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SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1901.
We wonder if the Farrel Foundry
company of Ansonia is at all im
pressed with the fact of practicing
' the rankest kind of "paternalism" in
its business by the feeding and
housing of its men in its own work
shops ? Besides if this isn't "sweat
shop" labor what is it ? But it all
depends on who owns the courts.
Sometime, perhaps, when the great
, body of workingmen turn their at
tention to the "study of political
economy away from, the hazardous
and impotent policy of the trade
union and the strike if they ever
will -things may be different.
We are much impressed with the
belief that the Toledo judge who
recently fined Mayor Jones $5 for
contempt of court, because of afsking
a convicted prisoner before the bar
to show his hands and whether he
was in possession of a bank account,
was somewhat disgusted with his
bravery after receiving that letter
from the serene magistrate thanking
him for the illustration given of why
there existed a general contempt ot
court the country over. Such a man
in office in this perverted,
1 ,' '. 1 7'-- -i- . ' - aWT --"TY'
-eotiTitrv" as bamuei rrot,--,-;
refreshing to contemplate as the
proverbial green oasis in the sand
choking desert. 1
Speaking of the hot weather we
might have learnt from the papers
that "All records for hot weather
in St. Louis were broken today
(July 21,) the weather bureau ther
mometer on the custom house regis
tering 108 degrees. On the streets
and exposed places the mercury
went many , degrees higher, . This
was the day named by Gov. Dockery
for fasting and prayer that drought
might be broken in Missouri. The
call was generally observed." But
there was nothing said as to whether
the fasting and-prayer had brought
the desjred result, and it can be
hardly claimed that silence is to be,
taken for assent.
So Mayor Johnson of Cleveland
on his stirring up of the tax dodgers
has finally run against his old friend
Mark Hanna. And unless Hanna is
still more omnipotent than he is con
sidered to x be Johnson will take a
fall out of him this time. In fact it
is "up to" Hanna already to show
cause why his street car company
shouldn't pay taxes on $6,000,000 in
stead of on $595,000. His lawyers
and managers were seemingly unable
to do this out of court so will have
to try to do it in court, unless the
great political manager finds discre
tion the better part of valor and
gracefully succumbs. How he must
love the brand of democracy as dis
played by Tom L. Johnson. Unlike
that of David B. Hill's vit doesn't
have to be labeled to know it's there.
To continue the great "prosperity"
that the nation has been enjoying
under the administration of Presi
dent McKinley, we should think
j that he would now be paying more
attention to the threatened destruc
tion of the Western crops by drought
and employ his all-powerful influ
ence with the Lord or the weather
bureau on behalf of his afflicted peo
ple. If our good president has been
the cause of the bountiful harvests
in the past that have vouchsafed the
country such a blessed era of pros
perity as the politicians tell us about,
surely there are some people among
us who will be now holding him re
sponsible in the event of short crops,
poor crops or no crops at all. It
looks like a culpable disregard of
duty for the great man to be now
taking a vacation on full pay
while matters and things are in such
woeful jeopardy.
President Shaffer of the strik
ing steel workers of the big Morgan
syndicate threatens to carry the fight
to the ballot box if the syndicate is
to continue keeping up its opposition
to the men. And the way he pro
poses to do it is to antagonize the
Republican party. He seemingly be
gins to realize that that party is the
foster mother of the trusts, and if he
can only scare its manipulators in
fhis way that they will prevail on
Morgan to give up the fight rather
than see the party hurt. Mr. Shaffer
says that he himself has been a Re
publican all along, but if this is the
way that ''protection to American
labor" is going to operate under the
party's administration it is about
time to seek for some other affilia
tion. At least this is what he says in
substance. We are of the opinion
that Mr. Shaffer has spoken too late.
The Republican party is now safely
anchored for another three years at
least, and its managers ,know the
workingrjnan -well .enough to realize
that his memory, politically, is never
long enough to carry him over three
weeks. . '
IS IT A FORLORN HOPE ?
It is announced that Lee Meri
wether of St. Louis has withdrawn
his contest proceedings of the may
oralty election, the court having de
cided that it couldn't go behind the
returns in a recount of the ballots.
