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QUESTIOIS TO
BEFORE THE
Tariff Pflicy of the Republican
Party Must be Emphatical­
ly Condemned
CONC
tVED IN IMBECILITY
EN IN SELFISHNESS
Market Destroying Financial Pol­
icy Tliat Cannot Too Soon
be Abandoned.
This policy of overselling at home
and underselling abroad can not long
withstand the fury of an outraged
people, arid soon we will witness many
of these hothouse industries, now
growing rich "by robbing at home and
dumping abroad, eating the bitter
fruit from the tree they have planted.
As certain as fate the time will come
when they will have to face the com­
petition of the world and have the
prices of their whole production fixed
by the prices of their surplus sold
abroad. how ever Insignificant it may
be. Then they will have realized the
folly of protection and the necessity of
fruitful foreign markets.
The People's Concern.
The voters of our nation are much
concerned about tariff revision, and
•who shall be entrusted with the re­
vising.
Shall it be by the servants of the
people or the emissaries of thelrusts?
In considering this question shall con­
gress be organized into a high court
of justice in which all the rights of
all the people in all sections will be
respected, or shall its proceedings be
like those of a star chamber? Shall
the millions of consumers be given a
voice in making the law, or shall it be
prepared l»y the trusts before congress
convenes and then railroaded through.
These are questions that must be an­
swered at the November election?
Parent of Monopoly.
It is conceded by many of our best
thinkers that 90 per cent of the trusts,
'of which there are more than 300 in
the United States, are the direct fruits
of protection. All opposition from
abroad being destroyed by the protec­
tion schedules of the Dingley law,
home industries combine to destroy all
looai eompaiiiion-^hence- trust.
Ah..
the tariff profits-of a trust increase^,
in order to keep from the public their
outraging "dividends, they* water their
stock by increasing it, ofttlmes tea
fold, aftd hence $10 worth of credit is
suddenly thrown upon the market
with only $1 in cash to back it, and
when the least misfortune appears,
the dividends fade, the watered stocks
go to the wall then conies the panic.
A Concrete Illustration.
For instance, take an article which
is used in everyday life, upon which
there is a tariff tax of 50 per cent,
which is a modest rate compared with
some .of the Dingley schedules, and
suppose that you, I, and another
should form a corporation of a hun­
dred thousand dollars capital to manu­
facture that article, and then suppose
we should form a trust by taking in
all competitors in the protected home
market, which would enable us to add
the 50 per cent duty as extra profit.
After all competition has been de­
stroyed and this excessive duty has
been added in the way of additional
profits, we find the stock is paying a
dividend of 25 per. cent. Instead ol
being satisfied with this, the stock is
immediately converted—watered—into
$500,000, paying a 5 pet cent dividend.
Thus we have $5 worth of business
being transacted on $1 in actual capi­
tal, and in this manner hundreds of
trusts were formed, sheltered under
the protecting wings of Dingleyism,
and multiplied millions of watered
stocks and inflated credits of every
description were thrown upon the
market, and since it takes just the
same amount of cash to manipulate
these Inflated stocks and credits upon
the markets as it does those that are
legitimate, our, money supply was
wholly inadequate to sustain the
bloated volume of commerce.
LOCAL LEAGUE NO. 230
ELECTS ITS OFFICERS
Adopted By-laws and' Decided to Hold
its Charter Open for One
Month.
Local No. 230 of the Woman's In­
ternational Union Label League hold
Its election of officers for the ensuing
term on Tuesday evening, June 23.
The following named officers wera
duly elected: President, Mrs. Mary
Mclnnis first vice president, Mrs. W.
Ames second vice president, Mrs.
MJary Uncapher corresponding and
recording secretary, Mrs. Katherine
J. Dempsey financial secretary, Mrs.
Bertha Thebo sergeant-at-arms,
Mrs. Louise Van Dalen doorkeeper,
Mrs. O. S. Ingelbo trustees, c. B!
