Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Page 3

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TRUST MANAGERS WORK AN OLD SOHEME. Claim They Are Talcing Contracts Subject to Cancellation if Bryan la Elected—Democrats Meet Monopolies on Their Own Ground. 'Washington correspondence: The trusts are playing their last and dangerous card in the campaign. Nearly every trust in the country is taking contracts subject to cancellation if Bryan Is elected. It is not an entirely new scheme, but it is being worked more aggressively and thoroughly than ever before. Employes are shown these orders and threatened with lack of work if McKinley is defeated. The Democratic voters propose to meet the, trusts on their own ground. There is already a widespread movement against buying goods from any trust which attempts to coerce its employes into voting for McKinley. As fast as the trusts send out these notices of ‘contract void if Bryan is the workmen pass along the word to their comrades and there are now thousands of voters of all parties eager to show their resentment at this high-handed proceeding of the trusts, by not purchasing their goods. The trust absolutely needs consumers for its products, but there are many trust products which the people can do without until after election, In order to nive a lesson. Workmen are not going to be scared this time as they were in ’96.. They know that their employerfl will continue to do business as long as they find it profitable, no matter who is elected. There are two points to be specially noted in relation to this clause which trust concerns are putting to their contracts. In the first place they are sending agents all over the country to [Mace bogus contracts. The orders with the coercion clause are, in many cases, placed only for campaign purposes. There is no intention of having them filled even if McKinley is elected. Bona fide orders would not be numerous at this time, because there is a depression lu all branches of trade. There is not one-fourth the demand for manufactured articles outside the absolute necessaries of life, that there was a year and a half ago. Workmen can rest assured that a vote for Bryan will not lessen their chances of immediate or future employment. A vote for McKinley in ’96 was followed by a year of The worst industrial depression ever known in this country. Then, too, a number us manufacturing concerns are threatening to close “permanently” if their workmen help to elect Bryan. The ■cold fact is that no business firm closes •down while It is making money. No political campaign is allowed to interfere with the accumulation pf profits. But there is a shrewd scheme concealed under this threat of closing. Many manufacturing concerns have produced more goods than they could sell. It would be a distinct business advantage for them to close down for a few weeks Just now. so as to work off the surplus. Trusts have put the prices of goods so high that the masses had to ■consume less, hence the overproduction. The refusal all along the lone to pay better wages, meant in the end, that the workman had nothing with which to make himself a profitable consumer. It will be remembered that in ’96 many of the firms that threatened to go -out *f business If Bryan were elected, actually did make assignments after McKinley was successful. The result would have been the same, no matter who was elected, once a firm became insolvent. There is a general revolt of wageworkers and consumers against trusts. A stand has to be made sometime if the privilege of a free ballot is to be kept intact. This is the campaign in which the trusts will get their object lesson. It is going to be a severe one, and the refusal to buy trust manufactured goods Is likely to be felt long after election. The coal miners are displaying remarkable fortitude and perseverance. Hanna thought they would jump at a 10 per cent advance in wages and forget that a recognition of their union was ■essential if the advance was to last beyond election day. The miners have learned by bitter experience that they have to meet orgen4zntlon with the same Instrument. Th?ir union is very feeble compared with the •coal and railroad combine, but it Is infinitely better than trying to deal with the trust as individuals. The miners are displaying great fortitude in thus refusing an ante-election bribe. A man has to be hungry to realize tlie sacrifice involved in turning away from a meal when it Is offered. These men, however, are firmly convinced that their condition will become worse and worse unless public opinion ami a Democratic President forcea the coal trust to do something more for them than carry out Hanna’s campaign plans. Wage workers, and, in fact, nil cla.tae>i of humane and right-minded arc applying the logic of the miners’ sipnation to their own case. They fej that all the trusts arc getting ready to cut wages and lengthen the hours lalxn, and put up the price of product*. On this account the miners are u>ceivlng much generous assistance. Thjy are fighting a battle against a trust the whole country. Indications art not wanting that they will hold out f;tr months if necessary, in ordef to secure some Improvement in their conditions which will be permarent. The Republican campaign pres* bureau is trying to make the workingmen "believe that President McKinley is a union man. la 1899 President McKinley was tgm-

THE M’KINLEY MINSTRELS.