The sacredness of the secret ballot
is the excuse given, notwithstanding
it was a generally acknowledged fact
that 15,000 fraudulent ballots might
be found within the boxes.' It was
thus virtually contended that the
secrecy of the ballot was of more im
portance than the honesty of the
vote. Even granting this to be so,
which of course no one believes, we
are at a loss to realize how a recount
the v ballots was , going to vitiate
Soi the circumstances now all indi
cate that Mr. Meriwether was elect
ed mayor' of ; the great city of St.
Louis instead of Rolla Wells, whose
supremacy at the time was heralded
all over the land as a rebuke to
"Bryanism" by the Democratic
party itself. And none did this
more exultingly than our own "re
spectable," "conservative" and ex
ceedingly virtuous Connecticut Hart
ford Times. '
With such illustrations as this be
fore us of the futility of the ballot it
self who will dare to meet the phil
osophical Anarchist in his argument
against the whole voting business,
and that law instead of being the
"handmaid of justice" has become
the "mother of crime ? " Yet Mr.
Meriwether is now leading a state
movement which it isv intended
shall become nationalized-where
the ballot is to be depended on to
oust the horde of rascals now in
control and make room for the ad
ministration of honest men. It
sometimes looks as if such an effort
were only a forlorn hope.
A POSSIBLE GLEAM OF HIND
SIGHT. News from the storm center of
the strike in Connecticut Ansonia,
had it Monday that the strikers
were about forming a tax league to
get back at the Farrel Foundry Co.
for its injunction proceedings against
them. The tax list of the firm is
given at $650,000, whereas the strik
ers make the point that the company
recently claimed to have $1,000,000
invested in the plant.
While the aphorism of "better late
than never," may very nicely apply
in this case, yet it would be much
more creditable to the sagacity of
these men to have done this thing
before the strike commenced. And
doubtless it will not now amount to
any more than the threat. Surely
not if the strike is soon settled.
Those strikers will then resume
their old position of indifference as
to the inequalities of taxation. This
is a matter implying the necessity for
some political thought and action
and the average workman has no
time to devote to anything in this
direction. That is left to the pro
fessional politicians who in turn
give them a Gager to levy -in j unc
tions against them when they ask
for a little better compensation for
their labor or that the hours of toil
be a little less.
However, we earnestly hope that
we may be mistaken in our estimate
of these striking workmen and that
at last they have got their eyes open
to the fact that their indifference to
political thought and action in the
past has been the cause of all their
industrial troubles, and that they
have resolved to turn over a new
leaf in the application of future rem
edies. As we finish this article the post
man brings a letter from the troubled
district from an old veteran in the
cause of industrial and political re
form who evidently feels The
Examiner as deserving of practical
as well as moral support, from the
"sample" of U. S currency en
closed -saying, "We are having
quite a lively time here and in Derby
over the strike of the machinists and
the political injunctions and arrests
for contempt of court, etc. I think
it -will be a fine educator in the long
run." Perhaps so if it doesn't run
too long, for the average working
man has a very short memory. " .
Later Word comes that the
strike has been settled on the basis
of conditions as existing when it
commenced so we shall doubtless
hear no more of the political project,
UNDER AWRONG IMPRES
SION. William J. Bryan, whether in re
tirement or ahead of the procession,
seems to possess all the attributes of
a great leader. This is mainly be
cause of his cool head, his honesty
of purpose and devotion to princi
ple. "We see that even in the flat
tery of the situation where a bolt
was suggested on his behalf tm ac
count of anf imagined slight by re
actionary politicians again v in con
trol, he counsels patience and an
abiding faith in the party in general,
putting his seal of disapproval on the
suggested movement! And -most
likely he does this so as to afford
every hope possible to the success of
the Tohnson ' resolutions in the
.aopte4-a'tinr-au--oX4hiiJ
real democracy"; v ' - r - .-.'v
But it seems that we in the East
have been given a. wrong impression
entirely 'as to the animus of thQhiO
convention in neglecting to Prefer to;
Mr, Bryan and the Kansas j City
platform in its resolutions, and purf
posely so by the , plutocratic preisjof
both so-called great parties: JfThe
repudiation of' Bryan - and what they
are pleased to term "Bryanism'j'was;,
all that these papers would havethe"
people see in the results of that
gathering. But from an interyiew
of Mayor Johnson as published in
the Cleveland Plaindealer we learn
otherwise. Here are his words
I am just as ardent an admirer of
William Jennings Bryan as I ever
was, and I stand in the same position
on the silver, question that I, formerly
did.' T do not believe that the adtibri
of the ! Democratic state convention
was a repudiation of Mr. Bryan at
all; it simply indicated that the con
vention wanted this fall the battle
fought out on strictly state issuesv'
This not being a presidential year
there was no reason why any refer;'
ence should -be made to either the
Kansas -City platform or to . Mr.
