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II DIES HUM TO
CUPjiyiD LABOR
Proves to Be Utterly Incapable
of Promoting Industrial
Peace in Country.
Injury to Employers is Incal
culable While He Helped..
Labor's Contention.
Mr. Parry in his annual speech to
th« manufacturers' association at At
lanta, told us again that he stood upon
the right of the manufacturers to de
termine for himself the price of the
goods he had to sell, but again he
failed to point out why workingmen
had not the same right to fix a price
on one thing they have to sell. He
took a decided stand against the gov
ernment fixing freight rates for rail
way traffic. In doing so he favored
the right of railways, combining and
poling rates which is the identical
thing which unions do. Why does Mr,
Payry not have his gifted secretary
explain these little inconsistencies?
The Daily Press is in the habit of
telling its readers about the cost of
strikes inaugurated by unions. Why
do they not figure up the cost of
Parryism in this country for the last
two years? It would startle the na
tives. Each town that has had a taste
of Paryism wants no more.
This name has become in the na
ture of a red flag to a bull when men
tioned to men who labor, whether af
filiated with wage earners in their or-'
ganized state or not. We hear from
Parry this time in Atlanta, Georgia,
where the National Association
It was a good purpose that prompted
the organization of this body of com
mercial leaders and it should be suc
cessful, for its true aims and pur
poses are fcood, broad in scope and
character, and it was never intended,
above other Important things, to an
tagonize labor, organized or not.
Thomas P. Egan, its first president, is
an Ohio man, residing in Cincinnati.
Mr. Egan is the head of the Fay-Egan
company in that city, the largest man
ufacturers of wood-working machinery
in the world. In his early days, Mr.
Egan labored god and faithfully and
lost an arm at his trade, that of a
machinist. Mr. Egan was a laboring
man, worked hard, and does yet. As
president of the National Asociation of
Manufacturers Mr. Egan was succeed
.... ed by- D. M. Parry pf .Indianapolis
!0JJ
Manufacturers convened this past
month. This" association was formed to
promote the best general interests of
Invested capital.
and best labor papers, is edited. Mr.
Parry is not carrying out the good
purposes of the association of which
he was made president for the reason
he was already antagonizing his co
workers in that body, many of whom
do not agree with his spirit of rabid de
nunciation of men who labor.
In Chattanooga, Tennessee, several
years ago a represerftative of the Na
tional Association of Manufacturers
was recruiting new members. He
started that he encountered the great
est difficulty in convincing these em
ployers of labor that the National
Association of Manufacturers was not
an organization formed for the pur
pose of atempting to antagonize labor,
In fact, at that time, he said that many
of these employers who were members,
and those he sought to join, were
directly opposed to these views of Mr.
Parry. They had heard so much about
Mr. Parry many preferred to not af
filiate with his good organization be
cause they did not want to become em
broiled with labor, as they assumed
they would be if they joined or fol
lowed Mr. Parry's teachings.
Mr. Parry, in his address at Atlanta,
if he is quoted correctly, which he
usually is' (for his addresses are writ
ten in his office in Indianapolis by a
special employe), has this to say of
labor:
"Without making special reference
to the aims of the avowed Socialists,
we have organized labor and its sym
pathizers suporting the idea that or
ganization of men may dictate to a
large extent to the management of
enterprises whcih they do not own,
determining the rate of wages and fix
ing the hours of employement."
It is a well evident fact that Mr.
Parry would strenuously oppose an
effort to fix the price of his buggies
by others. He is the owner of those
bugles. Those who buy, when they
do, accept his price. Labor don't
•want to fix the price of these buggies,
for they belong to Mr. Parry—but Mr!
Parry wants to fix the price of labor
and he opposes any effort labor makes
to fix its price. Labor is an equal
part of his bugies, these parts of
Which he buys in the market and pays
the market price. He admits this.
Will any. Intelligent man point out
why Mr. Parry should not fix the price
of his bugies? Therefore, it is reason
able that labor has the same right
that Mr. Parry accepts and applies.
