547 
1911 
the rural new-yokkkr 
there is any legal way to get this money 
we are going to get it, and what work 
we do on it will not cost them a cent. 
No bluff about reorganization will 
satisfy these claims. It will take about 
$30,000 in cold cash in hand to settle 
them. That is the terms on which he 
can get possession of these securities. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Verdicts of $20,000 award¬ 
ed to Orlavus Juve, who lost four fingers 
on his right hand, and to John J. Mc- 
Glvnn, who lost his loft hand by holding 
back an iron girder which threatened to 
fall and crush out the lives of half a dozen 
of their fellow workmen employed in build¬ 
ing the Queensboro Bridge, have been 
unanimously affirmed by the Appellate 
Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn. 
The injured workmen will now receive the 
award with interest and costs. They sued 
the Pennsylvania Steel Company. The acci¬ 
dent occurred on December 11, 190 <, when 
a big iron girder was being hoisted into 
place on one of the bridge towers. It began 
slipping, and was caught by Juve and Mc- 
Glvun.who held on to the mass despite the 
fact that it was carrying them inch by inch 
to a point where their hands would be 
caught between the slowly moving girder 
and the stationary iron work. 
Creditors’ petitions in bankruptcy were 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Trying to “Swipe” the Evidence. 
It makes me boil with indignation to 
think that E. G. Lewis has the audacity 
to propose another scheme to American 
women. When I read in the St. Louis 
papers of April 12 that he “had assigned 
everything on earth that he had” to a 
committee of three trustees, I believed it. 
I knew he owed the publishers a great deal 
of money, and this was a virtual bank¬ 
ruptcy in their favor. But the Weekly 
gives" another view. It is a skillful plan 
which would bring into Ms possession all 
the alleged incriminating evidence against 
him. All notes, bonds, books, pool certifi¬ 
cates, debentures, etc., are asked to be turn¬ 
ed over to him, so that evidences of long 
overdue promises will be at once lost for¬ 
ever. However fraudulently obtained, pos¬ 
session is 10 points of the law, and the 
real owner is powerless. Absolute power 
is given to discontinue old companies, form 
new ones, etc. But no promises are made. 
Worthless as these securities have proven, 
still they were definite promises, and fur¬ 
nished a legal hold on Mr. Lewis. No 
return of any value is guaranteed by. this 
commission, so Mr. Lewis will be relieved 
of the responsibility of all his promises, 
a consummation he has been seeking for 
months. Surely no one will throw over 
evidence of indebtedness on any such plan. 
This test is to divide the sheep from the 
goats I wonder how many fleeces Mr. 
Lewis will carry off this time. I hope the 
women will notice that he said months 
ago he had made over everything to 
the Builders’ Fund ! What had become 
of the glowing promises made then? If 
he had made over anything then, he could 
not make it over now. Do not these 
eminent trustees of the Builders Fund feel 
some responsibility for the thousands of 
dollars sent in on the strength of then 
honorable guarantee? N. M. texer. 
Every mail now brings letters like 
the above from women who realize at 
last that Lewis has played them false 
First he promised two millions of 
stock as an endowment to the League. 
Next he promised the same thing to the 
Founders Chapter; and said the stock (jooooo guarantee were: Joseph B. Reich- 
wnnlrl nav 100 oer cent, profit the first mann, William A. Keener, Liston L. Lewis 
would pay , 1 , ., . nu ,i (ioorge C. Smith. With Cummins, Con- 
year. Then he said he turned this with d(m and S M 0ore< they guaranteed other big 
everything he had over to the Builders obligations, such as the $2,100,000 that 
everyin I 1 J, nc * Rnrrnw more Cummins got from Andrew Carnegie, the 
Fund —his straw man to borrow mo “ ei , note8 b f or $390,000 and loans obtained 
money on debentures. Now he says Cummins from the National Reserve 
a era in that he turned everything over to Bank and other banks and trust companies, 
again tnat ne turneu eve j s f Cummins . liabilities the petitioners put at 
a new set of trustees. He told } ou qqo 000, with assets of $400,000. From 
the $26 000,000 the League was to have cummins. Brewster claims $30,000, Hat- 
as an endowment fund; but he now ad- field $9,644 and Watson $80,000. 
as an endowment , . , Judge H C- Niles , in the Federal Dis¬ 
trict Court, at Aberdeen, Miss., April 13, 
sentenced J. H. Miller, a member of the 
firm of Steele, Miller & Co., who was found 
first tornado was reported at Eskridge, 
Kan. Here many houses were destroyed 
and much damage done to crops, the damage 
in Brown County being put at $300,000. 