Uricapper, six months Mrs. Amellca
Oritriwood, twelve months E. P. Pet­
ers, eighteen months delegates to
Trades Assembly for six months,
Mrs. Mlaclnnis, Mrs. Dempsey and
Mrs. Thebo.
The League adopted a code of by
.ws, and transacted much gen
al business. It was decided to keep
t|ie charter open for the enrollment
new members for one month, to
ehable those desiring to Join to.altill-
free of charge.
The installation of officers will take
P)ace at the next meeting to be held
Columbia hall West End, Monday
ningj July
Detectives Hired to Manufacture Evi­
dence to Send Union Men
to Prison.
One of the most astounding-stories
of criminal plotting ever produced is
told in a recent issue of the Pittsburg
Leader. It lays bare a plot: to send
Innocent union men 'to the penitenti­
ary through forged documents and
perjured testimony manufactured by
detectives of the Thiel Deteqtive
Agency in the employ of a corpora-?
tion. The conspiracy involves the
proprietor of the Gazette-TEpes" of
Pittsburg, the Manufacturers' associ­
ation, and government officials. The.
conspiracy was frustrated only by the,
confession of a humble tool who,
stricken with remorse at the terrible
crime he was aiding, revealed the en­
tire plot.
Seven members of the Machinists'
Union had been indicted for using the
mails for fraudulent purposes, it be­
ing alleged that they had sent lottery
tickets to other states through the
malls -and in violation of the federal'
law.
E. J. Grant was employed as a de­
tective by the Oliver interests to get
"evidence" against the aocused ma­
chinists. He served under Dairynrffole,
a Thiel sleuth, who laid the plans for
the dirty work. Grant's confession,
made in a sworn affidavit, shows the-,
following facts: Grant got a soap im­
pression of the keys to the business
office of the Machinists' Union for
Dalrymple, who was thus able to steal
several bundles of raffle tickets ofj the
union and place a forged contract in
the desk of the business agent to in-,
criminate the union. Dalryniple drew
up the contract In the office of the
subway interests. The documeht Wlw:
later found by government officials'
where Dalrymple said it would be
found.
The next thing done was to mail, a
number of packages-of raffle tickets
to. machinists' unions in Pennsylvania
and other states,* with the address
written on stationery of the local
union »and then inform government
officials In various cities to which the
matter was addressed.
Grant's confession vindicated the
seven union men who were acqultie^
by the jury. And so the case stands
in many respects like that of clie
Haywood trial, so far as the manu­
facture of "evidence" by detectives is,
concerned. The Thiel Detective
Agency was intimately connected with
the case, too, and & number of its
sleuths presented bills to the state of
Idaho for Occasional "drunks" they
enjoyed,
The leader ,is ^vigorous in its de­
mand thkt 'the scoundrels who plotted
this work should be prosecnte«|r and it
pernwKtly-asfcs —vriJlcflmtnMB
go free?" v..--/.-
Not Allured by Tentative Can­
didacy lor Nomination for
Governor of Illinois.
Prefers Position With a Depart­
ment of the National Civic
Federation.
CHICAGO, July 2.—John Mitchell, for­
mer president of the United Mine
Workers of America, gave put a letter
Tuesday declining' to be a candidate,
for political office and Indicating that
he will become head of the trade
agreement department of the Nation­
al Civic Federation. The letter was
addressed to John C- Harding, secre­
tary of the political action committee
of the Chicago Federation of Labor,
and was called out by an indorsement
by that body of Mr. Mitchell's tenta­
tive candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for governor of Illinois.
In. the letter Mr. Mitchell asserts
that he is "not much of a politician,"
and he calls attention to his recent
illness. as further reason for- his de­
clining to take an active* part in the
coming campaign.
Mr. Mitchell's work with the Civic
Federation will involve attempts to
settle labor disputes without resort to
strikes or lockouts. The position car­
ries a salary of $6,000 a year. Mr.
Mitchell says he feels that he can be
of more service to organized labor by
trying to secure industrial peace than
by being governor of Illinois.
"Does this apply to the vice-presi­
dential nomination as well as to the
governorship of Illinois?" Mr. Mitchell
was asked.
