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mm OREGON CITY ENTEKP eubecrlptlon ex- f Look at the label. should not mitt any " our newt numbara. Attand to It now. growlnn County FORTY SIXTH YEAR No. 16. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1912. ESTABLISHED 1S I 520 LOST; 675 SAVED ASBIGGESTSHIPSIS TITANIC CRASHES INTO ICEBERG AND GOES DOWN BEFORE AID SUMMONED BY WIRELESS ARRIVES MAJORITY OF RESCUED WOMEN NEW YOltK. April 1C Mora than ir00 persons, It la feared, sank to duitth early today whim, within four hour after she craslmd Into an Ico- btrg, tho mammoth White Htur steam rr Tltanlfl from UvrMM to New York on her nmldi-n voyage, wont to the bottom off tho New Founlnnd Imnka. Of the 2200 puriton on hoard noiiut of thorn of world wldn promi nence, only (75 are known to hiiva boe:i saved. The Wbltn Htur offices In Nw York, whllo keeping hopo to tho IahI. frcly admitted that there hud bwn "horrible Ioh of lire." ArroptlliK curly ptitliiiMtrs of tho f.v tulllty lint aa ai-curulo, tlio disaster Is tho greatest In marlno history. NcttruBt approaching It n magnitude wvro tho dlHuiitra of tbit steamer At lulitlo In 1873, whtu 647 live wure joHt, und to Xa. HoiirKoyno In IMS, with a fatality lint of 71. Should It prove that other liners, notHbly the Allun liners Parisian a.id VlrKlnlun, known to huve been lu the vhlnlty of the Tltaiilc early toduy, hud picked up other Of IhT pHHHVUK- ra, tho extent of thu calamity would bo greatly ri-dumd. Tbla hope rv inultiM. The Hti-amor Olympic reported at Capo Rare that thu steamer Curpathln reactie,) lh Tltanlc's poitlllon at day break today, but found boat and wreckage only. She reported that the Tllanlc had foundered at about 2:110 o'clock A. M. Ii latitude 41 10 north and longitude 60. It went. The mea sago adds that all tho Titanic a boats were accounted for and "about U7S semis saved, crew and passengers, lat ter nearly all women and chlldre.i." The report from the Olympic aaya that thu Leyland liner California was remaining and searching tho vicinity of the disaster. The Carpathla, It wan "aid, was returning to Now York with the aurvlvora. Vice! resident Franklin at 8:40 o'clock conceded that there had been "a horrible loan of life" In tho Titanic disaster. Ho Raid that he had no In formation to disprove tho advlrea from Cane llaeo to tho effect that only C. of the passengers and crew had bee 3 rescued. He Raid that the monetary Ion could not bo estimated tonight, al though he Intimated that It would run Into the millions. "Wo can replace the monoy," ho added, "but not the HveB. It la hop rW." Mr. Franklin continued: "Aa far aa we know It haa boon ru mored from Ifallfux that three steam era have passengers on board, namely the VlrKlnlun, tho Carpathla, and the Parisian. Now we have heard from Canlaln Haddock that tho Titanic Bank at 2:20 o'clock this morning. We have also learned from him that too Car ONLY SURVIVORS ARE ON CARPATHIA SEA KEEPS LAST 8ECRET8 OF HUNDREDS WHO PERISHED ON TITANIC WIRELESS GIVES LIST Of RESCUED Expoiurt To Cold And Fog Supposed To Have Killed Scores Who Tried To Eicape On Wreckage . COUNTY DIVISION onthla hud C75 aurvlvora on board. It l very difficult to learn If tho Vlr alnlan and tho Parisian have any pns mincers on board. We have naked Captain Haddock and our agent at Halifax to aacortnin ir more aro nny nnHsetiKera aboard the two Kteamsiitpa "We very much fear, however, that thero has beon a great 1oh of llfo, but It la Impossible for us to give further particulars until we have neara rrom tho Parisian and VlrKlnlun. We hove no Information that there aro any pna aboard these two steamships." Mr Franklin said there waa a suf ficient number of llfo boats to take nil Mm nassenKora from tho Titanic. Hound for New York, the Titanic, hn lurKost vcssol afloat flllgliliy lrg er than her slater ship of the White Star line, tho Olympic tort bourn ainnton. England. Wednesday, with a lurKo list of distinguished passengers, 3;iO In the first cabin, 330 in mo sec ond cabin, 700 In steerage, 1 with n rrw nf 800. on her maiden voyage. She carried $5,000,000 worth of bonds and diamond, and her cargo was re Insured by Lloyds on a DO per cent appraisal. The Titanic wns duo In Now York Thursday. Among the 350 pnHsengors In the