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GAL VEST OX TRIBUNE:
FRIDAY,
MAY 24,
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JOHN P. SMART.
Direct Representative, 150 Nassau Street,
Room 62S, New York City.
Fublished every Week Day Afternoon at
The Tribune Building, 22d and Post-
office Sts., Galveston, Texas.
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be a man of integrity and individuality.
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By JAMES B. DILL, Judge of New Jersey Court of Errors
and Appeals and Authority on Corporation Law.
money in
as if it
thing for
Life’s riches are in the fine dust
daily kindnesses rather than in the
nuggets or public charity.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE
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A Canadian lawyer has returned a $2
fee to the government on the ground
.that it was an honor to conduct the
Such patriotism as that would
be called tommyrot in America.
the
most
words
and
orator to let
and smart peo-
in ten will ever
or not, should be sentenced to the PENITENTIARY.
I consider people who burn negroes as SAVAGES. Man'
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A Connecticut paper admires Secre-
tary Taft “because he is Johnny, on the
spot. ’ But seldom on the same spot
seyen days in succession.
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WHAT WE MUST EXPECT.
Moore Model.
The newspaper man can write in
language of the most gifted poet, the 1
enthusiastic eulogist and frame his
in the rhythmic rhymes of the lyrist
the fervid eloquence of the
the world know how good
pie are, and not one in ten will
stop to thank him, but say anything bad
about a man and he will fall over him-
self and somebody else to get to the office
to stop his paper and abuse the editor.
A New York poet is suing for divorce
because his wife refused to cook a meal
for him at 3 o’clock in the morning.
When a poet is able to furnish
visions his wife ought
enough to cook them.
Gen. Greely, speaking of
conditions as they were two years ago,
expressed wonder that the entire lot of
government officials up there had not
been hanged by mob law. Rex Beach
said something similar in a book, and
got called yellow.
Any erroneous reflections upon the stand-
off character or reputation of any person,
firm or corporation, which may appear in
the columns of The Tribune, will be gladly
corrected upon Its being brought to the
attention of the management.
are lying untilled or the
TIE president of the United States in open warfare with
the powers of corporare finance, charging that the
affecting a few fishermen. A
disputes over
and resources
“HONOR” DOES NOT
JUDGE OF THE CORRECTNESS
IT FORBIDS THIS AND
TRIBUNAL
China charges Japan with bad faith.
Nothing surprising about this. Japan
is civilized now, and every civilized
power,that has dealt with China, with
one possible exception, has cheated and
lied and then fined the Chinese, for not
having let themselves be. fooled.
an insulting reply, from a
congress
If the situation cannot be reached entirely by the
THE
MEMBER OF RSSOCIATED PRESS,
THE TRIBUNE receives the full day tele-
graph report of that great news organiza-
tion for exclusive afternoon publication in
Galveston.
“A visit to the White House,” says
Jacob Riis, “is as good as going to
church.” Mr. Riis means during a re-
vival season, when the entire congrega-
tion is wide awake.
FINANCIER TODAY WHO
CLOUDS DOES SO LESS
THE ANGELS THAN OF
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“Honors.”
It would appear that so many of the
powers have invested their
battleships they don’t feel
would be, exactly the right
them to go in for international dis-
armament until they have had a chance
to try them out in something like the
real thing.
TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION.
Dtlrvered by carrier or by mail, postage
prepaid:
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Sample Copy free on application.
Several hundred tars are reported to
have deserted from the British squad-
ron in American .waters. Hereafter,
when United States warships make
notable scores at target practice, the
public may be prepared to see London
newspapers solemnly assert that the
straight shots were made by recreant
Britons who have enlisted under the
stars and stripes.
The Evil Effects of
Wall Street Panics.
By Representative PHILIP P. CAMPBELL of Kansas.
VERY business man realizes that the prosperity of th© coun-
try is threatened by the panics in Wall street due to the
X-Z manipulation of STOCK GAMBLERS. The hue and
that is raised every time there is a slump in the stock
market causes a feeling of apprehension that makes capital timid and
thus DISTURBS THE GENERAL BUSINESS SITUATION. It
is in this way that such panics become a positive menace to the
COUNTRY’S welfare. I shall go over the interstate acts for the pur-
pose of ascertaining if there is not some law that will put an end to
tremendous gambling operations in New York. It seems to me there
ought to be legislation that will prevent stock operators from gam-
bling in the SECURITIES OE COMMON CARRIERS that trans-
port interstate commerce.