"I cannot well decline what has not
been offered to me," he replied.
NOTABLE CASE IN WHICH
LABOR WAS VICTORIOUS
NEW HAVEN, July 2.-—In a de­
cision handed down yesterday by the
supreme, court of errors', of Connects
cut', error was found and a nfew trial
granted in the case of. ,thB State
against Frank1 McGee, organizer for
the iron Moulders', union, who ^ras
found guilty on charges of intimtda
tion in both the city and common
pleas court." The. case arose out 6f
the alleged action of McGee in at­
tempting to influence men at work at
the' MacLagOn foundry, during" the
progress of a strike about. a yeaj ?ag6.
It' was claimed Jf! defense that t'her?
had been no inUmidation used/. The
I decision is regarded as a victory for
organized labor in the state.'*
All High Tariff Nations are Sub
ject tp Storms onTheir Fi
nancial Horizon.
BUSINESS IS PARALYSED
WHEN FINANCE8 CONGEST
Industries Nurtured in Hot Horn
ofProtection are Menace to
Prosperity.
'Germany, next to. the United States,,
is the mopt highly protected of all na­
tions., largely dependent, like ourselves,
uppn^h$rVhome market for the sale of
'her products, and consequently every
little storm sweeping across her finan­
cial horizon produces a panic, just as
in thin.nation. When her finances are
congested, her consumers, haying ng
meapt of getting money, can not pur­
chase: hpr products her business is
paralyzed, her factories close, and her
laborer's are turned out of employment
to tramp the country for bread.
•Tile Recent Panic,
Does anyone believe that the- finan­
cial flurry that struck New Tork last
October, if: i/ had been in any other
first-class n'at|on, would have pro­
duced such 'disastrous results to, her
industries as it 'did to ours? Who ever
he$rd of the breaking of one or more
financial institutions in England par­
alysing her entire Industrial, system at
the high tide of her industrial pros­
perity and without notice: depriving
3,05O,0Q0 of her'laborers of bread-earn­
ing work? Our repent panic is with­
out a parallel tin history, coming, as it
did,, unheralded, and at the noon hour
of our national' development, suddenly
wrecking industries and factories,
driving, meninto bankruptcy and sun
cide end making those who were mil
llbnaires' yesterday paupers today. It
could.,.not have happened in 'England
or any other first-clfiss nation, fpr they
have leairned' of the folly of national
selfishness and of the futility of'de
-periding on barricaded home markets.
The Real Cause.
This is the logical result of the pro­
tective system! Having to depend on
the hoihe markets almost exclusively,
all the industrial effort is paralysed
at the first approach of -a financial
crisis. The -baLnks close dowt^ no
money circulates, the home ^people
praetically qult-Kuylijg ftffr productsbf
the factory, and, thd letter, xipt hav
abroad,- axjetinsu^
ovBTcaeowSing1 surplus, Md*
cTogPd doors and d&cMrged iabbf re­
sult.
Effeet
'Of
Disaster.'
The -richmartlets' sedqrg^ at ^o^ie
by the tariff rates, manipulated .w
the crew of the trusts, gave the'high­
ly protepted industries a- degree of
prosperity hitherto unknown in this or
any ot^er age. or country.- .Sawmills,
furnaces' and factories ran cta^r anjjj
night, find the railroads were power­
less to handle tjieir accumulating
freight. Maddened by the accumula­
tion of riches at home, they forgot
the r}ph fields of trad? for their in­
creasing products' abroad,, and hence
when the financial storm broke in New
Tork they /withered like a hothPuse
flower exposed' to the burping sun.
LHTLE WIGE SUIES
II THE SONNY SOUTH
No Jewish or Negro Children
Among Them, Says a Female
Factory Inspector.
On^y Your Little White Faced,
Shrunken Chested White Chil
dren are There.
