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0i 4 Ell a Hold! fasiM Taft, andj Friend sAreAnxions. jfenffeur Tipped To Cut pownrewJNOtcnes. (rsV. H. Likes Fast Ride as.U'ell as Husband.

iox and Wickersham Expected For Visit. yfretarv Meyers on Hand tr- For a Political Chat. HODS Lull ab oumuici vap- mil Tl jiiWaslo TaiK on economy. Watchword of Administration. Tt '-J Mti EjrrF.s.

August 19. Aiarmea at President Taft has deyel- high-speed automobile i and associates are writing Beverly, demanding be not allowed to take ci-itinrM covered by the Taft rxvjritry reads along the te-ded to bolster up the v--n automobile leaves a given rrir aftr 4 In the afternoon y-r-i itr hfiirn later with a record s-, t. le there Is ground for -ft It been traveling at a U. an 1" miles per mr-nst to the words of eau- rrirh cave come in or for some other i hyC n.T? DfPn ijuimj it" Rf.bir.son to stop pushing the speed ibove 2i miles an hour. Between 13 LjjfTr.

ari rnnr Is the limit at wnicn ft 1'nited States Is "of- ttj" to r. tnis nay on. Taft Likes Speed. lri blow to Robinson, wno n-ns a j.icKey Knows nis mount, i to the nlle in the speea- tnen to ana evrn in jr To an open secret. fnst.

Mr- Taft in the tonneau. he myr.y to frnve posts flit pa.t V.at roads contribute i r-; fx" the North Shore. rs re completely de-: f.v. T-ft. While In tf'i alternated his l-nrsehai-k ridvs.

When the 5-fri H-verly the riding rJ.e nature. An auto- rum station, and lie has ir.w'r.ir.ff els since. fcJ horn to lunch and -A. 5 Taft he goes spln-' roadways. It Is no liiive called a warn- 5 tf.

r.t 4 r. 1.1 i i liking for high speej in hi. injury. Taft No Slow Poke. li upiin the motor '-r l.i!band she enjoy, a i' i 'H-dikes-following some tovui.

tne.T.ift Cabinet are to-morrow. Secretary t- arrive at the home of and will call t. leaves, and At-'' k. will run over -k ry K- tr.s i to Beverly J5 of the State thp expectation Pour his r0 hadV itTlKW saiiva sits wots structural Iron worker. went to work on a bis; hoisting; dor-rick Ivested In a high-trade five-cent clear.

The first thins; Cooper did after falling 50 feet, when the derrick collapsed, was to assure himself that the clear had not been broken or bent In the fall. Rescuers began to die In the wreckage on the derrick, at Myrtle avenue and Oak street, afraid they might at any time come on the body of Cooper in the ruins. Removing some heavy timbers they found that sincere smoker blowing He said the few scratches he had received when he and the derrick had tumbled together were not important enough to necessitate a trip to a hospital. "And. anyway," said he, "in a hospital they wouldn't let me smoke." YOUNG PLANTER JAILED On Charge of Luring1 Sweetheart Into Woods and Slaying- Her.

stsciai. nurina to thi mqiuii. Fitzgerald. August ltt.JCharged with luring MUs Mattle Graham Into the woods and murdering her. illlam McLeod, a prom iiient young planter, la undor arrest.

'Miss Oraham, who was a wealthy young woman, lived with sisters en Oraham plantation, near here. She had been engagsd to McLeod, but they had trouble some days ago. Yesterday she left borne In answer to a note and did not return. Searching parties found corpse in swamp to-day. Her throat had been cut and her clothing was torn, indicating a desperate struggle.

It Is alleged McLeod lured her to the woods and when she refused to wed him killed her. BOAT- Taking Strike-Breakers To the Car Works Was Shot at By the Angry Mob, But Pennsylvania Constabulary Used Their Clubs and Stopped Further Damage By Rioters. man. snriTcs to rms nocun. Pittsburgh Ptnn, August Charges were made her to-flay that 1.000 strikebreakers, TOO of them New ToVk men, are being detained against their will In the "walled mills" of the Pressed Steel Car Company, whose employes have been on a strike for several weeks.

