Daily Tribune, Volume 17, Number 55, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 January 1903 — Page 4
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The attempt to inaugurate a crusade against the Mormon church which is now being attempted by a few cranks in Chicago and other large cities is needless and silly. The church today finds its only recruits among ignorant foreigners and is yearly losing hundreds of families that grew up under its teachings, but who were convinced by education of their falsity. The Mormon church is a bogus proposition and in its spurious nature lie the seeds of its undoing.
It would seem that the people of South Carolina who are so particular and squeamish that they object to the appointment of Dr. Crura as collector of the port of Charleston merely because he is a negro, would give their iinspeakable lieutenant governor a short shrift. But in South Carolina an act which would cause a negro to be burned at the state serves merely to increase the importance and boost the social standing of a white man.
If the legislature will seek information at the fountain head of quail authority it will -find out that the snow and eold of the last few weeks have killed more of these beautiful birds than did all the hunters that roamed the fields from November 10 to January 1. Protective law or no law, the quail next year will be decidedly short and the pot hunter at whose door the blame may be laid is Jack Frost.
Albert J. Hopkins, the new senator Illinois, may not in all points conform to the idealists conception of a statesman, but he is a Republican among Republicans, a man of honor, good sense and energy with the great American habit of "getting there." Upon the whole the people of Illinois are to be congratuated both because of their relief frorii Billy Mason and their elevation of Mr. Hopkins.
The people of Indiana have fought and struggled for many rears to place the control of their penal and benevolent institutions on a non-partisan and business basis. This humane and splendid conception is just being realized. Shall the whole magnificent work be overthrown to satisfy the petulent iuiiuiositv and vaulting ambition of Gov. Durbin?
Practically every paper in the state is vigorously opposed to Governor Durbin's ripper bill and no one seems to favor it except those who expect to profit ar to gratify an unworthy desire for vengeance. It is a measure which ment-s nothing but the seveiost condemnation, .. •••.,.
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THE RIPPER BILL.
The "ripper liill," the most pernicious legislation contemplated by iiio state assembly, is an invention by Covoviiov Durbin and his friends to got "everlastingly even 'with the state prison boaxcl and ex-Y\ arden llert, for not having asked the governor to dictate in the appointment of a successor to Mr. Ilert. The unpatriotic principle of the measure is not affected one way or the
by the righteousness or un
righteousness of Durbin's ill humor. I he fact tnat its whole motive is to wreak vengeance from personal animus is sufficient to condemn the measure to all patriotic citizens of the state. Wise laws are not conceived in vengeful hearts. Patriotism is not the periphery which hides malice.
The attempt of the chairman of the Republican state committee to unload Gov. Durbin of the blame and to saddle it on the Republican party of Indiana as a whole is neither commendable nor deceiving. There is but one motive for the bill, whoever drafted it, and the means that are being employed to secure its passage are hardly less commendable than the measure itself.
The measure seems likely to have a rocky road to travel in the house, and it is to be hoped that its enemies will not have the strenuousness of their opposition lessened by the cracking of the "bull whip." They can well afford to have the prospects for their own pel: blils blasted, to accomplish the defeat of this travesty upon public welfare. Vastly more credit will redound to them if they protect the character of the penal
institutions,
than if they become parties to this fac
tional legislation to gain their own individual ends.
The continuance of our present system of prison labor is certainly not of an entirely satisfactory nature. There are several features of it which are open to objection, but no one seems able to offer a substitute which will serve all purposes so well. There are many who are ready to submit substitutes which are perfectly satisfactory to themselves, but to no one else. The substitutions offered are so variant, so hostile in character, and so wholly impossible that their entertainment cannot be considered. Fn view of the fact that no other system so generally acceptable to the people of the state is offered, it is doubtless advisable to bold to that which we have, faulty though it be.
While this session of congress will ignore the question of re-establishing the army canteen the conclusion tnat the issue is finally disposed of does not follow by any means. As our old friend Ella Wheeler Wilcox insists, no question is ever settled until it. is settled right. The abolition of the canteen was not right. It was an egregious error and a general play of peanut politics. It has resulted in intemperance, immorality and a disturbance of military morale. For the best interests of everybody and everything the canteen should be reestablished at the earliest practicable moment.
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English Trade-Unionism.
Trade-unionism in England has gone.farther and developed more power than in America or anywhere else. There are at this moment some 1300 unions of workmen with a membership of about 2,000,000. In the United States, with double the population, there is less than half that number of unionists. Nor do numbers make up the only difference. In England the system of collective bargaining, especially in the coal and cotton trades, is carried mueli farther and on more methodical Ijnes than in America.
