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Vol.11. No. 10.
OH CHILD [MIR CURSE
Tells of Some of the Conditions
Which Prevail in Modern
Factories. ..
Industrial Czars of Our Own
Country Infinitely Worse
Than Nicholas.
New York. July 8.—Dr. Max Adler,
•the eminent writer on industrial sub­
jects, says:
"I want to nail on the threshold of
tny discourse the words of Elizabeth
©arrett Browning: 'How long, O. cruel
-Station, will ye trample on a child's
heart?' said Dr. Adler in beginning.
•'We have recently passed' the anniver­
sary of the first factory law passed
"by the British government," he contin­
ued. 'When the rise of modern ma­
chinery brought a demand for cheap
factory operatives the workhouses of
England were filled with children. No­
body owned them, and nobody cared.
Somebody had the idea of shovelling
them into the factories: and children
•were fed. to the machines as literally
as in ancient idolatry they were fed
to Moloch.
"Then,' 'he said, "came the time of
fourteen hour days for children of ten­
der years the time when they rotted
away by the thousands. British states­
men, roused at last, passed laws against
this use of workhouse children: but
the time came when the protection was
needed against the parents of children
•who sold them in slavery. After that
•were the very worst conditions in
mines and factories."
Dr. Adler had the women of his audi­
ence weeping when he read from the
testimony in a parliamentary inquiry
the case of a seven-year-old boy whose
father used to wake him before day­
break, carry him to the mill, and leave
him there to tend a machine for six­
teen hours a day.
"In the mines,' 'he continued, "chil­
dren of five were employed. Little
girls made ten or twelve trips a day
up through the hot galleries of that in­
ferno, carrying a half hundred weight
of coal on their backs. An admirable
device to develop strong, healthy mo­
thers from their girlhood! Women
crawled two feet galleries on their
hands and knees dragging by a long
chain attached to a leather belt, a cart
holding three or four hundred pounds
of coal.
"This thought keeps hammering it­
self on my brain: Ho wis it that hu­
man beings are capable of such bru­
tality? Why is it that in England,
an Anglo-Saxon country, where wo­
man is suposed to be a kind of god­
dess, the womanhood was crushed out
of little girls and grown women grov­
elled and dragged carts?
"I take no comfort in calling these
men brutes. The explanation is. that
periods of expansion, political, artistic,
and especially commercial, are times
of great moral danger. The joy of ex­
pansion is so keen, the desire so strong
that every other consideration is lost.
So in that great period of industrial
expansion, new markets, new pro­
cesses gave active, energetic men the
chance to win the golden prize. The
cry of the babes was unheard.
"The same spirit," Dr. Adler said,
"has brought the same conditions in a
modified form to the United States of
today. The best authority estimated
that two years ago, before certain fac­
tory laws were enacted, there were 20,
000 children under 12 years of age at
work in southern factories.
"They were mainly of pure Ameri­
can stock. In the North the number
of children is not so great relatively,
but it is greater in aboslute numbers.
Pennsylvania has 40,000 under 16, of
whom a great part are certainly under
12."
As an offset to the little boy of the
English parliamentary report, Dr. .Ad­
ler told of a 12-year-old lad in a cigar
factory at Wheeling. He works from
6 a. m. to 6 p. m. The room is dark
the atmosphere filled with tobacco
dust. When the inspector talked to
him he ^as coughing.
"Where are you ill?" he was asked.
"I have a pain .there and there," he
said, pointing to his chest and the
email of his back.
"Shouldn't we be ashamed of this?"
asked Dr. Adler. "This isn't Russia.
It is cheap to be indignant at the czar.
What do you think of our own czars
of industry? What do you think of
us as a civilized people? Where is the
motherliness of our women where is
the chivalry of our men?
"In our own state there is less cause
for complaint. New York has the
best laws on the subject of any state—
If they were enforced. That is the
trouble with a democracy. They are
always in a hurry. As soon as a law
is adopted they sweep on to correct
Rome other evil. No one stops to see
If the law is enforced.
"It is known that the canning fac­
tories work children of seven for 12
hours a day. In a late investigation
it ca,me out- that the Chelsea Jute Mills
employ 85 children under the age
limit. The number of workers in the
tweat shops Is about 100,000, and there
must be many lltle children among
these.
