cm trents that (mo mob claims scaled hay...

i*L't;i.iSHKL> THREE

THAT (MO MOB"Northward the .Criminal Negro' Problem

Makes Its Was."

\ CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW

The Only Novelty W as the Active

Participation of Women in the

Affair, a Thing That Has Never

Yet Occurred in the South and

Never Will.

In discussing that Cairo lynchingin its e -itorial columns the AugustaChronicle says apart from oue novel¬ty, hereafter to be mentioned, therecent ebullition of mob violencein Illinois was the same old typicalAmerican lynching. Same gettingmad all together; same rush for theprisoner; same slaughter of theshrieking wretch by hanging, shoot¬ing and burning; same theatricalhurrying to the spot of troops, whonever get there in time, and if bysome miracle they ever ao so, takea vote not to shoot, as they did theother day.The only novelty was the active

participation of women in the affair.a thing that has never yet occurredin the South and never will.The excuse for the lynching itself

is the same old excuse.distrust ofthe law. But the real underlyingcause is.contempt for the law. Themob itself is, for the tini* being,a lawless aggregation of madmen;no matter how much each memberof it individually may, in his calmermoments, pretend to respect the law,he i3 an outlaw, pure and simple,when he takes the law into his ownhands as was done in Cairo. Andthis is frue whether it occurs ' inin Illinois or in Georgia or Missis¬sippi.

And, yet, it would not be entirelyfair to say that the courts, as a

whole, administer justice as certainlyand with as even a hand as theyahoulld. It has been contended morethan once, that in matters betweenman and man, as the ownership ofproperty for istance, our courts, gen¬erally are trustworthy, but that whenit comes to crime, they are not alto¬gether effective instruments for theprotection'of the community. Thisis true "only in a sense; and it is,generally^ speaking, true only in thesence that juries sometimes fail todo their duty.We have seen something of this

in this very community within thepast few weeks, where more thanoue prisoner, charged with a heinouscrime.and as guilty as any that everfaced a court.were summarily turn¬ed loose by the trial jury- But,surely, this fault can not be laid atthe door of the court itself, whenit is seen that it is with the people,after all, that lies the right andpower to enforce the law as it shouldbe enforced. Perhaps it Is, in a

measure, true that if they wouldadminister justice in the jury boxmore ofien than they do, they wouldnot lind it necessary, or, rather, pos¬sible, to administer it as membersof a wild, savage mob.

There Is still another thought,lhawever," fn connection with thisCairo lynching. It has again beenproved.as it was in the Springfieldriots.that human nature is prettymuch the same there as in Georgiaor South Carolina or Mississippi.It only needs sufficient provocationto assert itself. The influx of a cer¬tain class of negroes into the North.we say a "certain class of negroes,"because we refuse to place all, ne¬

groes in the category of criminals.is furnishing this provocation inIllinois as it has furnished it inthe South since the war.

For some years past the negroproblem has been moving north¬ward. Springfield and Cairo furnish¬ed unmistakable mile-stones of itsprogress. Unfortunately the "negroproblem" carries with it the problemof coping with certain forms ofcrime, such as murder and rape.And it is inevitable, perhaps.how¬ever inexcusable it may be.that themethod of dealing with such crimesis the same in the North as in theSouth.

Yet, we would sympathize with,rather than condemn, the North forthe problem which confornts it. Itis a problem not of its own making;any more than the same problem was

of the South's making. Therefore,we refrain from referring to thisCairo affair as "another Northernoutrage;" even though we have, ho

often, seen similar affairs in thiSouth referred to as "another South¬ern outrage." Perhaps our kindredtroubles are rapidly bringing us allto a better understanding on thispoint; certainly, neither section has

any cause to throw stones at theother in connection with it. Theyare both, now, simply confrontedwith a similar problem, or problems:the "criminal negro" problem.andthe problem of putting down mob

violence, without respect to provo-.cation or persons.and at any price.

Killed About Lynching.At Cairo, 111., Wednesday Henry

Small, a negro shot and killed Wil¬liam Pope, oue of the negro soldiersdischarged from the United Statesarmy aJ*er the ''shooting up' of!Brownsville, Texas. The shootingfollowed an argument over the lynch-.ing there last weeK of Will James,the negro accused of the murder of

Miss Annie Pelley.

TIMES A WEEK.