"The address of Miss Jean M. Gor­
don, factory inspector at New Orleans,
made at the charities conference at
Richmond recently, is a revelation of
rape tendencies, under capitalistic in
Justice whichVshould arouse all chris­
tian people to the presence in our
•country of a,v white problem infinitely
|mpre ipenaptng than its traditional
blapk problem,' says The Public.
"In.^er e?perlenpe as a factory in­
spector, Miss Gordon says she has
nevpr foiind a Jew or a negro, child in
a
:mi|l,
.V
Xew Trial Granted in Connecticut for
the Organizer of the Iron
/, Moulders.
factory or department store in
j^onlfian^. They are at school,' sh^
beingK well nourished, play­
ing out in the glorious Southern sun­
shine, WJiJrfng strong- and fat. It is
only, your |ittje white-faced shrunken
che8tpa, .curved back white Christians,*
She go^s pn.- .'whQ are in the mills and
department flares at New Orleans.1
|Of negro ehjU^ren A^iss Gordon's ob­
servations probably be repeated
thrqug)iput" the factory region of the
8fUth.
f^e' fa'pe prejudice which ex-
clUdes th'efe- .from association with
rvhite PhM^n'
4
Polfah*
in :t|ie^ .habies- hell of
Jyi^ently working for
t^ i^g^iyidua|s and as' a
te^-bjle(:is ^,the priee the
Their ex
gHndiw. the
tlfeir chil»|rA| into capltslis.
4iyl#nw. wi)th bitterT iwiny,
.^ducinir i^ace the south. to a
th4t: ih Which they
,once heljl t|Vjtflacks."' a
July- l.-r-The^ Ruiiliin av
1
To piomete tl»^
.ear»eni.
To dlwou
ih*) vitem
1
4
ee fthe Sweat
InetfW by
,*fce aale
aliltg aid ei
of taf«B Made
To gata
Day.
To abollalK G:
1'
aure. equal'»pay
reicardleaa of
-To aid the
Cloala* SHevii
To Snatala
arge
Hour
to me-
pNiaal work,
Jii
fai Early
,iorirt.
politleal
Pfesideiit of Mlpifictijrers' As
sociaUon Oiv«t Jbq^rt«ion to
His
Hii Inflamatoryf'WItiranoes Were
N6t Published itt the Asso
dated Pren Bfport.
"I aj)i». going to call until the
wolf is at my hefels, hut when I do
cry I want you to comp out with.your
riot guns and your, shotguns if neces­
sary, and know you will." (Cries of
"You bet we will."-
Comment- ^n ^bova.
The above law defying statement is
not froni the lips at Emma Goldman,
but is an extract from'President Van
Cleye's address to tha Rational Asso­
ciation of Manufaptilrefj^i^b! ist fbtind
on page 2 of the ToleSio Catholic Rec-.
ord. No other paper published this
rem^rkv ^The Assoctet^ Press was
smatt ehough to im^e»R^*-jnention of
Van CleaVe's declaration that he' was
liable to advocate the use of "riot
guns" and "shofgBt|si^'^.»
Thia .is-, one of- ,"g-jespectable
citizens." This t^the man who' de
claredJ|bycottlng 'wa».iiillegal,- and
asked The supreme court to outlaw
trade unions in the interests of .'flaw
and srder."
Van Cleave boldly", (/announces Ife
favbrs force if tilings don't go his way,
and his utterance ia tfheered^ by other
champions of law and order, who tell
us of dangers that threaten American
institutions If this statement was
made by a. trade tjmion official in a
labor convention, eywy stinkpot at
the comnoand of nltrtopracy would be
^vpie^jgai^ the ^dfkersi But Vain
®e- He\rti^^ii|ts prop-»
erty^- He^ -vepresentfrS^ee&fth.' He is
liriviieg^^gs ^, drunken aifd an
archial batf4Ue|ers at' tlie Waldorf
Astoria cry, "Yo.u bet we will," fft an­
swer to. the ,a^p«ai for guns to .keep
"thp^orftprs in their pla^'
•, Is* ijt ^|»^|!^mider "that workers aire
driven in,td the revolutionary camp
when .thesis utterance's* go unchallenged
by. every* newspaper in 'the land?
