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WEATHER FORECAST. * , ■ ■■■ — ■■ ■■ ■ ■ — y
lUiu and warmer tonight; Thursday ** Tb* tbm *** Ad“
rain or snow mid colder. High vcrtlslug Mnllum. Try It and ball#
soulliwvsi to northwest winds. up business.
-—-1-“. *—l2li___ HLl EMELP. \\ l.S I VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 5, 1908. PRICE TWO CENTS
STOCK MARKET
IS WORSE THAN
GAMBLING DEN
SAYS WILLIAM 4. BRYAN. AND
THAT MONTH FARIA) IS AN IN
NOCENT PLEASURE RESORT
IN COMPARISON.
LOUISIANA LOTTERY
NOT ONE TITHE AS BAO
Speaking Before New York Civic
Forum on Text “Tliou Shull Not
Steal” Nebraskan Pours Out YRri
olie Condemnation of Higii Finan
ciers and Mono|M»lies.
New York, Feb. 5.—Taking the
eighth commandment as his text.
William Jennings Bryan pointed out
to the Civic Forum last night the
possibilities of larceny in violation
of the law and—*wliat he said was
of still greater importance—larceny
through the operation of the law.
Carnegie Hall, as usual at the
gatherings of the Civic Forum, was
filled by an audience representative
of business and the professions, and
in which was reflected the various
shudes of public opinion. Edward
M. Shepherd introduced Mr. Bryan,
who was received with spirited hand
clapping, the applause being fre
quently renewed during the course
of his address. Mr. Bryan said in
part;
A HITTER DENUNCIATION.
Unjust taxation, the manner In
which some private monopolies are
conducted, and gambling in stocks
and farm products were declared to
be nothing more than a form of lar
ceny by Mr. Bryan. The stock and"
produce markets came in for most
bitter denunciation. He said the
New York Stock Exchange lias grad
uated more embezzlers than Fagan's
school did thieves; that measured by
the numbers of suicides Monte Carlo
Is an innocent pleasure resort as
compared with the New York insti
tutions and that the men who once
had charge of the Louisiana lottery
never did a tithe of the harm that
the grain gamblers and the stock
gamblers of New York do every
day.
“When a group of men gamble at
a wheel of fortune or at a game of
cards, Bald Mr. Bryan, “the Injury
done is confined to them and to those
Immediately dependent upon them,
hut those who gamble in the grain
pit or on the floor of the Block ox
ehango deal in commodities or se
curities in which eighty millions of
j»eople nre directily or indirectly In
terested. Farm products are juggled
up or Juggled down, stocks are boost
ed by the hulls or depressed by the
bears, and the whole country fools
the effect. The natural laws of sup
ply and demand ought to regulate
prices, but these laws are entirely
suspended when a few men can by
their bets add millions of dollars t j
the market values of one product or
take millions of dollars from the
vnhie of another product. After a
crusade which convulsed a state and
liKhMONT CAFE.
Dally.
Full Course Dinners,
12 to .1 p. m.
F. Thompson, Mgr.
at least Impressed the thought of the
nation, we got rid of the Louisiana
lottery and then we congratulated
ourselves upon our virtue. The men
In charge of the lottery never did a
tithe of the harm that the grain
gambler* and the stock gamblers of
CCew York do every day. nor did
they exercise anything like the cor
rupting Influences over politics. It
had been asserted without denial
that 99 i>er cent, of the New York
purchases and sales of stocks and of
produce are merely bets upon thJ
market value with no lutention on
the part of the vendor to deliver or
on the part of th«* purchaser to re
ceive. This is not business; it is not
commerce; it is not s|«ecu1ation; It
Is common, vulgar gambling. and
when to the ordinary chances that
the gambler takes are added the ex
traordinary chances due to the se
cret manipulation of the market by
those who are on the inside, the j
stock market becomes worse than an
honestly conducted gambling resort. I
If a man takes a chance upon a
wheel of fortune, lie knows Just what
his chance is. and he knows that the
owner of the wheel has a percent
age of chances in his favor, but w hen
a stranger gambles upon the stock
or grain market he is at the mercy
of those who by obtaining contro'
of the visible supply, can destroy
every natural law of business rule
I which the outsider knows. While
Ith * 'nws of each s'ni \ an I tie laws
of th-* nation, should proent, n* f.t •
as laws can. the use of tbes* com
mercial activities for gambling pur
poses. there must be back of the law
an educated public opinion an I I
beg the spiritual advisors of our
groat cities to consider w'hether
I they cannot advance religion as well
as morality by pointing out ihat the
commandment ‘Thou Hhalt not steal ’
is openly and notoriously violat'd in
the stock market, and in the grain
pit by those who profess to bell »ve
in the Bible and to have respect for
its teachings.”
