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peace conferences and talk of disarming the
world, but tliere will be battles and strife until
the earth has grown cold and the sun has gone
out. Not until then will the rivers of blood run
dry. Yet the basis of war has shifted. Battles
are now fought in an area about twenty times as
great as those in ancient times. For instance,
300,000 were slain when Attila was submerged
in the battle of the Marne. The slaughter in war
fare is not now nearjy so great as it was. War
is no longer a question of concentration of forces
and close fighting, but of wealth, of science
against science. Smokeless powder wounds more
men and strikes more at long distance. In an
cie"ht times lives were spent in war; now wealth
is spent. Then all able-bodied men went to war;
now nine out of every ten men must stay at hbme
to make money for the rest to fight with. Thus
as war becomes more difficult and men become
educated to higher ideals we have hope that there
may be le'ss of war and less of the corruption
that war brings."
ACCORDING TO THE Chicago Tribune the
number of homicides and deaths by violence
in the United States 'in 1905 was 9,212, as against
8,482 in 1904. Suicides 9,082, as against 9,240 in
1904. Killed on steam railroads in 1905, 3,142;
injured, 15,904; killed on electric and elevated
railroads, 464; injured 2,622. Commenting on
these figures, Everybody's Magazine says: "These
statistics are unofficial but perhaps they are none
the less trustworthy on that account. We murder
and manslaughter nine times as many as the
Germans, four times as many as the English,
Scotch and Welsh. America seems to be a lit
tle careless, to put it mildly."
TVRS. WILLIAM ELLIS COREY, wife of the
lVl president of the Steel Trust, was granted
a divorce at Reno, Nevada. She was given the
custody of her sixteen-year-old son. Mrs. Corey
told the court that she was married in Pittsburg
oh December 1, 1883, and May 1, 1905, her hus
band deserted her. .The following, is taken from
a Heno report pf the proceedings: ,."! followed
him arid held a conversation with, him , at the
Hoiel Lorraine,, It,, was there" he told me ho bad
decided to Jive wijth me. no longer and that I
would never see him again. There was no scene.
I urged him to resume his place in our, home,
but he refused and I have never seen him since."
Mrs. Corey testified that she had no intention of
suing for divorce when she came to Reno. Sho
said that she was in 'poor health, and that she
selected this city on the advice of Miss Corey.
Mrs. Corey appeared weak and nervous, and wept
softly as she testified regarding her domestic un-happiness.
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tSepERRING TO THE Corey divorce suit the
Jtv- New York correspondent, for the .Chicago
Record-Herald says: "Mrs. Corey was a servant
in the household of A. A. Corey when the latter's
son, William Ellis Corey,' was earning $40 a month
working in a colliery, and married her on Decem
ber 15, 1883. Mrs. Corey was, however, a mem
ber of an old Pennsylvania family, and there was
no social discrepancy in the stations of herself and
her young husband. Advanced rapidly in the Car
negie Steel company, a trusted lieutenant of
Charles M. Schwab, Mr. Corey rose swiftly to
great wealth and financial power. He had social
ambitions and, spending much time in New York,
sought entrance to the most exclusive -circles
here. He often complained in public that his
wife's dislike for anything but domestic society
and her jealousy of his mingling in social gayeties
was a great obstacle to his ambitions. Mr.
Corey became acquainted with Mabelle Gilman,
a comic opera singer, gave her expensive enter
tainments and set gossip afoot which soon
reached Pittsburg. When, in December, 1905, Mr.
Corey admitted that his wife wag about to seek
a legal separation, he said their differences were
irreconciliable and admitted his friendship with
Miss Gilman, insisting that it was of an entirely
proper character."
