The Mitchell capital., May 04, 1894, Image 5

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THE MITCHELL CAPITAL
THE MITCHELL PRINTIN6 GO. Props.
K. W. WHEELOCK.
A. K. DEAN,
Editor.
Butanes* Manager.
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FRIDAY, MAY 4. 1894.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Alexandria Herald: Caldwell don't
believe that what is sauce for the goose
ought to be sauce for the gander. He
argues that a double standard of chas
tity in man and woman is all right,
that a woman ought to be virtuous and
that a man might be if he was.
That is about as clear an analysis of
some of Cal's all but inscrutable logic as
"we have ever seen. But in the case of
the woman taken in her sin, the Savior
of mankind evidently did not set up a
double standard.
[f Coxey's array can frighten congress
into doing something in the way of leg
islation, it will not have been raised in
The Sioux Palls Press springs a great
blufl on one of the questions of the hour
as follows, in a little discussion wiih
the Watertown Public Opinion:
If the brother of Public Opinion will
specify the "party questions" upon
which he feels Senator Pcttigrew's
Republicanism might be challenged,
The Press will undertake to o.nlighten
him with reference thereto.
There ought to be no need of enlight
ment or explanation in a case of this
kind. Nobody feels called upon to re
quire McKinley, Reed, Hawley, Cul
lom, Allison or any of the host of stal
wart Republicans to throw light on
or explain their views 4
ft
The head-line man of the bioux Kails
Press seems to sympathise with the
Coxey-Kelly-Hogan movement, but the
editorial columns just about ofl'set his
prejudices.
Every cloud iiath a silver lining, even
if silver is cheap. Dr. Joseph H. Sen
ner. the United States- commissioner of
immigration, says in the April North
American Review that immigration
has practically come to a standstill.
This statement he'bases on the judg'
ment that the number of emigrants
from America to Europe is now abnor
mally large, and that the number of
immigrants is now abnormally small
Immigration might well be suspended
for the next ten _oars to allow this re
public to be restored to its oldtime
American faith and patriotism.
Why any need of Coxey demonstra
tions? There is a party organized in
this country which preaches what these
fellows are practicing. Why can't
they wait until fail and vote with it,
and thus save lots of wear and tear?
The refusal of the Great Northern
strikers to arbitrate goes to show that
the light is not so much to secure jus
tice to the men as to demonstrate the
strength of the newly organized Amer
ican Railway Union. If arbitration
were submitted to it would tend to
right the wrongs of the individual em
ployes, but it would also tend to draw
them away from their allegiance to the
union.
Major Pickler stirred up the briga
diers on the pension question the other
night, and one of them called him a
nar in the blackguard-brigadier style.
But the Major is a fighter since "befo1
the wah," and will stay by the bour
bons.
The unoccupied farm lands of South
Dakota ofi'er one sure solution of the
great problem of what to do with the
unemployed.
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It is painful to see a man of Robert
Buchanan's standing driven to stultify
himself as he does in defending the law
lessness of the Coxey "'army." Tn one
column of his Forum he says:
When the Argus-Leader stated that
the Kelly army, composed mostly of
vagabonds." were passing through
Iowa, it made a statement directly op
posite of that made by St. John, super
intendent of the Rock Island. By
what authority did our neighbor accuse
the men of being ''vagabonds'?" They
have been peaceable, they refused to
use a train that the people of Councii
Blufls seized for their use. they disturb
no one and nothing. Is such conduct
that of "vagabonds?"
While a little further down in the
same column he says:
Five hundred men under
Senator Turpie of Indiana ought to
take the Keeley dure.
The latest tariff bulletin is to the
effect that the Wilson bill, income tax
and all, will become a law by July 1st.
By tomorrow we shall expect this to be
denied. '.•
llGen."
Hogan have stolen a Northern Paolflic
train and are pushing eastward. Or
ders have been given to the military at
Fort Keogh to stop the train. A con
flict is expected.
Can Buchanan get Manager St. John
to endorse such methods? Or is he
willing to honestly endorse them him
self?
The settlement of the Great North
ern strike, virtually by arbitration,
is cause for congratulation to every
body who desires to seethe relations of
employer and employe brought on a
more satisfactory basis.
Madison Sentinel: Force is a danger
ous thing to use in a Republican form
of government.
1 ndeed it is, but why any more dan
gerous when used to protect property
and enforce the law than when used by
mobs to destroy property and spurn the
law?
Frank Hatton, the brilliant editor of
the Washington Post, is dead as the re
sult of his recent paralytic attack.
