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.. -.— ^TAFT GIVES VIEWS ON THE YEAR'S CAMPAIGN Still Defends the Tariff Law, but Will Help Revision of Some Schedules. HIS LETTER TO ' M’KINLEY New York, Aujf. 29.- The letter of ■President Taft to Chairman McKinley, ■ of the republican congressional com mittee. on the issues of the fall cam paign. was made public at the New York headquarters of the committee ■yesterday. It is as follows: 1 assume that when this letter Is given publicity the lines will be drawn, the party • candidates will have been selected, and the question for decision will be whether we ■ shall have In the House of Representa tives a republican or a democratic major ity The question, then, will be not what •complexion of republicanism one prefers. but whether tt Is better for the country to have the republican party control the legislation l’or the next two years and further redeem its promises, or to enable a democratic majority in the House either to interpose a veto to republican measures, •or to formulate and pass bills to carry •out democratic principles. Prominence has been given during the preliminary •canvasses just ended to the differences between republicans; but in the election tojrm such differences should be forgotten. Differences within the party were mani fested in the two sessions of the present •congress, and yet never In its history has the republican party passed and become responsible for as much useful and pro gressive legislation. So while issues will doubtless arise between members of a re publican majority as to the details of fur ther legislation, the party as a whole, will •chow, itself in the future, as in the past, practical and patriotic in subordinating Individual opinions in ordei^o secure real progress. Hence it is important that after republican congressional candidates have been dulv and fairly chosen, all republic ans who ‘believe in the party principles as • declared in its national platform of 1908 should give the candidates loyal and ef fective support. If this is done, there will be no doubt of a return of a republican majority. Democratic Repudiation. Th* only other alternative is a demo cratic majority. It is difficult, very diffi cult. to state all the principles that would govern such a majority in its legislative course; and this because its party plat form.- have presented a variety of planks not altogether consistent, and because in the present congress, leading democrats in tie- Senate and the House have not hesi tated to repudiate certain of their party ph-dges and to deny their binding char acter. We may reasonably assume, how ever, that a democratic majority in the House would reject the republican doc trine of protection as announced in 1908. What, therefore, lias a republican who believes in protection, but objects to some rates or schedules in the present, tariff •act. to hope for from a democratic ma jority which, if allowed its way, would attack the protective system, and halt business by a threatened revision of the whole tariff on revenue basis, or if pre vented by the Senate or the executive would merely do nothing? Such a legislative program as that set forth in the republican national platform •of 19*i8 could not he carried out in full by one congress. Certainly if all its prom ises are executed In one administration. 1t will be within a proper time. The prec •ent congress has not only fulfilled many party pledges, tmt. it has by its course set ‘higher the standard of party responsibility f’or such pledges than ever before in the itstory of American parties. Hereafter ■those who would catch voters by declara tions in favor of alluring remedial legisla tion will not make them except with much f more care as to the possibility of its enact ment. In view of the history of the pres ent congress, the return of a republican majority in the next congress may well inspire confidence that the pledges still 'unredeemed will be met and satisfied. The Tariff. T.et us consider, summarily, the prom ises made and the legislation enacted by the present, congress: First and of pri mary importance was the promise to re vise the tariff In accordance with the rule laid down in the platform, to-wit: That the tariff on articles imported should be •equal to the difference between their cost of production abroad and that cost in this •country, including a reasonable profit foi the domestic manufacturer. A very full Investigation—full, at least, as such in vestigations have been conducted in the past—was made by the ways and mean? •committee e>f the House to determine w hat rates should be changed to conform to this k rule. A reduction was made in *)G4 num l>ers, and an increase in some 220, while 3.150 remained unchanged. The bill was •amended in the Senate, hut the proportion of increases to decreases was maintained The president here incorporates the memorandum on the bill, which accom panied his approval of it, and con tin uos: 'The bill has been criticised for certain ol tfts rates and schedules. Some of tht •criticisms are Just and some are wide ol the mark and most unjust. The truth is that under the old protec tive idea the only purpose was to make the tariff high enough to protect the horn. Industry. The excess of the tariff ovei the difference In the cost of productioi here and abroad was not regarded as ob jeetionable because it was supposed thal ■competition between those who enjovet the nigh protection would keep the prict for the consumer down to what was rea fsonable for the manufacturer. The evi