The National Asociation of Manu
facturers somprlses men of sterling
Integrity but they don't each of them
believe like Mr. Parry and the fact
of the matter is there was much op
position to his election as president.
The National Association of Manufac
turers wants to promote the interests
of all this great Invested capital along
the lines that good and consistent em
ployers of labor cah follow to ad
vantage. Mr. Parry is not advocating
that, method. It has ben demonstrat
ed that he has not. Instead, he is
creating an natural antipathy that is
destructive. As an example, he wants
men to join his organization whose
products are purchased by union men.
Hi wants these men who market this
New York American Believes
President Roosevelt is
Dishonoring Himself.
Holds That He Cannot Consist
ently Attempt to Clear
Morton Charges.
New York, June 29.—The whitewash
ing of Paul Morton, secretary of the
navy, by President Jtoosevelt, is call
ing for severe criticism in some por
tions of the country. The New York
American in an editorial has the fol
lowing to say:
The opening of the summer season
brings to President Roosevelt a line
bunch of new honorary degrees from
colleges. He cannot help that, and in
deed he seems to rejoice in these per
functory honors.
But by his own actions he is heap
ing dishonors on his own head. Not in
all his public life has he so swiftly
piled up discreditable actions as in the
last two weeks.
The president's action in the Loomis
Bowen squabble was clearly influenced
by personal friendship. That Bowen
should go out of diplomatic life was
clear enough that Loomis should have
been retained is explainable only on
the ground of grossest favoritism.
It is a wonder that there was white
wash enough left in the presidential
bucket, after decorating Loomis, to
cover the confessed rebater, Paul Mor
ton. But upon that person the presi
dent laid it with a lavish hand. Ac
cording to the Rooseveltaian theory, to
confess a violation of the law is better,
and more honorable than to observe
the law. So this frankly insolent vio
lator of the interstate commerce law
is given godspeed by the president of
the United States as he goes to take
control of the great insurance com
pany holding the savings of 600,000
thrifty Americans.
What has become of the Theodore
Roosevelt of the old days? What sort
of treatment would a patrolman of the
New York police force have had by
the "reform" commissioner in 1895 if
he had acted as Morton or Loomis did?
Standing by your friends is a good
quality. But an executive charged with
the government of a great people can
overdo It.
PRACTICAL TRADES UNIONISM.
Generally trades unionism is the
union of the workers in a trade for
the purpose of bettering their condi
tion. Specifically there is a wide dis
tinction between that trades unionism,
u'if.spi. man' win Wmm
...
strike, political action and the col
lective ownership of the tools and
Instruments of production and tbe
trades unionism that walks on the
earth, deals with practical questions
and uses rational and well tested
methods.—Labor Clarion.
GRAIN RATES STEADY.
CHICAGO, June 28.—Grain freights
held steady at 1% cents on corn with no
prospects of immediate change. Char
ters to Buffalo, Lackawanna, Lewiston,
corn.
product to oppose the men who are
going to buy it. He wants to fix the
pay of labor himself, yet, at the same
time, he opposes any rights of the
other fellow, labor in this case, to
fix the price of his product. In other
words, Mr. Parry wants to get all he
can, the best price possible for his
buggies, but he denies that right to
labor.
Mr. Parry has done more to injure
employing forces in this country than
he has to benefit it. He has damaged
the National Association of Manufac
turers beyond immediate repair. The
writer has had occasion to talk to
hundreds of employers of labor, ex
tending over a perior of several years
particularly. Men he has talked with
have stated labor and capital are
twins. They say themselves one or
the other can't oppose either with per
manent success. Mr. Parry thinks
capital can—which is the abuse of
power. One of the largest institutions
of its particular kind in the world, lo
cated in Illinois, the executive head of
which the writer talked with en route
to Chicago, stated that his company
is not a member of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers and had re
fused to join. This simply illustrates
that Mr. Parry's doctrine absolutely
meets with disapproval with many
meets with the disapproval of many
great leaders who are not members
on account of Mr. Parry.
