UU Library Jnluono I Scml-Wcckly Founded! Wayne County Organ of the REPUBLICAN PARTY g 1908 Weekly Founded, 1844 66th YEAR. HONBSDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1909. NO. 9 MTHIr BILLS UP California Legislature Again Warned by Governor. ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL LETTER President Roosevelt Declares It Would Be Dangerous to En act Discriminatory Laws Against Japanese. Sacramento, Cnl., Jan. 27. Governor Olllett'H message to the legislature on the Japanese question has had the effect of crystallizing the sentiment for and against the hills Introduced by Drew and Johnson, against which President Roosevelt has Invoked the governor's power and which are up In the legislature today. The president Informed the governor that It would be extremely dangerous for the legislature to enact any laws that might he construed by Japan as discriminatory. He wired Governor Glllett that another letter to him was on the way. This Is expected to throw more light on the situation as regards Japun and America. Grove L. Jolmsnn, author of the bill segregating Japanese In residential quarters at the option of municipali ties, had the measure made a special order for today. Two other Japanese measures arc olso before the lower house today. The bill by A. N. Drew denying aliens the right to hold land was set for consideration today at the request of the author after the governor had Indicated that he desired such legisla tion held up. Speaker Stanton and the assembly organization are against nil of the bills objected to by the national ad ministration. The fight In behalf of them comes from Grove L. Johnson, n San Francisco delegate, and those as semblymen who have many union labor-constituents. ; In his message to the legislature Governor Glllctt said: There is certain legislation now pend ing before you which I believe to be of grave concern not only to our state, but to the nation as well and which should be most thoughtfully considered before It is acted upon. Certain bills have been Introduced, some of which have been favorably reported by your committee, indirectly intended to affect the Japanese people. These bills have attracted the notice of the whole nation and have caused Japan to call the attention of our government to them. They have produced an agitation not only In our own country, but throughout Ja pan, and the Japanese minister of for eign affairs has stated to the authorities at Washington that if the bills should be passed the government of Japan would consider It very embarrassing. The governor then reviews what has been done by the governments of the United States and Japan, resulting In n compact for the restriction of Immi gration, the provisions of, which, he says, Japan Is now carrying out. Fig ures are here given showing a decrease In the Immigration of Japanese, and the governor says he knows of noth ing to sustain the assertion that the Japanese population of California is Increasing. The message continues: As friendly allies many benefits will Inure to both nations, and a great com merce can be carried on between them to the advantage of our people, but as ene mies the commerce of both can be driven from the ocean. Every reason therefore exists why there should continue be tween Japan and our government the most friendly relations, and it is the ex pressed wish of each nation that this shall be so. While the settlement of the questions of Immigration is pending we should be very careful about passing any legisla tion not absolutely necessary for our im mediate protection, Intended Bolely to af fect the Japanese people. No law that this state can enact will top Japanese Immigration. Congress alone Is vested with authority to pass bucIi legislation, and wo must also rec ognize the fact that the Japanese among us are the subjects of a friendly nation and are entitled to the same treatment under our laws and to the same privileges and Immunities as are guaranteed to the subjects of the most favored nations. The president of the United States and the secretary of state have Issued a warn ing against pressing any bills of the na ture proposed. Their warning should be heeded. This Is a matter In which the whole country is Interested. Whatever we shall attain In the way of restricting Japanese Immigration must come to us through treaties entered Into by the federal government or through laws enacted by congress, Time by the Forelock. It was the morning of Dec. 20, and Brown was rushing down the street like an automobile trying to get away from a constable. "Wiy this speed?" demanded Jones. "Don't stop mo. I must do my Christ tnas shopping." "But you are too late." "No; It Is Just the right time. I am buying for next year." Al, Too True. 