flrHt cabin were: Alfred (1. Vanderbllt, Colonel and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Aubert, Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft; Dr. Washington Dodge assessor of San Francisco, Mrs. Dodge and their son; Mark Fortune and wife, Colonel Archibald uracic, in-iijuiiuu Guggenheim, Henry Ilaraner and wife, and wife. Henry n. Har ris and wife. C. M. Huys, president of tho Grand Trunk Hallway; Imlay J. Ilruee, chairman of the White Star - line- Colonel Washlntgon Roebllng, who' with his father, designed tho Prooklvn Bridge, Countess Bothea, Ad olph Saulfold, Frederick Speddln and wife, ond F. D. Miller, president of the American Academy of Rome. FOR APRIL TERM The follow Ig cases have been act for trial during tho April term of the Cir cuit Court: April 20, Sunergard against the Ore gon Electric Company: April 20, Schoolny against the Portland Railway light & Power Company; April 2D, McKlllican against MeKlllican; April 30 Dirk against Boland; May 1, Moy er against Tebbetts; May X Cross against Oregon Engineering Company May 6, Tlmmons against the Portla.id Railway, Light t Power Company; May 8. Lott against Thomas; May 9, Ambler against Molt and May 10, Rosencrantz against Wendt. NEW YORK, April 1C Notnlng that cuine from tho sea today mltl-i gated In any degree tho horror of the Titanic tragedy. Thero aro no known survivors that are not on tho Car pathla. In Icy, fog smothered seas, whore thu Tltunlc sung, exposure must soon have destroyed those who were left to life bulla or wreckage when all th boats were gone and no help had come and tho great ship hud foundered. The receding Dimple, whose powerful wireless began oil Tuesday morning to reclto the names of the living, con tinued the work today of reluylng the Carputhla'a dispatches, and successive bulletins posted at tho White Star of lico kept many despairing man and woman waiting all day and Bent oth ers away thanking; God. It la practically certain now that nearly all the men of the Tltanlc's company went down with tlx) Bhip when she plunged two miles toward tho ocean's floor, or that they per ished miserably while clinging to wreckage of life servers In the Icy waste that betrayed them. They gave up lire within sight or the lime rocK lug boats that held their women and children. It cannot bo doubted now that among these were Colonel John Jac oh Astor, Isador Straus, Major Arcn limit! W. Butt, aide to President Taft; (ieorgo 1). Widener, of Philadelphia Karl II. Uchr, tennis champion; Jac ones Kiitrello. writer: William T, Stead, london edltor;Francla D, Mil let, American artist; and many more who were known both aides of tho A-t luntlc. Toll of the Tltanlc's disaster will bo felt all over the world. The names of tho survivors wire lessed here by the Olympic Include a small number of men who were able to find a place with tho women and children In a few boats. Such good news as there Is places among the llvlnir Henry Sleeper Harper, of tho iiubllHhlng firm, and Mrs. Harper; Dr, and Mrs. Henry Fruenthal and Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Fruenthal, Mrs. John Jucob Astor, with her maid, nro on the Carpathla, which Is hurrying tho survivors to this port and which should arrive Thursday night. MEN GO TO DOOM TO SAVE WOMEN RICH AND POOR ON ILL-FATED SHIP GALLANTLY 3UR- . RENDER LIVES COMPANY IS BITTERLY DENOUNCED White S'ar Official Accused Of Pur posely Witholdlng Facta And Issuing False Statements NEW YORK. April 1C All New York whs stunned to day by the appal ling loss of life to passengers aboard tho wrecked White Star Liner Titan ic, which was supposed to have beon virtually unslnkable. From daylight a long line or nys- terlcal men, women and children be sieged the offices of the White Star line begging for some definite Informa tion. The company officials however, were unable to hold out hope, oxplaln- ntr that they were In the dark con cerning tho fatalities, and that noth ing will be dednltely known until the arrival here of the Virginian, and the Carpathla, the two ocean liners first to reach the side of the 111 fated Tes- sel. Relatives of the missing passengers as well aa th'-fr friends, bitterly de nounce the company, charging the of ficials with having deliberately with held news of