Bryan. The Eastern papers have
carried strong accounts about the re
pudiation of Bryan and silver by the
Ohio Democrats, but I do not believe
that Ohioans see it that way atalK
However, there is little doubt that
there were so-called Democrats at
this convention who have no use for
the democracy of Mr. Bryan and
would like to get rid of him and his
principles, as representative of the
Democratic party. Here extremes
happened to meet in the policy of
silence on national issues. Accord
ing to our way of looking at it the
Johnson position is logical. If there
are no national questions involved in
the coming election in Ohio then
reference to national issues is un
called for. It would be much better
if the same policy could prevail in all
our elections, citizens taking sides on
questions as they may arise uninflu
enced by party name or party affilia
tions. And this is why we believe in the
great desideratum of the Referendum
policy in our government. It would
ensure us just this condition of
things. Then each question or issue
would be discussed and settled on its
own merits away from the cdtnplica-
tions, stultifications or perplexities of
other considerations.
N. P.S.B..C. AT DETROIT
THE SECOND MEETING OF ALL KINDS
OF REFORMERS.
Ella. Ormsbr Telia Her Impression
of the Men and Women at the Con
' ference and' the Varloi) Meuorei
They Advocated.
Special Correspondence.
The second national political and so
cial reform conference at Detroit was
larger than the first at Buffalo. It was
an attempt of reformers to make them
selves better understood to each other
and to the world. It lasted from June
28 to July 4.
In no city could the conference have
been better understood than in the
home of the late Governor Pingree un
less indeed a city could be found where
some newspapers would be less frivo
lous at the expense of the conference.
The maydr. welcomed the conference,
expressing his belief in its general pur
poses. Between 20 and 30 churches ap
plied for conference speakers for their
pulpits on Sunday, and on the Fourth
of July imperialism and'monopoly were
very appropriately treated on the parks
of the city.
The Sunday theme, "How Can We
Bring More of Heaven to Earth
Through Shorter Hours and Better
Wages, Through Kindergartens, Parks,
Playgrounds and Every Public Com
fort?" was interesting to the public be
cause of the object lessons which were
obtained by "Michigan's greatest man."
A little newsboy politely passed to
me the first tin cup of cold water at a
picturesque fountain. "Pingree got us
this," he said. That was on the dark
day when Pingree's body was being
received by thousands at city hall. It
is said that Pingree's plan on which he
was working when he died for reforest
ing the state will be put in operation by
the state forester. If so, it will extend
to other states and do untold good. The
3 cent car fare on Tom Johnson's road
Is an illustrated, illuminated textbook
on political economy which the sleepi
est intellect likes. '
Stories of Pingree are told gratefully
everywhere. He was the first man to
borrow vacant land for the unemployed
to cultivate, the city furnishing seed
and fertilizers." The unemployed were
not patronized on "Pingree's potato
patch." A woman described to me Pin
gree's speech in Morgan Wood's church,
where he told to thousands of people
how he had been induced to go to New
York to meet a leather dealer, who
proved to be a New York millionaire, C.
P. Huntington, who was interested In
Detroit gas. He was offered $75,000,
then $100,000, to stop fighting for city
ownership of gas. Pingree refused that
and the offered railroad passes and re
turned in indignation. , A city lighting
plant was established, but the legisla
ture has forbidden the city lights to be
used in private houses, In a newspaper
which confused the issues so that Pin
gree had to put out bulletin boards ' of
his own we read now, ?'When we re
member how defeat and discourage
ment had no power to dismay his spirit
or dampen his ardor in the people's
cause, how in the face of personal sor
row his energies were still alive and
alert to meet every, menace to popular
rights, we are inspired anew to follow
where he led." Some one will say it is
inconsistent to notice the doings of one
who "held his nose," as he said, while
he tolerated monopolists in national
polities for the sake of an opportunity
to fight the same in his own state.