SUGAR FRAUD EXPOSEDFORMER GOVERNMENT SAMPLER

IS DISCHARGED

From tho Service Because he Tried,

Seven Years Ago, to Secure an

Investigation. \

Some ricsh and racy evidence is

being brought out in the investiga¬tion of the frauds perpetrated on the

government by the members of the

Sugar Trust, now going on in NewYork.On Wednesday Henry C. Corsa,

who once was employed as a Gov¬ernment sampler at the AmericanSugar Refining Company's docks inJersey City, has added further inter¬esting material to the complicatedcontroversy surrounding the fraudscharged to the company and variouscustoms officials and employees.

Corsa was discharged from theGovernment service seven years agoby reason, as he believes, of his ef¬forts to obtain an investigation. Ina lengthy interview he reviews theobstacles he met, and recites expe¬riences similar in many respects tothose of Richard Parr and EdwinAnderson, who are defending theirrespective claims to being the origi¬nal exposers of corruption in the cus¬

toms house.Wilber F. Wakeman, a former ap¬

praiser, brought Corsa's name intothe case some time ago, when he at¬tested to the fact of his dischargingafter he had brought to the govern¬ment's attention convincing evidenceof graft, which Corsa says was suc¬

cessfully pigeonholed after he was

ousted. His efforts to obtain re¬

instatement Corsa adds, were aidedfrom time to time by Leslie M. Shaw,former Secretary of the Treasury,and other prominent men, but none

of them, he declares, was able toovercome the grip the Sugar Com¬pany had on the New York customsservice, or to get for him the en¬

dorsement of George Whltehead, whosucceeded Wakenian as appraiser.

In his Interview of a few days agoCorsa set forth that he went toWashington to present his case to

Secretary Shaw, and the latter, heBays, after a long conference, said:

"I'll see that you are put back. Icould demand it right new. Butthings are working so smoothly be¬tween Mr. Whrttehead and myselfthat I don't want to break in abrupt-My on him with this demand.'**A short time afterward, according

to Corsa, he received a letter fromMr. Shaw stating that Shaw foundhis hands to tied that he could donothing. Corsa says his evidenceagainst the Sugar Company was tothe effect that agents of the compa¬ny had offered him bribes in returnfor his assistance in substitutingsugar of a low grade in samplestaken by the government for tests

upon which cargoes were appraised.As a part of this evidence, he turnedover to his superiors the money giv¬en him .as a bribe.

Richard Parr, who is still a deputysurveyor of the port, said that re¬

cent investigations have shown thatone man in every five among the

employees in the weighers' divisionof the New York customs house hasbeen found implicated in the fraudsor is "under suspicion of the most

positive character."

AS BAD AS THE SOUTH.

What an Illinois Republican Paper

Says About Lynching.The Springfield, 111.. Republican

says if the South ever yieled up a

more horrible story of human sav¬

agery than comes from Cairo, 111.,we do not recall it. Indeed, it is

impossible that any Southern com¬

munity could have done so; for how

surpass in deviltry and bloodthirst-.ness the hanging and shooting andburning of the victim, the soakingof pieces of rope In his blood, thebeheading and parade of the head,and the cutting out of the heart and

chipping it into pieces for souvenirs?The only redeeming feature, as theNew York Evening Post observes, isthat the mob did not stick to thecolor line. It butchered a whitemurderer, too. or one charged withmurder. It is altogether as revolt¬ing an exhibition of human degrada¬tion as the country ever saw, or as

Illinois ever saw. and Ulinoiß hasof late been giving several exhibi¬tions of the kind. Tho case withwhich the public authority brokedown is a particularly discreditablefeature of the case. That spectacleof the sheriff fleeing with the priso¬ner through woods and over hills,

with the mob in full pursuit.how-hollow is shown to be the pretensionof Cairo to a civilization worthy ofthe name! We are now to see

whether the State of Illinois can pre-tend to anything much better.whether the ringleaders of thisblood-hunting mob of men and wo¬

men are to escape all punishmentfitting to their capital crime, as in

the case of other Illinois mobs of

this character.

Tho Woman in Black.

The mysterious "woman in black"who committed suicide Wednesdayin the rest room of an Atlanta de¬

partment store was identified as MissWillano Cotton, daughter of Mrs.

Rebecca D. Cotton. The young wo¬

man, who died from an over-dose of

strychnine, was said to have been

in bad health for several months and,despondent.

