PERKINS SAYS PUBLICITY CURE Concentration of Wealth Mijjht Become Ileal Peril. Combination of Brain Power, If Harmful, Should be Reatraincd By Government Control WuHhmgton, 1). ('. In a hy|M>th«»ti- «•al quvHtion to George W. Perkin*, Samuel llnlermyvr, counael for the “money trust” committee, outline»! from the recorda of the committee a “concentration of money and cred it," and asked whether Mr. Perkin* considered it “a menace and [wrll to the pr»>»|>erity of the country.” The <|Ueatlon generally wa* accepted a* Mr, Untcrmyer’a conception of the elusive No-callc<| money trust of which the committee is in search. Mr. Perkin*, after declaring the query reminded him of the conun drum, “Why is a mouse when it spins,“ aaacrte»! that he could not say whether concentration as outline»! in the question was a peril, Mr. Untcrmyer’a hypothetical “money trust” question was put after Mr. Perkin* had recommended publi city as a cure for financial evil*, the incorporation of the New York St»x-k Exchange under a Federal charter, a closer res|s>naibility among bank di rectors and the acconling of represen tation on the directorate to minority stockh«>ld«»rs. Mr. Perkins delivered a long talk on economics, the gist of which was; “Everyone will agree that at a cer tain [mint concentration wouhl be a |M>ril, but whethiT at the [stint you *ay it ha* reache»! it would be a peril, I cannot say. I have been out of touch with these uffairs for two year*, and I would want to study these ques tions very carefully. I’m opposed to the concentration of money power, bruin power, or energy where the con centration is likely to result in harm.” Mr. Perkins, ns a director of the Steel cor|s>ratiun an»l the Internation al Harvester company, is a defendant in the government's suit for dissolu tion of those concerns. “We never knew of the corpora tion’s buying its own stock to protect it in the market and know of no fsxds to manipulate the market in steel stocks,” he said. "Do you lielieve that director* should be allowed to trade in the stock of their own o>r|x>ration», on advance information secured by them through their connection with the corpora tion?" a*ke»l Mr. llntermyer. “I do not,” said Mr. Perkins. “The Steel corporation wa* the first big cor[*>ration to give entire publi city to its airairs, was it not?” anked Mr. llntermyer. “Yes, no far as 1 know.” Mr. Perkin* said h«» belieVed all cor porations should give publicity to all their atfair*. “What would you do uls»ut manipu lation of ¡trices to produce false val ues?” asked Mr. llntermyer. "Well, that is a difficult question,” said Mr. Perkin*. “That form of gambling is indulg»*»! in even down to the farmer who sells his wheat this winter for delivery next spring.” CASTRO DENIED ENTRANCE INTO UNITED STATES New York General Don Cipriano Castro, formerly president of Vene zuela. detained at Elils Islarnl by the immigration officials more than two weeks, was denied admission to the United States by a special board of impiiry on the ground that in his ex amination he hail admitte»! the “com mission of a crime and felony involv ing ‘moral turpitude.’ ” Immediately after the announcement that he would not be permitted to enter thia country, Castro declared he would ap|s*al to th»1 secretary of commerce and labor. Dynamite Destroys Ship. Nanaimo, B. C. Leaving the har bor here with a enrgo comprising 2000 cast** of dynamite, the steamer Oscar took fire and getting beyond control woh beached on Protection island. A terrific explosion followed, resulting in several thousan»! dollars’ worth of damage. Every plate glass window facing the waterfront was broken and several persons seriously cut. Every member of the crew escaped before the explosion occurred. The extent of damage to the vessel is not known yet. Two Killed in Opium Battle. Shanghai—Two persons were killed and many wound«*«! as a result of a pitched battle over attempts to sup press the opium traffic. Officials of the Shang-tu and neighlioring districts were patrolling with a military escort to enforce the order of prohibition against the cultivation of opium when they were set upon by 1000 armed sup porters of the opium traffic. A fight ensued, in which both sides fired sev eral volleys. Slide Buries Two Cars. Bay City, Or.—Just ax it was to be announced that train service would be resumed on the Pacific Railway & Navigation company’s line, after a blockade of over two weeks from slides, another slide 50 feet long and 30 feet deep covered the tracks at mile post 40 and buried two outfit cars. This latest landslide will delay traffic for four or five days longer, as no track can be built around it. COAL MINING COSTS UVES. One Miner Kill«»«! fur Every |M3,0()0 Tuns Produced. SUE FOR LAND AND OIL TAKEN most effort* to concentrate fortunes and |><>wer until the laws of nature cauiu-d the attempted monopoly to "fall of its own weight.” He op posed, however, concentration through corporation and holding companies. He would not say whether concentra tion had yet reached the point where it wa* dangi-rou*. Before the name committee appeare»! George