SUGAR TRUST CAUGHT AGAIN!
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Farmers of the Future
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Giw fAe Boy a Chance-Everywhere They
Are Showing What They Can Do
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WANT to take my hat off to the five thou and Indiana boys
who belong to county corn clubs in that state. Thee boys
mm A snow tne meme wmcn inanea uw uv ui mi
T CKf things. No one questions the value and importance of the
I work of these five thousand boys; and when such sturdy,
it l manly fellows, without any soientlflc training, can go out
Sv S? , , . i.i. A ..11.1 nt frftm 7S trt
anu pitwi ana uuiuvate vuiu wu get v -
100 bushels an acre, we need have novfear of the permanen
cy of aerlculture In Indiana. While college experimenters
and scientific farmers are doing their utmost to get increased yields, these
boys are showing us how to do things and get results. They have the ca
pacity to absorb practtoal knowledge. They are capable of growth along lines
which mean the most good for the agricultural interests of the state, and for
this reason they should be given every opportunity to mingle and work with
progressive men. Not all farmer boys will have an opportunity to take a four
year course at college, yet many of them can attend the "short course," and
most of them no doubt can attend institutes and corn show and learn what
other men and boys are doing. Indiana, Illinois and Missouri boys hare the
energy and they have the temperament to do great things. Now, give them
the opportunity. Let them work out these hard crop problems la a practical
way. Give them a chance to show their worth.
Here is what the "short course" at Madison, Wis., did for a bright German
boy. While at Madison he learned how to raise oats so that it would make
good seed. So when he went back home he told his father that it would pay
to clean their seed thoroughly and keep their fields clean. The weed seeds
were cleaned out of their Beed oats and the field was gone over twice and all
weeds pulled up. The oats were carefully shocked and carefully graded before
they were offered for sale. The whole crop of 1,400 bushels was sold at 75
cents a bushel for seed. That was three years ago. That boy set the pace for the
boys in his county, and now many of them are growing seed cVops, which Uiey
are selling at from 10 cents to 25 cents above the market price. New York
Tribune.
? Women in Industry
She Is There to Stay, and She Weeds the
Suffrage
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By Katiimrtne Houghton Hepburn
P women's health is Injured by their present conditions of
work, then for the good of the race something must be done
about it. Either women must be forced out of Industry or
special legislation must be enacted to protect women work
ers. Women have gone out of the home into the factory
because their work has gone out of the domestic system
into the factory system. They have simply followed their
work, and any attempt to force women workers back Into
the home would necessarily be accompanied by the forcing
of industry back into the old-tasnioned domestic methods of production. This
is obviously impossible. If we cannot force women out of Industry, then, as
existing conditions are disastrous to their health, we must enact special legis
lation to improve these conditions.
Xow, one of the best ways of improving the conditions under which any
class works is to give that class the suffrage. Legislators make the laws reg
ulating the conditions of work and hours in factories, and legislators, natural
ly, pay most attention to the lnteresis of those who elect them. If the work
ers are women and are therefore in need of special legislation for the protec
tion of their health, one of the surest ways of securing that legislation Is to
make the legislators dependent on the votes of women as weU as men for con
tinuance of office.
Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, in upholding the
constitutionality of the Orejlon law limiting the hours of women laundry work
ers to ten hours a day, said: "Her physical structure and a proper discharge
of her maternal functions having in mind not only her own health, but
the well-being of the race justify legislation to protect her from the greed as
well as the passion of man." Justice Brewer believes In woman suffrage as
a potent factor in securing such legislation.
j Love and Life
Ey Elbert Hubbard
HEY say that love U blind.
Love, perhaps, is snort sighted, or inclined to strabis
mus, or sees things all out of their true proportions, magni
fying pleasant little ways Into seraphic virtues, but love is
not really blind.
The bandage is never bo tight but that it can peep.
Then, look you, the virtues you behold in the beloved
you really make your own.
The only kind of love that is really blind and deaf is
platonic love.
Platonic love hasn't the slightest idea of where it is going, or what la
going to happen, and so there ore surprises and shocks in store for It.
The other hind, w4th eyes a-peep, is better.
