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■ n Maine, sav: c 9V the following rumhut
■ 111 mnillßf WUJi udj DISINTERESTED PUILIC OFFICULS:
■ Mrs. Adriannc Hungcrford, Governor Plaisted of Maine.
Wm President of Colorado \V. U. S. Senator Johnson of Maine.
H C. T. U., a salaried officer. y. s Senator Gardner of Maine.
Supt. E. E. McLaughlin of Attorney General Pattengall of
the Colorado Anti-Saloon Maine.
H League, a salaried officer. Se( ., y of Slate DavlB of Malne .
H Rev* H. H. Gill, Assistant Congressman McGillicuty of
Manager of the Colorado Maine.
■ officer , Uae '''’ “ salan ' d Ex-Governor Cobb ol Mate.
■ And x .core of other PAID F °Z" Spe,k " , •'' llow,
agents of various Prohibi- * „ . , _
I tion organizations. oE
■ Bath Ship Building Company
■j j •-**■«*—»' of Maine.
I Mayor Mullin of Bangor, Maine
Mayor Gilpatrick of Sacco,
H - Maine.
'fijj . Mayor Curtice of Portland,
jig Maine.
Mayor Pattengall of Water*
H ' ville, Maine.
H F Former Mayor Libby of Port
al ■' land, Maine.
H . The Biddeford Record.
H The Portland Eastern Argus.
The Waterville Sentinel.
The Bangor News.
The Lewiston News.
■ PROHIBITION WAS VOTED INTO THE CON-
H STITUTION of MAINE BY A MAJORITY of 48,000
I —lt was retained by a majority of 431 votes,
I EVERY city in the state voting overwhelmingly
I for REPEAL—Maine’s bootleggers and rumsellers
I saved the day. Can there be any more convinc-
I ing evidence of the folly of adopting such a law?
I Vote AGAINST
I State-Wide Prohibition
H NOTE—The State-Wide Prohibition Amendment will appear at the Head of the Initiated
H and Bofcrred Bills.
■ COLORADO BUSINESS MEN’S HOME RULE LEAGUE
1 ■ GODFREY SCHIRMEB, President J. M. KUYKENDALL, Secretory
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■ For State-Wide
£ ■
Prohibition
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I APAlUCT statewide v
1 MUAIHo I prohibition A
TUESDAY
7 THE CHKOHICLENEWS. TRINIDAD, COLORADO,
WHAT THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY
MEANS TO THE CHILD WORKER
lly Owen K. Love Joy, Secretary Na
tional Child Labor Committee.
When Steluy Uoliusky showed me
through u coal breaker a abort time
ago 1 found him very familiar with
the processes of that roaring mounter.
He knew tlie experience of other lit
tle ten-ycnr-o\d boy* who *at for a
nine-hour day bending over the coal
chute, eating coal dust, while with
tom and bleeding fingers they picked
the slate and rock from the eoal. lie
knew how to operate the mechanical
slate picker, the "Jig. the "scrapcr
llne,” and could explain the mechan
ism «t the breaking maehlnc Itself,
like the old threshing machine cylin
der. only 10 or 12 feet In length und
klx cr eight feet in diameter with Us
giant steel Jaws to crunch the coal
Into marketable size—but 110 could
not read.
An we pussid out of the bliudiuir
dust into the open sunshine. I noticed
'* couple of badges 011 his ragged coat.
One was the portrait of a famous In
bor lender and the other a crons on
which were the words*. "Thy King
dom Come.” When 1 said. "Stelny.
what do those badges me 1 !!?" Ills
tired eyes brightened ns he indicated
the union button and tried to express
his admiration for tin uiau who had
won the great strike lint when I
asked him the meaning of the words
on the crons, lie raid. "Me not un
derstand.”
