The Detroit times. [volume], March 18, 1912, LAST EDITION, Image 10

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I would rothor Have the good will and aid of a nawapapaf
with a circulation of 30.000 that lo taken homo and read In
tlio family, than to Hava that of ona with a circulation of a
million that la only looked at and thrown Into tho gutter.—
MAYOR CAVNOR. OF NEW YORK.
VpUTLA WS WERE BUST REMOVING
lUNPOI ULAR OFF! Cl AES LAST WEEK
It develop! that the conviction and »entence of Floyd Allen in Carroll
Etaty. Virginia, immediately following which the judge of the court, the
attorney and the sheriff were shot to death, were merely in- j
PHflenta biinging to a climax a long standing grudge held by the outlaw
>fand of mountaineers against the police and the courts of that section,
a- The real grievance of the outlaws was shown in an interview with one
fijf the band while the blood-stained court room was still filled with smoke j
from the barrels of revolvers and rifles, and as the assassins on their horses
sped to hiding places back in the mountains.
A man has as much right to ma ke whisky out of the corn he grows
Mhe has to make meal out of that same corn. These sheriffs and judges j
cause a man more trouble than a prison full of thieves. Our children are
founded and our homes made unhxp py. The only way to get justice is ,
to go after it yourself.
\ opposed to the illegal means of livilihood of these men had been I
Invoked against them.
Law-enforcing officials, in the face of threats and brandished g^ino.:
lmd brought them to book, and became marked targets for the outlaws
bullets.
The uprising in the little court room, the outcome of which has been
the death of five, was the mountaineer way; the killing of the judge, the
prosecuting attorney and the sheriff was the outlaw way of removing
iftftcers they disliked—officers who understood the law and understood it j
to be their duty to enforce it.
The mountaineer of the Alleghanies is only a point removed in in
tellect and education from the Negro of the South.
There are among them those so ignorant that they are unable to tell
the time of day.
A mountaineer serving as a guide for a party of hunters, in Virginia,
was invited to the table with them, and made his boasts upon returning
to hia kind, that he had been -eating with white people.*'
t This remark goes to show his own understanding of his station.
The story from Carroll county strikes us at once as awful.
It seems unbelievable that in this day and age of civilization and
BLiftt-i advancement, the officers of any court of law should be compelled
to take their lives in their hands in dispensing justice.
Carroll county will some day, however, become enlightened and her
Wild men of the mountains educated up to the point of protecting the bus
iness of their illegal stills from conscientious officers, in the polite and re- i
toad* way—bloodless, though just as anarchistic, and just as certain of
dtoired results.
I While pistols were cracking and court officers were falling dead at
tiieir stations in Carroll county, Virginia, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, another
government official, was writing his resignation as chief of the chemistry
tareau in Washington.
If the killing of the court officers down in the Alleghanies was
bfiwnrdly, the attacks made upon this government officer—attacks one
after another until his public responsibility became unbearable—were
more so.
In Dr. Wiley interests as unlawful as those in this moonshiner dis
tjict in Virginia found an official whom they could neither bribe, frighten
nor bluff, so they did the next best thing and set out to get his political
band, and got it.
Down in Virginia the band of outlaws removed undesirable officials
II iL A ...... M _ 4L a a Aiti la\i;a i,
Wlttl IM WfftpOnß InHl OuitHws use*
These interests that went after Wiley used the weapons that all per
nicious interests use—lies, kicks and abuse in newspapers subsidized
Ibrough the liberal use of their advertising columns, sold to poisoners for
ao much per inch for the purpose of exploiting and drugging the public.
This is the polite and refined and civilized way of doing away with
earnest public officials.
Gifford Pinchot was another victim of this way.
So was Glavis and so was young Kirby, the stenographer in Ballinger s
office.
By the way, do you recall how long Ballinger stud: ?
The situation was just the reverse in that case.
Unlawful interests WANTED Ballinger, and they kept him in his job
until he could be exonerated, and then permitted him to retire as a favor to
the administration.
One thing was lacking to make the Virginia court tragedy more like
the one in Washington in which Dr. Wiley was the victim.