I know a man who has tried both.
Love is progressive.
All things sleep, or become something else. And often they become
something else by dying.
Behold the eternal paradox!
The love that evolves into a higher form is the better kind.
Nature is intent on evolution; yet of the myriad of spores that cover the
parth, most of them are doomed to death, and of the countless rays sent out
by the sun, the number that fall athwart this planet are Infinitesimal.
Disapponted love, or love that la "lost," often affects the individual for the
highest good. '
Love is for the lover, just as work Is for the worker. ;
Love in its essence is a spiritual emotion, and its office seems to be aa
interchange of thought and feeling; but sometimes, thwarted in its object, It
becomes universal, transforms itself Into sympathy, and, embracing a world,
goes oat to and blesses all mankind. . ,
The love you give away Is the only love you keep. New York American.
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.i Trade Stagnation
fijr Andrew Hutton '
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fMMMSM ESPITB the optimistic talk of- trade revival and returning
; , X prosperity, business is nearly as bad as ever. We are told
IV J 'that the money and credit situation has improved, but the
. I . . Z actual business Condition remain nnalroroA Thi ivmum
' .- has had rood times and but Uiw rirrril r. n.nn aw
system, and ' we have had bustneso depressions in every
civilized country under nearly every kind of Bnanctal sys
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forth as self-evident. ' All laws and systems of taxation that (end to present
the consumption of wealth from keeping pass with is production are clearly
storing up a panic . - t ' - .-. -
' The problem before us, and Cite only on worth a sensible man's consider
ation, la how to free Industry from the unjust taxation that It bow bears, so
' as to aUow capital and labor to employ theraeiTes profiacUvelr. -. '
Girtoon by C. B M ojl-y, in the New York World.
PRESIDENT WAS WARNED IN 1906 OF SUGAR FRAUDS
Receiver Earle Admits Be Pleaded With AdmlnlstratlOB to Prosecute and That
?o Divulged Both tlio Welgblag Frauds In New YorK and tne Rebate Practices-Nothing
In Fiction to Equal It, Says Ear!e-Hsost Dramatic
Intense, Intricate Crime In Cunning Ever Brought Before Any
Court In My Time" I Dave Details; I Imperatively Need
Year Aid," He Wrote the President.
Philadelphia, "In common with
every other good citizen, 1 am at the
service of my oountry," said George
H. Earle, Jr., receiver of the Penn
sylvania Sugar Refining Company,
when asked whether he would aid the
Government in a criminal prosecution
directed against the heads of the su
gar trust.
Those who knew Mr. Earle keenly
appreciated the Irony of his remark
when they recalled that he had plead
ed with and petitioned President
Roosevelt and Attorney-General Bon
aparte in vain to institute or to per
mit him to institute just such crim
inal proceedings as are now threat
ened by the present Department of
Justice. As Jong ago as November,
1906, Mr. Earle now admits, he
warned President Roosevelt and his
Attorney-General of the welshing
frauds in New York and rebating
practiced by the sugar trust, but no
action was taken.
Earle's Personality.'
Mr. Earle is the son of the late
George H. Earle, Sr., one of the fore,
most lawyers of the Philadelphia bar.
The son, himself a lawyer, is the ex
ecutive head of five of the largest
banks In the city. He has rescued
many concerns from the graveyard
of high finance, was too busy to be
Mayor of Philadelphia, is not
"asrainst" trusts. Is worth $5,000,000.
but lives on one of his many salaries.
and his hobbies are coins, first prints
and a model farm. He was offered
$100,000 for reviving the Real Estate
Trust Company, and went into court
and told the Judge that his services
were worth only $50,000, and he has
not yet collected the $50,000 because
"the company needs the money more
than I do."
While a financial genius Mr. Earle
has absolutely no ambition for great
wealth or political preferment and no
desire for social glories. Upon his
unsupported word the 55,500 depos
itors of the defunct Real Estate Trust
Company turned over to him all that
was left oM7,600,000 deposits at the
time of the crash, August 28, 1906.
and every stockholder in the company
assigned his property to Mr. Earle
without "recourse or recovery," with
out a scratch of a pen to safeguard
the equity.