ORANGEBTJRÖ

CLAIMS SCALEDThe Dispensary Winding Up Comraisoion

Makes Its Final Report

STATE SAVED BIS MONEYReductions in Amounts Claimed by

the Whiskey Houses, and the

Counter Claims if Collected, Will

Save the State Nearly Five Hun¬

dred Thousand Dollars.

Nearly a half million dollars rep¬resents the saving to the State ofSouth Carolina by scalings from dis¬pensary claims and over-judgmentsagainst firms doing business withthe old State dispensary, accordingto the report of the winding up com¬

mission, which practically concludedits work Wednesday night.A history of the old State dispen¬

sary, system, with that tale of graft,now a matter of general knowledge,is included in the commission's finalreport. That the whiskey firms fail¬ed to comply with the laws of theState in regard to the sale of whis¬key, that various devices were usedto prevent competition; that theboard of directors of the dispensaryfailed to advertise for bids; thatprices were exorbitant, commissionsand rebates were paid, are a few ofthe many charges brought and sub¬stantiated by the commission's find¬ings.The firms that fought the State

in the litigation in the FederalCourts are taxed costs amounting to$21,526. The net amount of claimsconsidered at this sitting of thecommission was $430,000. This doesnot include the over-judgments andthe decrees formerly rendered. Theoriginal fund was $630,000. Of con¬

siderable local interest, and of muchinterest also throughout the Stateis the claim of the Carolina GlassCompany's, a Columbia concern.The amount claimed to be owed

this firm by the State was $23,013.-75, which is completely wiped outby the commission's findings, and an

over-udgment rendered for $28,419,-24. The over-charges found againstthe concern are $51,432.99, and itwas by deducting the original claimfrom this amount that tho over-

judgment Is found. The commissionissues a separate decree against theCarolina Glass Company, and goesinto the details o f what was allegedto be a monopoly of the sale of glassto the old State dispensary. The to--tal sales of the Carolina Glass Com¬pany to the State aggregating $514,-329.90 before the year 1906.A large amount is represented in

the list of over-judgments and mem¬

bers of the commission and Its at¬torneys that the firms will be pro¬ceeded against in the .Courts to re¬

cover the various amounts chargedagainst them."Conscience Fund" Over $50,000.Col Felder stated that tho so-

called conscience fund had alreadyreached the $50,000 mark. This isthe money paid back by firms uot

represented in the list of claimants,but who were charged with over¬

charging tho State. One of the larg¬est claimants and one that came infor some scorching when the origi¬nal commission mot are the AnchorDistilling Company and Ullman &Co., two firms classed by the com¬

mission as one concern. An over-

judgment of $30,621.55 is fouudagainst this combination, this in¬cluding a proportionate share, $4,-500 of the costs in the courts. Wil¬liam Lanahan & Sons are chargedup with $23,563.46, although theirclaims against the State was only$5,916.54. The commission wentback of the dates represented by thisfirm's accounts in the claims againstthe State, as did the commission ina number of other cases.

Fleischmann & Co. and Gerson,Seligman Company are treated as

one concern, and the $70,000 claimis reduced to $45,645.30. This com¬

pany admitted overcharges in afida-vits. Clark Brothers & Co.. anotherlarge claimant, are given $53,780.96on a claim of $66.3S3.71.

Carolina Glnas Claim.The commission in its special re¬

port in the claim of the CarolinaGlass Company finds that "the offic¬ers of this concern entered into a

conspiracy to defraud the State ofSouth Carolina by defeating all com¬

petition in the sale of glasswareneeded." The commission refers toa bid of the company in September,1 902, to furnish 50 cars of glassbottles at prices ranging about 10per cent in excess of the prices paidto Flaccus & Co., notwithstandingthe fact that other bids were filed.That also the Flaccus contract, whenpurchased, was for the purpose of jstiffling competition, as all mouldsof the Flaccus Company were turnedover to the Carolina Glass Companyand the former had no facilities forfilling orders.

