Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 304, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1902 — Page 4

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High street The sure way to win a battle, even If It Is coin our way. is to fight It to a finish. "Stand by President Roosevelt" should be the motto of every patriotic voter next Tuesday. Republican traveling men and railroad men whose duties take them out of town a good deal should arrange to be at home neat Tuesday to vote. The Cincinnati Enquirer seems even more sealous for the defeat of the Tom L. Johnson Democratic ticket than it is for the election of the anti-Bryan state ticket in Indiana. The number of manufacturing establishaents in the United States increased from i.415 in 18U0 to 512.330 in 1900. Yet there are those who say that McKinley prosperity la imaginary. It is safe to predict that of the thousands of discharged volunteers now in the country very few will vote next Tuesday with the party that maligned our soldiers in the Philippines. i Business men should remember that the election of a Democratic Congress would be a step towards a return to the conditions that prevailed before the election of William McKinley. Six years ago men became discouraged by seeking employment in vain day after day. Now employment Is chasing every man who will work. The change came with Republican control. The amount of capital invested in manufactures in the United States increased from $6.525, 156, 486 in 1890 to $9.835,066,909 in 1100. Yet there are those who say that McKinley prosperity Is imaginary. The Journal regrets to announce that the critical, and. It is feared, fatal Illness of a child has compelled Representative Watton to cancel all his engagements to speak during the remainder of the campaign. The anonymous circular In politics, no matter who issues It, Democrat or Republican, if It attacks the character of candidates, is the method of that variety of coward to which the word sneak applies. No sensible man will be deceived by Chairman O'Brien's claims of election of seven or eight Democratic representatives to Congress. If he is posted, aa he should be. he knows that his party will do well to hold the four it now has. Those newspaper reporters who are figuring out that Mr. Overstreet's plurality will be considerably less than two years go have forgotten that Johnson county, which gave 754 majority against him in I960, is no longer in this congressional district. After all hi said the most important question that will come before the anthracite al commission will be that of establishing the equal right of union and nonunion men to work in the mines and to be fre from interference or persecution from any source whatever. The attempt of the Democratic managers to injure the reputation of Mr. F. A. Cotton. Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction, indicates the reckloamess of leaders when they resort to groundless slanders in the hope of winning a few votes by so doing. The last census report shows that in 1900 the number of wage earners in the United States was 5,306,406 and the amount Of wages paid $2.322.333 877. as against abat es) wage earners and Sl.891.228.321 wages paid in 1890. Yet there are those who saythat McKinley prosperity is imaginary. Democratic campaign managers, aa soon as they learned that the American people will not sustain such charges of wholesale brutality aa those made by Carmack. PatrmsfwSä anil Arkoe normArots 4 rÄ . " v'""greas attempted to fasten upon our army In the Philippines, dropped their slander as an Issue ln the campaign. Any person who will consider Representative Overstreet's capacity for rendering substantial service to the district and State In Congress and then try to conceive the situation if he were displaced for a new and Inexperienced roan must admit that it would be exceedingly unwise to risk the change. In his recent message to the Georgia Legislature Governor Candler again called

attention to the private chain gangs composed of convicts under sentence for petty offenses. The law provides that such convicts may be employed on roads, streets and public works, but for years such ennvlets as could be sent to the workhouse In Indiana have been let to private companies to do all kinds of rough work. Those men are kept In camps and are the victims of many abuses. What would bo said in Indiana if prisoners in the workhouse were hired in gangs to wora for Insignificant compensation to take the place of voluntary labor at fair wages? There is but one party in Georgia the Democratic, and it has refused time and again to put an end to this outrage. THE DOUBTFUL REPRESENTATIVE DISTHIC TS. There are said to be twenty-one representative districts in the State which are so close that they are classified as doubtful. Of course, the Democrats claim sixteen of the twenty-one. The wonder is that they do not claim ail. The Republicans do not. however, admit the Democratic claim. That the location of the doubtful districts may be clearly understood they are gi- en, as follows: Bartholomew, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Daviess, Decatur, Fountain, Gibson, Greene, Jay, Laporte, Laporte and Starke, Martin and Orange. Miami. Ripley, Spencer, Switzerland and Ohio, Tipton and Clinton, Vermillion and Vigo, Vigo county (two). The larger part of these districts are doubtless Democratic, and some of them