"No law can prevent the employ­
ment of children In this industry until
ienerqent house manufacture is pro
si ibited. We need a national commls
•ion to see that the age limit is raised
ill over the country. We cannot have
1 uniform national law. Conditions
llffer In- different states,. An act for
the appointment of auch a commission
LIKE
CHI'S AMICE
The Way Rockefeller's- Critic
Would Spend a Million Dol­
lars If He Had It.
How Bigelow Would Use the
Same Amount to Secure
Justice for the People.
Cincinatti, O., July 9, 1905.—At the
Vine street Congregational church the
pastor, Herbert S. Bigelow, commented
on Dr. Washington Gladden's plan of
spending a million dollars. He said in
part:
"Dr. Washington Gladden said that if
he h^d a million dollars he would spend
it on a church, bath houses, free con­
certs, a sanatarium for consumptives,
and model tenement houses for the
por.
"He rules out charity, yet these
things are after all charities, though
less harmful than mere almsgiving.
"Is Dr. Gladden's advice the best
that can be given to the man with
the million? It may be, but it does
seem so to me. That use of money does
not seem to be the highest. There is, I
believe, another way by which a man
with a million might become a great
benefactor.
"Beneath all these proposed chari­
ties lies the problem of poverty. I
would spend my million teaching peo­
ple the political causes of poverty and
helping them to organize politically
for the eradication of those causes.
What kind of a social order is this,
that it should seem beautiful or a
good thing for one man to provide for
another a church or a bath, or a con­
cert, or a hospital, or a model tene­
ment? Dr. Gladden and I want to
maintain our own churches we want
a bath in our home we want to pay
for what we get, whether it be con­
cert or hospital service and we do not
want to live even in a model tenement.
Sick of Doctoring Symptoms,
"Last week I received a letter from
a Brooklyn preacher which contained
this sentence: 'I am growing to be less
interested in doctoring the symptoms
of social ills and more Interested in
going to the roots of the trouble. To
get people interested in political activ­
ity is clearly to me a more economical
use of one's energies.'
"I agree with that preacher. The
problem is, how to spend our million
dollars, or our talents, or the working
years that are ahead of us, so as most
speedily and surely, to bring the. people
into that condition in which they will
not have any need of charity, not even
the charity of bath houses and model
tenements and free concerts.
"I would begin first of all by send­
ing out crusaders, who by pen and voice
and organization, would teach the peo­
ple to get the Initiative and referen­
dum,. that is, the constitutional right,
in city, county or state, by a petition
of a reasonable number of the voters
to compel the submission to the people
of any law, and the enactment of any
law which receives the support of the
majority.
Portland Point* the Way.
"In Portland, Oregon, the other day,
a company asked for a telephone fran­
chise. The council, protecting the in­
terests of the old company, refused the
request. The people straightway de­
manded a popular vote on the question,
and by vote of about eight thousand
to four hundred, they reversed the ac­
tion of their supposed representatives.
"Whenever the people have the power
which they now enjoy in the state of
Oregon, they can get public baths, if
they wish them, and free concerts and
hospitals, supporting them by public
money. And when they have the in­
telligence to meet the expense of these
public services, not by a tax on labor
products, but by taking, through tax­
ation, the unearned increment of land
value, they will be in a faid way to
help themselves.
"Once headed in this direction, they
will be able to work out their social'
salvation without any man's charity."
is now before congress."
Dr. Adler took up in order the argu­
ments ^advanced against childl abor.
"It was said," he remarked, "that ne­
cessity knows no compunction that the
success of certain industries, their abil­
ity to stand on foreign competition, de­
pends upon child labor.
"And I'd answer, let them be ruined,
and we-U go hunting and fishing
rather than do this infamous thing."
Nevertheless, he showed this is a
fallacy. Cheap labor is not cheap nor
dear labor dear. Experience has hown
that when, children are cleaned out of
an Industry it works to a benefit. The
men become more efficient and the
owners find mechanical ways of doing
the work formerly given to the child-'
ren.
"Then they ask us if we are going to
deprive poor families of the child's
earnings. That rests on another eco­
nomic fallacy. When 1 nany industry
the men put their wives and children
to work, the earnings of the family
tend to equal the earnings of the man
alone before the change was made."
He showed that in the human being
at least 16 years must be allotted for
unhampered growth and development.
The child must develop physically
through play, morally through the
shelter of the home, mentally through
the school.
"There is no use in taking the child
out of the factory unless we put him
In school. And there is no use in put­
ting him in school unless we make
the school fit to develop the best that
is in him."