It is also charged that at severalquarterly purchases other competitivebids were suppressed, and the Caro¬lina Glass Company was awardedcontracts that after December. 1902.and until 1906, when the contract,existing between the State dispeu-isary board and this company was

cancelled this firm maintained a com-!plete monopoly of all business forglass and raised prices from time totime much above the fair market

prices for the goods sold. Also that atthe time of the passage of the con-,

current resolution cancelling the un-

S. Cm SATURDAY. NOV;

filled portions of the contract therewere outstanding contracts at ex-

horbltant prices for more than 200cars of glass bottles at an approxi¬mate value of $200,000. The com¬

mission states that, according to the 1

testimony of one of the oliicers ofthe Glass Company, the State savedmore than $50,000 when comparisonis made with prices paid for goodssubsequently purchased. ,

It is also charged against this firmthat goods were sold of the same

quality, size and character as thatsold the State dispensary in otherStates and in other parts of thisState from 20 to 25 per cent lowerthan the price paid by the State diä-pensary.

Finding in Glass Claim.The finding is as follows in the

case of the Carolina Glass Company:"We therefore, find that the con-1tracts made between the CarolinaGlass Company and the board ofdirectors of the State dispensary are

contrary to the laws of the Stateand against public policy, and forthose reasons null and void, and thatthe Carolina Glass Company shouldnot as a matter of strict law, beentitled to recover any sum of moneyfrom the State of South Carolina on

account of said contract, even ifthe State had no offsets against them,whatsoever, but the commission fur¬ther finds that it should determinethe matter on equitable principlesand fix the matter of liability on a

'quantum meruit' basis and that theprices at which the Carolina GlassCompany sold to the State dispensarythe glassware manufactured by itranged throughout the entire period i

of their transactions with the Statedispensary except for the years 1006and 1907, at about 10 per cent abovethe fair and reasonable market pricefor said goods.

Prices Were Reduced."The commission finds that begin¬

ning early in the year 1906, as theresult of a legislative investigationmade by a committee appointed bythe General Assembly of the State-of South Carolina, and the resolu¬tion adopted by the General Assem¬bly relating especially to the con¬

tracts with the Carolina Glass Com¬pany hereinbefore referred to, theCarolina Glass Company was forcedto and did lower its bids to priceswhich during the year and the shortperiod of 1907, during which thedispensary was operated, were

substantially in accord with the fairand reasonable market price of thegoods sold during that period; butthe commission finds that during theyears preceding 1906 the overcharg¬es made in excess of the fair and rea¬

sonable market prices for the goodssold was $51,432.99, which shouldbe and is hereby offset against theclaim in favor of the said CarolinaGlass Company to wit: Its claimof $23,013.75, which being deductedfrom this amount of said overchargesthe commission finds said CarolinaGlass Company to be indebted tothe State of South Carolina in thesum of $28,419.24."

In more than half the claims therewere over judgments rendered in fa¬vor of the State by the commission.As stated these may be collectedthrough the Courts. The commis¬sion states in Its ..findings that themembers have made a careful in¬

vestigation of the business of theold State dispensary and also all ofthe evidence taken before the legis¬lative investigation committee.nandemn2 shrdshrdlhrdluhrdluuuuu"Due and formal notice,,' states

the decree, " was given to all cred¬itors to produce before the commis¬sion their books of account and oth¬er records and correspondence dis¬closing the transactions between thecreditors and the State dispensary,and in a few instances some of thecreditors complied with this demandand produced their books and rec¬

ords in part at least, for the inspec¬tion of the commission.The commission also heard oral

testimony and received affidavitsfrom members of whiskey concerns.

Conspiracy Alleged.The commission states that sev- J

eral of the creditors entered into a

conspiracy with members of theboards of directors to cheat and de¬fraud the State, with the assistanceof some of the members of theboards, and goods were sold at a

price largely in excess of the mar¬

ket value, the officers or agents ofthe concerns and members of theboard making use of the funds incorruption and bribery.

It is also stated that many ofthe claimants did not comply withthe law in that:

1. They resorted to various devic¬es to destroy competition.

2. The law as to advertising forbids was so worded as to preventcompetition instead of promoting it.

3. That bids submitted uponwhich awards were made, were ex-

horhitant as to prices. with the

knowledge and consent of the board.4. That the claimants violated the

law in maintaining agents and so¬

licitors in the State to obtain con¬

tracts for the purchase of theirgoods.

5. That in many cases no bondswere furnished on awards given.

6. None of the claimants filed atthe time of making bids an analyai3of .the liquors for sale.

Only Real Values to l)e Paid.

The commission rules that theclaimants have all violated the law,but thinks that it should deal with

petitioners upon equitable principlesand makes such settlement as willbe fair and just. It therefore findsthat It should compensate each clai¬mant for goods actually sold and de¬livered to the State dispensary dur¬

ing the whole course of dealings bypaying the real value of the goodsafter deducting from the claims of

EMBER -0 190 > .