I do not know that there is any such law, and if not
should enact one. 7* '
federal government congress should CO-OPERATE :WITH
STATES in reaching it.
STATE LEGISLATURES CAN
PREVENT THE MAINTENANCE
BUY AND SELL STOCKS ON
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Eatered at the Postoffice la Galveston as
Second-Class Mail Matter.
ONE LINES. His accomplice, accorded
wise promptly tried and convicted,
investigation, a prompt trial, a ;
thority upon the subject of high finance
Sapphira, reported in Acts v, is in point.
THE RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS
VESTIGATING COMMITTEE SHOULD BE
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
In these days there is no doubt that
a higher world into which the public may
grave suspicion that the movement higher up
“High Finance”
Is an
Ancient Art.
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This is what the increasingly vexatious and involved questions
as to the rights of neutrals, which form so important a part of the
discussion of international conferences, mean. We are coming to
understand that THE HUMAN RACE IS ONE. The interests
of the army of English cotton spinners are at stake in a war between
the north and the south; the interests of thousands who depend
The value of the
South's exports for the fiscal year of 1906
was greater than that of the rest of the
country in 1880. The lumber output of the
South in 1906 was valued at. $300,000,000, or
$160,000,000 greater than that of the bal-
ance of the country a quarter of a cen-
tury ago. Though much Is yet to be done,
the amazing facts accomplished by the
South during the past quarter of a cen-
tury, with the great part of its resources
not yet touched, are the promise of more
amazing facts In the future.”
the powers of corporal finance, < ’
FINANCIAL POWERS seek to obtain possession of
state legislatures, of the national congress and of the
judiciary, BY PURCHASE IF NECESSARY, is suffi-
cient to make every citizen stop and ponder.
On the other hand, the position of the apostles of high finance
when charged with corporate irregularities that ■ “they move in a
HIGHER WORLD into which we (the public) may not enter” is
equally startling and calls for the consideration of thinking men.
High finance is not a modern institution, and the term “modern
high finance” is a misnomer. Stock watering, withholding of divi-
dends, diversion of capital, the making of false returns, HAVE
BEEN KNOWN FOR CENTURIES.
Early in the first century certain gentlemen, imbued with a belief
in community of interests,” entered into a pooling agreement, each
contributing his property and each to draw his ratable interest.
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This agreement they carried out faithfully with a single excep-
tion. One oi the organizers, endeavoring to put a little water into
his share of the enterprise to get for himself SOMETHING FOR
NOTHING, sold his property, put a goodly portion of the proceeds
in his own pocket and turned the balance into the treasury as the
FULL consideration. A public investigation was forthwith ordered.
The original apostle of high finance was arrested, tried and con-
victed. He was not allowed to decline to answer under the advico
of counsel, and therefore the case is reported in full IN TWENTY-
l a separate trial, was like-
For the record of an efficient
just conviction and for a sound au-
) the case of Ananias et
A London professor says that as
rule English girls wink the left eye.
Everybody wants to know how he
found out. A professor, too!
Every cloud has its tinfojl lining.
The failure of the wheat and fruit crops
will leave more cars in which to ship
watermelons.
The Right Age For Senators.
By United States Senator E. W. PETTUS of Alabama.
DON T think we ought to have boys in our legislative bodies,
but it isn’t a GOOD BUSINESS POLICY to send to con-
gress men who are over fifty-five or sixty years of age.
I was seventy-six when I entered upon my duties as United
States senator. I was too old then, and I haven’t grown any younger
in the ten jears I ve been at work on the floor of the senate. Mv
notion is that men from forty to fifty years old—the average man is
in the PRIME OF HIS MENTAL VIGOR at that age—ought to
be elected as senators and then kept in service as long as they are able
to do the required work.
BE A MAN.