He had the distinction of doing whai
had never been done before—he
built up an influential and profitable
morning newspaper in the city of
Washington.
The Yankton county Democrats were
so torn up over the postoffice that they
were not represented in the recent
meeting of their state central commit
tee. It begins to look, with Tripp, Pee
miller and East and Ziebach's son well
taken care of and the rest of the party
lighting over the postoffice, as if plun
der was the only party principle recog
nized by the Yankton county Democ
racy. We are surprised not to say
shocked at this condition of affairs.
The Argus-Leader affects not to
know who Lud Loevinger js, but at the
same time condescends to read him a
lecture for presuming to criticise the
Democratic policy—or lack of it. And
yet Lud Loevinger was fighting the
battles of Demooracy in this state before
the A.-L. man had left school or had
begun to make up his own miijd what
his politics would be. And today the
A.-L. cannot for the life of it tell what
the policy of its party will be on the all
absorbing question of the tariff.
U. S. Marshal Bede of Minnesota,
who is himself strongly in sympathy
with the rights of labor everywhere,
thus defines the Great Northern strike:
The whole trouble is really afightbe
tween the new union and the brother
hoods. The new organization wanted
to advertise its existence, show its
strength and, at the same time, crush
the power of the brotherhoods. The
Great Northern strike, apparently, was
inaugurated with that purpose in view.
This theory would explain the refusal
to arbitrate and many other things in
the conduct of th«i strike, which are
peculiar. The union is fighting fellow
workmen rather than Mr. Hill and is
now placed where it must go on and
win: and that without arbitration, to
gain the desired object.
Yankton Press: We commend' to
that small portion of the press of the
state that have taken an unfriendly and
untenable position on the silver quei
tion, the remarks of ex-President Har
rison made before the Indiana state con
vention. He may be set down as a
double standard statesman, and every
inch an American citizen.
The Press seems to think it has made
a wonderful discovery, but if it had
read carefully Mr. Harrison's various
public papers when he was president, it
would have known that he has always
been a consistent bimetallist. But he
is not a silver monometallism which he
would have to be to favor free coinage
by this country alone, and in this he
stands in line with nine-tenths of the
Republicans the country over.
The chief difference between this and
other periods is that there are more
people than usual with nothing to do
but to stapd around and talk about the
ominous signs of the time. Let the
wheels of industry be once more set in
motion, and the atmosphere would clear
up most surprisingly. And nothing un
der heaven is clogging the wheels of
industry today but the lack of policy
and action on the part of the party in
power. The natural conditions all over
this country are favorable to a most
prosperous year, if only this artificial
and unnecessary incubus could be re
moved.
The Cliampeny Suit.
Sioux Falls Press 1: The $7,000 case
of C. C. Champeny of Mitchell against
Sheriff Knott for the value of goods he
seized under an execution taken out by
W. H. Corson & Bro. went to the jury
at 10:30 yesterday morning after being
on trial three days. The suit is'.really
against W. H. Corson & Bro., as
Sheriff Knott is protected by a large
bond. Atalaie hour last night the
jury had failed to agree on a verdict.
Itutlierf'orri—Hutton.
Married in the presence of a fe
friends at the residence of Mrs. C. A.
Lukins in this city- April 28th at 8 p. m.
by Rev. E. H. Teall, Mr. Prank A.
Rutherford of South Edmundston, N.
Y., and Miss Nora Button of this city.
The bridal pair at once took up their
residence here.
Thompson's
Glove-fitting Corsets
$ 90, regular price.. $1 25
1 10, .. 1 00
1 39, .. 1 75
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ALL ARE PLEASED
Settlement of the Great. Northern
Strike a Matter For Con
gratulatiou
Both to Company and Employes
Fall Account of Final
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The philosophical editor of the Aber
deen News rings the bell with the fol
lowing straight shot:
There has never been a time in the
history of the human race when the
current period has been deemed other
than one of peculiar social and moral
degeneracy by contemporaneous pessi
mists and two-for-a-cent philosophers.
The present time is no exception.
Conference.
BOTH SIDES WELL PLEASED
Sates Demanded by American
Bailway Union Are*
', Adopted.
ST. PAUL, May 8.—The gigantic strike
on the Great Northern has been de
clared oS all along the line and the
road is in lull operation with the old
employes..
The strike has been on for 18 days and
the road practically tied up from St.
Paul to the const. The commercial
todies of the Twin Cities are largely
responsible for the result, they having
succeeded in bringing President Hill
and the strikers' committee together.
