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The Commoner.
MAY 13, 1910
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J. Norman Davis shot and fatally i
wounded Alfred H. Law, editor of a
newspaper at Walden, Colo. Then
Davis blew out his own brains. Edi
tor Law had charged Davis who had
been removed from the position of
engineer of the town pumping plant
with having tampered with the ma
chinery in order to interfere with the
work of his successor.
A New York dispatch says: "The
United States authorities today se
cured the secrets of the white slave
trade in America, covering the rami
fications of the nefarious business in
nearly every one of the larger cities
with its international connections, in
volving Canada and France chiefly.
The information came from Harry
Levenson, one of the trio arrested as
the result of the long campaign con
ducted by District Attorney Whit
man. Arraigned in the court of spe
cial sessions, Levenson today plead
ed guilty to the indictment against
him and was remanded to the Tombs.
Levenson has pulled down the en
tire structure of the trade on tho
heads of the leaders, and it is ex
pected that many arrests will follow
in the effort to stamp out the entiro
traffic which extends from coast to
coast and from the gulf to Alaska.
Levenson's plea came as a sensation
al climax to tho charge made by As
sistant District Attorney Reynolds,
that Helen Hastings, a girl of 11,
had disappeared and was presumably
murdered that her testimony should
not help the case against tho prison
ers. When last seen she was in the
homo of Belle Moore, the negress,
who, with Alexander Anderson, a
negro, were arrested when Levenson
was."
Theodoro Roosevelt delivered an
address at Christiana, Norway, bo
fore the Nobel prize committee on
the subject of "international peace."
He declared that the nations should
join hands In checking the growth of
naval armaments.
The National Farm Home Associa
tion in session at St. Louis elected
the following officers: President,
Governor S. H. Hadley, Missouri;
first vice president, Gilford Pinchot,
Washington; secretary, State Immi
gration Commissioner J. H. Curran.
Among the directors are Archbishop
Glennon, St. Louis, and Henry Wal-
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Two hundred men wero entombed
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Tom McCarthy, a prize fighter, was
killed in a fight with Owen Moran in
San Francisco. A movement is on
foot to stop tho fight scheduled be
tween Jeffries and Johnson for July
4. Governor Gillette has been ap
pealed to to stop the fight. His pri
vate secretary has answered this ap
peal with tho following letter:
"Gentlemen: This office Is in re
copit of your letters enclosing reso
lutions by the ministerial union rela
tive to suppressing the Jeffries-Johnson
prize fight or contest July 4,
1910. Governor Gillett is en route
to Washington and probably will not
return to San Francisco for a month.
Acting Governor Potter will not bo
in this office for a week or ten days.
Replying to your letter in their ab
sence, permit me to say tho gover
nor is not in favor of prize fights,
that he has never attended one in
his life and says he never will. How
ever, under the laws of California, I
believe he is helpless to prevent or
suppress this so-called boxing contest
because the law allows such con
tests, if tho necessary permit has
been granted by the local authori
ties. In this instance I understand
this permit has been granted."
congressional enactment of dealing
In futures; for restriction of tho
"white slave" traffic and for in
creased appropriations for tho agri
cultural department. It also was
voted to ask congress for an appro
priation of $150,000 for dralnago of
swap lands in Louisiana, Missouri
Mississippi and Arkansas. Confer
ences between the executive commit
tees of the farmers' educational and
co-operatlvo union and tho American
society of equity, looking to a consol
idation of tho two organizations also
wero held.
In, an uprising at Lamas, China,
one thousand Chineso soldiers were
killed.
Tom L. Johnson, former mayor of
Cleveland, has roturnod to America
in Improved health.
Theodoro Roosevelt was given tho
degree of Doctor of Philosophy by
King Frederick's University at Chris
tiania, Norway.
An Associated Press dispatch from
St. Louis says: "After eighteen
years of fighting, the peoples' party
announced today it as ready to unito
with a new political party regardless
of name to tho end that rights and
equal justice shall by law bo tho In
heritance of all citizens. Tho an
nouncement was made by Jay W.
Forrest, of Albany, N. Y., chairman
of tho peoples' party national com
mittee. A call was issued by tho
committee to all citizens regardless
of party allegiance to joint in a na
tional conference here February 22,
L1911. Tho call scores the republi
can and democratic parties for ex
ploiting the people for the benefit
of Wall Street. Insurgency in con
gress is praised and Senators La
Folletto and Gore are hold up as
the leaders of tho present thoughts
of the people."
GRATEFUL
The farmers' convention at St.
Louis adopted resolutions as follows:
"First. As far as the constitution and
charter of the farmers' union per
mits we pledge to our fellow workers
in industrial pursuits our best efforts
to tho end that their rights and lib
erties, with our own, shall be pre
served. Second. Our officers are au
thorized and directed to confer with
tho officers of bona fide organized
labor organizations to this end.
Third. We pledge ourselves to give
preference to the products of the In
dustrial workers who manifest their
Intelligence to protect themselves by
organization and urge reciprocal pur
chase of products of union farmers.
Fourth. Our legislative committees
are pledged to co-operate with the
similar officers and committees of or
ganized labor to secure such relief
and reformatory legislation as may
bo necessary to conserve the rights
and freedom to which the workers,
as men and citizens, are entitled un
der tho constitution of the United
States."
At the farmers' "convention in St.
Louis, resolutions were adopted fa
voring poBtal savings banks, provid
ed the deposits be centralized; a
parcels post; for restriction of for
eign 'immigration by & head tax on
each immigrant; for abolition by
We can not feel too grateful to
Theodoro Roosevelt for his thought
fulness in advising tho American
people how to think about this dread
ful catastrophe in Rome. There
would have been Orange riots in tho
streets of New York today and tho
burning of a Catholic church or two
in Kansas, if this calm, manly, high
minded telegram from Rome had not
appeared simultaneously with tho
shocking news that tho pope and Mr.
Roosevelt will not meet. But wo
are sorry for tho pope. He will
miss tho grasp of the mighty hunt
er's hand and the assurance from hia
own lips that he did visit every Cath
olic mission within reach just as ho
visited tho Protestant missions; that,
on the one hand, ho loves his Cath
olic fellow citizens, and, on the other,
he loves the Protestant and Hebrew
fellow citizens just as much. Later
on, wo aTe sure, when the popo
reads this magnanimous telegram,
he will repent in sack-cloth and
ashes. As for the American public,
it will never forget that Mr. Roose
velt prevented an outraged Protes
tant country from rising In Its
wrath and inaugurating religious
warfare. All our people will today
speak kindly to their Catholic
friends, as he wishes, and put their
revolvers back into their holsters.
New York Evening Post.
WEATHER SIGNS FAIL
All signs fail in tho year 1910. Tho
groundhog and lion and lamb March
'entry and exit saws have been hor
ribly humiliated. The groundhog
day was too dark for his shadow, but
winter bowled along just the same
for six weeks. March came in like
May and went out practically as
ploasantly.
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