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ANEW YORK society -woman has created
guile a 3r by the publication vZ a book
ui which Bifce adTOcateB nrarriage on trial." Tho
cSaSSj nsroTasuans sure jailed with comment on the
a&cxaiSaale propcsliioa and the New York
WGK!a.-am',a; hoafe is recadiYhig considerable free ad
vertfasang. General Horatio C King-, of Brooldyn,
prasHiaeQi c tic Society or tic Army of tho Po
toar.sc,. exauslcsd the subject when, in. comment
ng argon &e New Tor's: publication, ha said: '
my wife -wara to advocate ssich. principles sbc
wcsriMl bare. io choose another- place to live pretty
qoacSr. !Strc3tt am idea as trial marriages is a
dfirecit iasnSfc to every lomc in. this country, and
I fccjpe SQse Amciicaa women, 'wall ttso and show
t&eur fcrna senHm-eni in regard to this latest iorm
oC faraaticisca.'"
HETTY GREEN, known as "the richest
woman," rscecily made, to a Boston news
paper rportar, a direful prediction. The Boston
ccrrespondeat fez- the Denver News explains that
Mirs. Green thinks that trusts are as bad as law
yers anal that "when. Sirs. Green says this; "it is
tae limit of her condemnation because Mrs.
Gnsssi has a pet aversion for lawyers. But this
fe -what Ifes. Green says with respect to tho
tmate: "Theme is going to be a revolution in this
owaatry aitd the people are going Jo revolt against
the oppressions of the trusts. There will be a
deluge, and these sireels will run with blood when
the people are aroused. The people are. gradu
ally finding ont about the trasts and when they
realize a little more folly how they, aro ruining
the chaaaces of the people there, hi. going to bo a
revolabpn.. They are ds had, as lawyers. It will
be a deluge, I tell you."" v
TUB NEW YORK PRESS, a republican paper,
dcribes the New York situationin this
Sir J" Totes poned by the demo!
rattc candidates on the state ticket, outsidef
-2SF J fMnss V ate: One-- "
that Mr. Hughes was saved by democrats who7'
have no osg fQr the republican party bxcept as
W13Srtt0yHearct- Two4haf Hearst
has cu the republican party into ribbons. Tho
SS5PpaUhlsJo4e l to republicans when
democratic support is subtracted can mean only
erne thins? Governor-elect Hughes aid the repul
3: haZ? enabled a Hearst to take republican
SS S ? 3rt3r by tens of thousano?
They must make the corporations tho servants
not the masters or the public. They muBttaJS
e grasp of the tracQon trust, tho gas monopuly
the fmancial autocracy and tte corporation Se5
cenaraes on legislaUon and public offices."
S ? SUGGESTED that a monument be
L,S?teitVho memory of Hobert Fulton. A
amplain, N. Y reader of the New York World
J? tofay ttat ""ert Pulton Is falsely her
alded as the 'inventor of the steamboat' "This '
rnnSi '? !5 -1? Johnitch wal
the Delaware TriveT tm ST consF1lctl011 on
Evory hisFo " "." lo, PuDlic attention.
fects. myti irTir0L8SS?1 record -tneae
earth, will rise acaht ' w V . crusued to
sxffiii'sMS
at cvonts or tt ,iv "" '" remunE tUe u
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SS&? ?' ""l Ai" WnS3i in Cuba
mooSta too0 pei that thlibei'ala and tto
Bother for h,,!110 Cllban consreSi are getting to-
"2SSS. Acco?dInUSpf TrWnX with foroIea
nis military TtTo L G?ipUl1,11 Goowho gained
, .wu V ummuuiry eiiort
already has been made in Cuba. A careful can
vass has been made of the property owners, mer
chants and professional men in Cuba, with tho
resuli that eighty-five per cent of them have ex
pressed themselves In favor of the continuance
or tho protectorate, to insure stability and safety
in commercial affairs. The program is to submit
to both the United States and the Cuhan congress
bills to amend the Piatt amendment. Some of
the agitators favor immediate annexation to tho
United States, but the prevailing sentiment is for
an indefinite continuance of the protectorate.
SSnSf1 -n T?as ttat mGn representing $$0,
000,000 English, Canadian and American Invest
ments in Cuha, are in league with the 'prominent
Cubans he refers to. Part of the plan is for
eighty or one hundred well known Cubans to
unite in an appeal to their countrymen to sigh
a petition to the president and congress of tho
. United States for a protracted American, pro
tectorate. Manuel Hernandez, representing a
New York banking house, is said to have depart
ed on Saturday for Cuba bearing drafts of
the proposed bills for the congresses of the two
countries -to be submitted to prominent attorneys
to Havana and Santiago for their anprovab Sen
SSTi P"13 Capbdn Cook says, 'will introduce
the American bill. "At the December elections,"
: SJS. m0?111? . Co MAlfred zayas will
probably be elected president by the liberals, but
we doubt whether the liberal party can keep its
people in line. We shall ask fpr a congressional
committee to visit tho island in January to study
conditions especially the monstrously rotten con
dition of the country's finances."
WASHINGTON, DISPATCHES say that Sena-
v DaFollette may be denied admission
to the republican senatorial caucus. The Wash
ington correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald
says. "Republican leaders are anxious to
discipline the belligerent Badger senator. His
course the past summer has greatly incensed
. many of his colleagues, especially those to whoso
records he has devoted especial attention in his
speech-making tours. The chief difficulty about
excluding him from the caucus is that many of
the politicians suspect that to do so would be
playing into LaFollettes hands: that It would
make a martyr of him and give the country the
impression that there was a corporation tone
to their caucus. The senator's record in the late
campaign is recounted as evidence that he is not
& tff?i?U1 but as the folks in Wisconsin seem
to think he is one, the senate is expected to be
dubious about overruling that impression."