The associates of the judge should not have fallen from bullets, but
Should have been found, pistols in hand, firing with the outlaws at the
official on the bench doing his duty as he saw it.
That has been the situation in the department of agriculture.
The associates of Wiley have been the first and foremost supporters of
his enemies in their attempts first to have Wiley ousted and. failing, next
to make things so unpleasant for him that he would be glad to quit.
And Taft keeps that kind of public servants on the job.
How Presidents Are Chosen
What kind of a spectacle is It, when
, - i)resident whom his friends say ad
miringly is “no politiclan. ,, holds ui>
certain local appointments, already
made, until he can make sure that th*
recipients will pay for their Jobs wiai
help toward the president s renomt
natlon? Why was Congressman Mc-
Kinley selected to manage the presi
dent's campaign? Was It because Mr.
McKinley is the distributor of pie to
cs&grMlßisD and therefore <an u*
side tor many of them whether they
►-•hall serve another term or not?
Adolf Is Surprised to Discover Just How Awful He Is Imposed Unon By Condo
There are few congressmen who are
wholly regardless of individual con
sequences, like William Kent. Mr.
McKinley's power to take away their
campaign funds is a mighty club over
many of them. You, readers, can Uo
something to thwart this attempt of
the administration to whip your con
gressman into line, regardless of his
convictions or your own, by the ter
rifying use* of plunder. You can write
to him. telling him whom the peoplo
at home really want nominated Liv
ing in Washington, your congressman
gets out of touch with you. He reads
New York and Washington papers,
and feeds on the gossip of a little
ring. Go for him. Stir him up. Tell
him what tho folks really want. —
Collier’s.
Editorial Page of The Detroit Times
IN THE CAVE OF THE FORTY COAL OWNERS
Vn.UnJ SO *«r cont of tlie coal min# owner# agreed to « minimum *aw scale. The othar 40 per cent, planning, it is charged, to reap panic
profit* from .* gieiu strike, iefu##d. ana the miners struck. The cartoon !■ from the London John Bull. >
■II i j COAL ' l Hi ’ 1- --■!ii!jf j, fpoft mi OP *
******
Slit r.UHLY fUftlHi itbr (oal Ktasn “Well, »»«ee more vor dear old toast—-Here's to tlw Interests ml the ■ ero— coinotoolty mad Sons with Us—»»
—rapacious miners “
From Another Point of View
However, the arctic explorer who Is fond of cogs Is not without a bite
to eat.
• • • •
Ten carloads of crackers are consumed in New' York in a single day;
a taste that might be classed as distinctly metropollyion.
• • • •
The pawnbroking business is said to have originated in Italy in 1402.
Wonder if the fellow who pawned it, whatever It was, has got it out yet?
% m • •
Roosevelt is going to do the most of his speaking during a week's trip
from the platform of the rear coach, so no town need be surprised to find
the train coming in backing up.
Spring Calendar
Cultivate Your Children's Observa
tions of Nature.
Everyone, old and young, rejoices
over the returning springtime. Now
mere than at any other season or
the year, we are conscious of nature's
beauties; the budding trees, the early
(lowers and the spring birds, all are
especially welcome after the barren
winter months.
This is a good time tn call the
children's attention definitely to cer
tuln birds and flowers. If they can
write, they will enjoy keeping a
journal or calendar during the spring
months. In which they regard "the
signs of spring'* as they appear.
This will prove a groat Incentive
to observation, especially when there
is more than one child in a family to
join in the game of discovering at
the earliest possible date the arrival
of a particular bird or flower
No mere book study of nuture can
make up for this observation at first
baud. The children’s observations,
however, must be verified and sup
plemented by an older person who
knows, or by books.
We do not wish to encourage a
child merely to jump at conclusions
without finding out whether or not he
is correct. Then, too, although identi
fication of plants and birds is one
step In the right direction, there are
many interesting facts about familiar
species which the child cannot find
out for himself.
Here are a few' extracts from a
“spring calendar” kept by a child.
The dates of course would vary In
different localities:
“SIGNS OF SPRING ’
‘ March 2 —Some lilac buds are put
out in Herbert's garden
-March 18.—I thought I heard a
song sparrow today.