are often carried by the Democrats through the carelessness or dissatisfaction of Republicans. That is, if the Republican does not quite like his party candidate for representative he will not vote for him or will be persuaded to vote for his opponent Thus it happens in districts in which the Republican ticket will have a fair plurality a Democratic candidate is elected to the Legislature. Now, It happens in the Indiana Legislature, particularly in the House, that however worthy the better Democratic members are as men. they are usually ail alike. The more important reform acts which four Republican Legislatures passed were opposed In the House by almost every Democratic member. The township and county councils bill, which was advocated by many leading Democrats outside the Legislature and by the Sentinel, was carried through the House by an almost strict party vote four or five Republicans voting with the Democrats and three or four Democrats with the Republic-1 ans. The coming Legislature will make a reapportionment of the State into senatorial and representative districts for several succeeding Legislatures. Besides, every Republican representative will vote for Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks for United States senator and every Democrat will vote for his opponent Therefore, it stands to reason that the Republican who votes for a Democratic candidate for representative votes against Mr. Fairbanks. If that Republican lives in one of these doubtful districts and votes for a Democratic candidate for representative under any pretext he is rendering Jhe political enemies of Mr. Fairbanks a special service. If the Republicans carry a third of the doubtful districts the next House will be Republican. If they carry half of them the Republicans will have a most effective majority. The Republicans who are much interested in having Mr. Fairbanks re-elected, both in and out of the close districts, can do the Republican party no higher service than to do all In their power to elect Republican representatives In the districts named. DUXX'S IMAGINARY ISSUE. Mr. Jacob P. Dunn, Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, is making a canvass among the factories and asking workiiigmen to vote for him because he is opposed to the proposition to allow banks to issue currency based on their assets. This plan was- first proposed by a Democratic secretary of the treasury in 1S94 an? indorsed by President Cleveland, so that in opposing it Mr. Dunn Is opposing a Democratic scheme. He tells workingmen that it would result in flooding the country with wild-cat currency from which they wculd be chief sufferers. It is true that wage earners are always chief sufferers from a cheap and fluctuating currency, but Mr. Dunn was not so concerned about their interests in 1896 and the years following when he was an ardent advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to L Asset currency would be a mild disaster to workingmen compared to ä policy that would have resulted in their being paid in 50 -cent dollars. It is not likely there is a workingman in Indianapolis who cares the snap of his finger for the asset currency scheme, which is not an issue anywhere except in Mr. Dunn's imagination; but if he wants to discuss a subject of real interest to wageearners he should dwell on the beauties of free trade and show them how they suffer from a protective tariff. He should assure them in the recent language of Grover Cleveland that, after all, there Is only one paramount issue and that is the tariff, and that American workingmen can never be sure of steady employment and good wages until the Republican policy of protection is dead ajid buried. Workingmen who remember the period of empty dinner pails, closed mills and free soup houses would like to hear Mr. Dunn on that question. As a live issue it beats asset currency out of sight HAVE WE HAD EOlH OF PROSPERITY f If the Republicans vote as generally next Tuesday as they dil in 1894, 1896. 1898 and 1900 the party will carry the State by as large a plurality as in the last three electlons ramed. In 1$S4 they voted In protest j against the dire effects of the tariff-for r venue policy of Mr. Cleveland. It was a protest that swept the State by 44.000 plurality, carried every congressional district and over three-fourths of the lower branch of the Legislature. The next battle was over the silver question, and voters ! changed back and forth, but the RepubMean plurality for Mr. McKinley was 17.j . m im u waj) M and , 19W u w ... s4J There are many more good reasons to be given why the Indiana voters who voted for McKinley In 1896 should vote for the party of McKinley ln 1903. In 1S96 the supporters of McKln'.ey made promises, and the voters accepted them. The party of McKinley promised to make the geld standard as secure as it could be made by legislation. In the words of that now revered leader, McKinley, the Republican party promised to bring prosperity to the country, not by opening the mints to the

free coinage of silver, but by opening the mills to the millions of unemployed men. Mr. McKlnley's enthusiastic supporters hailed him as the advance agent of prosperity, at which his opponents uttered shouts of derision. This year the Republicans and other voters are not asked to vote upon pledges

