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Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina 'Afternoon Papers in Circulation. LAST EDITION. AfiL THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES. VOLUME 27. Twelve Pages Today. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1906. Twelve Pages Today. PRICE 5c. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OF CORNER STONE WAS LAID TODAY FAST MAIL WON ON NEW COUNT MR. TOWNE WILL EXPOSE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MAN WITH MUCK RAKE ARE POURING IN COMPLAINTS Sensational Address In Which Lying Scribes and Phari sees Are Hit ASSAILS CRITICS OF OUR NOTIONAL LIFE Declares That the Liar Is No Whit Better Thun the Thief and If HIh Mendacity Takes the Form of Slander He. May IUL Worse Than Most Thieves To Attack Public Kvlls So As to Include Decent Men, and Great Harm is Done A He Hears Iubllc Conscience and Great Harm is Done -A Remarkable Sieech. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 14. President Roosevelt, at the corner stone cere monies this afternoon, delivered an address, his subject being "The Man With tha Muck Rake.' He said: Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the capital in what was then little more than a tract .if wooded wilderness here beside the Potomac. We now And it necessary to provide by great additional bulld- ings for the business of the govern ment. This growth In the need for the housing of the government Is but a proof und example of the way In which .the nation has-grown and the sphere of action of the national government lias grown. We now administer the tiff airs, of ii -nation in which the ex ttaordinory growth of population-has been outstripped by the growth of Wealth and the growth In complex In terests. The material prob'.emS that face us today are not such as they ycre. In Washington s nine, uui .-.n.iui-iuimr fuels nf human nature are the K.liue now as they were then. Un der altered external form w war with the same tondonce toward evil that were evident In Washington's time, and are helped by the same tendencies for good, It Is about some of these that I wish to sny a word today. In Hunyan's Pilgrim's Progress you may recall-.the description of the Man with the Muck-rake, the man wh.i iou:d look no way but downward.' w h the muck-rake in his hand; who was -.offered a celestial crown for' his muck rake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown he was offered, but" continued to rake to himself the Illlh of the floor. In Pilgrim's Progress the i.Ian with the Muck-rake Is set forth as tite ex ample of him whose vision Is fixed on carnal instead of on spiritual things. Yet he also typifies the man who in this life consistently refuses to see aught that Is lofty, and fixes his eyes with solemn intentness omy on cnai which Is vile and debasing. Now, it Is very necessary that we should no flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the door, and it must be scraped up' with the muck-rake: and there are times and places where this service Is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not un incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil. Th. urn In thn hodv nOlltlC. eco nomic and social, many and grave evils,' and there is urgent necessity for sternest Avar upon them. There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil man, whether practice, whether In politics, in busi ness, or in social life. I hail as a ben efactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine, or newspaper, with merciless severity mukes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack Is of use only if it is absolutely truthful. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and Jf his mendacity takes the form of slander, he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery un- .-uthfully to attack an nonesi man, or even with hysterical exaggeration t.i nssnll a bnil man with untruth. An epidemic of Indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm. The sout of e4ery scoundrel Is gladdened - whenever an honest man Is assailed, or even when a scoundrel Is untruthfully assailed. Now, it is easy to twist out of Bhape -what I have Just said, easy to affect to misunderstand it. and. If It Is slur red over in repetition, not. difficult really to misunderstand it. Some per sons are sincerely Incapable of under standing that to denounce mud sling ing does not mean the Indorsement of whitewashing: and both the lnt?rested Individuals who need whitewashing, and those others who practice mud slinging, like to encourage such coiW fusion of Ideas. One of :the chief counts against those who makn In dlscrlmlnateassault upon men in bus iness or men in public life, Is that they Invite a reaction which Is sure to tell powerfully In favor of the unscrupu lous scoundrel who really ought to be attacked, who ought, If possible, to put In the penitentiary. If Arlstides is praised overmuch as just, people get tired of hearing it; and overcensure of the unjust finally and from similar reasons results In their favor. React ton Must Come. Any excess is almost sure to invite a reaction; nnd, unfortunately, the re action, instead of taking the form of punishment of those guilty of the ex cess, Is very ant to take the form either of punishment of the unoffend ing or of giving immunity, and even strength, to offenders. The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross nnd reckless assaults on character, whether on the slump or In newspaper, maga