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6 THE FARMER: JUNE 6, 1911 THEEVEN1NGFARMER Published at 179 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn. THE FARMER PUBLISHING CO. Entered in the Portoffice at Bridge port, Conn., sa second cla matter. ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. t SUBSCRIPTION RATES . DAILY EDITION": 1 One Year ...fS.OO One Month 25 One Week .08 VEEKLY EDITION": One Year in Advance. .. .$1.00 s TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1U. GREAT WELCOME AWAITS MADERO IN HOME CITY He Will Formally Launch His Candidacy For President From His Balcony, Tomorrow For a Speech on This Same Spot He Was Arrested and the Re solution Precipitated (Special from United Press.) Mexico City, June A hearty wel come will be given .Francisco I. Ma- dero, Jr., when he reaches this city, tomorrow. There is to be no military demonstration, however. The streets. of course, will be lined with regular troops but their duty will be to as sist the police in restraining the crowds and maintaining order. Ma dero's friends insist that the troops must not take a prominent part in the welcome, fearing if they did It . would Interfere with their leader's pop ularity, t ' a special train, carrying committees from all of the recently organized Ma dero political clubs will leave here in the morning and proceed to the junc tion 15 miles out. There it will await the arrival of the Madero special. The latter will be escorted to the station here where all of the marching clubs will be lined up. , An open carriage drawn by four white horses will be provided for Ma dero and escorted by all of his fol lowers ha will proceed directly to his home, from the balcony of which he will make a speech to the crowd. This speech will formally launch his candidacy for the Presidency to . succeed De La Barra. It was as the result of a speech made from this same spot that Madero was arrested during the last presidential election and the revolution precipitated. In his speech he will outline the methods he believes should be resorted to to bring - about normal conditions throughout the country. . The police are, today, investigating last night's rioting in Santa Julia, one of the poorest quarters of the city. Just how many were killed and wounded in the fighting could not be learned. It was reported that 8 were killed and 40 wounded. The riot started unexpectedly. A company of women, sympathizers In the suffrage movement became mixed up with a gang of roughs. Rurales arrested the ringleader of the attacking party. Friends attempted to free him and a general riot followed. The ruralea first clubbed the crowd with their car bines but were finally compelled to fire a volley, which scattered the riot rs. There have been many minor sauab. bles in the outskirts of the city and President De La Barra has issued riot orders to the police all over'the dis turbed territory. Hartford Wants a Leper Farm Onable to Find Shelter Else where For Victim of Disease, City Seeks State Aid Hartford, June 6 More disappoint ment confronted the Hartford Board of Health yesterday when a commun ication was received from New York State, which followed the lead of Massachusetts and positively refused to consider sheltering on Ward's Isl and the Hartford leper who has been Isolated at the Hartford hospital for ten days. The Bay State authorities would not hear of a Connecticut charge being received into the State leper colony in Boston Harbor, and the local authorities are at their wits end, and will apply to the General Assembly to establish a State leprosy farm to care for the Hartford victim. "I'm Married Now," Writes Student W. 0. Lowe, Son of Hartford Contractor, Tells of Wedding Miss Foss, of Nutley, N. J. Hartford, June 6 "Dear ma, I am married to Lillian." Willis Oswald Lowe, A Trinity Col tudnt. ajad a son of William T. itve. a prominent contractor of No. 8 Raymond street, this city, sent this note to his parents in yesterday's mail. He told of his marriage to Miss Lil lian Foss. of Nutley, N. J. The young man was taking a special course in chemistry and electricity at Trinity, and went to New York a week ago saying he was to do some work for the Westinghouse Electric Company. "Yes. my son seems to be married, but I do think he might have bother ed enough to telephone or telegraph instead of sending this unsatisfactory letter." said Mrs. Lowe. "We know our son was very fond of Miss Foss, ever since he met her at the Junior ball last year and never thought of objecting to the match." said Mrs. Lowe. "When he went to New Yqrk we all thought it was for business reasons, but there seems to other reasons." THE