Events are moving rather fast in
this couMr^sltofn a Van
tfcleave's- .su^MS^' ^ndin^f4an advo­
cate, with absolute" fre^oji and per­
fect candor, a policy of forcel
Will the American workers stand
cowed, with hat In hand,' or wiil they
exercise their ballot in such a way
that Van Cleave and his tribe will
realize they have reckoned with an
unknown power?
Hi
UP WHIM CHKI
Becoming -a Factor With Which
the two1 GhMt Political Ar­
ties BftiBt Beckon.
Are Beady tir Bleet All Coiners in
the Arena of Political
Discussion.
Indications point to gr«at political
activity on part of the socialists
during the comjlig campaign. Wheth­
er the philosophy of socialism be
right or vfrong, its adherents cer­
tainly have the courage Of their con­
victions and their loyaJty to the
cause they haye espoused- challenges
our admiration '. "V
All the counties in the Eighth con­
gressional district are represented by
delegates, who will convene at Flaat
en's Jiall, in this city,, on Monday,
July 6th, at .9 .a. m., to put. in nom­
ination candidates- for the: several
offices, legislative and congressional,
to be elected in November.
In the evening a grand' ratification
meeting Will: be held ih the same
place. G^od -'socialistic Speakers will
be in attendance and tfcfe ^principles
of the pairty will be eloquently ex­
pounded. Republicans an^jDemocrats
alike are weldome..
BBSCUBD^ WrajS SlimXNO
^CEIB FA|BWELL MESSAGE
VICTOM^, C., July i.^While
sendlng a farewell message .fMtene^
WA^WN^
-the
ih^tuction In
to
a quill "on the ne6k of an^ailtatrosM,.
qne of a aertes of daily rae^s^ges r*
counting briefly the fetory of the w?eck
On: AntipodeSy lsliiihd, 46.4D soikth. Iff.43
least, of the jtfench bark |rest4»ht
Fillx Faure, at starving French sailers
)tr|ire reached ^by^the British warftiip
Pegasus and brpught to Sydney short­
ly before the sltiUfttt of the Maratha,
a iv a
MWO HO
«)it Posupaat^,
tMfjr for llWiMitrw^re he
of Wlr a4dfM«e» wt
the owaoon
Qmwht MeC?#C ft h«r«
^11? deitvur
It Befused to Exempt Labor from
the Operation of the Sher­
man Law.
WILFULLY DENIED LABOR
ANY BIQHT WHATSOEVER
Seela Political Support of Labor
on Strength of leaning
less Platitudes.
At the last session, congress was
importuned by the representatives of
organised labor, to exempt from the
operation "of. the Sherman anti^trust
law, organizations of wage earners
and farmers.
Representative William B. Wilson
of Pennsylvania made an impressive
argument before the judiciary com­
mittee of the house in behalf of la­
bor and argued that any one who be­
lieves in government .believes also in
organization. The purpose of the
Sherman anti-trust law, he said, was
to- prevent combinations in restraint
of trade by which exorbitant profits
might be taken from the people.
Labor organizations are not organi­
zations for profit they have no capi­
tal gtpok and declare no dividends.
Nearly every state in the union makes
a ^distinct:, 4if£ererice between the man
.^ftjiQTiaeels the products of «his own la­
bor and the ...one who. buys and sells
the products of other man's labor.
A m^nufa^tprer may employ child
la'borf-/^MC* extremely tender years to
worR 'i^^s factory arid be within
the laws of some states.
VI contend," he said, "that I should
have the right not only -to refuse' to
purchase the product of that factory,
but also agree with my neighbor not
to purchase* it until the child labor
conditions in the factory have been
changed.- The saipe Reasoning applies
to .goods: made in sweatshops.
''SJ*. men may sit in consultation in
Chicago-and determine the price that
will be paid to farmers- for their'cat­
tle and at the same time determine
the price that the consuiner must pay
for beef, and yet it would be a diffi
ciilt thing to prove that they*had en­
tered into a conspiracy, because nohe
of them couldbe placed upon the
Stand' to testify a^inst the others.