of excessive tariff rates, however, shower Itself in the temptation of manufacture? to combine and suppress competition, and then to maintain the prices so as to tak» advantage of the excess of the tariff rate over the difference between the cost 01 ^production abroad and here. The Payne tariff bill is the first bil passed by the republican party in whirl the necessity for reducing rates to avoi< ibis evil has been recognized, and it i? therefore a decided step in the right direc tion and it ought to be accepted as such ■On the whole, it was a downward revision particularly on articles of necessity ano On raw materials. The actual figures oi the first year's operation of the law deni onstrate this It. must also be remembere* that the tariff rates in the new law or Imported liquors, wines and silks were in •creased substantially over the Dinglej rates, because these were luxuries and i was intended to increase the revenue. The charge that the presen; tariff is re sponsible for the increase in the prices o1 necessities is demonstrably false, because the high prices, with very few exceptions affect articles in the tariff upon whirl •there was no increase In rates or in re apect to which there was a substantial re •duction. Tariff Board. Perhaps more important than any on< feature of the operative part of the tarif law is that section which enables the ex •♦‘cutive to appoint a tariff commission o board to secure the needed lnformatior for the proper amendment anci perfec tlon of the law. The difficulty in fixing the proper tariff rates in accord with th< principle stated in the republican plat form, is in securing reliable evidence a; to the difference between the cost of pro •ductlcHi at homo and the cost of produc tion abroad. The bias of the manufae tuier seeking protection and of the im porter opposing It weakens the weight o their testimony. Moreover, when we un derstand that the cost of production dlf fers in one country abroad from that li another and that it changes from yea to year and from month to month, w must realize that the precise difference ii cost of production sought for is not capa ble of definite ascertainment, and that al that even the most scientific person cai d«* in his investigation is, after considera tion of many facts which he learns, to ex eicl.se his best Judgment In reaching , ■conclusion. 'Hie commission, however, already se 4ected and at work, is a commission o disinterested persons who will ascertai: tht fads, not in a formal hearing by ex amination and cross-examination of wit masses, but by the kind of investigate that statisticians and scientific investiga tors use When the commission complete Its work, either on the entire tariff or o any of the schedules in respect to which issue has arisen, and the work of the com mission shows that the present tariff is wrong and should be changed, I expect to bring the matter to the attention of the congress with a view to Its amendment of the tariff In that particular, ©f course, this will be Impracticable unless congress Itself shall adopt the parliamentary rule, as I hope it will, that a bill to amend one schedule of the tariff may not be subject to a motion to amend by adding changes In other schedules. It will thus be possible to take up a single schedule with respect to which it Is probable that a great majority of each house will be unprejudiced, to admit the evidence, and to reach a fair conclusion, and this method will tend to avoid dis turbing business conditions. For these reasons it seems to me that all repub licans—conservative, progressive and rad ical-may well abide the situation with respect to the tariff until evidence now being accumulated shall justify changes in the rates; and that it is much better for them to vote for republicans than to help create a democratic majority which would be utterly at war with the protect ive principle, and therefore would nave no us© for the findings of the tariff commis sion, as we may certainly Infer from the solid democratic vo}e In the present con gress against the necessary appropriation for the commission’s work. Kesults of Payne Law. One great virtue In the new tariff law, including the corporation tax, is. that taken with the current effort of the ad ministration, to keep down or reduce gov ernmental expenditures and to reform the methods of collecting the customs reve nue. it has, by its revenue producing ca pacity, turned a deficit In the ordinary operations of the government of J5S.000.000 for the year ending June SO, 1909, to a surplus in the first full year of the law, ending August 5, 1910, of $36,000,000. From a revenue standpoint, then, there can bo no controversy over the effectiveness of the new law. Increased revenue Indicates increased Imports, and an examination of our imports during the past year will dis close a most substantial increase In man ufacturers’ material, from which, in the making of finished products, whether for exportation or home consumption, has come a larger volume of employment for our wage earnors, a larger purchasing power and a greater consumption of the products of our farms and fabrications of our factories. So far, then, as such im portations do not displace home produc tion. they must be of oeneflt to all. Gen erally speaking, a full tneasuro of indus trial activity in production, transporta tion and distribution has accompanied the operation of the new law. Under the maximum and minimum provisions we have concluded treaties w;th all foreign nations, gaining the best possible terms for entrance to