“Uncle Mark, when I’m elected I have made up my mind that I will ” “Excuse me, William. I’F you are elected I will make up your mind.” The company will now give their Lightning Drill, to the tune of “We’ll Drive the Common People Off the Earth.”—New York Journal.

porarlly made an honorary member of the Bricklayers’ Union, on the occasion of his placing the corner stone of the Federal building in Chicago. The Republicans are sending out an elaborate story of the ceremony. It is proving a boomerang. Union labor fs pointing to the President's approval of martial law in Idaho and his neglect to have his Congress pass any labor legislation. The mention of the Bricklayer incident has set'the whole labor press to analyzing President McKinley’s non-union attitude toward labor. Hanna the Whole Thing. Mr. Bry an called attention to the peculiar significance of Mark Hanna’s attitude in public life when he declined Hanna's challenge to a joint debate on imperialism by stating that while he, as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, would be willing to meet Mr. McKinley, the Republican candidate, in such a debate, he could not consistently debate with one whose responsibility is less than his own. “If the Republican committee will certify,” said Mr. Bryan, “that Mr. Hanna is to be President in ease of Republican success, I shall willingly meet him in joint debate.” This is a fair and legitimately dignified position for the Democratic standard-bearer to take. It must be so recognized by all fair-mind-ed persons, just as would a refusal on the part of Mr. McKinley to enter into a joint debate with Chairman Jones of the Democratic National Committee, who occupies the official position in the one party's campaign organization filled by Mr. Hanna lu tliat of the other. Senator Hauna, however, differs from Senator Jones in that he arrogantly stands before the American people as the creator and master of the man whom the American pimple elected to the Presidency of the United States, and as the real power in American government if Mr. McKinley shall be again elected. It was the most natural thing in the world for Senator Hanna to challenge Mr. Bryan to a joint debate. To the mind of the boodle boss of the Republican party and its puppet President, the fight of 1900 is a fight between Hanna and Bryan. Mr. McKinley is a mere figurehead in that fight, manipulated by Hanna and subject to Hanna's orders. It is Hanna, therefore, who steps into the arena as the Republican chanyilon in the battle of 1900, challenging the Democratic champion to combat, entirely Ignoring the polite fiction that Mr. McKinley is the leader of the Republican hosts. Mr. Bryan has done well to direct public attention to this usurpation by Hanna of rights that properly belong only to Mr. McKinley as Mr. Bryan’s antagonist. The trust instrument in public life should pull himself together. He has for the moment forgotten and abandoned the role in which he was past by the trusts for the fooling of the American people. He has come out in bls true character of McKinley’s boss —the real President—and is kicking the Republican fat in the fire.—St. Louis Republic.

Democracy unit Lalxir. In Ills great speech nt Elmira, N. Y„ Hon. David B. Hill said: “I call the attention of [he workingman to the fact that for the first time In the history of the country, one of the great political parties, tp-wlt, the Democratic party, had adopted a plank in its national platform favoring the establishment of a Department of Labor In the cabinet of the President. If this proposition shall meet the approval of the American people by the election of the Democratic candidates, a Department of Labor will be established, which will aid materially In advancing the interests of workingmen and adding to the Importance and dignity of labor.” The plank In the Democratic platform wblcb Mr. Hill refers to Is as follows: “We are opposed to government Uy injunction; we denounce the blacklist, and favoi arbitration as means of settling disputes between corporation* and their employes. “In the Interest of American labor and the upbuilding of the workingman

as the corner stone of the prosperity of our country, we recommend that Congress create a Department of Labor, in charge of a secretary with a seat in tlie cabinet, believing that the elevation of the American laborer will bring with it increased production and increased prosperity to our country at home and to our commerce abroad.” On this subject, William J. Bryan recently said in one of his public addresses: "But the laboring man is even more interested in the proposition to establish a labor bureau with a cabinet officer at its head. Such a bureau would keep the executive in constant touch with the wage earners of the country, and open the way to the redress of their present and future grievances. If labor is given a place in the President's official household, the man selected will necessarily be a worthy and trusted representative of the people for whom he speaks, and his presence at cabinet meetings will give for those who toil for their daily bread assurance that their interests will be properly guarded.” • Victims of the Trust. To-day I went to Banning. It was the old stcry of keen want. Men haggard. unkempt, grimy; women wan and pale, with anxious grief and worry; children thin, worn of feature, emaciated of limb; foodless, hungry, starving children, these! Here is a story of the Banning district. It is all true. There was in this hovel a miner, his wife and dttle children. The little ones were actually dying of hunger—starving! They were worn almost to transparency. I stopped and gave them a dollar. The man all but broke down. It was the first money he had seen in three months. I saw some meat of queer sort in the one room. “\V>at is that meat?” I asked. The man looked disconcerted and abashed. He said nothing; the woman, with a baby at her breast, began to ’weep silently. What was it? Dog’s meat? This is as true as we live; their supper was the flesh of a dog.—The Verdict.