I laid. “Stelny. that says. ‘Thy
Kingdom Come.* “ With a puzzled
expression on his dust-ntreaked face,
he asked. “And what does that mean
mister?" "Stelny." I replied, “I
don’t know that I can tell you all
that it means, but f think It means,
at least, that the fellow who wenrn It
wants the day to come when little
hoys can go to school Instead of to
the coal breaker: when their sisters
can have clean dresses to wear and
can learn to read and sing instead of
being driven to the 12-hour day in
the silk mill: when they can have n
decent homo to li\«- In and their
fathers can get money to keep the
family well and happy: wnon boys
will be good and kind to each other
and to their parents and will grow
to be strong men, able to support
themselves and to * are for others.”
As I spoke, lie took the badge from
the lapel of his faded Jacket and.
holding it lu the paint of his grimy
toll-worn hand, lie examined it with
newly-awakened interest. “l)o it
mean all that, mister? *he asked
"Yes. Steluy. I hrjicve It does,” I
answered. "Why. mister.** he Haiti as
his eyes kindled, “tliul’s Jus: what I
want!—and when is it coming, mi?
ter?" Rut that I could not answer.
One of the most stubborn obstacles
met in attempts to atmllsh child Ta
bor Is the plea that If children are
taken from the mills, mines and
f went shops their parents will he left
to starve. Is tills the kind of support
*m which our American prosperity Is
willing to rest Its case? TYns it good
ciononiy for us to allow that little
tinder ;rown Frenrlt boy in NVw En
gland to spend all the days of his
chililnood in a cotton mill to support
I Ills widowed mother until that day
1 when the machine caught him In Its
l merciless grip, crushing his little
1 fingers to a shapeless pulp and lcav
[ ‘ng him to grow to maturity with*
1 both hands gone?
When you defend or excuse child
Libor on the ground that to abolish
It would increase poverty, you
show a curious blindness to our pres
ent roclnl conditions. Whose are
the children whose blood Is being
dried up within our factory walls?
They are children of the |»oor. And.
with the facts that can bo produced
to any otic who wants to kuow them,
no si>|f-respectlug American man can
defend the syste mwhich today hinds
j more than n half million of our little
children to our sweatshops, factories
and coal mines on the ground that
In so doing he has protected the poor
widow.
A few months ago. we found-a lit
tle 7-ycar-old oyster shucker working
In one of the large packing houses
of Mississippi. Wo had seen the same
clrl the summer before, but not in
Mississippi, for she Is one of those
defenseless victims of our interstate
commerce in children. During the
summer months, she goes with her
family through the fruit and vege
! ’ »l*’n gardens of Maryland. Delaware
niul Yew Jersey, laboring from nine
to fourteen hours a day In the fields
and canning factories. When the
harvest closes with hundreds of other
children, she is shipped from Balti
more to work in the oyster and
shrimp canning factories along the
gulf. She has never seen the Inside
of a school house, and will grow to
physical maturity with the mental
development of an Infant. She will
lie the mother of an American voter
jir. the next generation.
In New Yoik City Inst year. w«
found hundreds of little children,
mnnv or them as young as five or
s!v year®, working far into the night
in prorly ventilated and dimly light
ed tenement rooms, where they make
artificial flowers, human hair goods,
toys, dolls,, clothing and pick meats
rut of nuts for some our celebrated
• health rood” concerns and perform
a variety of tasks which baffle de
vi-rlptlon. The house slaves are so
meager that instead, of nintntinlng
life they force our charitable institu
tions to eke out the pittance to meus
urc up to the barest necessities. Yet
-••me of our reputable business con
• era., arc built on this vicious foun
dation.