AGITATION
FIR
Well Laid Plans of Selfish In­
terests Thwarted by Activity
of San Francisco Labor Men
Who Will Not Stand for
Modification of Act.
Secretary Taft Roundly Scored
by Labor for Insinuating
That Chinese Exclusion, Act
Was Not Passed Fairly, and
Was Against Public Policy.
San Francisco, Cal., July 8.—Chinese
exclusion is stil a debatable subject—
In certain quarters. For some time
past there has been much talk in these
quarters of "modifying" the Exclusion
Act. It is not the intention, at least
so far as appears on the surface, to
alter the law so as to permit the im­
migration of Chinese labor. Here and
there, particularly in the south, may
be found a suggestion that a certain
amount of coolie immigration would be
a good thing, if only for the purpose
of "waking up" the Indigenous labor
to a realization* of its "proper place"
in the scheme of industry, and of the
futility of attempting longer to main­
tain the old idea of free and independ­
ent labor. These suggestions are for
the most part tentative, merely feel­
ers, so to speak. For the present the
agitation on the subject of Chinese Ex­
clusion is confined in the main to
proposals for facilitating the admission
of the exempted classes, merchants,
travellers, students, etc. These propos­
als involve either a change in the
terms of the Exclusion Act,, so as to
broaden the scope of exemption, or a
relaxation of inspection methods, or
both. In either or both cases, the re­
sult would be the same, namely, to
seriously jeopardize, if not actually de­
stroy, the efficiency of the Exclusion
policy as a measure for the protection
of American labor. The important
point that is missed, or ignored, by
these proposals is that there is no
visible difference between any two
classes of Chinese none, at least, that
cannot be overcome by Chinese di­
plomacy or cuning. To attempt any
general plan of discrimination between
Chinese of various classes would be to
throw down the bars entirely. Any
such attempt would simply result in
"confusion worse confounded," leading
to further agitation, with the inevit­
able result of a movement for the
total abolition of all exclusion- laws.
Possibly the present agitators for a
modification of 'the C^hinese Exclusion
act foresee the Inevitable and are plan­
ning to that end. At any rate it is
quite clear to those experienced In
the practical phase of the subject, that
Exclusion, to be effective at all, must
be applied to all classes. The difficulty
experienced in the administration of the
exemption clauses of the present Ex­
clusion Act proves this point. That
difficulty cannot be removed or lessen­
ed by enlarging the exemption fea­
tures to adopt the later plan would
be, in effect, to enlarge the difficulties
of the situation
As a matter of fact, there are at
present no serious difficulties in the
situation, except in the minds of those
who are oppposed to Chinese Exclusion
in policy, principle and practice. In
considering the agitation for a relax­
ation of Exclusion, It must be borne
in mind that the agitation emanates
from, and finds its sole support among,
certain classes, the commercial classes,
who, in this, as in all other matters,
are actuated by the sordid ambitions
of "trade,"utterly regardless, and even
contemptuous, of the effect of those
ambitions upon the present and future
welfare of the American people. The
commercialist is anxious to trade with
HUE WORKERS URGE
THE REFEUIM PLIII
Insist That Labor Unions De­
mand Pledges from /All
Candidates.
The United Mine Workers of America
have decided on a national agitation
for the initiative and referendum.
A circular addressed to labor organ­
izations says that candidates for office
should be impressed with the necessity
of pledging themselves to the plain and
appeals to trades unions to agitate
for the adoption of the system.
"An appeal issued by the United Mine
Workers insists that party politics
have been valueless in the attempt to
secure legislative reforms and demands
that all candidates for office shall be
questioned as to their attitude oh the
system of initiative and referendum.
It points out that success has at­
tended labor's efforts for this system
in Montana and other sections of the
West.
CARBONDALE WAS NOT
BURNED DOWN
CARBONDALE, Col., July 5.—The re­
port circulated last night that this
town had been destroyed by Are was
erroneous. The conclusion arrived at
was probably due to the fact that tele­
phone communication was interrupted
by the burning of several pole*. Ohe
brick and several frame buildings were
destroyed, the loss beta* about S5.900.
X, 'V
DEVOTED TO, THE INDUSTRIAL WELFARE OF THE HEAD OP THE LAKES.
DULUTH AMD SUPERIOR, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1905.
