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Show UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK J. CANNON, EDITOR. THE VENGEANCE OF CORPORATIONS. 99 Under the above heading the San Francisthe real trouble co Examiner tells us that with Governor Lafollette (who was knocked out in the Chicago convention) was not that there was any irregularity about his parly credentials or that he was in conflict with any other organization in his state, or that he was not a good man; but the real trouble with him before the Republican convention was that he had made himself obnoxious to the railroads and other great corporations that rule the state of Wisconsin, and they had given orders that he should be suppressed. Senator Spooner, who rejoices in his servitude to these delightful institutions, joyfully took the task in hand, and did such a job of it as should be a memorable warning to any other man in the party that thinks of being independent. In Wisconsin, before the election of Lafollette, the corporations had had things pretty much their own way and with the aid of friendly governors had prevented such legislation as was demanded by the people's interests that the corporations considered imical to their own interests. When Lafoldislette became governor the corporations covered that they had to do with a man who did not care for any corporation; that looked upon his office as meaning a duty to the people that had chosen him and believed that corporations should pay their taxes like other people. He had the support of the plain people of the state. Any man will have such support that tries to fight for the common rights, provided the people have any chance to be heard. So Lafollette won a renomination. But there was one place where the corporatiuns might confidently expect to be in absolute control, and that was the national convention. They know bow campaign subscriptions are regarded by the men that usuaBly direct such bodies, and there were perfectly right. Under the manipulation of the agile Spooner, who knows as well as any one, in the world how these subcellar things 'are done, very short work was made of the governor that was not willing to do the right thing' by the corporations, and he is now read out of the party, and so far the vengeance of the corporations that control the Republican party is satisfied. But the troubles of the corporations are Governor Lafollette has a not yet over. large, active and enthusiastic following in Wisconsin of Republicans who do not relish being tied to the tail of the trust chariot, and the governor himself is a good fighter. If he oan hold his forces together as seems probable while he himself may not be to the gubernatorial position, the state will be reasonably sure of being carried by the Democrats, who will elect a governor not less hostile to the trusts and thieving coporations than Governor Lafollette has shown himself to be. A consummation devoutly to be wished. re-elec- OFFERS NO HOPE. stitution, that they unbosomed themselves on the patriotic theme of Filipino liberty, and t he manner in which they did so is said to have caused the attending officers in uniform and the other officials not in uniform to fall into a stony, frigid silence that was most painful to behold. Consternation ensued when the governor of Massachusetts that the American people were divided on the question of retaining the Philippines indefThis furnished a cue to the Demoinitely, cratic mayor, Patrick A. Collins, who rose and began quoting from the Declaration of Independence, a piece of literature not allowed to pass the official censor in the Philip- Mayor Collins declared : The right of the Filipinos to is as true as the Declaration of Independence or the Sermon on the Mount. The Filipinos have the right to work out their own salvation, and if they are not oversuccessful in doing it, it is none of our business, any more ;han it is the concern of the Filipinos that we are not working out all of our own problems in the most perfect way. made remarks in Other rind, and, thus encouraged the Philippine commissioners, one after one, rose to their feet and confided to the American people the aspirations of the better class of Filipinos. Said Senor Semuling: The decision of our political future is in your hands. We are under your flag and you are responsible for us. Our country is at present in a chaotic condition and we desire an expression from you concerning us. Any state of affairs would be an improvement over We the uncertainty now existing among us. pines. self-governm- anti-imperiali- sts pa-aio- tic HERS Art ER. ACCOJTOiriQ TO Secretary hays , ORDER., THIS IS MO''" that the opinion exists in the United States that independence must ultimately be granted the Philippines, and desire to see it leld out to us as an inspiration of the future. We would like to have both political parties express an opinion of policy. We pledge to you opr good faith and our loyalty. r, Another Filipino commissioner, Senor declared: I have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States, but I would stultify myself if Look out. Sonny Bubi! Uncle Sam STABBED AND SHOT. Two Cook Have Desperate Lakeeide. Fight at desperate struggle took place at Lakeside on Saturday night In which A Roy Henderson was severely cut in the back by James O'Reilly and the latter was shot In the shoulder by Henderson. Both men are now un- I said the idea of independence is dead in the Philippines. It is not dead. You gave it to 2uba and Panama, and we expect you to give der arrest at Brigham City, where it to