their markets without sacrificing our own. By the Payne tariff law we have at last done justice to the Philippines by allowing the producers of those Islands the benefits of our markets with such limitations as to prevent injury to our home industries. Again, the present law in Its corpora tion tax Imposes new kind of tax which has many of the merits of an income tax. Tt taxes success, not failure. Unlike a personal income tax. It Is easily and ex actly collected, and by an Increase or de crease in the rate enables congress with exactness to regulate its Income to its necessary expenditures. More than this, it furnishes an indirect but effective method of keeping the government ad vised as to the kind of business done by all corporations. It is one of the most useful and Important changes in our rev enue laws, as the future will show. In spite of the criticisms heaped upon It at its passage, no party responsible for rev enues or anxious to retain every means of legitimate supervision of corporations will repeal it. Interstate Commerce. The next most important work of the present congress was the passage of the amendment to the Interstate commerce bill. The republican platform favored amendment to the interstate commerce act with a view to giving greater power to the Interstate Commerce commission in regulating the operation of railroads and the fixing of traffic rates, and also favored such ional legislation and su pervision as would prevent the future over-issue of stocks and bonds by inter state carriers. After the adjournment of the congress at its extra session 1 invited two of ray cabinet and a member of the interstate Commerce commission and a member of congress to make recommen dations as to the needed amendments to the interstate commerce act. These gen tlemen reported to me, and in September last, in a speech in Des Moines, 1 fore shadowed their recommendations as I intended to make them to the congress for the amendment of the interstate com merce act. First, by the establishment of a com merce court; second, by empowering the commission to classify merchandise as well as to fix rates for classes; third, by giving the right to a shipper to designate the route by which ids goods shall be transported beyond the line of the initial carrier; fourth, by empowering the com mission to consider the justice or injus tice of any rate without the complaint or initiation of a shipper; fifth, by empower ing the commission to suspend proposed increases of rates by carriers until the '-‘orrmission shall have a chance to pass upo.i the reasonableness of the increase; sixrii. by provisions for the federal regu lation of the Issue of stocks and bonds by interstate railways; seventh, by a clause forbidding an interstate commerce railway company from acquiring stock in a competing road: eighth, by a section permitting the making of traffic agree ments between competing railroads limit ed in point of time and subject matter, and subject to the approval of the Inter state Commerce commission. These amendments were in accordance with the text of the republican platform. Subsequently, bills were drawn embody ing this recommended legislation, in which, while the principle was main tained. there were limitations introduced, as justice suggested, after a conference witli all the parties interested. The bill was submitted to the congress and after a great deal of discussion both in the House and the Senate, it was enacted into law, with many amendments which did not materially change the effect of the recommendations except to strike out certain provisions promised in the repub lican platform, to permit traffic agree ments between railways in spite of the anti-trust law, to forbid one railway com pany to acquire stock in a competing company, and to secure supervision by the Interstate Commerce commission of the issue of stocks and bonds by inter state railways. For this last was substituted a provi sion authorizing the appointment of a commission to consider the evils arising from the overissue of stocks and bonds, and the methods of preventing such evils by congressional regulation. In addition to the purposes already recited accom plished by the bill, the so-called long and short haul clause of the existing law— the one forbidding the charging of a greater rate for a less distance included in the greater distance, than for th* greater distance—was amended so as tc vest in the commission somewhat wider discretion in enforcing the clause than has been permitted by the supremo court | decisions under existing law. Moreover, interstate telegraphs and telephones, a? instruments of commerce, have beer brought within the regulation of the com mission. The bill as at present in force is an excellent bill. It is not enacted in ; a spirit of hostility to railroads. hut it i submits them to a closer and more ef fective supervision by the Interstate i Commerce commission to avoid injustice in their management and control. The Important part that railways pla> ■ as the arterial circulation In the business of the country, the 1,500,000 of their em ’ ployes and the 1,000,000 of their stockhold • ers, the importance of their purchasing power as affecting thr- prosperity of gen i eral business—all require in the public in • terest that no unfair treatment should be * accorded them. But I am glad to not* i that the railway managers have ac - quiesced in the fairness of the preseni 1 bill, and propose loyally tn comply wit! i its useful provisions. Tt was supported - by the whole republican party In con . gross, and that party is entitled to credl i for Its passage. The whole democratic strength was exhibited against it In both . houses. It was a performance of a pledge f of the platform, and only needs time rr j vindicate the wisdom of its enactment. Postal Savings Banks. The postal savings bank bill has a slmi i lar history. It is one of the great con gressional enactment*?. It creates ai ’ epoch. It institutes a system which wll * work effectively to promote thrift amoiq the poor, by providing a depository for their savings which they properly may consider absolutely safe, and will also turn Into the channels of trade and commerce a large volume of money which otherwise would be hoarded. By specific, provision it will stimulate the investment of savings in government bonds of small denomina tions, for w'hlch the bill provides. Like the tariff bill and the railroad bill, this w'as put through each house of congress by a republican majority, and was signed by a republican president. The legislation of congress in respect to the navy department Is a full compliance with the promises of the republican plat form. In spite of a proper desire to keep down appropriations, congress saw the necessity for a continuance of our pres ent naval policy and regulate strengthen ing of the navy by the addition of tw*o more battleships. More than this, it has enabled the secretary of the navy to car ry out a reform In the business manage ment of the department and a reorganiza tion of the bureaus and staff of the navy so as to contribute materially to Its effectiveness as one of the military arms of the government. Although the demo cratic national platform apparently fa vored the increase in the navy, a large majority of the democrats both in the House and the Senate opposed the policy when presented in the form of concrete legislation. Labor Legisla'Jon. iflB rcpuuncun party at trie last session of congress again exhibited Its deep and sincere Interest In the general welfare of the -working men and women of the coun try by adding important enactments to Its already long record of legislation on this subject. Practically all classes of em ployes, especially those engaged In occu pations more or less hazardous, are the beneficiaries of laws which should operate to lighten the burdens which naturally fall upon the shoulders of man. The re publican party recognized tho necessity of reducing the dangers under which hun dreds of thousands of miners work by cre ating the bureau of mines. This bill was passed for the purpose of establishing an efficient government Instrument for In vestigation, examination and report to the world of the kind of safety appliances that will prevent the awful losses of life In the operation of mines, and especially of coal mines. A second purpose of the bureau Is to perform tho same office In respect to the great Industry of mining that tho de partment of agriculture performs In re spect to tho farming Interests of the country; that Is, by experiment and Inves tigation to determine the most effective methods of mining and the best means of avoiding the deplorable waste that now obtains In the present mining methods. No more Important legislation In the In terest of human life has ever been enacted by congress than the laws of the recent session giving to the Interstate Commerce commission ample powers to define the needed safety appliances for the preven tion of accidents to employes and passen gers, and after a hearing, to require their adoption by Interstate railways. Other legislation, with respect to the Inspection of locomotive boilers and the removal of dangerous overhead obstructions, awaits the consideration of the next session of this congress, and I hopo that It may speedly be passed. The employers' lia bility act was perfected by needed amend ment so as to enable Injured employes more easily to recover Just damages. But In one sense the most forward step taken In the Interest of the worker was the creation of a congressional commis sion to report a practical bill for tho fix ing of workmen s compensation for In juries received In the employment of in terstate commerce railways, as risks In the business, to be fixed by speedy arbi tration and to be graduated according to the extent of the Injury and the earning capacity of the injured person. This Is Important, not only as affecting Interstate commerce railways, but If adopted, as furnishing a model to the country for a beneficial change In the legal relation be tween employe and employer. This re form would put an end to the vexatious ; and costly litigation through which an In jured employe must go In order to recover damages—litigation which on account of the poverty of the employe frequently serves to defeat the ends of Justice, and In other Instances leads to exorbitant and unjust verdicts. Conservation. One of the great questions which has been made a national Issue and aroused public Interest through the assistance of President Roosevelt Is that of conserva tion of our national resources. From the federal standpoint, tills concerns the preservation of forests, the reclamation ot arid lands of the government and the proper treatment and disposition of our government coal lands, phosphate lands, oil and gas lands, and of the lands known as water power sites at the points on the streams where the water power must be converted In order to be useful. During Mr. Roosevelt’s administration millions of acres of lands Included within the classes described were withdrawn In the United States proper and