There are some large light places in our
civilization. Do we need to cultivate
insanity by always gazing on the black
ness of darkness? But to return to the
conference. Tom Johnson responded to
the mayor's welcome. His eyes filled
with tears when he referred to the
dead governor. As mayor of Cleveland
and in the state campaign he is trying
to cure the habit of taxing people any
where from 3 per cent up to 110 per
cent, sometimes the size of the taxes
varying in inverse proportion to wealth.
The mayor reffirreL-tq his having left
the pursuit of wealth to attend to pub
lic affairs. Pdt&o&i&irs certainly need
the organizing ability of men , whose
talent is in that direction. A strong,
sympathetic, happy face is Tom John
son's, which, with his democratic man
ners and great business ability, ought
to give him a good opportunity to influ
ence men and measures.
Mr. Eltweed Pomeroy of Newark, N.
J., who has used all his leisure for ten
years pushing the initiative and refer
endum, was the general manager of the
conference. He was happy in the fact
that the impracticable Swiss novelty of
ten years ago is adopted now In Utah
and South Dakota and piecemeal in
other localities. A determined set of
men are leagued together to apply the
initiative and referendum antidote to
"ripper" legislatures You would never
believe that a legislature corrupted by
the poison of monopoly would take the
antidote. But sometimes it happens
that they have to, as they had to take
the Australian ballot, after awhile. A
Detroit physician who spoke for the
league had stereotyped into his quiet
face: "You will have to take this dose!
Ultimately you will have to!"
The nonpartisan, golden rule Mayor
Jones of Toledo sometimes quotes
poetry when you expect him to talk
politics. Then when you might expect
him to retire to the woods like . a
Thoreau he works up big majorities
In his own city. "I know why people I
like you," said the impulsive little
deaconess from Memphis. "It's be
cause you don't dress up." I thought
his dress not conspicuous either way,
but I think he wins by being so non
partisan that partisans will unstop
their ears and listen to his doctrine of
public ownership. He can help any
party for any purpose that he believes
in, but he will not "belong to" a party. '
Frank Monnett, now ex-attorney gen
eral of Ohio, with "ex" accented,
would defend the people, his services
having been engaged for them and
they paying his salary. But such a
course did not meet the approval of
the Standard Oil; hence the ex. Mr.
Monnett came from Columbus to
aid us.
Public Lighting Commissioner In
gram of Detroit spoke for us and gave
away copies of his valuable pamphlet,
"Governmental Ownership of Public
Utilities." .
Congressman Lentz Is several sizes
larger physically than the two large
mayors. His speeches deliver more for
cibly than they read. An Ohio school
teacher warned us not to believe In
him, as she had heard he was a politi
cian, but she changed her mind and as
sured us he was all right. The newspa
pers complained that he mistook his
Fourth of July audiences for radical re
formers, and on the other hand Editor
Simons of The International Socialist
Review denounced his allusion to Bis
marck as a man who had introduced
workmen's insurance by the state and
other socialistic measures into Germa
ny. Lentz gave this example to illus
trate that when the people are deter
mined on anything they will get It
somehow. But the Socialist Labor par
ty believe that relief measures intro
duced by old parties only act as bribes
to put off the revolution. As Walter
Thomas Mills of Chicago expressed It,
"We ought to let things go to the devil
as fast as they can," until people are
tired of competition and ready to usher
in the co-operative commonwealth.
Marie C. Bfehm, a stately Chicago
woman, spoke for woman's suffrage,
for the W. C. T. TJ. and incidentally
against the war In the Philippines and
for economic reform. She created much
enthusiasm, there being few women
speakers.
One of the most important speeches
of the conference was that of the Hon.