Mr. Bryan’s subject was "Thou
Shalt Not Steal." Ho had not select
ed the subject with any intention of
presenting an argument against
stealing, he said, but It was his pur
pose, rather to apply the command
ment to present conditions. He di
vided larceny into three classes_
petit, grand and glorious. By glori
ous larceny, he said, he referred to
the tendency to regard stealing upon
a large scale as less reprehensible
than stealing upon a small scale,
which lias led to the suggestfop that
the commandment be amended to
read "Thou Shalt Not Steal on a
Small Scale.”
-'ii. tsr>an took the administration
of th • tax laws to Illustrate what he
called larreny In violation or law.
"If two men live side by side,” said
he, "and one contributes in taxation
ten dollars when his Just share 's
only five, and the other only pays
five when he ought to pay ten, one
loses five dollars that he ought to
keep, while the other keeps five do'
j *ar8 that he ought to give to the
[government. The effect in this case
is Just the same as If one man took
the other man’s property and a»i
pHed It to his own use. The fact
that fhe government, acting as a col
lector, took the five dollars from the
man who is over-burdened and gave
it to the man who Is under-burden
ed, does not change the charade* of
the transaction.
I he subject of private monopoly
furnishes us another illustration of
larceny, and here it is not p tit lar
ceny nor even grand larreny; It rises
to the proportions of glorious lar
ceny. not only because of the amount
taken, but because of the respecta
lillity of those who received the
stolen goods. The object of a private
monopoly is to control the pr)..* of
the tiling sold; It Is to corner th •
market. The theory is that man's
necessities require him to I* ty cer
tain things which sustains his life
II \oi HFF IT AT I’l’IHWi'H IT’M WORTH TIIK PRim. (
SPECIAL SALE
fllvv«nt Hargalna of tha Sunsfin
MF.VH HITTH. * "
V\ e will put on sale tomorrow four lota of Men's Suits —
broken lots of black and assorted colors In Worsteds. Casrl
mers. Flannels, Thibet* and Meltons. The better grades are
strictly all Wool, and oven In the cheaper grades many All*
Wool Suits are nhown.
These Halts nre Offered at a Reduction of 2* to no |Vr c , tif.
liOT I.
'*S.t»0 to $,.00 Suits, your choice at .*:\~.*>
liOT 2.
$7.00 to $K.r»0 Sulla, your choke at . J$l.ir»
M»T St.
$10.00 Suits, your choice at . $7.3T»
lot 4.
$12.00 to $12 f.O Suits, your choice at .
SIMILAR RIIIH C TIONH IN RFTTFR ORARK HI ITS.
R»g Reduction In Roy's, Vonth's and Men's Overcoats and
Raincoats.
E. S. PEDIGO
/) 32**327 Princeton Arena*. Rluefleld, West Virginia.
and add to his comfort. \Vher*»
there is competition the sellers bid
against each other and the purchaser
Is able to seoure what he needs at
n price which is approximately (air.
If. however, akl of the vendors can
be brought together in a combina
tion. so that all purchasers must buy
of the same vendor, competition *s
eliminated and the man who fixe.,
the price. Axes it arbitrarily; and
we know enough of humau nature
to know that he is apt to charge a!l
that the trafAe will bear.
‘‘I insist that the commandment,
"Thou Shalt Not Steal," applies as
much to the monopolist as to the
highwayman. We shall not make
any material progress in the protec
tion of the people from private
monopolies until we are prepared to
obliterate the line that society has
drawn between the, ordinary thief
and the larger criinlnni who hold! up
society and plunders the public
through the instrumentality of pri
vate monopoly.