In Alaska, In order to await proper legislation. Doubt arose as to the executive power to make these legality, should they be contested In court. The present administration continued the executive withdrawals, but suggested, as a matter of wise precaution, securing from congress express power to make them. By republican majorities in both houses a withdrawal bill for this purpose was enacted, and now over 70,000,000 of acres have been re-withdrawn of lands Included within the classes described. Much of the land reserved as coal land Is valuable foT agriculture, and therefore congress adopt ed an entirely feasible and useful plan by which the homestead laws were applied to the surface of the land, while the coal in the ground Is still reserved as the property of the government. This is a new departure in our land laws and Is highly to be commended. In addition to this, it was deemed necessary, In order that certain reclamation projects of the government should be completed within a reasonable time, that an issue of $20,000,001 bonds should be authorized with which to secure w'ater for the settlers upon gov ernment lands within the promise of the project, the bonds to bo redeemed by the water rents for the service rendered. In this way hundreds of settlers who have been patiently waiting for the completion of the projects and suffering great priva tion will be rehabilitated. At the same time, the law authorizing the bond issue prevents the expenditure of any of the proceeds of the bonds In any of the pro jects until a board of army engineers shall report the same as worthy and feasible. Moreover, additional provision has been made in the appropriation laws for money with which to carry on surveys of unsur veyed public lands, a crying need in cer tain states and in Alaska. Thus it is not too much to say that most important steps have been taken toward the proper con servation of our resources In the legisla tion of the present congress. There re mains to be considered and settled the question of the method of disposing of these lands so that the government may retain sufficient control to prevent a monopoly In their use and to secure the public against extortion for coal, oil, gas, phosphate and water power on the one hand, and yet may give to private cap ital sufficient Inducement to bring about a normal development of the wealth con tained In these lands to aid in the build ing up of the country'. Neither the demo crats of the House nor the democrats of the Senate as a body, although their plat form formally declared In favor of con servation, have taken any active part or can be counted upon to assist materially In the solution of these complicated ques tions. Another subject of pressing Importance is that of the improvement of our water ways. The present congress has enacted a rivers and harbors bill, appropriating more than $41,000,00i> for the carrying out of a number of well defined plans for the permanent improvement of rivers and har bors within a certain period, and in addi tion authorizing contracts to be entered into subject to future appropriations by congress, aggregating over $10,000,000. The bill was subject to criticism In that It still continued the old piecemeal system and appropriated something for nearly every project recommended by the army engi neers. It is hoped and believed that in the next session and thereafter the engi neers w’iil so make their recommendations as to Indicate the projects of greater im portance, so that adequate sums may be appropriated for their completion within a reasonably short time and tne piecemeal policy of extending the construction of im provements of this kind indefinitely for years may be abandoned. Other Pledges Rodeemed. The republican platform promised thal , It would admit to statehood the territories I of New' Mexico and Arizona, and thal . promise has been redeemed w'lth suitable provisions for securing good and sen* constitutions of the states by requiring their adoption In advance of tho election of state officers, and their submission to congress for consideration, and possible rejection at one of Its sessions. All this long list of useful enactments was promised in the republican platform and has been put through by republican majorities. Congress has also enacted into law, In accordance with the promise which I made as a candidate for the presidency, a bill requiring the publication by the congres sional committees of detailed statements of the money received by them and the money expended by them in the political canvass of each congressional candidate. In addition, the presents congress has appropriated $100,000 to enable the execu tive to Investigate and make recommenda tion as to the methods by which the cost of running the government may be re duced. I regard this last as one of tho most Important parts of the admlnlstra ! tion's policy. I am confident that If full : opportunity is given, and a republican con gress Is elected to assist, the cutting down , of the national expenditures by the adop 1 tlon of modern economic methods In do ing the business of the government will ; reach to a point of saving many millions, How much the expenses can be curtailed it is Impossible to approximate at this i time. Tiie problem before the admlnlstra ] tion Is to get full value for every dollar Is disburses. | The appropriations for the last year I were more than $20,000,000 less than the I appropriations of the year before, and tn the actual execution of tho law $11,000,000 were saved in the operation of the post