Two men. who claimed to hare escaped from the stockades, declared that men who tried- to get away have been beaten and shot at by armed guards. The whole force of 1.000. these men say. were hired under false pretenses in New Tork and Philadelphia, and have been 'kept at work only by threats and abuse.

There was a lively riot on the rtver bank this morning when the steamer Pfeil conveyed 90 new strikebreakers across the river to the Pressed Steel plant, but the Constabulary used their clubs freely and dispersed the mob. but not before they had thrown st shot at the boat. The strike layabout over. It is believed. and.

then, it fashlona- The strikers have given up most of their domml3 and have offered to return to work gnlt game In the If crtven a few small concessions. These the company has refused omake. DESPERATE MEASTTRES Adopted By Solitski To Settle His Al leged Grievance. rcciAC Dunics to tbb bxqoisbb. Freeland.

August 19. Holding the Roosevelt Strike Conciliation Board in con tempt as a medium for adjusting srrievances. Andrew Solitski. a mine I borer, to-night adopted a desperate expedient. Hp worked for William Bostosky, a miner at Hiahland Colliery.

claimed Bostosky bad not paid him the scale. At the alone mouth to-night he attacked Bostosky, firing five shots at him, which went MM He then used the weapon as a club and battered Bostoskeys face to a shapeless mass, when other miners rescued him. Solitski to still at large. DECIDES FOR STRIKERS. SPECIAL DIsrATCSJ TO TB BXQrlBKB.

Terre Haute. August 19. Interna. tlonal President Lewis. United Mine mrttnm three strikes.

Involving H00 men, were referred, both sides to accept his decision as final, and who had decided two for the men. to-day gave a decision In the third for the striker. PRESSMEN TO HAVE HOME. Knoxville. August The International Printing Pressmen's Union yesterday afternoon purchased the Hale Springs property, located In Hawkins County.

Ten-for the purpose of establishing a Mr. Knox would come i national home for aged and Indigent and r- Uie start upon the disabled pressmen and stereoiypers. rtcently that he to be discussed. in which the 'I. v.hiih Secretary 1'fore him, among 'iie Chint-se railroad 1 the Bureau, in the '-tary Knox has full and the trade iy tne new tariff et at Hand.

i-t one -summer In which he dubbed is frequently vls-ii home of '-i-i- ior for car, "5 the Presl-- rity of his tii- so disposed. He "r- dlsimsltlon to "Mry of that char- -Vv-c. Beverlv fcrrr: Beverly, six miles 0s SECOND PAGE. FOE OF DIAZ Retires To a Mountain Retreat While Friends Push His Boom For' Mexican Presidency. Mexico City, August unrest to reported in the states of and Nuevo Leon, In Northern Mexico.

General Barnardo Reyes. Governor of Nuevo Leon, who has been prominently mentioned as the successor to President Diaz, has retired to a mountain retreat. "El impartial, the Government organ, says that was sent to him yesterday secretly. A special train. carrying 400 cavalrymen, will leave nere row under sealed orders.

Its supposed destination is Sabinas. In the state of Coahulla. where riots are reported to have occurred. The afternoon papers say General Reyes has been forced to resign the Governorship of Nuevo Leon, but this report cannot be The friends of eye paring a demonstration in his Friday, hia birthday. Sambo RoWn-on.

her cousin. honor oa PAGES 7 Tf LEATHER Fair Friday an a Saturday; light to moderate -4 Wvnt and north tvrst winds. tj Temperature yesterday: Max- TO-DAY. VOU I-XVI- NO. 232.

PHIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1909. THE- 12 SPEED BUG Is Getting HE LOVES HIS SMOKE. Df STATCB TO TIB BXCtBBa. New York. Aumt 19.

Before John Cooper, PLUNGE srsctAL Durim to tbb ssacisaa. OOU'TiA UJU 0JT JTPTH PApE. Of a Racing Auto Into Fence of New Track Caused Two Deaths, While Crowd Looked on at Indianapolis. Chauffer and Mechanician Mangled and Torn As They Made Turn in a Cloud of White Dust. Hospital Filled With the Drivers of Machines.

