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JULY 30, 190
The Commoner.
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CONCERNING THE proceedings recently
brought against the editor of the Appeal
to Reason, Upton Sinclair writes to The Com
moner from Cutchoguo, L. 1 1., New York, to
say: "Fred D. Warren, editor of the Appeal to
Reason, has been convicted of sending scurril
ous literature through the mails and sentenced
to six months in jail and $1,500 fine. This
conviction is the result of a systematic and de
liberate persecution, carried on for several
years by the United States postofflce, for the
purpose of breaking a socialist paper. The
charge is an incredibly preposterous one; War
ren's offense was offering a reward for the
apprehension of Ex-Governor Taylor of Ken
tucky, a fugitive from justice something which
is done through the mails continually. I have
no hesitation in saying that the conviction con
stitutes the most dangerous blow that has ever
been struck at the liberty of the press in the
United States."
A WASHINGTON correspondent for the Chi-cago-Tribune
sends to his paper the fol
lowing dispatch: "William Jennings Bryan
Heed -not expect the active support of President
Taft in obtaining the submission to the people
of an amendment to the constitution authoris
ing the popular election of senators. The presi
dent has, no intention of interfering directly in
what he considers to be manifestly the business
of congress alone. Certainly he will make no
formal recommendations on the subject at this
time when congress is in extra session for the
single purpose of revising the, tariff. This atti
tude of. Mr. Taffc U, jn keeping, with that which
h,e,has unifqrmly. oberve'd sinqe his, assumption
of tlie office of president. In attempting, to In
duce him to depart from it, Mr. Bryan will have
the support of republican senators like Bristow
Of .Kansas, LaFollette of Wisconsin, and a few
others in the upper house, who believe it to, be
desirable to give the people opportunity to say
directly who. shall, be their senatorial repre
sentatives.' A. COLORADO. Springs dispatch under date
of July 1, follows: "Mrs. J. Addison
Hayes, daughter, of the late Jefferson Davis,
president of the confederacy, died tonight at
her home in this city, after an illness of several
months. Mm. JEIayes was the wife of J. Addison
Hayes, president' of the First National barik, of
this city. Many messages of inquiry were re
ceived recently from friends throughout the
country who had gained the impression that
Mrs. Hayes w'as suffering from cancer. The
cause of her death as announced by the attend
ing physicians, was a complication of "diseases.
Mrs. Hayes, the lafct of the family of the late
president of the confederacy, after the death of
her sister, Miss Winnie Davis, at Richmond,
Va., made a trip south a few years ago, when
she was made a Daughter of the Confederacy
in her sister's stead. Her mother, widow of the
southern president, died in New York about
two years ago. Mrs. Hayes is survived by two
sons, Jefferson Hayes Davis and William Hayes,
and two daughters, Lucy and Mrs. Virginia
Webb, wife of Dr. Gerald B. Webb, of this city.
Jefferson Hayes Davis bears the name of hia
grandfather through a special act of the legis
lature." ..'- '
DON CARLOS of Bourbon, the pretender to
the Spanish throne, died July 18 at Varese
in Lombardy. . A Rome cablegram, carried by
the Associated Press said: "He had been ill
for a long time and the latest reports indicated
that he was suffering from apoplexy with the
accompanying paralysis. Don Carlos, Duke of
Madrid, who claimed under the special law of
succession established by Philip V. to be the
legitimate king of. Spain by the title of Charles
VII., was born at Laybach, Austria, March 30,
1848. His father, Don Juan was the brother
of Don Carlos (Charles VII.) known as the
Count De Montemolin, in support of whoso
claims the Carlist risings of 1848, 1855 and
1860 were organized, As Charles VI. died in
1861 without children, his rights devolved upon
his brother, Don Juan, who had married tho
Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria. Their
son, Don Carlos, married on February 4, 18G7,
Margaret Do Bourbon. In October, 1868, Don
Juan abdicated in favor of his son, whose stand
ard was raised in the north of Spain In 1872
by somo of his partisans. Don Carlos himself,
after addressing a proclamation to tho inhabi
tants of Catalonia, Aragon and Valentla, calling
upon them to tako up arms in his cause, made
his entry into Spain July 15, 1873, announcing
that he came for tho purpose of saving tho
country. Then followed tho 'four years war
which ended in January, 187G, when Tolosa, tho
last stronghold of tho Carllsts fell and its de
fenders sought refuge on French territory. In
the meantime tho republic came to an end and
the eldest son of former Queen Isabella returned
to Spain as Alfonso XII. Alfonso XII. died
in 1885 and the fight for tho succession now
raged between Mario Christina of Austria, the
widow of tho late king, and Don Carlos. The
posthumous birth of the present king in 1886,
however, kindled in tho nation a feeling of loy
alty which has continued to exist up to tho
present time. Within recent years there has
been a recurrence of the Carlist agitation in
Catalonia' and other districts, which was at
tributed to tho influence of Don Jaime, tho only
son of Don Carlos, but these movements have
proved to bo ofr.littlo importance."