'.Vb®' permitted.''to
to- haWdH-thiR^ri^ctat tbeiE
tebo^wao. aa to. protect -th^mselv^s
'fagaifrst cumibihatidn of this charai:
ter.*'
The i^age earners, of the country
know., the rest. A. Republican congress
'absolutely refused the reasonable re
quest, and j^et have the effrontery to
think they can now capture: the labor
vote, by hypocritical whereases in
their, national platform. We opine
that' labor has had it's... eyes opened,
and can' be no., longerr"deceived by
the wiles of the politician.
—i-—-—•'•-
KILLS DEPUTY SHERIFF.
OHESTEJR, Pa June 30.—^During a
quarrel at. Tranor, a village just out­
side this city tp$ay, David .Murphy,, Jr.,
of that place, Shot and killed Deputy
Sheriff Daryin Spence. Murphy was
arrested and brought here.
Notwithstanding Sundry Revers­
es There is Much to Inspire
Hopefulness.
The Leaven Tr at Work and In­
dications of its Efficiency
are Manifest.
The principles of the trades union
movement eventually triumph. The
following incidents show^that even at
this early stage of the movement- seed
has not been sowed wholly in vain.
The. United States senate passed
the Mil increasing the salaries'of men
eknployed in the- l'ife saving service.
A bill is ready to be introduced in
the house oi commons, restricting the
hOurs of labor in all industries, wheth­
er on land, or sea, to eight hours.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the contract
Obtained on the new. government
building provides for union labor in
the construction of the building.
'In Norway and Denwark laws have
been enacted granting government
subsidies to trade unions which pay
unemployed beiiefitis to. the members.
Attorney Qeneral Bonaparte direct­
ed various tTkited States- Attorneys to
Institute suiti against twenty-six rail­
roads to recover' penaltlek incurred by
them for ninety-one alleged Violations
of 'thd safety'1 appliance law.
^Deputy Bmte mine inspectors of
West Virginia have begun an inspec­
tion of all the mines In the state to
determine to what extent the mining
laws passed ovet a year ago are b&ihg
observed. 's* •,
Montana 'State Federation 6t £&bbr
is initiating a petition for the submis­
sion at thTe next general election f6r
the Employers' Liability Act, ahd an
^ict exempting labor unibns from in­
junctions.
In-.Australia mlne owners are com-'
pelljsd by law'^o provide rescue cham
ftttjrp
undefgtound.
Each
NEW, YOR^:, July 2.—Pohibitlon
throughout'' the United States woiild
result in disaster tor a large part of
'the population of the country,, and
another panic, the .American. Feder­
ation of Labor officially announced in
a statement. to its members. The
statement asys:...
"More than^ a million workers would
be affected. The brewers, malsters
and dietUlers of the United States
'have, invested more than $3,100,000,
000. They pay annual state and gov­
ernment licenses amounting to
&67.990. In addition, they annually
pay city license, real estate and per­
sonal property taxes aggregating
$84,500,000. -/.••
JiThe
continual growth of prohWbi-
tion and the destruction of the brew­
ing and distilling' industries will re­
sult in the farmer and the allied
trades in all lines of .manufacture be­
ing made to suffer great losses by de­
stroying the market for their pro­
ducts. y.iv.'i t'
^'In New York "state alone not less
than 60,000 people are dependent on
the brewing indug^ry for their sup­
port. The traSe: pgys annually in
taxation 6ver tl£0BS3)OO to the na­
tional a^idstate^g^S^rnments.
"No matter the prohibition-,
ist's objept miy36&jthe result "of his
success will be to5§(^w out of work
a million men, ^tlSing a widespread
panic thait will diktat In attempts at
wage! reductions, starvation, misery
crime and demoralisation among •the'
wage-earners of Amprica."
M4N CAREllClBSN E88.