Records Went To Smash as Demons Vied To Clip Seconds Oiled Surface For Future. Indianapolis. August 19. Death's toll at the opening of the new Indianapolis motor speedwsy course this afternoon wss taken when the two-hundred-and-flfty-mlle race for the ITsstollte trophy was three fourths finished. The victims were William A.

Bourque, Springfield, a famous drivsr employed by the Knox Automobile Company, and Harry Holcomb. Grandvllle. his mechanic. They were making a gallant fight with a Knox racer and had pushed their car past other demons until they were second. "Wild Bob" Burn am.

driving a Buick, with a seemingly frightfnt disregard for the perils that lurked In every foot of the course, was leading them, and Louis Chevrolet, the daring Frenchman at the wheels of another Buick, was not far behind. Bourque was) not regarded as a contender for the 11.000 prise until a few mlautes before the end came for him and Holcomb. He had been gaining steadily, however, and was fairly burning up the macadam surface. The score board showed the pace was faster than a mile a minute. Chevrolet Had Stopped.

As mile after mile was reeled off and there were no accidents the big crowd, estimated at 10.000, settled down to enjoy the hazard of the sport with the feeling that the danger had been exaggerated. having stopped for repairs after a remarkable flight of over 110 miles without a stop of any; kind, had started out to make up for lost time. Bourque and Holcomb were leading him. They fought It out on the back stretch and were giving the cmwd a real thrill when the cry went up that Chevrolet had stopped. His car wss creeping, with the gap rapidly widening between him and the' Knox driver.

The latter were lost in a cloud of dust at the lower turn leading Into the long stretch in front of the grand stand. The crowd knew nothing of the tragedy until at least a minute after It occurred. Even then it was not thought that any one was seriously Injured. In fact, the only merciful feature was that the thousands of women In the grand stajd and private boxes were spared sight of the two mangled bodies. The mystery of the tragedy, for there seems to be one.

Is how It occurred. Car Left a Wreck. Bourque was found on one side of the racer and Holcomb was on the other. It Is said that Bourque' arms were stretched In the direction of the guide wheel. Indicating that even In the closing chapter he made a desperate attempt to hold the car to the course.

The car Itself landed against the fence beside the course. The front wheels were shattered and It was said that the spindle of one front wheel was broken off at tne hub. The car was a wreck, and bo-unded along for 40 feet before It brought up againat the fence. Bourque and Holcomb are supposed to have been caught beneath the car and crushed to death before It came to a stop. Different causes are given for the accident.

Private Frank Brander, Company H. Second Indiana Regiment, saw Bourque and Holcomb rise from their seats and look back to see what bad become of -the flying Chevrolet. The car Is said to have hit a rut In the course and to have escaped from Bourque's control. Spindle Hay Have Broken. Another story Is that the spindle broke on one of tne iront wneeis.

causing tne car to turn turtle and killing the occupants before they had a chance to think of safety. Bourque's legs were broken and his skull fractured. Holcomb' skull was fractured and both arms broken. It Is probable that their car was heading Into the stretch at the rate of a mile and a half a minute when the end came for them. Both were breathing when the first men reached them.

Bourque died as be was placed in an ambulance. Holcomb died a few minutes after he reached the Emer gency Hospital on the Speedwsy grounds. Bourque and Holcomb were about 30 years old and unmarried. The former had been with the Knox several years and Hol-Dconrb had been his mechanician for two accorded all" other patients' at" the MattaaT waor State Hospital, or shall he have all changed so as to suit bis peculiar wriahesT FISH PULLS LAD Into Elver and He Orowns. While a Throng; Looks On.

STSCtAL SISPATCH TO TII SS0CISSB. Detroit. August 19. Harold. Gib bons, aged 8 years, fishing from a crowded dock with a number of companions to-day.

suddenly cried: Jack. I've got a big one!" He tugged hard on his pole, but there was more power on the ottier end. He would not let go. and the fish could not, asd the boy was pulled into the river, whore he perished. PASTOR DISAPPEARED; After Preaching' Sermon Relatives Think Hard Work Unsettled Kind.