Whether that fact points to a greater superiority in the mechanism of English over American industrialism, is a muchargued question. It points, at any rate, to a greater power in English trade unions. That power is further shown in' the amount of control trade unions here have contrived to gain over the management of business. It is a control that stretches, beyond such questions as hours and wages, and embraces the fundamental-points of methods, internal discipline, the maximum output, the number of apprentices, the use of unskilled labor on woi'k hitherto done by skilled labor, he introduction of a new machine, the employment of men nt recognized by the unions, and so on. Broadly speaking, those demands have been resisted by American and yielded !o by English employers. Americans have stook firm on the vital matter of "conttiol" in a way that Englishmen are. never tired of praising. Most employers here lot the point go by default against them through lack either" of provision or of courage to force a decisive issue at the outset. The consequence is that the industrial machine in England is geared to a much lower efficiency than in America: the slowest workmen sets the pace "going easy" is the rule of labor and work is distributed over the largest possible number of men. Of course it is absurd to ascribe, as many employers do. all the decline in British commerce to "the tyranny of trade-union-ism." The employers themselves have much to answer for with their fatal complacency and conservatism, their lordly unaccommodating ways of doing business, their myopia that will ver unreservedly admit that British methods are not the best, .and their short-sightedness in not risking a dollar today to earn five next week. In speculative pluck and energy they are to the American what the Italian is to the Englishman. But granting all this, it is still the fact that tradeunionism has done mora in England than in any other country to limit production, curb initiative, and control output by the uniform, deadening rule of average. There is something in the atmosphere of England that allows trade unions to thrive as they thrive no where else.
Shall Our Sons Study Latin?
Arguing that Latin is not. yet played out. but still affords an unrivalled mental training. Mr, Andrew Lang cites America and Austria to testify on his side. The
Americans,
are a practical people, devoid of a traditional prepossession in favor of the Roman language and literature, yet he finds that Latin is being more and more studied in the American secondary schools. In 1S!10 about 100,000 Amorican schoolboys were studying it. In 1000 more than 300.000 of them one-half the whole number of scholars in our secondary schools—"are learning Latin in continuous courses of four oifive years." He borrows these figures from an address of Professor Ramsay of Glasgow before the Scottish Classical association. The$*•'mean, says Mr. Ramsay, "that the middle '•lasses in America are finding out that the most fruitful, use ful instrument for training the mind for ordinary commercial life is to be found in the Latin language." The testimony from Austria, also borrowed bv Mir. Lang from Mr. Ramsey, is that of Dr. Bauer, the head of the chemical department of the Technical High School of Vienna, Vho maintained that his best students of chemistry come not from the "practical" but from the classical schools, but certainly the boys from the •lassicai'schools (Gymnasien) can beat the other (Realschulen) boys hands down at chemistry, cricket, or anything. So it was in Germany, where the superior merit of the classical schools is so well appreciated that they get three-fourths of the pupils. Out of 152.000 scholars in the secondary schools of Piussia in 1300. 112.700 took the classical courses. To learn Latin, says Mr. Lang, is to learn concentration of the mind. It is hard work, and progress in it can be tested almost as certainly and definitely as in mathematics.
A.n Drdian Editor.
Alex Posey, an Indian editor, publishes "The Eufaula (Okla Journal." An exchange says that the distinction which has been won by "The Journal" under Posey's management is traced to the terse style of injecting humor into two and three line personals. His acquaintance includes every Indian and squaw man witnin fifty miles of Eufaula. He knows the characteristics of all his friends, and when he sees •'Whoopala Pete" or "Coonskin Ike" on the street with a fresh roll of c-oonskins, the readers of "The Journal" are served -thing original in the next issue, which is credited to two visitors with coonskins. "The Journal" has a number of Indian contributors who are quoted by all papers in the territory. Posey prints a paper for the Indian as well as for the white man, and from the diversification of news all are satisfied that they have secured the worth of their money. That is certainly versatility.
THE PIRATE'S CORNER.
A woman can do almost anything with a liaiipin except sharpen a pencil.
Don't censure the man who scolds his wife in public. He doesn't dare do it at home.
An old bachelor compares women to phonographs because they repeat everything that is told them.
The man who is unable to get credit doesn't have to dodge up an alley when he sees a bill collector coming.
Sublimated Thoughts. I.
Does the gravy gravitate?
Is the curate accurate? Is the mist a mystery Is elate?
