THE MORNING - O REG OXIAX. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920 LEAGUE M LABQR DISCUSSED BY COX Self-Determination for land Favored. Ire- MINNESOTA TALKS MADE Versailles Tact Is Declared Pre requisite to Readjustment of "World Affairs. ST. PAUL,. Minn Sept. 6. Governor Cox worked a full holiday today on what he terms his "pilgrimage to the Tacifio coast." He made several speeches, viewed exhibits at the Min nesota state fair, where he drove a race horse around the track; attended several receptions and went tonight to Minneapolis to close his Minnesota visit with another address. Agricultural and labor questions were the governor's subjects at the fairgrounds and the league of na tions that of his public meeting here tonight. A statement that he favored appli cation of the principle of self-determination to Ireland was made at the latter meeting in response to a ques tion from a man in the audience. Qoery Put Gorernor, "Tf elected president," the governor was asked, "will you recognize .the Irish republic?" "I am In favir of the application of the principle of self-determination in Japan, in China, in Persia and Ire land," was the governor's reply. The reply drew loud applause and ended Interruptions. The governor preceded 'his reply with a statement that the armistice was based on President Wilson's "14 points," including that of self-determination, and that article 10 would protect weak nations from external asgression "bullying - attacks of stronger nations," he said. He added that nations should be njnilded from "racial groups rather than mountains and rivers." League Called Salvation. The league was advocated as a pre requisite to world readjustment. "It is the salvation of France, Aus tria, Kngland and Gerrany," he de clared, repeating his pleas for disarm ament and denouncing separate peace with tiermany which Senator Hard ing, he declared, advocates "in plain words." The governor declared that "big business was trying to elect the can didate of the senatorial oligarchy" and commented on local newspaper criticisms of his attack on republican campaign contributions. Stating that the papers had taken exception t his "getting a little rough," the governor added: "Who Is It that's squealing? The same crowd that's fought a sick man on a sick bed in the White House for a year. This is not going to be a pink-tea fight nor a pillow contest. I intend to deal In plain words and not in the meaningless and ambiguous words that have characterized the senatorial oligarchy up to the pres ent." Party Machine Held Stolen. The governor accused the "sena torial oligarchy" of having "stolen" the republican organization and ap pealed to the rank and file of repub licans together with independents to vote their "intelligence." The governor was welcomed with frequent applause and also when he swept around the track in a sulky guiding Peter Nash, a thoroughbred chestnut pacer, in a workout. The governor swept down the home stretch at top speed while cheers rang from the grandstand. , The Twin Cities were the farthest western points ever visited by the governor, who never had been west of the Mississippi river before. His party was augmented here by W. JettLauck, an economist. Mr. Lauck was prominent In war labor board work and Plumb plan railroad and profiteering publicity. In his speech at the fair grounds the governor declared that measures to in crease farm production, acreage and labor supply were necessary, and he declared again for collective bargain ing by labor. He also pledged himself specifically to Increase salaries for postal employes. The governor's ad dress at the state fair was the first of three today on his visit to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Interests Held Intertwined. Interests of labor and agriculture Governor Cor declared to his fair grounds audience, are intertwined and interdependent. Referring to the league of nations with a statement that it was not a political question except when turned to partisan uses. Governor Cox con tinued: "Labor is vitally interested in the plan of readjustment which will be adopted. There are those who think the answer to present difficulties lie3 in the adoption of plans of the past; that progress has gone too far. I am not of that class. I think that the solution is in the dawn of a new day when the human soul and the human body shall count for more than the sordid dollar. "Labor day came to us as one of J.he mile posts of the road of progress. But for progresslvelsm. Labor day could not have been. Reactionists would not recognize it. Reactionaries are in various groups. They consist primarily of the holders of privilege conferred by law. Special privileges are aided by the extreme radicals who propose things that are either unworkable or advanced ahead of their time. night to Organize Tpheld., "Labor should have the right to or ganize and through representatives of their own choosing negotiate col lective bargaining. This right ha never been denied capital. Care must be exercised that government at no time be made oppressive in maintain lng the laws of the land. I have said that public opinion will settle Indus trial disputes, and to this end believe the government should provide for proper investigation in all cases, with provision for the filing of the facts without prejudice, so that