The Butte Miner, 1914-03-17, p.1

THE ONLY MORNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN BUTTE—IT COVERS ENTIRE NORTHWEST Weather Today / Fair. — THE BUTTE MINER — Weather Tomorrow / Fair. VOL. LI—NO. 177. — BUTTE, MONTANA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1914 — ESTABLISHED 1876. ## Column 1 # ST. PATRICK'S DAY USHERED IN WITH A GREAT BANQUET [spans columns 1-2] ## Irish-Americans of Mining Metropolis and Their Guests Have Delightful Time at Silver Bow Club—Splendid Addresses on Topics Having to Do With Annual Observance Are Delivered—Plans Have Been Made for Entertainment Today. [spans columns 1-2] Truly patriotic was the meeting of Irish-Americans last night at the Silver Bow club on the occasion of their sixth annual celebration of St. Patrick's day. The spacious dining room of the club was well filled and the arrangements made by the committee in charge of the banquet were carried out in perfect accord. Senator H. A. Gallwey presided as toastmaster. It naturally followed that the speaking program was carried out with no hitches. Justice W. L. Holloway, as the first speaker, delivered a splendid address upon "The President." He told of the presidents from Washington to Wilson, explaining that all is not "milk and honey" in the White house. The speaker paid nice tribute to President Woodrow Wilson. W. W. Walsworth spoke feelingly on "Our Country." Mr. Walsworth's address was greatly appreciated and he received a warm ovation. John H. Tolan, a prominent Missoula attorney, talked about "Montana." Attorney T. J. Walker pleased all with a discussion on the theme of the evening. "The Irish-American." Attorney W. B. Rodgers closed the program for the evening with an excellent address entitled, "St. Patrick's Day." The banquet was served in excellent style, with the following as the menu: Martini cocktail Cream of tomato soup Cheese straws Celery — Salted almonds — Olives Sauterne — Crab a la Newberg Lacrima Christi Broiled tenderloin steak, sauce Bernaise New Potatoes — Fresh asparagus Punch, creme de menthe Grapefruit salad Champagne wafers Cheese — Apple pie, a la mode — Crackers Cigars — Coffee — Cigarettes ### The Program. Toastmaster—Senator H. A. Gallwey. "—And still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew." —Goldsmith: "Deserted Village." "The President"......Hon. W. L. Holloway, associate justice supreme court National airs ................ Orchestra "Our Country" ....W. W. Walsworth Song—"I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" ........ James N. Murphy "Montana" ............ John H. Tolan "Montana" .................. Orchestra "The Irish-American" ............... .................. Thomas J. Walker Song—"The Minstrel Boy".....Ed Lee "St. Patrick's Day" ....W. B. Rodgers "The Star Spangled Banner" ........ ........ Ensemble ### Holloway's Remarks. "This might well be termed an age of universal criticism," said Justice Holloway. "It is not a matter of regret on my part, however, for no man in public life is exempt and no one should be. I merely direct attention to the fact in prefacing my remarks, which will deviate somewhat from the beaten track usually pursued upon an occasion of this character. "Much of this criticism of our public men is fully justified, but much more of it has no foundation whatever. It has become a standing joke in this country that every time a man comes upon the stage of action intent upon accomplishing something of substantial worth or merit, the cry is immediately raised that the constitution forbids it. "One would naturally be led to suppose that the fundamental law of this good land of ours was but a makeshift of the American colonies to meet some pressing demand of a day and to be outworn and outlived with the coming of a new decade, but, of course, that is not true. "Our constitution does not represent some spontaneous outburst of the people for a governmental charter, and neither was it the outgrowth of mere political theorizing. It was literally wrung from the colonists out of the grinding necessities of the times, but fortunately for our country it was written by patriotic, far-seeing statesmen to meet, not only the immediate needs of the dying days of the eighteenth century, but as well the enlarging and changing needs of a rapidly developing country in all the years to come. "A survey of the days of the confederation disclosed to the framers of our constitution a monumental paradox in government: a sovereign people without sovereignty; a compact of colonies without authority; public officers without responsibility and a nation without a national government. "The life of the people was made the basis of the constitution and as the framers could forsee [sic] the expansion and enlargement of that life, so they wrote in comprehensive terms a document susceptible of application to new and strange circumstances and conditions. They wrought with expanded visions and with prophetic foresight. They builded even better than they knew, for, after a century and a quarter of the most marvelous development, all of its fundamental principles are found to be adequate to meet the necessities and conveniences of 90,000,000 people occupying all of continental United States and extended far out to the islands of the seas, and engaged in every character of enterprise which the ingenuity of man can devise. "Our constitution was intended to keep pace with the advancing public and private life of the people and in its construction and application statesmen and jurists alike are bound to consider it in the light of its own history. It comprehends a government of three co-ordinate but mutually dependent departments, and since there is no superior or inferior among them the question of precedence ought never to arise. The legislative, executive and judicial branches are placed upon a plane of absolute equality before the law, and yet one of the most amusing