zine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deter rent to able men of normal sensitive ness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price. As an instance In point, I may mention that one serious difficulty en countered pi getting the right type of men lo dig the Panaimi Canal Is the ccitalnty that they will be exposed, both without, and, I am sorry to say, sometimes within, congress, to utterly reckless assaults on their character and capacity. At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea Is, not for Immun ity to but for the most unsparing ex posure of the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business men wh ) makes or spends his fortune In Illegit imate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the" position he has dis graced. Rxpose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if It is attacked In sensational, lurid, and un truthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the dime itself. It is because I feel that there should be no rest in the end less war against the forces of evil that I ask thai the war be conducted with sanity as well as with resolution. The men with this muck-rakes are often in dispensable to the well-being of moral color-blindness; and people affected by il come to the conclusion that no man fa really black, and no man really" while, but they are all gray. In other words, they neither believe In the truth of the nttack, nor in the honesty of the man 'who-Is attacked: they grow sus picious of the accusation as of the offense; it becomes well-nigh hopeless to- stir' them either to wrath against wrongdoing or to enthusiasm for what hi right: and such a menial attitude in. the public .gives' ' hone to every knave, and is the elc-.pair of honest men. - - Sears Public Conscience. To nssfll' the great and admitted evils of our political and industrial lifft with such crude and sweeping generalizations as to include decent men in the general -.-condemnation means the searing of the public con science. There results a general at titude either of cynical belief in and indiffeience to public corruption or else of a distrustful inability . to. .dis criminate - between - the good and the bad. Either attitude Is fraught with untold damage to the country as a whole. The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what Is bad is well-nigh as dan gerous as the man who does discrimi nate and yet chooses the bad. There Is nothing more distressing to every good patriot, to every good American, than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter Is worse than the crack ling of thorns under a pot, for it de notes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart In which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition. There Is any amount of good in the world, and there never was a time when loftier and more disinterested work for the betterment of mankind was being done than now. The forces that tend for evil are great and ter rible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and gener osity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before. It Is a foolish nnd timid, no less than a. wicked thing, lo blink the fact that tjie forces of evil afe strong, but it Is even worse to fail to take Into account the strength of the forces that tell for good. Hysterical sensationalism is the very poorest weapon wherewith to fight for lasting righteousness. The , men who with stern sobriety and truth assail, the many evils of our time, whether in the public press, or in the magazines, or in books, are the. leaders and allies of all engaged in the work for social and political betterment. But if they give good reason for distrust of what they say, If they chill the ardor of those who demand truth as a primary virtue, they thereby betray the good cause, and play into the hands of the very men against whom they are nominally at war. Quotes Bishop Hooker. In his Ecclesiastical Polity that fine old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote: y "He that goeth about to persuade s multitude that they are not so well gov (Concluded on Seventh Page.) New Office Building is Pro vided for Congress AN IMPRESSIVE EVENT President Roosevelt Was the Special Orator of the Occasion and "Muck Rake Man" Wus the Burden of His Song--The Program and the Cemetery. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 14. In the pres ence of a distinguished assemblage with the president of the United States taking a prominent part, with the su preme court and the somite, the house of representatives and the diplomatic; corps us spectators and before a large concourse of people the corner-stone of the office building for the bouse of rep resentatives was laid with impressive ceremonies Ihl'i afternoon. The ad dress of the day was made by Presi dent Roosevelt, who spokeon "The Muck Rake Brigade." The official program as made up follows; Selection Star Spangled jbanner. United Marine Band. Laying of the corner-stone by the grand master of Masons of the District of Columbia, assisted by the -officers of the. grand, lodge. ViKfal selections, ' Octette. 