IMMKRATMN
If
STIRS WESTERN IAMR MEN TO ACTION
the Chinese people, and it makes no
difference to him whether these people.
a*e located in China or in the United
States. The* views of the Exclusion
opponents seem to have 'met with a
response in government circles. .Presi­
dent Roosevelt has so far been non­
committal in his expressions on the
subject, although his ideas of the
"square deal," as aplied to this par­
ticular case, evince a more or less
clearly defined sympathy with pro
Chinese sentiment. One member of the
cabinet, however, has been less evasive
than his chief. Secretary of War Taft,
in certain public utterances, has left
nothing to be desired on the grounds
of frankness. MT. *Taft has come out
flat-footedly for a modification of the
Chinese Exclusion Act, and has even
suggested that, pending, or failing such
modification, the administration of the
(present law should be relaxed so to
facilitate the admission of Chinese.
These expressions on the part of a high
public official, who was but recently
Invested with the regency of the exe­
cutive office, and who has been wisely
credited witlT~an ambition to fill that
office by virtue of election, have creat­
ed a great deal of comment, somewhat
mixed, but mostly of an unfavorable
character. The Temarks of Mr. Taft,
being in the nature of a challenge to
the people of the West, have been
taken up by the people and press of
that section and answered in emphatic
t§rms. Perhaps the most pointed of the
Western replies to the Taft dellver
arfce, or mandate, is contained in the
resolutions adopted by the San Fran­
cisco Labor Council *on June 2S. The
Labor Council's resolutions are as fol­
lows:
Whereas, Secretary of War Taft, in
a public address at Miami University,
Oxford, O., on June 15, 1905, character­
ized the Chinese Exclusion Act as "un­
justly severe," and intimated that said
law was passed by Congress and is
now enforced through fear of "certain
unreasonable and extgeme popular lead­
ers of California and other coast
states and
Whereas, Secretary Taft, answering
the question raised by himself, as to
the continued enforcement of the Chi­
nese Exclusion Act, used the following
language:
"Does the question not answer itself?
Is it not the duty of all members of
Congress and of the executive to disre­
gard the unreasonable demands of a
portion of. a community, deeply pre­
judiced' upon this subject in J&e far
West andinsist upon,extending jus­
tice and courtesy to a people from
whom we are deriving an# are likely
to derive such immense benefit in the
way of international trade,?"
Therefore be it
Resolved, By the San Francisco La­
bor Council, that we deny the state­
ments of Secretary Taft concerning
the nature of the Chinese Exclusion
Act &nd denounce the insinuation made
against the people of the whole coun­
try, as contained in the charge that
the said act was passed by Congress
and is now enforced by the'authorities,
not
of sound public policy, but through
fear of certain elements further,
Resolved, That we condemn ther sug­
gestion of Secretary Taft that all
/nembers of Congress and the execu­
tive shall disregard the wishes of the
people, or even of' a "portion of the
community," as contrary to the com
mon^t conceptions of the respect due
by all persons to the public will, and
as particularly unbecoming on the part
of a public official further,
Resolved, That we deny the charge of
prejudice, either in the conception or
administration of the Chinese Exclu­
sion Act, and declare the same to be
based upon full knowledge of the
facts eencerning Chinese Immigration,
WORKERS LOCKED IN
TO PREVENT STRIKE
Fall River Cotton Operatives
Win Wage Increase in a
Sensational Manner
Novel Part of It Is That All
of the Employe^ Were
Non-unionists.
Fall River, July 9.—A sensatianal
strike occurred this morning in the
carding rooms of the Iron Works Cot­
ton Mills Nos. 4 and 5, when one hun­
dred men, women aid girls made a sud­
den demand fot* a wage increase.
The employes In mill No.4~left work
went to the yard and called uponn the
operatives in No. 5 to join them, but
the overseers locked and barred the
doors. The employes then ran to the
winodws and clambered down the fire
escapes.
The windows and doors in mills Nos.
1, 2 and 3 were then locked, but at
noon many of the help ^In these. mills
quit work.
After a conference between the strike
leaders 'and:the mill managers, it was
decided to grant the. increase demand­
ed and the .strikers Will return to
work tomorrow moriiing.
The mills are owned by M. C. D. Bor­
den, the millionaire cotton factor, and
the workers non-union. All the mill
owners fear they will son be com­
pelled. to gr*nt a general ^nere^e.
:T-
COOUtS
As an Official of the Nation It
Is His Duty to Uphold the
Law as He Finds It, and Not
Ridicule It, as It Is Apparent
He Is Attempting To Do.