"It would be manifestly improper
for me to discuss any phase of the
sugar truBt case at this time," said
Mr. Earle, "because I am still an offi
cer of the court in my capacity as re
ceiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re
fining Company."
"Does the same apply to the Gov
ernment and its agents?" he was
asked.
"Oh, yes, I suppose so. They did
not care to discuss the case two or
three years ago, and I prefer not to,
talk about It now, for the more par
ticular reason that we have agreed
upon a settlement and I consider it
hardly fair to agree to a settlement
and then participate in an expose of
the other party to the bargain. Then,
too, I must keep in mind the fact that
the court has yet to review tho terms
and conditions of our settlement, and
I tnlght be subjected to some criti
cism for commenting upon tho case
at this time," .
Gave Warning to'lKJ6.";iv 1
"Is it true that you directed the
attention of the Government to the
scale frauds and rebating mors than
two years agot"- :? ': j
"Mr. Frank 1 Neall. of ; Peter
Wright's Sons, -told me about these
frauds so long ago that I cannot now
fix the date, but I certainly wrote to
the Attorney-General about them on
November 8," 1906, as ths papers In
the Pennsylvania Refinery case will
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"I am not fixing responsibilities.
I am not naming men who performed
their duties, nor am 1 pointing out
any one who failed to measure up to
their responsibilities.
tlon of discussing this case In any
phase for publication. It would be
discourteous to the court. What I
have said I will stand by. What I
would like to say is another matter.
I will repeat, however, that fiction
knows no story equal to the cold
blooded facts in the conspiracy which
has been proved in this case, and I
shall always consider myself amply
repaid for ray work in this matter if I
get nothing more out of It than the
satisfaction of having been a player
in what I consider the most dramatic,
Intense, intricate crime in cunning
ever brought before any court in my
time."
That Mr. Earle put this "crime in
cunning" squarely up to President
Roosevelt soon after he learned of It
is proved by his letter dated Septem
ber 21, 1906, in which Mr. Earle, ad
dressing the President by name, said:
"I have all the details of this con
spiracy. I believe I know the indi
viduals responsible for it.
"I represent but a body of Innocent
stockholders and creditors who have
incidentally been crushed by an effort
to plunder the whole people. You
represent that people. I imperative
ly need your aid and co-operation.
With it I feel assured that Justice will
be done; without It I may be myself
crushed In the effort to obtain that
justice for the smaller body which I
represent; but with It or without it,
no consideration that I have been
able to give this subject hag enabled
me to feel that I can possibly absolve
myself from the duty of going on,
with you, if such good fortune awaits
me; without you. I must act alone.
Documentary Evidence.
"I have not gone into the details
of this matter. The details I have,
and they are at your service, or that
of the Attorney-General of the United
States. Of course you will under
stand that all this I have upon infor
mation; but one of the peculiarities
of this crime has been that the par
ties engaged In It, whether made reck
Ices by past successes and immunities
or not, have left a perfectly Incon
ceivable amount of documentary evi
dence of what 1 believe to be their
crimes.
"I am overwhelmed with the duties
of this receivership. It is compli
cated and trying beyond words. But
I trust that you will understand that
I shall at any moment give up any
time necessary to Inform you of ths
conditions that I have found exist
lng."
Earle Appealed to Moody.
President Roosevelt acknowledged
the receipt of the document through
his secretary's secretary. Six weeks
later Mr. Earle addressed a last ap
peal to the then Attorney-General,
William A. Moody, who now sits upon
the Supreme bench of the United
States. In his letter of appeal Mr.
Earle gave Attorney-General Moody
an outline of theessential evidence
In his possession, and In closing said:
"Standing alone, is this a case that
the Government of the United States
can afford to ignore? Has there ever
been another like It In wickedness?"
In Justice to Mr.' Moody, It la right
to set out with particular emphasis
the fact that he was then about to re
tire from the Roosevelt Cabinet to go
upon the Supreme Court bench.