Caldwell News-Chronicle,
Foolish spending is the father of
Do not be ashamed of hard 1
Work for the best salaries and
can get, but work for half price rather
than be idle. Be your own master, and
do not let society or fashion swallow up
your individuality—hat, coatband and
boots. Do not eat up or wear out all
that you earn. Compel your selfish body
to spare something for profit’s sake. Be
stingy to your own appetite, but mer-
ciful to others’ necessities. Help others,
and ask no help for yourself. See that
you are proud. Let your pride be of the
right kind. Be too proud to wear a coat
you cannot buy; too proud to be in com-
pany that you cannot keep up with in
expenses; too proud to lie, or steal, or
war. “Honor”
A nation’s honor never
Lorain, O., is going to experiment
with “police women.” If they are to
be armed with hat pins we can see the
finish of the footpads from here.
trying to belittle this great question.
OTHER PROBLEMS combined.
JUST NOW WE ARE LAPSING
CIVILIZATION IS SLIPPING FROM
DONE
nviLu ciiava llau qvllliij mu lULciubLb oi Liiousanas who depend on
the manufacture of agricultural implements or machinery of other
sorts are at stake when the farms of Russia
factories of Germany are closed because men are OFF TO THE
WARS.
It is said that “honor” often requires resort to
requires nothing but UPRIGHTNESS,
requires defense by arms.
How trivial are the disputes that would jeopardize the tremendous
concerns, of international trade and HOW FLIMSY THE CON-
CEITS which move governments to fancy that they must now vio-
lently vindicate their “honor!” Perhaps it is a matter of $10,000
. man could pay and settle hundreds of
which governments have gone to war, wasting lives
in aimless, vain, reckless violence.
DOES NOT CONSTRAIN A NATION TO BE THE
OF ITS OWN OPINION. RATHER
THIS AND SUGGESTS THAT A DISINTERESTED
BE ASKED TO PASS ON THE QUESTION.
to be
attempt to ascend to
enter, but there is a
is to get rid of OBSERVATION AND INQUIRY as to what is
going on in the world of high finance.
IT IS OPENLY ASSERTED THAT THE
CLIMBS JACOB’S LADDER INTO THE
WITH A VIEW OF COMMUNING WITH
AVOIDING PUBLICITY.
A THIRSTY EDITOR.
Alkali Eye.
We didn’t hafter stand It; we knowed
th’ catacbasm was a-comin’ Saturday
night an’ we prepared therefor. Then we
felt so good an’ so stinkin’ rich at having
so much wealth settin’ arr eround us thet
we started in absorbin’ it an’ ’fore mid-
night come we hed licked all th’ enemies
we ever had an’ had made some more;
besides scarin’ all th’ ol’ men an’ chil-
dren in town. We also went an’ shiv-
areed a old maid who has give it out that
her mission in life is ter marry us an’ re-
form us. We wouldn’t a dasted to hev
done this latter ef we hadn’t had a two
days’ supply o’ budge under our shirt; but
we done it and’ made our getaway all
right; it was a derned fool trick, though,
an’ it’s the .wonder o’ the ages thet we
didn’t come two ter find ourself spliced
and reformed. When we waked up Sun-
day mornin’ with th’ mornin’ after feelin’
an’ knowed thet Houston couldn’t be op-
ened up with a corkscrew we hiked it fer
Galveston, an’ we kin always git a little
booze an’ battle in that ol’ town. Gal-
veston may be surrounded by water, but
she has a brew’ry into her midst. \We
don’t know what we done to Galveston,
but judgin’ f’m our looks an’ feelin’s we
air the wust thing thet has happened to
her since th’ storm.
OF THIS ANCIENT IN-
INSTRUCTIVE TO THE
IN ITS INVESTIGATIONS,
some corporate financiers do
not
ENACT LEGISLATION THAT W|LI
OF PLACES WHERE PEOPLE CAIS
MARGINS.
sister, who resembles her
undoubtedly centuries behind
fiery and swift; Jupiter,
majestic movement; f
by his eight-,satellites; Uranus, slow and venerable; Neptune, whose
years are centuries—ALL THESE .WORLDS WILL SHORTLY
HAVE CEASED TO EXIST.
Inside an infinitely small fraction of eternity they will have lost
all heat, water, air, liquids, gases, cohesion, affinity—all the elements
of existence AND OF LIFE will have disappeared.
The spots on the sun, which are even now scaring many people,
will have increased in numbed, and this great luminary will have
been EXHAUSTED OF ITS HEAT by its long radiation into space.
At first these spots will be seen to spread themselves like two
’dark zones on either side of the pquator of the sun, and meteorologists
will observe a sensible diminution in its heat and light.