THE SPECTACLE OF one man defying the
courts and the state militia of Wisconsin
has been witnessed by interested thousands. John
F. Deltz of Sawyer county located upon a claim
as a homesteader, but the land was claimed by
the Mississippi Log and Boom company. The
company secured a writ of ouster and the sheriff
of Sawyer county proceeded to Cameron Dam
to oust Deitz. But Deltz barricaded his cabin
and defied the officer and his posse. The posso
fired on Deitz and the fire was returned with in
terest, one deputy being seriously wounded. Tho
sheriff retired and reported that ho would hnvo
to have state troops. When notified that the state
militia would bo called out to seize him, Doitz
sent back word that the troops would find him
in his cabin waiting to welcome them to a sudden
death. Ho is well fortified, and his wife, two
sons and daughtor are all crack shots. Deitz Bays
he is merely defending himself and his rights in
tho only available way, as he believes he would
stand no show whatever in a legal contest with
a rich corporation before the courts of Wiscon
sin. Governor Davidson will investigate beforo
calling upon tho militia to take the field, and will
endeavor to convince Deitz that he will bo ac
corded, exact justice. But as a criminal warrant
has been sworn out, charging Deitz with attempt
ed murder of a sheriff's deputy it is belioved that
he will refuse to confer and will defend his posi
tion to the last.
AT THE IOWA REPUBLICAN convention in
session at Dos Moines, Governor Cummins
was renominated over . George D. Perkins. Tho
fight was hotly contested, but the Cummins men
won by a pronounced majority. On the first bal
lot Cummins received 933 votes, Perkins 603, and
S. W. Rathbun 104. When the temporary chair
man mentioned Secretary of Treasury Shaw's
name many delegates hissed. Referring to the
results at Des Moines the correspondent for the
Chicago Record-Herald says: "The nomination
of tho above ticket by the republican state con
vention here today means that 'standpattsm' has
collapsed in Iowa and that the 'progressives' are
absolute dictators, with the strong probability that
Governor Cummins will succeed Senator Allison
in 1908. Leslie M. Shaw, secretary of the treas
ury, is almost wiped off the map, his name was
hissed in the convention and he, himself, Is brok
en and discouraged at the turn of affairs. J. W.
Blythe has all but been shorn of power and the
railroad interests are on dangerous ground. Ed.
Hunter, smooth manager and exponent of sarto
rial pulchritude, is among the wreckage, and
Rathbun has run his political course."
MR. PERKINS the unsuccessful candidate for
the gubernatorial nomination in Iowa is
editor of the Sioux City Journal. The Record
Herald's correspondent, referring to Governor
Cummins' speech, says: "When the governor had
finished and taken a seat on the platform George
D. Perkins was called for and came to the front.
His attitude indicated that the soreness of the
'standpatters' penetrates to the very marrow. As
he approached the center of the stage he was
obliged to halt for a moment at the side of the
successful nominee and the executive looked up
smiling as if expecting a salutation. But none
came.- The Sioux City editor looked coldly at
the executive and without apparent recognition.
He did not offer his hand or utter a word of con
gratulation. His address to the delegates was not
a peace .offering. On the contrary, it breathed
defiance, "and those of his followers who stood
near interpreted it to mean that he would give
of his effort, time and money from now on to
defeat the senatorial aspirations of the governor
of Iowa."
IN ADDRESSING THE Iowa convention Mr.
Perkins said: "It always give me pleasure
to stand before a republican convention. I think
now I may have your unanimous consent that I
belong to the common people. I have been criti
cised as to the company I keep, and now '1 an? re
turned to my legitimate office, that of peacemaker.
I am here with my conscience and my voice.
There never .was a moment in my manhood time
.when I was not enlisted in the cause of national
'republicanism. I come to renew my enlistment
as a national republican, one. thing for which I
have high authority. I have only advocated those
things which I believe to be true, and those things
I will continue to advocate." The Record-Herald
correspondent says: "This is all of Mr. Perkins
speech and from it his followers have taken their
cue. They are saying that there will be a twist
In Governor Cummins' senatorial boom, avenging
the insult to Secretary Shaw and restoring 'stand
patism' when they have opportunity."