ANEW YORKER writes to the World to say:
"When I said something the other day In
the World about the color of the flag of Great
Britain it was my belief that Great Britain really
had a' distinctive flag. I have been making'
some iiiquiries since and have come to the con
clusion that Great'-Britain has no distinctive
flag. What we aTe most accustomed to see in,
this country tho big red fellow with the ,unlon
jack In tho upper corner Is known as tho 'mer
cantile ensign,' or merchant flag. The Union
jack blue with bars of red and white is the
army and navy flag. There are others of white
with red bars and one with the addition of the
union jack in the corner, but none seoms to be
of more importance than andther, unless it bo
the union jack. In several flag charts I have
seen Larousse (French) and various American
charts the merchant flag is labelled 'Great
Britain,'- with no explanation: I asked a couple
of intelligent Englishmen what was the flag of
Great Britain and they could not tell me. al
though they did tell me how many flags their
country flew. But there was no distinctive
that is, national British flag named. I am In
clined to believe that the union jack takes patri
otic precedence in the Briton's bosom, but it
certainly does not on the flag poles I have seen
flying the so-called British flag. 'Habitant,' who
called me down for speaking of the British flag
ao red and explained that it was blue, was right
in theory to some extent, but he was off as to
practice. W. J. L., New York, July 16.
IN A HEARING at Minneapolis it was brought
out that express companies charge 30 per
cent more to carry bread to a given point than
beer. The Minneapolis Tribune says: "Rates
charged by the eight express companies oper
ating in Minnesota are to be thoroughly investi
gated by the state railway and warehouse com
mission before which body a formal complaint
was filed yesterday, charging a violation of the
law in several particulars. One allegation made,
based on the schedule of tariffs attached to the
complaint, is that the express companies charge
more to transport the necessaries of life, such
as bread, butter, meat and eggs, from Minneap
oils to any point within the state, than they do
to transport beer or ale. State Senator Bengt
E. Sundberg of Kennedy, Minn., and James Man
ahan of Minneapolis, are complainants in the
action and the Great Northern Express com
pany, Lake Superior company and Great North
ern railroad are defendants. Complainants as
sert that the Lake Superior company Is a device
created by the Great Northern Railroad com
pany to enable it to engage in a business not
authorized under its charter, viz., express. They
charge that tho Great Northorn Railway com
pany organized and capitalized tho Great North
ern Express company at $1,000,000, but that
only $25,000 was actually paid in and that R.
I. Farrlngton, L. W. Hill, E. Sawyer, J. M.
Grubor and W. W. Broughton, all general offi
cers of tho. railway company, aro stockholders
in the express company for tho solo purposo
of acting as trustees and to control the express
company for tho stockholders of tho railway
company That tho Great Northorn railway has
allowed thoLako Superior company, and by that
means through its own stockholders, to with
draw and divert money legitimately accruing
to the railway company as earnings and avail
able to It in maintaining Its cquipmont and re
ducing its rates to a reasonable basis, Is also
alleged. It Is further charged that aftor pay
ing all Its expenses of operation, one item of
which disposes of 40 per cent of its groBB earn
ings, which go to the railway company for trans-
S?r4?r?nolr10Xprccompany nad a not Droflt
of $462,442.61, or 667 por cent net profit on its
full investment. Tho state railway and ware
house commission, it Is oxpected, will set a hearing-
for the near future."
R
EmhTA?LS? , ? W'LMAMS, Episcopal
JJISllon of MIchiirnn nonunion i. ...,..
of St. Bartholomew, Now York, which is tho
church home of the Vandorbllt family, recently
and criticised the Bible class, teachings o John
D Rbckofcller, Jr. Bishop Williams said: "a
scion of wealth recently used tho figure of. tho
gardener's treatment of a rosebush, cutting oft
S-no'J?? hard!C8t ?.Ud8' that l flowor8 Sht
bo perfect, saying It was right to apply that
idea to human relations, and that doctrine was
advanced, not ina board mooting, but before
a. B,b,.. P,ass- They say that a. roso by any
othor name will smell. as swoot, but tho odor o
par roso to mo smacks strongly of crude potro
Ieum. In our industrial concerns such as soap
factories' aild oil refineries wo have learned that
tu'6 profit Is iii taking care of tho by-products
and what Would otherwise be the waste; and
nature, wo see, allows no waste. That Is tho
way we-must do to follow Christ's philosophy. I
wonder if the young man ever road tho Bible
which he professes to teach. That doctrine of
tho rosebush was the cold, merciless scientific,
doctrine of evolution applied to human rela
tions, the doctrine that tho Individual was of
no use othor than to perpetuate and develop the
species. Compare that with Christ's philos
ophy of the shepherd who, having nlnety-and-nlno
sheep safe in" tho fold goes out to look
for the ono which Is lost. Compare it with tho'
father who, having tho righteous members of
his family and household gathered around hlra,
goes out to seek and welcome tho prodigal,'
who has spent his substance in riotous living
and in foreign lands. The present church, like
the ancient synagogue, Is lapsing Into the work
of ministering spiritual luxury to the morally fit.
Parish work you have yes; but it is a post
script to the rdal'work of the church, which con
fines herself to ono moral class, and when they
move up town she follows them. Of course, it
is a good thing to keep the core of society clean,
but if Christ came again today, would He con
fine His ministry to this class? Two types of
Christians compose our churches of today. Ono
type preserves the character as the ancient
Egyptians preserved tho bbdy by embalming It,
and this type is very much like the mummies
and not much good to anyone. There is a rich
man in a southern city who for tho last twenty
years has been doing personal work without any
trumpets to call attention to It. This man has
taken fallen women Into his homo, has treated
them as honored guests of his family, and by
such care and treatment has rescued them and
even carried many of them into happy marriages
where, with their past unknown and burled,
they have become respected and honored leaders
of society.".
Senator Gore is blind but when it comes to
voting on the tariff question he seems to bo
able to see. better than some of the democrats
who have eyes.
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