'There Is no place like homo." "Yes, except"- "What?" "Some places that oughtn't to bt." DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mrs. Margaret Zone Wlchcr ta coun ty clerk In fault Lake City. Mrs. Langtry, the actress, has sold her horses and is preparing to write a novel, which is to be an ocean ro mance. Mrs. B. E. Carslcy of Blaine, Me., Is now teaching her fifty-fifth term of school. Allowing ten weeks to a term, the has taught In all 550 weeks, or 8,750 school days. Miss Mary C. Dickinson, Instructor fn bionomics at the Lcland Stanford university, In California, has accepted a' post In the American Museum of Natural History, In New York. Mrs. Jane Bancroft Robinson has been elected president of tbo Woman's Home Missionary society of the Meth odist church, succeeding Mrs. Clinton B. FIsk of New York, retiring on ac count of ngc. Mrs. Fisk, now seventy six years old, has served as president fifteen years and durlug that time has traveled more than 100,000 miles. Miss Marie MacNaughton of Wash ington lias been presented with the di ploma and Insignia of officer d'acad cmy by the department of public In struction In France ns n roward for her work in the promotion of Interest In the French language and literature In this country and work in connection with the treaty of Paris between the United States and Spain. Sporting Notes. Stanford college has added lacrosse to Its list of sports. Old Cy Young of the Boston Amerl' cans says next season will be his last. Sculling Champion Frank B. Greer of Boston may go to England or Aus tralia for professional races. The Angle association of Syracuse, N. Y., will award four gold medals each year to the members catching the largest trout, pike, pickerel and bass. Jockey Eddie Dugan will go to Eng land to ride for Harry Payne Whitney and has been engnged for August Bel mont's Prlscllllan In the Lincolnshire handicap next March. Jockey Willie Martin, riding as a free lance, made $65,000 In Germany In four years. All the American Jock eys In France, Germany and Russia are successful In winning races. Short Stories. There are aproxlmately 120,000 un employed workers in Chicago. The new special delivery stamp bears the cap of Mercury Instead of the figure of a messenger boy. A wealthy Boston woman paid $2 at tho Manhattan hotel, New York, for a tenderloin steak for her bull terrier. Tho largest electric advertising sign In the world Is at Jersey City, N. J. It Is 200 by 50 feet, with letters twenty feet high and uses 3,000 Incandescent lamps. An unhappy predicament Is that of a Connecticut barber who Is the only one of bis trade In town. To get bis own hair cut, therefore, he must go to another town and pay a dollar in car fares. The Cookbook. To cover tho pan in which flsh is cooking will make the flesh soft. Mix pastry several hours before It Is to be rolled out and much labor Is saved and a better result obtained. To make dainty currant rolls beat two eggs, add a small cupful of milk, a tablespoonful of melted butter, two tcaspoonfuls of baking powder and flour to make sufficiently stiff. Lastly, stir in a cupful of currants. By salting tho water when poaching eggs they are rendered whiter nnd clearer than without this help. A cer tain French cook adds half a table spoonful of vinegar to every two quarts of water when poaching eggs. Things Theatrical. . "Tho Servant In tho House" Is to be produced In Berlin. It has also been translated Into Scandinavian. Mario Dressier, after capturing Lon don, Is to move on Paris. Maurice Levi and Edgar Smith are to write her a musical comedy. In William Humphrey's revival of "An Imperial Divorce" Keith Wake man Is playing the character of the Empress Josephine. Without Interfering with her own stage work Mario Cahlll is to bo a stage director for tho now pleco by George V. Hobart and Silvio Heln, which will be produced In New York In the spring. Goats' Milk. Children brought up on goats' milk are said to be immune from tuberculo sis. Mexican Lands. Mexican lands In a virgin state, suit able for the growing of sugar cane and situated in tho tropical portions of the country that Is, in tho states of Vera Cruz, Chiapas and Tabasco rango in price from $1 to $3 gold an acre. WILLETT SPEECH EEJECTED. House Votes Today to Strike Out Abuse of President Roosevelt. Washington, Jan. 27. Recommend ing that the speech delivered In the house last week by Representative William Willett, Jr., of New York, In which he heaped abuse on President Roosevelt, bo expunged from the Con gressional Record, the committee ap pointed to consider the speech submit ted Its report to the house today. The committee declared that Mr. Wlllctt's remarks concerning the pres ident were not Justified, that they tran scended proper limits of criticism In debate, that they were destructive of that courtesy, respect and dignity which ought to be preserved nnd that they ought not to remain In the offi cial record. A letter from Mr. Willett to the com mittee accompanied the report. In It he pleaded that his speech should not be Ntrickcu from the record, as In making