"And it is not sufficient that wo
shall appeal to the conscience of the
monopolist alone. if a highway
man were to engage a lawyer to fol
low a few rods behind him with a
horse he might have a ready means
of escape after having committed an
act of robbery, we would call the
lawyer a pnrty to the crime, and wo
would visit upon him the same pun
ishment visited upon the principal
in the robbery; and yet, It is consid
ered quite respectable today for the
legal representatives of predatory
wealth to visit state capitals and na
tional capitals, and prevent the en
actment of laws Intended to protect
[the public from private monopolies;
and it is even more respectable for
the salaried attorneys of thes* mo
nopolies to follow’ close after offend
ers and furnish them with horses in
the way of legal technicalities upon
w’hlch to escape from punishment.
And some of our metrojx»litan pa
pers are in the same class with the
unscrupulous lawyer. It is not
time to raise the moral standard and
to insist that our laws shall be made
for the enforcement of human rights,
and not for the protection of those
who violate these rights? Shall we
continue to he horrified at house
breaking and the picking of one's
pocket, and yet view complacently
and without concern these million
dollar raids ujmn the earnings of the
entire imputation? Surely we are
justified in applying to the trust
question the commandment "Thou
Shalt Not Steal.”
SAIL TOMORROW
tPunta Arenas, Fob. 5.—.The coal
ing of the American battleship
squadron will be finished tonight
and early tomorrow the fleet will
steam from tho harbor. Admiral
Evans is still confined to his cabin
with an attack of rheumatism, and
has not had much opportunity to
enjoy himself here, but the officers
have been fairly overwhelmed by re
ceptions and entertainments in their
honor.
'anti-saloon league
WINS FIRST VICTORY
OMabmoa City, ok la., Feb. fi.
The Antl-Haloon League won its Aral
victory In the preaent legislature
yesterday wh'-n the house committee
on general 1awa favorably report** I
the bill re (Hiring express companies
to dcdiver liquor only to the person
to whom if is addressed. The pro
posed law provides a penalty for re
fusal to fulfill the requirements of
the law.
JENKINSES MI
CHINEE OF VENUE
New Y.ork. F-h. 6.—Another
phase of the case against John O.
Jenkins. Sr., John G, Jenkins. Jr..
Frank Jenkins and Frederick Jenk
ins, the Indicted officials of the Wil
liamsburg and Jenkins Trust com
panies, will come up tomorrow,
when a motion for a change of venue
will t»e argued In Mlneola.
The change of venue Is demanded
on the ground that the defendants
cannot receive a fair trial In Kings
county, owing to the feeling inspired
against them because of their con
nection with the suspension of the
Institutions of which they were di
rectors.
Conspiracy Is the charge on which
the defendants were Indicted. It I if
alleged that they conspired to vise
Illegally the funds of the two trust
companies.
NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN
VISITED BY DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
Berlin. N. H„ Feb. 5.- Just at the
time when It seemed an though
nothing could save the town from
being wiped off the map. aid wan
received from neighboring rltle*
which Raved Berlin from total do
struction by lire today, although the
tiro in still burning fiercely, the fire
men, by heroic effort*? have gotten
it under control.
The total Ions will r nch five hun*
drc dthouRand dollars.
AFFINITIES TO
WED, AAAYBE
FERDINAND I*. EAR1.E AND MISS
•II' LI A KITTN'ER, WHO MIUHk
El> THE MORALITY OF AMERI
CANS, WILL RE MARRIED
NOOX.
Paris. Feb. B.—That Ferdinand
Plnney Earle and Julia Kuttner, who
startled Americans by the announce
ment of their ’•affinity" creed Iasi
September, will be married shortly
In Parts, is a rumor current here.
Mrs. Earle now has an application
for a divorce ponding In the French
courtH. As soon as tills is granted,
Earle and hls “spiritual affinity"
will be legally married. It is al
leged that the present Mrs. Earle
will witness the wedding, and tbits
give another Rliock to conventional
morality.
Since coming to Paris, the artist,
hls present wife and hls future
spouse have been seen much togeth
er and have gone ofr on many little
trips together, each apparently treat
ing the other with the utmost con
sideration and allowing every evi
dence of affection In their conduct.
