The Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 6

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Otftee IB B-YIBW Hulldlnir. earner or, ntn known on at thto ornm. TCRHH OF mr ln advance! monthi (In Itn f-IJ 1.IJ THE CHILDREN'S Methodists in general conference at Minneapolis have taken a decided stand tgalnat child' labor In mills, factories, rttoea and other hurtful lines. It Juat another Indication that the child's turn is still on and that he Is getting of what has been his due from the beginning of time, but that was denied him until recently. The general conference points out that a quarter million children In this country are kept so hard at work that they can have no time for play, no time for any of the best growth of which a child is capable.

It is mentioned that $0.000 children are in textile mills, and that 20.000 of these are under twelve years of age. Well, a stop is going to be put to that sort of thing. It has been done in some states, it will be done In all of them. The country has pretty well made up its mind on this point; in fact, for some time it has gone ahead and acted. There was a time when it was said parents could be depended on to do the best thing for their children, that It wasn't necessary for the state to trouble itself.

That statement Is no longer good form. Most parents will do their very best to look out for the children, but there are many parents who will do their best to see that the children look out for them. For Instance, the round of the factories is made and 80,000 children are found in textile mills, a fourth of them not much more than infants. Those children were not looked after by the parents. Tou take a look at those children at work--when they should be in school or at play--and there is no further argument about the care bestowed on them by parents.

It Is settled that there is no such care. A better time has come for most of the children in this country, and it has come in a single generation; it has been coming with a rush. The thins still moving along, and before a great while it must overtake and cheer, those children who are now being herded intr, factories. The work has seen going on in splendid fashion for some time, and now the Methodist church proposes to join the propaganda and add impetus. The best thing to be said of our civilization is that it concerns itself seriously for the children.

i TOlraiST RATES. Eastern tourist rates for the season of 1912 have been announced. These tickets are limited to thirty days and the round trip fare Is J30 to New York and $31 to Boston. The railroad managements feel that in this they are making a big concession. The western coast fares altogether better in securing summer rates.

You can go all the way to Cal ifornia and back, go one line and return another, set a ticket that Is good from the first of June to.the end of October, innumerable stopovers in either direction, and all for the sum of, say $70. The east seems entirely unable to get a concession anything like that The thirty day limit puts an eastern trip out of the question for many peo pie who want to so somewhere. They want to be Just a little longer than, that. When time added, to limit the price of the ticket suddenly jumpa-to something near full fare. The result is that a great crowd g-oes west every summer, and the east rather left.

One wonders why eastern folks have not been able to secure something- like fair consideration from the railroads, say something like western people have been able-to get. It is Important to a section ot country to retain a tourist for th'ree months when he does If there Is an opening worth while In the place he will learn something about It In three months. Occasionally he will act on It himself, more often he. wi(l mention it to others. The man who and stays a week and then hurries home to beat the time limit on his railroad ticket will not have any definite impressions about the places 'where 'he called.

He goes to the west coast, stays three months or longer, and then returns a booster for that country. He goes east on a tourist ticket, hurries all the while and finally gets home In a flurry, and the impression he has is that they put him through a threshing machine. He will not do any boosting. SENATOR ROOT A WITNESS. There la difference of statement and argument between Mr.

Taft and Mr. Roosevelt concerning the part that Mr. Taft played In having tlie prosecution of the Harvester trust dropped during Mr. Roosevelt's adminlatratlon. Just now those two men seem unable to agree about anything, and they make an awful sight of noise over their agreement.

However, in this" little controversy about the Harvester trust It seems that one important revelation made by President Taft gets ignored by the Colonel. The president quotes Senator Root as saying that Mr. Root is unable to recall that the Harvester matter was ever brought up in cabinet meeting in Mr. Roosevelt's days as president. Well.

Root should be a mighty competent witness. He was In the cabinet, In fact was its heftiest member, and he is blest with memory as well as ability. Boot Is quite certain the subject was not so much as mentioned in cabinet meeting. What.are you going to do with Mr. Root's testimony in this case? It can hardly be Ignored, for he is a man ot first consequence.

Anyhow, the Harvester trust wasn't prosecuted by Roosevelt, anu that after the trust threatened to fight and rails the dickens with the administration It protecu'tlon was started. About this we can be sure. Also we sure that at last President Taft haa started a prosecution and 'the Harvester trust is making -coed on threats of five years ago and is fighting the administration to what it hopes will be a finish. DESiEEN HB3AOHES AGAIN. If they should call the roll in this session of the senate on Senator Lorimer reports agree pretty well that he will lose his seat' This has started something In Illinois.