II he was within bis rights. The house adopted the committee's report, and the speech was therefore stricken from the record. CHARGES AGAINST SENATOR. Stephenson of Wisconsin Accused of the Corrupt Use of Money. Madison, Wis.. Jan. 27. Senator Blaine has Hied specific charges that United States Senator Isaac Stephen son as a candidate for re-election gave to Republican State Chairman E. A. SENATOR ISAAC STEPHENSON. Edmunds of Applcton a sum of money In excess of $100,000 and approximat ing $250,000; that the money was giv en to Edmunds to pay to other electors prior to the primary In sums ranging from $5 per day to $1,000 In bulk ns a consideration for some net to be done In relation to the primary by electors for Mr. Stephenson. Other charges allege that money was paid to U. C. Keller of Sauk county, one Hambrlght of Racine, Roy Morse of Fond du Lac and divers other per sons for acts to be done corruptly nnd unlawfully. The charges against United States Senator Stephenson number sixteen In all, the concluding charge stating that "the primary nomination or election was obtained by the use of large sums of money corruptly and Illegally" and by violation of the statutes relating to Illegal voting, bribery and corruption. MOVING PICTURES IN COURT Shown to Prove That Boy Suing For Damages Is Not Disabled. New York, Jan. 27. A remarkable scene took place In the supreme court In Brooklyn when nn hour's exhibi tion of moving pictures was given by attorneys for' the defense to show that Stephen McGardy, a ten-year-old boy, who is the plaintiff in a $50,000 dam age suit against the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railway company, Is not permanently injured as a result of falling from a car of the company's line. The scenes depicted were of recent occurrence and showed the boy plain tiff taking part In leap frog and other vigorous outdoor games. Whllo In court telling his own story of how he fell from the car tho boy exhibited his left leg, which was sup ported by a metal brace. In the mov ing pictures this brace did not appear. SLOSSON WINS CHAMPIONSHIP. Defeats George 8utton In Fifty-six Innings at Balk Line Billiards. New York, Jan, 27. George Slosson won the balk Hue billiard match from George Button, who held tho cham pionship, by a score of COO to 328. It took fifty-six Innings to finish, the game. The match, played In tho Madison Square Garden concert ball, was 500 points up for $1,000 and the champion ship. The hall was filled with an ap preciative assemblage of men and wo men who are prominent In society and club circles In New York, Philadelphia and Boston. 1 REPUBLjC BLAMED Italian Line Declares Other Was Going Too Fast. NO SIGNAL BY WHITE STAR1INER Sunken Vessel and Cargo Were Worth $28,000,000, but Only $1,020,000 Can Possibly Be Recovered In Suit. New York, Jan. 27. After a confer ence between Captain Rusplnl of the Italian Lloyds steamship Florida, Os car 1.. Richards, United States agent of the line, nnd Archibald Thatcher, an admiralty lawyer, the following charges were made by the abore men tioned against the White Star liner Republic, which was rammed and Mink off Nantucket: "When the Republic became visible in the fog she was crossing the bow of the Florida from starboard to port and running ut a high rate of speed. ''The helm of the Florida was promptly put to starboard, hoping to swing the bow of the Italian steamer to starboard and to assist In avoiding the danger of collision. The other steamer was, however, running so fast that the vessels collided. "The officers of the Florida are In no way to blame for the collision. On the bridge at the time were Captain Ru Hplnl, First Officer Rafaello Gargulle and a quartermaster. "They were proceeding cautiously In their course, sounding the fog signal frequently. They first heard the Re public's fog whistle at a distance of probably a mile nnd a half to the northwest. They held their course. No signal was given them by the Repub lic Indicating that they should go to starboard or port. "The sound of the Republic's whis tle became plainer. Captain Rusplnl reduced the speed of his boat to five miles an hour. Suddenly the Republic, which had turned to the southeast from the course she held when her fog signals were first heard, loomed up right in front of the Florida. The collision was unavoidable." If the admiralty court holds that the officers of the Florida were at fault when the Kalian steamship rammed the Republic the owners of the Florida will be liable to the extent of $1,020, 1)00. This Is the value of the Florida, her passenger fares and cargo charges. The Lloyd Itallano, or the Socleta di Nnvigazlone, as the company which owns the Florida Is variously known, purchased the Florida three years ago for $1,000,000. The value of the fares and cargo carrying charges amounted to $20,000. Although the Republic and what went down with her wns worth $2,800,000, the owners