office department, for which appropria tion had already beon made. Future Legislation. A number of other promises remain to be kept. I have already alluded to the provisions to regulate tho le-ue of stock* and bonds by interstate commerce rail ways, to which the democratic minority In the Senate gave Its solid opposition on the ground that the central government has no constitutional power to make and enforce such regulation. In addition, there is the promised procedure to determine how preliminary lnjunotlon shall Issue without notice, and when. In substitution for this the democratic platform proposes an amendment to the exlsltlng law which would create a privileged class of lawless workmen, and would seriously Impair tho power of the courts of equity to do Justice. Then there Is the measure to promote the merchant marine engaged In foreign serv ice, to which In previous congresses the democratic party has always opposed an almost solid front. There la the measure forbidding tho acquisition of stocks by one railway company in a competing line, and there are also those bills, already referred" to, to Recure further safety appliance on railways and to establish a basis for workmen’s compensation. Thero Is also the promise of the republican platform to make better provision for securing the health of the nation. The most tangible and useful form that this can take would be the establishment of a national bureau of health to include all the health agencies of the government now distributed In dif ferent departments. Finally there Is the Appalachian forest reserve bill, which passed the House bv a republican majority. Is on the calendar of the Senate, and will probably pass at the coming session of the congress. In view of what the present republican congress has done In the fulfilment of its promises, and In view of the standard that it has set in respect to the sacredness of party pledges, I have no hesitation in urg ing all who are In favor of the perform ance of tho remaining pledges, who are In favor of progress, In favor of practical conservation, in favor of economy In gov ernment, In favor of the lost regulation of railways and of interstate commerce cor porations, in favor of a bureau of health. In favor of a proper limitation of the pow er of equitable Injunction, and who are In favor of measures to promote the mer chant marine engaged in foreign service, to vote for the republican candidates for congress In order that their wish for all this progressive legislation may be grati fied. Conclusion. In closing, it may not be inappropriate for me to Invite your attention, ana that of all (hose engaged In advocating the republican cause In the coming election, to the fact that it Is of the utmost Import ance to make this a campaign of educa tion as to facts and to clear away the clouds of misrepresentation that have ob scured the real Issues and have made it difficult to secure for tho republican ma jorities In congress the real credit due them from the country for the tremend ous task they have accomplished. If tills is brought clearly homo to all voters, and especially to the young men now voting for tho first time, and they become im pressed, as they ought to lie by this rec ord, with the difference in the govern mental efficiency und capacity of the re publican and democratic parties, they will enroll themselves with the party of con struction and progress rather than with tho party of obstruction and negation, and the resulting legislation of the Sixty second congress will vindicate their choice. News Brevities ».................................. COLUMBUS, OHIO—A Leonard avenue car Saturday ran over a half pound stick of dynamite on Jefferson avenue, near the Columbus barracks. For some reason It did not explode. The dynamite was turned over by a soldier to Police Chief Carter, who threw It Into the Scioto river. A dozen cases of shooting at and from cars was reported but no one was hurt. COLUMBIA, S. C.—For the last 20 years the liquor question has been more or less the dominant Issue In South Carolina politics. In the demo cratic primaries, to be held throughout the state Tuesday, the Issue Is clear cut as between state wide prohibition and the present local option law, under which 37 of the 43 counties In the state have prohibition. In tho six wet coun ties liquor Is sold under a county dj pensary system, with strict regulations. BOSTON—The political attention of the country gradually Is being focused on New England where, early In Sep tember, the first measuring of strength between the republican and democratic parties In the state elections of 1910 Is to take place. Vermont on Septem ber 6, and Maine on September 12, will elect state officers and congressmen. On the same day as tho Vermont elec tion New Hampshire will hold her first state wide primaries and the first under a direct primary law affecting an entire state to be held In the east. CHICAGO—Charges that tho Pull man company Is aiding the defense of Lee O'Neill Browne, minority leader of the Illinois legislature, In Ills trial on the cWtrgu of buying votes to elect William Lorlmer to the United States Senate, were made In court Saturday by State's Attorney John W. Wayman. The charge was followed almost Im mediately by subpenas for the appear ance on Tuesday before u special grand Jury of numerous officials and clerki of the Pullman company, Including John C. Patterson, division superin tendent. MANAGUA, NICARAGUA—Jose De lores Estrada, to whom President Mad ! rlz turned over the administration of , the Nicaraguan government before fleeing the country Saturday, retired ; from the presidency In favor of General T.ouls Mena, who was designated by him as action president of the republic. 