When millions of centuries shall have passed, this loss of heat
- - - ------ so great that ALL ORGANISMS on the planets
will perish to give place, to new beings constituted to live in the cold.
But an age will come when the sun, first growing dark red, then
obscure, will cease to be the source of heat to the family of planets
which have so long drawn from it their magnetism AND THEIR
LIFE and will_shed only a livid and sinister light. : -
The days shall be turned into nights, and there will be no longer
either spring or summer. The worlds, dark and heavy, will revolve
like black balls around another black ball.
THE HEAVENS WILL HAVE BECOME UNRECOGNIZABLE.
THE EARTH DECREPIT, DRIED UP, DISINTEGRATED, WILL HAVE
FALLEN INTO FRAGMENTS WHICH, SPREADING THEMSELVES
ALONG HER ORBIT, WILL CONTINUE TO REVOLVE AROUND THE
DEAD SUN.
Diminutive skeletons revolving around a giant skeleton, aero-
lites carrying into darkness the last fragments of a formerly inhabited
earth, they will perhaps be enveloped in its passage by some hyper-
bolic comet which, carrying some of them with it in its course, will
scatter them IN ANOTHER SYSTEM on some unknown planet,
whose inhabitants, gathering them up to preserve them under glass
in a museum, will analyze them without finding in them any clew
to the history of the globe from whence they came.
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Lynching Must Be Stopped.
/ By Ex-Governor W. J. WORTHEN of Georgia.
white people hate the. negroes, and the negroes hate the
white people. There is a DEEP GRAINED ANTAGO-
NISM between the two races, and where the negro is con-
cerned the white pepple are all ready to cry, with Ben Till-
man, “To hades with the law!”
This spirit is alive IN THE COURTS. I recently wrote to
members of the supreme court asking if they did not consider lynching
nothing less than murder. I failed to get an answer, and it was the
same way with regard to the sheriffs.
In response to another letter I received
minister.
I believe every one of a mob' A RED HANDED MURDERER
whether he be the tail end member or a leader, and it is my Opinio*
that all people connected with a lynching, Whether they be only on-
lookers or not, should be sentenced to thA Pwtttattti’dv
The individual worker in any particular
line, busy with his own task, has scant
time or opportunity for gathering infor-
mation or compiling facts In order to
learn of the general condition of the
country at large, and yet information for
comparison is almost a necessity to the
worker who desires to make the most out
of the labor in which he is engaged.
While we of the South know in a general
way that this section of the country is
moving forward by leaps and bounds,
very few of us can present any definite
information upon which to base our
knowledge. Editor Edmonds of the Manu-
facturers’ Record has compiled
data with reference to the progress of
the South and the figures presented are
startling even to those who have endeav-
ored to keep posted in such matters.
Says this valuable journal: “The value
of the cotton crop has about, doubled In
ten years. In 1896 it was $292,000,000, in
4906 it had increased to $641,000,000. In the
game period the capital invested in cotton
mills increased from $92,000,000 to $2250,-
£>00,000, and the number of spindles nearly
In 1896 there was nearly twice
e-s much cotton used in Northern mills as
In Southern; in 1906 for the first time there
iwas more cotton used in Southern mills
than in Northern. The cotton crop, in-
cluding seed, is now worth one-half as
much again as the total value of the
World’s gold and silver output-’’
Nor has the increase in value been in
cotton alone. During the. ten-year per-
iods,’ 1887-1896 and 1897-1906, the production
of corn, wheat and oats in the states of
the South increased about twelve per
cent. Over one-third of the commerce
Of the country is through southern ports.
During the ten-year period 1896-1906 the
production of pig iron doubled, the amount
Ofc coal mined increased from about 40,000,-
000 to 91,000,000 tons, the value of lumber
manufactured nearly trebled, now being
$300,000,000. Railroad mileage increased
from 20,612 in 1880 to 64,035 in 1906. The true
value of Southern property is now nearly
twenty billion dollars, being five billions
greater than the true value in the whole
country in 1860.
Summing up, the Record says:
“The South today, with a population of
25,900,000, against, a population of 33,855,000
In the rest of the country in 1S80, has more
capital invested in cotton mills than the
rest of the country then, and its con-
sumption of cotton in its own mills
about double that of the mills of the rest
of the country twenty-six years ago.
production of 'bituminous coal is more
than twice as great—84,000,000 tons against
K,900,000 tons; its coke production more
than three times as large, its petroleum
output 32,000,000 barrels, against 26,107,000
barrels for the rest of the country in 1880.
