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CAUCASIAN. VQL,. XXIX. RALEIGH, N. C THURSDAY. JUNE 1. 1911. No. 21 EDITORIAL BRIEFS - t n trusts candidate for .;- Simmons has denied St, hil -nil a lot of smoke. !,:t ha;c the North Carolina t,:n: toward regulating the : r if Senator Simmons is in ;i re :n in the Lorimer 7s 'a oil a last yoa4 d-net that kins-bird has ndorsed ,. s f andidacy. v (ilenn and Francis I). v Aon rnbabiy waiting for some one to h ni a letter. tax assessment has caused Democrats to declare that in ire they will vote from prin-r.-tead of prejudice. s, s and uuserver sas uui l.orimer should resign. How o p Senators who voted for to retain his seat? ; - Henry Watter.son doesn't ,;n- all the Presidential can ,i!l be named before he even v so in the matter. i . Craig's speech at the Uni .. iMnquet at Chapel Hill sound some of the canned speeches ovt r from last year's campaign. S- i, a: ors Simmons is using thei l :u:. rtiment "frank" to reach his con-, ,.,.?,ts. Wonder if that is the only! .-h.. can be frank with the voters?! i whiskey! Twenty- UVO TO 1)0 A-heville. t;:. 1 many A?l.eville. iIU "ttiiio " ,ll-J" ! ?n tbP treets at!un uu ee? up f nrst-?iass - j tou uiit eAiJtci. iu swiii in en down in the gutter at No one objects to paying a neces-j sary ux, but a lot of them are ob ; tin:.' to paying increased taxes for :.r .v niiices and increased salaries to iv-r...rrntic pets. The Democrats should not kick on the new tax assessment (unless they in end quitting the Democratic par- tv for thev are Setting What they! voted for last fall. One of the Democratic Senators got mad with his brethren and bolted a caucus a few days ago. Suppose this was only another illustration of "Democratic harmony." State Chairman Eller and the News and Observer are now advocating Woodrow Wilson for President. But, won t it be funny if all of them have! to line up for Bryan again? Cen. J. S. Carr may enter the Sen atorial race, but if a burnt child dreads the fire, the General will pur sue the even tenor of his business me. Bryan says he is still opposed to Harmon for President, and refuses at this time to endorse Woodrow Wil ?n. Tt looks as though Bryan still has his own lightning-rod up. Locke Craig says the union of pol itics and I isiness is dangerous. Yes, dangerous to the Democratic party tor when a man votes from a busi ness interest he votes the Republican ticket. Baltimore offers $100,000 for the next Democratic Xational Conven on. Baltimoreans must expect the Iemocratic visitors to spend a lot of money in that town, as the show alone would not be worth the price. Colonel Ashley Home is another one who will hardly enter the Sen atorial race. The Colonel decided three years ago that political honors m the Democratic party come too high especially when you don't get thern. Congressman Faison has demand ed that Congress order the establish ment of a weather bureau station at Warsaw, it got too warm at War saw for Faison during the last cam paign, and he probably thinks' a feather bureau could hold things 'dwn to some extent. IWMSKVKIr IV XKW YOltK. Sf-aU ro a Jarf nn.I Hntl,uUtir T!irfrix-W!ilJ. lie Jvt iVare !! IW-fr,-,J That "t'nrishtrij IV re" Wa a "(Jrwtfr Kill Than New York, May 2. Theodore Koosevelt elood bctdde General Dan iel M. Sickles, the only urvhin di vision commander of the Ciril War. at Grant's Tomb this afternoon and aroused a Memorial Day throng to long applause by a denunciation of "a!e apostles of peace." He stirred the gathering to tumultuous cheers with the declaration that unrighteous peace was a greater evil than war. "I believe in national and interna tional peace," he said, '"but I stand for it only as the hand-raaiden of justice. Do not bo misled by the ap peals of men who want peace. You men recall that In the days of 'fi there were cries for peace, but there was no peace. There was a man who said that war was the greatest of all evils, but I believe that unrighteous peace is a greater evil. You are not to be led by the false apostles of peace, you who defied the lie told in 'Gl, when that lie was told in the name of