the public may have full information. "The right to free speech and free press and the right of orderly assem bly, guaranteed by the constitution, must never be infringed." Urging adequate remuneration' for government employes. Governor Cox said that if elected he would sign a bill granting the "long-suffering and loyal postal employes the relief they so richly deserve in the way of apjh-opriato and adequate wages." Storage Regulation Wanted. The governor also reiterated -his advocacy of regulation af cold stor age, declaring that it would "break the circle of profiteering." After viewing the art exhiolts, the slate fair board of governors present ed to Governor Cox the picture, "Oc tober Day in Minnesota," by Knute Heldner of Minneapolis, which won the gold medals. Governor Cox began his address shortly before 2 o'clock. He asked that Senator Harding and other can didates scheduled to speak here be given an equally warm reception. In discussing the regulation of cold storage and profiteering. Governor Cox said there were "entirely too many turnovers between the producer in the country and the consumer in the city." Praising labor, the governor de clared that a great factor in the win ning of the war was "the patriotio endeavor of labor everywhere." COX ACCUSATION' IS SCOUTED Coal Operator Answers Charge of $80,000 Assessment. CHICAGO. Scot. 6. In reDlv to I charges by Governor Cox that an at tempt had been made to levy a, re- publican campaign assessment of JSC, 000 aga-inst certain coal operators, J. IC Dering, named by the governor as one of the principals, in a state ment today said: . "We never held any s-uch meeting as Governor Cox described. The com mittee of which I was chairman met, but we never assembled even the committee alone in the Auditorium hotel. Generally, the committee met in my office and generally it was I who had to run around to the coal men and pry the money out of them. We raised between $18,000 and $20,000 and turned it over to Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the republican national committee." FLU CUTS RACE fN HALF EPIDEillO FAST WIPLNG OUT POLYNESIAN'S IX PACIFIC. TALIAW FACTORIES SEIZED BY WORKERS Struggle. Between Capital and Labor On. MOVE FOLLOWS LOCKOUT People Once Dominated Empire 4 000 Miles From Xortta to South, 7000 Miles East to West. HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 6. Influ enza wiped out half the members of the Polynesian race, according to the statement of Dr. Herbert E. Gregory, director of the Bishop museum here and chairman of the pan-Pacific scientific congress In session In Hon 'The big, vanishing problem of the Pacific is the Polynesian race," de clared Dr. Gregory. "The Influenza epidemic removed half of the Polyne sian inhabitants. That means that we must go to work if we ever are to solve the mystery of the origin of the race. "I have been told of four Islands in the Pacific where the last words of the native dialect have been spoken. That part of the race Is gone. Dr. Gregory then told of the ar rangement under which Yale univer- ity Is turning over to the Bishop museum a fund of $50,000 yearly to id in the search for the Polynesian origin. . Many pages of the story of the Pacific are lost or obliterated, .de clared A. G. Mayor, director of ma rine biology, Carnegie institute, but. he added, enough remained to solve the mystery of the whence, what and when of the Polynesians. 'In every fundamental thing on life the Japanese and the Polynesians are the same," asserted Dr. Mayor. The relationship is so close that It must -be due to blood ties. 'When an English prince of William the Conqueror's line was drowned in attempting to cross the English chan nel these people dominated a vast empire 4000 miles from north to south and more than 7000 miles from east to west." That geology holds the key to the locked door of Pacific information was the declaration of Dr. Frederick Wood-Jones, professor of anatomy at the University of Adelaide, Australia. 'I believe we shall end this con ference with the feeling that we really know very little about man in the Pacific, said ur. wooa-jones. Our knowledge is so scarce. If any thing Is done as an outcome of this conference the first thing should be in regard to the races of Polynesia. Metal Workers In Three Cities Be solve to Operate Plants; No - Violence Is Reported. LONTJON. Sept. . Seizure of Italian factories by metal workers as the starting point of a general taking over of industry was advocated by Italian extremist at the meeting of the heads of the General Federation of Labor and the Metal Workers' union and representatives of the Italian socialist party at Milan, says a dispatch to -the Daily Mail. Mod erates have insisted upon an agree ment with employers. No decision has as yet been reached. In the meantime workers are In possession of virtually all metal es tablishments in Italy. Strikers at Turin have announced that if troops are sent against them they will wreck all machinery. Italian metal workers, says a Rome dispatch to the Herald, organ of labor, have decided that all factories which deny them necessary materials will be occupied. The Rome newspaper Avantl Is quoted as saying if the government Interferes a general strike will fol low. NEW TORIC, Sept. . The Italian newspapers here print this communi cation from the Italian