Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 July 1898 — Page 7
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CRAWFORDSVILLE. INDIANA. SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1898.
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
First of a Series of Articles on This
Interesting Question from the Pen
of an Able Jurist.
En. REVIEW:— There is an important question in social politics that bas been in agitation for many years which the public and political newspapers seem very backward about discussing.
grows
jn import
ance and cannot much longer be ignored. The public through their legislatures must act upon and decide the question. The matter I refer to is should the law provide a court or a board of arbitration to decide controversies between employees and employers in cases where there is a strike or what is known as a "lock out."
The question is of vast importance. Millions of money have been lost in Strikes hundreds of lives lost in suppressing such disturbances the State has beeo put to great expense in providing a military force to be ready for protection of property in such emergencies. Arid yef, singular as it may appear, the men who are responsible for these out-breaks are not held or treated as criminals. They are not punished, although force may be used in coercing them, and the law abiding public sj mpathise with the agitators they are aiming to suppress.
When we look these facts squarely in the face we know there is something wrong. If the men who organize and join strikes and disturb the public peace and resort to force and violence because their employer will not do as they wish if they are clearly in the wrong, and if they have no just grievance they should be treated and punished as other criminals. If they are good citizens and have a just cause for complaint, the law ought to afford them a remedy and not compel a man to resort to force and violence to secure a right which the law should always be ready to award him. Another anomoly is involved in the case. All strikes and boycotts originate from organized labor. We know the strike and boycott are not passiveinstruments. They are intended to inflict pain and injury to punish the object they are inflicted upon, yet the law holds the organization to be legal and right, and the very object for which they are used, that is to inflict aB injury upon another, is wrong and illegal. It is high time an intelligent community was relieved from this absurd and ridiculous state of affairs.
The proposition we propose to discuss was stated as distinctly as it could be made. In the great strike at the Carnegie steel works a few years ago, the employees of the company—about four thousand in number—had quit work and were doing all in their power to prevent tbe company employing others to take their pLces. A delegation of the workmen waited on Mr. Prick, the munager of tbe company, with a proposition to submit the subject of controversy to arbitration. In other words to go into court and have their rights legally determined.
Mr. Krick very cooly told them he had nothing to 'arbitrate. If they did not like the terms of his employment they could quit and leave the premises, and he would employ others in their place. This is a leading case in this class of disputes. The whole proposition is fairly stated, and the same conditions have occurred yearly in hundreds of instances and yet with only some feeble and uneffective efforts o' the legislature to solve the problem, the war yet goes on.
The man whose destiny in life seems lixed by his surroundings, that is he must during his life be an employe of some persons or corporation carrying on the business in which he is skilled and adapted to, or otherwise he is denied the proper resources for a livelihood. If such is his condition he knows that first ho must join some organization composed of men of his class who, by their united force, by all means fair or foul will enable him to resist the dominating influence his employer that has the power to reduce him to a condition but little short of absolute servitude. And this is but the ordinary condition of a vast concourse of free American citizens! On the other hand the employer, who is the capitalist, is placed under circumstances equally embarrassing. He say-e that he is compelled to sell bis goods on the market in competition with every producer of the same quality ofjproducts, and therefore he must be allowed to employ labor and buy raw material in the competing market. lie says that if he knew before hand what his labor was to cost him, he would then determine whether he would produce the goodB or not. But if he is compelled at any time to increa prices at the dictation ot labor organizations, he will be invariably robbed of all BbBre in the profits of tne bueinfet j.^Thiaproplem is both untried
•ind difficult, but it must he studied and wrought out, and that is tl task now before us. II.
A RAILWAY ACCIDENT
In
Which Frank McBee, of Near
Kirkpatrick, is Killed.
1' rank McBee, a fireman on the Clover •Leaf railway, and son of Wm. McBee, a well known farmer residing south of Kirkpatrick, was killed at a place on the line known as Silverwood, DeHr Frankfort, on Friday last. Whil^ coming down a steep grade the track spread overthrowing the engine and both McBee and the engineer were thrown under it and instantly killed. Their bodie? remained under it for three hours before they were taken out. McBee had been married only about five months, marrying Miss Georgia Funk, a school teacher of Madison wnship. He was burried on Sunday last-
II. R. Tinsley & Co., sold last Monday three Birdsell wagonu to Wm. Z. McBee and eons.
Good for Dr. Barcus.
A gentleman just returned from Chickamauga in an int rview in the Indianapolis Sentinel says: "You remember Dr. Barcus, of Craw fordsville, over whose appointment to the hospital surgical stHff there was such a kick and such heaps of criticism were hurled at the governor? Well, all of that over now. The boys no longer have any kick coming on Barcus. He has conducted himself in such a way that every man in the regiment would stand ii]i and fight for him at the drop of the hat. They all love him like a brother, itisuue to him in a very considerable degree that the health of the regiment is as good as it is. He is one of the most persistent fellows in caring for and looking alter the sick you could imagine. It seems as if he knows the minute one of the bojs is indisfoted and he does not wait for him to be brought up to the regimental hospital quarters, but picks up his medicine box and hustles down the line to call on the sick fellow and fix him up. There was some talk for awhile of moving him away from the regiment, in fact the papers were all made out, but the boys got word of it and every man irom the colonel down raised such a kick that he was retained."