The storm swept on to Powhatan and 
Netawaka, Kan., nearby towns, then off to 
the northwest. Hiawatha and Manville, 
Kan, were struck, and here three persons 
were killed and much property damage done. 
Later a tornado struck Lawrence, Kan., 
killing two persons, injuring twelve, and 
doing damage estimated at $175,000. This 
storm swept the town from the southwest 
to the northeast, and, after passing over 
the Kansas River, continued toward Leaven¬ 
worth. The local company of militia was 
drilling and did noc know that there was 
a storm until the roof had been taken off 
their building, and as the last of thein 
dashed out of the front door, the second 
floor fell in. A side of the county jail 
was torn down and about 30 prisoners made 
a dash for liberty, but only three succeeded 
in escaping. An hour after the first tornado 
struck Eskridge, Kan., a tornado swept 
through Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas 
and Southwest Missouri. At St. Louis an 
eight-story grain elevator, valued at $700,- 
000 in the extreme northern end of the 
citv, on the Burlington tracks, was blown 
into the Mississippi River. The Bryan 
Hill Public School, also in the north end, 
collapsed during the storm. Two women 
arc reported to have died from fright, mak- 
ing three deaths in St. Louis traceable to 
the storm. The damage was particularly 
heavy in the west end, north side and in 
St Louis County, where many greenhouses 
were demolished by the hailstones, which 
measured more than two inches in diameter. 
crop of good fruit under difficulties is to 
spray unceasingly and never give up even 
when p<*ople say there is nothing left to 
spray for. I have too often seen the grower 
quit, thinking he had nothing to spray but 
the trees, and when it was too late he 
could see that he had a fair crop of worth¬ 
less fruit because he had not sprayed it. 
One should spray anyway for the foliage, 
and it is likely there may be fruit enough 
to pay the expenses and nearly always to 
make a profit. Several fruit farms have 
changed hands at advanced figures, and 
land suitable for fruit is bringing more 
money when located on a good road. Some 
cheap farms can be bought yet, though, as 
the writer recently secured a large hill 
farm from an old settler who could uo 
longer care for it properly, and it had been 
neglected and grown up to weeds and 
bushes. It is now being planted to apples, 
with hopes of a good investment. A full 
carload of blue vitriol was brought in here, 
besides all the local shipments and other 
spraying material, and it is time to begin 
to use it. As the Bordeaux seldom injures 
Rome Beauty, most growers will continue 
to use it with arsenate of lead, and we 
can’t control the Codling moth with one 
application, nor two either, but we think 
it requires four, and the last about the 
last of July or the first of August. The 
scab may do untold injury also if the fruit 
and foliage are not kept covered with a 
fungicide as they develop. We use Bordeaux 
four times, also after the bloom drops, the 
2-5-50 formula, and put on heavily with 
power sprayers. . 
A few growers of good fruit organized 
last Spring under the name of the Rome 
Beauty Growers’ Association, and purchased 
three of the seven 
who piitT their names to a $1,000,000 guaran¬ 
tee that Comptroller Frendergast, of New 
York City, exacted from the Carnegie Trust 
Company while Chamberlain Hyde was on 
vacation in Europe to cover what is now 
$650,000 of city money on deposit m the of one ot then operators. ne 
Carnegie. The $650,000 is tied up in- found on the death of Mary 
definitely. The bankers’ committee that is young operatoi, was 
definitely. -_—_ - 
advising Bank Superintendent Cheney as 
to how much can be squeezed out_ of the 
Carnegie’s assets finds that ( u mm ins and 
his associates got the company’s affairs 
into such a tangle that it will be impossible 
for many weeks to tell what depositors 
will get. The other names on this $L,- 
Place, New York, fire, returned a verdict 
April 17 finding Isaac Harris and Max 
Blanck, proprietors of the Triangle Shirt¬ 
waist Company, responsible for the death 
of one of their operators. The verdict was 
" ” -y Herman, a 
_ seen running 
toward the'door on the Washington Place 
side of the building on the ninth floor, 
and was seen to try the knob of the door, 
finding it locked, according to witnesses. 