HAY MEAN WARTwo Americans Upturtd and Executed

by the fkaragbans.

TWO WAR SHIPS ARE SENT1!

President ,Taft Greatly Incensed- on |Hearing the News, and Declines

to Have Any Communication With

tho New Nicaraguan Minister, Who

Just Reached Washington.A Washington dispatch says two

American war ships have been order¬ed to proceed to Nicaraguan water's,and President Taft has postponedindefinitely his meeting of IsidoreHazera, the new minister from Nic¬aragua to this country, as the resultof news received here to the '-u>ctthat two Americans, Leonard Graceand LeRoy Cannon, captured whileserving with the revolutionists' ar¬

my In Nicaragua, have been sentenc¬ed to death by President Zelaya'sorders, aud it is believed that sen¬

tence has already been carried out.Orders have been issued for the

cruiser Vicksburg to proceed in allhaste to Corinto, and the gunboatDesMoines will proceed at once toPort Limon to observe events thereand report the situation at that pointby wireless. The news as to the twoAmericans reached the State depart¬ment Thursday night from the Amer¬ican Consul at Managna, who statedthat their capture had been follow¬ed almost immediately by a deathsentence.A dispatch received Friday at the

State department is to the effectthat the men have undoubtedly beenexecuted. Upon this information theSecretary of State asked the Sec. ofthe Navy to order the Vicksburg to

proceed in all haste to Corinto forthe purpose of protecting Americansand American interests. The Des¬Moines was also ordered to proceedto Fort Limon at top speed for thesame purpose. These vessels willibe in constant Communication bywireless with the State department.The brutality of the Nicaraugan

Government in ordering the execu¬

tion of these two Americans, who

happened to be found in the revolu¬tionists army without trial of anysort, is likely to result in this Gov¬ernment taking drastic measures to

prevent a repetition of it, and Presi¬dent Zelaya will be held to a strictaccountability fjfcr his action. Atthe Nicaraguan legation it was stat¬ed that no news of the execution ofthe two Americans had been receiv¬ed.

Nothing Is known at the State de¬partment of the antecedents of Leon¬ard Grace, who is reported to havebeen shot by order of President Zel¬aya, but the other American, LeRoyCannon, seems to have had an un¬

usual career in Central America.Some years ago he went to CentralAmerica and since then his name hasfigured prominently in revolutionsin those countries. During his car¬

eer he has been arrested a numberof times and tried for heading raidsand on several occasions has nar¬

rowly escaped a death sentence, itis alleged.A dispatch from Panama says pas¬

sengers arriving there from Nica¬ragua Thursday report, that a reignof terror exists throughout the por¬tion of that country controlled byPrecident Zelaya. Government troopsare rounding up every persons sus¬

pected of sympathy with the revolu¬tionists and executing them withouttrial. More than five hundred men

suspected of revolutionary sympa¬thies have been summarily shot and(still the bloody work cpntinircs.Residences are ransacked by Zelaya'ssoldiers in search of incriminatingletters or evidence, and when resis¬tance is offered the houses are de¬stroyed.Women relatives of revolutionary

sympathizers have been subjected tothe most horrible indignaties andoutrages. Nicaraguan refugees, ar¬

riving on the Isthmus and in CostaRica declare It is time for the civi¬lized powers to forcibly Interveneand put an end to such barbaritiesand atrosities.

some of the claimants certain feesand expenses incurred by the com¬

mission in defending recent suits.It is also ruled by the commission

that certain claimants who filed billsin the Federal Court asking for in¬junction against the commission, In¬clude the firms of Garrett & Co..Fleischmann & Co., Wilson DistilleryCompany, Gallagher & Burton, JackCranston Company.Tho bills brought by Floischman,

tho Wilson Company, the Jack Cran¬ston Company and Gallagher & Bur¬ton, were consolidated into one ac¬

tion, into which Gt'rrett & Co. after¬ward Intervened, followed by the PigSprings Distilling Company, Ullman& Co., Anchor Distilling Company,Belair Distilling Company, Richards& Co. and the New York and Ken¬tucky Company.

After reviewing the victory won

by the State of South Carolina, thecommission calls attention to thefact that the fight carried to theUnited States Court cost $21,526.17,and considers the State damaged to

that amount. The various compa¬nies mentioned above ,are assessedproportional this amount.

