field of industry to yield
to the demands of the men. they are
engaged in an unlawful conspiracy.
The sacredness of their individual
right to labor on such terms as they
choose and to leave their employ