W. Reynolds, president of the Continental * Commercial National bank, of Chicago, who said he knew of the “trend toward concentration of mon»-y credits,” and that he thought it a dangerous thing. "I am opposed to the concentration of any sort of power,” he said. "I believe that concentration to the point it has alrea/ly gone is a menace. In saying that I <io not wish to sit in judgment on the men who hold the power.” Mr. Reynolils said he was opposed to the principle of interlocking directors. Mr. Schiff took the view that depos itors in bank* were protected suffi ciently under the present law, “if administered by and kept up to the teachings of experience.” He thought there was no objection to one bank selling securities to another bank Waahngton, D. (’. One miner's life is snuffe»! out with every 183,000 ton* of coal mim*»! in the United States. In 1907, when the Federal bureau of (iovernment Will Try to Re- mine* was lieginning its work, this cover Many Millions. ratio was greater. Then one life was given with every 144,000 ton*. Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the California Oil Companien and In- United Stati-s bureau of mine*, in hi* dividual* Object to Attark annual report to Secretary Fisher, at l-ands Are Held Illegally. tribute* the decrease in mortality^ to th«» Federal government's work in the Washinton, D. C. A suit which mining field*, and points out how the enormous death list may be still fur- will text the title of hundr«»ds of thou sands of acres of oil lands in th«* West, ther r«»«luced. with values running into the millions, The death rate in the metal mines will be filed at Los Angeles, Gal., by of the country is nearly as high, he I the Federal government in a few days. declares, as in the coal fields, averag Assistant Attorney-General Knaebel ing more that three men per thousand Instructed United States Attorney Mc employed; the death rate in the quar Cormick at Ix>s Angeles to begin pro ries is larger than It should lie, aver ceedings against al) claimant* to 160 aging far more than that in foreign acres of oil lands in Southern Califor «xiuntries; and the same is true in nia, said to be worth $5000 an acre. metallurgical plants. He recommends, Other suits will follow, all of them therefore, that money be given the bureau to carry its mine-accident in- vestigation into these other fields in (RAYMOND POINCARE, NEWLY-ELECTED FRENCH PRESIDENT larger measure than the limited ap propriations so far granted have al lowed. The enormous annual loss in mining and preparing coal for market, the huge wa*te of natural ga*. a* well as lack of efficiency and waste in the metal mining industries, are men- tinned by Dr. Holmes. This extrava gance of natural resources, he asserts, shouhl be checked. "Pioneer educational work, tempor ary in character,” is the way in which the director refers to the mine rescue and first-ai<! work among the more than 700,000 miners in the 15,000 mine* of th«» country. Ultimately this must be taken care of, he says, by the coal mining companies through the training and organization of miner* at each of the larger mines or groups of mines. He says that already several companies maintain rescue station* at their own expense, The chief pur|*>se of the bureau of mines is to train miners in first aid, mine rescue and fire-fighting methods; and he adds that "during th«» year mor«» than 30,- 000 miner* have attende«i th«» lectures and demonstrations given from the mine-safety cars; mor«» than 1000 ad ditional miners received training suffi cient to enable them to participate in testing the legality of the extensive . which it own«*!, because, “prudence” actual mine rescue work anti more oil land withdrawal made by President would prevent officers of a bank from than twice that number have been Taft, September 27, 1909, when ques accepting too much doubtful security, a»id«»«i to the list of miners trained in tions were raised as to the president's and that no further law was neces first-aid prni-t i»-e.' power to make the withdrawal. sary. Health condition* in and about "Too much law,” he said, “can Not only will the government ask mines should I m » investigated, in the the court to declare valid its title to crush the life out of a bank.” opinion of Dr. Holmes. Preliminary the land, but it also will «eek recover “I believe in individual freedom,” inquiries, he says, "have indicat«»d the ies for all the oil which is said to have he said. “If an individual goes too prevalence of tuberculosis and the been withdrawn, the exact quantity of far, the laws of nature would inter presence of hookworm as miners’ dis which must be developed by the suit. fere. The first great attempt at mon- eases in several different localities in The proccc»iings in Los Angeles, it is ' opolv was the tower of Babel. That the United States. It is important understood, will tie directed against 1 fell of its own weight. Every indi- that this work should be ext«»nded rap all those who have claimed or still vidual monopoly would do the same idly, because of the fact that the claim title to the land, those who have when it