of the Florida cannot be held responsible beyond the value of the Florida. Captain William I. Sealby of the Re public and Jack Blnns, wireless opera tor of the steamship, received u rous ing greeting when they went to tho White Star line's office today to make a report of the disaster. An extended conference was held to determine more definitely the circumstances surround ing the collision of the Republic with the steamship Florida off Nantucket lightship. Captain Sealby nnd two of bis offi cers will leave for London on Satur day to make a personal report to the officers of the company there. The passengers' committee formed by survivors of the Republic held ji meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria. Reso lutions commending the bravery of the crew and passengers, especially the women, were drawn up. The commit tee adjourned to meet later, the date not being set. One of Us objects, It Is Bald, is to look after the rights of tbo passengers In recovering on their lost baggage and valuables. Captain A. M. Rusplnl of the Florida Is being highly praised for his courage and seamanship In disregarding the Injuries to his vessel after It bad been damaged In the qplllslon with tho Re public and going to the rescue of that sinking vessel and taking off her pas sengers. He Is winning additional praise for bis feat In being able to get the wreck into New York. STEEL TRUST PROSPEROUS. Net Earnings For Quarter Are Report ed ae $26,225,485. Now York, Jun. 27. Net earnings of the United States Steel corporation for tbo quarter ending Dec. 31 last were $20,225,485, comparing with 127,100, 274 the previous quarter and $32,553, 005 tire corresponding quarter a year ago. The surplus for the quarter was $5,142,451. Tho unfilled orders on band aggre gate 3,003,527 tons against 3,421,077 three months ago and 4,024,553 a year ago, For each quarter of the year there was a steady Increase In ths iimouut of unfilled orders. Tho Undesirable Castro. Venezuela's fugitive president is a type that even South American repub lics cannot afford to tolerato. A cer tain class of bold adventurer is ad mired In these days. But Castro Is one of the worst of his kind. His rule in Venezuela was not alone dic tatorial; it was brutal and vicious. Diaz Is a dictator, but his sway has been beneficent on the whole. Under him Mexico Is progressive. Perhaps he makes the Mexicans a n'atlon of children, yet ho leaves them a heri tage of manhood to Improve upon In tho future. There Is something picturesque about Venezuela's "man of destiny," born a peasant and promoted from mule driver to general, then president. However, his sins against the spirit of the age. against democracy, have been heinous. Measured by every standard of decency, ho is an outlaw of civilization, like tho pirates whose audacity, cruelty and vlclousness he has exceeded because bis opportuni ties were greater. Any nation which sees to It that South America is rid of this monster forever will come In for the whole world's applause. The title "president" Is far too sacred to serve as a shelter for tho Infamies of Clprl nno Castro. KING EDWARD TO SPAIN. He and Queen Alexandra Will Visit Alfonio and Victoria. Madrid, Jan. 27. King Edward nnd Queen Alexandra will visit Vlllagarchi on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert Feb. 1C. King Alfonso and Queen Victoria will receive the royal visitors. There will be a royal banquet and excur sions to the surrounding country and to Cortegadn, where King Alfonso has built a palace. WIRELESS ON ALL SHIPS. Bill For Compulsory Installation In troduced In Congress. Washington, Jan. 27. Compulsory Installation of wireless telegraphy equipment on nil ocean going steam ships carrying passengers is provided In a bill Introduced In the house of representatives by Congressman Burke of Pittsburg. The measure will affect New York shipping Interests more than any other section of the country and was in spired directly by the Republic disas ter. Reuben Miller, a Pittsburg million aire aboord the Republic, wired Burke urging Immediate action by congress to compel wireless Installation. Colonel Elijah Halford In Missions. New York, Jan. 27. Colonel Elijah Halford of Washington, former pri vate secretary of the late President Harrison, has been appointed corre sponding secretary of the laymen's missionary movement of the Methodist Episcopal church. JAPANESE HELD AS SPIES. Alleged Army Officers Lodged In Jail In Ecuador. Guayaquil, Ecuador, Jan. 27. Three Japanese have been arrested here by soldiers nnd lodged In Jail on sus picion of being spies in the service of the Peruvian government. It Is said they are officers In the Jap anese army. They were captured near Cuenon while mapping the frontier. They steadfastly refuse to answer questions. The best man on tho Job of clearing away snow Is getting nlong In years and works In fair weather only. But he can put nwuy more