peace. ..j stand for SOf.ai ami industrial 'peace, when it is right, but not when men riot and use dynamite. Those men who pursue riotous methods and down on last Monday the last act of members or the Ways and Means the dynamite in their effort to win the Court before its adjournment for Committee are very bitter in their re their industrial struggles are not to the summer. sentment toward Mr. Bryan. Some be tolerated, and they should be made to obey the law. "I want peace with every nation, ' and do not see any reason of any sort why we should not have it for an in- definite period as long as other na-l case. It declares that if the illegal tions behave themselves and act in combination is not dissolved and the such a manner as not to rob us of our; illegal practices stopped within six self-respect. I don't want to ask;raonths (with a possible two months stronger nations to be good to us be-! niore of illegal grace) that then an cause I fear being hurt by them, but j do ask that big nati0ns be good to ; us for fear we may hurt them. "I want to have the navy kept up. Poweriui navy is no provocation ; for war, but is a provocation for! Peace - AU nations wil1 keeP Peacei .iL - . e. i . . ! navy ana men wno Know now to nan-i Ule lne snips. i "You may think because I talk j thus I talk against the interest of ! peace. That is not so. ing profoundly In the I am talk interest of peace. I believe that every honor able method should be used to avoid war, but I will do nothing dishonor abel to avert it, nor will I enter into any agreement that people of the j country would repudiate, should! cause rise for participating in war. I "So far as my voice has weight I ; will protest against this country's! makinfr nn agreement to arhitrat.fi anvthinc nf nnv kind whirh thfi ennn- - -w - - - , try would not stand for when a test came. For instance, this country would not stand for arbitration over the Monroe Doctrine nor would they consent to an agreement permitting Asiatic peoples to come into this country in unlimited numbers. If you don't think so, go out on the Pacific Coast and talk to the people there. "I do not believe that this country should enter into any agreement un less it is prepared to keep it in good faith Beware of any other course. "Arbitration is all right under fa vorable conditions. If I had trouble with one of you men, we could read ily settle it by appointing an outside party to arbitrate, because we know that man wron't slap either of our faces. If he does, we won't arbi trate. It is just the same with inter national arbitration. I believe in ar bitration only on the understanding that international slapping of faces is not included. That is genuine peace talk." SEPARATED BY CHICAGO FIRE. Vife Xo. One Re-appears After Hus- band's Second Marriage Will Sup- j port Both Wives. Pittsburg (Kansas) Dispatch in Xew York Tribune. Peter Sharp, of this city, his wife, Anna Sharp, and their son and daugh ter were reunited here to-night at Sharp's home. The Sharps were sep arated in Chicago in October, 1871, during the great fire there. Sharp spent a fortune trying to find his wife, and, believing her dead, was married again a few years ago. Mrs. Anna Sharp never re-married, and through the Pension Office at Wash ington finally found Sharp living here. He proposes to take care of "both wives," he says, "but not as wives in the full sense of the term." "I never realized how big the earth is until I tried to find my husband," said the first Mrs. Sharp to-night. "I found our daughter six years after the Chicago fire, and I have lived with her ever since." The Important Thing. We can understand the case with which a fool and his money are part ed, but what puzzles us Is how the fool got the money to part with. Cleveland Plain Dealer. TOBACCO TRUST ILLEGAL Supreme Court Holds That it is Guilty Like Standard Oil and Must Disolve. JUSTICE HARLAN AGAIN CRITICISES OPINION He SujH That lite Court Ha Again Amended the Imw by Writ ing Into it the Word "l'iuiu!yM and "l'nmiMiuble" The People of North Carolina Protecting Against the Increase of Tavec to .Mm leui- ocratie