as In 1896, since all those pledges have bean more than redeemed. From the general despondency of 1894-1896. when all Industry was paralysed, when three millions of laboring men were idle and hundreds of thousands were supported by private and public charity, and when the products of the farm were so cheap aa to almost beggar the farmer, the whole country has come Into a condition of unexampled prosperity. Have the voters who realize the great change for the better which has taken place had enough of the better times, of full employment at higher wages, of profits In business and farming? Has this prosperity which came with McKinley and Republican ascendency continued so long uni der Republican legislation and admlnlstra- ' 4 V... mm Ast. n Iiia It T f - TD HUM i IIa I iucii vi v iiwi iniur l i . a. l du, im:publicans can stay away from the polls and give courage to those who are assailing protection and Republican measures generally. If the voters in Indiana desire prosperity to continue they must vote the Republican ticket next Tuesday. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON TRIAL. The president of the National League of Republican Clubs has Issued a circular letter to the presidents of all State and Territorial leagues and to the officers of their affiliated clubs urging that steps be taken to induce every Republican to take an active part In the election of Republican congressmen. "That," says the letter, "is the one convincing way to strengthen the hands of our courageous and patriotic President." The point is well taken. There are many reasons why Republicans should vote at the coming election. Some of these reasons relate to State and some to national issues, but there is none that should appeal more strongly to every Republican than the fact that the election of a Republican House of Bt presentatives would be a vote of confidence in President Roosevelt, while failure to do so would be equivalent to a vote of censure. No President ever came into office under more trying circumstances than did President Roosevelt, and every person must admit that he has discharged Its duties in Fueh a way as to command the confidence. respect and admiration of the people. No President ever won as much foreign praise in the same length of time or more general approval from his own countrymen. But these expressions amount to nothing compared with the election of a Republican House of Representatives. That Is, Indeed, the one convincing way to strengthen the hands of the President, for with a Democratic House he would be helpless to carry out the progressive policies he has in mind. There is no doubt but the country approves of President Roosevelt's views regarding Cuban reciprocity, trust legislation, protection of American industries and other national issues, and this approval should be given practical expression by the election of a House of Representatives that will co-operate with him. In a political sense President Roosevelt is on trial, and the people should see that he is vindicated. TRUSTS ASD THE LAW. In an article advocating the abolition of trusts the local Democratic organ says: "The Republican party has not only not moved at all in this direction, but gives no signs that it will move at any time in the future." Again it says: "The Republicans offer no solution of the difficulty. They would apply none." It is true that the Republican party has made no move In the direction of abolishing trusts, but it has made some important moves in the direc tion of regulating them and punishing those which violate the law, and It Is the only party that has lifted a finger or taken a step in this direction. It should be understood, once for all, that trusts cannot be abolished any more than corporations or business partnerships can. The word trust is used here In the popular sense of combinations of capital or Industry having for their object more economic management and the prevention of ruinous competition. Such combinations are not only legal In themselves, but they may be beneficial to trade and to the community at large. It is only when they adopt illegal methods or are used for illegal purposes that they call for abolition or restraint. Corporations have the same right to acquire property and extend their business that individuals have, and as long as they do not abuse the right or prostitute it to unlawful purposes they are public benefactors rather than public enemies. In a leading case on this subject, decided in the English courts and followed by the American, Lord Coleridge, chief Justice, said that in the absence of fraud, intimidation or oppression there was no principle of law to Interfere with 'competition in trade. He said, further, that Inasmuch as it is legal for one man by competition to shut his rival out of the field, it is lawful for two or more to combine to the same end, providing the mens to be used are only such as individuals CO aid use, viz., lawful means. Lord Coleridge expressed as his opinion that it Is legitimate to combine capital for all purposes of trade for which capital may, apart from combination, be legitimately used in trade, and that the whole tendency of modern law runs strongly in favor of allowing great combinations in trade. No law aiming at the abolition of all combinations of capital, or trusts, If one chooses to call them i so. without discriminating between those pursuing legal methods and the opposite ! no such law would stand fire In the courts for a moment. There is not a court in the land that would not say that any and j all combinations of capital, no matter how large, were legal as long as they followed legal methods and aimed at legitimate results. They would say that a corporation or a combination of capital only becomes unlawful when it undertakes to do something that in Itself is unlawful. It follows that corporations and combinations of capital cannot be abolished. Those that violate law can be punished and brought under legal restraint but those which do not violate law cannot be abolished any more than business partnerships can. This Is common sense, and it Is the essence of the law on the subject. While the Republican party Is not foolish enough to undertake the abolition of all combinations of capital, it is the only party that has attempted to break up illegal ones. That la the object of the Sherman anti-trust law passed by a Republican

Congress and signed by a Republican President Not to speak of previous attempts to enforce this law, all made by Republican administrations and not one by a Democratic administration, four suits have been instituted under it during the present administration. The railroad injunction suits, the cotton pool cases, the "beef trust" cases and the Northern Securities case are four phases of the attack on combinations tn restraint of trade and commerce made during the present administration. One of these suits relates to the monopoly produced by secret and preferential rates for railroad transportation; another relates to railroad traffic pooling: the third to a combination of independent corporations to fix and maintain extortionate prices for meats, and the fourth to a corporation organised to merge into itself the control of parallel and competing lines of railroad and elimi