T\V<

WILL ENTER THE MINEUNABLE LONGER TO ENDURE

CRIES OF THE BEREAVED

Stato Inspectors Will Go Down the

Shaft and Find Out About the

Men Down There.

"We are going down into thatmine today. We will conquer it or

it will conquer us. Unless we suc¬

ceed, we will never come out alive."The cry of the widows and or-1

phans at the mouth of the fatal mineat Cherry, 111., Thursday morning,"Open the shaft, open the shaft,''aroLjed State Mine Inspector Taylor."Let lives be sacrificed to reclaimfrom the mine the entombed dead ifnecessary," he said.Un er the supervision of mine In¬

spector, hazardous efforts will bemade to satisfy the frenzied criesof the bereaved widows and or¬

phans. They will be braving thedangers of deadly poisons, noxiousgases, explosives and the probabili¬ty of a collapse of the fire-charredgalleries. Preliminary explorationsby experts showed encouraging con¬

ditions and they determined to takeadvantage of the low temperatureat the bottom of the emergencyshaft. .

It was decided to reinforce theair shaft by the erection of scaffolds,attaching a hoisting apparatus andexplore as far as human endurancewould permit. It is proposed to lowertwo men, armored with oxygen hel¬mets, and penetrate the galleries to¬ward the main shaft.

Investigation revealed less smokeand gas at the bottom of the shaftand a decrease in temperature. Min¬ing inspectors from many States on

the scene give the opinion that thefire is still raging, their convictionbeing that the mine must be keptsealed. The Illinois inspectors, rea¬

lizing the fury that such actionwould arouse among the afflictedcitizens, insisted that 3 last effort bemade to reach the dead. The tem¬

perature at the main shaft is now

109."There is no halting now," said

Inspector Taylor, preparing for thefinal ordeal of the great disaster."We are going to fight that mine.If successful, we will be able to re¬

cover the bodies; if not," here theold man who has served his lifetimebeneath the earth, waved his hand,emphasizing the fate-that might facehim and,his colleagues.

All Is In readiness for the descentinto the air shaft The improvisedcage is completed. The loctors havedeclared that the rescuers are ingood physical condition. A largecrowd is assembled about the mine,expectant and almost frantic women

predominating. The temperaturewas taken in both shafts and showedno material changes from the ear¬

ly morning readings.

STAND BY COTTON CROP.

I*resident of Southern Hays "World

Will Call fcr 20,000,000 Rules.

President Finley of the SouthernRailway, addressing a large gather¬ing of folk from the countrysideof Salisburg, N. C, Wednesday, andlater speaking at a banquet of ineboard of trade, expressed the convic¬tion that in no area of equal extentin the world is the agricultural out¬look brighter than in the southernStates, and urged in farmers not to

neglect the cultivation of cotton."We may well look forward to a

time in the not far distant future,"said Mr. Finley, "when the worldwill call on the American cottonplanters for 20,000,000 bales everyyear."

Mr. Finley said he did not viewwith any alarm the tendency ofyoung people to leave tho farm, butsaid ho believed the increased at¬tractions of farm life would soon

turn the tide in the other direction."In viewing the figures," said Mr.

Finley, "it is not to be wonderedthat those responsible for the man¬

agement of the railways of the South,seeiug the agricultural advance go¬ing hand In hand with the indus¬trial development, should have faithin their territory and should be striv¬ing to the utmost to increase thecarrying capacity of their lines so

as to be able to properly handle theincrease in traffic which is sure to

come."Mr. Finley did not counsel the

growing of cotton to the neglect ofother crops, but suggested that an

increase in production to keep pacewith the demand of the world andthat It be accomplished by moreintense cultivation and by the grow¬ing of a variety of other crops withcotton, to the profit of the farmer.

C. N. CRITTENTON DEAD.

H<> Was Founder of Florence (Yit-

tcuton Rescue Homes.

A dispatch from San Francisco,Cal., Sayn Cbas. N. Crittenton, ofNew York, widely known as the mil¬lionaire founder of the FlorenceCrittention Rescue Homes for gils.died Tuesday night of pneumonia.He was ill less than a week. He

was 76 years old.Mr. Crittenton founded seventy-

three rescue homes in this countryand several in Japan and China,which he named In memory of his

daughter, Florence, at whoso dyingrequest ho entered the mission work.