1 This change of administration was In accordance with Instructions from Es | trada’s brother. General Juan J. F.s trada. the head of the provisional gov ernment and leader of the successful revolution against Madrtz. General Mena Immediately took possession of the presidential mansion. -■■ — . A Near Neighbor. From 1,1 fe. I "Waft your husband kind to you dur ing your Illness "Kind? Oh. Include, mum. M1k^» wus more loike a neighbor than a husband.'• BRADSTBEET AND DUN REPORT ON BUSINESS More Failures in August Than in Any Month Since Last March. New York, Sept. 6.—Bradstreet's Saturday said: Best reports as to fall jobbing trade still come from the lending western cit ies, and there Is apparently a fairly free movement of staples und an ap preciable Improvement In collections in the centers feeling the Impetus of the unexampled movement of grain to mar ket. At a few southern centers, too, there Is a trifle more activity, but from some southwestern points advices are that early buyers have returned home ami that house trade Is quieter. There were more failures In August ihan In any preceding month since March. The total, 934, was S per cent larger than In July this year, or than in August last year, though 7 per cent smaller than In August, 190S. Liabilities aggregated $11,933,579, an Increase of 42 per cent over August last year, but 53 per cent below Au gust. 1908. New York city has 23 per rent more failures than In August a year ago. Business failures In Canada for the week ending with Thursday last number 25, which compares with 35 for last week and 33 In the like week of 1909. Dun's review of trade today says: Tile week's improvement In Iron and stoel Is notable, the heavier demand for pig Iron being especially a proof of Im proved conditions. In the dry goods trade, notwithstanding the multitude of Idle cotton spindles, due to the high cost of production, there appears to he a better distribution of merchandise. The hide market Is also more active. Wool remains very quiet. Statistics ror bank clearings for August revealed at oneo the speculative dullness, and the fact of n heavy movement of products. Railroad earnings In three weeks of August Increased 6.1 per cent. The most striking event of the week was an advance In August cotton to 20 cents, the highest price In a generation, due to covering by Bhorts, but other months were not affected, and the crop advices put the cotton condition ns considerably better than last year with a larger acreage. The condition Is, however, under that of last month. OFFICERS DETAIN CHEROKEE SUSPECT W. J. Hunter Is Held by Sheriff Pending Investigation of His Movements. Cherokee, la., Sept. 6.—W. J. Hunter, a retired farmer ol this place, la being held by the sheriff, pending further examination on a charge of dynamit ing the home of Guy M. Gillette Wednesday night. While the evidence against Hunter Is not considered conclusive, the au thorities Incline to the belief that he may have perpetrated the crime. A possible motive which might ac tuate him to the deed Is found in the fact that he was recently In court dver which Mr. Gillette presided as justice, charged with having kicked his wife out of bed and otherwise mistreating her. He was given a Jail sentence of 25 days without the option of cash payment, and appealed the case. He Is said to have cherished Ill-will toward Gillette because of the penalty attached In his case, and Is reported to have de clared with some emphasis that he would get even with Judge Gillette. REBEL LEADER IS LANDED IN PRISON Head Man in Philippine Upris ing, Simeon Mandac, Now in Hands of the Lav/. _ Manila, Sept. 6.—The uprising in Nui'Va V izchvli led by funnon jvu.inhu, former governor of Hocus Norte, col lapsed today when Mandac. who had been seized by the people of the prov ince among whom he had sought to stir up trouble, was turned over to the constabulary. A few of Mandac’s right hand men also were arrested and his other fol lowers dispersed. It is estimated that the band of outlaws originally num bered 500. but It dwindled soon to 200, and these had but few arms. An Interesting feature of the upris- ! ing was the co-operation of the natives ; in running down the disturbers. Mandac will now - robably serve the 14 years’imprisonment sentence which lias been hanging over him sine*- his conviction for killing a prisoner while ho was governor. HOBBLE SKIRT MAY BE CAUSE OF A FATALITY New Girl, Wearing One, Falls Down and Has a Brain Con cussion. New York. Sept. 6.—Suffering with concussion of the bruin as a result of a fall while wearing a hobble skirt, Marion Stone, a girl in her teens, Is in a critical condition today in a lo ?al hospital. Miss Stone, who is a member of a theatrical company giving perform ances in an uptown theater, stumbled while descending a flight of stairs lead ing from her dressing room in the theater late last night. She fell nearly the entire length of the staircase, strik ing on her head at the landing below. Her recovery is doubtful. WASHINGTON.--Corporal W. H. Brinkmeyer, 2947 McRae ave., St. Louis, died Tuesday at Hindi* Ids, Nicaragua, from injuries resulting from a boxing bout, according to a wireless dispatch received at the navy department from Commander Davis, of the gunboat Tacoma. Brinkmeyer was assigned to the gunboat Des Moines, but for some time has been serving on land at Bluefields. He en listed in the marine corps in 1904 and re-enlisted in 1909 Nearly one-third of the economic ac tivity of Germany rests today on fem inine shoulders. LABOR UNIONS ARE SUED BY C. W. POST Injunction Asked For to Stop Agreement With the Buck Stove Company. St. Louis, Sept. 6.