nate competition in their rates of transportation. The suits are not aimed at combinations themselves, but at illegal methods. Two of these suits resulted in breaking up the practices at which they were aimed, and two are still pending. The party that passed the law under which the suits were brought and which also instituted the suits is the only one that has ever attempted to break up illegal combinations of capital, or that has any intelligent plan or honest purpose to that end. Mr. Overstreet has been a conscientious, hard-working congressman. He has sought to inform himself carefully in his duties. He has learned the business and knows how to bring things to pass. He has grown steadily in the estimation of the public and in that of his fellow-members. The result is that he is recognized as one of the most efficient men among the leaders of the House. Shall we reject him in favor of a new and inexperienced man? Mr. Overstreet has been in the forefront of the effort for better monetary legislation. He is a sound-money man. correctly representing the sentiments of this community. Shall we reject him in favor of a free-silver advocate, whose erratic views on money and finance have long amazed and amused the thoughtful voters of this city and State? The foregoing from the Indianapolis News is a candid presentation of the case of the opposing candidates for Congress in this district. It is what might be called an independent and business view of the situation, as contra-distinguished from a strictly Republican view, and yet it runs on parallel lines and reaches the same conclusion as the latter. It is the only rational view to take. Any circular sent out without having Its statements backed by the names of men, even If signed by "Republican of Ward 9," should have no weight. But that sort of circular charging that a Republican candidate did not support General Harrison twelve years ago is supremely ridiculous when sent out by a Democratic candidate who never voted for General Harrison or any other Republican candidate. The Democratic candidate who sends out such a circular ought to be keen enough to see that if it is sufficient reason for a Republican to vote against a Republican candidate because he did not vote for General Harrison it practically gives a score of reasons why the Republican should not vote for a lifelong Democrat. The anonymous letter is the method of the coward, and the political circular without a name is not entitled to a moment's attention. Information comes from New York that J. Pierpont Morgan Is using his Influence In Wall street to defeat Governor Udell The great promoter has several grievances against the Governor, one of which is the tax on corporations, which he was Influential in establishing. Mr. Odell refused to run at the head of a ticket with a promoter of a considerable number of trusts. To defeat Mr. Odell would be regarded as an indirect blow at the President, who has displeased the great promoter by his attitude in regard to trusts. The total value of products of manufacturing and mechanical industries ln the United States for 1900 was $13,014.287,498, as against $9,372, 437.2S3 in 1890 an increase of $3,641.850,215, or nearly 40 per cent. Yet there are those who say that McKinley prosperity is imaginary. THE HUMORISTS. After the Quarrel. Brooklyn Life. He (to himself) There! All on account of my beastly temper; I suppose I've gone and said too much. She (to herself) Oh, dear! If I hadn't lost BAf nppT I might have said ever so much Caution. Catholic Standard. "It's almost impossible, dear, to lease a house for a shorter term than one year nowadays," he said, "so to protect myself I must ask you" "Ask me what?" interrupted his bride-to-be. "To agree not to seek a divorce until the expiration of the first year's lease." He Knew. Philadelphia Press. Mrs. McCaul Isn't this little Johnny Gadaway? Johnny Yes m. Mrs. McCaul I was Just going to call on your mamma. Is she at home? Johnny No m. She's Just went down on the next block to look for me. Practical Experlenee. Chicago News. "What we require," said the managing editor, "is the service of a man capable of taking full charge of our 'Query Box. Are you capable of answering all kinds of questions?" "Well, I rather guess yes," replied the applicant. "I'm the father of eleven children." The Tragedy in 'Macbeth." New York Sun. Shakspeare had Invited a few select friends to the rehearsal of "Macbeth." "But" they Insisted, "the play will fall. You have forgotten to make the characters speak Scotch dialect" "That." exclaimed the immortal William, "is where the real tragedy comes In." Realising how bitter would be the, grief of tht audience, they acknowledged the bard truly a master. The Armins; of the Knisjht. The good knight donned his moleskin pants All caned snd padded true; His shoulder cap be bandaged well. His Jersey on he drew, His sleeveless jacket aad his hose. And laced his cleated shoe. "What bo! Adjust my ankle brace. That I may fearless tread. And belt me round; and settle firm My harness on my head. My shin guards buckle carefully. And bind my wrist" he said. He took a suck of lemon, straight I Slipped on his sweater gay; His nore muk fitted to hie face. And stood In full array. And breathing Joy and liniment Forth went to Join the fray. -Puck. Aeeeasted For. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Cleveland has been much disgusted with the conduct of his party in recent years, but he does not want to see It exterminated, This explains his present activity.

ENGLAKD S FOE US AFRICA.