It was agreed by all parties con
cerned that It would bo manifestly
Improper for him as Attorney-General
to pass upon a case which he as
a Justice of the highest court Jn the
land might later have to pass upon as
a Judge. -j . '' -s
Months later Attorney-General Bo
naparte, after carefully reviewing the
correspondence and 'without calling
for the more detailed evidence at
hand and at his service, solemnly
wrote to Mr. Earle, setting out his
belief that the Knight case finally
disposed of the matter under discus
sion. That was the end of It, so far
I must not be placed in ths post- ju Mr. Bonaparte figured In ths case.
Skimmed Milk Sale illegal
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j Albany, K; T--Accordlng to a d
eision of the Court of Appeals the
sale of skimmed milk In New York
Cjty eaa be stopped.
Th court sustained ths lower
courts to overruling a demurrer of a
dairy company to an action brought
by the State to- recover a $5000 r
alty for selling skimmed milk. The
company demurred on the rround
tnt the statute under which tne ac
tion was commenced was snctmi...a
Liquor Man Warns Trusts That
Properties May Be Confiscated.
Atlantic City, N. J. Charges thai
big corporations have financed anti
saloon movements are given as ths
reason for the warning Issued to ths
trusts by O. C. Dempsey, of the Na
tional Liquor Dealers' Association.
Chairman Dempsey declares thai
prohibition laws hare acted as prac
tical confiscation of ths breweries sod
distilleries, and eya that stmiiat
lei'stion levellPl st corporator ;t
would vs prsciics!'.y ths sas-s ef
fact oa t..eir propen-js. , .
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PIRATES WIN GREAT
STRING OF VICTORIES
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Hoodoo of Losing , Home Ground
Games touted.
If any doubt still lingered in some
obscure corner of fandom that those
fighting Pirates had routed the hoo
doo that brought defeat to them so
often on the home grounds In past
years, Clark's warriors certainly re
moved It during the past'week.
There hasn't been the faintest sign
of a let-down in their wonderful work
at the park where they could do little
better than break even in other sea
sons, and Instead of going to pieces
every other day after striking their
home lot, the local pennant chasers
actually improved in their all-around
play unut they had hung up tne long
est string of successive victories re
corded this year In the major league.
And it cannot be said that the Buc
caneers' sensational success has been
due to luck or that it has been the re
sult of meeting weak opposition. On
the contrary, all clubs have appar
ently looked alike to Clark's hustlers
WILL JOHNSON CRAWL OUT OP
KETCH EL MATCH f
Big Negro Has Developed Into Great
Jumper ef Contracts and He la
Somewhat -..Fearful of .
- , Stanley.
Never is pugilism without Its alV
absorbing question. This time it is,
"Will Jack Johnson crawl out of his ,
match with Stanley Ketchell as ho '
has out of his matches with Bam
Langford and Al Kaufmann?" Tho '
big- black has come to realise that
Ketchel is a pretty hot proposition
In fact, about the hottest that John
son caq stack himself up against out
side of Jeffries.
Of course, as soon as the question
is put before the house, discussion
follows, and in this case the 'dlscus
"sion will consist mainly of "dope.' .
Here-it Is: -i
"Ever since Johnson became cham- ,
plon he has been sidestepping the real- .
ly good men who have been suggest
ed as possible opponents for him. Not
only that, but he has also crawled out
of all the matches that ho has gone
into when he had time to get scared
as to the possible outcome of the en
counter. True, he "fought" Jack
O'Brien, a six-round session in Phil-
adelphla, but, shucks, what was that
for the heavyweight champion to do
Ho didn't even put O'Brien "to the
bad" in the whole six rounds, and
JAMES J. JEFFRIES.
8AM BERGER.
Champion of the world Jeffries and his sparing partner who are giving ex- ;.,
hibitlon bouts in the leading citie s tois wees. 1 enrie snows ww .
form and should: be able to glT e Johnson, a sudden Jolt In his aspira-f
atibn for the championship. ?..-.-..?. .-.-.w
and they have not picked out any soft
spots on which to land their savage
wallops.