the disaster when they were reasonably certain that the Ti tanic nad gone down with hundra of passengers. The White Star officials are mner- Iv censured for Issuing false reports and comforting relatives and friends by assurances that all passengers naa ben transferred to other vessels, and (Continued on page 8.) IS NOT SETTLED OREGON CITY COMMERCIAL CLUB COMMITTEE IS ENTER TAINED IN ESTACADA PROPOSITION HAS ITS DRAWBACKS Visitors, However, Have Fine Time And Have Nothing But Praise For Their Hosts Report To Be Made The proposition to divide Clackamas Into two counties was discussed at a meeting of a committee of the Oregon City Commercial Club and the Ktfta- ( ada t'onierclal Club at a conference In EHtacudn Wednesday. Aa was ex pected nothing definite waa decided upon. Many residents of the Eastern Mid of the county favor seceding on tho ground that It would be advant ageous to Clackamas County and the part which desires to have an Inde pendent government. Tho advocates ol county division say that the county Heat Is too fur from their section of tho county, and that the formation of lew county with Estacda as the comity scut, would not only be nioro convenient, but would save that sec tion a great deal of money. While tho Oregon City Comerclul Club, as yet, has not opposed the proposition, It will not favor It until arguments are produced showing that a division would bo advantageous. II. T. Mclluln, President of the Ore gon City Commercial Club; O. D. Eby William Shcahan. T. J. Gary, George Randall, L. Adams, Major C. 8. Noble, M. J. Ijuelle. J. E. Jack, Llvy Stlpp, W. L Mulvey and C. O. Huntley were the membra of the committee which went to EHtacadu, Two enthusiastic meetings were held In EHtucadn. The first meeting was called to order at 3 o'clock and adjourned nt 4, after one hour of argil' nient on the part of the Cascade nils blonarles. The Power House at River Mill station was visited and the Ore- ton City committee made a thorough examination of It from bed rock to crest of the dam.. The second meeting was called to order at 8 o'clock after an excellent repast at the Bstacada Hotel. Plates were laid for fifty and it is sale to say Oregon City's committee of twelve secured Its share, It not more, of the good things both wet and dry. After nnother hour of lnteretslng nn,l Instructive talks by Messrs. Bel tils and Bartlett for Estacodu and Messrs. Sheahan, Huntley, Noble and Eby for Oregon City the meelng ad Journed. All agreed that the plan wasa good proposition for Estacada and that Es- tucada Is certainly a royal Host. The reort to the homo club will be made next Tuesday. JUDGE CAMPBELL PRAISES TON E COURT, IN GRAND JURY CHARGE, PAYS DI8TRICT ATTORNEY COMPLIMENT C. W. RISLEY APPOINTED FOREMAN i Prosecutor la Called One Of The Ab lest And Most Conscientious State Has Ever Had In Instructing the April grand jury, composed of C. W. RJsley, foreman; Charls Muralt; Otto Aschoff, Hanry Glthens, Bert AlcArthur, J. V. Harless, and Thomas Mooncy, Judge Campbell Monday paid District Attorney Tongue high compliment. Tho court said In part: 'If at any time during your Invest igations you have doubts whether the fucts produced constitute a crime In WEST PLANS OF E SALEM, Or., April IS. Announcing thut he Is heartily in favor of placing the control of the state penitentiary In tho hands of the state board, where tho control of all of the other state Institutions now reposes and that he Is engaged In preparing a bill to be Introduced In the next legislature which will bring the change into ef fect, Governor West today answered those who have been attacking his prison policy on the ground that he is trying to bolster up his administration Dy use of the stute prison. The governor said tho bill would pro- fide for general revision of laws gov erning state Institutions and would cut tho institutions loose from much of tho red tape that now hinders tho sate board from bringing them up to tho highest efficiency. The bill Governor West Is preparing It enacted Into law, will provide for cooperation between the various Insti tutions that is Impossibe under the present laws. It will permit the ex change of commodities among insti tutions and thus give opportunity for great savings to the state. Now, If one