The Mad Mallah aad His People. Whs Ar Now Defying the British. New York Sun. Some twelve or fifteen mv; in Somallland are known to the inhabitants as mullahs. They are also called sheiks or widads. They are the religious leaders of the Somalis, all followers of Islam. Comparatively few of the Somalia have been regarded as fanatical Mohammedans. Small European hunting parties have repeatedly traveled through their country in safety, and most ; of the white visitors have had a good word for the people and also for the mullahs, who have been represented to be very quiet and respectable persons, generally on the side of order and peace and civil in their treatment of travelers. In all inner Somallland there are no per- i manent settlements except those occupied by these Mohammedan leaders. Each mullah has a settlement around his home. These centers of population are on an average at least seventy miles apart. The largest of them is the town of the Mullah Seyld Mohammed In Ogaden. The next most Important settlement is supposed to be that of the Mullah Hargeisa in British Somallland. Besides these two religious leaders there are about a dozen other mullahs of less importance scattered over several degrees of latitude and longitude. The mullahs have been enabled to settle down, form permanent villages and cultivate the land around them because all the people bold them in the greatest respect. The Soman's are great lootera, and one tribe does not hesitate to send an armed party to rob another tribe of its horses, donkeys, camels or grain; but a looting party would be driven to the last extremity of hunger before it would attack the village of a mullah, and even then it would take no more plunder than necessary to provide food for a few days. It Is thus seen that the mullahs have great Influence, and as a rule they have not used the power they wield over the people to turn them against the whites. One of the less Important mullahs, however, a man who was never known outside his country until he began to be heard of as "the Mad Mullah," suddenly assumed in 1901 an attitude of hostility to the white race. He is known as Haji Mohammed Bui Abdullah. He Is a religious fanatic, one of the leaders in Islam whose religion has become a frenzy, and he has exhibited magnetic and persuasive qualities sufficient to imbue those around him with his own rabid ideas. He is called by Europeans the Mad Mullah simply because he has been preaching a war of extermination against the whites. He has rallied around him thousands of fairly well-armed natives who are devoted to his cause. The reports from Somallland haVe been verv naeaa-er. and It is not known how many of the other mullahs, if any, have Joined his standard: but the Mad Mullah has been exceedingly active since he began to attract attention. ithln the past year he has met the forces sent against him in British Somallland, in Italian Somallland farther south and in the Abyssinian territory to the west. He has generally bean repulsed and has fled to a considerable distance only to recruit his forces and take the field again. At latest accounts the BritiBh. who had had a hard fight with him near the border between British and Italian Somallland. found it necessary to retreat north to the center of their territory. This war is going on only 100 to 300 miles south of the Gulf of Aden, where steamers are constantly passing on their way to the Suez uhal. The scene of disturbance is thus quite near one of the greatest trade routes of the world. Most of the trouble has occurred In British Somallland, which fronts on the Gult of Aden and has an area of about fix.oun square miles. Alonit its roast an th rnnj a -w w ' " w. -w.. i Sfnl . v,iPKrtSK of 8"JI,& Bulhar and j ?vnicn h.avL na? important trade ". me ouiuu. inougn ine commerce or Berbera and Bulbar has been nearly ruined by the present troubles. The larger part of British Somallland Is an eievatea plateau crossed by barren mountain ranges. For a part of the year the country is very dry and water can be obtained only along the few rivers and in the wells; but ln the fall and winter seasons n great deal of rain falls over most of the country. This is the time when the live stock has most food and the people are most active. Somallland is now in the midst of the rainy season, and this is one of the reasons why the Mad Mullah has resumed hostilities, for there Is now plenty of grass tu sustain the horses of his cavalry. It l? believed that not more than 250,0OU natives are living in British Somallland. The revolt has been confined almost entirely to these Somalis who live under the so-called rule of the British government, with the consul general at Berbera as the chief official of the protectorate; but. though the hostile Somalls are nearly all residents of Britis i Somalila nd. thv huv carried on their campaign of the past vear to some extent Into the Italian and Abyssinian parts of the land. The fear Is now expressed that the recent successes of the Mad Mullah may have the effect to induce the large number of Somalis living In the Italian and Abyssinian districts to join the hostile faction; in this case the European powers interested are likely to have a very ugly war on their hands. Most of the Somalis are nomads, keeping Bheep. goats cattle, camels and ponies and following the rains in search of grass for their animals. The settled Somalls are only those who live at the villages of the mullahs and in or near the coast towns The people are a mixture of Arab and negro stock and are very proud indeed of the fact that they come partly from the race to which the Prophet belonged To the west of them is another large Deonle the Gallas, who are regarded by the Somalis as very inferior, for they have no Arab blood In their evins. No Somali would think of taking a wife from among the Gallas They have pride of birth and on the whole are an intelligent and active race. Being snlendld horsemen and greatly addicted to looting forays they are well trained In the art of war as they understand it. Perhaps the greatest point in their favor in the present troubles is that if they are defeated they are able to dash off at a hot pace to some otner part of the country, getting out of the way of the enciuj' mim nicy are reaay once take the field against him. more to THE ANTHRACITE SITUATION. Prospect that the Public Will Have to Make Good the Losses. "Holland," in Philadelphia Press. Then, again, there Is another apprehension that the public Will, before the winter is over, discover that, while the coal famine is ended, nevertheless, the public will be compelled to pay the enormous cost and make good the appalling wastage occasioned by the anthracite strike. That of itself is causing capital to be a little timid, but underneath all these other disquieting symptoms there is serious and genuine apprehension that the truce brought about by President Roosevelt will while it puts an end to the strain in thJ anthracite regions, be followed by ouite aa aiarmiiiB rvw.iomic uisturoances elsewhere Already in this city, because of the friction betw en those who would invest or the contractors who represt-nt them and the labor unions, there Is noticed a marked decrease in the tendency to erect buildings Probab.y the chief auDrehensi On hriirot'cr arises from the strained relations twt.Un some of the great railway grouns nnrf th. trade associations which are employed by them. Here at least the feeling is that we are mucn nearer . man the public reallzes a contention that may tie up some of the great railway systems as effectuallv as the miners' union demonstrated its absolute mastery of coal producing conditions so far as labor is concerned The effect of all this is to induce that proverbial timidity of capital which is one of the first indications of a change from prosperity to demoralization and stagnation. It undoubtedly is having some effort politically in this State. The time is long past when it is worth while to ton to prove logically or argumentatlvely that a party in power Is not responsible for economic conditions that are unsatisfactory to many people. The people vent their resentment upon the party in power often blindly and recklessly. Another thing is causing apprehension here, and that is that if the demands of the various Isbor associations for Increased pay be accepted they will Involve an increase In the price of all commodities But it is already recognized that one explanation for the falling off n our export trade Is to be found in the increase of tho prices of American commodities Great Britain and the continent of Europe are underselling us. Any marked further inss7i3tÄT5? ""ct Divlsloa of OeeepstloBi. Mahtn's Magazine. Coning to the particular occupations, the census makes five general classes. The