Shoveled Coal for Two Hours.
In speaking of the trip of the Indiana volunteer signal corpB from Indianapolis to Washington last Sunday a correspondent to the Sentinel tells the following interesting bit of news of a couple of Crawfordsville boys who are members of the corps: 'White and Duncan, of Crawfordsville, attempted to sing "On the Banks of the Wabash," but were driven from the cars by the rest of the corps. They got on the head end of the mail car, and the fireman, thinking they were hobos,, compelled them to shovel coal for nearly two hours,. At Tunnelton, W. Va., they were relieved of their work and once more allowed to ride in the coaches."
The Big Store is continuing the great rebuilding sale in temporary quarters in t|je Y. M. C. A. armory, west Main st.
Cione to the Philippines.
W. S. McBroom, who once taught school at this place but who later went to West Point Military School and graduated, is now on his way to Manila. Alter he was graduated he was sent to a po^t near El Paso, Texas. Later he went to a fort in the west, then to Brooklyn and soon be will be on duty in the I'hilipinee. He is second lieutenant and it is to be hoped that he will have ihe opportunity of displaying his soldierly abilities and winning distinction,—New Richmond Enterprise.
Oar Boys Will Walk Back.
The base ball club has now practically disbanded, as Mr. Scbultz is not certain whether he will get the team together again or not. All the play rs who w* re released, except Bryan, have left the city and the pay of the others has stopped. Nearly all those left here are exceedingly anxious to get out of town but cannot leave on account of lack of funds. The truth is that they are stranded.—Michigan City News.
The Teachers' Institute.
Supt. Walkup has completed his arrangement for the teachers' institute which wilmte held here the first week in August. State Librarian, W. E. Henry, and Prof. Arnold Tompkins, of the Uni^•errfty of Illinois, will be the instructors and are undoubtedly the beBt talent ever secured here for this work. Mr,
Henry will teach the reading work and Prof. Tompkins will instruct on matters pertaining to the profsesion of teaching.
Annual "clean up" sale on wall paper BOW on at the 99c Store. .,,5^.,™™^^,
ESTIMATE REDUCED,
The Wheat Crop is Put at $5,000,-
000 Bushels Less in Indiana.
Indianapolib News: Dealers in wheat have reached the conclusion within the last few days that the Indiana wheat crop will fall jj.OOO.OOO below the estimated yield, The fml normal crop is 4o,000,000 bujhels. One week ago tbe estimate for this year was 40,000,000 To-day it is 35,000 bushels. The crop will nearly all be in the shock by the end of the week, and the threshing has begun in some localities. The dealers who had been confident that the yield would be within 5,000,000 of a full crop, and the grain of the best quality, were surprised to find grain of poor quality coming in from several localities. The grain, the doalers say, is marketable, and will make good flour, but it is shriveled.
"1 have reduced my estimate from 40,000,000 bushels to :$5,000,000 bushels," said Fred P. Rush to-day. "The wheat in some localities is not yielding as we expected, and some of the samples we are receiving show that the grain is badly shriveled, I can account for it but oue way. About two weeks ago the temperature went down very low one night, and that low temperature was followed by an exceedingly high temperature the next day it was ill or 02 here in Indianapolis. I cannot use a better expression than to say that the unmatured grain died. I have consulted with other dealers and they have reached the same conclusion—that the cold night followed by the unusual hot day caused the trouble. The era in seems to have been damaged in tpots. Our samples from some counties are all right, while from others the grain is badly shriveled, showig that it did not come to full maturity."
The dealers say that a crop of 35,000,000 bushels will bring a large sum of money into the state. The new crop is etarting to move here at prices in the neighborhood of 75 cents, and the impression is that the price will not go below GO cents. Ihe crop, at 00 cents a bushel, is worth 821,000,000—a sum of money, it is pointed out, that ought to go a long way toward relieving the farmers of the state from mortgage indebtedness. The indications are that if the price stays between 60 and 70 cents, the farmers will sell most of the crop directly from tbe thresher, and the shippers and the railroads are making preparatious for moving the crop speedily. Within the last few days long lines of box cars have been placed on Bidings in and near the city so that cars may be promptly furnished to the local buyers throughout the state.
Taken all together the outlook for farmers is said to be unusually bright. Corn never promised a bigger crop in thiB state, and the agriculturists say it is so far along that nothing could prevent its full maturity except an unusual drought. Men who have been out over the state say, too, that they cannot recall when the farmers owned more live stock, and it is understood that the great corn crop will nearly all be consumed in fattening this stock.
COLORED TROOPS.
Ten of Our Boys Go to Indianapolis
to Enter the U. S. Army.