Labor is not organized for po^yer,
but betterment and intelligence. La- I
bor cannot expect to immediately ac
quire a prestige as successful as that
of the interests that are now opposing
it. The reason is obivious. Labor is a
trained physical genius of developed
skill along mechanical lines. The op
ponents of labor are trained in the art
of good bargaining, devised means
and methods of shrewd practice de
veloped to a higher degree, aided by
great leadership and invariably a
trained executive experience. This ex
perience many times is aplied in the
dirction of concealed wealth for tax«
ation purposs.
Mr. Parry is the passing of a char
acter that has really helped labor. He
has shown labor where to strengthen.
This, labor «has observed, which, in its
organized state, seeks a unity of the
masses who toil, not for influence
backed by power, but from a sense of
uplifting character where the man, in
telligently led, can obey, strive and
seek betterment, to no exclusion of his
brother, and industriously aid himself
along good lines that time and good
leadership will prove.—Ex.
A I
ADDRESS Tiff
James B. Dill Tells Graduates
Something About the Evils
of the Industrial and Com
mercial World, and How
They May be Remedied by
Educated. Men.
Holds That True Reform Can
Only be Brought About by
Improvement of Personal
Character—Aggregations of
Capital Are But the Effect
of a Dangerous Malady.
Oberlin, Ohio, June 29.—No college in
America has turned out a class of
students under such auspices as did
Oberlin yesterday.. The commencement
address,, delivered by Judge James B.
Dill of New York gave an inspiration
to every graduate. He departed from
the time worn commencement oration,
and game the graduates a timely post
graduate discourse on the requirements
of the world. He said:
No intelligent man or woman can fail
to realize that the smoke upon the
social, financial and political horizon
indicates Are.
So much talk of "frenzied finance," of
troubles
!in
the business world, of dis
sensions in our great financial centers,
of corporate oppression, drives us to
the conclusion that something Is wrong
in the financial situation.
And something is wrong there.
Reports of political dishonesty, of
corruption, of graft indicate that the
political situation is not all that it
should be that something is wrong in
our government machinery.
And Something is wrong there.
What is it that is wrong?
Some people have been content to as
sert that the secret of the difficulty
is the tendency towards great aggre
gations of capital, great corporations,
and that this is the real cause of our
troubles. Is this the answer?
True this has been an era of consol
idation.
And it is a fact that while or.iginally
men sought consolidation for the pur
pose of added strength, later combina
tion was sought as a method of cover
ing up weaknesses, to conceal fraud, to
hide deficiency, to join the weak wit,h.
the strong, and to pass the whole oV^r
to the public as -a sound propositlon.%'
Aggregations ofCapital and corpora
apparent. But these are not the things
which are wrong. They are the .symp
toms they are not the disease. They
are not the cause. The real evil lies
in men, in character. And I do not
mean "other men." The trouble is
with you "and men—it is personal.
We ar^" answered on all sides that
we are in the midst of an era of pros
perity.
"Prosperity" is a comparative term.
If you mean by that everything is all
right, that the affairs of the country
are proceedinjg upon a basis oh which
they ought to proceed, that there are
no perils in the present situation, no
dangers to be eliminated in short, if
by prosperity you mean that there is
no need of reform or reformers, then I
must disagree with you. Hailing as I
do from a financial center, I say, "You
and I are not prosperous." We may be
rich in money our stomachs may be
full, our heads and our hands busy.
But that is not prosperity, nor all there
is of prosperity. All is not well. For
we are losing sight of character.
Note the trusts. It is said that some
of these aggrgations of capital have
contributed to our material prosperity
that is true, and it is good. But it
is also true that some of these combin
ations are using their forces and their
energies to accomplish their-own ends
without due regards to the rights of
individuals or of the public. This they
do naturally. Power always carries
with it an instinctive human desire to
adopt the theory that "might is right."
Some of our foremost men are work
ing on that theory.