incidents of Washington life is that never-ending controversy between these same ## Column 2 departments of our democratic government over who shall take precedence in social affairs. No president in recent years has dared to invite the speaker of the house and the chief justice to the same function for fear of a personal encounter between those worthy dignitaries over who should pass through the door into the dining room first. ### President's Duty. "But from the very nature of the duties of their offices, the legislative and executive departments bear the most intimate relationship. The authority conferred upon the president to recommend legislation, to veto bills already passed and to initiate treaties, makes of him in contemplation of the Constitution an important factor in the process of lawmaking. Much has been said in and out of the congress in criticism of some supposed encroachments by presidents in recent years, upon the prerogatives of the lawmakers, but with that hue and cry I never had any sympathy. It may be granted that changes have taken place since our government was instituted; that in its original conception no provision was made for politicians or political parties, but this is true, that every article of the Constitution declares a principle or fixes a definite responsibility. It is quite true that in the beginning presidential electors were chosen to exercise their judgment and discretion in choosing a president, and it is equally true that no one of them has performed that function in the last hundred years, but only because the growth of our country, its great increase in population and its expanded territory, called for the growth and development of political parties to assume responsibility for presidential nominations, for the policies to be pursued and the character of laws to be enacted. "Necessity is said to be the mother of invention and that demand of the people for some agency through which they could be enlightened before election upon the character of men and measures at issue, justified the existence of our great political organizations, and a reasonable measure of party discipline and control. "With more than 400 members in the national house of representatives today, the privilege of unlimited debate would seal the doom of any important legislative measure. We have reached that period in our national life when by a natural process of evolution our government has become a government of political parties. "While in theory the minority is at the mercy of the majority, the intelligent patriotism which controls the actions of our public men is a sufficient safeguard against any possible perils. ### Lead or Be Led. "The president is everywhere considered to be the leader of his party and experience has demonstrated that he must lead or be led, for there is no neutral zone in political warfare. The administration is his administration and for all of its sins of omission and commission he is held to strict account. It would be unjust and therefore un-American to hold him responsible for so large a measure of party success or failure and deny to him any compensating influence in shaping party policy. I have no sympathy with the cry against presidential coercion of members of the congress. I honor the man who sits in the White house tonight, for his native honesty and his dogged determination that the members of his own party shall keep faith with the people who elected them. The son of a minister of the gospel, he did not enjoy in youth all the advantages which wealth or competence can offer to ambition, but he early learned the lesson that every marked success among our people has resulted from the spur of necessity, and that with a liberal education and high ideals of life every gate could be unbarred and every avenue would be open to him. His fight for an education toughened the fibers of his American manhood and developed that force of character by which he now controls men and accomplishes results. "No mere inert mass of flesh, blood, bones and adipose tissue can ever fill the presidency of this nation to the satisfaction of the people. Neither have I any more sympathy with the critics of the party caucus. Upon the party in power rests the responsibility for legislation and if the results are satisfactory the people will be little concerned with the matter of procedure. That party will receive the commendation or condemnation of the people as it accomplishes or fails to accomplish the ends which called it into power. ### All Have Been Great. "From Washington to Wilson our country has been most fortunate in the selection of men for the high office of president—an office which carries greater power and responsibility than are bestowed upon any crowned head of Europe. The poorest of our presidents possessed a high sense of patriotism and public duty, and gave to his country the best service of which he was competent. In my humble judgment the best of them has lowered the standard of his administration in seeking re-election, but no one of them all has ever resorted to questionable expedients to perpetuate himself in power. Everyone has seemed to realize the truth of President Hayes' statement: 'He serves his party best who serves his country best.' "As our population increases; as our industrial system becomes more and more complex, the functions of the presidential office will become more and more important and the burden of its responsibilities greater and greater. The American people are generous to a fault They are willing to give to every man a fair chance. They rely with confidence upon the integrity of their public servants and upon the sense of justice in those in immediate authority. "May they ever exact of their presidents the same high standard of manhood (Continued on Page Two—Col. One.) ## Column 3 [illustration spanning columns 3-5: a shamrock whose three leaves each hold a woman's portrait, over vertical ruled lines; a small leprechaun figure, his trousers marked "BOOSTER", with a speech balloon:] *All in Butte* *and all Irish—* *Sketched from life* *by MERLE [DAVIS?]