Governor Nelson suggested arbitration
some days since but his action did not
meet with success. Several other at
tempts to bring about arbitration
failed, the men claiming their demands
were Just and did not admit of arbitra
tion. Finally, however, they agreed to
have the matter submitted to
the oitiaens' committee and de
clared their willingness to abide
by the decision. Various confer
•noes were held by the committee
with President Hill and with the labor
leaders. Mr. Hill was in favor of arbi
tration all along and agreed to any sys
tem of arbitration on condition that the
men would resume work. The commit
tee finally got the two sides together
and after an all day session the differ
ences were settled and the strike de
clared off. The conference went over
all the details thoroughly, the citizens'
committee being the judges. Mr. Hill
made many- concessions to the men, in
fact they gained all their demands. Mr.
Hill seems satisfied with the result,
having secured a settlement through
arbitration as he had desired. One re
sult of the strike is the resignation of
General Manager Case.
KBPOKT OF THIS COMMITTEE.
Very Brief itnd Statement of the
Arbitrator*.
The settlement- was reached late Tnes
'•v niirht after a lone conference be­
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$1 50 Corsets for $1 19
1 55 89
1 00 69
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All reduced at this Big Sale
for three days.
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tween President Hill and the confer
ence roininitteu representing his em
ployes regarding all grievances which
caused the breach. The joint commit
tee of business men of the two cities
was present, :md acted as aboard of ar
bitration. The findings of the board of
arbitration was very brief and to the
point, as follows:
"Whereas, At a joint meeting held
this day between the management of
the Great Northern railway, its em
ployes and this committee of arbitra
tion, at least ninety (9 J) per cent of the
differences in wages in controversy were
amicably settled between the company
and its employes.
'•Now, after hearing the statements
submitted by the parties in interest,^fre
find as a result of our deliberations' tlfat
75 per cent of the reduction in wages
made since Aug. 1, '1898, of all other
classes of men whose claimB were sub
mitted to us, should be restored."
One copy of this document was fur
nished to President Hill, on behalf of
the company, and one to President
Debs on behalf of the employes. C. A.
Pillsbury, chairman of the joint com
mittee or board of arbitration, read the
document slowly, and enunciated every
syllable, so that none present might
have any erroneous impression regard
ing any detail of the board's findings.
Both President Hill and President Debs
expressed entire satisfaction with the
board's decision, and expressed their
feelings of gratitude to the board for its
kindly interest and fair dealings.
Supplementary Report.
A supplementary report was issued by
the committee for the purpose of cor
recting certain erroneous impressions
which have been left on the public
mind regarding the complaints of the
employes in the matter of. wages, by
reports in the columns of the daily press
and circulated on the streets.
The supplementary report follows:
To the Public: Many erroneous re
ports have been in circulation as to the
wages paid by the Great Northern Sail
way company, and it is due to the pub
lic that it be informed of the facts re
garding such repoits. The committee
ot arbitration find that the wages for
common labor paid by the Great North
ern railway since November, 1898, were
as.follows: Weit of Minot, $1.35 per
day east of Minot, $1 per day, and that
the management of the railway com
nanv had already prepared uotice
restoring the wages of such em
ployes to $1.50 per -day west-of
'Minot, and $1.25 per day east of
Minot, such restoration to take'effect
Hay 1, 1894 and that the management
•f the railway .company had already
(notified the engineers, firemen and other,
trainmen that the reduction in their
wages would not be enforced, in view
•f the fact that no further retaattMi
would be made in the ca^js of other em-
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of Thompson'sGlove
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Arrived today, so our stock
is complete for this big sale.
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The report was 1 by Charles A.
Pillsbury, C. W. II ickett, Richard
Gordon, Georue R. i- .neh, J. T. Wy
man, Charles P. Noyes. W. 8. Benton,
•P. H. Kelly, frank R. Hubachek,
Channinc Seabnrv, P. G. Winston,
Daniel H. Moon, B. F. Nelson, Theo
dore L. Scnurmeier.
THE LAST OOJiPEKENCi
Bow the Settlement of the Great North
ern Strike W»k Aci'i'inpliahed.