reached that point.” health «»onditions a* well as the risk of extracted the oil and those who have "Have you ever thought what would accidents, may b«» influenc«*! by con- purchased it. ! happen while Buch a monopoly was ditions susceptible of easy improve- The Interior department has refused growing and whent it had fallen of its ment. to grant patents on any of the lands. own weight?” "The larg«» and rontinual influx of There are said to be many conflicting "No, I never thought of that,” an foreigners into the mining regions of claims among the persons who base swered Mr. Schiff. th«» United State* may bring to an in their contentions upon placer mining creasing extent the h«xikworm and locations. FRANCE ELECTS NEW RULER other diseases that exist in mines in An agreement, the terms of which part* of certain Euro|H»an countries. are said to be secret, is declared to Various questions that concern the have been entered into in May, 1911, Poincare Is Chosen After Stormy health of workers in mines, quarries purporting to settle the conflicting Session by Assembly. and metallurgical plants cannot be an- claims by which the Maricopa North Versailles, France—Raymond Nich swered finally without investigations ern Oil company, National Pacific Oil and inquiries that are national in company, Midway Northern Oil com olas Landry Poincare, for the last 12 sco|M>. Among such questions are the pany received full possession of the months premier of the French cabinet, most efficient methods of preventing whole tract, a quarter section of land was elected president of the Republic the diseas«** peculiar to mining and in Kern county, California, with rights metallurgical industries, and the most to develop the land and extract the of France, by the national assembly, effective sanitary precautions to be oil. These companies are said to be compos«*«! of the members of both observ«*d in and about mines and in in possession of the land. chambers of parliament, to succee«! the various metallurgical occupa Large quantities of oil are alleged President Armand Fallieres, whose tions.” to have been sold or otherwise distrib seven-year term expires February 18. The director dwells upon the neces uted to the Standard Oil company and Great confusion, out of which arose sity of trying to prevent explosions Tarr & McComb, Inc. two challenges to duels, marked the rather than check them after they are The claims to the lands are illegal casting of the ballots. started. In this connection h«* calls and the extraction of the oil was Premier Poincare’s selection for the attention to th«* fact that then* has wrong, according to the government. presidency of France, although made Iwen a “revolution in th«* us«> of explo by parliament, as required by the con sives in coal mining,” and the work of stitution. is regarde«! as representing WANTS NO LIMIT TO WEALTH the bureau “in investigating explo as well the popular will of the nation. sives has alone a valut* far greater Jules Pams, minister of agriculture, than the entire cost of maintaining Banker Schiff Declares luiws of Na was Poincare's nearest competitor. th«» bureau since its establishment.” The final ballot stood: Raymond ture Are Sufficient. Washington, D. C.—Liberty of in Poincare, 483; Jules Pams, 296; Ma Plana to Raise Wages. rie Edouard Valliant. 69. dividuals to concentrate money and Poincare’s first words on receiving Washington, D. C. — The metal power to the limit of their ability was notification of his election were: “I sch«*dule of the traiff law again wax advocated before the house money shall try to show myself worthy of the under fir«* before the houst* «ximmittee confidence of the national assembly. I on ways and means. Several steel trust investigation committee by shall forget without effort the strug manufacturing interests contend«*«! for Jacob H. Schiff, of the firm of Kuhn, gles of yesterday and even the in retention of the present duties. S. P. I-oeb & Co. juries. Be convine«*! that I shall seek Ker, president of the Sharon,* Pa., Mr. Schiff declared individuals in everything and at all times to be an Steel Hoop company, advocat«*«! chang should lie allowed to exert their ut- impartial administrator.” es in the phraseology of the law to prevent importers from taking advan Farm Bill Moves Ahead. Castro Applies for Bail. tage of its terms. Mr. Ker told of Washington, D. C. — The Lever- New York—Another application for plans now under way to advance the wages of its common laborers, artisans Smith agricultural extension bill, the release of Cipriano Castro under and mechanics 10 per cent February I. which already has pass«*d the house bonds pending final decision as to his and receive«! the approval of the sen right to enter the United States was Archbald to Resume I,aw. ate committee on agriculture, was made recently before the Federal dis Philadelphia— Ex-Judge Archbald, taken up for consideration by the sen trict court. The renewal of this mo who was xtrippe»! of his office as Dis ate. The measure got through the tion was made because the Venezuelan trict court judge of the United States