'Address by. the grand master, Wal ter A. Brown. Cnrni :t. solo, Walter P. Smith. Address, Josepji (3. Cannon, speaker of the house of representatives. Selection, by the United states En gineer Band. Address by Representative William P. .Hepburn of Iowa. Selection by the United States Marine Band. . .. Address'- by James I. Richardson, former representative from 'Tennessee, and grand commander of tho. supreme council of th-j Scottish pile. Selection by' (he Engineer Hand. Address by the president of the United Slates. Selection by the Marine Band. A century and thiiteen years ago tleoige Washington, then president if the United States, assisting the aclirg grand master of Masons of Virginia and Maryland laid the coiner stone of the national capilol. Then the nation had but four million population and the city nf. Washington' but four thousand inhabitants. Previous to the.-. .ceremonies today a copper box two and a half feet long and eghteen inches wide was placed in the stone in the presence of ihe grand treasurer of the grand lojge. The box contains many rare and un usual articles together with the coins of the United States and the series- of postage stamps now in use. Unlike other boxes used for similar occasions tills box which was made by one of the employes' of the capilol has a series of small compartments arranged so that envelopes, containing the ar ticles, may stand upright instead of laying ll-.M ?s has been the custom heretofore. This box was herenieti cnlly sealed and In position when the feTand master of Masons of the Dis ti let of Columbia, '-. Walter A. Brown, began the ancient ceremony of placing Ihe corner- stone in position. The "corn of nourishment, the wine of refreshment and the oil of joy," were severally deposited according to ritual and the practice of the frater nity. The trowel for the use of the grand master was made especially and pre sented by the Sons of the American Revolution to Elliott Wood, superin tendent of the capilol building and grounds, . who lias largely had thp planning of the structure under his Immediate control. The trowel was presented by him to the grand master to be retained by the grand lodge as a memento of the day. Like the Wa.'h ingtnn gavel, which is a priceless relic of the masonic fraternity of the Dis trict of Columbia, the trowel will play no small part on future ceremonies of i. like character. AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS JAPAN (By the Associated Press.) Toklo, April 14. A violent earth quake occurred this morning In the southern part of the Island of Formosa. The casualties and damage done are re ported to be heavier than those of the last earthquake. As a result of the earthquake In For mosa last month 1,014 persons were killed, 695 were Inlured and 1,200 houses were demolished. The prosperous towns of Datiyo, Raishiko and Shlnko were completely destroyed. . The damage done was roughly estimated at $4ii,opo,-000. Narrow Escape for Thing the South Demands 97 YEAS AND 96 NAYS When the House Met Today the Record" Was Challenged and Cor rections Were Made-, But It Did Xot Change the llcsiill. Some Eulogies. ; (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 14. Reference to the special order in the house to day, eulogies to the late Senator Piatt, of .Connecticut, ; was . made in the invocation of the blind chaplain when that body mot. As soon as the journal of yester day's proceedings had boon road, several members endeavored to lake th) floor to correct the record of their voles on the Southern Railway mail subsidy. Mr. Stephens (Texas) said he'-was recorded as voting against, the sub sidy when us a mutter of fact, he was not present. ' Mr. Steenersou - (Minn.) declared that Mr. Hedges ( Iowa I who was re corded for the subsidy, was not pr s- CIK. Messrs. James (Ky.). ''. Longworth (Ohio), Clark (Flu,.), C.ilbert (Ky.), all declared they had bean put on the wrong side of the question in stating the pairs. Willi these cor rections, the subsidy remained in the hill by but'-one majority, the vote being 9ti to !i7. The special order was then inaug urated by the offering of a resolu tion by Mr. Sperry (Conn.) commem orating' the lifa and pnlilic service of. the late Orville Hitchcock Phit.t of i hat state. ,.; Mr. Sperry took tin floor to ad dress himself to the resolution and was followed by it number of other members. At. 2.1.1 the eulogies were com pleted and us a further mark of re spect, the house adjourned..:.' THREE KILLED AT GRADE CROSSING (By the Assoc iated Press.) Greenville, Pa., April 14. As a result of a grade crossing accident at Atlantic, Pennsylvania, near hero on the Erie road today three persons were: killed and two others injured. The dead: Mrs. Maud Calvin, aged 27 and her two daughters, on9 an infant and the other six years old. A daughter, aged three, had an arm and leg broken and a young son was badly cut and bruised. Mrs. Calvin and the children were in a carriage which was struck by a train running 75 miles an hour. PICKPOCKET STOLE BUNCH OF JEWELRY (By the Associated Press.) New Yoik. April 14. A pickpocket stole $20,000 worth of jewelry early to day In the Tenderloin district by feign ing need of charity, Kmilio Serges, a diamond cutter, reported to the police that while he and another man were walking together through west Twenty-Seventh street, near Sixth Avenue, they were spoken to by a negress, whu -appeared to be in distress. Serges says that she took hold of his coat while asking for money. After she had dis appeared he found that an inner coat pocket had been picked of its contents, including the jewelry which was in a small package. He says that he receiv ed the jewels a short time ago from Italy as his share of the estate of his father, who was also a diamond cutter. The police after an investigation ar rested a negro woman and two negro men on suspicion. A Handsome Mantel. The handsome new mantel