Investigation as to the cause of: the
lfi^t "Monongahela JMine Disister"
(reported' in our .'last issue),? ~^ias
placed the cause of ithe explosion on
the ignprajice'of.a foreigner, who en­
tered the mine with, a lighted torch,
coming into contact v^ith a gas pock­
et. This incident goes to showi/the
absolute- necessity flpf the Miners'
union rules- being enforced, which nat
only call* for ordinal common sense
on the part of 'the miner, but at least
one year's practical experience in
mining1 with a practical miner.
M. TafSlna, a. mining engineer of
EYance, who was sent by that gov­
ernment to investigate the numerous
coal mining' disasters of this country,
reported that the arrangements for
safeguarding the jfiyes of workers in
-American mlhes &te Of the most
doubtful- character. He declares .that
the conditions in French mines are
far-superior.=
Returns Show Marked Increase
in the Activity of Labor
Organizations.
of ti^JJnions Are Closely
Allied Wilb. ^Those in This
Countiy.
jT
TORONTQ, July 2.—The labor union
mOvencient .in Canada, where many ot
the unions'are closely allied with those
in this country tia& gained much
ground in reclsftt yeaas..' A report. suS
mitted by Consul Van Sant at Kingrs
ton shows that there were 232 labor
organizations9 formed in Canada in
1967, 'while '68 organizations were dis­
solved, making a net increase of 174
organizations during the year.
Compared with the three preceding
years the returns show a marked in­
crease in the activity of labor organ!-'
zations. Jn l§06 there was a gain of
69, in 1905 there was a net loss of 2
and in 1904 a gain of 44. The yekr
1S02 alone, since' records have been
kppt by the Canadian labor depart­
ment, was more active than the sea­
son just passed in regard to the or­
ganization of' Workmen^ the number of
uhions formed in that year being 275
apd: of uiiions dissolved 54, a net in•
crease of 2i21." Of the organisations
formed last, year 51 were formed by
railway employee^, 43 by metal work­
ers^ and 41 in the, building trades.
Ninety-four organizations were form
„ed in Ontario, 61 in Quebec, 2^ in Al­
berta and 22 in British Columbia.
CHANCtE OF VENUE IS
DENIED TO GLAZIER
LANSING,
lMl6h.,
July ll—The su-'
'preme court today denied 'ch'anfere Of
venue tf' 'Fornler -State ^reaaurer
Frank ^.fcGJasier .of. Chelsea M(ch.(
who is charged' lelth misapplication
and embezzlement state .funds ao a
result of the failure oi tije Chelsea,
(Mich.). Savings bank,, with over .,$B00.
000
Of state fupds .qh: deposit. /.I|[)s trlai
was ordered to begin at the Septem­
ber term of.-the Iii^ham county tepurt
The supreime cPurt held. t,thatf. there
Was np prejudice in Ingham' pouhty
whlbh would operate, againit
trial for Mr Gla^teg.
room must
'tie lagge chough to containstwenty
fotir persons,
aUdf
ed food
is provided? with
and flrst-aid applianpes.
a
f^lr
HARR^^OHARD'SI^ATH
is
pa
li "f4
BOISE, mho July 1—The state
hpard of~ paeons todi^r pemmilted the
septehc*
under
for vthi ...
FrankSteunenberg ^to' iHipfikbhineat
lor l|te.
XK?* oeca
qvii-Quito
gMNNf.
Passage From Bar to Bench Does
Not Necessarily Destroy Pre­
judices or Fredilections.
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL
CHANGE TQE DECISION.
--^7*
Under Present System Oiie
erly Lawyer Can Negaitifs
S Will of Entire Nation.- .^
Let it be distinctly understood that
we do- not for one moment impugn
the integrity of our courts. That's
not the point. .We, don't impugn the
integrity of any one. We simply say,
that in considering the judiciary, or
any other department of the govern
ment, we must reckon with human
nature as it is. it were immacu­
late and infallable there probably,
would be no need of govenuuenUi
machinery at all.