George Fred WilHains of Boston, who
gave it as his opinion that public own
ership would go into the next platform
of the Democratic party. He believed
that, While the machinery was corrupt,
in some cities and other localities, the
mass of Democrats favored good
things.
Professor Bemis spoke on the good
works of labor organizations, supply
ing the place of a labor leader who
was unable to be present. He remark
ed about college presidents ..being In
fluenced in their economic views by the
banquets which were given them by
the very rich." This was sensationally
reported in the papers headed, "Pro
fessor Bemis' Bitter Attack," etc. The
professor remarked privately that he
sometimes wondered if he' had horns
growing on his forehead, no college in
the country wishing to employ him
again as a professor of political econo
my. You will recollect that several
years ago Mr. Rockefeller's Chicago
university found him incompetent to
teach political "economy because he be
lieved the city of Chicago should have
the right to, manufacture its gas: That
right was Mr. Rockefeller's; also Pro
fessor. Bemis, ;Was,. tiendly with labor
organizations 7 He .. is' still friendly to
labor, he still believes that ' cities
should own gas, and - he. ; has helped
cities all over the country to. get their
lighting into their own hands. He
was assured that he had no horns, but
that his careful estimates and plain,
calm statements of facts were more
dangerous than horns.
Mr. McA. Miller spoke for Ruskins
college, where boys and girls earn'
nearly all their own living while they
study. Ruskins may grow fast enough
to take displaced college professors as
fast as the old colleges find them un
sound in economics.
Fortunately, however, not all who be
lieve as Professor Bemis does are dis
placed. Professor Parsons has long
had his place in the Boston university
law school, although he was introduced
as "the man who has done more for
public ownership of monopolies than
any man in this country." Except Mr.
Pomeroy he seemed to be the busiest
man. He was wanted on the confer
ence platform, in the parks, in the pul
pits and on committees to draft reso
lutions, and in the suffocating heat h
had to stop and draft a will appointing
a self perpetuating board of , trustees
for funds to aid political reform. From
there he went to the congress of re
ligions at Buffalo, and he will skip
across the water to study the railroads
of several countries.
Leaving a will for the benefit of polit
ical reform Is a new idea. Missionary
societies, humane and educational so
cieties are constant recipients of the
trust of their adherents. Why not the
all inclusive cause of political reform!
Imperialism had no friends at the
conference. Woman's suffrage had no
enemies. On prohibition there was dif
ference of opinion, but all were against
the liquor in the soldiers' canteen.
There was almost, unanimous agree
ment that the initiative and referen
dum and the public ownership of mo
nopolies were Inevitable and desirable,
but as to how to get them there was, to
put it mildly, a difference of opinion.
Courtesy, however, ruled in the meet
ings. Whether to carry one's principles to
every person and party, gaining a hear
ing by being nonpartisan, whether to
stay in whatever party one is in and
work for the reform there among party
friends, whether to choose the largest
party that seems to promise any re
form measure and help it to win, al
ways trying to turn the balance for re
form in that party, punishing in the
caucuses those who do the wrong
thing, or whether to go Into a little par
ty whose adherents agree on reform,
hoping to win the millions from the old
parties, these are the questions on
which from the nature of the case,
from the very temperament of people,
from the different localities in which
they live, they must needs differ.
All these ways of doing will be good
If only people wiU recognize-their allies
and never point their weapons at any
excepf monopoly, the enemy of all man
kind. Ella Objisby.
New Salem, Mass.
LOW FARES ' FOR WORKER3
European OAtl-raxs That Girt Re
dactions to Laborers.
There is some Interesting Information
in a recently published parliamentary
report containing the replies to a dis
patch which Lord Salisbury sent to the
British representatives In Bulgaria;' .