being In stalled In the executive office of Gover nor Glenn is of white marble. It has fluted Grecian pilasters with Ionian capitals. There is a facsimile of the great seal of the state. It Is an espe cially handsome mantel and imparts a pleasing and appropriate tone to the executive otllee. v Records of Commission Show Freight Congestion PHENOMENAL INCREASE Railroads Paying Heavy Penult ies Because of Inability to Deliver Freight Within the Time Limit Fixed By Last Legislature A Typical Case from Wilmington Companies Kfl'erted. An unusually large number of com plaints are coming in to the North Carolina Corporation Commission as to delays in the movement of freights by the railroad companies in all parts of the state and it is said that Ihe only plausible explanation of the situation is that the freight shipments are increas ing to such a phenoniunnl degree that the roads in many instances And them selves absolutely unable In iiinvtv the freight as fast as it is tendered by the shippers. As an illustration of these complaints there was one that came in tills morn ing fiVim a wholesale merchant in "Wil mington who has delivered to the Sea board Air Line at Wilmington a ship ment, including barre ls of sugar and other groceries for which Lumberton w:i" the destination. This was March and the troods did not reach Lum- lierton until April 7, being thirteen days in transit to a point less than seventy- live miles, witli direct .connection. The last legislature passed an act pre-' scribing that railroads shall be allowed lour days within whic h . to deliver freights to destinations within h'O miles. For the fifth day a fine of $'" is prescribed and $." for each additional day's delay. The only way for the rail roads to avoid the payment of these lines is to come into court and plead an unavoidable congestion of freight for whic h they are not to blame. The statement was made In the office of the commission today that the rail roads are paying out large amounts in lUese forfeitures, the settlements being ! reached with the individual shippers j outside the courts. Tills would indicate that the railroads are simply over whelmed with the volume of freight be ing offered for transportation. Kach of the great mass of complaints that come into the corporation commis sion is taken up. through correspond ence with the shipper and the railroad company, and in nearly all instance's adjustments are made, very many of 'them being as intimated above1, adjusted by the payment by the .-railroad com pany of some damages in the way of a compromise with the shipper of the ac cumulated fines and forfeitures. MISTRIAL IN MENGES SUIT. (Hy the Associated Press.) New York; April 14. The jury, before which Morris C. Menges suit to recover $l,tHiO,iH)0 from General Louis Fitzgerald has been on trial, announced today that it had disagreed and was discharged. The jurors stood ten in favor of Menges and two against him. He claims the money in payment for an alleged con tract for services in the Western Mary land Railroad deal. Six Minutes for Senate. iVy the Associated Press.) Washington. April 14. The senate met nt 2 o'clock today and adjourned six minutes later, the only business trans acted being the reception of the postof fice appropriation bill from the house of representatives. The early adjourn ment was taken to permit the senate to attend the corner stone laying of the office building of the house of repre sentatives. SHAW LENDS GOLD TO NATIONAL BANK New York, 'April 14. Announcement that Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has permitted the National City Bank to draw gold from the United States treasury department pending the ar rival here of gold engaged by this bank for import from London was made to day. The bank was allowed the use of this government gold upon depositing bonds sufficient to cover the amount of the import. Gold engaged by the Na tional City Bank for importation from London amounts to over $10,000,000. An engagement of $5,000,000 gold In London for importation in the United States was announced today by the Na tional City Hank. London, April 14. Bullion amounting to $2,500,000 was withdrawn from the Rank of England today for shipment to the United States. - 300 HORSES ROASTED Burned to Death in Fire in Baltimore Today Flames Started in Pile of Hay and Spread So Rapidly That Animals Could .Not Be Saved Terrible Scene as Slaughter Continued. (Hy the Associated Press.) Baltimore, April 14. About three hun dred horses and mules were burned to death in a fire of unknown origin that completely destroyed the auction stables of Moses Fox, 318 'and 323 North street early today. The damage is estimated at about SOj.UejU. Tile (ire started In a pile of hay em the ground Hour and gained so rapidly that only a few animals Could be re leased before the stable hands Were forced into the street. For awhile' the large terminal ware house of the Northern Central Rail road, which stands next to the stables was threatened, but the firemen played streams of water upoii the sides of the building and thus kept the fire from gaining headway. BACK FROM WASHINGTON Gov. Glenn Had Pleasant and Successful Trip Experts to Save Several Thousand Dollars to cirtli Carolina National (J ii a r d Heard Discussion of Southern Fast Mail Appropriation in .Congress Democracy in Splen did Trim. Governor It. K. Glenn returned this morning from Washington where he says he effected the preliminary steps for a settlement of the differ ences between the accounts of the United States war department and the North Carolina National Guard that, will result in the saving of sev eral thousand dollars to-the .'