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VOL. XLVI. No. 7. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, February 15,1908. SINGLE $S.OO COPIES,
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"Is there a nation on earth where justice
is as slow as in the United States?
"Too much legislation cheapens the law.
And Not Busy Enough in Administering Them
"Too much legislation attenuates and impairs
Is the Very Pertinent Complaint of Congress-
the vigor of the law.
man Lovering—Truths Well Expressed.
"Fewer laws promptly a^nd vigorously enforced
Congressman W. C. Lovering recently delivered would diminish crime.
"What shall be said of the morals of a busi-
an interesting address which has attracted much
attention. The subject discussed by the congress- ness community when it practically demands as-
man was "Too Many Laws." He argued in favor surance that criminals shall not be arraigned,
of fewer laws more promptly and vigorously en- and when the assurance that a criminal will not
forced, and made the claim that there is more be prosecuted gives confidence in stock market
ability employed to break the laws than to make values?
"What shall be said of men who exult in the
them. Mr. Lovering said:
"While there is sufficient reverence in our immunity of the lawbreaker?
"What shall be said of men whose greed for
hearts to bring us to this honored spot, and to
move us to raise a monument to commemorate gain has so blunted their consciences that they
the work of those hardy Christian pioneers who have come to look upon the law as only a re-
framed that historic!* compact, the simplest code straint upon their liberties?
"I do not wish to be understood as making
that was ever designed to govern a people, yet"
he said, "do we complaisantly point with pride a wholesale condemnation. The people in the
to our modern jurisprudence as being a monu- main are honest. There is such a thing as a pub-
ment to our superior intelligence and to all of lic conscience, and when the people are aroused
the virtues that contribute to the making of a they are as true as steel to vindicate the right,
so that, in spite of all the rascals inside and
good and great republic.
"Is this a fair comparison? Is this being per- outside the penitentiary, we do not despair of a
great and happy future for this glorious repub-
fectly true to them and to ourselves?
"I think not. Simple as was their code, it lic."
sufficed, and they obeyed it in spirit and in let-
ter. How is it to-day with us? Alas, we are HOWARD PIANO FOR OPERA HOUSE.
in too many respects a nation of law breakers.
What are all the laws in the world for if they be Agent for the R. S. Howard Co. in Cuba Has
Written a Most Pleasing Communication Re-
not obeyed? We are forever busy making laws.
garding the Esteem in Which the Pianos
We are forever busy stopping the crevices to
Made by This Company Are Held in That
keep out crime. Too many of our laws are like
Country—Doing Big Southern Trade.
old hats stuffed in the window to keep out the
weather. What with Federal and State legisla-
The R. S. Howard Co., of 639-41 West 49th
tion we have multiplied our laws until no man
street, were pleased to receive a most flattering
can count them. I applied to the department of
testimonial from their agent John L. Stowers,
justice to learn how many laws were on the
at Havana, Cuba, the past week, relative to one
statute books, and was told that it was impossible
of their new scale style R pianos, which was
to estimate them. We have multiplied our law-
recently sold to the San Carlos Opera House. The
yers until they are falling over one another in
import of the testimonial was that the instru-
their strike for business.
ment filled every requirement as to style, action,
"Congress is a great law factory, to turn out
tone and other qualities that go to make up a
new statutes and to repair broken and worn-out
high grade instrument and that the main object
laws. State legislatures are vying with Congress
in making a change was to get a piano that would
and each other in the number of laws that they
stand the trying climate and be as near rust and
shall place on their statute books.
damp proof as possible. The R. S. Howard Co.
"Laws! Laws! Laws! Every way we turn
make a specialty of this class of instrument for
we- are met by laws. And while all this law
export trade and have built up an enviable repu-
making is going on the greatest legal talent in
tation all through the Islands of Cuba. In fact,
the country is employed at the highest prices to
this concern are the largest exporters of pianos
find ways to evade the law. Their efforts are to
to that section in Greater New York, if not in
get round, or over, or under, or through the law,
the East. This concern also make large ship-
rather than to secure obedience to the law. The
ments to Key West, Milan, Italy and London,
late Sidney Bartlett said to a client: 'You want
England.
me to show you how to do an illegal thing in a
legal way.'