The jury also considered the death ot Rosie 
Grasso, ‘ whose body was found burned on 
the ninth floor, near the locked door on 
the Washington Place side, and quickly ar¬ 
rived at a verdict finding Harris and Blanck 
responsible in that case also. The jury 
was concerned mostly with framing piac- 
tical recommendations tending to prevent 
such disasters in the future. On the jury 
of 10 men were experienced engineers, arehi- 
J... l.niMnra nn3 thCV Silent UlUCh 
grade selling for less than $4. Of course, 
we have to pay for cold storage and com¬ 
mission out of that, and put cushions in 
the barrels to take up the slack, or plug 
them to make them tight. We can’t hope 
to get such prices always. 
Lawren$e County, Ohio. m. t. cox. 
mits that it is not able to pay its bills, 
and even the cups in its possession have 
been covered by the chattel mortgage. 
No wonder the women of the so-called fears'ln“priso'F and to pay a fine of oe ace 
League “boil with indignation when oob. L. C. Steele and C. H. G. Linde, t®“ded 
- - - , , — — -- . ... I 2®» automatic sprinklers and more frequent in- 
he now impudently appeals; to then, for who .«Ji w * E to .peetions ate recommended, 
more money. For ten years he has been isonm f nt a nd a fine of $10,000 each, 
at the game. Read the list of accounts The men were members of the cotton firm 
on which he has coiiected .noney in his 
Four Socialist mayors were elected in 
Illinois cities April 18—at Granite ( lty, 
Grafton. O’Fallon and at Davis, m Stephen- 
— -- „ , . , • , W hicn railed several muiuus agu. »«» son County. Neither “wets” nor “drys 
own paper. Recall what he said about c j iar „ e( j a t the time of the failure that scored any decided victory. 
' --t-ii-t-i— f rau 3nlent bills of lading, amounting to 
THE NEED OF A FARMERS’ PARTY. 
The Present Situation Analyzed. 
Since the publication of your editorial 
advocating the formation of a party dis¬ 
tinctly agrarian, the parties now in Con¬ 
gress have shown what interest they take 
in the welfare of the farmer and of his 
industry. In my opinion the result fully 
supports your position ; and until we under¬ 
take such a course, the farmer must expect 
to be made a catspaw for the politician 
and the officeholder. There can be no doubt 
that there is in both the old parties an 
inherent incompetence to deal with ques¬ 
tions according to their true economic na¬ 
ture and bearing. The existence of two 
parties resting upon broad foundations of 
principle, and attempting to compose con¬ 
flicting interests lias been favorable to the 
growth of the politician as a separate class, 
having interests of his own as distinct from 
the body of voters whom he professes to 
---v-- . .. represent. With him the primary question 
for permits for erection and alteiation shall is l not w Aether a particular policy will in- 
stituents, but “how 
my votes win mis particular measure 
gain or lose for me?” It is in this way 
that a party policy is formulated or modi- 
tects and builders, and they spent much 
time getting at their recommendations. The 
jury after the formal finding as to Harris 
and Blanck, criticises most severely the 
crowding of the room with tables for ma¬ 
chines, thus making it harder to reach fire 
escapes an<l stairways, and says such ciowu- 
inc should be prevented. It recommends 
that the Bnreau of Buildings have power 
to enforce its orders, and that applications 
guilty ^ fraudulently ^using the mails to ^statement of the in 
ded use of the building. £ire drills, ^ v ~ otes this part icuh 
the profits of his publishing business 
when he was inducing you to buy the 
stock; and remember his later admis¬ 
sion that the monthlies had lost money 
for years. Recall again the profits he 
was to make out of the daily, and see 
what has become of it now, six months 
later. It is our information and our be¬ 
lief that he never made a profit for any 
length of time out of any of his pub¬ 
lishing ventures. His papers have been 
used mainly for years as circula. 3 or 
advertising' media to promote his 
schemes and to collect money from 
country people. 
From the fact that the Federal Gov¬ 
ernment is investigating his numerous 
schemes it is evident that complaints 
have been made alleging fraud in the 
process of getting the money. The al¬ 
leged reorganization is evidently . made 
$7,000,000, had been issued by the firm. 
Indictments were found against Miller, 
Steele and Linde, charging that fraudulent 
hills of lading were sent through the United 
States mails. All three men were given 
sentences of two years and a fine of $10,- 
000. Miller was then sentenced to an addi¬ 
tional five years’ imprisonment and fined 
an additional $1,000, making his punish¬ 
ment seven years in the penitentiary with 
a total fine of $11,000. 
To a fire drill taught immediately after 
the Triangle Waist Factory disaster, 45 
FARM AND GARDEN.—Owing to the un¬ 
foreseen closing of part of the Hot! man 
House, the annual meeting of the American 
Jersey Cattle Club will be held at Hotel 
Manhattan, 42d street and Madison avenue 
New York City, on May 3, 1911, at 11 
o’clock a. m. 