* # FAMOUS FRENCH EDITOR IS SLAIN ## The Wife of the Minister of Finance Shoots Him for Attacks Upon Her Husband. Paris, March 16.—Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, was shot today by Mme. Henriette Caillaux, wife of Joseph Caillaux, the French minister of finance. He died tonight. Mme. Caillaux went to the office of the Figaro to carry out an act of vengeance against M. Calmette, who had been waging a campaign characterized by extreme bitterness against the minister of finance. She fired at least three times, M. Calmette being wounded in the chest, in the side, and in the abdomen. While the editor was being transported to the hospital he said repeatedly: "I have done my duty. I have done my duty." Having committed the deed, Mme. Caillaux submitted to arrest and while employes in the Figaro office were taking the pistol from her hands she said: "Since there is no justice in this country, I take upon myself an act of justice. Take me where you will." Mme. Caillaux was removed to a police station where she underwent a preliminary examination, the substance of which was communicated to the press at her desire. "I am sorry for what I was obliged to do," she said. "I had no intention of killing M. Calmette and I would be happy to know that he will recover. I desired only to teach him a lesson." At the moment of the attack, M. Calmette was preparing to leave his office in the company of Paul Bourget, the author. He excused himself to receive Mme. Caillaux, who fired almost immediately. In her statement to the police, Mme. Caillaux explained that the campaign against her husband had become intolerable and she determined to stop it. She consulted an eminent lawyer who advised her that legal proceedings would be futile—that they were often worse in the case of the innocent than in the case of the guilty. She then decided to take the law into her own hands. Much mystery is attached to the letter, a facsimile of which the Figaro printed March 13. Mme. Caillaux affirms that the letter was addressed to her and that she learned that M. Calmette intended to publish several other letters of an even more intimate character. This the Figaro denies. Mme. Caillaux was married to M. Caillaux Oct. 21, 1911, when he was (Continued on Page Six—Col. Five.) ## Column 4 # MOTHER SAVES HER BABE AT RISK OF LIFE When the life of her baby was threatened and the bay's [sic] clothes a mass of flames, Mrs. Frank Artigian had no thought of her own danger, but rushed to the aid of her four-year-old daughter and it is believed has saved her life. The child is lying at the home of her parents, 36 Lincoln avenue, in a precarious condition, but it is believed by the attending physician that she can recover. The baby was playing in the back yard with other children when one of them set fire to a pile of papers. The wind blew some of the fire up against the little girl and almost instantly she was a screaming ball of flames. Mrs. Artigian seized the girl in her arms, rushed to a nearby pump and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. The little one is fearfully burned about the head, arms and hips and about the hips the burns are so deep that the flesh is peeling off. The mother was badly burned about the hands and arms. # NEW HAVEN YIELDS TO THE DEPARTMENT Washington, March 16.—After several months of negotiation the crisis in the affairs of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad system, as far as it may be affected by the department of justice, probably will be reached during this week. The New Haven virtually has agreed to every demand for the disposition of its subsidiary properties made by the department, and the success or failure of the whole plan now depends largely upon the report of T. W. Gregory and Jesse Adkins, assistants to Attorney-General McReynolds, in charge of the New Haven case, who are seeking first-hand information about men proposed by New Haven officials to take over the system's trolley holdings in Rhode Island and Connecticut. It became more than ever apparent today that only an agreement between the railroad and the department can keep the case out of the courts. Senator Weeks called at the White house, and, speaking in plain language about the financial effect of delay, urged President Wilson to interfere to bring about a quick settlement. Later it was made known that the president would not interfere. The New Haven has consented to give up its steamship lines and has consented to trusteeships for the Boston & Maine railroad and its trolley holdings in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. ## Column 5 # "MOTHER" JONES DEFIES THE OFFICIALS ## White-Haired Old Woman Declares That She Will Return to the Strikers' Camps. Denver, March 16.—"I am going back to Trinidad before the end of this week," declared "Mother" Jones tonight. "I fully expect to be arrested and put back in prison as soon as I reach the strike zone, but no governor nor president can make me abandon my constitutional right as a citizen of the United States to go where I please, and so long as I live I shall refuse to submit to military despotism." The light blue eyes of the white-haired old woman flashed through the heavy lenses of her spectacles as she delivered her defiance to the civil and military authorities of the state of Colorado. The old-fashioned black bonnet perched awry on her white hair, bobbed in energetic emphasis. "Mother" Jones is 82 years old. "If they should not arerst [sic] me at once, I will go to the strikers' tent colonies and take up my work where I had to drop it two months ago, when the militia locked me up. I shall go ahead caring for the wives and children of the strikers and encouraging the men in their resistance to tyranny and robbery by the coal operators, who own southern Colorado." "Mother" Jones announced her program at the end of her first day of freedom after her release from San Rafael hospital, Trinidad, where she had been held a military prisoner since Jan. 12. The aged strike leader reached Denver early today after having been removed from the hospital and from Trinidad with the utmost secrecy last night. Soon after her arrival she had a two-hour interview with Gov. E. M. Ammons, whom she holds responsible for her imprisonment and for many other events in the history of the strike, which she declares discreditable to the state. # JAMES GORDON BENNETT SUFFERING FROM FEVER New York, March 16.