THE PLANKS OF general interest in the Iowa
republican platform are as follows: "The
republican party has always stood for the en
larged participation of the individual voter In
public affairs. To this end we plodgo ourselves
and our party in this state to the enactmont o
a wlso and judicious primary election law which
will provido for tho nomination by direct vote of
all candidates for offico to bo filled at tho goneral
election and an expression of party preference In
the solectlon of United States senators. Wd are
unalterably opposed to tho domination of corpor
ate influences in public affairs. Wo favor tho
onactmont of stringent statutes to purge tho poli
tics of our state and nation from tho corrupting
influences of corporations, and wo plodgo our
selves to tho ennctment of such laws as will ren
der It unprofitable and unpopular for corporations
to engage in politics or In any way contribute to
political campaigns. The abolishment of tho free
pass on railways is a most important stop in
curbing the influence of corporations in political
affairs, and wo commend tho republican legisla
ture which has enacted a law to this end. Wo
are uncompromisingly in favor of the American
system of protection. Duties on foreign imports
should not bo levied for revenue only, but should
bo so adjusted as to promote our domestic inter
ests, enlarge our foreign markets, secure remuner
ative price 8 for tho products of our factories and
farms and mnlntain a superior scalo of wges
and standard of living for American labor. Wise
and unselfish tariff laws maintained In the inter
est of the goneral welfare, equally opposed to for
eign control and domestic monopoly, are essential
to our commercial and industrial prosperity. Wo
bellevo that all inequalities in the tariff schedulos
which inevitably arise from changing Industrial
and commercial conditions should be adjusted
from time to time; and. condemning without re
serve all assaults upon the protective system, wo
favor such reasonable and timely changes as will
keep the tariff In harmony with our industrial and
commercial progress. We favor the reciprocity
inaugurated by Blaine, advocated by McKinloy
and Roosevelt, and as recognized in republican
platforms and legislation."
UNDER DATEvOF Cleveland, Ohio, August 2,
tho Associated Press makes the following
statement in justice' to Mayor Johnson: "In the
dispatches handled by the Associated Press on
July 25, In describing tho controversy now prc
ceedlng over the street railway situation In this
city, the statement was made that tho railway
lino of the Cleveland Electric Railway company
on Fulton street, was torn up by men acting under
the orders of Mayor Tom L. Johnson and that
this action was owing to the pending controversy
in behalf of the Forest City railway, a three-cent
fare line, and which, under certain conditions, can
come under the ownership and control of tho
municipality. In addition to relating tho facts
as to the tearing up" of the rails of the Cleveland
Electric Railway company the additional state
ment was made that Mayor Johnson 'was credit
ed with being largely Interested In the Municipal
Traction company.' This statement was unwar
ranted, Is believed to be entirely untrue If In its
reading it tended to create the impression that
Mayor Johnson had any financial Interest what
ever in the Forest City company, and Is contrary
to every public statement made by that official,
ho having specifically anticipated by public an
nouncement any such possibility."
HARRY B. WALMSLEY, the champion of the
pure food bill In the Missouri legislature,
says that It is practically impossible to get any
pure food in this country. Speaking to a news
paper correspondent, Mr. Walmsley said: "By
studying a bill of fare in a restaurant not long
ago I found that the average man takes forty
two doses of poison at every meal he eats. The
butter Is covered with coal tar dyes, The meat
has more or less embalming fluid. The lard in
which his potatoes are fried probably contains
portions of hogs that have died natural deaths
and not been slaughtered under sanitary condi
tions; possibly the animal died of some disease.
The catsup is colored with coal dyes and has
salicylic acid in it. The bread is full of alum.
The- tea and coffee contain copper. The veget
ables have different varieties of coal tar dyes.
You can't get any pure pepper. It is full pf
cocoanut shells, sawdust and clay. You buy a
nice red apple on the stand. It Ib rosy because,
nine times out of ten, It is painted with coal tar
dyes. Even the cherished illusion of new pota
toes is not always ours. Old potatoes are fresh
ened up In alum water after being scraped.
Fifty per cent of the deaths that occur in this
country are tho direct result of Impure and dia
honest foods.". - .
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