Detroit. August 19. Rev. Carl S. jonea, associate pastor of the North Woodward Avenue Congregational Church, has disappeared, leaving nothing to explain how he dropped out of sight after preaching a sermon at his church August 1.

His relatives, who made public to-day the fact of hi dis appearance, think hard work may have un settled his mind. PANAMA CANAL WORKERS Eat Half a Pound of Meat For Xav on Average. Washington, August 19. Half a pound of meat per day per person is the estimated average amount consumed -by the persons in the Isthmian Canal Zone daring the past fiscal year. Meata delivered oa the Isthmus during the yesr for canal workers and their families aggregated pounds.

A small portion of the whole amount was used by American naval vessels snd by the battalion of marines. Poultry Is also brought to the gone froseft and kept that way until sold. MURDERED WOMAN Bald In Ante-Hortem Itatemant That Husband Assaulted Her. Cairo, August 10. Mrs.

Mary Sals- ner, who was assaulted with an ax sis days ago, died to-night. In an statement she accused her husband, Henry Balaner, a photographer, of the crime. liner, who Is in jail here charged with murder, claims that burglars attacked Mrs. Balsnsr. TRUNK Of Kentucky Brothers Contained a Million Dollars in Bad 3Ieiican Money.

Alleged Counterfeiters Confess To Plan of Getting Rich at Expense of Unsuspecting Gringoes." Louisville, August 19. Dreams of wealth centered In a brass-bound trunk) containing a million dollars In counterfeit i Mexican pesos were shattered for John C. and Marion Roberts, brothers, here to-day. when Deputy I'nited States Marshal WU 11am Blaydes arrested John Roberts in Shelby County with the money In his pos session. Since the hour of that arrest this morning there has been unraveled In the Custom House of Louisville and in Central Police Station a remarkable tale of attempted financial buccaneering that rivals some of the boldest exploits In the making of spurious currency.

John Roberts, sitting In the office of the Secret Service Bureau to-day, coolly aald that he would plead guilty at the October term of the Federal Court and seemed resigned about spending a majority of his years in the prison st Atlanta. He bad only wanted to get rich, he said. It was through Marlon Roberts thst the counterfeiters were apprehended and their plan to defraud Mexicans of Sl.OOO.OOO exposed. Marlon Roberts some days ago offered a Luisvllle broker high commission to dispose of some Mexican money for him. The broker notified Chief of Police J.

H. Haager, who at once enlisted secret service men and the trap to catch Marion Roberts was successfully spring. Since Marlon Roberta's arrest Monday the police learned from him the Information which led to the descent upon his brother at Slmpsonvllle today. hen Blydes confronted John Roberts In the hamlet in Shelby County the chief counterfeiter admitted that he was behind the plan to dispose of the Imitation 100-peso notes through the broker. He showed blaydes the trunk, which, with Roberta wll be brought to Louisville to-day.

Roberts said that had perforating nut- chine and a device to number the bills reached him when he had expected them he would have been in Mexico a week ago. Roberts Is a son of a former Judge in this city. win skoenig, a printer, has also been arrested In connection with the case. To night Roberts is In jail under a 115.000 Federal bond. The police to-night announced that J.

M. Fetter aV Co. were the brokers approached by Marion Roberts, who took the duties as promoter of the concern. His "scheme' was no less than a counterfeit corporation with counterfeit stock certificates. Its bust ness to be done with counterfeit money.

He proposed. It Is said, to counterfeit stock certificates of corporations as solid as the Pennsylvsnla and Loulavlllo and Nashville Railroads and the Louisville Railway COTHTESFZITER'S CAPITAL Need Be Only Fifteen Cento To Start Work, Declares Wilkle. srsciAL Dirrc to tbb bmqcisib. Detroit. August 19.

"There are plants in the United States capable of turning out counterfeit money at almost a minute's notice." said John E. Wilkle, Chief of the United States Secret Service, to-day. Mr. Wilkle is In Detroit on an Inspection trip, and declares his visit has no special significance. "Counterfeiting In these days Is not what it used to be," he added.