The menace in our so-called prosper
ity today is that the men among us
who become powers—financial, politi
cal, social—abuse their power. Condi
tions in the business and financial
world are not wholesome. Let us look
a little deeper. The trouble is not with
matters in the abstract,' it is not with
theories, it is not with forms. The
trouble is concrete. The evils of the
past are our fault. The wrong is per
sonal. We are not honest.
The cause of today's existing evils is
not that our theories of finance or pol
itics or corporation law are wrong.
They may be wrong, but they are not
"the" wroag. Back of them are the
evils which have their origin within
our men and our women. No, *the cause
is personal and—this I say deliberate
ly—the greatest wrongdoing is by ed
ucated men and women.
Of pretenders, deceivers cf the pub
lic, grafters, the most skilful and dan
gerous are found in the ranks of edu
cated men and educated women.
Men—and women—of high social,
financial and political standing, have
established for themselves a code of
conduct at variance with the good old
fashioned somewhat obsolete Ten Com
mandments. There Is where the fault
lies It is ours—yours and mine. Tbese
men and these women are made of the
same material of which we are made.
We do In our spheres what they do in
theirs. We are at fault because we
uphold and follow them.
A large part of our modern prosper
ity consists of an overproduction of
fraud and sham. The crisis is acute.
A feeling of distrust Is growing
throughout the country. Many branches
of financial business have been la one
way or another taken possession of by
the unscrupuIOi
deceiving the ui
Trust compan,
mediums of tin
fraudulent pro:
heypwrpose
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Some life 1
highest and
sacred form
all know now, g'
the savings of
steered into operAtlj
purposes:
Credit and
are the basis
our modern
public confide:
the whole fa
Well, we ar
Distrust—th
public conftden'
land. Suspicion^
belief, skeptic!
of public faithic
eqiftfrgnies, the
je. the most
lent, are, as we
through which
ticy=hollers are
ofv ipeculat ive
',not money,
Good^or bad,
is founded on
tbis. away and
^ft^way.
J'l^hlch corrodes
^spreading in the
fiitfr the place of
titling the place
inclined to
view an honest^|)jfreistmeilt with a
they prefer place their
funds in savings^'^b^si- trust com
panies, insurancevvcojnpinies, where
they think their ^wrings* are safe. And
there also, we ar^fhearing these sav
ings are used by^jEhose (n control for
private speculation^ We hear aright.
These facts make^*«jgr educated man
and woman sto®i|6ftd/Jponder, as I bid
you stop and'^mivWiKHr. But what
I want you tor^^^sii»^'human these
faults- are' •£. l\^|^|^ral how they
come home to Sjiffrl^ttiib/aud how we—
you and I—arexth*^sci|Ie ,t° blame, the
people whV alon^j^ icfteck the evil.
But note that^^indlctment of our
business life 1sv]t)^t",baSed upon an in
herent, incurabM^i^jfeOt in American
charaoter. ?Y
If this Wtrt tn|^'1|fduw be'Useless
to discuss the matter further, for, how
ever keenly wemj^ht rebel against the
situation, 'we perforc& either
tamely submit or Joipj in the-riot for
easily acqj^reJ Wealth Of Which these
evils are''^iUio)lti^wttt5::
The fac^ithatytfc^vinprecedented ma
terial gr^jjttljfr O^^hg^coyntry, the re
sulting
fortunes
great. a
tal, irtd
road mi
ter the a'
great 11:
accordlni
gef elem
dividual
,The
selves-^*
the sai
erag#%
private
together of
corporate capi-
|lgii£t}ons^ and rail
fended to cen
people upon
rank men
!»ple to for
prlvate in-
them-
iek are of
ts Jfheav
»ir«n-
n!y "In
country of tremendous possibilities, has
been to cause them to forget the' same
elementary virtues in their business
life, however careful they may attempt
to adhere to them in,^their. religious,
family or socialrelatiorts.
So, in a spirit of optimistic rather
.than pessimistic analysis we loook at
the recognized evils in our national life
and trace, if we may, their beginnings.