Again we have the story that the general assembly wants to name the successor in' the event Lorlmer loses; another chapter of that story Is that Governor Deneen wants to appoint a successor. Each Is anxious to have his or Its way in this matter and la willing to strain the proprieties to gain the The double extra session now under way may recess Instead of adjourning. This la-the plan oC a majority of the house Wiembera. we are told. The governor put In the poaltion of threatening to prorogue the aaaembly If it will not hurry along with Its work and adjourn.

If the governor this It will be the second time within a few months to adjourn the legislature on his own motion, a thing that happened once In all history of the state'up to the present governor's time. Mr. Deneen will get things if they are anywhere within and he will stretch himself In the reaching. It occurs to many that yeara ago they heard something about the Colonel and his good trusts and bad trusts; and also some remind themselves that at that time Mr. Bryan remarked emphatically that It wasn't for a president to, take'on himself the making of this distinction between trusts; even then it was mentioned that such a course would be "benevolent despotism." The taking of testimony In the case of the steel corporation will require a year, we are told.

This i. going to be a good thing for some lawyers, and that may be all that will be a'ccom- Plished. In preferential campaigns a president is put at a decided disadvantage In one respect; he can't drop everything at Washington and keep hlm- eelf on the stump throughout the country. They tell us that if you swat one fly at this sesson you will have ted a million for next July and August. Now is the time to get in a big day's work with slight exertion.

And now you will have to add the cost of advertising to those taxes you neglected. It la no uss; you can't sidestep taxes. The spark plugs of all of Senator Cummins' cylinders must have gone off the Job at the same time. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY IN DECATUR MAY 7. 10O2.

Rockford won the longest, hardest fought and most remarkable game of baseball ever, played, up to that time, on the Decatur diamond by a score of 1 to 0, in the fourteenth inning. The names of graduates of the Decatur high school class ot 1902 were announced. Will Ennis left for New York to eail for Europe, ''where he was to his mother, W. Bnnls, in Paris. HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR DAY BY DAY.

MAY 1, Governor Andrew Johnson of Tennessee announced that for every union man Illtreated by southern sympathlz ers five prominent confederates would be made to suffer. He also announced that ample remuneration would be made from the property of confederates to all loyalists who were despoiled of property. The confederate schooner Sarah was driven ashore by party from the union blockader Onward at Bull's Bay as it was'trying to run the blockade. SALOONS MUST NAIL UP DUMB WAITERS Cklef Allen Will Announce Police Chancel Late Thin Week. Chief Allen has called attention to saloonkeepers to section 9 of the sa loon ordinance, which prohibits dumb waiters In saloons, stairways leading from saloons to rooms above, and doors leading Into adjoining rooms or buildings, private rooms or gardens.

There are four or five saloons in the city (hat are in violation of one or more of the provisions In the ordinance, ami each intent man and that the new fllur baolutety needed. D. M. Whltlen was confirmed as Utu.nl chief of police and he eave ban.4 with 3. L.

BnrUcht. C. C. Walters and Ellen Whltten sureties. NEW SCAVENGER.

Wire Wright were named at city on recommendations of CommlMloner who repotted they were In best thane to handle all of the worM. The sidewalk contractor'a bond ot 2,000 for Pearl J. Sticey with R. C. Hoendorf and 8.

Bartlett ae sureties was approved. CONCRETE Five foot concrete walka were or- dlnanced In the following places: South side East Main from Bast avenue to east side of lot I In Beman Place. Bast and west side of North Edward Tom I. C. tracks north to city limits.

West side Franklin from Jefferson Decatur. The payroll ot the street department ast week was and that of the wa- department was IS17.10. has been notified to comply with the ordinance In every particular. CHANGES COMING. Probably by the last of the wnck Chief Allen will be ready to announce some changes on the police department, but does not expect to moke any.

changes before, then. He has had thirty-five or forty applications for positions on force, among them one from ex-Chief Herman Koeppc. Mr. Koeppe asked Commissioner Shade If he had any objections to his applying for a position on the forne, arid Com- mlt.riioner Shads said he ha.1 none, so Mr. Koeppe put In an application.

AMUSEMENTS. COMEDY DRAMA. "In God's Country." a very peaslngr and sensational comedy drama of western life, is the attraction at the Bijou theater tor the present week with Miss Lillian Mortimer pleasing the same as ever Miss Mortimer has way of laughing and saying things that Bijou patrons like and every-t-Hlng she says or does pleases them. Miss Mortimer retains her cast of capable people that has been -with her ever since her and they are doing excellent work In making the plays auccssgaf. The play for next week will be another comedy drama, "The Princess of Patches." GimtinxB Mat.

Following are the names of the pupils from the E. A. Gastman (sixth grade): Donald Murphy. William Parke. Ebert Mueller.

F. C. Roby. Helen Gorham. The fifth A Pupils: James Eddy.

Lucy Hostetler. Phillip Crulkshank. A. F. Gebhart Delays Work On Sewer.