Parisians are immensely Interest
ed in the Earle-Kuttner romance,
but there have been no such mani
festations of hatred and disgust ns
were vented upon the artist in New
York. There is almost universal
praise for the nova! attllude of Mrs.
Earle in effacing herself In order to
insure the happiness of her husband,
and there is little blame Tor Earle
or Miss Kuttner.
IN HOSPITAL
Boston, Feb, f».-- enable to re
count the terrible experience of Hie
hours during which they battle! with
fire and storm, and not knowing
whether they were to fall Into a
blazing furnace or he swept into the
sea, the siifr ring survivors of the
steamer St, Cut h her! were transfer
red from the liner Cymric today to
lhe Boston hospital, a majority of
the survivors are suffering from
burns, and all showed effects of ter
rible exposure. The worst sufferers
are ('apt. lifwls and Fireman J. o
Bart, who received severe injuries
W’hen a can of fuel oil exploded in
their faces, ,
NO LIQUID HILARITY
FOR IDE STUDENTS
Columbia. Mo . l-'eb. 5.- Student?
of the I'nlversfty of Missouri will
have to go elsewhere to absorb
liquid hilarity, if the local option
election today results In a. "dry”
town and county, as Is indicated by
eariy returns. The temperance peo
ple of the state have carried on a
valorous campaign In advance of the
election and have urged the voters
to remove the temptation of strong
drink from the hundreds of students
attracted here by tbe state univ< r
slty.
| ACTION MADE TO
! RELEASE THAW
New York, Feb f». An action to
release Harry Thaw from the asylum
at Matteawan was promised before
the day Is over by Attorney* Orellly
and Peabody this morning. dust
what cour*e would he taken they
! would not say. but habeas corpus
I proceedings are hint'll at.
Henry A. Billy left this Afternoon
for a visit to Florida.
TO INCREASE
BOND LIMIT
CTTIKS Wll.l. IIIO KNXIU.KI) To
IIOKIIOXX XIOHK MOVKV—
<TI XNOI>; X Ml', l*MOI*OSi:i> IN
TIIK STKKKT I,XXX IN THIS
STATN.
Charleston. \V Vn., |*Vb. ft. Mr.
I Staunton of Kanawha, Introduced
bill No. 20, relating to street paving,
| etc., In municipalities which will
prove of interest I<* elti/.ens at large
and small towns alike. It is to ap
ply to cities and villages of 2.000 or
more, nnd provides for the Improve
, meat of streets and alleys by grad
ing. paving, curbing and sewering,
also of the manner of paying for
same.
I
I It incidentally permits of the rais
| ing of the bond limit of munleipal
( ItieH from two and one-half to five
per cent., the proceeds, howev r.
from the bonds Hold In excess of Up*
i present limit to apply only to such
improvement purposes as described
| in the bill.
These bonds to bo issued, a threo
flrths assenting vote or the people,
; also a like number or votes in the
I city councils, is necessary to make
^ any specific improvements.
Tin* entire cost of all paving and
s-worlng improvement Is to be borne
by the abutting property owners, but
is to be pal 1 for In annual Install
ments over a possible period of ten
[ years, the payments being applied to
• be Interest and principal of the
i bondh Iskii •«! for the Improvement in
question.
SEVEN HUNDRED
JOBS BURNED
I
I Trenton. N. J., Fob. 7,. A fire
j which attacked the large plant or
[John A. Cobbling Sons & Company
today, was fanned by a strong wind
and soon assumed serious propor
tions. About three acres were hill ti
ed over and the loss will r ach half
a million dollars and more than sev
en hum]re I men will be thrown out
of employment.
WORST COLD '
> SNAP IN YEARS
zi:ko wi:\tiii:h in ni.u yoiik
INFI.ICTH MICII SI II I HIM.
AM> miibsmp on Till, cool*
—IIIMUIKIW on nr
HT/% It Y.tTK tV.
New York. Feb, With the
continuance of zero weather. New
York is experiencing the worst cold
snap from the point of suffering
among the poor, since 1*03, which
was known as the panic year. Al
, ready conditions are such that hun
dreds of deaths will result from cold,
j exposure and starvation, mil any
| prolongation of the zero we,Chet
may raise the list, of stiff rers from
hundreds fo thousands. More ap
peals have l>een made to charily or
ganlzatfons In the last few days than
has been made In years.