-March 25.—Some maple trees are
in blossom.
"March 26 —I saw some earth
worms today.
-March 29. —We went out to the
garden and found a snow drop in
bloom.
"April 12. — Isaw T a robin. An elm
tree is in bloom. I saw some daffo
dils. My brother found some frogs’
eggs in a pond.
“April 11.—The buds of the horse
ch« stnuts are bursting. I have all
inds of spring flowers; they are
aenetnene, hepatica, adder's tongue,
pyxie and spring beauty."
If the child can draw or paint some
of the flowers these pictures will add
to the interest of his calendar.
Courts.
Strange and upsetting Is the ex
perience of watching Mr. Wlckershaui
iu his endeavors to comprehend the
larger movements of our day. He
needlessly hurts the administration
by hU aggressive jauntiness wherever
a popular movement is concerned.
Says he:
“There has been much nonsense
talked of late about the so-called usur
pation of power by the federal judi
ciary In pronouncing laws of state
legislatures or of congress uncoLati
tutlonal and therefore void.
“Even more insensate is the clamor
against the courts for interpreting
statutes In the light of their under
standing as educated men learned m
the law."
Alas, Mr. Taft, if you had only sur
rounded yourself with the able*:
among those who care about the suf
ferlng many, and who understand tho
wicked blindness of our syste’i, you
might have been high up in the honor
roll of our presidents. Most judges
are honest, but many, many judges
are fundamentally more stupid to big
things than the man in the street,
and by usurping power over the peo
ple’s representatives In the legisla
tures, and by killing justice with tech
nique, they have been the citadel or
special privilege, and no ranting
against mob rule will long hold hack
a change. Those who do not believe
the Judges have seized a power never
granted to them are advised to read
an article by L. B. Boudin on “Gov
ernment by Judiciary” In the Politi
cal Science Quarterly" for last Jiuie.
Also may be recommended "The
Great Usurpation," by William Trick
hi, published In pamphlet form by the
Nlxon-Jones Printing company of 9t.
Louis. "It Is growing Increasingly
difficult," said Woodrow Wlls>r,
speaking in Kentucky last July,/"to
supply the bench with disinterested,
unspoiled lawyers, capable of being
the free Instruments of society." Free,
he meant, from Inadequate habits of
inlnd and narrow associations, which
make them incapable of being, to use
his words again, “the Interpreters of
the common life of the people." The
ablest exposition of the absolutely
necessary powers of the courts, in lu
te: preting constitutions and laws, re
mains the famous paper No. 78, con
tributed to the "Federalist" by Alex
ander Hamilton. The best treatment
I of the desirable limitations of judicial
Interference is to be found in the writ
ings of the late Professor Thayer.—
Colli eris.
Remain In Michigan
Br fct.WV* t». UttttKV, «a fWe Hat took.
Just a hint for Michigan —Some-,
thing like 80 commercial clubs of the I
Pacific northwest slat* * have united
In a general organization, the chief
object of which Is to promote agri
cultural development of the ' logged
off ' lands of that section
They will succeed too —they always
succeed out there in promoting Imtnl- ,
g rat ion at the psychological moment ,
E. G. It is not generally known per
haps, that even at this late date in
Pacific coast progress, most of their \
booming Is done on outside money.
There are scores of towns having
banks, newspapers, waterworks, light
ing systems and well-houses “com
mercial clubs." which have been built
and are yet largely supported, by the
Immigration pot.
“Times are always poor" and busi
ness dull out there, when the “West
ward Ho” of the eastern tenderfoot
falls to a whisper or even below a
shout.
After all the wonderful develop
ment of more than SO years, there ii
hardly ever work enough for the peo
ple already there, and yet at every
strawberry picking and wheut harves*
they hoist tho stereotyped Macedon
ian distress signal In a half score
translations. This keeps wages at
a satisfactory minimum and always
brings a bunch with a roll of long
green as well as those with a roll of
blankets.