.North Carolina Guard.' :" While; in Washington the Governor attended tha sessions of congress and heard one of the most heated discus sions of the oSitthern fast mail ap prialion. He says ho found the dem ocratic fo.ces there in splendid trim and the prediction is freely made and not denied by the republicans that there will be big democratic gains in the next congress. CONTEST FOR DECLAIMER'S MEDAL. W. B, Truitt of Leazer Literary Society, won the medal last night at the annual declnimer's contest be tween the Leazer, the Pllen and the Tenerian societies of the A. & M. College. His subject was "The Im peachment of Warren Hastings.' There were two speakers for each so ciety, the second one of the Leazer being ,1. S. Strowd, subject: "Affairs In Cuba." For the Pullen Society the speakers were L. It; Tillett, "The New South," and C P. Gray, "The March of the Flag." Tenarian: S. tildridge, "The Unknown Speaker," and F.: P. Ferguson, "George Wash ington As the Father of His Coun try." '.-. '.:':. The judges for the occasion Were D. It. Hill, W. C. Kiddick and C. W. Burkett, members of the college fac ulty. Each of the speakers came in for high commendation at the hands of the judges. J. W. ALEXANDER WILL RECOVER. (By the Associated Press.) Deerfleld, Mass., April 14. An of ficial statement given out today in the case of James r V. Alexander, formerly President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, who Is 111 at a private sanitarium here, shows that Mr. Alexander is slightly im- proved, though his progress toward recovery is not rapid. The two sur- gives the United States courts jurisdlc gical operations which the patient tlon in all descriptions of frauds relat underwent in New York not long ago (ng lo tne eiection of representatives or weakened Mr. Alexander, but it is ex- legates In congress and provides pected that he will recover his heavy penalties for the use of any of health. I the fraudulent means named. ' "Greatest Promiser Since Days of Judas Iscariot," He Says FILCHED RATE BILL FROM THE DEMOCRATS New York Congressman Delivers Bit ter Speech in St. Louis in Which He Praises Bryan and Denounces Koosevelt Says He Will Attack the President When He Returns to Washington and Will Show the True Character of the Man. , (By the Associated Press.) Kansas City, Mo., April 14. Repre sentative Charles A. Towne of New Yorkresponding to' a toast here last night at the Jefferson Day banquet, went outside his speech to eulogize Wil liam J. Bryan and to bitterly attack President Roosevelt. Both sentiments aroused the most intense enthusthus iasm, reference to the Nebraskan end ing in a demonstration that amounted lo an uproar. Mr. Towne did not refer to Mr. Bryan by name. "Your toastniaster has put upon me the duty of referring to our great stand ard-bearer of 1896 said he. "I feel al most that he himself in far away India must be catching the enthusiasm of your homage tonight." Mr. Towne then read from an editor ial in which sympathy was offered to the democratic editor who was wont to write columns on imperialism and free silver. 'I am as thankful as any one that the money question has worked itself out so satisfactorily,", resumed Mr. Towne. "But i cannot accept in silence the popular version of why the predicted panic that was to follow the adoption of gold standard did not materialize. The panic did not occur because since 1S96 the country has produced enough gold to supply the money market with out material increase in the silver out put. We owe our prosperity to provi dence, not to a policy. When men re fused to open the mint God opened the mines." ' Then Mr. Towne attacked President Koosevelt. "I'm going to take you Into my confidence this much," said the speaker, telling you that I am going back to Washington with the avowed purpose of exposing President Roose velt. He is the greatest promiser and smallest performer since the days of Judas Iscariot. He filched his rate legislation program from a national democratic platform and has now laid down on his own bill; he sends for legislators and lectures them like boys, and his tools consider them for a min ute. They are a speaker and a degen erate house. Nowadays there are three steps in national legislation getting the permission of "Uncle Joe" to intro duce a bill and then securing Its pas sage in the house and the senate. 1 get no show in the house. I might as well make a power of attorney to the speak er and go back home and get to work. I wouldn't stay In Congress or In the democratic party if I did not believe that democracy will eventually triumph in national affairs." It was far after midnight before the speech making was finished and Mr. Towne's response was to one of the last toasts on the program. COMMITTEE AFTER CLEANER ELECTIONS (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 14. The ' house committtee on election of president, vice president and representatives In. congress began today a series of execu tive meetings to be continued Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays for the consideration of legislation which will prevent election frauds. It is under stood that no further hearings are to be held with reference to the matter. To day the consideration was confined to the bill introduced early In the session by Mr. Bonynge of Colorado. This bill I
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