Danger No. 1.—Pretense.
The early temptation that comes to
an educated man or woman is to seem
rather than be.
It may not seem very wrong to you
and me to pose, and yet the poser is
an Incipient fraud.
It is passing a human counterfeit on
the public. You and I are not only
the coin, but the manufacturers of the
coin, and if we keep what we attempt
to get for it—an opinion of the public
that we are better than w.hat we are—
we are chargeable with theft.
Are we not attempting every day to
cover up our deficiencies with a patch
of pretense rather than by hard work
endeavoring to eliminate them?
Neither men nor women can persist
and continue in an attempt to mislead
the public without misleading them
selves, and the moment they acquire
the power to dull their sensibilities, to
stifle their consciences by presuming,
assuming, and finally believing that
they are not, they have practically ac
complished their own self-destruction
by passing counterfeits upon them
selves.
The pretender becomes a borrower
and the borrower becomes a thief.
Danger No. 8.—-The Buy Dollar.
Wealth, to most people, is something
that is sought for largely because
other people seem to enjoy and prize
it, not because of a convietion of indi
vidual need of It. It is the adoption
of another's standard or criterion of
happiness. It is the attempt to put on
another man's coat because jt seems to
look well on the other man. I know
of lawyers, great legal minds, who
would be happy If they were merely
practicing law, but their clients have
money so tl^ey want money. They have
caught the disease and they are not
happy. They devote their lives to ac
quiring riches they sacrifice every
other aim and purpose in life, they be
come and are rich, but that Is not
what they want to be, or what they
are fitted to be.
And what is the disease they have
caught? It is-the malady of making
money easily. Mark the word "easily.
We have heard for years that the
American people worship the dollar. I
tell you they are :led astray by the
"easy dollar," by the ease with which
great wealth is often accumulated.
It is the desire for unearned wealth
which sidetracks educated men and
women fro mtheir real careers.
I believe that not twenty per cent of
the young men and young women in
this audience, are .meant to be rich.
They are meant to be great physicians
perhaps, or great lawyers, or great
teachers, or great painters but when
they go out into' the world probably
eighty per .cent will be tempted to seek
wealth, to join thechase for what the
other man wants.-' t-1'\. I
If I cofild persuadf those of you'
who arc! meant to be teachers, or
IENCEMINT
THAT COUNTS
of
len made the
[i^xiCKttj^e^lous and
i~
Informs Graduates That the
Real Deceivers, Grafters and
Men of the Most Dangerous
Stripe Found Among Edu
cated Men and Educated
Women.
Graft is Well Nigh Universal.
Its Most Common Form is
the Illicit Use of Power or
Authority—Greatest Danger
Then is in the Man Rather
Than in the Corporation.
musicians, or painters, to teach, to
preach, to write, to plead and to paint
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feeling of doubt .Zinptipti many refuse unswerved by the tremendous influence
to Invest in nei^^nt«|^pcises, because I of the great majority, I should have
vw palit
done a sufficient service for this day.
But that is not my thought. What I
want to tell you must do If you are to
save yourselves and this country Is
to avoid the pursuit of unearned
wealth, the accumulation of easy
money. That is graft. The man who
gets a dollar -without earning it does
himself an injury and the world a
wrong. Such a man is an abstractor.
He is not a producer. He seeks to sup
port himself by the sweat of another
man's brow. He first does himself an
injury, because he disables himself. He
doses, the ability to create, to produce,
to earn. He becomes a grafter. Arid
he does the world a wrong because the
man who gets his neighbor's money
without earning it, without giving his
neighbor full return, is not only a rob
ber he makes the world a "graft."
Danger No. 3.—Graft.
Graft is the advanced stage of the
craze for unearned money. Primarily
it is not ••so much the desire to get
something for nothing, or, rather it is
not only the desire to get something
for nothing, but it is an attempt to
get something for the grafter in con
sideration of his' parting with some
thing that does not belong to him.