—C. W. Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., today filed suit in the United States circuit court tor the eastern district of Missouri against the American Federation of Labor and the Buck Stove & Range company, of St. Louis, to restrain the officers of tho latter from carrying out an alleged ten tative agreement with officers of the former to make the St. Louis Institu tion a closed shop. The case Is a suit In equity, and In cludes among the defendants Samuel Gompers, president; John Mitchell, vice president; Frank Morrison, secre tary and other officers of the federation and some 60 others prominently Identi fied with union labor In America. Tho Injunction feature of the case will be heard by Judge Smith McPherson In chambers at Red Oak, In., Monday morning. The action grows out of tho meeting held In Cincinnati, July 19, at which ar rangements were perfected between Gompers and his associates and the officers of the stove company to have lifted the boycott which had been In force during the life of J. W. Van Cleave, who died May 15 of this year. Tho complainant. Post, states In hie petition that he Is a stockholder of the Buck Stove company, and that his In terests and those of the company will suffer by reason of the proposed agree ment. A meeting between the Ameri can Federation leaders and the stove k-ompany officers has been set for next Tuesday, and It was to head off possi ble action that tho suit was filed to day. LATE KING PROVIDED WELL FOR AFFINITY Mrs. George Keppel’s Finances Were Looked After Before His Death. London, Sept. 6.—It has only Just oecome known that In his last hours King Edward's thoughts were of his old friends. Sir Ernest CaBsel was among the last to see Edward in his conscious moments. It was on the morning of his death, and the king’s last and only words to the famous financier were to look after and make proper provision for Mrs. George Kep pel. This has undoubtedly been done, but. notwithstanding Sir Ernest’s continued close friendship and support, Mrs. Keppel and, for that matter, Cassel himself, are no longer shining lights In royal circles. In fact,'all members of that exclusive set—notables who enjoy the favor of the present king and queen—know of their majesties’ dis like of the Keppel group. Taking heed, they have "cold-shouldered” the latter With the result that In the few social functions which have taken place dur ing the period of mourning Mrs. Kep pel has been conspicuous by her ab sence. RED HAIRED SIREN IS DISAVOWED BY TRUST John D. Archbold Denies That She Is Employe of Standard Oil Company. New York, Sept. 6.—Ami now it'* two to one In the mysterious case of Standard Oil's red-haired siren. First, Mrs. Lillian Hobart French, who does not care If Fritz Helnze did wed another If he pays her that $25,000 "loan," told of the flaming haired beauty who had wormod all Helnze's United Copper secrets from him for the exclusive Information of the Standard Oil coterie. Then Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston rushed Into print with the assertion that ho knew of the red-haired fascin ator employed by Standard OH to gain Inside Information of deals Inimical to the "system." John D. Archbold, vice president and director of the Standard Oil company, was Informed of the statements of Mrs. French and Mr. Lawson. Through his secretary, Mr. Archbold made this re sponse : "Standard Oil does not employ red haired sirens In its business. These statements are a tissue.of falsehoods, ridiculous upon their face and unseem ly. I cannot make my denial of these reports too emphatic. There has never been any basis for these absurdities re garding a woman such as you describe acting as a secret agent for the Stand ard Oil company.” T R U STToMP MtTmA N HALED UP FOR CONTEMPT Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 6.—rBecken ridge Jones, president of the Mississippi Valley Trust company, St. Louis, whe was brought here yesterday from his summer home at Cazenovia on a bench warrant issued because he failed to ap pear as a witness In a telephone suit was taken before Judge Benton late yesterday afternoon. It was learned today that at the conclusion of a lengthy hearing the court decided not to punish Mr. Jones for contempt, but discharged him in the custody of his counsel who is to produce him In court next week. FIGS UNDER THE BAN Barlettta, Italy, Sept. 0—Following the promulgation of an ordinance pro hibiting the eating of tigs because ol the cholera scare at Bari, 33 miles west of here, today a mob of 2.000 persons attacked and wrecked the local sani tary office and beat the employes. Car bineers interferred and in dispersing the rioters wounded 23 persons. WASHINGTON. D. C.—Approxi mately 070,555 acres of land In Ari zona and New Mexico, eliminated from the national forests by President Taft as being chiefly valuable for agricul tural purposes, have been opened tc settlement under the homesetead laws by authority of the secretary of the Interior. The lands will become .-.ub Ject to settlement November 22, but not to entry until December 21. Indian exports in 1910, fiscal year March 31. amounted to $630,000,000 and her Imports to $50,000,000, a total over seas trade of $1,150,000,000, an increase of $143,000,000 over 1900