Institution has a surplus of pro ducts of any kind, uny revenue receiv ed by disposing of It must be turned into tho state 8 general fund. "I bellve that he management of the state prison should be In the same hands a the management of the in sane asylum and other state Institu tions," said Governor West. "If the management of other Institutions la In board, that Is where the manage ment of tho state prison should be. But Inasmuch aa the people have plac ed control of that institution in the hands of the governor, I purpose to conduct Its affairs In accordance writh my own Ideas." T AGIST SINGLE TAX STARTS With the organization of the Oregon Equal Taxation League, a state-wide campaign will be conducted against the single tax measure. Charles H. Shields, president of the Anti-Single Tax League of Washington and a business man of Seattle, has been ap pointed secretary of the Oregon as sociation, and will have charge of the campaign. The offices of the league are at 706-708 Board of Trade Building. TONGUE AND MASS LAUDED BY JURY REPORT 8AYS OFFICIALS DID THEIR BEST TO FIND SLAY ER OF HILLS COURT HOUSE ADDITION APPROVED Improvement Of County Jail And Pad ded Cell For Insane Recom mended 21 True Bills Found District Attorney Tongue, Called By Judge Campbell, In Charge To Grand Jury, Ablest Prosecutor In State. i. j. law, whether if a crime, it has ceased to be punishable by reason of lapse of time, or a former acquittal or con viction, you may make a presentment of facts to the court without mention ing the names of Individuals and ask for Instructions. I, however, do not apprehend that you will have any trou ble along this line as you will have with you the district attorney, who has had much experience and is one of the ablest and most conscientious prosecutors that this or any other dist rict in this state has ever had, so far as I have been able to observe. In your Investigation of any charge you should only hear competent evidence that is, you shall receive no other evidence such as might be given on the trial of the person charged. If you should indict a person on hearsay or incompetent evidence when we should come to trial it would be im possible to convict on that class of testimony, and the county would be put to a great deal of expense without accomplishing any result. 'You ere not bound to hear any evi dence for the defendant, but it Is your duty to weigh all tha evidence submitted to you and when you have reason to believe that other evidence within your reach will explain away the charge you should order such evi dence to be produced for that purpose may require the district attorney to Issue subpoenas for witnesses. "On account of the .many, various and conflicting report In the news papers concerning the Investigation of the murder of the Hill family, we take this opportunity to commend Dis trict Attorney Tongue and Deputy Stipp, In their honest, careful, cau tious and unbiased method pursued In conducting a thorough Investigation of testimony of all witnesses not only In the HIM case, but In all other mat ters coming before us during our de liberative session.- We also wish to commend Sheriff Masa In his efforts to apprehend the murderer of the Hill fumlly." The above Is part of the final report made Friday afternoon by the Nov ember Grand Jury, which waa com posed of A. M. Klrchem, foreman; ii Rastall,, William H. Stuwe, A. Bre mer, Charles Sharnke, C. Krigbaum, and W. F. Lehman. Other part of the report follow: "We have examined the construc tion of the addition to the court house the remodeling and repairing of the old portion thereof. We have invest igated the cost of material, cost of la bor, of architecture, plumbing, etc., and it is our opinion that the county court exercised Its best judgment In tho selection of the material, which in every Instance was purchased with as much economy as waa consistent with good business principles; ' and further the work waa carefully ad skillfully superintended. We wish to recommend, by way of further Im provements, that the Jail be Improved in such a manner as to properly ac commodate the prisoners, and that a padded cell for the retention of the violent Insane be Installed, and we further recommend that it be so ar ranged as to afford proper