By the way, the long green helps
pay the freight and tb** rolls of blank
ets will eventually be unravelled on
the sage bush, or left behind a bar fo.' (
the price of nerve for another 10
miles tramp “nearer home."
General authentic reports Indicat#
that “poor times" and “dull bcslneas"
are now epidemic In the great north
west, and the Macedonian whoop was
: never louder —the railroads and com
mercial clubs preparing for an unusu
ally strenuous campaign for recruit*
Michigan will furnish her full quota
no doubt; and la the meantime tho*e
here who ought to be busy on the
problem of our own "logged off
lands." are playing tommy to Os*
horn's rot or tossing pennies on. Taft
and the Oyster Bay freak.
I’ve walked and driven for days
through the famous fossil bed of the
John Day and other western section*;
but the fossil bed* nf Michigan, foe
antiquity and complete fosaillxation
have all those skinned from Denver
to the mouth of the Deschutes.
It would pay this state 100 per cent
per annum to go outside Into some
live section and hire barkers and
spielers to come in here and prophesy
to the dry bones and withered sinew?
of our decadency and inertia.
For instance—Every Pacific coast
newspaper Is a phonograph always
cranked for & new song and dance on
the stupendous opportunities in the
“golden west."
Per contra —You read Michigan pa
pers from year's end to land's End
and rarely see a line that by the most
fertile Imagination could be called a
good real estate add for this state.
There are a few holders or owners
of large tracts, with offices In Chicago
who are on the Job —nearly always in
Chicago paper*; but your o»u paper*
u.oßtly carry the Florida. Texas, Call
fornla and Canadian aerial*.
I know many a i«>»n in U*e *wt
count »tar.*s. born since a thousand
similar Michigan town* in size be-;
came elite*. The former ate growing
-on golden egg* fed In silver spoon*
by eastern restlessnese. The Michl-i
Ran UomaaJ towns or thfrenboots
lit quo or worse
There are several county seat clue*
north of Saginaw bay That haven't
done a lb k In ten years, but In that
ten years much Michigan money har
been used to build and support towns
of the same site in other sections
where the productive income in the
ten vears wouldn't pay their expend
for one year—kept up almost ao'ely
by eastern money, contributed by live
ones who like to see motion and go
away from home to get it
There Is nothing in Hod's world or
any other that "ails' losco, Alcona.
Arenac. Roscommon. Ogemaw, mid
! many other Michigan counties, but
j downright laziness of the Michigan
i Arkansas type - .
! little aud cares less about such a sit
uation —for ha* it not the automobile
industry, a million summer tourists,
and a D U. R problem’ Yea ver
ily
In the meantime that semiannual
hand uie-down $33 rate westward will
i soon pull out of Michigan 1.090 m« n
! with an average of ssoo each which
: will be taken into the northwestern
hard times belt to relieve the strln
I geney and pay the expense of another
lot of boom literature fir ue«t year.
P. jt.—l’ve read two or three time*
of some sort of an association fo< u*•••'.
around Saginaw Bay, that was formed
to boom the North Michigan oppor
tunity, but after careful sleuthing for
several months I cannot aa< ertatn
even the names of It* officers tior find
one of its booklets. Who'll put me
next?
Singularities
in the Port Nolloth district. South
Africa. 1* the ira*
mouse area occupied by a handful of
thriftless Hottentots, some 6.'» famt
lies, or 400 members ail told. So
thriftless are they, one reads, that
often as not they eat up the seed
wheat supplied to them by the gov
ernment in seasons of scarcity in
stead of sowing It. The natural
springs at their doors are not utiliz
ed. but neglected, and so a more in
dustrious and energetic face of men
is shut out ahd debarred front doing
jus'ice to the land. When one kills
a sheep or goat all the others flock
around to help him eat it. and this
applies to all foodstuffs
Graham county, Arizona, has a jail
cut out of the side of a hill of solid
rock. The loophole* * for ventilation
were opened by blasts. There is no
way of escape from the prison except
bv the door at the front.