The great number of unemployed
Aa *ai<l *0 he responsible for the * x
; I •‘ting conditions, and every hospital
[ kn the elty Is filled with people over
come by sickness or found in a dyine
[state. Only th-> Immediate return of
| warm weather, charity workers say,
will afford anything like adequate
relief for the tinfoi l suffering.
Hattie May. the little dangle r of
Mr. and Mrs. ],. a. flowes, of r,0
Rogers sin >t, was burled today at
Walnut (drove. Rev. Thomas Prld.ly
j con duet ed the funeral service.
IT IS JUDGE
KOHMK.lt 1'IMNCKTON CITIZKN
OKI'S TilK 1*1,KM—Kl.KCTKD TO
HCCCRKD .ll’IHJK MOUItlH, DK
CKAsKD.
j ntrlinuxid, Va., Fob. f>.—Oeorge
i Burnley Sinclair was unanimously
j elected Judge of the corporation
court of Charlottesville, to succeed I
•In* late Judge (loo. \V. Morris. The
two houses voted separately on the
nomination.
The above information will be In
teresting nows to the Judge's many
I friends in this county. Judge Stn
j olnir was for several years asslst
| nut (ashler of the Princeton Hank
ing company and studied law with
Dr. J W. Male. Mis wife Is a daugh
ter of the late Dr. It. H. McNutt and
a sister of Dr Joe and Major C. It.
McNutt, of Princeton.
RHEA SEEKS FOR
| ALLEGED TELEGRAM
I KXI’KAIXH HIS ACTION IN TIIK
JOltD.VX CASK—-dill V DID NOT
UKTItt'N VKKIMCT AS IN*
Sl'ltl ( TKD.
Rirhiiioinl, Va.. Koli, 4. Tho In
vestigation or Judge William F.
Rlioa, of Bristol, by the Joint legis
lative committee, was continued this
evening, with Judge Rlma on the
stand, lie testified that he hud been
lining every effort to get tho original
of the telegram lie was last night ac
cused of having sent to Mr. Clark.
Judge Itlien sent the following tele
gram this morning: "To W. Hke
*' '»• 'V I’nrleo, J. A. Hlone, all
oi IlrlHlol. (So to Western Cnion
and He > jf you can find a message
nl'logp I to have been sent by me to
• lark, at llonaker, dated November
■> or il. 11102. Wire me fully, fjulck.'
The reply was as follows: “All tel
egrams destroyed when twelve
months old by telegraph company.
' "ii never wire l Clark. Ashworth
amt 1 whan on parties acted regard
ing lluchnnnn. You bad no reason
to do so. ,1. A. Stone."
MR KKMiit K'K'S STATK.MF.NT,
Mr. Kendrick upon examination
made lb.- fid/,wing statement: #|
do not I I;• v tii- census of Bristol I
to hnve liecn fraudulently taken.'
Judge Ubca was fixed upon as (tie*
b< I man for Judge of the corpora !
Hon court after Its establishment on !
account of IiIh ability and experlenc •
iiid the faith the people had in him.
Judge Rhea refused to accept the
position saying he could not afford
to give iij» his hUHlnens for It, but he
did ho upon being urged."
WAS HKVKRKLY CKITIC1HKD.
•fudge Rhea won next examined.
He inad<* tlie following statements
relative to the Jordan mae;
aetlon in setting aside the verdlet In
the- Jordan case was most severely
criticised | did criticise the Jury
for rendering a compromise verdict,
a. according to the testimony and
my Inf ructions they had no right to
do so. I he||eved that the Jury was
influenced by the popular law for the
conviction of Jordan and he was en
titled either to acquittal or convic
tion of murder In the first degree*
ror I * had no more evidence to •
f*■ r. If* did not care to lake the
responsibility of nolle prosse pro
ceeding* so I did release the pris
oner.”
The committee then adjourned
pending the production of evidence
for the def<*nt*e to throw itglit upoli
the telegram aileg d to have bee*
sent l»v Judge Rhea.”