largest Is that of agrkrui tu ral pursuits, which employs 85.7 per cent, of ! all nje workers. Manufacturing nd JSS pursuits make use of 24.4 per cent donTrestic and personal service. 19.2 per OSsR.; ySOl and transportation. 16.4. and professional services only 4.3 per cent. "FREE MATERIALS" FOR SHIPS.

x . - I. eedpd to Pt Oi Ships ob the Utah Seas. New York Commercial. Discussion of the tariff during the present camoalan In Massachusetts has brought out not a tew cuTious and amusing theories. Some of the campaign speakers, taking their cue from a declaration in the state Platform of the Denvocrats a year ago, have been loudly demanding from the stump free raw materials for our American shipbuilders." And even the well-informed Boston Herald has been caught shouting for a concession that our shipbuilders already enjoy. By the Boston Journal thee blunderers are brought up with a round turn. It points out for them the fact that steel plates, angle, beams, etc.. and other materials of foreign production can oe iraporceu im ine L niwi oiuira iirv ui wuij . , Mt i . v.l. ...,.,.... f.Trotcrn nwn- ! niI wu"1 "l 3 -lv' s era or for the foreign traoe. inciuuing the coastwise trade between our Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. But the privilege I is seldom, if ever, exercised by American f shipbuilders, chiefly because foreign owners are not placing orders for cross-sea f LI 1 l Willi UUI Alii' 1 K U U , " . -..-o ihor. mti. or,.mirsment in this ; ft with our American builders, and oethere is little encouragement in this j y to bullo ships to be sailed under , v auvc u i . . AAs-4sn H.. 4w tnn frsim ti-ftrl v i ii i v . kj ULI tin Btiiun r. x v , have had -free materials" for iwtBlJB

8 craft for ten years or more, but that , ?nlf:?ratt,on these causes to not operated to put the American flag tJ""1' inwde8t'nT J1 th nt of anablhe high seas to any perceptible extent. ( 1!" "2 rt of parenu has de

trade has on the Cheaper labor enables the foreigner to build deep-water shirts at less cost, and the same condition permits him to sail them

cheaper. These and other advantages en- ""v" .'u,UBl "ur wer northern Stats joyed by our maritime competitors conspire ?V m "R vf corrected. It may not be posto keep American ships out of the foreign ZtA 3 . V?.e tn miners broadtrade. Only by a subsidy from the govern- , SH intf11,?fnt- aad 11 te Ithsr ment can our shipbuilders and shipowners j K?"?,DiLnor de8Jrab, to attempt to check be put on a fair footing with their foreign j Vr.. creation of large families But It is competitors. KÄWV0 reulrJR 8tri registration of The anti-subsidy shout for "free ma- i D,"ns, to pass and snforce a compulsory

terlals" for our shipbuilders won't do at all. That isn't what they want for they have it already. THE "YELLOW" ME. HEARST.

S have no ambition or no opportunity to j rise any higher in the social acale than People Forget How Much He Had to , their fathers is un-American and Intolerable. As someone has recently siuze. sted Do with the Killing of McKinley. ; ln regard to these miners 'The pubfic New York Evening Post. I haf 1!?!? M.WeU " rnt' but , ' the responsibility for these particular conIn the outburst of public indignation j dltlons rests primarily. If not solely on which followed the assassination of Pres- j Pennsylvania,