first parliamentary stages, when it case is now before the Department of by the United States senate, left for was withdrawn by Senator Hoke commerce and labor on an appeal from his home in Scranton, Pa. The ex Smith that the senate might go into the decision of the local immigration judge decline«! to be interviewed, but executive session. Senator Pagtx of authorities ordering his deportation. his son spoke for him. "My father's Vermont, who draft«*d the vocational Federal Judge Holt reserved decision. conscience is clear. He is going home education bill, offere«! his measure as It is believed Castro intends to fight his case indefinitely. to practice law. My father has been ■ substitute for the bill. a courteous, diligent anil goo»! judge. Cruelty Bar to Marriage. Perhaps his kindness of heart accounts Captives Burned Alive. for many of his difficulties.” Sacramento—"If a man beats one Lisbon, Portugal—An insurrection has broken out in Angola, Portuguese« wife he shall never have another. ” if Indian Inquiry Advised. West Africa, and dispatches received Senator Hans, of Fruitvale, has his Washington, D. C.—An investiga relate that the natives ha,ve committed way. Senator Hans introduced a bill tion of the affairs of the Crow Indians many atrocities. They raided settle in the state legislature providing that of Montana by the Department of jus ments, killing the inhabitants and pil when a man is divorced for cruelty tice will be recommend«*d to the senate laging property. Several European and it is shown that he kicked, beat, by the senate committee on Indian women were carried off by the insurg struck, whipped or otherwise by force affairs. Secretary of the Interior ents and four men captives were burn- treated his wife cruelly, the judge Fisher said he would furnish any __ e»i alive. The _ governor of the col- shall adjudge him a wife-beater and records or assistance necessary kto the ' ony has sent an expedition to suppress he shall be prohibited from remarry ing in this state. investigation. the insurrection. WISH to describe If I can one of gance. Here the old shoes gathered the most interesting features of from the streets are soaked well tn life In Madrid, a feature peculiar water, then carefully taken to pieces. to Madrid among all the cities of Each part is placed in a neat pile by the world as far as I am Inform Itself, uppers and soles carefully se ed. It is a long way in life albeit lected, and the heels by themselves. shor* in distance from Prado to the A Hat for a Peseta. Rostrado The extension of the Prado The next booth may be a hat store into the Paseo de Casteliana leads one to the part of the city where flats give —where all kinds of headgear are dis place to detached dwellings and where played for sale. Tall hats and caps, mansions are seen that match In soft hats and hard, the luxurious head grandeur almost anything seen along dress of the hidalgo and the plain one Riverside Drive in New York, writes of the workingman. find themselves George W. Burto" in the Los Angeles here in the most Intimate company. Some are soiled and full of holes, but Times. Not only the houses in this part of such keep some of the cold off of a poll bereft of hair. If one has a pese Madrid are grand, but the equipages ta he may get a pretty good bit of are as fine as may be seen anywhere, beadgear; if his purse contains but a and the horses exceed anything I ever 10-centimo piece he muBt needs take beheld in horse flesh. The teams what it will buy. So the fair goes, are well matched, and the animals old garments of all kinds, for men, stand 14 to 16 hands high, each hand women, boys and girls, age and in representing nearly 100 pounds of fancy, all may be accommodated. And flnely-put-up horBe flesh and gone. then follows the booth where house They are, taking them all in all, the bold furniture, from a pair of old bel finest, rangiest animals in the world. lows out of which the wind comes The heads and ears are small, the out at the wrong end to a brass bed. neck long and arched, holding the may be bought. All kinds of tools for head high without painful hitching. all trades, agricultural implements, The fore shoulders are high and so and antiquities, are all In their place. are the haunches, the back straight Antiquities? Oh, yes, these are the The fore legs are straight as a whip choice things of the Rastro. They stalk, the chest is deep, the haunch are for foreign consumption mostly. es and thighs are powerfully muscled, These occupy more of the Rastro ano the bodies are round as a bar than one would suspect. Antiquity rel. , produced things that were not ar Seen on Sunday. tistic, and was natural the unfitteat. The Rastro Is not along the Prado, being in a large majority. Instead of and no splendid turnouts are seen surviving in spite of all laws and there. The street is in the center of theories. Furthermore, the artistic the city, a short walk from the Puerta * temperament of Europe has found out del Sol. It is a narrow street svs- a way to creat antiquities to order. rounded with old houses, begins in The stuff f**und in the rag fair is gen an alley and ends in two which fork erally worthless. But here and there into still narrower alleys farther on. a diligent seeker may find a genuine The English name for the peculiar bargain. It may be a small dagger institution that has its home there is | with arabasques inlaid in the steel. the Rag Market. Sunday is the day ' as well as overlaid on the hilt. It to see it. The people who carry on may be a bit of enamel of great beau their trade in the Rastro are there ty which the man at the stall fails to every day in the week in small num appreciate. More old books of real bers. but Sunday the whole place. value are found than bits of jewelry. 