France and Germany asking for infor
mation concerning the facilities for lo
comotion and the special fares accord
ed to workingmen In the neighborhood
of the large cities. It appears that on.
the Belgian state railways a single
journey ticket good for six working:
days for any distance within three
miles or a little more costs a trifle over
10 cents. Beyond that the prices In
crease in a slightly decreasing propor
tion. For instance, the charge for a 7
mile journey is not quite 3. cents per
trip, or about 17 cents for six. For re
turn tickets the corresponding prices
are rather less than double. Seven day
tickets can be obtained, but Sunday;
traveling is slightly discouraged by a
rather higher rate. There is a special "
tariff for greater 'distances, the maxi-i
mum being about 62 miles: A working
man, however, can'travel 25 miles dal
ly 'from Monday to Saturday for about
40 cents a week.- To claim "these ad van-r
rages he must be engaged on manual'
not artistic work under' the order' of
others. Similar reductions are made by;:
most of the private railway companies; :
and the fares on light railways and'
tramways are also lowered at any'
rate, before and after certain hours of
the day. ; .
In France and Germany also the gen-.
uine workingman obtains passes valid ;
during certain hours at a considerable
reduction, amounting sometimes to as
much as 80 per cent. In France tram
way companies are not bound to lower
their fares for work people and as a
rule have not done so, but the running,
of special cars for them has been made
obligatory in some recent charters.
Similar principles are adopted in Ger
many, and special cheap trains for,
workingmen have been run on several
of the London suburban roads for a
long time with satisfactory financial
results. . In this case of course the con
cessions o the companies are .volun-,
tary. It Is plain that the only practica
ble way of relieving the congestion of
the tenement districts in great cities is
by enabling the workmen who Inhabit
them to live at a greater distance from
business centers, in . localities where .
space is more ample and rents more 1
reasonable, by. providing, them1 with -cheap
regular , and moderately rapid
means of transportation. Private rail
road enterprise cannot be expected to
compete in cheap service with; those,
which are controlled or subsidized by .
the state, but there Is a vast discrepan- t
cy between the 5 cents minimum of our
transit systems and the continental
rates. New York Post, ; , ,
The decision of the New "York court ..
of . appeals that the eight hour law Is
constitutional helps to. put the city In
its right position as a model employer
of labor. It is too late to say that a
day of eight hours is too short in itself.
That is the legal limit in Australia and .
New Zealand not only for public but for
private employers. It is the universal
rule in this country in a number of :
trades. "The only reason why it has
not been adopted in all is that In some
trades selfish', employers have been -;
strong enough to resist it. :,. , ,
But no such consideration can apply -to
a city government. It is the duty of
such a government to set ah example.
The men it employs directly and the
men its contractors employ ought to '
have just such treatment as the major
ity of its people think should be given ,
to workmen in general. . v - -
A government is not obliged to rule
itself entirely by commercial consldera- ;
tions. When it puts up a public library,- :
it does " not need to grind down its :
workmen forfear .Mr. ,Carnegiemay
put up a competing library cheaper.
When Mr. Lentilhon took the contract
for removing the Bryant park reser- ;
voir, he knew all about the conditions
of the work. He knew that it was not
a commercial Job he was figuring on, l.
but a public one, governed by the eight
hour law. Presumably he took that '
Into account in his, bid. Yet af ter se- .
curing the contract at a price that
would pay him a profit under the eight
hour rule he tried to squeeze another
profit out of his men by enforcing.. the
rigors of the competitive grind. Fortu-
nately there are still courts "in New
York, and he has failed. New York
Journal.
Must Show Union Label.
"Let me look Into your hat, please."
"I must also inspect your clothing.
"Now, take off your shoes, while I
look inside for the union label."
Hereafter delegates to the Central
Federated union cannot pass into its
weekly meetings without examination
on the above lines, spoken by the ser- .
geant-at-arms, who is instructed by res
olution adopted three months ago to in
spect every labor representative's hat,' . ,
coat, pants and shoes and to deprive,. ,
him of both seat and vote in the body .
unless he can show by the label that
his clothing is union made.
It was suspected that " many loud ,
voiced champions of fair conditions of'
employment were not really practicing
what they preached, and the resolu
tion was passed to test the sincerity of
all who come to the Central Federated
union as representatives of the princi
ples of trade unionism. - ... , '
No one voted against the resolution,
and so the new law and the penalty,
for Its violation are self imposed.
Therefore It will be bad grace for any
body to kick about the future condi
tions of delegateship, and, as all have '
bad three months in which to pxxpare
for the ordeal of personal inspection,
there should not be much heavy worK
for the sergeant-at-arms next week. t
New York Evening Journal. .'' '.