ident McKinley the so-called yellow press and particularly its chief exponent, the j New York Journal, came in for apparently I endless and much-merited denunciation. Any one who would have asserted then that the man responsible for the most yel- i low of American newspapers would be running for Congress within a year would have been laughed out of court. Yet such is the case, and so changeable and forgetful is our public that Mr. Hearst is conducting his canvass with little public protest, and with absolute silence on the part j of the rest of the press. Following "sena torial courtesy," there seems to have arisen In this case a curious Journalistic courtesy. Yet every editor ln this city knows that no man has done as much to lower the tone of the press throughout the United States as Mr. Hearst, and knows ln addition that the candidate is in every way sniAe- a. 4 Kt V wt ora 1U a v-wl m ontalltr , li, U II U l ItTUf tVt II 11 W A a 1 I J CXI IVA II TT Ii UU 1 J f Bpite his family antecedents, to hold any offlce ln the gift of his fellow-citizens. Nothing has shown more clearly the degra dation of the Democratic party in these last years of Bryanlsm than the selection of Mr. Hearst to head the National Association of Democratic Clubs. Once a useful organization, it has received a fatal stamp from the character of its presiding officer, and must be reorganized if it Is to be of genuine service again. To-night, "under the auspices of Mr. Hearst." there is to be a Democratic congressional campaign meeting in Madison-square Garden, which should do the Democratic candidates immense harm. We believe that no Democrat of standing outside of the professional politicians will dignify the occasion by his presence. PRESIDENT S HANDS OFF. Coal Strike Commission liiinfluenced by Him. Washington Special in New York Post The President is manifesting some annoyance at the impression which has gone out very generally that the report of the' arbitration commission now sitting to take testimony on the coal strike would be subject to his approval or disapproval, like the findings of a court-martial, and that he should indicate to the commission certain lines he wished them to follow. As a matter of fact, he was very loath to interfere in the labor controversy at all as iong as there was any hope that the parties directly interested might be able to settle their differences in time to save the people of the country a winter of physich suffering and business disaster. When he found himself compelled in the Interest o: patriotism to take hold of the subject he ! adopted the most impartial and least of fensive course, and chose a commission tcconsider the whole question, constituted of men believed to be acceptable to both sides With the general instructions given to th commissioners he washed his hands of the strike. Whatever the commission decides it will decide on its own judgment uninfluenced by him or any one else ln authority; and nv attempt will be made, or desire felt, tr modify the verdict, which will be pro; claimed Just as made up. America Versus the World. Andrew Carnegie, in the World's Work. The causes specified have already changed the positions of Britain anJ America as industrial powers. America now makes more steel than all the rest o? the world. In iron and coal her produc tion is the greatest, as it is ln textiles--cotton, wool and silk. She produces threefourths of the cotton grown in the world. The value of her manufactures Is Juft about three times that of your own; her exports are greater. The clearing hous j exchanges of New York are almost double I those of London in amount. She furnishes 1 you with most of the necessary food pro i ucts you import. She has two-fifths of the j railway mileage of the world. Thus she hs,s : become the foremost nation In wealt! . manufactures and commerce, and promises j soon, in some branches, to occupy the psltlon which Britain occupied when it wrs Britain versus the world. She already do-s t this with steel Although no Briton can be expected to see with satisfaction hs country displaced from first place, there s yet cause for rejoicing that supremacy remains in the family. It ia not altogether lost what the race still holds. Macbetlus fate is not Britain's. The scepter of ma terial supremacy has been wrenched by ro unllneal hand it is her eldest son. the ! rightful heir, who wears the crown, and ne can never forget nor cease to be proud of the rnother to whom he owes so much. The Water Improves. Chicago Post. As the typhoid fever epidemic diminishes In severity we notice daily bulletins of t ie Improved condition of the city water, it Is truly astonishing what effect the fevr has on the water. While the epidemic raged with great severity the water was "uniformly bad." As conditions Improved we observed with great Joy that the quality rf water began to Improve, until this morning It is pronounced merely "suspicious." Tl is Is very encouraging, and we may hope that even later returns rrom the health department will Inspire the pumping stations to make a still more agreeable advance. For. the present, however, we say unto one and ! all as concerns the water: Boil It; it's orly a worm. Age of Modern ''Inventions. New York Press. So Edison "invented" the megaphone! What absurd rot! Just 900 years ago cne stx feet long was used In an English to m to call up the people in case of fire or war. Nothing new under the sun! The lit Me metal clip, patented a few years ago, ia an exact copy of the bronze one used In Ro ne twenty centuries bach. The omnlprevaKnt safety-pin of to-day was used by the Hainan women to fasten their dresses.