Nor cuu we defend the system be
cauuo these child workers are foreign
Tner are two answers to that argu
meat: The first is that It false
the returns of IS*JO show that 95 pe*
cent of nil working children ar«
American, only 5 per cent arc for
elgn: the tecond amwer is that, if I*
were true. It would he no defense
The fore* ;n child is a part of ou
America. His destiny is our den
tiny, his poverty Is our shame, hi
Ignorance Is our weakness and 111
vice our peril It depends oil us rath
cr tl an on him whether he become
an asset or a social liability. W*
cannot afford to have a wlujlc com
inanity rise up against our Instltu
lions and our law* us they did re
ccntly In Lawrence Their protes
arose, according to the testimony 01
both Miles, because a great Industry
was demanding the services of me*
for the wages of children, was com
pelting heads of families to compet*
with little boys and gills in the lahoi
market. Such uprisings are not t<
he suppressed by bayonets nor by
-.tup Id Thirteenth-century Jutll* In'
court decisions.
Industrial riots lu Amcrhnti ••an b*
duelled by Justice mid by nothin*
••Do. and the generations of ehlldre*
growing up In Illiteracy not only
tempt the employers of today t
evade the law. as from “a to 90 pe
cent of them were found to do lr
government official* In certain cottoi
mnnufaetmlng states recently, bu
the children themselves will lean
to despise a government which ex
ploltK Instead of protecting them.
Wliv N 't that n das*' so helples
and yet so imtrut for weal cr Injur*
to our country should have beei
thus far Ignored? Why have tli*
ureat political parties passed hv 01
the other side when they have sect
the little child robbed of Joy. stripper*
of opportunity and left half dead b*
the wayside? Whet hr r !n llepuhll
can Pennsylvania cr Democrat!
I'lfortln. th** working child has lice*
posit I \ elv the consideration o*
the political lender* Today we en
Joy the uiiloue privilege of sorin'
the child worker raised ns one of th*
main Lsu« « of th< great new party
the party that recognizes liumai
rights ahead of dollar rights.
Whether men favor or oppose Col
one! Roosevelt and the loader* of th«
progressive partv they must, at least
er,-.nt them tills honor -of hnvinf
made child labor In reality a uutlonn'
political Issue.
Will this mean the abolition o'
child labor? That depends upon you
the voter. You must first recognize
pertain facts Child labor breed*
poverty. \ recent government re
port on children under IG who lei*
school t » go to work showed that ?'
aer cent arc industries in which th*
wages of adults are less than |1 f
1 week. Chllil labor Menaces educa
tWhen little Peter showed up
his empty sleeve a* we walked ovo
the mountains, he said, witii a sickly
smile, “1 am going to school, now."
He had boon sent to the coal brcnkei
at S years of age. and was entlrdv
Illiterate. He had to sacrifice at.
arm. tern out nt the shoulder, be
fore his parents or the community
c0..1d realize that chib! labor was r
bad bargain.
Child labor destroys health
School physicians claim that over H'
per cent of the school children in
New York city have defective vision
Is It not possible that the labor of 1
little girl on fine needlework under »
dim gas Jet at midnight has some
thinx to do with her vision?
Child labor disintegrates the fam
ily. There are honest laboring mer
who will go to the polls on Novemhe*
* who recognize that in their trade I*
Is harder to make a decent living
than It was for their father or theb
grandfather. Many of t!!e*e men
have told me they would consider I
criminal to bring children into th*
world, who would find It still more
difficult to maintain :» decent 11 veil
hood than they find it. Can we af
ford to perpetuate a system whirl
compels the mother and the children
to compete with the father for a Job*’
FASHION FRILLS
The fashion notes Indicate that
the standing room only skirt is to
Play to capacity business for another
season.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Since Drltish suffragettes have
taken to climbing telegraph poles to
cut the wires it would seem a fore
gone conclusion that the hobble skirt
will have to give way to bloomers.—
New York World.
The west do longer shoots up a
stranger because he happens to wear
a white shirt and a plug hat. hut
those dandies who are revising the
side whiskers, frilled shirts and
spats of 1 8:to will do well to remain
east of the Mississippi.— Cleveland
Leader.