The Massachusetts State Board of Agri¬ 
culture will hold an asparagus planting 
demonstration under the direction of the 
Massachusetts Asparagus Growers Associa¬ 
tion There will be a demonstration ot 
nlanting, fertilizing and caring for aspara- 
the crounds of the Asparagus Ex¬ 
girls oweXir prompt escape" April 13 from gus ; on the grounds of the A^aragu^ Ex¬ 
flames that wrecked the Manhattan Soap ^ A -30 o’clock p m Saturday April 
Company’s six-story building, at 55Q-Su4 Mass.° pXscott president < 
of the 
also descended the escapes neiore rue wiirc^dn^the^lmonstratio^ Thfch 
aided by mflammable^chemicals,^ tion, wil^conaocx z^a necegsary in the 
cultivation of this important vegetable. It 
is hoped that a large number of people 
to the higher floors. The building and con¬ 
tents were destroyed, and the loss was esti¬ 
mated at $150,000. 
The grandstand at the New York Polo 
Grounds, where McGraw’s National League 
Giants wore beaten April 12 and lo, was 
burned April 14. The bleachers were 
scorched for a distance of 100 feet both 
with the purpose, of | getting: the evidence w.y^.na »n •}*>£ 
of alleged criminal responsibility back 
into his own hands. If there was any 
property to justify reorganization, the 
way to do it would be for some one to 
put up money to pay the debts, but no 
one proposes to put up a penny for that 
purpose. They depend entirely on Mr. 
Lewis’ ability to borrow more money 
on hot air from country people. Time 
after time be promised an accounting. 
In January be said the publishers bad 
loaned him a half million. But the pub* 
lishers insisted on an accounting before 
they would extend credit for subscrip¬ 
tions. The accountants worked two 
months and quit. The publishers got 
far enough to see that they did not want 
to extend credit, much less loan money^ 
The scheme is now abandoned. The 
debenture scheme was a failure. It is 
also abandoned. Now you are asked to 
wipe the slate; to forget all the prom¬ 
ises and leave your savings with Mr. 
Lewis to do with as he pleases. 
Women in sickness and distress write 
us almost daily telling us of money sent 
Lewis years ago, and of his indifference 
to their pleadings for the return of it. 
Our advice is to refuse to send your 
papers to Mr. Lewis or his alleged com¬ 
mittee. We have now over $30,000 of 
claims against him from our subscribers, 
and it is increasing almost daily. If 
said by the manager of the grounds that 
the loss would be covered by $25,000. pro¬ 
vided receipts to ball games weren't greatly 
interfered with. The stands had recently 
been put in shape at a cost of about $40,- 
000. Other estimates made the total loss 
$150,000, including that of the Interborough 
Company. 
Republican Senators vied with Demo¬ 
crats at Trenton, N. J., April 13, in prais¬ 
ing Governor Wilson’s election reform bill, 
which bears the name of its introducer, 
Assemblvman Geran, which was passed by 
the Senate by a unanimous vote. In the 
passage of the Geran hill the governor has 
will avail themselves of this opportunity. 
A clever ruse adopted by manufacturers 
and dealers in oleomargarine has cost the 
Government $300,000 in Chicago alone dur¬ 
ing the last year, according to Samuel M. 
Fitch, Collector of Internal Revenue. Mr. 
Fitch declared that through misrepresenta¬ 
tion the public has been buying a lower 
grade of oleomargarine, upon which there 
is no tax, than the colored product, on 
which the manufacturers must pay a tax of 
10 cents a pound. “Last year we issued 
705 licenses iu Chicago and thus far this 
year only 209,” he said. “A new product 
With a natural tint is being made on which 
there is onlv three-quarters of a cent tax. 
It was bad enough when the ‘moonshiners 
colored the stuff in dirty, filthy places, but 
to sell a poor-grade sTuff at prices demanded 
for the high-grade product is about the 
limit.” 
Governor Dix unsuccessfully endeavored 
” Bailey, 
achieved another distinct success in the April 18 to induce Dean Liberty IL Bailey, 
legislative program which he mapped out of the school of agriculture at toinell Lni- 
it S the beginning of his administration. The versity, to become State Commissioner of 
at the beginning __ . .. 
bill proposed such sweeping changes in the 
election machinery of the State that it was 
opposed by the organization of both parties. 