It is a wrong greater than that of
the counterfeiter who merely makes
and passes counterfeit coin. The graft
er is a man who robs the counterfeiter
who made the coin the grafter then
passes the spurious coin to the public
as genuine.
The grafter is a double villian.
The essential element of graft is a
breach, of- trust.
forms every
where.., Its most common form, how
ever, is the illicit use of power or au
thority. The legislator who is in
fluenced by the argument which ap
peals to his pocket rather than to his
sense of civic obligation, pratices a
form of graft which is dangerous to
the community. The public is awakened
now to the danger of this man. We
know him we understand him. Some
day, and none too soon, we shall re
fuse to vote for him and then he will
pass away.
Another form of graft, is that of the
bank official, the officer in a financial
institution who Is influenced In the use
of the funds of the institution by any
reason other than the good of the In
stitution. Such a man is dangerous to
the community—as dangerous as the
political grafter—but we do not always
recognize him. His position is so high
and his form of graft is so insidious
that its existence ofttimes is not sus
pected until the explosion resulting
from his grafting has injured the com
munity and made the man and his
practices notorious but too late.
The director of a corporation who
directs the affairs of a company from
the viewpoint of his own pocket rather
than from the standpoint of the stock
holders' Interest, although he may not
be indicted by a grand jury, is none
the less a social highwayman.
The officer of a company who is In
dividually or as a member of a firm the
seller, and in his representative capac
ity acts for his company, the buyer,
may be guilty of a legal as well as a
moral crime.
And this crime is common. It is an
every-day occurrence. It Is an ordi
nary form of graft.
There is ground for the assertion
that because the men who do these
things are too high up, because they
have too much money and too much
influence back of them, their acts are
designated "operations" rather than
"crimes" and as such they are ap
plauded, not punished.
The dummy director of a great com
pany who dummylzes himself for pay
whether by the year or by the job,
who uses his position to control the
use and disposition of other people's
money for personal gain is in no posi
tion to criticize the clerk who falsifies
his accounts or the employe who em
bezzles. Yet we all know of instances
where men have stolen a million have
sent to jail employes who took only
hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Now whose fault is this? It is ours.
It is the fault of public opinion, and
public opinion is our opinion, yours
and mine—yours of me, mine of you,
ours of all the rest. We have to learn
to recognize graft and the grafter,
however respectable their disguise—
and to punish them, not alone by Im
prisonment and .fine, but with all the
might of the terrible scorn of society.
We have to recognize that the seeds
of socialism, anarchy -and revolution
are sown by the man of our own class
and kind who pretends to be what he
is not they the cultivated fcy the bank
and the insurance officer, by the man
in power in financial organizations,-in
short by any grafter who I nhls deal
ings with the public departs openly or
WOMEN TQ MAKE WM
01 CUM EVIL
Reports Show that There Are
Nearly Two Million Child
Toilers in the Land.
Terrible Conditions Surround
Infant Workers iii Their
Employment.
Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29—At a meet
ing of the Federal Societies of Ply
mouth church in this city yesterday
the feature of the program was an ad
dress by Miss Margaret F. Dreier on
"Child Labor." Miss Dreier is the pres
ident of the New York Association for
Household Research, chairman of the
legislative committee ofvthe Woman's
Municipal league of New York and
lately assumed the presidency of the
Woman's Trade league of New York.
Miss Dreier calle dthe attention of
those present to the difference between
the hom industris of one hundred or
fifty years ago to the factory conditions
existing today and briefly reviewed the
system of apprenticeship in trie work
shops before the introduction of ma
chinery. Because of" the introduction
of machinery, steam and electricity it
was possible to eitiploy children to
tend the machinery and thus od the
work which in former years had to
be accomplished by the skilled ex
perience of the workingman.