MAYOR'S MESSAGE Mayor Buckingham's annual message if a municipal docu ment of unusual interest. It is not improbable that in the history of the future it will be regarded as marking the end of one epoch in the forward movement of Bridgeport and the beginning of an other. The mayor advocates an immediate entrance into the fieid of public ownership of public utilities, by the establishment of a plant for ti manufacture of current for all public purposes and for sale for light and power. Before making this recommendation, which is in strict accord ance with the platform of the Democratic party in Bridgeport, Mayor Buckingham made an exhaustive investigation of the entire field of municipal ownership, including the operation of municipal electric piants. The mayor, as he says in .his message after directing attention to nuiny public lighting plants, was particularly impressed with the history and status of the, lighting plant in South Norwalk, which began in a small way, some years ago, by furnishing public light ing, and has since grown to such proportions that it monopolizes the en mereial lighting of the thriving city. There is an intimate connection between what the mayor says relative to the growth of Bridgeport as a manufacturing center, and his proposition for a municipal electric plant. His first desire is to extend the use of a great modern con venience to the largest possible number of people, but a secondary purpose, equally and pejhaps more important, is to further encour age the industrial development of Bridgeport. This appears plainly in his discussion of the South Norwalk en terprise, much of which is devoted to the benefits that have accrued to the manufactures there, and to the industrial growth of South Xorv alk, as stimulated by the municipal plant. The mayor Is correct in assuming that equal benefitsbut on a larger scale may be had for Bridgeport. No one who is familiar with the manufacturing conditions as they are can doubt that the presence of a cheap and plentiful electric power in Bridgeport will attract manufacturers here, as certainly as they have been attract ed to South Norwalk. The mayor realizes that this project is one which cannot be adequately "carried out except under municipal control, which will have service and the good of the citizens for its prime object, rather than profits for a few foreign capitalists. Nor is the mayor visionary In respect of trying to accomplish a result which will require a long struggle with the legislature as a preliminary. He proposes that the city shall proceed under a statute, which has been long upon the books. This statute gives any city, or borough the right to establish a piant for the produc ion of gas, or electricity. It provides for every contingency from the n anner In which the initial steps-shall be conducted to the issuance of bonds necessary to pay the cost of construction, or for the purchase of the existing private plant. The law is most conservative and guards against hasty action. Before the plant can be established there must be an affirmative vote, by two thirds of the common council, in two successive years. The project then must) be approved by a majority of the electors at the ballot box. Since private enterprise is unable to compete with public en terprise in the manufacture of electricity, the iaw has wisely pro vided that the owners of any existing plant In private hands may require the city to purchase its property at a fair value. If the city and the private owners cannot agree upon the value, it may be fixed by a committee of the Superior court. Nor is It the purpose of the mayor to pursue a dilatory policy vith Tespect to Tils recommendation, as may be inferred from the fact that the city attorney has drawn the resolution necessary for passage by the council to formally initiate the program. This reso lution is already pending andwill come to a vote in due season. Other features of the mayor's message will equally commend themselves to the citizenship, and especially his strong, vigorous and economically sound discussion of the tax system and its effect up on municipal revenues. The mayor shows himself big enough to recognize that a com munity which is growing faster than nine-tenths of the cities of the United States cannot avoid rapid increases in its tax rate as the penalty of its inordinate prosperity, the more especially as the in creasing cost of living has made imperative large wage increases for the benefit of groups of city employes, as the firemen, the police and the school teachers. The Mayor aiso directs attention to another feature of taxa tion, which is that a larger tax bill frequently means