All oDDonents have fared alike, and
among the teams at whose expense the
total of consecutive victories was in
creased to sensational proportions
were the holders of the world's cham
pionship, another that Is conceded to
be a sure first-division club, and one
other that is recognised everywhere
as far stronger in every way than It
was a year ago. . -
Following the double victory ever
the Chicago champions on their own
lot one week ago last Sunday, the
starting point .of the great winning
streak, the Buccaneers came home
and met SL Louis, Boston and Phila
delphia In eight successive games, all
three being sent hiking mournfully
out of town without the solace of a
single game won from Pittsburg's pen
nant chasers. -. t'-'-'t"1
-When It Is considered that against
these same teams , la past years the
locals were seldom able to do better
than ret an even break on the home
grounds, the proof appears conclusive
that the old Exposition park hoodoo
has bees chased off ths Job during the
Pirates' final month at those grounds,
and that the same big percentage of
home games won may be e peeled aft
er the shift Is made on June 80 to ths
new Forbes field, j w
-And if this proves to be the case
It Is mighty difficult to -see how any
other National league club Is going to
wrest the 1909 pennant from Clarke
and his gallant crew. Inability to win
on ths home grounds has been the
principal obstacle In the way of Pitts
burg's flag success in 'past seasons,
and with this removed, it must be ad
mitted by even the fans of rival cit
ies that only misfortune or a long
run of what the players call . "bad
breaks' can prevent' .the Buccaneers
from capturing tho ; championship.
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. KLAUS E COMING CHAMPION.
. New York. Thero is considerable
talk about Frank Klause In Philadelphia,-
as being the next man to battle
for the middleweight championship.
Good Jusges. of boxers who - saw
Klause beat Harry Lewis all over the
ring until he was deliberately fouled
in the sixth round say Klause has
shown wonderful improvement la the
past six months, and the Fittsburger
is finding it 1 r4 tn et a match.
Klause and Hu?o KeUy wiw at MB
burg on J-. ii - ..' ,
here's a little fellow from out of the
West who wallops Philadelphia Jack
so hard In two rounds and foty sec
onds that the referee has to stop It
to save O'Brien from probable disas
ter. '
So much for that There may bo
a dosen folks between here and tho
Hawaiian Islands who think Johnson
might beat Ketchel in, a finish fight.,
but they have never seen both men
perform In the ring. - ,
Now as to this Johnson reiier:
has developed greatly since he won
the title from Burns as a jumper, in ..
fact, Johnson can Jump a bigger pile) .
pt contracts than any of his prede- ,
cessors in the pugUlstie' world.x-:-.
Johnson's action tn" Insisting that ,
the battle between himself and Keto
hel be limited to twenty rounds shows
that he Is afraid of the Westerner, and (
als6 shows plainer than anything else
that the big black is very confident 0
that he cannot knock out Ketchel In .:
twenty rounds. If he thought hw ;
could. h wouldn't care if the contract r
called for a million rounds, .
Another thing that it mlsht be well
to bear In mind: Ketcba 1 a verv- v
hard man to hurt. A I" one of'
today. . The further the fight goes, tho
better his chances with a man like
Johnson. - It will take only oneof
Stanley's punches to make Johnson
take It on the run, and theu--weli,.it
will be all off..,-.s ;.
There Is) no better "keeivnway"
man lfl the rlntthan Jack O'Brien.:
He Is probably the greatest sidestep
per and retreater ever.' Certain It is
that he Is at least as fast aa Jctin
son. If not faster r ' he surely was
about three times as fast as Johnson
when they met In Philadelphia. And
if O'Brien couldn't keep away from
Ketchel for two rounds, how can John
son hope to keep away for. twenty;
rounds? t. w,, ' . ''"
Jimmy Kelley Is Dssd. ' .
Chicago. Jimmy- Kens', a, veteran ,
pugilistic manager and tralner.idled
yesterday. ' Kelly was ons of John ,J
U Sullivan's trainers when the latter
was in his prime.- Kelly, was born
In Boston 48 years Ho,.-i';x;A'vi..
: Weston 8tll In Wyoming.
Granger, Wyo. Edward - Payson
Weston, who is walking to the Pacific
Coast, r! th day at Marston, tho
nrvt town east of Granger, waiting for
a pair of new shoes. . XZs. 1
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