The fact that the Supreme Court in
the first instance, illegally grapsed the
power to nullify the work of the law­
making branch of the government,
shows that its members are but hu­
man after all- The people made a
mistake in so long acquiescing i«
such usurpation of power. Where the
Supreme Court got the idea to -arro­
gate to itself such supremacy, is be­
yond" comprehension.
Not Sonferred by Constitution.
Such power does not exist, and
..never has existed, in any other coun
t(y, it is non-essential to security,
jt is .not conferred by the Constitu­
tion, but is contrary ^to the will of
the convention. Judges not only have
never exercised," such power in Eng-,
land where there is no written con­
stitution^tint .they do not exercfi*®
jn France, Germany, Austria, Den­
mark or any other country which,
like them, has a written constitution.:.
A more complete denial of popular
control of this government could not
have been conceived than the- placing
Of such unreviewable power in the,
hands of men not elected by the peo
pie and hoijiingr office for life.
^Endangers- American Liberty.- I
ifTH»e vast political power how -as-/,
serted^and ea^rcised by the qourt, toS|
set aside pMrrte policies after «»«|r^
f^J} "det«|tiiinatlonv by' congress can
i^t in
^hy body of me^without supervisita |jj'!
or contrbl by other- authority. If tWi-.-.sa||
president errs his mandate expires inl
four years and his party and himself^
held accountable at the ballot-box. If
members of congress err they murft
iaccount to their constituents. The-
Federal Judiciary hold office for life,
and though popular, sentiment may
change the -entire personnel of the
other two great departments of gov­
ernment, a generation must pa^a-
away to cliange the Supreme Court,?:*
which possesses an irresponsible and
unrestricted veto upon the action ol
the other •departments—irresponsible
-because impeachment is practically
impossible, and even otherwise could
not .be invoked as to erroneous de­
cision.
The control of the policy of the ..gov­
ernment is thus not in the hands i
the people, but in the power of a
small body of men not chosen by the|?
people and holding for life.
The Problem" Stated.
The problem, stated in a wprd, is
whether tie government shall remain
a body composed of three distinct and-'
co-ordinate branches—the legislative,.
the executive and the. judicial—or be­
come a .body in which all authority
shall be vested in one banch, and that.
£%& 4
branch be made supreme. i,
Position of' Labor.
The whole subject of the relations,
between the Judiciary and the Reppl®.
was discusMdr-at the last cOnventioa^^
of the American Federation of Labor.^
The sense of thaf body was expressed
in set of resolutions, unanimously
adopted, as follows:" V"'
Resolved, That it is the sentiment,
of the 27th convention of the Ameri-'
can Federation of Liabor that.
judges, ie -elected by the people of
their respective' districts or states,
apd th^no judge shall be .elected for
a: longer term than four. years, with
the privilege of being re-elected from
tii£^ 3o time if the people so desire.
Resolved, That it is the opinion of/
.t^e American Federation of Labor
:t1|iat our laws should be so amended
that no Federal court of less jurlsdic-"''
tlpn than the Supreme Court o|l tha
United States shall have authority
dfclaro any State, or Federal .law un
constitutional, and that the SupremS
cCpurt shall not have power dieclir*^
such laws unconstitutional eixcept
the unanimous vote- of the cotiyt sit
yting en bfnc and, further, Jlw^t
State' 6QUft of less jurtsdictiofr than^
Jthe Supireme Court of the Stite .slNlB|
have power to declare any'state law
uhcon3titutional and that the Supreme^,
Court 0f the State shall not extecUw|
su«h power except by unanimous vafcaf
of the court. !,
u'...— r|
.... gijrrfttfutioN
op wealth, r_
wealth is very unequally distributs#||
ip this country. About 700,000 people^
die eyery year, and of these over •!€,*
.000 'die leaving nothing, or 'next tofg
,not)|lng. ^behind. them, while over S0,^'
qoo'die leaving an average of =.only ISOOii:
j^ach^1 Ov^r 1Q.OOO die with estates
exceeding 11,000,. yhich, leave#
,all the accumulpted- .^wealth (a
hands of ^abfut, n.ooo people