Or is it she?
Who will tell these things to me?
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He who'd plant a human bean Would inter an intervene. If she squared the roundelay,
Was chagrin?
Silence may be a good substitute for wisdom, but it'9 difficult for the nian who is short of wisdom to keep his mouth shut,
Politicians take undue liberties in the name of liberty.
Too Modest by Half. Said he, "Pretty miss, Prav give me a kiss 'Tjs only for one that I sue."
She lifted her eyes
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Stand away!
Let the diince go on, I Bay!
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And exclaimed in surprise: "Why, the other elinps always want two"
The matrimonial broker is responsible for many broken hearts. i'
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Some people are unable to raise their hopes, while the hopes of others run to seed. 5.
Sometime^ the absent cashiers account book looks suspiciously like a figured screen,
The man who is slow .but sure aJwaj^s^ manages to get he re us a A iv to a & & a
THE DAILY TRIBUNE. TERRE HAUTE. IND- SATURDAY, JAiWMRY 24, 1903.
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said a great businessman, "are my partners and they need all the strength and courage I can give them, and he forthwith paid for a $1,000,000 policy in The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Not without the most careful investigation, however, extending over six months. He was convinced by just such facts as led the President of a National Bank in New York to make the curious and shrewd provision in his.will, which is contained in "A Banker's Will." Write for it and also for the account of the $1,000000 policy, "The Largest Annual Premiums."
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THE MINERS' TERMS
WILL ASK 12% CENTS ON RUN OF MINE WORK
LABORERS ALSO' TO' PROFIT
Convention Finally Determined to Fix on a Reasonable Increase and No Compromise.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 24.—The convention of the United Mine Workers of America in executive session, has completed the consideration of the wage scale r.nd Secretary Wilson announced today there would be no more executive sessions. The mine workers dccidcd to demand an increase in wages of 12l/2 cents per ton on a "'run of mine" basis and all coal to be paid for on that basis. A differential of 7 cents between pick and machine mined coal will be asked for. The entire competitive district composed of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and the Pittsburg district of Pennsylvania is governed by this scale. The present "run of mine" rate in Indiana is 49 cents and the increase, if granted by the operators would make the rate of wages 61 ys cents per ton. In the Pittsburg district it would be (55 cents in Ohio 70 cents and in Illinois 01
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cents. A demand will also be
made for a proportionate advance to the inside and outside common laborers. The minimum rate of wages in Indiana for inside laborers is $2.25 per day.
The result of the committee's deliberations will not be satisfactory to some. Some of the demands were for nearly a 50 per cent advance, making "ran of mine" is not looked upon favorably by some. In Indiaona some of the mines pay on the "run of mine" basis, and some on the screened coal basis. The present rate of wages for the latter is 80 cents per ton.
It was said that the desire of the convention was to ask for a reasonable increase and stand by it. There will be 110 receding from this 'demand, it was said. It was the opinion of the majority that it would be better to make the demand which they expected to enforce rather than to make a demand for large increase and probably come down.
A resolution favoring the remitting of dues owing by locals on account of the anthracite strike was not concurred in. The resolution stated that as tile strike had been brought to a successful termination and tnere was over a million dollars in the treasury, the dues should not be collected. The delegates whose locals had paid their dues, however, were opposed to the resolution.
The regular sessions of the miners' convention are due to close next Thursday night. The operators will begin to arrive Tuesday next.
President Mitchell said that the work of the convention was progressing very satisfactorily and at this time it is much farther advanced than usual. The returns of the referendum vote for officers have all been tabulated and the committee is expected to make its report tomorrow morning.
The Chester Line.
The report that John R. Walsh, who owns the Southern Indiana and Illinois Southern railroads, will establish a trunk line from Kansas City to Cincinnati, again revives the Terre Haute and Chester railway talk. Walsh by constructing a railroadl from Terre Haute, to Salem, 111., and one from Westport, Ind., to Cincinnati, in all less than 200 miles, would have his trunk line completed. Walsh hps been very successful in his railroad enterprises and should lie see where he could derive any benefit would no doubt complete his linea.
Talks of Removing Herei A dispatch from Waukesha, Wis., says the board of directors of the Waukesha Sheet Steel company negotiating for a site here and that the plant will be removed' here at an early date. It employs three hundred men. President Beasley of the Commercial club says letters have been received, but no understanding has been reached with the concern.7,
Presents Clock to Y. N|. C. A. Henry F. Schmidt, the well known optician and watch maker, has made the Young Men's Christian association a present of a large clock to be placed In the new gymnasium. The clock is an Ingraham regulator of Improved style and is a most acceptable present to the associ^ tion It will be given a place ..of honor in the gym.