More and More Muddled, The contortions of Hanna in the effort to extricate himself from a bad position are amusing. He denies having said certain things in alleged Interviews, but tlie fun begins when N> attempts to explain just what he did say. Hanna’s revised logic finally sifts itself down to the proposition that there are no trusts, because the fiberman law and statutes in several States prevent the existence of illegal trusts. In other words, there are no trusts, because there are some legal ones. As Is usually ti.e case with orators who do not weigh their* words. Hanna gets more and more muddled the mote he “ex plain a’’—Boston Globe. Again Swing, to Bryan. The vote of New York State is east alternately for the candidate cl the two great parties, with the regularity of the swing of a pendulum. Tlnlt history records It: To Seymour over Grant in 1868. To Great over Greeley In 1872. To Tilden over Hayes in 1876. To Garfield over Hancock in 1889. To Cleveland over Blaine in 1881. To Harrison over Cleveland In 1888. To Cleveland over Harrison in To McKinley over Bryan In 1896. IN THE SOUP.

—Philadelphia Time*.

RUIN FOLLOWS STRIKE.

Bare Necessities of Life Seem Luxuries In Coal Reston. A special from Hazleton, Pa., says that want and ruin have followed in the wake of the strike in the anthracite region. Families who lived in comfort while the mines were in operation now feel the pinch of starvation and the bare necessaries of existence seem like luxuries; business men, upon whom prosperity had smiled, have been brought to the verge of bankruptcy; thriving towns have become stagnant, casual travelers have forsaken them, and newspaper correspondents and labor leaders constitute the most important element in the floating population. 'The production of coal constitutes the sole industry of the section. There is no farming in the neighborhood of the collieries. The land is rocky and barren. It has been stripped of timber, and stunted pines, oaks and underbrush straggle over hill and dale. • Vast breakers are scattered about, each one supporting a settlement of miners, with shabby, rectangular cottages. Enormous culm banks show how great the underground work has been. There are miles of subterranean passages In mines that have been in operation for half a century, and in which the supply ts expected to last, for three centuries to come. When President Mitchell’s order for a strike went into effect every mine in the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys came to a sudden stop and work was suspended in many parts of the Schuylkill and Lehigh districts, leaving only the comparatively small Panther Creek section in full operation. Since then the missionary efforts of organizers of the United Mine Workers have resulted in the closing of the majority of the remaining collieries, the neighborhood of Tamaqua alone escaping. Strikers who had some little money on hand for an emergency have cut their living expenses down to a piinimura, buying nothing but food, and little of that. Merchants whfl had large orders outstanding when the strike began promptly canceled them, refusing to make purchases until the trouble ended. Commercial travelers, usually the,’best patrons of the hotels, changed their routes, as they could sell nothing in the coal regions. The theaters have been unable to attract audiences, and many of the best attractions canceled their dates, to the further detriment of the hotelkeepers. As there was little coal to be hauled the coal railroads had to lay off the crews of most of their coal trains. In many towns it is now impossible to obtain coal for domestic use nt any price. Appeals are being made to the United Mine Workers’ organization for funds for the relief of destitute strikers

Few-Line Interviews.

Goldwin Smith thinks that marriage is a protection against suicide. Ho says: "Statistics show that suicide is largely on the increase. The inference which some would draw is that progress has failed to produce happiness. It is true that mankind has grown more restless, and that with multiplied desires and heightened aspirations there have come new sources of discontent. But the general fact probably is that sensibility has increased with civilization. It seems to be proved statistically that marriage is a safeguard against suicide, while divorce is specially productive of it. Marriage no doubt is too often the disillusion of love. Yet the immense majority of marriages are happier than a lonely lite.”

Of the relief work in Galveston, Stephen E. Barton, second vice-president of the Red Cross Society, said: "So far there has been donated for the flood sufferers about $1,600,000 cash. Of this amount $750,060 has been donated to Galveston. It will require every cent of this amount tb clean up debris and pny the expenses of distributing the materials donated, and nothing will be left for reconstruction of tlie 4,000 immes destroyed. The broken lumber that can be extracted from the debris is not worth the cost of the labor necessary to recover it. However, it is utterly'impossible to think of burning any part of it without removing it to some distance from the remaining buildings.”

Said Conrad G. Hubbard to a Washington Post reporter: "American tourists rave over the glorious scenery of the Rhine, when it is immeasurably inferior to the scenic charms of tlie Hudson or the St. Lawrence. There is not in any corner of Europe, nor elsewhere on the globe, anything comparable to the Thousand Islands for natural beauty.”

Emperor William says tliat tlie Boxer chiefs should suffer for the death of the Christians, nml lie also says: "1 also long for peace which atones for the guilt, which makes good wrongs dune, and which offers to all foreigners in China security for life and property, and above ail, for the free service of their religion.”

Kato Takaki. Japanese minister in London, says of tlie empress dowager: - "She is the heart and soul of China. So long as she lives, so long as she remains in China, whether the supreme power is taken from her or not, she will alwaju be the greatest force, the one above all others to be reckoned with. The difficulty will be to get any one who can speak for her. I fear that the influence of Li-Hung-Cbnng is now of extremely little weight.”