REPRESENTATIVE Charles- H. Weisse, dem
rHr, ocraiof e Sixth Wisconsin district, has
S terview in Wbich he suggests a fusion
f J5 ?x,fc coness between the democrats and
tariff-revision republicans; the object being to
oust Joseph Cannon from tho. speakership, "if
the republicans are really in earnest in their de
m ? a reS?ion of the tariff schedules," said
Mr. Weisse, "they will have the support of the
democrats But revision can not be Accomplished
with Mr. Cannon in the speaker's chair. With
him anything but a 'standpatf policy is believed
to be impossible. If the republicans consent to
this union tho democrats will consent to the se
lection of any man whom the tariff-revision re
publicans name for speaker. But a revision of
the houso rules will be asked In return. The dem
ocrats say this, too, is impossible while Mr. !
Cannon rules the- house. It Is not the desire of
tho democrats to obtain more. houso patronage
simp y a revision of the house rules which will '
enable a revision, of the tariff.?'
O .ECRETARY OF THE Treasury Shaw, refer
vj ring to the proposed currency lejrlslnHnn
Ants issued the following statement: TS
previous reports, Secretary Shaw has recommend-
ed currency legislation, but has never recom
SsedHyh,DRaiHtICl,lar Plan H e exclusion
others. He has been much gratified at tho fitfn
tion given the subject by chamber ?5 commercS
by bankers' associations and by commutes n,''
pointed by each. He has remainedTthe cabinet
largely in the hope of securing sdihe LgisXn
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on the subject, but lle haS nof n i
recommend details ofwisafi T11 not
: province of congress, , utfder suck ?m 1s tlm
, may d.eem wise to invite L? lylCQ as ifc
'.have tge opportunUy of lis't l lch !t
. ' will be pleased beyond meaSf The SGCreta
adopt bVor-y- detail of tTnT.T ,f conSrs will
smjsisl CSS? !?
sa.TS.ws ess sn
secretary ha? Qur present currency system the
secretary has no doubt of favorable result n
nthinle811011 tlS"te imperative
nnrf! treasury experiences make ap-
som?thm?biSffoTrt Wil1 stronsly that
mhrSa ?. ane' ,and may su&sest several
?ec?e?arv fr Videration of congress. The
secretary of the treasury, being charged only with
Xrnfy ? administering his -depaftmen
under the law as it exists, and of making report
invnTvT' WiU DOt assume responsibility
wSn!? n Sconanemdtag the. details of needed
"S?9180' and toe end-hoc.
essary to bev attained he. will .fully discuss."
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THEAXKaUSTA (Ga.) Chronicle is greatly im
pressed with Mr. Roosevelt's Versatility and
' af Si 5f enthusiasm makes editorial 'com-
SSL? I? W8:, "0n Monday Mr- Roosevelt
nnf ? the; People of . New York on' how they
?ogpLrr,VOte; t0aJ' Friday' ne ls''dn Tls way
L I Rh to teaS the laborers there how to
dnnh?io n hIs return next week he wI11
doubtless correct our doctors of divinity as to
Qnf,inTS J115"0"8 of the. Cosmogony of
?nn fS Was there ever su.cji.a flibbi'tegibbet
since the one Mr. 'Justice Shallow deoicteel Jong
ingv:f J,emenJler at Mile-end .green '(when I
JnL C15m1ent s mn) ther.0, was .a little .quiver
fellow, and he would manage you his piece thus:
and he would about and about, and come you in
ahnndCme ?,u,ln 'rah' ah, :tah would he say;
bounce would he say; and, away again would
he go, and again would he come. I shall never
see such a fellow.'" u..wer
AN INTERESTING sample of what a littlft'
JTL thing will do to start a run on a bank i9
reported from Chillicothe, Ohio. A local savings
bank having been called upon to make its regu-
ar report included among other items the, fol
lowing: Balance on hand at the close of busi
ness, November 10." A depositor read it and im
mediately conceived the idea that the bank had
quit business on November 10. He told another
man what he had seen in the paper) and, this
man told another, and so on, until a mob of
breathless and excited men arid women and chil
mn was"ned UP ia front, of the bank's doors.
They withdrew upwards of $10,000 before, the
run was stopped, which was soon done when
the troSblemanagement ascertiinea tn cause of
" T0 MITCHELL, president of the United Mine
Workers, introduced Rev. Charles Stelzle to
c aUdi?nce ?f 2'000 pe0Dler at Minneapolis on
" f7" J? pveml)er 18- Both gentlemen were- at-'
SSSSSt10 aU?UaL conventfon of the American
JSSSSlS?? 0fi,La?0r as deloeates, Mr. Mitchell
lepresenting. the United Mine Workers and Mr.
btelzle the Presbyterian church's department of
labor. The. occasion was enlivened by a sharp
S 2nf opinion between the two speakers.
Mr. Mitchell, in introducing Mr. Stelzle, severe
ly criticized the church for iwhat ho characterized
as its "lack of sympathy with .the alma of or
ganized labor." Continuing Mr. Mitchell gaid:
'If the church and its workers would come 'out
.openly and from tho pulpit condemn tho crime
of child , labor and other injustices against tho
workers they would find their churches crowded.
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