Imperative Demand of the
Working People of t^ie Coun­
try Is That the Door of the
Great United States Shall
Remain Closed to Chinese.
gained by a long and harmful experi­
ence therewith, and a determination
to project American labor from the
degrading and destructive effects of
association and competition with Asia­
tic labor further,
Resolved, That we commend the auc­
tion of the authorities entrusted with
the enforcement of the Chinese Exclu­
sion Act, in the use of every possible
means of detecting and frustrating at­
tempts to evade the provisions of said
Act, beleveing' and knowing that the
slightest relaxation of inspection meth­
ods would result in the admission of
large numbers of coolies in the guise
of merchants, travellers, etc. further,
Resolved, That we insist upon the
maintenance and continued enforce­
ment of the Chinese Exclusion Act
In every detail and by every means
necessary to accomplish the object of
that measure, namely, the preservation
to the Aemrican people of the oppor­
tunity to labor upon American soil
and to enjoy the continued develop­
ment of a civilization founded upon
American ideals, an object more worthy
and of greater importance to the whole
people of the United States than that
involved in the question of Oriental
commerce, important as the latter ques­
tion may be from a purely commercial
standpoint.
These resolutions leave little to be
said in explanation of Western senti­
ment toward Secretary Taft and those
whom he represents in this instance.
Whatever may be the views of Presi­
dent Roosevelt and his cabiiiet, what­
ever may be the views of certain ele­
ments in the commercial world, the
people of the West are united and
firm the^iLetermination. that the Chi­
nese exclusion policy shall be main­
tained intact. And the same may be
said with equal force of the people
in all sections:of the country. Proceed­
ing" upon the theory iftat/the people
still govern the countlry, It may be
assumed that the Exclusion policy will
continue to be a mandate of the gov­
ernment. Of course, if it shall turn
out that the cabinet governs the coun­
try—why, that is another matter.
In their treatment of the Chinese
the people of the eWst are not pre­
judiced. Their action is based upon
experience dating back fifty years,
which has demonstrated the impossi­
bility, of coping with the Chinese un­
der any system of "restriction" or
limitation. The prejudice in the mat­
in acocrdance with the dictates ter exists entirely on the part of those
who would invite Chinese immigration
and on the ground that such course is
"good for the commercial interests."
There is a question here that may be
open to debate upon its own merits.
But there is no room for debate upon
the proposition that Chinese immigra­
tion is bad, even fatal, to the Aemican
people. Upon that proposition the only
thing to be said is that the question as
to whether or not the door of China
shall remain "open" American com­
merce is of no imporance at all, as
compared with the imperative demand
that the door of the United States
shall remain closed to Chinese labor,
which means practically all classes of
Chinese- .....
FOUNOEyy LABOR
Great Co-operative Movement
Begun by Business Ven­
ture of Union Men.
Prominent West labor men have es
tablshed a million-dollar co-operative
concern, which, they say, marks the
beginning of a great national coopera­
tive movement. They assert that sim­
ilar concerns' will soon be established
in the large cities of the United States.
The new concern established is
known as the American Co-operative
Association, with' headquarters at El­
gin, 111. It is capitalized under the
laws of Arizona, and with a license to
do business under the laws of the
state of. Illinois.
J. H. Brower, founder of the associa­
tion, in an official statement, says:
"We shall write a new chapter In
the history of organized labor, and It
shall Be a chapter dedicated to victor­
ies achieved through the aplication of
practical business co-operation to la­
bor's problem of how to make both
ends meet."
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PRIIfTXSRS LOCKED OUT.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5.—Two hun­
dred printers and 100 pressmen, it is
said, have been locked out by employers
in the ebnflict between
4
the Typothae
and the unions over the question
whether the men shall work eight .or
nine hours.
J«L iC&
rjMkMiSn,
Great Attorney Says Working
men Will Uphold DecLara
ation of Independence.
Hope of the Country Is the La­
bor Movement and the Soli­
darity of Labor.
Ottawa, Kan., July 9.—The "reform
rally" which began in this city on July
4 at the Ottawa Chautauqua is largely
attended. CTarencer"Darrow, the Chi­
cago lawyer, and spokesman in behalf
of labor, was the principal speaker.
Thos. Lawson, of Frenzied Finance
fame* also spoke. Mr. Darrow spoke in
part as follows:
Liberty and Opportunity.