February 1. I tins
To the l-MItor of The Header.
Hlueflell, W Va.
I> ar Sir \ few days ago you
pub! bed a notice for me calling a
meeting of the executive committee
\nfI Saloon League of Vfer
c* r county to meet on Haturlay, th ‘
of February, IftOS. The
w* . ’ - i H ? > inclement f have con
clu f« I to jam I pone this meeting un
til Saturday, the 7th day of March
Would you kindly make this an
nounoemenf in your pap r of the
post pone men t.
Very truly yours,
It \V HTKALBY.
Chairman.
R n fti x Harman of Riuestone.
Tazewell srounty, died yesterday of
typhoid fever.
(RtOIMUC IIYRNK ON SITI'ATION
IN WKHT VIRGINIA—l>KM(>
CRATM II AYR A HPl.KNhll)
4'HANCK TO CARRY TIIR ST AT A
IN (MMINO KLBCTION.
Washington, Feb. D. -iQeorge
Byrne, of charleston, lias been in
town on private business, hut re
mains Interested In Democratic af
fairs at home. He aconm pleased with
the frequent remarks of West Vir
ginia ItopuhlleuuH that It will he
hard work to elect a llcpuhlleau
governor this year unless some new
man is projected Into the competi
tion. Byrne has only hoard what;
has l»een a dally contribution to the
gossip here during the last few
weeks. Home very prominent R» •
publicans hero recalled that Dawson
had a hard light and that Dawson’s
efforts for a certain candidate will
renew the fight of four years agJ
and that there will not he the ad*
vantage of the Hoosevelt tidal wave.
Byrne thinks the situation II
cheering one for the candidates iu
his party who wish to he governor,
lie mentions Adam IdtlHepage, «>?
Charleston, Jake Fisher, of Brax
ton, and O. M. Wetzel, of Jefferson,
as the three men most likely to fig'
ure In the convention as candidat e
for the head of-the ticket.
There lias been talk of Cornwell,
hut he long ago declared that ho
would not run
Byrne Insists that West Virginia
Is overwhelmingly for Bryan and
that the delegation wHl be for him
to a man. • •• •
>1A lilt l \<JK or TH« kaiii, or
V.\KAIOITH ANI» Aliirr. TIIAW
< A AIIO TO AN KNI> Toil A V—
Trm:i> umn avoi i.dvt i,kt
cjo tii,i, nr <jot vionkv.
l.oiiilon, FVb. 5. The marriage
between the Karl or Yarmouth and
IiIh wife, formerly Miss Alice Thaw,
of Pittsburg, Pa., was anrfullml this
afternoon. The hearing of Hh* cnsn
only ninttiirued thirty minutes of
the court’s time. The Karl made no
defense and was not present.
It lias Just leaked out that one
t lilt <1 of the fortune of the countess
Iiuh been settled on him. At a con
ference between the legal represen
tatives of the earl and his wire held
yesterday, at which It was said the
form“r would make no protest and
let the case go by on condition that
ample financial provision be made
for him An agreement for a Kettle
men* was evidently the outcome of
th** conference this morning.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
TO BE ORGANIZED
A mass mating of the ministers
and laymen of the city will he held
next Monday afternoon a> 3.30
o'clock at the Presbyterian clmreli,
The obJ‘Ct of tiie meeting will be
for the discussion of plans and the
organization of an Associated Charl
tles. that riie money nnd provisions
donated to charitable purposes may
bo properly distributed. There is
much need of charitable aid in our
city during the severe weather. < g
pcilaliy In view of the great num
ber out of employment, but without
an organized movement and definite
understanding among the contribu
tors, there Is danger that the hulk
of tile contributions Will go to beg
gars rattier than to the needy who
are too proud let their ne ds be
known. It is the purpose to so or
ganize these charities that those In
actual need will not he permlttcl to
suffer and to make It more difficult
for the professional beggar f» Im
pose on the public. The ministers
of the city and the laymen as well
are cordially invite I to jojn in the
movement It v. V. R w. Kegley,
who has had six years' experience
'n this kind or work, has been ap
pointed chairman of the commute#
on organization, of which Rev. r>.
H Moss and ReV. s If. Thompson
are the other members.