Rattling Nelson, the foruer *!ght
weight champ, has been signed 1
meet Matty Baldwin, con si i *re.l thr
bert lightweight In New Englnnc
for a 12 round bout at Di>-:|on Oc
tober 29. In getting the init:h. Pat
beat out Paekey McFarland. Ms oh
rival, who was also nuglin : lor thr
Chronicle-Nows, 50c per ntnuHi.
OCTOBER 29. 1912.
NEWS NOTES OF
THE DANISH CAPITAL
Copenhagen, Oct. 2'.*.- -Tlim Prohl
bitloti movement has muilo such
great strides in Dunmurk Uiut Uui.'nr
Uie coming olebtlons the Prohibition
ists are to muke strong effort to no
cure Parliamentary representation.
Hitherto backer* of the movement
have been content to brlim pressure
upon the cantlidates of the rogulni
parties in an effort to interest them
iu the propaganda, but now they foci
hey are iiiflucutiul enough to be di
rectly represented in Parliament.
in every district where there is a
possibility of | tolling a majority vote
they will havo candidates for the
owcr house. Tills will Introduce a
novel and interesting feature Into
the Parliamentary elections which
htt'c formerly been a straight fight
between the government and the so
cial democrats.
Denmark's neutrality iu a pumlble
war between Great Ilritaiu and Ger
many Is being constantly discussed
Just now. There is no doubt that
Dcutuurk would be pluced Iu a ser
ous predicament, for nt least one of
he eomhutants would want to use
the waters of the Baltic or other Dan
ish waters. The German fleet lias
naucuvcrcd iu these waters fre
luently, and It Is believed that the
visit of the English and Russian
lefts to Copenhagen lately was iu
tnswer to the German activities.
11l this connect ion there have been
umors of nn alliance between Den
nark aud Eugland and Russia where
. *y! Denmark wifi be eijoectcd | n
•ase of war to facilitate the mow
ueuts of the English and Russian
vur vessels through her waters.
Another version states that D« n
nark has entered into n secret treaty
vitli Germany, whereby iu care* of
war wtlh England and Russia Gcr
inn 1 1 oops can ue lauded at convon
cut points in Denmark.
Doth rumors arc declared to lie
»urc fiction. The present govern
nent. as proof of their desire to
uaintalii a strictly neutral attitude,
ei|ursted the English and Russian
Icets to time their visits wo that
hey would not be in Danish waters
ogether. Officially the reasons glv
ii for this request was that there
.ns not room enough Iu the Copen
agen liarhor for iiotli fleets.
If it was only a question of scull
uciit there would be no doubt ns to
shlcli side the Danes would favor.
•*r during the past ten years En
lish influence has grown steadily in
lenmark, whereas the Danes contin
•• to resent the efforts of Germany to
’russianize the people of the forme '
lunlsli Slesvig. But Denmark real
; zes that her future lies only Ir
•trict neutrality and zhe is deterui
ined to maintain it.
"Lucky penult's" for the assist
ance of the blind are the latest
cclienie evolved by Postmaster Hul
boll. who introduced tile Christum?
stamp idea for the supjMirt of con
sumption hospitals. He lias designed
t penny which will be given by lia
ble* who sec light for the first time
to those who never see It.