The total value of its farm products is
abou? $450,000,000 greater tharJ the value
of all the1 farm products of the rest of the
country in 1880 and its railroad mileage is
BARBARISM, AND OUR
SOMETHING MUST BE
By ANDREW CARNEGIE.
growing perception of the INTERDEPENDENCE of
the nations has brought clearly into view the question as
to whether the world ought to permit international quarrels.
. Certainly a BETTER WAY ought to be found to settle
those disputes'.
It was said, long ago on excellent authority that no man liveth
unto himself. We' have begun to perceive that NO NATION
LIVETH UNTO ITSELF and that certainly no nation goeth to war
unto itself. ' The government that decrees war is decreeing misery
not only to its enemy and to its own citizens, but to thousands IN
ALL OTHER COUNTRIES as well.
The International Association <
Workers has been instrumental in
ing a. wage increase of from 25 to 35
cent for the men employed in the <
struction and maintenance of
cars.
Fifty-seven years ago, in certain trades
in New York, journeymen received $6 a
week, and the foremen $9. Twelve hours
was a day’s work, except upon Wednes-
days and Saturdays, when 13 or 14 hours
was the rule.
In the United States and Canada 185
monthly and 175 weekly journals are de-
voted exclusively to the advocacy of
trades unionism. These 364 publications,
which number does not include Socialist
periodicals, are read by nearly 3,000,000
working people.
A manufacturing plant in which none
but cripples will be employed is to be
established In Cleveland, Ohio. The work-
ers will be employed in designing and
perforating cloth and ivory button mak-
ing, apron and waist sewing and lace
mending by machinery.
A number of important matters are
scheduled for discussion and action at
the coming annual convention of the New
England allied printing trades, which is
to be held June 11-12 at Providence, R. I.
Many local organizations will be repre-
sented.
The Illinois Allied Printing Crafts union
will hold its fourteenth annual conven-
tion in Peoria, beginning Juen 19. The
gathering will be in the nature of a
jubilee over the victory for the eight-hour
day.
At the sixth annual convention of the
Washington State Federation of Dabor
the secretary-treasurer was instructed to
make a collection of labels of all inter-
national unions. The complete set will
be exhibited to advertise trades union-
ism.
A bureau of industrial research has
been organized by the University of Wis-
consin for the purpose of preserving the
early history of the labor movement in
America. The university has issued a
leaflet dealing with several of the earliest
labor publications and the men who
edited them.
Participation in a strike or passive re-
sistance on the part of any employe of
the state railways Will entail instant dis-
missal if the Hungarian parliament
adopts a bill introduced by Louis Kos-
suth, the minister of commerce. Further,
if employes desire to form unions they
must obtain permission to do so.
After 12 years of labor on the part of
those interested in the welfare of the
women and children employed in the tex-
tile factories of Massachusetts, the fa-
mous overtime bill is now a law. It pro-
vides that women and children shall not
be employed in textile establishments be-
tween the hours of 6 o’clock at night and
6 in the morning.
The unions of Eureka, Cali., are erect-
ing a hospital to be known as the Labor
hospital. It will be a three-story struc-
ture and will cost about $30,000. The
building is to contain 70 rooms and two
main operating rooms, patterned after
those of the Presbyterian hospital in New
York city. There will be maternity and
children’s wards.
One of the oldest union printers in the
United States passed away in Washing-
ton, D. C., recently, in the person of
Charles Ellis. He was in his SSth year
and was one of the original members of
the International Typographical union.
He was a native of Richmond, Va., and
followed his trade there during the great-
er part of his life.
N a comparatively few years, astronomically speaking, tffis
beautiful planet upon which we live, so full of life today,
so full of activity, so noisy, so rich, on whose surface
generations succeed generations so rapidly, will be dead__
more, DESTROYED.
Just as she conceals in her bosom today the elements and dates
of her beginnings, so she contains there the germs of. her DE^
CADENCE and end.
And not only she, but her companions also—Venus, her younger
—so closely and whose present humanity is
our present stage of progress; Mercury,
now pursuing his course with noble and
Saturn, girdled with his triple ring and guarded
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