ventilation. "We further recommend that all ln struments of record filed In the clerk' office be not taken or removed there from, unless the record of the bor rower be made thereof, except on such occasions, as the same may be re quired by court." The Jury returned 21 true bills and dismissed three cases. - FARMER DIES IN CANBY HOTEL FIRE SEVERAL PER80NS HAVE NAR ROW ESCAPES AS BUILDING IS DESTROYED LITTLE CIRL FLEEING, FALLS Brave Woman Climb Down Post And 8avet Man Business Section Of City la Threatened LOCK IS E OF LA FOLLETTE COFFERDAMS MAYi KEEP RIVER OPEN MclNOOE PLANS BUILDING CANAL WITHOUT INTERRUPTING TRAFFIC OLD LOCKS AVAILABLE FOR USE Tests Being Made Of Material For Dividing Wall Survey Of Property Finished Cofferdams similar to those used in raising the hulk of the Battleship Maine may be used in connection with the constrution of the concrete wall at the locks at the Falls of the Will amette, which will divide the prop erty taken over by the government from that of the Portland Rallwny, Light & Power Company. A survey of the property haa been completed and Assistant Engineer Thomsen, of the staff presided over by Major Mclndoe, Corps of Engi neers, U. S. A., will check over the corners to satisfy himself thai they are correct Testa are being rrrade of material that may form the foundation or the wall. If the cofferdam scheme is deemed practical It will be a boon to steamloat men ,as the building of the wall under other methods will neces state the locks being closed to navi gation and Major Mclndoe la making every effort to avoid Interrupting river traffic. A decision "HI be made In a fe days. PENDLETON, Or., April 15. "I will not be wearing a crepe on my hat If Roosevelt wins out In Pennsylvania,' declared Senator Robert M. La Fol- lette this morning, talking to a pri vate audience of friends and news papermen. "Every delgate who goes to the national convention Instructed for Roosevelt Increases the probabi lity of a deadlock between him and Taft and such a deadlock can only mean one thing, the election of your humble servant. "I have 38 delegates now and every one of them has Iron in his system. They are not the compromising kind and every one will fight to the last ditch for me. It neither Taft nor Roose velt can win on the first few ballots their delegates will commence to switch and with pieces of each other's skin an 1 hair beneath their finger nails it Is not likely they will get together either on the president or ex-presi-dent." Speaking of the results In Illinois Senator La Follette declared h was not a bit discouraged. "I was advised not to enter In the primaries," he said "unless I ?ould make a personal cam paign but I knew there were many who wanted to vote for me and I naa my name put on the ballot. I got something like 40,000 votes and every one was from a true progressive neart "Illinois Is not a progressive state and Roosevelt's victory was not a pro gressive victory. He won because certain Interests would rather have him in the presidential chair than the other man. La Follette arrived here on the ear ly tram this morning from the east and retired immediately to his room, where he slept until 11:30. He Is ac companied by his wife who made a ten minute talk for woman suffrage on the streets. SPLIT DELEGATION PHILADELPHIA. April 11 At mid night reports indicate that Theodore Roosevelt has carried about half of the Congressional districts in Penu sylvania. In addition there Is a prob ability that Roosevelt men will con trol the state convention, which will name 1? delegates-at-large. Woodrow Wilson apparently had lit tle opposition and he will have almost a solid delegation from this state to the Democratic National convention. A dlsastroua fire occurred at Canby Saturday morning about 4 o'colck, the City Hotel, with Its contents being destroyed. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Mos ley, who lived In the hotel were awak ened about 3:30 o'clock by fire, which started In the kitchen on the east aide of the building, and tbey gave the alarm. The boarder were aroused and hurried to the street Many of them were half clad not being able to save their clothing, aa the struc ture waa soon a mass of flames. Erastus Rosencrants, of Liberal, who had been spending several days In Canby and making his headquarters at the hotel, was burned to death He waa ninety-one years of age, and owing to bis feeble condition waa un able to escape, although he was awak- ened and had thrown part of his clothing out of a window of the sec ond story, and had probably Intend ed Jumping but was overcome by the smoke. Mr. Rosencrantz had been a resi dent of Liberal for some time. He Is survived by a widow, and eight child ren, one daughter living at Liberal. He was born In Syracuse, New York. Opposite Mr. Rosencranta' room John Strickland occupied an apartment and escaped by Jumping from the second story window. The little 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. A. Bradburn, prop rietress of the hotel, bad a narrow es cape from death. She was making her escape from the building when she fell down stairs, and those follow ing her not knowing she had fallen In their excitement trampled her, and she is suffering from severe bruises. She also inhaled smoke. Her condi tion is not serious. A woman, who was among the cool- heded persons in the building at the time the fire started, saved a man's life. She waa In the second, story, and escaped by climbing down one of the posu of the front porch, aud hastened into the burning building and aroused the man, who had a room on tho first floor. He had a narrow escape, as his room adjoined the room where the fire originated. Most of the rooms of the city hotel were occupied Friday night, there be ing a theatrical company in the city. The Cottage Hotel, which Is in the same block had a narrow escape from destruction, and many of the residents of Canby, as well as the boarders sav- ed the building by carrying water irom a well. Had there bten & wind blowing the loss would have been much greater, as the wer supply at Canov is limited, the city water bar in? being brought f-on -the Mack home on the w-t side of the Southern Pa ciflc railroad track, and pumped from a well hy means of an engine The Ci 7 Hotel his changed hanaj several limes' dur n-; the past year. It was loci ted on O Street about two blocks f om the htni.ia. Mrs. A. Bradburn took possession of the hotel several months ago. Coroner Wilson was called to Canby soon after the body of Rosencrantz was removed from the building, but decided it was unnecessary to hold an inquest. DEM HAVE BIG LOVE FEAST ROOSEVELT AND TAFT ARE EX CORIATED BY CANDIDATES FOR SENATOR TRUSTS VEHEMENTLY DENOUNCED Pierce, Lane And Coehow Deliver In teresting Addressee At Big Banquet Hedget Pleases Crowd GENERAL MT DIES EARLY TODAY COMMANDER OF DEPARTMENT OF EAST VICTIM OF HEART TROUBLE UNEXPECTED NEWS SHOCKS CITY Son Of Famous Civil War Leader Had Not Complained of Being III Trouble In Getting Physician NEW YORK, April 12. Major-Gen eral Frederick D. Grant, son of the famous General of the Civil War and himself commander of the East, died at the Hotel Buckingham, in this city about 12:40 o'clock this (Friday) morning. Between 9 and 10 o'clock last night General Grant was brought to the Buckingham from St. Luke's Hospital. He was accompanied by Lieutenant Howse, from Governors Island, and General Grant's wife. He was attend ed by Dr. Robert Abbey and Dr. Ed ward li. Bench. The cause of the General's demise was not made knows when word of his death waa Bent to the hotel desk. The news flashed from the apart ments of General Grant sent a shock through the city such as that which startled the whole country upon the death of his father 27 years ago. Tne news was far more sudden. It came less than an hour after the first alarm bad been sounded that General Grant was seriosly 11L The alarm it self had come before It had been gen erally known that General Grant was In the city, aa his presence here had been kept a secret (Continued on page 4) Hailing Thomas Jefferson aa the greatest constructive American states man, leading Democrats of Oregon Saturday night at a banquet given by tb County Democratic Central Com mittee at Woodmen Hall, pleaded with their audience of more than 200 that the principles for which the founder of the party stood be their Inspiration and guide in the campaign now In pro gress. It was not only a Democratlepar ty dinner, but aDemocratlc dinner, for at least one third of the banqueter were