—James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald, is seriously ill aboard his yacht, Lysistrata, at Suez, according to a dispatch received here tonight. Mr. Bennett is reported to be suffering from a severe fever. He has been on a three weeks' cruise. ## Column 6 # RUN TO THE HOSE HOUSE AND CALL THE "CONSTABULE" [spans columns 6-7] ## This Is the "Hick" Plan for Policing the City, Which the Ways and Means Committee Will Seriously Propose to the Council—Would Leave Protection of Life and Property in Residence District to Cop With Explosive Motor Cycle. [spans columns 6-7] If a second-story worker "jimmies" his way into your house and starts moving everything he wants out; if a "moocher" sandbags your wife and then plunders the home; if a sneak-thief "prowls" your room, or if a pickpocket "fans" your clothes, why then, b'gosh, all you have to do is to run to the nearest hose house and call the "constabule," who will chug-chug down the turnpike on an explosive motor cycle in search of 30 cents worth of clews as to the identity of the offender. This is the sort of a "hick" policeing [sic] arrangement the ways and means committee of the city council, driven to desperation by socialistic expenditures for three years, now proposes to foist upon the Butte taxpayers in exchange for what has been and probably will continue to be the highest tax rate ever levied in a Montana city. The committee will recommend to the next meeting of the city council that approximately 21 policemen be laid off, from an already notoriously inefficient and pitifully small force; that the patrolling of beats in the residence district be abandoned and that cops be stationed in each of the three widely separated fire stations with motor cycles to respond to telephone calls for help from householders within an area of many blocks in every direction. ### The Why of It All. In view of the fact that the city has exceeded its legal limit of indebtedness; that the administration is plunging the municipality into debt with increasing vim each succeeding year and that there is no possibility of making the city's revenue cover the socialistic extravagances, the ways and means committee is going to economize first by withdrawing police protection from every portion of the city but the business and restricted districts. Business houses in the residence district will have the benefit of the same motor cycle constabulary, under the plans of the committee, that householders are expected to rely upon for the safety of their lives and property. "Under the present system," said a member of the committee last night, in explaining the ideas of the committee with reference to police economy, "the oft repeated statement that you never see a policeman any more, about epitomizes the situation. We believed that it would be better to withdraw officers from all beats in the residence district and simply inaugurate a system of calling motor cycle officers from the fire stations, rather than go on with the present halfway and inefficient method of attempting to afford protection." ### Some Details. Details of the idea of the committee for minimizing the number of policemen and whatever efficiency the department now possesses may be summed up about in this manner: # Four Trust Measures Are Approved by President [spans columns 6-7] Washington, March 16.—President Wilson, at a conference tonight with the house judiciary subcommittee on trusts, put the stamp of administration approval on the substance of the four bills to amend the antitrust laws which the committee submitted in a practically final form. There will be another conference at the White house within a week, and members of the committee asserted tonight that unless protracted discussion should be raised in the full committee when the measures are presented, all four bills to strengthen the Sherman law, covering interlocking directorates, holding companies, trade relations and definitions of restraints of trade would be reported to the house within a fortnight. President Wilson indicated his belief that it would be better to consolidate all the bills into one in order to expedite legislation. The senate interstate committee is understood to favor consolidation. That it will be effected by the house judiciary committee seems practically certain. The president made several suggestions to the subcommittee, which comprised Representatives Clayton, Alabama; Carlin, Virginia, and Floyd, Arkansas. He insisted that personal guilt of individuals in control of corporations should be prescribed in every bill in order to break up the evils that have grown up under the present antitrust laws. The committee will revise the bills with this in view and talk with the president again before submitting the measures to the full committee and to the house. The draft of the holding corporations bill has been completed just before the conference. The measure would make unlawful those holding companies that combine the stock of corporations so as to lessen competition, but would not affect companies that hold the stock of corporations that form essential parts of their business. Holding companies that are entirely for investment and not for business