"In the olden times It sometimes took a year to prepare plates. Now science has done wonders for the counterfeitera Preliminary operations tn those days were expensive. Now IS cents will set a counterfeiter In business for himself." When asked why he declined the position of Chief of the Chicago police. Mr. Wilkle stated that It was because he has a bigger job now.

BEES OP LOCXJA W. srSCIAI. DUFATCH TO TBB SWOCISBB. Hamilton. Ohio, August 19.

John Reesw, S7 years old. a farmer, living near Woods-dale. Butler County, was accidentally shot In the leg one week ago by his seventeen-year-old son with a flobert rifle. Lockjaw set In and this morning Reese died. IWIUftJUIffBIH ganlsation: First Vice President, A.

Trumbo, Muskogee, Ok la. Second Vice a CLm sractAii DisrATca to tbb uquibsb. KILLED IN AN AUTO RACE. Toledo, Ohlf August 19- Fred Krodep- brock. Company Tenth Indiana Infantry, sneaked to Toledo from Camp Perry to-day to visit his sweetheart.

Her father notified the military autbacitlas and he was arrest-' td for desertion. fbciai, DisrATca tbb ixonnn. Youngstown, Ohio, August 19. Bearing a pair of men's shoes, a hat, a pair of trousers and other garments to her arms, a woman who aald she was George Nolan's wife, burst into police headquarters here to-night. "I want a warrant for Nolan," she cried.

"He's spending 178 of mine with anothjr woman. You needn't hurry, though. He's safe." And she pointed to the garments she had flung over a chair. Detective Hamilton found the husband a prisoner In a Boardman street house, to which Mrs. Nolan led him.

A reconciliation was effected. GAVE HIS BLOOD To Save the Life of His Bride, an Ar-- kanaag Woman. rBCIAI. DUTATCB TO THS KSQUIBSB. Memphis, August 19.

Undergoing an operation that might have resulted in death for him In order to save the woman be loved, Isa T. Weill, a prominent merchant, submitted to epfates fsr four hours while surgeons transferred a quart of blood from his arm' to the body of his bride of Abut a few months, who wss 111 with typhoid lever, sars. Vt em wag Miss lume, of Pine luff. Ark. iw I i eariy spnnsr ncrauyyvi i I i arming ine oas or tne statu.

.1 i i I 1 vnimn wrffnn 11 BFSCIAX. DIXPATCK TO TBB SBQUOISB. i 54 -r iff AbovVli a pleintft of Williani Bouts, "af thg wheeL-y- his alda ia kla fomr fainted when ho learned of thg trajedy. The Indianapolis Speed way and the seen of the accident- Is pictured below. a Cross show where the fatal craah occurred.

DECLARED Legally Dead By Court Was the Wealthy Arkansas Merchant, Who Bobs Up la a Missouri Insane AsyJtm. iriCIAI. DUrATCB TO TBB BSQriSXB. Joplln, August 19. Postmaster A.

F. Karbe and James England, of Neosho, returned here this afternoon from Nevada, where they Identified H. W. Wright, a former wealthy merchant. In the Nevada Insane Asylum.

Wright's narrative of his adventures since his spectacular escape from the Nevada Asylum In 1905, as told to Karbe and Eng-lasd. Is weird. In 1800 Wright was the victim of a land swindle, losing $1,500. eBllev- Ing himself in the wrong, he attempted suicide and was sent to the asylum, escaping in 1906. With half a bushel of potatoes and salt, scraped from a cow pasture, he embarked in a skiff and oflated to St.

Louis and caused the news to go broadcast that he hsd drowned. In a houseboat he went to Newport. engaged in the pearl button business and became wealthy. Robbed of hia fortune he returned to Nevada a few days ago. During sraciAi.

casls to tbb biiqcibbb. Baden-Baden. August 19. and Miss El kins, wife.and daughter of Senator sjlklna. left here Tuesday, refusing to reveal their destination.

They seek escape from vulgar curiosity displayed about Miss Elklns in the various hotels at which she arrives and which verges upon persecution. She has not escaped it even in the midst of the wealthy and well dressed crowd who lunch and dine on the Hotel Stephanie terrace. The universal comment Is that she Is the fine" type of the American girl and that the Duca degU Abrusxl had a right to the sym pathy of all In his suit. Mrs. and Miss Elklns lunched here with Mrs.

