Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1914 — 50,000 ARE JOBLESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

50,000 ARE JOBLESS

Embargo on Plumes Makes Big Out-of-Work Army. ■ ' .... .-.-TC.'. _‘ ■' - ” .. . ~ ~ r.-- —. United States Ban on Millinery Feathers Throws Thousands of Workers Out of Employment in France —Royal Exiles May Return. '■"> ' ~ Paris. —Because the women of the United States are no longer permitted to wear aigrettes, paradise feathers and certain other plumes of wild birds on their hats, M. Bordeau, president of the-Syndicate of Plume Manufacturers here, assets, that &0.000 leather Workers are menaced by want and that 100,000 workmen ‘are threatened with the loss of their jobs. . The plume nianufacturere have taken the matter up with the French government on the ground that, in forbidding the importatiop. of certain plumes, the United States violated the rulings of the commercial treaty existing between America and France. A committee composed of the presidents of the various local plume manufacturers’ syndicates has already called upon President Raymond Poincare, placing the matter before him. The same committee also waited upon the minister of commerce, submitting to him certain documents which, they claimed, proved their case. Disinterested officials here, however, do not hold out much encouragement to the plume workers, because they say the measure adopted in the United States was not aimed at France,

. ‘ . .. ■ I or any other country, but was primarily intended as a humanitarian measure protecting animals and birds now in danger of extinction. “A little child shall lead them,” the good book says, and if the fight now begun to permit French pretenders to the throne to return to this country bears fruit, it will be largely the result of the existence, if not the efforts, of the month-old boy, Napoleon Ix>uls, son of Prince Victor Napoleon, imperialist aspirant to the French crdwn. In 1886 France passed a law banishing from the country lorever all heads of families once reigning in France, together with their direct descendants. Their presence in the fatherland was deemed perilous to the existence of the republic. The Due d’Orleans, royalist pretender, is now an exile in Brussels,' in which city also is Prince Victor Napoleon, the imperialist “hope." Both men have repeatedly professed their undying devotion to France, and both have eworn never to molest the home government, and, indeed, never to accept even the throne unless called upon to do so by the people themselves. Their protestations have bad no effect Homesick, figuratively speaking, they have shed tears of longing at the frontiers of France to the north, east south, west Still nobody invited them to come id. But now Wt there te a pink and puling baby, a collateral descendant of France’s most famous son, an exile from France because a

peril to that country’s existence, ideas have changed. - The exiling of this baby forever from its rightful home has appealed to the imagination of all Frenchmen. A movement has been begun to abolish the law of 1886 as a disgraceful survival of tyrannical exercise of power.

President Raymond Poincare.