us. they will hare a trial. This was the tenor of the speeches of all The trouble started several days the Filipino commissioners, and, coming from such men, their candid expression of opiuion The was most opportune and enlightening. offers of convention no ultimate Chicago hope to the Filipino patriots, but independence believe to there is reason that the St. Louis convention will respond to the demand of a majority of the American people for an honest expression on the subject. The Filipinos are entitled to the assurance that, once they have established their capacity for independent the United States will withdraw from the islands as was done in the case of Cuba. This is agreeable with all the traditions of American liberty, and nothing short of this course is right. Such a plank in the Democratic platform will immensely strengthen it, especially if accompanied by afew startlingstatistics showing the ruinous sum our butting in in the Philippines has cost and will continue to cost self-governme- nt, i tally for admission to the United States na val academy, only 199 passed. Of the six apprentices who took the mental examination, all except one failed in one subject. The ex ception was the Utah boy, who passed in each . $3,-000,0- 00 anti-imperialis- ts. which is responsible for the newspaper boycott in Denver has in its own constitution a strong declaration against It was aimed at boycotting by boycotting. labor unions and not boycotting by advertisers but boycotting by any man or set of men is unwise, indefensible, cowardly and . food and pay your debts, and Til try not to let my annexation yet on you. with the fair officials, and he could ago, when one cook left and Henderson and O'Reilly started to work together. After having some difficulty Henderson quit and was ready to come into the city, when O'Reilly came out of the cookhouse and called upon him to come back and go to work, and that he would quit, to which Henderaon replied that he would not go to work while O'Reilly was there. O'Reilly drew his pocketknlfe and cut Henderson In the back. Inflicting a gash about ten Inches In length. Henderson fell to the ground and drew a revolver and fired at O'Reilly, who had started to run. The first shot struck him under the ar mand came out near the shoulder and the second shot flew wild. Special Officer Cordon arrived The trip has been abandoned. SANTOS DUMONTS AIRSHIP CUT THRICE BEFORE July 4. A cable from to London the World says: Interest in the doings of and his airships has been actively aroused In London by the cable reports that he has been accused of having cut his airship, entered for the $100,000 cash prise offered by the SL Louis exposition, or of having caused it to be cut Attention has been called to the fact that airships have been mutilated on three former occasions when he had announced a flight which would furnish universal proof fit the merits of his Invention. The similarity of the circumstances which accompanied these misfortunes is recalled by the latest mutilation of the airship at SL Louis. The ship was mutilated In a manner almost Identical with that by which his craft was ruined In Crystal Palace, In London, on May 28, 1902, Just week before the time set for the Detectives trial trip over London. were put on the case and a reward which was offered for Information would lead to the discovery of the was disvandal. gusted at the decision of the police that the owner alone wna responsible for the slashing of the airship. The mystery was never cleared up. NEW" YORK, Santos-Dumo- Santos-Dumon- nt t's time to prevent further shooting Both men were placed under arrest and brought Into the city and turned over to Sheriff Josephson of Box Elder county, who took them to Brigham City. It was necessary to take about twenty stlches In the wound In Henderson's hack. SCATTERED HER HU8BAND'8 ASHES TO THE WINDS In by Henderson. Santos-Dumo- nt TWO FIRE ALARMS. 312 boys who were examined men- The organization Be paint ARRESTED FOR FORGERY. do nothing. subject only to fail in the physical examination imperfect vision being the only bar to his entrance into the academy. Of the 199 who passed the mental examination, 64 were rejected in the physicals. It is no wonder of the imperialistic Republican convention at that Uncle Sams naval officers are about the Chicago, where they were being banqueted finest specimens of physical manhood in the world. by the genuine Americans of that city. Reto the According Springfield, Mass., The municipal ownership of the water publican: The Filipinos of this commission are every- supply system has proven a good thing for where accompanied by trusty representatives Portland, Or., as it has in other cities where of the government and their interpreter is it has been carefully and judiciously managed. government official from Manilla. We may Portlands water system cost the city be sure that they were expected to express and it is said that the people have themselves as delighted with American rule in never regretted the investment. their home and to give no encouragement to the hated The mere fact that the administration insisted upon sending them to Boston reveals the confidence that was felt in the reconstructed Filipino. However that may be, the diplomatic Filipinos were duly reserved in the expression of their real sentiments until they reached Bos ton, and it was not until they stood in the shadow of Bunker Hill, says the Atlanta Con . BUT,AKfcRlC Vil-amo- the United States. . LOMQtR. OFFICIALLY THE' UNITED STATES see Out of The Republican national platform holds out no hope to the Filipinos of their ultimate independence. Rather are they given to un derstand that they must remain for afi indefinite time in a state of colonial bondage. As our readers know, a commission of educated Filipinos is now in the United States to ascertain the drift of public sentiment toward the These com political future of the islands. missioners were in Boston during the sitting inadvertently admitted The lire department was called out twice yesterday to small grass fires phlch caused no damage. The first alarm came at 12:30 from the corner of Seventeenth street and Monroe avenue and the second was at 1:80, the blase being In the grass between the buildings in Utahna Park and tha transfer company's building. Both were easily extinguished. . NEGRO MILITIA BARRED AT. ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION NEW YORK, July - 2. In accordance with the wishes of her husbands will, Mrs. Mary Rlx scattered one half of his ashes to the wind in Bronx park. Next week she will sail for the Cologne, Germany, and scatter other half In the Botanical garden there, this also being a provision of the will. Rlx was a naturalist of some skill. He propagated a butterfly which was named for him. The only known specimen In existence belongs to the curator of the Natural History museum In Brooklyn. Rlx's collec tion was left to the New York Botan leal society. He also willed to the society a building In Bronx park, which he thought could be used as a museum. Rlx died in January, 1903, and the widow had the body cremated, but neglected to scatter the ashea. .When she moved recently the vase containing the ashes was lout. She found It In the cellar of the old home. The place on which the ashes were 'scattered today was a favorite spot of her husband's. Mrs. Rlx took six handfuls of ashes from the vase and scattered them about. She and her children seemed greatly affected as the ashes were thrown in the air. CHICAGO, July 4. The Eighth reg Iment, Illinois National Guard, under command of Colonel H. C. Marshall, la. barred by the St Louis exposition officials. The Eighth is a negro regiment, which "fought nobly" in Cuba. It made preparations to attend the fair In all the panoply of war. Colonel Marshall asked that quarters be provided them In the barracks occupied by other militia organisations. In reply he was told that negro troops could not be allowed In the barracks occupied by white troops, nor could any portion of the barracks or other quarters be assigned them. They could come, but they must provide a camp and commissary out fit of their own and go Into camp out side the grounds. YouH never drink any other kind The Indignant colonel and his aides of soda water after once trying and line officers appealed to Unde STANDARD. Insist on IL having Sam for redress, calling attention to the brave work of the regiment In THE STATE JOURNAL FOR THE Cuba. Unde Sam said It all rested NEWS. . J. M. Higman Is Hald Whils Cist li Investigated. Higman was arrested yesterday by Detective Pender and Captain Brown on a charge of robbery. He Is believed to be guilty of forging a signature to a registered letter which he obtained possession of, and taking from it a considerable amount J. M. of money. Postofflce Inspector Sharp has been on the lookout for this man for some time and Higman was arrested by the officers yesterday at his request Mr. Sharp will investigate the matter today to determine whether Higman ahall be held for trial or not HERO OF THE HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL The Hudson river tunnel was recently opened with much ceremony and rejoicing, and fitly so, for there Is probably in the world no more signal triumph of mechanical skill over apparently unconquerable obstacles. But the present generation, writes Rebecca Harding. Davis, In Success, has quite forgotten a very different struggle and victory which once took place In this same tunneL In the summer of 1880 a leak occurred In the main shaft. Twenty-eigworkmen In an instant found themselves faring certain, horrible death. The river was bursting In on them. They saw no escape. But the head of the gang, Peter Woodland, a Dane, who was In a smaller chamber, saw that If the glass bullseye In Its door were broken the water would be turned Into It and most of the men would have time to escape. His own death would be certain and Instant He hesitated. He was a young and well educated man, and he had a wife and children. One of the survivors said afterward: "I saw his fkce aa he looked at us through the glass. It was ghastly the pale. He gave the order, Break majority The bullseye!' We did It of the men were saved. Woodland and four others were drowned." ht Morning. say her baby eyes grow As fell the summer night And knew that all the things We dim. of earth Were fading from her eight. Her baby handa put out to touch Ths facet that ehe knew o day went out and all about " ' deeper grew. We held theee feeble hands to guids Her up the narrow steep. And felt the throbbing fever tlde-O- ur hearts too full to weep. But with the faint first gleam of day Wo knew that aha had gone Adown tha happy sunriaa way, . Across the peaks of dawn. -- Albert Bigelow Paine In The Indepen- enL 8hooting Crocodiles by Lamplight-I-are the West Indies crocodiles sften shot at night The hunter, with a lantern, sits In a canoe In one o :he creeks which the crocodiles Infeit rhe crocodiles are attracted by the canoe, Jgbt and awlm toward the their eyee shine out In the darknes ind form good targets for the hunter jullets. Sometimes a doten crocodile n |