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A MANLY SPEECHJohn Mitchell Says Dramatically Tfeat He

Endorses Boycott

AROUSES ENTHUSIASMHe Rightfully Declares That No

Concern Has a Property Right to

His Patronage, and Charges That

Washington is Watching Froccctl-

ings of tho Convention.

Endorsing a report or the com¬

mittee on boycott, John Mitchell,one of the three officers of theAmerican Federation of Labor, whoare under sentence for contempt ofcourt, made a dramatic speech to theconvention of that organization now

in session at Toronto, at Wednes¬day's session. He declared that a.;

far as he was concerned, regardlessof consequences he intended, whileat liberty to declare for the' rlghuguaranteed him by the organic lawsof his country.

The rerort which drew forth.MütchfelVs speech, and wU'ich was

adopted by the convention among,other things declared:"We say that when our cause is

just and every other remedy hasbeen employed' without result, boy¬cott; we say that when the employerhas determined to exploit not onlyadult male labor, but our women andchildren, and our resources and our

appeal to his fairness, and his con¬

science will not sway him, boycott;we say that when labor has beenoppressed, browbeaten and tryannlz-ed, boycott; we say that when social,and political conditions become so

bad that ordinary remedial meas¬

ures arc fruitless, boycott, and fina)rly we say, we have a right to boy¬cott and we propose to exercise thatright. In the application of thisright of boycott, to paraphrase thepresident (Gorapers), we propose to

Btrive on and on."The convention broke into loud

cheering for Mitchell as he concluded, and. there were cries for "Mor-rlsion." The secretary did not re¬

spond. President Gompers was ab¬sent.

Mr. Mitchell said he realized thatevery statement made by those on

the convention floor, especially bythose who on next Monday will haveto deliver themselves to the courts,is being closely scrutinized.

"I want the people of the UnitedStates to know my position," heBaid. "I shall not speak defiantly;but be the consequences what theywill, I shall not surrender any rightguaranteed to me by the constitu¬tion of our country. I am not sure

how much mental and physical exit- ¦

fering will be necessary to make me

submit, but if I know myself, notany amount of suffering will per¬suade me that I have not the rightto spend my money where I pleaseor that I have not the right to writeand speak as 1 please, being respon¬sible under the law for my acts.

"Whether the boycott be a bene¬fit or a detriment each man mustdecide where be will bestow hispatronage. I maintain that my pat¬ronage is my own and no merchan'has a properly right to it.

"I understand that cognizance isbeing taken at Washington of theutterances of men on the floor ofthis convention, and I want clearlyto state my position. I propose inthe future, as I have in the past,to exercise the (rights secured to

me by the fathers of my country;and I propose, if I am sent to jail,to decalre again when I come outthat I shall not for myself purchaseany product of the Buck's Stove &.Range Co.

"I repeat that so far aB I am con¬

cerned, and let the consequence bewhat they w'M, I intend while at

liberty to declare fo xthe rightsguaranteed to me hy tho organic lawsof ray country. I am proud of be¬

ing an American."Mr. Mitchell said he had grown

up as an American with a stepmoth¬er so poor that she could not buybread, and related how he had creptout of bed at night to get his fath¬er's soldier coat to keep him warm.

"Hut I want to see the wordAmerican stand for all the sentimentthat is symbolized by the flag of our

eountry," he continued. "I wantreal liberty. I don't believe in theliberty enunciated by some of our

courts that men and women shouldhave the right to work them-.selvesto death. I don't believe in the 111*~

l<rty enunciated by Judge Tuthiiltof Chicago, who declared unconsti¬tutional the 10-hour law for women,

and by that act compelled then] towork 14 hours a day."

Mr. Mitchell said he believed thepresent proceedings would bringhome fo the people the necessityof workiug in concert. "Is the timegoing to come on our continent whenthe badge of faithfulness to labormust be the brand of imprisonment?"he said in conclusion. "Surely i

hope not. 1 ho|>e that tho govern¬ment may be so conducted that no

citizen may feel that he has notbeen given justice and an equal rightwith every other citizen."

Many Were Hurt.Ninety persons wore injured but

none fatally, when Southl>ound pas¬senger train No. 11, on the St. Louisand San Francisco railroad was

wrecked at Rogers, Mo., Wednesday.Spreading rails caused the accident.