"All that there is of America, all her
greatness and her wonderful achieve­
ments in the past are due to two
things alone—and while these two shall
be maintained, our future will be as
certain and as substantial as our past.
"But while the Declaration and the
Constitution still proclaim the same
equality and liberty that they proclaim­
ed so long ago, the powerful and the
greedy, with their combinations, their
trusts, their^ great organizations, are
fast undermining and destroying that
equality and liberty which our consti­
tution was intended to preserve.
Not the Home of Equality.
"America, once the home of equality,
once the land where" there were no rich
and no poor, presents today as great
a cgfitrast betwpen wealth and pov­
erty- as any nation in the world.
"Labor has learned that while cap­
ital is organized' in every branch of ac­
tivity, while it has"taken to itself a
constantly larger way all the natural
opportunities form which wealth is cre­
ated and all the machines by which
wealth is made, there is no way to pro­
tect its rights, except by counter com­
binations in retffiH^
What Labor Stand* For.
"These great combinations of labor
stand for the solidarity of the working
man. They stand for the right of man­
hood against the power of wealth they
stand for the calim that individuals are
more than dollars, that Combinations 4f
men are more sacred than columns of
figures representing the clearing .houses
of the banks.
"These comttB8SS$66fiCtif men, some
timse poorly dVfHed and ill-advised,
even selfish, brutal and unreasoning,
are after all the main defenders of hu­
man liberty today.
"The- great strength of-the trade un­
ion movement mus.t in some form pass
into energy directed towards the res­
cue of the earth from the few who
possess It through ^destroying special
privileges which, fea've-ever for all time
made the great mass but hewers of
wood and drawers of water, and de­
pendent on the strong.
Love* Freedom Best.
"The patriotism thai is worthy of a
place in any human heart takes little
account of mountains and rivers and
forests or of boundary lines, but makes
much of the men and women and child­
ren of the earth. It loves the country
best where freedom is the broadest
and opportunity'tire greatest.
"It looks eag&ly forward to the time
when forts and garrisons, swords and
cannons and standing armies shall no
longer disgrace the earth, In longs for
the day when nations rand individuals
shall learn that peace -is more profit­
able and glorious 'than war when the
walls and boundaries and restrictions
which divide nation from nation and
man from man shall fade like a cruel
dream, and perfect libery and perfect
order shall' dwell together on ~the
earth."
TEN MEN INJURED
BY EXPLOSION
COTjUMBUS. Ohio, July 5.—C. H.
Boardman, of this city, general mana­
ger of the Tidewater mines at Vivian,
W. Va., stated tonight that he had re­
ceived a dispatch direct from the mines
saying ten men Were injured by the
explosion that occurred in the mines
today and that none waB killed. Of
the ten hurt, two are in a critical con­
dition and the others are seriously in­
jured. The explosion, according to Mr.
Boardman's information, was caused by
gas.
PRESIDENT GREETS
EPWORTH LEAGUERS
DENVER, July 5—President Roose­
velt today telegraphed greetings to the
members of the Epworth League,-who
are assembling in this city for their
seventh annual- international conven­
tion. The president's-telegram, which
will be read at-the opening session, is
as follows: "Pray, express to the In­
ternational' Epworth- League convention
my heartiest greeting*. I wish them
God speed in' working for the practical
application of their iriotto: 'Look up,
lift up.'"' ''a
TWO CHILDREN ABE
BURNED TO DEATH
DES MOINES Iowa, July fr—The
five year old son' of Samuel Squillman
of Seymour, Iowa, and the four year
old son of a neighbor, George Billiard,
were burned to 'death today in a lire
which destroyed Squlllman's home. The
children had been playing with fire­
crackers, l^ft, over from the Fourth,
which are supposed to have caused the
Are.
FLOATS BIGLOAN.
DENVERv July 5.—The Colorado 4b'
Southern Railway -company Died here
today a mortgage »on all Its holding to
secure the Central Trust company of
New York for'^alowjVof $100,000,000.
The money is^ to vbe expended for-ex-:
tensions and iipifroY Went*
FIVE CENTO.
WITH MUCH CIUDIGE
Holds That Man Can No Long­
er Be Won with Charity
World Wants Justice.
Depicting Conditions in Russia
He Annoys Congregation
About Tyranny,
Philadelphia, July 9.—In addressing
his congregation on the impending Rus
sian revolution, Dr. Madison C. Peters
used some pretty strong language on
conditions in our own commonwealth.