directly are not prohibited. This would permit companies like the big insurance concerns to hold the stock of corporations which are not competitors. The committee believes that in this bill it has solved the problem of discriminating between the holding company activity in business and operating business by combining several competitors into one company, as in the case of the Standard Oil company and the American Tobacco company, and the corporations that have been compelled to combine several concerns that are not competitors but whose combination is necessary in order to make a unit or whole, as in the case of an oil company which combined a pipe company, ## Column 7 [the "Run to the Hose House" headline and deck above span columns 6-7] men and whatever efficiency the department now possesses may be summed up about in this manner: Divide the city into three police precincts with headquarters of the three at the city hall, Harrison avenue fire station and Caledonia street station; maintain the traffic squad at Broadway and Main and Park and Main, and a patrol beat in the restricted district. Maintain at each of the three precinct headquarters, one patrolman with a motor cycle from 8:00 o'clock in the morning until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon; two patrolmen with motor cycles from 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight; one patrolman with a motor cycle from midnight until 8:00 o'clock in the morning. Total, 12 policemen, divided into three eight-hour shifts, to patrol the entire residence district of the city. At present there are 56 men in the police department. Fourteen of these work from 8:00 o'clock in the morning until 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon; 28 work from 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight, and 14 are on duty from midnight until 8:00 o'clock in the morning. ### Not Coping With Crime Now. It is a significant fact that never in the history of Butte, save possibly during race meetings, are there so many crimes reported for which the offenders are never caught, as at present. The list of crimes covers the whole decalogue, from pickpocketing to murder. It has been suggested that by the installation of mail boxes at every street corner the postoffice department could render splendid service in helping to work out the committee's plan. With a mail box on every corner all a householder, who has been despoiled of his effects, or sandbagged, would have to do would be to drop a postal addressed to the nearest motor cycle "constabule" notifying him of the crime. ### Increase for Survivors. The ways and means committee, according to the neat little arrangement it has in mind, proposes to cut off $20,000 from its police expenditures in this manner. It also proposed to increase the wages of members of the ragged force that would be left to $115 a month. Then the committee proposes to establish a special garbage and ash fund to defray the expense of collection, which now amounts to about $40,000, much after the manner of the special sprinkling fund. This year the city will build a new corral on property recently purchased, which is located just south of the Northern Pacific tracks on Harrison avenue. Motor wagons are being considered for collection of garbage and ashes. [Four Trust Measures Are Approved by President — headline continues across column 7] a producing oil company, a refining oil company, all making one legitimate oil business. The committeemen pointed out to the president that the bill would save to industrial business the investor who buys the stocks and bonds of various corporations, but is not engaged in business of operating any of them. The bill applies to railroad holding corporations, but not to subsidiaries, drawing the line at substantial competitors. It includes cotton mills if made up of combined competitors. It would prohibit holding corporations of moving picture concerns that sought exemption and would strike at various large holding establishments which have made pleas before the committee. The so-called theater trust also would be affected. Theater corporations which hold two theaters in any one city, unless it could be proved that they were absolutely non-competing, would be prohibited, but the bill would not destroy a chain of theaters in different cities in which there was no element of competition. None of the four bills as now framed provides for exemption of labor unions from antitrust prosecutions. Senator Hughes of New Jersey is expected to present an amendment for that purpose if the bills as they finally reach the senate have no such exemption. Labor organizations, particularly the American Federation of Labor, have urged the Bacon-Bartlett bill, which would exempt from any prosecution under the Sherman law associations organized wholly for the promotion of labor. The trade relations bill prohibits manufacturers from contracting to prevent a merchant from handling a competitor's goods. It prohibits final price-fixing to the consumer, though it permits the manufacturer or wholesaler to fix the price at which goods shall be sold in the first instance, as from manufacturer to jobber. Under this restriction the first of a manufactured article by its producer would be at the same price everywhere plus the cost of transportation. This bill gives the right of injunction to individuals who are threatened with loss or damage and the right to make use of a government decree against any corporation. The interlocking directorate bill includes a provision to prohibit directors in various corporations selling to companies in which they are directors. The definitions bill embodies such definitions as seem not to have been covered by decisions of the courts. ### WOMAN EDITOR FOUND DEAD. St. Louis, Mo., March 16.—Mrs. Annie Laurie Orff, editor of a woman's magazine, was found dead in a bathroom by her husband here today.