1,000 feet long, by 50 feet wide, is While we were here an artist from packed bo densely that one makes his America discovered in a heap of rub way through the throng slowly and bish a bundle of drawings made by with much difficulty. To present a the hand of the man who taught Ru general view of this motley gather bens to draw. He gave a few pese ing in words or in picture is impos tas for the lot, about one-third of the sible. It must be taken bit by bit. price asked, and he claimed be had any analyzed carefully. As one en what was worth at least $5,000. Do ters the long, narrow street a mass not come to Madrid in the hope of of humanity, men. women. hoys, girls, similar luck. The eye Is not the only organ that decrepit age and tenderest youth, moves about in an interminable maze finds enjoyment in the Rastro. The beginning nowhere or everywhere, as appeal to the ear is quite as strong. you may please to see it. The ground No one pays the slightest attention to space is encumbered with big bas what another does or says. Never kets filled with all kinds of what we were there people who knew better call in America “garden truck" and the art of attending to their own busi fruits. In and out ply women, each ness. Each vender cries his wares in with half a dozen to a dozen fat his own way, own tone, own style of chickens hung around their necks, oratory. tucked under their arms, and held in any way convenient for the mo No Rest for Him There. ment. Eggs. game, anything the poor Three o'clock on a cold, foggy au may have to sell, is here, and here the tumn morning. poor come to buy. If one gets ther« The weary cyclist was lost—lost in about noon there may be seer * peas a trackless wilderness of moorland. ant woman who nas sold out -yer bas As he pedaled wearily on his breath ket of cabbage, cauliflower and let came in short, sharp gasps. He was tuce and has turned the debris out nearly done! The ghastly silence op- on the ground. At once this is pounced ; pressed him. upon by some poor wretch of a wom Ah, a light! an who has not a centimo to get a lit The sight revived him and he rode tle something to eat. She bends down quite briskly up to the lonely little and rakes about the leaves of the cottage and knocked loudly on the vegetables and picks out every bit door. that is in any way possible of cook “Here I shall get at least food and ing. Each scrap is put in a bit of a drink and perhaps a bed." he was basket, in her apn n or In a leaf of telling himself gleefully, when an up an old paper, or tn an old box. One Is stairs window was thrown open. irresistibly reminded of a hen in the “Whadder want?” came a husky, yard scratching for a tid bit from sleepy voice. the kitchen. "I’m a weary traveler----- ” he be Just beyond the vegetable market gan. the booths are reached where other "Then travel!" retorted the husky wares are on sale. The first may be voice. The window banged. All was a shoe store, if you please. But It is again silence.—London Answers. ■omethlng that no one who reads this letter ever saw or heard of. All days King Peter's Parle Attic. In the week men, women and chil There is today In Parle a concierge dren range the streets and pick up anything that promises a cent of gain who is reaping a small harvest of tips No old shoe is too poor to be passed from visitors to an attic which a quar by. These are taken to the Rastro in ter of a century ago was tenanted by itrings. tn baskets. In ones. twos, and no less a personage than the present tens, acording to the wealth of the King of Servla in the I cbs palmy days »hoe merchant of the RaBtro. Here of his pretendership. The agreement the lot is sold for a few cents to a can also be seen by which Peter cobbler—rather to a family of cob Karageorgevlch hired the attic for the blers. This family sits on the ground annual rental of 750 francs, which In the Rastro from early till late dally was really rather exorbitant, consid working as busily ax ants. There may ering“ tin* neighborhood in which this be an old man and an old woman, or erstwhile abode of royalty Is situated. two, a couple of young people, and The concierge has been offered large two to six children on the cobble sums of money for the agreement, «tones of the street, on a bit of mat which contains King Peter's auto ing or a board. If the circumstances graph. but he refuses to part with >f the firm will petuiit su«Ji extrava such a valuable source of Incom«» I