ambassador, Baron Avezzana: "In consequence of a shortage of raw materials, lack of coal and high cost of labor, the metallurgical indus tries decided to effect a lockout. Fol lowing this decision, the workers seized the factories at Milan. Turin and Genoa, in order to prevent the lockout and to operate the factories directly. "Such ' a move Is a new form of struggle between capital and labor, but preserves the character of an economic struggle. Inasmuch as it is developing without resort to violence and without bloodshed. "The situation is not alarming in the least." LONDON, Sept. 6. Sunday passed quietly in Italy, according to a Stefani agency dispatch from Rome. Many metal workers remained in the fac tories they had seized, without their occupation giving rise to any disturbances. state senator, that Governor Hart's j and Colonel Hartley's campaign man- I agers are spending huge sums of money in their efforts to land the repuDiican nomination ror governor, Edwin T. Coman, state senator, issued a statement protesting against the lavish use of money by his opponents in the race for the republican nom ination. John H. Gellatly, representa tive, has made similar charges in his campaign speeches. Senator Coman' s statement In part follows: "There is a state law covering the amount of money that a candidate for governor can spend, and I have, in my campaign for the Vepublican nom ination, held ato the spirit as well -as the letter of this law. I do not believe that people of the state of Washing ton want to see the governorship go to th highest bidder. I am in the contest to win, not to buy the support of Washington voters. "There are men among my oppo nents who are bidding higher than I shall bid. They are spending sums far in excess of the letter as well as the spirit of the law. The people should know what Is going on. I know what they are spending because I have had prices quoted to me on the various mediums and methods of cam paigning employed by my opponents. Therefore, I am in a position to make a fairly safe calculation as to the expenditures of other candidates. I do not hesitate to estimate that at least two of these" candidates will have had from- 50,000 to $100,000 spent in behalf of their campaigns." . 0-naa0- CAR SUPPLY IMPROro FREIGHT MOVEMENT IX N'ORTHWEST EXPEDITED. Transcontinental Roads Now Said to Be Supplying 50 to 75 Per Cent of Requirements. SEATTLE, "Wash., Sept. . Trans continental railroads entering Seat tle are now filling at least 50 per cent of car orders, indicating- a pro nounced improvement in the car shortage situation, according to an nouncement . made today by the spe cial committee created to expedite freight' movement in the Seattle ter ritory. The announcement was made by Macy Nicholson, western manager of the Milwaukee railway, as spokes man for the committee. "The roads represented on the com mittee were filling hardly more than 20 per cent of car orders when our committee began work some four months ago," said Mr. Nicholson. "Our daily reports since that time have shown a gradual improvement and now the roads are furnishing cars up to between 60 and 75 per cent of requirements." LAVISH OUTLAY CHARGED AXOTHER WASHINGTON CAN DIDATE PROTESTS. CHINA CIVIL WAR SPREfflS REBELS SURROUND TOWN 100 MILES EAST OF CAPITAL. War Minister of Cantonese Govern ment Mobilizes Forces; Guns Are Sold by Italians, i PEKIJf, Sept. 4. The new civil war against the Canton military by General Tang Chieyao, Yunnan leader. is growing in magnitude. Kwang-Tung province troops were reported today to 'have surrounded Waichow, 100 miles east of Canton. Taking advantage of the engagement or itwangsi province iruupo in. ue fending Waichow, General Tang Is re ported preparing to invade Kwangsl province from several routes through Yunnan province, supported by Gen eral Li Hsien-Shih, military governor of Kweichow province. General Lu Yung-Ting, . war minis ter of the Canton military govern ment. Is hastily mobilizing Cantonese forces for defense of Kwangsl prov ince against invasion by Tang's Yun nan forces. General Tang has informed the Pekin central government peace ne gotiations between the south prov inces and the north will not be re' sumed until the Canton military gov ernment has been suppressed. Governor Li Hou-Chl of Kukien province has declared his province neutral. General Lu Yun-Hslang, military commissioner of Shanghai, has pro tested to the Pekin government against the sale by two Italiati war ships in the Huangpu river, contigu ous to Shanghai, of arms and ammu nition to persons without authoriza tion of the Shanghai military admin istration, according to an Asiatic news agency dispatch from Shanghai $50,000 to $100,000 Too Much to Pay for Governorship, Declares State Senator Coman. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 6. (Spe cial.) On top of the sensational charges made by George B. Lamping. SPOKANE WINS CONFAB Columbia River Conference of Methodists " Ends. MOSCOW, Idaho. Sept. 6. Next year's session of the Columbia River conference of the Methodist Episcopal church was awarded to Spokane at the closing session of this year's con ference here today. Reports submitted today showed that the membership of the conference had increased 1951 during the past year, with a total of 19,920 members. 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