Hltt. wife of the First Secretary of the American Embassy in Berlin, and Hitt's mother and brothers. MAES BALKED CUPID. LITERARY BRIDE Selected By Prof. Plerson, Whoa Ohio Wife Secured a Divorce.

irSCIAI. DISTATCB TO TBB BSQVIBBB. Philadelphia. August 19. It became known to-day that Ward W.

Plerson, a professor in the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania, whose wife secured a divorce at Hamilton, Ohio, last month, will, marry Miss Hattle H. Armstrong, well known In local literary circles. In September. The former Mrs. Plerson secured her freedom on the ground of incompatibility, at the same time being awarded 02,730 alimony.

She is said to be living In Missouri. REHOISTED By Armed Bands of Cretans Is the Greek Flag at Candia in Militia's Presence. Canes, Island of Crete, August 19. The trmeo inhabitants of the largest city of Crete, to-day reholated the Greek flag In the presence of a squad of militia. who were powerless to prevent the proceed ings.

A conflict was averted through the intervention of the Metropolitan, who begged the officers to confine the soldiers to their baracka. The Consuls of the Powers have demand hi. hi. 4.i..hi.. An.

that the Government of Crete aive a other daughter. Miss Marguerite Wright, of that the Greek flag will Seattle. is on her way to Nevada. I not hoisted after the departure of the He has been declared legally dead by the Newton County Probate Court and his $30,000 estate settled. VULGAR EYES Of the Inquisitive Throngs Gall Miss Eli ins and She Flees To a Hiding Place.

luiernBugaai BquBuron. The Government replied It will do so when order has been restored at Candia. PANTALOONS And Other Garments Held By Mrs. Nolan Till Officer Arrested Husband in Strange House. IN IRONS Is Boyle, the Kidnaper, On Snspieien of Being Implicated' in Attempted Prison Delivery Con- Tiets Fight Dnel.

Pittsburg, August 19. James Boyle, doing life sentence for the kidnaping of Willie is one of the prisoners who have been placed In irons at Riverside Penitentiary until Warden Francis and the State Prison Board can get some line on those who were connected with, the recently discovered plot to tunnel out of the prison. There Is no doubt left in the minds of the prison authorities sut that there was some very heavy financial backing connected with the tunnel scheme, since It was found to-day that there was undoubtedly an Intention by some persons outside the prison to begin tunneling Into the prison at a point where the tunnel which had been begun by those on the Inside would meet it. It Is known now that at least one life will have been sacrificed to the tunnel scheme. Two convicts fought a duel with knives inside the prison shortly after the plot was One of them was so badly slashed that ha Is now In the prison hospital and cannot live.

The story came out to-day when the outside world was asked for additional medical assistance In the case. The other prisoner is also badly cut. but will live. The fight Is said to have grown out of charges of. "peaching." The greatest secrecy is maintained by the prison authorities as to the identity of the two men.

This has caused great excitement among those who have friends In the prison, especially among these, friends of members of the bankers' colony, for tbe names of many persons formerly prominent tn Pittsburg now doing time In Riverside have been connected with the tunnel plot. FELLED L. By a Lightning Bolt Was the Flag-. man and He Saw Freight Bear Down on Him. SrSCIAL niSTATCH TO TBB BBQUXBSB.

Mobile, August 19. Walter A. Sawyer, flagman on the Louisville and Nashville passenger train, south bound, was struck by lightning this afternoon and nar rowly escaped1 being run over by the train he went back to flag. The passenger got stuck and he was sent back half a mile to flag a freight which was following. It was raining very hard.