F.travagance ami Inronipe tency CVnres .Moving Slowly Ilrvan Starts a Disturlance. (Special to The Caucasian.) Washington, D. C, May 31. The for a fitter fight in the Democratic Tobacco Compnay and it allied cor American ToDacco Company is a mon- caucus which will be held next Thurs- porations to In operating in loia- opoly in violation of the Sherman An- ti - Trust law and must be dissolved. ' This is the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States handed The opinion of the Court in this;of case follows the same general line as n the Standard Oil case. The decree of the Court in the tobacco case, how-s ever, goes further than in the oil injunction shall be issued to prevent; the trust from doing any interstate! business or else a receiver will be ap-! pointed by the Court to take charge - mupen, oi ine company Why che decree of the Court in the on:ase should hav been different; 4 V,: 1 i " ! f"u V ! uiu&uc, man in me oiner, no one uas; veutuieu iu e-i)iain, ouc ii is not. probable that the Tobacco Trust' will suffer any more from the court's rul- ings than will the Oil Trust. Mr. Justice Harlan Again ProteS-taC Justice Harlan again protests against the opinion of the Court in this case as in the Standard Oil case. He says that he agrees with the de- cision of the Court in both cases that the Standard Oil Company and the sed b tne people themselves in! American Tobacco Company are ille-; the court of Jast resort the court of ; gal combinations in violation of the!the le If neither political party: anti-trust laws in every respect, but) has any more rignts in tnis court than; that he Can not assent to the ODinion i A i i.' - of the Court when it eoes out of its . nay lu say mat iu ing the anti-trust ration must commit (unduly or unreasonable) of trade." He says that tbe trusts j 1 rtC4. i x nave, ior mieeii years ueen trying to get Congress to amend the law by in serting the wrords "unduly or unrea uC su.iijr vai- advantage of the other. What is; ""l , , " : . - I"," a "f tra, laws that a corpo-! a ... JLty? ,t a division of determining what restrain a of trade sonable" and that Congress has per-! . ;ourt th b n t box of sistently refused to do so. He also!,, people " ' ! says that the trust lawyers havej Thig P sound reasoning every ! during the same time been urging thei . f u If tQOSe who are 'clothed; Court on every occasion to so amend',... ... nnvr tn maU lawa woum the law by construction, and that inact upon and be governed by the every case me ourt nas not oniy re-. fused the appeal of the trusts, but has time and again declared in all opinions that any contracts in re-! straint of trade were unlawful and that the anti-trust act was too plain a need any construction. The Object of the "Unduly" ami "Un reasonable" Part of the Opinion. Justice Harlan next points out thei, fJ. . . . . tHtt ?crr,t' . . holding elections, and of the dignity fact that inasmuch as every member, , a . , ,4 , . koii c t 4 , that should attach to the ballot, could of the Court agrees that the Standard; . Oil Company and the American To-j bacco Company are both guilty of vi- olating the anti-trust law under any and every possible construction of the law that it is unnnecessary and strange that the Court would go out of its way now to read these words! miu tut; iaw . xie sav s tuat uuiy iuc 4.1. 1 tl. AT J. 1 i.Ur future can show the effect of the; Courts thus usurping the legislative; power to amend the law. He sug- gests that its only purpose can be to let some trusts escape the law in the; iuiure or 10 let on ngnier an iue; trusts in complying with the law . one fact now stands out surprisingly! bold, and that is, that all of the trust lawyers are praising the decisions and the stocks of all of the trusts are ris ing instead of falling in Wall Street. This is significant if not unfortunate to say the least. The Increase of Taxes in North Car olina. A prominent Republican from the western part of the State who was here yesterday said that the Demo-' cratic scheme to increase taxes in the State would continue to attract more attention than even the decisions of the Court in these two great trust de cisions. He said that in many places in the western part of the State that the tax assessors under the new tax law of the last Legislature had as sessed the value of land at from 50 per cent to 100 per cent, and in some cases much higher. He said that the t thai all ta.t-yr mlitt-i nei !:&orrHC Efeat Iter of ixtt on th :r property. Tt ieo;! 