snow between 11 a. m. and 2 p. m. than the biggest shovel brigade ever mustered will dis pose of lu a ten hour day and over time. Old Sol, "that's him." When the forests arc all nationalized bumble citizens of the states who at tempt to "take to tho woods" will be likely to strike a dead Hue. The kaiser's swearing off Included the good fellow role, but his "dear public" will soon bo praying him to swear It on again. Novices at tho roller skate walk should rcmembor that tho trick Is to keep the feet, not tho eyebrows, on tho pavement. A first aid to the injured dispensary tn Capitol hill Is among the long felt wants of our aeat of government. That "truth testing machine" will be handy after March 4 to qualify novi tiates for tbo Ananias club. Pugilist Johnson's finishing blow at Burns scored also an uplift In the race Issue. rho Immortalization of "Old Abo." If controversies over a centennial memorial to Lincoln should postpone the realization of the scheme until tils second centenary rolls around. :ho memory, which some people ln iglne is in need of a prop, will run no risk of perishing "from the earth." Ihoro was majesty as welt as pathos In the hurried farewell of comrades to the remains of Sir John Mooro as tho poet describes it when saying: We carved not a line, and we raUed not a stone. But we left him alone In hti storr. In the same spirit Theodore O'Hara wrote: And alory guards with solemn round The blvouao of the dead. Moore's weeping soldiers would havo raised a stone and carved a lino but for the enemy thumping at their heels. Yet that could not help an lota lu perpetuating the namo burned Into English history by deeds' of which that lonely midnight burial was the sequel. The name of Lincoln can never be come a mere memory. Through him the republic endured, and with the life of the republic tho work he wrought is lmperlshably lntwlned. All this Is trite, and the question of the hour Is as to the place and the form of a centennial marker of the nation's respect. Opinions differ as to details, but agree In essentials. Its site should be where tho greatest num ber of Americans are to fllo past U the years to come. Its form should symbolize the appeal which the story Ns. of Lincoln make to the universal heart. In Lincoln's own time that ap peal was symbolized by tho homely title Old Abe. Idealism will over shoot the mark If it carries the mind of posterity too far away from that rugged Old Abe of 1801-5 whqm men then loved for his ruggedness. The big fine is off, and now lfs up to Rockefeller to rebate that trifle per gallon which he put on to tho cus tomer when Judge Landls got rattled with the multiplication table. The centenary of Darwin will be honored by scientists, although it la now admitted that the nature fake as sociated with his name was not orig inal with him. Uncle Sam didn't get a chance to spend that $29,000,000 Standard Oil money, so we won't have to "skin the cat" to pay It back again. Better for the husband to bear with tbo divinity he has than fly to the af finity whose cantankerousness ho knows naught of. Cubans on Their Mettle. The Cuban people never stood in greater need of the good will and for bearance of the citizens of this re public than at the present crisis in their national fortunes. The first real experiment In Cuban independence begins now. Between those Cuba who have cultivated American infk enco since 1808 and those Cubans who have assumed this Influence to be ir resistible and antagonism useless there has been little freedom for the play of autonomy in political thought If things went wrong America would Intervene; If all was well America would reap the most benefit. Such was tho philosophy of some and the fear of perhaps the majority among those natives who Interested them selves In public affairs. America was putting the whole Cuba Ubre program through. Criticism was either un grateful or useless. The late President Pal ma's long ex ile from Cuba made him essentially a foreigner, Just as his residence in the United States made him an American In thought. Looked at dispassionate ly by n thinking Cuban, Palma'a was an "assisted" regime, notwithstand ing that the assistance was spiritual, rather than militant, Implied rather than expressed. Whether it shall be to sink or to make safe haven, Cuba will now "paddle her own canoe." Ten years of pcaco nnd nverago prosperity have put the nation in good shape for the experiment. Success in that ex periment will vindicate the United States theory of what a protectorate should be. Slenklewlcz has a new novel In press. But this is merely incidental. The main thing is that be recently praised tbo beauty and attainments of American women in a newspaper Interview. Slolgbbells could bo put on the free list without causing a panic among manufacturers of the article until oar climate revives its old fashioned manners,
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