a reduced expense to the property owner. He instances the street sprinkling, which is done by the city at a cheaper rate to the householder than he formerly paid when he contracted as an individual. Those will be well repaid who read his recommendations rela tive to a juster system of taxation, to a patrol system for macadam rc adways, to a uniform system of city accounting, relative to the extension of Broad street, relative to a more temperate observance of Irdependence Day and relative to Sunday concerts in the parks. These who read will be convinced, that in Mayor Buckingham Bridgeport lias an executive who is strong, honest and progressive, v ho is steeped in the principles of popular government, who has the welfare of the city as his chief official motive, and who has an abiding faith in the wisdom of judgment of the citizens. STATE'S RATIFICATION OF ! CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT WILL BE ALWAYS BINDING (Written for the Farmer by Willard C. Fisher, Mayor of MiddJetown.) At the legislative hearings upon the Income tax. as well as elsewhere, there has been a great deal of evident mis understanding as to facts and prin ciples involved in the ratification of the pending amendment. At the sec ond hearing no less a person than the Senate chairman of the Judiciary committee raised the question whether there could be more than an academic discussion since the measure was al ready defeated by the action or. inac tion of States. I have long been in terested in this and other attempts to remedy the great abuses of our pres ent methods of taxation, and I have watched the action of the States upon the pending amendment. I should like to show your reaflers that, far from being "merely an academic question", the ratification is a x practical certainty. 'As there are 46 States, the approval of 35 will be needed to ratify. Up to today, June 5. 29 have ratified. The 6 still lacking may be found In these States: Connecticut, Delaware, Flor ida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minne sota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York. Pennsylvania. Rhode Is land, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. As to the exact status of the amendment in some of these States I am Ignorant. In some, as in New Hampshire, Mass achusetts, and Virginia, It has been definitely rejected in one House of the Legislature, after being approved in the other. In some, as Minnesota and New Jrsey, the Legislature for this year has adjourned , after favor able action in one House. In others, New York and Wisconsin, the amendment, having been approved in one House, is now pending in the other. But it makes little difference what has been done in any, of the 17 States which, in one way and another, have as yet failed to ratify. The 29 ratifications are irrevocable, must stand forever; while any State which has done nothing or has even voted to reject the, amendment may take the matter up again at any time, no mat ter how far in the future, and may take it up again and again until fa vorable action may have been taken. It is of no importance whatever to ask whether the rules or principles just stated are reasonable or not. That they are definitely established in the premises is the one great fact. May 22, 1866, while the 14th amend ment was under discussion in Con gress, Mr. Buckalew of Pennsylvania introduced a resolution which provid ed, among other things, that no ac ceptance or rejection might be recon sidered or a second time taken up and that no acceptance should be valid unless given within three years. But the resolution failed. Again, when the 15th amendment was pending, the same proposal was repeated, and it was again rejected. And deferred ratifications and ratifications in place of prior rejections have several times been counted as valid. It may even be worth citing, as implied recognition of the validity of delayed action, that Texas on February 18, 1870. ratified the 13th amendment, which had been proposed February 1, 1865, and that in 1873, when the country felt eo much resentment over the "salary grab" in Congress, the Senate of Ohio passed a resolution accepting an amendment for the regulation of the pay of Congress men which had been proposed in 1789. But the following two cases are much more interesting, in fact they are quite conclusive for the principles I stated above. The 14th amendment was proposed to the States by a resolution of Con gress passed June 16, 1866. As there were then 37 States, the requisite three-fourths would be 28 On July 9, 1868, South Carolina, the 28th State, ratified; and on July 13 Alabama fol lowed. But meanwhile New Jersey and Ohio, which had ratified Septem ber 11. 