Stransky imported granite ware catches the eve. Terre Haute Stove & Furnace Co.", G58 Wabash Ave. Sign Big
Pot.
PLAN TO PREVENT PRISONERS
LULL IN ROCK PILE- WORK
There are Many Sore Arms Among Prisoners and Hammers are
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There was a fear among the health officers that the prisoners at the county jail would "break out" and to avert this, they have all been vaccinated. Dr. Van Cleave, secretary of the health board has vaccinated all who are serving sentence, and when a new one is brought in, he is forced to undergo the same unpleasant operation. This does not apply to the hobos-who are housed over night and released- in the morning at $1.30 per head—only the fellows who are likely to be in for a time. Mose of the vaocinations "took" and there are many arms getting sore. It will be an excellent plea for the prisoners getting out of work on the rockpile, and it may be expected that a majority of the hammers will be silent until the arms get well. Some prisoners protested against the operation but it was no use, they were forced to take their medicine, and if tlte smallpox breaks out in the jail it will be no fault of Jailer O'Donnell and his wife, and the health officers. In addition to vaccinating the prisoners the greatest precaution is being taken, and the entire cellhouse is being fumigated as often as it is deemed neecssftry. Every nook and corner of the building is being kept in the most perfect condition, and nothing is left that would tend to invite disease.
Yesterday Secretary Van Cleave secured the consent of the county commissioners to furnish all his deputies in the different townships, with free vaccine, in order to be sure that a good and fresh quality be used. The vaccine is expensive and few of the physicians in the coun try carry a stock of it, and if any has it on hand, the chances are that it is old and of no use. The furnishing of the vaccine does not mean that vaccination will be free, only in eases where the parties are poor and
cannot
The diners shrieked with laughter and some begged for parts of -the letter to take home.
The more Harts Honey and Horehoutid is used the better it is liked. We know of nothing so good for croup or whooping cough, j.1 is good when your cough is deep seated or your lungs sore or painful. It is good for any kind of a cough. Oran Hammond, a railroad man of LeRoy. 111., says: "That his success depends upon the condition of his health and that his lung trouble has been completely cured by using Harts' Honey and Horehound, after having tried other well known medicines, without benefit." Sold bv Baur's Pharmacy.
St. Ann's Church Report. The annual report of St. Ann Catholic church for the year 1902 shows total receipts of $6,131.91, the principal items being as follows:
Pew rent, $1,261.60 lawn festival, $1,190.26 Sunday cllections, $896.09 loans $1,500 outside collections, $190.47,
The principal items of expense were Allowance, $700 current expenses $787.33 repairs, $163,38 Improvements $380.61 purchases, $1,125.52 school expenses, $286.92: debt paid off, $700 interest pftldi $167 boys' banner $50.
The balance carried over to tfte present year is $564,76.
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Don't become discouraged. There is a cure for you. If necessary write Dr. Fenner. He lias spent a lite time curing jus' suco cases as yours. All consultations Free. "A gravel lodged in my bladder. Aftet using a'few bottles of Dr. Fenner's Kldnoy and Backache Cure I passed a gravel half a| largo as a marble. Tiie medicine prevented further formations. was curcd.
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pay for it. Dr. Van Cleave today placed an order with the Buntin Drug Co.. for $50 worth of the vaccine and this will be here and distributed within the next few days. The doctors give it as their opinion that there will be no cheeking the epidemic until every body has heeded the vaccination order.
KIPLING'SJOKE.
Refrains from Feasting on This Side on Account of His Wife's Relatives.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23—The Tufts College Alumni association dined last Thursday night at the Hotel Manhattan. Taber Ash ton, who presided, rend a lettea which he had received from Rudyard Kipling, tt is as follows: "The Charlton Club. London, Dec. 15. My Dear Ashton:—It will not be possible for me to accept the invitation to your college dinner in New York, for I have at present no intention of journeying to the states. "Recollections of my life in New England are still vivid. My wife's family connections are there, you know, and in noting the fact 1 am reminded of the remark of your great humorist. Artemus Ward, that he was in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the Civil war so long as there was any of his wife's relations left. "I confess to a similar feeling. Nevertheless, I note and rejoice in the prosperity of your country and hope sometime, in the future to make an extended visit therfe. "Very truly your friend. "RUDYARD KIPLING.
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