A. F. Gebhart In a letter to the city council. Monday stated that, he was going to lay the sewer hjs bulWings in the north bqulevard on Packard street down to ward sewer at his own would be a twelve and fifteW Inch sewer. This part, the council had had an understanding with him" about but he asked further that no one be allowed to tap this sewer without consent and that the city Insure htm.

against any assessment in the future' sewer drainage that' assesed against him. BIGHT. have no right to Insure man that, haVe we?" the mayor the corporation counsel who replied In the negative. "I also object," said Mr. Shade, "to the clause that we must get permission i to allow anyone else to tap the sewer.

He might die next week and we should have the right to get permission from his legal representa tlves." This newer has to be laid within a very short time In order to get -In before North Main street is resurfaced. The council was rather vexed at the delay In this work and wants to get It through In a hurry. STEAM PIPE TOO HIGH. "Those are only about half the things he agreed to, when he was In here some time.ago." aald Becker. "Al- so he has that steam pipe over to hi flats on North Main street so close the top that It will burn up.

the pave ment. I ordered him to take It out bu he hasn't done It yet." can take tt out yourself If doesn't," Mr. Baldwin informed Beck er. An effort will be made to get Mi Gebharl to rush this work throug right away. The matter was droppe there.

LATERAL. NOT LARGE ENOUGH. The consulting, -engineer' his investigation of the-cause of flood-, ed properly in the 1200 block west Forrest every time there Is a storm. He said the lateral was not, large enough to carry off the storm water together with the other sewerage and said.this was the case In many other places In the city. In fact It would always be this way all storm water m-as kept out of the sower system and run Into storm sewers.

said the remedy for this was to build a storm sewer and run the water down to the Wabash right of way. which Is the natural drainage w.ey for that territory and would have to be by the Wabaah. HIGH LAWNS PAVEMENTS. A committee of property owners In High Lawns addition presented two petitions. One was fpr the paving of Wood street and Dennis and Taylor avenues.

This petition bore the signatures of practically all the property owners and was referred to the board of local Improvements. The other petition was for the ooenlng ot the alley In block 2 of that addition. This Is a small block with only four lots and the owners of all four lots signed the petition. It was referred to the corporation' counsel and city CLARK TO DRAW PLANS. Reporting on the letter of William G.

Clark, civil and consulting engineer of Toledo, the council recommended that he be secured to draw up for a new filter and make a report on conditions here for USD. Their report stated they believed him to be a com- Candidate Turney Worn Out By Strain. Daniel Braxton Turney, who was re- nominated for president at the national convention of the United Christian party Bock Island last week, returned to Decatur Saturday night but was BO worn out by the strenuous days of the convention that he did not get down town until Monday morning. Mr. Turney announces that the plan of the party Is to make a much more vigorous campaign than It made four yearn ago he also led In the contest for the presidency of the United States.

It has no barrel back of It but It thinks It will be able to mske campaign Interesting. The barrel Is the bane of American Mr. Turney. "We to win on the merits ot the candidates and the platform of the party." 5,000 PER CENT GROWTH. Mr.

Turney states that there wore 250 delegates at the convention. states were represented. He i party Is at least 5,000 per cent stronger than It was four years ago. Decatur will again be. the headquimerE.

The platform of the party which takes up about three columns In tho newspapers of the convention city, concludes with the following as to the candidates: AS TO THE CANDIDATES, "We have named as our candidates clean, capable and For president. Daniel B. Turney of Decatur. 111., a great-grandson of Carter Braxton of Virginia, one of the signers ot the American Declaration of Independence: for vice president. Samuel C.

Carter of Howard Lake, men ever ready to render Immediate, and efti- clenl support to the cause of right. "We ask for Turney and. Carter I support of alt persons In accord with this platform. 'Truth crushed to earth will rise again: The eternal years of God are But error, wounded, writes with pain And. dies amid his COMMITTEE IN LONG DISTANCE MEETING Black Be Mwlnhrr Secrr- ttar Treasurer.

There was a meeting of the Republican nens.torl«l i Monday afternoon. The meeting scheduled-for 11 o'clock In the of Master In Chancery W. H. Black. Mr.

Black was the only-member or committee present. William and E. C. Perkins dropped In and expressed their preference for Mr. Blxrk for chairman, Harold Swlstier of i ton for secretary and Fred Dnnni-r of Ml.

Pulaskl 'for treasurer. Mr. Blnvk sent word to the other members of tb committee to ths't effect, and It MIP- that this arrangement will be allowed to stand. DeMIe Culled Off. The debate scheduled for a night between the Posts! Literary soclety and the Second brotherhood was called off by i ter society, which WHR unable to prepare for the.

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