The conference etween the company,
the conference committee and the joint
committee of Twin City business men
was conducted behind closed doors,
E irly in the afternoon a sub-committee
waited ou Mr. Hill and asked if he were
willing to receive his employes and have
all differences arbitrated by the joint
committee. Mr. Hill expressed his
willingness, and at about 3:80 the full
committees appeared. President Debs
admitted in the first place that the ex
isting schedules for trainmen, engineers,
firemen and switchmen were satisfac
tory, and in the second« place that the
statement that the regular custom of
the company in advancing the pay of its
road department employes when they
were able to commence work was cor
rect, and that the rates the company
already announced it had fixed with
these men for the coming season were
Untircly Fair nuri Satisfactory.
Mr. Debs continued with a statement
that the foregoing covered the bulk of
the employes of the system— according
to his estimates. 19-90ths. President
Hill did not feel that be conld restore
rates paid to all other classes of em
ployes.
He and his company were willing to
leave it to the joint committee to decide
whether all or any portion of the ser
vice should be restored, and that the
employes of the company would abide
by the decision of the committee, what
ever it might be, and resume work.
The A. R. U. as such had nothing to do
witn tne attair, the rates of pay naving
been fixed by the old brotherhood.
Then followed a discussion regarding
individual cuts, which seemed lower
than they should be, and which were
satisfactorily explained.
.freaideiit Debs Aeeepta.-
Bepresentatives of the press were ad
mitted into the ante-room of Mr. Hill's
office where the committees were assem
bled and the finding of the board was
read. Upon receiving a copy President
Debs rose to his feet and said:
"On behalf of the committee repre
senting the Great Northern employes
allow me to say we accept the findings
of the board, and in so doing allow me
to say that, we are satisfied with the
doings and findings of this board.' Iam
sure that when I say this I voice the
sentiments of all interested, and I desire
to return thanks to the board. I desire
to extend thanks to Mr. Hill and his
officials for the manner of conducting
the conferencej. We will make it a
point to place this matter before all
Try the New Kabs
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employes and inspire them with tne
same gratitude we feel. Mr. Hill
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Nhown Hti'n»eli' fair,
and has re. eived US' invariably with
courtesy. I hope that whenever trouble
occurs in the future, arbitration may
take effect before any radical action be
gins. I am sure the precedent here es
tablished will endure, and that the
great principle of arbitration will be
established ior all time to come. I think
think that in the future difficulties be
tween corporations and employes will
be adjusted more easily and peaceably
and satisfactorily on account of the ac
tion of this board. I am satisfied that
the fair thing has i.een done in this oase
and that equal and exact justice has
been done. Again I thank you one and
all."
ICLEVELAND'S BIO MOB.'.
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or ftnv«n Thousand Man St«*rt Oat ao
a Work of Destruction.
CLEVELAND. Om Mavii.—A mob num
bering tf.000 or 7,000 men assembled in
the public square during the
morning
and iiiniched out on a mi&Hioti of de
struction. On St-rantou aveime every
window was roken at the Va.iety lion
works, and the entire for,e of men
working run out. At the Upson Nut
and Bolt works windows were broken,
machinery smashed and the men driven
away. Twenty-five men were driven
from the Church Furniture works. At
this point the police charged the mob
Mid drove it up the hill on Jennings
avenue. Police are being hurried to
the scene troni all available sources.
All the reserve force, including the
mounted men, hav*a been ordered out.'
Many arrests ve been made. Great
excitement prevails in the southern part
of the city.
District Attorney for' North Dakota.
WASHINGTON, IIAY 3.—The president
has appointed Tracy R. Bangs district
attorney for North ckota. also the
following north western postmasters:
Wisconsin: M. W. Ryan, Medford
Anna Kingman, Bru*dhead Emmet
Horan, Ean Ch ire Henry C. Haat,
Reedsliur^ Louis J. Bachand, tyfield.
Boutli Dakota: .1. V. Conlin, Canton
Allen B. Brown, I, swich Albert R.
Garretson, Lt*ad William Touin, Madi*
son .B. W. Parliman, Webster Theo
dore D. Samuels, Woonsocket Bnrdage
H. He.-.rd, Parker George W. Mat
thews, Armour.
Agricultural A|iproiriatloa
WASHINGTON,
Bill.
May 3.—The agricul­
tural appropriation bill .reported to the
house by Chairman Hatch of the com
mittee on ::gri« ulture, Appropriates $8,
180.643 for the fiscal year anding June
•0, 1895, Com pa red with appropriation
for the department for the present fiscal
year, this is a decrease of 1142,596.
To .tliner* Out.
PAN A, Ills.. May —Great excite
ment has been UMN! heve by a report
-th&t.trlaYK* body.ot c-oal miners from
Springfield were louun^here to take
the miners ami stop work*