Monday, March 18,
1912
About How Seeds and
Stalks Multiply
/• 1 . "" 1
M Phlllipari, professor of botany,
in 1843, cultivated at Versailles near
Paris. Fiance, successfully 372 vari
eties, from combination* of the fol
lowing standards: Five mum kinds,
one Kgyptian, two spelter wheat, three
Polish wheat, four single grain w heat,
five commou bearded wheat, three
generul kinds, hard, soft and Polish
ordinary
M. Ixniloiigcliainpa reported that be
counted four hundred nnd fifty grams
from one seed, and that he also saw
one hundred atul fifty-two stalks com
ing from one grain.
Mr. Shaw of st. I-ouls. received
once from a governor of un Algerian
province a pluut of eighty stalks, ami
incut ionj one of one hundred aud
twenty stalks |n possession of a pasha
of Hgypt.
Sir Humphrey Davis, mentions one
of one huudred and thirty stalks.
I inhumed speuks of two seeds each
that produced one hundred aud (oily
>talks and six thousand grains.
Ai Keriwon, near Hrest. Frame, is
1817. one hundred and fifty-five ear*
from one root were rei»orted. *
D'Albert. chief gardener of Isiuii
Phlllnne <lßflo-l84H» re|iorta of a plant
near Matties of fifty-two years, with
two thousand two huudred and forty
gr.'Hns.
The Chinese, by planting alngie
seeds, frequently obtain tweuty to
thirty ears from one seed.
Charles Miller of the Botanical
Hardens at Cambridge. KugUnd. tn
June, 1776. selected a grain ready to
brant h out, pulled It up and August
k divided It into eighteen parts. Km*-,
was carefully replanted, which sprout
ed again, and in September wer# dl
v op'd and replanted, making seventy
six separate plants, which went
through the winter and were redivid
ed during March and April and gave
in all five hundred plants, from which
rente 7 i.iup ears, producing forty
seven pounds nnd s hslf of grain, of.
Just think of It, 4.7**8 ?MM» seed* f
Hir William Bymonds of Hampshire.
England. brruight a fear grains from
Th<*be*. Egypt. which in-ott have neen
| about three tiiousalld five hundred
venr* s»iii the mummy from which
thev were taken in ble presence. OX*
m>««I only was planted and it produt
ed fifteen stems, with more than one
thousand six hundred grain* -The
, Narrator.
Waa Not Hiring Any General*
ITobabi> iu no military organiza
tion that ever existed were there aura
<ordlul relations between officers and
private soldiers as tn the Confeder
ate army. This was due, doubtless
to the fact that tn our ranks there
were lawyers, teachers, bankers, met
<hant*. planters, college profeeje»r*
and students who afterwards became
chief Justices, governors sod occu
pants, of the highest public stations.
Hlnce the war some of theee pci
vate* have told with great relish of
iiid tanner near Appomattox who
decided to give employment, after the
surrender, to any of Lee's veterans
who might wish to w<»rh a few days
for rood and small wages He div.ded
the Confederate employee into squads
according to the respective rank*
held by th- m In the army. He was
uneducated, but entirely loyal to the
southern cause. A neighbor Inquired
i.( him as to the different squads
\\ ho are those men working over
i here?"
"Them is private*, air. of Ime'a
urruy."
"Well, how do they work?"
“Very line. "If; first rate workers ”
"Who are thoee In the second
gr<* :p?”
"Them 1* lieutenants and captains,
and they works fairly well, but not
aa g<x»d workers as the privates.”
"I see vou have a third squad, who
•ore they?*
"Them ta colonels.**
"Weil, what about the colonel**
flow do they workt"
"Now. neighbor, you'll never bear
me say a word about any men who fit
tn the southern nrmy: hut I mint
ii Kwin* to h!r* no itntfil* Ocii.
i John B Oordon's *'lU«ntnlacence# of
i the Civil War "
Editorials by the People.
The Timee in the Forefront.
To the Editor of The Timet:
I heartily congratulate you on giv
ing to the public the cleanest and
most wholesome dally I have ever
seen. As I seo it The Times' posi
tion on the great moral, social and
political questions of the state and
nation is very commendable. It Is
in the forefront of moral and social
progress.
I/ong live The Times and lta capable
editor.
W J. CAIN.
Port Huron, March 18, 1912.