Few Republicans favored it at the outset, 
and even after the governor had taken 
up the cudgels in behalf of the measure, it 
was opposed on final passage by nearly 
every Republican and a few of the Demo¬ 
crats in the House. The only essential 
amendments in the Senate provided for 
the selection of chairmen of county com¬ 
mittees by the members of the committee, 
Agriculture. They had a long conference, 
and Dean Bailey told the governor that his 
obligations to Cornell were such that he 
could not consider leaving the institution 
for at least a year. 
FRUIT PROSPECTS IN OHIO. 
A temperature of 7 to 11 on March 16 
here killed the peach buds about clean, all 
miiLcee uv we rnn.iwu ... the Ivieffer pears, many of the cherries, 
instead of by direct vote of the people, SO me of the plums and all of some of the 
and the insertion of a provision that blind, ear lv blooming apples, even the Grimes and 
illiterate and otherwise deficient voters nea H V all the Ben Davis. As the Rome 
might take some one into the booth to 
assist in marking the blank ballots provided 
for in the act. As originally drawn, the 
Geran bill would have disfranchised the 
blind. 
Tornadoes which swept parts of Missouri, 
Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas April 12- 
13 are known to have killed 25 persons, 
injured more than 100, rendered more than 
500 homeless, and to have done thousands 
of dollars’ worth of property damage. The 
Reautv is the one variety so well noted 
here we are hopeful, as the buds were 
not swelled enough to be injured any that 
we can see. We had a crop in Lawrence 
County last year of 100,000 barrels, and it 
is not likely ‘we can now expect more than 
half that many. Growers have made 
preparations to spray more and better than 
ever, and if they do not get discouraged 
now, we may have another crop that will 
be widely known. The only way to get a 
fled. 
It need occasion no surprise to find the 
Democrats in Congress adopting Canadian 
reciprocity as their own, and according it 
the right of way over all legislation, ac¬ 
cording to the wishes of the Republican 
President. If they were seeking to protect 
the agricultural interests, and still de¬ 
termined to adopt reciprocity in good faith, 
•they would unite it with such other reduc¬ 
tions of the tariff in a single measure, in 
order to give the farmers a measure of 
relief. Not so, however. They are there 
not to protect the farmer, but to play 
politics and gain votes. The farmer must 
be driven out of the Republican ranks and 
into their own. Further, in order to avoid 
any financial disturbance which might 
ensue upon any possible reduction of the 
tariff, they keep such relief separate, thus 
affording the Republican executive an op¬ 
portunity to veto it. This will hold, they 
believe, the farmers’ votes for the Demo¬ 
crats, while forcing it out of the Republi¬ 
can ranks, thus making a political double 
play. 
They say in effect: “We are going to 
pass this reciprocity, because we believe 
that it is a popular measure and will 
mean votes for us. You fanners, however, 
have been the mainstay of the Republican 
party, and we mean, if we can, to drive 
vou from its ranks. We are going to pass 
a bill reducing the tariff upon certain 
articles which you use, but we know that 
this will be made so drastic that Presi¬ 
dent Taft will veto it. In this manner 
we will undertake to convince you that 
you are better off if we are in power. We 
know that if this relief measure is vetoed 
we will be protected in a measure trom 
any financial disturbance, but we menu to 
gain what we can out of the situation. In 
other words, we are acting for votes and 
are going to get into power if we can.” 
Such reasoning is the legitimate outcome 
of our present state of polities. Politicians 
are a distinct class—an oligarchy—acting 
by themselves and for their own class in¬ 
terests, which in the last analysis consists 
of fooling the body of voters to keep them¬ 
selves in office. The marvel of all this Is 
that after the many, many lessons received 
in political deception, the agricultural class 
have not taken the initiative and formed 
themselves into a stable political group for 
the purpose of being represented and of 
controlling the political parasites which 
have fattened off their substance. He lias 
seemed to be condoled for betrayal of his 
interests by an occasional bone thrown 
to him in the way of an office; but of solid 
comfort in the way of substantial protec¬ 
tion he has received none. In this lies the 
crux of the whole question : the farmer will 
continue to be the catspaw of the politician 
until he wakes up, throws off the shackles 
which hinder his progress and consolidates 
his voting body into a solid, durable and 
homogeneous party, the sole aim of which 
will be to legislate for his own benefit, and 
to protect it against the unjust aggressions 
from other hostile interests. He will hereby 
initiate a widespread movement for the 
breaking up of the present harmful and 
false partv system, which is false because 
it seeks to embrace too many interests, and 
to turn the voters into the service of a 
small single class—the politicians. 
E. C. TOK8TENSON. 