Lieut. Wm. Bess, of Co. A, colored volunteers, was in the city last week recruiting soldiers for the colored companies now being raised in this State. The quota expected from this place was fifteen but only ten could be induced to enlist as follows: Ed Hawkins. Arch Wilson, Chas. Deirickson, Benj. Maize, Ed Glover,
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Wm. Pierce, Fred Johnson, Wm. Wooten, Ruble Wilson, Benj. Hickman.
The boys were taken to Indianapolis
Saturday for examination.
The Big Store is continuing tbe great rebuildinrkeale in temporary quarters in the Y. MrU. A. armory, west Main st.
'2 DeathFrom Sun Stroke.
The first death from surtstroko took place last Friday night on Fremont street, the victim being Bryan Shevlin. He became overheated while st work near the Junction, went Ijome and complained of feeling unwell, laid down on 1 his bed and in a few honrs was a corp •. He was burried on Monday foren -os from the Catholic church.
Cut sale Store.
on wall paper at tt (a!# ft
Prof. J. L. Campbell and A. dereon, with their families, are c: ing their cottage at the Pine Hill--
Gross earnings of the Monoi fourth week of June were $87.0tt crease of 17,325 over the figure-j, same week last year. For t«. year the groee earnings were 83,.'f an increase of 1438,134 over tt ingi for the previous year.
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57TH YEAH.-NO 47.
MUTTON LOSES HIS CASE
Jury Returns a Verdict In Favor
the Plaintiff for $3,659.39.
After a long drawn mt trial, lasting oyer five weeks, and involving both plaintiff and defendant in a large amount ot expense, the case of the county commissioners against ex treasurer. J. u. Ilutton, and his bondsmen, terminated late Saturday night by the jury bringing in the following verdicts "We. the jury, find for the plaintiff as agaiut-t the defendants who signed and executed tbe bond for the first term for the defendant, Hutton, as treaourer and we atsess his damages against such defendants in the
Bum
of $788.10 and
we find for the plaintiff as against the defendants who signed and executed the bond for the second term of the defendant, Hutton, as treasurer, and we assess his damages against sucb defendants in the sum of S2.871.27l..
JOHN D. BROWX, Foreman."
Ihere had beeu much fpeculation as what the verdict would be, as also considerable raukoroua feeling aroused during the progress of the trial. Hutton was represented on the trial by Wright & Seller*. Johnston A: Johnston, and John L. Schrum, while the county's interest in the matter was attended to by Crane & Anderson and Kennedy &. Kennedy. The examination of the experts employed by the county, and likewise those in the interest of Hutton, occupied a large portion of the time. Some of the jury were in favor offa small verdict of only £100 against Hutton, others favored a judgment of the full amount claimed by the commissioners. By compromise the above amount of 83,*. G.")0.,'J7, it was finally determined should be the amount the defendant should return to the county treasury. Politically the jury stood seven democrats and five republicans. The jury having all the evidence aB it did is probably much more competent to do justice in the matter than those away from the trial, and h-snce we are to conclude that the verdict is correct and satisfactory to the tax-payers. The judgment, attorney fees aud other costs mav probably cut a hole into Mr. Hutton's pocket bock to the amount of near $G,000.
If the county has gained anything by the suit, it may be interesting to know just what it is. The experts' cost for their services is over 52,000, the county pays the jury and sheriff's expenses, besides Bonnell and Maxwell will claim a good share of money for their work in the case. It is probable that the judgment in favor of the couoty will be entirely consumed in footing up the expsnses ot the trial.
The Nickum Light.
Niokum, the perpetual light man, of -Logansport, has gotten his advertising bureau in good working order again and the newspapers have been full of stories regarding his wonderful discoverv. In the meantime money has been pouring in by the cart load and the eccentric inventor will probably give up the hermit life he has been leading. Developments in the last few weeks have stimulated the confidence of a good many people. Among other things was the visit of a postoffice inspector who insisted that Nickum should satisfy him that he was not using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The inspector was given an opportunity to examine iickum's invention and what opinion he formed of it has not been made public. However, Nickum has not been disturbed by the postoffice officials. He has four stenographers constantly employed and bis bill for postage is enormous.
Burglars Abroad.
Burglars had quite a gay time out in the east end Sunday night. They began operations by effecting an entrance into the residence of Maurice Thompson where they carried away several dollars' worth of email trinkets and about one hundred dollars in Confederate bills, no doubt thinking the larter was the genuine article in the dairk, and several old coins, belonging to Mr«.. Thompson, They then paid visi'Bte the homes of J. K. EversoD, .7. H. Bryant, R. C. Poole and George Brown. At these places they carried off consiierable food, but nothing of any valu» was taken.' The work is evident done by local talent. The police claim to have a clue to the guilty parties and to soon land them in jail.
Bitten By a Dog.
yThile playing with a small dog Sat'iy night, W. J. Amos, of tbe oatuf gas company, was severely bitten the hand by the brute. The w«and a r.: ist painful one, was dressed by doctor, but as Mr. Amos suffers conskl prnMe pain, there is much uneasioes ur. in the final outcome.
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