3 th Stat are thu jit bec:&&'rjjc to rr!ti ite s meaning of DfiaiKntir eiragafcc ar-d ir. competent. b!- er alrle. more Umd Imm, ac.4 therefore higher taie to foot the ; bills. ngrr !oin$ Skrolr. ' There is now little propect of the Home and Senate agreeing on any important leglilation There is l ready talk of Congress taking re- s ces until fall. llryan Cauv Ilrrew. Col. William J. Urvan's attack on the Democratic House leader for lheir fositon on the woolen schedule has created quite a stir among the Democrats at the National Capital. Ile cbarged that Mr. Underwood and but apparently ashamed to own It., Mr. Underwood to-day replied to the statement made by Mr. Bryan, deny- ing the charges. The prospects are day. Bryan is advising his follow ers to bolt the caucus if they cannot defeat the proposed woolen schedule. Congressman Underwood and other the leading Democrats fear that Aryan's Party, activities may disrupt the Till: BALLOT BOX. It is the Most August Court on Karth. Knoxville Journal and Tribune. Mr r n Samuel of Palhnun in thig g e , wha w,n stitute a fair election law, and the necessity of such a law, in the Nash- m Tennegsean Here is a part of what he says, defining what is a "fair pl(:jrtln ,,,.. A that wiU prevent any party from gaining advantage over anather Darty at tue election The ballot box is the property of the people and not the property of any political party. I It is the most august tribunal in thei world, the greatest court on earth, j It is the people's court. It should be! safeguarded and protected so the ver-j diet of the people shall be uncon-i taminated by fraud. From such a I j verdict there is no appeal, for it is th -n th ,w nf thA ip PX; farsfri ere e !ly kit! &4 llllll IIHI lllllll II Al Jdl LV. LUCU 11U IU" snoum De passea to give euner pany ; parHeV Bei a"U "UUOruy paiLlCS. UCLaUBC more of the people are on one side; is no reason that the majority side, choii havo Qnv mnro rights nr favors ni.inn,nae cn iMriv pmd witb ro Luchlf orce laid down by Mr Sam. ! j th state would no more be dis: ' . . b partisan contentions over graced by part the enactment of election laws. W'e do not happen to know Mr. Samuel, do not know if he is a Dem ocrat or a Republican, do not care to know, he is right and that is enough W'V, V,. enra ahnnt tho mimftsp of nut ue i in y i u cva uuu. Xo good citizen of any party will take issue with him in what he says, no man who takes issue witn mm can i be said to be in ail respects a good citizen. To hold an election for the sole benefit of a party or a faction is but , t-u v,.t an election Md lg tQ M. Q wm of a majority Gf the heW for other pur. R t nQt tQ be held Where a majority is made to ap-; pear through the exercise of force or 1 5i ! A. ntnmTT nnn a.-Ill iraua, it is uut majuw " not command the respect of be-nest ; people of any party. Engineers and Firemen Threaten to - j airute. Washington, D C, May 30. Ai new wage demand is being made up on the Southern Railway. With that of the two thousand or more firemen yet before the system's officials and their action in doubt, a committee of twenty, representing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, arrived here to-night to push a claim of the engine drivers on the Southern for an increase of approximately 25 per cent over their present pay. Some time ago a slight Increase was allowed the engineers. They now believe that was inadequate. Strike talk Is heard from the en gineers as well as from the firemen. . ... , . ..." ...anti-trust law, so as to can ior me acts that "are , , , T ; were roroiaaen Dy tne act. in mis mat aicjfh . nn nolitieal Questions. In . . in restraint Z7. 