This penny is to be coined by thu
million and sold to all the midwives
in Denmatk. The xnidwher. then sell
the penny to the parent* of the new
| LOCAL RAILWAY TIME TABLES j
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J No. 3 1:20 A. M 1:25 A. M. f
l Nu. .—11:10 A. M 11:35 A 51. {
t No. 1— 8:10 A. M 8:36 A. 51. £
» No. t— 2:15 P. M 2:20 P. M t
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Z No. 4—4:12 A. M 4:14 A. 81. J
♦ No. 8—7:00 A. M 7:26 A. 51 ♦
Z No. 10—7:26 P. M 7:60 P. 51. {
V No. 2—1:46 A. M 1:60 A. M T
t THE COLORADO &. SOUTHERN RY. $
t TIME TAIIL.R +
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T Sou! ii boil ml No. 8 7:30 A. M. J
Z Northbound No. I 7:l*. A. M. S;»0 A. M *
r Northbound No. 7 1:30 I*. M. 4
Z Southbound No. 2 8:00 P. M. 8:10 p. M. b
{ DENVER A RIO GRANDE R. R. t
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♦ No. 101* Arrives 11: If. A. 81 t
Z No. 114 Departs . 12:20 P. M I
£ COLORADO A WYOMING R. R. CO. ' j
X l)«|i«rt» Arrlvt.il 1
♦ T:Sin A. M 11:Sir. A. M T
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ICOKEDALR LINE. Z
Cars lave corner Main and Commercial—First car at 7 o'clock a. ni.. J
aud cars every two hours thereafter. <♦
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g I*ol*lllB AND STARKVIIJ-E ’ \NR J
J Cara leave Main and Commercial First .r st 6 o'clock a. in., and J
♦ cars every two hours thereafter. Last c*. at 11 p. m. J
£ ♦
horn child who will pay for it n<-
cording to their means uud iucllnn
tlous. This money will then be gi\
•ii for the support and education of
th.* blind, £ To Interest the mldwlv.-s
iu the matter, their Insurance and
old-age funds will he given a per
centage of the sales.
Music from Greenland is shortly
to lie added to the delights of music
lovers.
A Danish composer has returned
from n trip to Greenland with l.‘»U or
iginal pieces of music which lie se
cured from the uatlve* by using a
phonograph.
He declares tliut thu musical sense
of the natives is highly developed,
aud where they are the least Influ
enced by cultivation the most typical
tunes have been found. Several of
the sougH which he secured resetnbb
the songs of the Canadian ludiaii .
uud Eskimos lie also discovered
I similar resemblances in their native
dances.
The project of improving the Ii ar
mor of St. Thomas iu tho Danish
West Indies by a state-subsidized
lompany lias been abandoned aud
the work will be don.- by private cap
ital. a large share of which is likely
to he furnished by America.
It was found that the government
restrictions hampered the company,
mid tho Danish capitalists, headed by
Prince Vnldcuinr, have concluded to
act us a private corporation.
Under this new plan American
capitalists are taking ait active In
terest in the formation of the com
pany, and It !h quite likely that the
directorate will he largely In their
hands.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
( The Balkans are tired of having
iCeiitral America monopolize the rev
[olutlnii Imslness.—Boston Journal.
I Wonder what old Omar Khayyam
would say to the "strangling or Per
sia."— New York American.
That tho kaiser and the crown
prince arc at odds is merely an evi
dence that tile one Is getting old and
the other impatient.—New York
Woi Id.
With steel guffs on its rudiuien
ary spurs tile dove of peace Is cir
cling nl>o\c the Mexican battlefields
littering shrieks of defiance. —Chi-
cago News.
EXPRESS CO. FAILS
TO PAY A DIVIDEND
New York, Oct. 2!*.—Tin* Foilte.l
States Express Company today passed
its semi-annual dividend of 83 a
share. The establishment of the par
rels |H.st aud u decrease In the com
pany's earnings during the last fiscal
car were among the reasons ui\<*n
by the directors for thef allure lo
leclnre the dividend.
How’s This?
Wt offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any ca.no of Catarrh that
cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY 4k CO.. Tolcd \ O.
tTe. tho undersigned, have known I* J.
Cheney for the last 15 yearn, and believe
him perfectly honorable l:t nil huslne-v
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation* mr.de by Ids firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMEr.CH.
Tot-Jo. O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure In taken Interni!!*-.
acting directly upon the blood and m»-
cous surfaces rf the system. Testimonl •' t
■'nt fm**\ I’rlr *75 cents per bottl". .*» M
by nlt T'ruTJrtata.
Take XlaU'a raa.ly Pills for eonMipaUou.