Referring specifically -to child labor,
she said in part
"If we were to make the statement to
some men knowing nothing of our land
and country that we had 1,700,000
children working for us, surely the
answer would be, how poverty stricken
must be your land! With what rugged
elements of nature are you struggling
that it is necessary to call upon a
million and a half children to do your
work? And what is that we mean
by child labor? We mean little child
ren of ten and eleven years of age
working in factories for ten, eleven
and twelve hours a day, for eight and
ten hours a night working in tenement
houses as many hours and as long as
their physical strength permits. And
what is it that they do?
"They tend machines, which means'
that two movements of the hands a
second constitutes their work. We
kno wthe conditions of the canning
factories we know the condition of the
the glass factories, where little boys
who carry the blown glass from the
hot ovens tovthe cooling, refrigerators
.ditions of the cotton mills in the south,
nor must we forget that many of them
are run with northern capital, but ah
this may seem far removed from
Brooklyn, and yet within twelve
blocks of this house there is a fac
tory employing little girls of ten years
for twelve hours a day for a dollar a
week. Very near there is anothere fac
tory where the boys are kept in water
nearly halfway up to their knees, and
farther out in Brooklyn there is a mill
where litle girls of eleven- and twelve
years are found working, running in
their bare feet in water half an inch
in depth, because at a certain stage of
manufacture the material has to be
kept moist.
"And what else do they do? They
are pulling basting threads in the tene
ments so that you and I may wear
cheap garments they are arranging
the petals of artificial flowers they are
sorting beads they are pasting boxes,
They od more than that. I know of a
room where a dozen or more little
children are seated on the floor, sur
rounded by barrels, and in those bar
rels is found human hair,, matted, tan
gled and blood stained—you can ima
gine the condition, for it is not my
hair or yours that is cut off in the
hour of death.
"To many of us women all this ques
tion of child labor has seemed to be
long to the question of economics. We
have been told that there is a great
law of supply and demand to which
we are to bow down and sell our souls.
But If we stop and think, it is the
moral law that is being violated wrere
we deprive litle children to grow to
manhood and womanhood. We know
that the only lasting basis for econom
ic law is the moral law, on which it
must rest. We have pledged our al
legiance to one law only, and that is
the law of eternal righteousness.
"How are these million and a half of
children who live daily in the sight of
the greed of man ever to understand
the love of God, and, if we could bring
credentials? The cheap garments
that message to them, what are our
which we wear and which we have
bought at the cost of their lives. Some
of you, perhaps, remember the story
told by Mr. Rlls of the little girl who
was hungry and ill clad and who was
asked what she wanted most and an
swered, 'A pair of red shoes,' and she
got those red shoes, an dwhy? Be
cause those red shoes were the only
intelligent language into which we
could translate God's message' of love
to that, little girl. And what other
meaning has life but that we are here
to interpret his love, to translate it
into a thousand dialects and to learn
to speak 1$ so that, another may under
stand?"
Miss Dreier offered the Suggestion
that only goods bearing a union label
be bought, as* these labels alone guar
anteed that the work was ont done
by child labor.
ORE MOVES FREELY.
CLEVELAND. Jnn. Tke freight
market Is in good shape all around and
shows' no Indication of a change. 'Ore
Is moving freely and A better defnand
for coal tonnage looked for next
moatb, a.
JIVE CENTS.
Pons Clothes of Workingmexi,
and Parades Through
New York Streets.
Goes Out to Work to Learn
Actual Conditions of Strug
gling Working Classes.
When Rev. Dr. John R. Gray, pas-"
tor of Woods Memorial Church, New
York, found that the attendance of
men at his church was,falling off,
he tried to find out the reason and'
was told by some of them that the
scarcity of work was the cause,
they could not afford to dress wen A
enough to go to church—r-were not^-^?