1866, and January 11. 1867. had withdrawn their ratification, thus leaving only 27 States which nobody whatever could make any question about counting. Under such circum stances, July 20, 1S68. the Secretary of State issued a proclamation declar ing the amendment adopted provided DROP IN PRICE THERMOS BOTTLES Iuncli Carrying Outfit, including metal lunch box, carrying case and pint "Thermos" Bottle . $3.00 rint "Thermos" Bottle $2.50: formerly $3.75 Quart "Thermos" Bottle... $3.50; formerly $5.75 These bottles keep liquids hot 24 hours. original brass case nickel plated THE ATLANTIC PHARMACY ATLANTIC HOTEL BLOCK OPPOSITE POU'S WHITE SERGES FOR SUMMER SUITS AN EXTENSIVE LINE OF CREAM AND WHITE SERGES, PLAIN WHITE AND WITH NARROW HAIR LINE STRIPES, HEAVY TWILL, FOR SUMMER STREET WEAR, $1.00 TO $2.00 A YARD. PURE WHITE SERGE, DESIRABLE WHEN WHITE LINGERIE WAISTS ARE TO BE WORN, 54 INCHES WIDE, $1.25 A YARD. 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Now is the time they are wanted and we have them from 68c up to $4.50. Get the habit of reading our advertisements. They are money savers. the .ratifications of New Jersey and Ohio might be counted. The next day Congress, not satisfied with the sec retary's proclamation, passed a reso lution declaring the amendment adopt ed unconditionally and specifying New Jersey and Ohio as having rati fied. Even clearer, perhaps, was the proof of the principle in connection with Jhe adoption of the 15th amend ment, v Ohio rejected this amendment May 4, 1869, but afterward reconsid ered and ratified" January 27, 1870. New Tork, on the other hand, had rat ified April 14, 1869, but January 5, 1870. withdrew her consent. But both Ohio and New York were counted as having ratified in the proclamation which the Secretary of State issued March 30, 1870, announcing the adop tion of the amendment. The facts which I have cited are, of course, well known by all careful students of American affairs. Ames, in his Amendments to the Constitu tion, at pages 299-300, refers to some of them and adds his own comment. From the above it would seem that practice has decided that a State having once given its consent the question is ciosed and it cannot re call its action;but, on the other hand that a State that has rejected an amendment can reconsider its action at any time previous to the incorpo ration of the amendment into the Constitution." I fancy that the facts which have now been cited will prove interesting matters of history for some of your readers. Perhaps, too, they may have a bearing upon the wise course for Connecticut in acting upon the amendment. If one will but glance over the list of 17 states- from which 6 acceptances may be received at any time in the future, he cannot well doubt that the adoption of the 16th amendment Is only a question of a little more or a litttle less delay. It has not yet been before the states as long as some of the earlier amend ments were pending. And a sorry picture Connecticut will make in the pages of our history if she heeds the request of some small number of her big men and rejects a measure for Just relief for the body of her people, and then after all is compelled to come under with the other states. WILLARD C. FISHER. Middletown, June V 1911. PHOTOGRAPHERS MEET AND DISCUSS PLANS The Bridgeport Photographers club held an enthusiastic meeting last ev ening at which plans for the coming convention of the New England Photo graphers' association were discussed. Final arrangements for securing Stee plechase Island for week oT Sept. 11 for the use of the convention will be completed today. At last night's meeting delegations were present from Norwalk, Stam ford and Ridgefield and signified their intention of joining the local club. The meeting, which was held at the Betts studio on Main street, con. eluded after the photographers had en. joyed an entertainment furnished by some excellent vaudeville talent. New York Interviewed in the Wom an Voter, Colonel Roosevelt says he is a courageous man because he is the only suffragist in his family. New York Hua Mei. a Chinese graduate from Columbia University, today, has been elected to Phi Beta Cappa. RUBBER COATS ".light and dressy" MEN'S RUBBER COATS $3.90 to $10.00 LADIES'RUBBERCOATS $4.90 to $7.50 BOYS' RUBBER COATS $2.50 to $4.00 GIRLS' RUBBER COATS $2.00 to $3.50 Our coats are absolutely wa terproof Every one guaranteed. Oil Coats, Oilskin Hats and Aprons, Oilskin Suits for teamsters, drivers and mo torcyclists. BOOTS AND RUBBERS The Ailing Rubber Co, 1127 MAIN STREET Bridgeport, Conn. 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