7 .1 i ' respect the division or tne court was HITS TOBACCO TOUST Supreme CourU Holds That American Tobacco Co. is in Illegal Combination. ORDERS DISSOLUTION The trciioo Affrrt Silt Ar?v Iran Corporation, Two lstllt CrMratka, and TrttMtw tt fllttdual I f r t!a t Ttvo Trl i tilifti an i jrmttlty to IH4n(r grate and Kenrate a 0tdita f Tranarting Huiir Within tlx llnumU tf llu law Justice ilar Ian Iteent t! Itule f IUaMn. Wahini?toii. D. C. May 2S.-The Goernmnt to-day on a eepini: victory oer the ocaile, "tobacco xrun" when the Supreme Court of the United States held the American tion of the Sherman anti-trust law. By directing; that the combination be forbidden the privilege of inter state commerce or be placed In the hau ls of a receiver unle- it disinte grates in harmony with the law with in s.x or the most eight months, th ,imrl is regarded to have dealt with the tobacco corporation more drasti cally than with ihe Standard Oil Com pany, of New Jersey, whose dissolu tion was ordered two weeks ago. Both the first and cond sections been violated by the so-called tobacco xrusi, accoruins to me roan, .oi only has it, in the eyes o fthe court, restrained wrongfully and unlawfully interstate commerce, but It has at tempted to monopolize the tobacco business to the injury of the public and of its competitors. While the decree was regarded as unusually severe, at the same time : there was a touch of leniency in not ! maKing tne comninauon an ouiiaw "now." The various elements of the com bination are to be given an opportun-: Ity, under the supervision of the' United States Circuit Court for the; Southern District of New York, of; recreation so that there may be brought about "a new condition! with and not repugnant to the law." me oiuiiioii ui me v.uu.. aB au- nounced by Chief Justice White who also delivered the opinion of the Court in the Standard Oil case. The entire Court agreed that the tobacco combination violated the Sherman - . t t the same as in the Standard Oil ca T.,ol Unrt.n olen rnr lectin with: Justice Harlan also took Issue with the rest of the Court as to the re-or- r f " r" " a;v ' " - --- Via "rnln nf ran enn In i saying that he had found nothing in;man to another In lhe same the record which made hlm at a11 ' class could only be wiped out In blood anxious to Perpetuate any new com-and R tQok more moraJ couraRe t0 binatlon among these companies.! avol(J a dueI lhan tQ aghL But wc wnicn tne ouri conceaes dl lluJ.cs i exhibited a conscious wrong-doing. The Court reiterated its determina- ' tion to follow "the rule of reason" in determining what restraints of trade . lae h Shera" Antl"Jr , unier justice uue ciautru .length the decision of the Court in and t0 8ubmlt to the arbllrament of the Standard Oil case, but did not a f)eacefui tribunal. than to subject qualify the reasoning in that case so a hole people to tbe misery and suf as to harmonize it in any particular; ferjnK and burden of heary co-t of a withthe dissenting views expressed by ; natlonal war bowcver Kotieii orcr ; Associate Justice Harlan and by other by tfae excItement and ambItIons and critics of the decision. To-night it is ; glory of a 8UCCeggful conquest regarded as settled that the "rule of reason" will prevail throughout tho Vx.Vrl(ient I)Ua fo? SpaJn. land in the interpretation of the Sber- rtLTr.,ct low until -t insist th Vera Cruz, Mexico, May 30. Tn o, ,,o,i,. .t,,. es or the Sherman Anti-Trust law is .""'w "J amended. Canada, dean of the corpa. paid their In reality the decision was nothing, Iast respect to General Dial thU less than a deliberate exemplification i morning. The ex-Preildent greeted of the application of the "rule of rea-;a11 guesta cordially and had a pleas son" to "undisputed facts." From ( act word for each, the date of the organization of the! General Diaz, accompanied by Sen first combination the Court found jo Diaz, Porflrio Diaz, Jr., and hi that there was a purpose to acquire ; wIfe flre grandchildren and other mintnn rnnrni nt th. tnhaerfi more remote members of the family. the mere exertIoQ of the; contract and toi 0 trade but by methods devised in or-!1" 5ai "r apam tee aame nim or monopoUze the trade by drlv.the