Just as he was about te light the fuse he was struck and collapsed on the track He regained consciousness, but was unable to move and saw tne freight bearing down on rum, Fortunately' the engineer saw Jsim, and he was picked up and brought for treatment. from death late this' afternoon when the fifty-foot launch Allerro- ws mt TM Of the Corporations Is First Step To Saddle an Industrial Act Of National Proportions on Suffering Public, Declares the Former Ohio Attorney General First Draft, He Says, Had Hand of Mr. Taft, But Possessed Voices of the Standard Oil, And Steel Masters Before Its Senatorial Godfathers -Were Permitted To Gaze Upon SrSCIAI DUTATCB TO TBS BXQCtSU. Columbus, Ohio, August 19. "The Feder al corporation tax la the first stso toward fastening upon the people of the United States a national Incorporation act." is the remarkable sentence contained In an analysis of that piece of legislation by former Attorney-General Frank's'.

Monnett. known for his connection with legal and state op position to monopolies. Mr. Monnett baa been studying this subject and la bold and emphatic in the conclusions which he ha drawn from his investigations. He sees tn the law an attempt oa th part of certain large Interests to place themselves outside the domain of state control, which Includes, of coarse, state Courts.

The corporation tax accredited to Pre. Meat Taft and called hia child, is a mis- nomsr," be said. its original draft, a. subcaUtesK Afaw4af ereace; Oexnltreet Congress, find the band bf'Taft. but ti' voice of the Steel Trust and the Standard Oil aggregation.

It was so crude that At, torney-Oeneral Wickersham and Senator Root rushed it into the dressing room to put on It some presentable clothe before Its senatorial godfathers were permitted to see the innocent Ho Political Platform. i Some magazine writers and news) gatherers express astonishment at its -origin. It was no political platform. During the Presidential campaign Mr. Taft never mentioned it.

No economists dis cussed It. No great newspapers were even suggesting it. The President did not hint at such a plan In his special message call- -ing Congress together for the purpose of passing a revenue-raising measure. "Mr. Taft, on the contrary.

In his message advocated an Inheritance tax. This proposition was discussed and advocated by President Taft at Memorial Hall in this city In his early 'swing around the Mr. Payne incorporated the Income tax tlon In the tariff bill, and the Hause ac cepted it. In the Senate a coalition was formed by Bailey of Texas, Cummins of Iowa, and a line-up of Republican Insur gents and Democrats, which assured the passage of the inheritance tax, when Fresl- dent Taft sent In the 2 per cent corporation tax in lieu thereof and as a substitute therefor. Attorney-General Wickersham was at once loaded with a brief upon the subject, and Senator Ellhu Root, of Boss memory, was assigned to the duty of steering it through, the committee.

Tax Upon Net Income. The Root paring roduced the 2 per- cent to 1 per cent and levied the tax upon net In comes Instead of gross incomes, and excluded the great holding companies entirely from Its provisions. "Then it Is asked whence came It and why was it championed by such trust wet nurses as Root and Aldiich. To me the answer is furnished, or at least suggested, by its mysterious origin and its new-found friends in the Cabinet and in the Senate. Attorney-General Wickersham, Morgan' alleged selection for the Cabinet, and Senator Root, Piatt and Depew's worthy substitute for corporate handiwork and for trust servility, have joined hands vith the Standard Oil crowd and the Steel magnates to force upon tho people of the United States a national incorporation act.

John D. Archbold and others of his per suasion have denounced state Incorporations and state interference with their schemes, and have their subsidised sheet dvocatlng a national incorporation act. It has been their dream ever since the state have cut loos upon tbelr schemes of plunder to get -out of the reach, of state control. In this corporation tax an entering wedge is found. It is designed to give the Federal Government a jog around the track to pre- pare for the real race that this Administra tion Is to run.

Pull the Teeth. "Tbe real object Is to pull the teeth of the Sherman anti-trust act; to gradually dismiss one by one the pending suits against the Oil Trust and to pull for a national act to permit the campaign contributors tn reap their reward In the Federal corporations that will defy and over-ride State Legislatures. State Courts and state ouster suits, and rely upon fat figureheads In the Federal Government to do their bidding by sending In messages from Una to tint of. their own formulating. "With this entering wedge every lesser rival of the levlathlans will be made to expos their financial condition to the trust officials.

The Biscuit Trust, tbe Harvester Trust, the Steel. Oil and Tolaooo Trust "will be able to fia tola uc ii -coveted la- It Is proj ossd with reeard t-.