JACOBI LEAVES FOR HIS OLD HOME.
'^There is more ability employed to lireak the
Henry Jacobi, an expert piano maker, and who
laws than to make them. I say this without pre-
suming to disparage the 317 lawyers in the Sen- for twenty-eight years was factory superintend-
ate and House of Representatives, numbering 476 ent for J. & C. Fischer, sailed with his family
memibers, for I believe the lawyers to be the last week for his old home in Thun, Switzerland,
ablest and most useful members in Congress, but where he will make his permanent residence.
is it not a fact that we have too much legisla- Several members of his family are engaged in
tion, too many laws, and that there is too little piano manufacturing in that country, one of his
disposition to observe them? Certain it is we brothers having a large factory in Biel. Mr.
have too little power to enforce them. Justice Jacobi will take charge of the retail warerooms,
controlled by the family in Thun. Mr. Jacobi
is tardy, or comes not at all.
TOO BUSY IN MAKING LAWS
was succeeded as~ superintendent of the J. & C.
Fischer factories by Gustav Yorkland, whose
ability as a piano maker and scale drawer is
well known to the trade.
DEALERS COMMENCING TO ORDER.
J. S. Holmes Makes Cheerful Report to Head-
quarters Regarding Trade Conditions as He
Finds Them on the Road.
J. S. Holmes, Jr., vice-president of the firm of
Henry & S. G. Lindeman, who is now covering the
Far West, is sending in some large orders and
withal is very well satisfied with his trip, every-
thing considered. He also writes his house that
dealers are commencing to move their stock and
will soon be ready to place business for they
were never so short of goods as they are at the
present time. Mr. Holmes is at present in Col-
orado and will not return to the great metropolis
for at least another month. Mr. Holmes has
closed a fine business on H. & S. G. Lindeman
player pianos and states that this class of in-
strument is gaining in popular favor daily. In
fact, many dealers, who were loath to handle
interior players are now placing them on their
floor and are having considerable success with
them. Quite a number of dealers, he adds, are
holding special sales and find by generous ad-
vertising in the local papers that they are able to
stimulate business to no small degree.
PIANOS FOR NORMAL COLLEGE.
Hallet & Davis and Kimball Pianos Selected
for This Institution at Livingston, Ala.
The Alabama Normal College, at Livingston,
Ala., have purchased an entirely new equipment
of Kimball and Hallet & Davis pianos for their
music department, the sale being made by J. B.
Chamberlain, vice-president of the Seals Piano &
Organ Co., Birmingham. The Seals Co. recently
filled another extensive order for pianos from a
prominent store.
DEMAND FOR MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS.
Whether times are good or bad there is still a
healthy demand for the Mason & Hamlin organs
and Manager Charles E. Brockington, of the
New York branch, has succeeded in corralling
numerous orders for both Liszt and chapel or-
gans, some of the purchasers being as follows:
Grove Reformed Church, Weehawken, N. J.; St.
Luke's Episcopal Church, Eldred Congregational
Church, German Lutheran House, New York, and
Andrew Johnson Lodge, I. O. O. F., while the fol-
lowing battleships and cruisers of the United
States Navy, some of them at present with
Evans' great squadron, are equipped with Mason
& Hamlin organs: New York, Columbia, Chi-
cago, Newark, Monongahela, Detroit, Machias,
Philadelphia, Oregon, Minneapolis, Portsmouth,
Charleston, Texas and Essex.
The Mason & Hamlin Co. in their latest cata-
log give*a list of the many famous people, in-
cluding well known musicians, who have bought
Mason & Hamlin organs and also a list of awards,
wen by those instruments at various expositions