OPERATORS MAT
GO ON STRIKE
MINNEAPOLIS, July 5.—telegraph
operators on the lines of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific hive
issued an ultimatum and if their de­
mands relative- to salaries and hours
are not acceded to before that time a
general strike will be called July 8.
H. B. Perham, president of the or­
der, has been making a tour of the sys­
tems and was in Helena, Mont., yester­
day. With J. J. Dermody, a member
of the executive board, he has been
conducting negotiations. with the rail
way officials which so far have been
fruitless. Those in touch with the situ­
ation say that the men are ready to
strike if necessary.
They Consider the time opportune,
because of the heavy traffic entailed
by the Portland'exposition and by the
Yellowstone park season.
BOYJTBURJTDOWN
FAMOUS OLD HOUSE
BOTSON, July 5.—Mischievous boys
have destroyed with firecra cVens tb«
famous Brookfarm house, the ar­
dent dwelling in West Roxbury, irnere^
sixty years ago Ralph Waldo Emerson,
George William Curtis. Margaret Ful
ler, Frank S. Sanborn, the Elder Park­
er, Chas. A Dana, and a dosen more
kindred spirits set up their short lived
idealistic Social Democracy. It was
there that Hawthorne wrote at the be­
ginning of his literary career. The
old house has been "vacant a lonpr time.
CONSUMPTIVE
COMMITS SUICIDE
ST. PAUL, July 5.—George M. Hur­
ray, 1010 Iglehart street, took a dose
of carbolic acid at his home- last night
and died in his wife's arms. Murray
had been suffering from consumption
for some years and had twice at­
tempted to kill himself. The last at­
tempt was made several months ago.'
when he tried to shoot himself. He 'J
gave as a reason, for the attempt that
he did not wish his wife to contract
consumption.
FRENCH COURT IS -J
DASHED TO DEATH
LASCHAMP, July S.—Count Thlel.
while driving ah automobile to attend
the international race, collided with a
stone wall near the small town of Lepuy
and- received Injuries Which caused his
death two houtr later. A lady who
accompanied him was dangerously tn-:£s§
1
saying, among other things, that "one
half of the wealth of' this country an­
nually goes as a tribute to 25,000 per­
sons." The remarks, caused the rich
members of his congregation to feel
uncomfortable, and several got up and
left the church. He said in part:
"We are living in times of popular
discontent. The American people, too.
are sleeping ton a volcano. .Capitalists
may give their millions for churches,
colleges and charities, but money gifts
cannot certify to the motives which
prompted them, especially when, right
or wrong, the people have come to think
the money given by the rich really be­
longs to the working men.
"Men can no longer be won by chari­
ty. They demand justice. They are
tired of the'old gospel of contentment,
when preached by the people who have
all the comforts this world can give,'
who have more than they can use of
the costliest food and finest raiment,
while at least 10,000,000 in Aemrica to­
day would be glad to eat the crumbs
which fall fro mthose tables and Wear
the cast-off clothes.
"One per cent of our population owns
more wealth than the remaining 90 per
cent. This extreme and indefensible
inequality is all that the agitator need
ask. The Morgan and Standard Oil
syndicates control not less than $200,
000,000 of the $450,000,000 of banking
capital invested in New York city. De
Tocquevolle warned us more than fifty
years ago that the greatest peril in
America would- arise from plutocracy.
Twenty-five thousand men own one
half of the wealth of this country and
200,000 own quite 80 'per cent.
"One-half of tfte wealth produced in'
this country goes annually as a tribute
to 25,000 persons, and thus about one—
half of our population of 80,000,000 are
working all the time for 25,000 of
their felloW' men. One hundred and
twenty-five families in the United
States' have more money than all the
other 80,000,000 put together.
"Twenty m«n In thl. hnvfi It -1
in their power, by means of the yealth
they control, to arrive at an under­
standing, artd any day they could, if
they so chose, stop every wheel of com­
merce from revolving,.block every ave­
nue of trade and' strike dumb every
electric key.
"These men control the circulation of
the currency they may, at their will,
embarrass business, enrich whom they
will, control production, corner the ne­
cessities of .life and increase prices so
as to make good living for the masses
prohibitive, throttle competition, buy
Judicial decisions and make our halls
of legislation halls of spoliation."
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BARBQURSVILLE, jfy., July 5.—
The boiler in the sawmill of Henley
Fugate, near.B$s.Branch, esplodfll to
killing two afcn «n6 -Injuring ggr*
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