following day. competitors out of business. This ' purpose was carried out ruthlessly ac-j i I'MrillTlV 1(1 I MM 1 (111 I I II 1111 IIP- - - " - ...o , - r sumptOI1 that to work upon the the- ory or play upon the cupidity of corn- petitors would make successes possi ble. Such action viewed In the "light of reason" as regarded by the Court was violating the law. On practically every point on which the Government appealed from the decision of the lower court, it scored a victory to-day. In the first place, James B. Duke and the twenty eight other individual defendants were held to be parties to the unlaw ful combination instead of being freed from further responsibility In the case, as directed by the Court be low. (Continued on Page 7.) tea ,tii3 4Vr&ir f . Ir--5st . . . . . . . a. i "4?. tot ..i a Tc'i: rd t:ti4ft4 tfce Jeiy ?4 ? AfttSMtt? t tr ttr !?-: drtt ;!. T"Su r.4 of otier fisie Jr. a!otgiU aa4 hf fftar 4 air. Tft. ith s-rrry of Wr Sttssa. rs hiMlr,c up to th l&r r4 ass phihtrr tbef -f f'atlf tea tae4 -an4 ;:.! !e tr. he r.4 rro45 aKut if? ;-ekr '.r.4 It probtS ti vtiomi itt;j?-i fe4 raot UrceSy tUr4l ts?nrUl d? celebration Wbi&Ktoa h mms "Far hf u from me' jaid tb Premident. 't mlRlsjit n any y by the ufs-tior lh debt o to tho men buffed her, who frr14 on the ucc-f ui vtrufsU tht rc- u'ted in the abolition of the ratcr of ulavery and hSch seemed Jnefadl cable Mtp by :;cb at) afu! taua ter of the brtKhtet fitsd brjiet and bt f the nation youth and mas hood. "I i-hall not ttop to 4Ucaa telb er it m'.gbt have I -en j.Mible to ac complUh the tarae great reformi hf milder nuihtuSt. Whether that bo true or net. the upren aacr'fic of these nun ho lie about u. In lh aue f adtancinc Irjmanlty can never t U n-d or ob urrl by uch a suggestion. But tbn thought at u ,hat t.(U Jn hc hj.,,owt.tl rr,.aco of thee dead whose ideal of patriot Ism and loe of their countrymen It needed a war to make everl&atinjtly evident, ue should abate no eSfort and should strain eery nerve and avail ourselves of evry honorable possible device to avoid war in tho future. "I am not blind to th aid in creat nj? Mimly manhoot, thal thc rnmury discipline we tsee In the standing arm ies of Kurope and in the regular army of this country furnishes, nor do I deny the Incidental benefit that mar grow out of the exlgenclea aad se quelae of war. But when the books are balanced the awful horrors of either Internecine or International strife far outweigh the benefit that may be traced to It. .. ug ,cav? thU beautlfu, c,ty of the natIonal dc.af, th.rt.for wita tbe deepest gratitude to the men whose valorous deeds we celebrate and whose memories we cherlth, with the tenderest appreciation of the value of the examples they have set, but with a determination In every way possible consistent with honesty and manly and national self-restraint to , avoid tbe necessity for the display of that , Ulf-acriflc ti.t . .... commemorate to-day In them." n was not 80 ,on ino 1 re1' -'iuent saia. wccn an intuu ny on have progressed away from that Idea. he gald If that be true now, why may It nQt b? true Jn the near future of naUons? Why wlH ,t not ghow more Patriotism and more lore of country to refuge tQ tQ war fof an niuH consular corns, renresentlne sixteen i . l - . .1 V. .i . .1 ll'llll. it- will go aboard the iteamer Ypiranga to-morrow afternoon. The steamer . . .. ... Xegro Kill Wife and Then Attempta to Commit Suicide. Wilmington, X. C., May 30. Fol lowing his wife's leaving him Thurs day of last week, William Stepney, colored, to-day shot the woman as she was on her way to attend the ex ercises at the Federal Cemetery. He called her in to the yard of hU home, and without a word of warning fired. After giving directions to several ne groes who rushed up as to where he wanted the body of his wife burled. Stepney drew a pistol from his pock et and fired two bullets Into his side. He fell with his head on hU wife, and was in that attitude when the coroner arrived. The woman died instantly, but Stepney is at the city hospital and will probably recover. 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