fit to be seen there. Then there^^
came a desire to know more alxrot'
the condition of the unskilled lAboret^'J
and Dr. Gray became one of them fti
the cold of winter, working as they'
did, being out of work as 30,000 of
them were in New York, and living
with as few luxuries of life which
he told in his address. "Out "of
Work" at the Y. M. C. A. men's meet- 4
ing at the Hartford- Opera house,
N el $ a
tention of one of the largest audiences
of the season, and which is reported
as follows in the Hartford Courant:
Dr. Gray had decided when he
started out as a laboring man that he
would not keep one job longer than,
ten days and he kept his resolution,
although it often resulted in his be
ing out of work. As a starter he
went to Baxter street and bought
some old clothes befitting his new
life? as a laboring man. Then he
took $2.00 with him as capital. His
first job gave him $1.25 a day and
his next $9.00 a week. This second -1
job was that of a carriage painter
and it was a busy life from 7 a. m.
to 6 p. m. When his self-elected term
had expired and he was about to
leave, his employer wanted him 4o^|
stay, telling him that he was the best
man he had ever had and that he a
would make the work easier for him
and advance his pay to $12 a week
For about a week after this he was
out of a place. His treasury was
way down and he went to an eating
place where he got a cup of coffee
for 2 cents and a "sinker" for 1 cent.
He found a bed for 10 cents in a room 3
2(5 feet by 12, with 36 beds. About
this time, when he was down on his:
luck, a policeman, whom he asked $)
where he could get work, gave him
25 cents, and l)r. Uray sfUd^
Otrtjifr Mbliy ftgfff"''"
w6re on the pdllcW^orce. He resent-,
ed the wholesale denunciation of thef
police and his remarks on the sub
ject were vigorously applauded.
Dr. Gray tried his hand at unload
ing oranges one morning and receiv
ed a quarter and all the oranges he
could eat. The speaker said that he
ate nine, adding that he would hardly
believed that story himself if some
body had told it to him. Dr. Gray,
or rather Unskilled .Laborer Gray
had a struggle to decide what kind
of a meal he would buy with 25 cents
In his pocket, a 10-cent- one or a 5
cent one. Motives of economy con
quered and the 5-cent meal was the
one eaten, pie, coffee and "sinker."
He had a scare in the restaurant,
thinking he had lost his last quarter
and that he was about to become the
prey of the bouncer 'of the place. He
was happy when he found that the
money was still in his pocket, having
slipped down through the lining.
Then he saw some real hardships
and was actually broke and slept in
the police station with many others
There was much joy aboUt 4 o'clock
the next morning, when one of the
lodgers discovered that the ground
was covered with snow. Dr.
another time. He gave him
up his work as a laborer he
silk hat. Dr. Gray gave a
Gray
did not at first see any particular
cause for rejoicing, as his shoes
were
thin, but he was told that It
meant' 1
$1.00 a day for shoveling snow,
but
some of the men who had
appUed
for work had pawned the shovels
for 10 cents. Dr. Gray told how the
man for whom he worked asked
him
his name and address, telling
him
that he might have work for
him
at
his real
name and address, but omitted
"Rev." Some time after he had
the
given
received
a card from the man ,asking
to come to work and he went
him, not as a laborer, but
him
The New( York firm controlling the
newstands in the New York subway
employs girls instead of boys. The
hours of work are twelve daily. Be
caus6 of the long hours there has been
"considerable agitation in favor of the
employment of boys.
v.
to see
with his
humorous
account of the meeting and
he said
that the man afterwards attended his
church and became converted, and
was now one of his staunch support
ers. .-.i
CHIVALROUS?
A member of the firm asked the
reasons for employing girls, stated one
was that girls were more civil to cus
tomers "that boys, and the other was
pure chivalry on the firm's part. |Ji
The child labor employer can now
add chivalry to philanthropy and the
other noble promptings which induce
hi^n to employ Tittle girls.—Ex.
GOVERNMENT BOAT
LAUNCHED AT TOLEDO
wm
TOLEDO, June »^-At the Crafg ship
yards here this afternoon the new steef
steamer for the' use of the government
engineers was launched. The boat. Jgig
which has not~yet been christened* cost
$25,000 and. is 70 feet Jong and feet
beam. It will be u^ed'l'n the 86o:'danal,^fe|
and vicinity and will.,. I$av* tw \hat,/^.y""