MIKING REGIO! SOCIOLOGY,

Some Phases of Miners' Ltt Tfcot Ar Iraallr Passed By. St Paul Pioneer Press. 8noe the ayes of the country have been turned on the antnracite regions a good manv Nrtn AI twi -vwaiw. SBSSS BUSTS OCwB gtSSS more or less prominence as xplanatlohs of the coal strike or as contributory causes to the dissatisfaction of the employs. Bs cently a correspondest ot the New York Evening Post has thrown more light on the subject In an article dealing with certain social features of the coal fields. He states that large families are the rule, and that thirteen or fourteen children in one house, hold are not uncommon. The effect of this phUoprogenitlveness Is primarily a constant strain on the miner s family exchequer. Even with good wages he nods it hard to support his children, and consequently as a secondary effect there Is a tendency to send the boys into the mines and the girls int0 the mills, even befor they have attained a legal age ThlatZ ?CL Ü fo8trd ,ty the absence of a?; law in Pennsylvania requiring the resist tion of births. There istherefore no check it wu au statement mat tht. rhild rnf, 1 UJIU inose Daren tn ,.t . to make concerning m eicent rh imr..rt.n kw .11 " ? n hiMi ..-i" , ; "pusso oy the d ' Wc' development Operating JJ a very general ?rs Jl A,"? Kf. educati"n The Xt"1? 9lT will have w V!li?W,i" thHT, S" nd vnce me very pis us1 - 1D1 argument that an !"v "r eauCÄtlo1 will not f 9 -Jf beneflt to them in that line of mt - worit. l oe conseQuencr is th t -wi 15..ytg' region doomed by dren of termined for them V..'-? 4UI a condition which It I s4VU . a " " ss wuiiin P Pennsylvania to correct, and nl lw ami to rold the employment of any boy who cannot prove that " be is sixteen years old or that he has attended school a minimum number of months. , in any community a generation of . boya should be allowed to grow un wh SPRING FOR PRESIDENT. Source from Whleh White House Is Supplied with Water. Washington Post. It is perhaps not a well-known fact that the occupants of the White House are not subjected to the danger from germs that are said to inhabit the drinking water of most residents of Washington. Th White Houe te supplied with spring water, which. after being analyzed several years ago. was declared sweet and pure drinking water, although not possessing any distinctive medicinal qualities. This spring is located in the center of Franklin Park, which occupies the square of land between Thirteenth and Fourteenth and I and K streets northwest. It was first discovered bubbling up at the center of the intersection of Thirteenth and K streets and had run down on the surface of the ground to its present location. There was an additional spring at the same point, but it has since disappeared. Wooden fdpes were first utilised to carry the water nto the White House; also to the Department of State and the Treasury, but later iron pipes were substituted for these and are the ones now in use. The exact date of the discovery of this spring and the introduction of its water Into the White House Is not known, but it was ln the first part of the second quarter of the last century. The White House as well as the Capitol and one or two other of the public buildings was originally supplied with water from a spring located in a tract of land owned by one John Smith, which Is now the sits of the new reservoir, but It bad not sufficient force to last and was soon abandoned for such purposes. The cistern which was fed by tills spring still remains in the White House, but is closed from the top. It Is a wonder, with the indefatigable persistence of children in exploring the forbidden, that some of the youngsters at the executive mansion have not succeeded in opening and falling into it long ago, but it is probable that they do not even know of its existence. This spring also supplies the pump at the corner of Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, so that ordinary mortals may drink a cup of the same good water that the President drinks. International Business Laws. AndTew Carnegie, in The World's Work. To summarize ln one paragraph the laws bearing upon the material position of nations, as described, may not be amiss: 1. The chief nations of the world have greater capacity to supply their own wants than was supposed. 1 Skilled labor has lost Its power to attract capital and raw material, which under favorable conditions now attract capital and labor. t. Nations will develop their own resources to the greatest possible extent as a patriotic duty, offering inducements to the enterprising to risk time and capital in the task. 4. The country with the largest and most profitable home market has an Invincible weapon for the conquest of foreign markets, as the "law of rurplus" operates In favor of the largest producer ln competing for the trade of the world. 5. As nations are more and more to supply their own wants, home commerce is to Increase much more rapidly than foreign commerce. 6. Nations tend to increase in population according to their capacity to produce cheap food. The tendency to enlarge areas under one government must continue, otherwise the small nations become mere pygmies industrially and play no part in world-wide affairs. These laws have already given some , proofs of their sway, to which I beg to direct your attention. Transporting Greek Geds. Atlanta Constitution. Of the latest volume of poems by Madison Caweln the Washington Times says that there has been considerable criticism of the facility with which the author brings Greek gods to Kentucky in his poems. It is thought incongruous that Bacchus should gather calamus root, and Artemus flit through woods of distinctly American growth. But there seems to nothing else for It unless we revive Indian mvthology. But we've got to bring the ancient gods somewhere, to keep 'em from dying out. and we fancy that even a Greek god would enJoy himself over the incense of a Billvllls barbecue. So let the good work go on! Fortaaate Tseoms. Salt Lake Tribune. A man is undergoing medical treatment at Tacoma for a swelled head. Tacoma is indeed fortunate in having but one such case, and he is of an unusual kind in wanting the swelling reduced. In othr towns those afflicted that way are many, and their greatest anxiety is not to reduce the swelling, but to increase it Qnestloa. New York Evening Sun. If an exasperated community forgot it I and lynched a Christian Science "healer." would his friends admit that he was dead? Would his condition be the result of a lot of people pulling on a rope, or of a "mortal thought?" Goisg Back. New York Commercial. It Is announced from Boston that Mary MacLane is going back to Butte. Butte re grets that It Is so firmly fixed on the hill that it cannot get away. Good Coasbtaatle. Baltimore American. The President has now entered upon what should he th luckiest year of hrs life. If there be any cumulative good fortune in the well-known combination of t -11-44.