Republicans and adherents of other political parties. The banquet , was neia in nonor of the birthday of the founder of the party, and the prin cipal speakers were Walter A. Pierce Dr. Harry Lane and O. P. Coshow, candidates for the Democratic nomina tion for United States Senator. Gilbert L. Hedges, who Is the Dem ocratic candidate for District attorn ey In this district was toastmaster. Each speaker was fittingly Introduced and Mr. Hedges convulsed the crowd with several "telegrams" whicn It Is believed were originated by himself. While the arguments were pretty much the same as have from time Immemorial been used by members of the party, and have time and again trailed its banner in the dust, the ora tors were Just as sure they were right as was William Jennings Bryan In 1896 when he tried to foist upon the Amercan people the free silver theory. acclaiming it the only sure cure for all the Ills that politics la heir to, they were presented In an Interesting way and brought forth rounds of applause. Mr. Pierce, who was In particularly good voice, made a forceful address. He declared that th Dmocratic party had nothing to be ashamed of, and that the really Important achievements of the Roosevejt and Taft administrations had been suggested by Mr. Bryan and other Democrats. The speaker Justified the fight that was made for bimetallsm on the ground that the increased supply of gold had proved that the quantitlve theory of money was correct. He de clared that Mr. Roosevelt was now ad vocating measures that would have put the Democratic party to shame in 1896 so radical would they then have appeared. "We would have been called anarch ists if we had advocated them then," said Mr. Pierce. "The Democratic party,, has, In fact, become the conser vative party. It Is proved when the troops have to be called out to sup press a riot in a Republican conven tion in the great state of Michigan. The combinations of wealth have grown under Republcan rule. From time immemorial the law of supply and demand ruled, and never until our lifetime have men been able to take business by the throat through combination's of capital and throttle It. , I tell you It Is a revolution and not an evolution. The trusts dictate the prices they pay and the prices the people pay them. There are not many markets where competition rules. The steel trust for instance, controls 60 per cent of all the raw Iron and sells stell at 0 or 50 per cent high er here than it does in foreign mark ets. That trust has paid IS per cent interest annually for nine years on a billion and half of stock, half of which is watered stock.' Mr. Pierce in speaking of the absorb- tion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company by the United States Steel Company became facetious. He de clared that the trust asked President Roosevelt If It could absorb the big southern company, and that the Pres ident replied, "De-lighted. The speaker said the crlTie or. tne age was the control of the markets by the trusts which killed competition and sounded the death knell of sup ply and demand. He said Its contin uance would result In the wrecking of the nation. Mr. Pierce recommend ed Jail sentences for the rich offend ers declaring that would be more ef ficacious than large fines. He also nald his respect3 to the express comp anies, and declared that they and the telegraph lines should be under the management of the postal department. Mr. Pierce -made a fine Impression, and was enthusiastically fpplauded throughout his address. He was giv en a round nf applaue when he pledg ed his fealty to the nominee of the party no matter which one uf the can didates won the nomination. Toastmaster Hedgea read telegrams (Continued on page 4) PROPOSED LAW WOULD BE RAILROAD BLOW WASHINGTON, April 12. Washing ton Is Just beginning to realize that the railroad and oteamshlp legislation pending in congress present an Is sue almost as important aa thetaiiff. the most radical proposals made since the enactment of the Hey burn bill are contained in the Adamaon bill, forbidding railroads to own any Inter ests in stcamdhlnp lines with which they may compete for traffic, and In the Humphrey bill, excluding from American ports any foreign ahlpa which ma be part of a foreign sim- ship pool