Samuel Gompers defines the position of organized labor by saying: “All that labor demands for itoeif it is willing to grant in equal measure to others. It doos not oppose combination among employers. It does not depend upon legislation. It asks no special privileges, no favors from tlie State. It wants to be let alone mid to be allowed to exercise its rights and use it* great economic power.”

About the influence of the United States in world politic* Gen. Joseph Wheeler says: "We are not a military people, nnu yet we are the most martial, and. when necessary, the most warlike of all people on earth. Wo seek to avoid entanglements with other nations, but to-day every nation on the fare of the globe, ix'fore it makes n diplomatic move, telegraphs to.its minister in Washington And learns the views, wishes and demands o's the American people.” Chicago will arrest street beggar*.

NEW PERIL IN CHINA.

Ifa(hington Officials Fear Uprising in Yangtse Provinces.' Washington officials profess to be very much concerned over the critical condition of affairs In Southern China. They will not admit directly that they have advices confirming the press reports that un outbreak is imminent, but indicate that they have no reason to doubt that such is the case. One of the most prominent of them said that unless the international situation assumed a more definite shape It would hardly be possible to prevent an uprising in the Yangtse provinces. He said that the viceroys of these provinces had succeeded against remarkable olkh in holding the unruly element in check, but they could not do this much longer. In his opinion the initiation of peace negotiations was the easiest and surest way of stopping the agitation, for as long as the general Chinese question remained unsettled the empire would be perturbed. The government is working zealously to bring about a settlement of the.recent troubles, but practically no progress has been made. The severe winter of Northern China begins about Nov. 1, and if no arrangement between the powers to effect an amicable understanding is made before then, the present uncertain conditions must continue until spring, as during the winter I’ekin will be almost entirely cut off from communication with the outside world. Minister Conger, as his telegrams to the State Department show, is not satisfied with the action taken by the Emperor Kwang Hsu to placate the powers. He has indicated plainly- to the department that the list of those Chinese named for trial on account of their participation in the Boxer troubles is not nearly complete, and this and other advices from him lead to the belief that he and his diplomatic colleagues in I’ekin doubt the good faith of the imperial government in its dealings with the civilized nations.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The diplomatic situation in China has undergone a decided change. Germany l?as receded from its demand for the punishment of the leaders of the anti-foreign revolt and has submitted to the powers modified proposals, which have been accepted by all, including the United States and Great Britain. France, in turn, has submitted proposals to the powers which are as drastic, if not more so, than the ones originally submitted by Germany. Minister Delcasse proposes that the importation of munitions of war into China be prohibited: that the‘Chinese forts be razed; that I’ekin be garrisoned Ijy the allied troops, and that • a line of communication between I’ekin and the coast be permanently guarded by foreign troops. The United States has taken the lead in accepting these proposals, with distinct reservations. President McKinley states that the United States is not prepared to go to the length proposed by France, but that it will co-operate in any proposal having for its object the immediate opening of negotiations for final settlement between China and the [lowers. The withdrawal of the United States and Russian troops is well under way. On the other hand. Great Britain and Germany continue to land troops at Taku and forward them to the Chinese capital. It is evident that the diplomatic complications over the settlement of the Chinese question are only at their beginning.

Thursday marked the completion of the first year of the Boer-British war. Contrary to general expectation, a proclamation of peace was not issued, but there were a number of developments during tlie week indicating Great Britain's belief that the war is practically over. Lord Roberts is to sail for home before Nov. 1. Fifty thousand men in the militia service are to be disbanded at once. The colonial troops in South Africa have been released from service and are going home. A police force of 12.006 men is being organized to preserve order in the Transvaal, and Baden-Powell, the resourceful defender of Mafeking. will, it is announced, be in command. In fact, preparation's are being made to withdraw the bulk of the British army from South Africa, It is a significant fact tliat a great army lias lieeu massed at Komati I’oort. There is no necessity for its presence there, and it can only lie conjectured that tlie troops arc held there in anticipation of early transfer to England or India. At the same time Komati I’oort is on tlie frontier between Portuguese East Africa and the Transvaal, and it is connected by rail with Delagoa Bay. If any emergency requires England could in a few hours move several brigades to Delagoa Bay for embarkation-—say, to Hongkong, for service in China.

English political circles are busy in the construction of a new cabinet. It is understood that all of tlie memtiers of the present ministry have, a* a matter of formality, placed their resignations in the hands of Lord Salisbury. Some changes are expected, as a matter of course. All talk, however, that Joseph Chamberlain will bo advanced seems to be without substantial foundation. He has been picked out for the War Department, for the Treasury Department, and even for that most responsible post of all. Minister of Foreign Affair*. Mr. Chamberlain has disposed of all the talk by announcing over his own signature that he hnd no ambition to serve in any capacity other than ns Secretary of State for the Colonies. Parliament will assemble on Nov. 1. and changes in the cabinet, if any, will hardly be announced before that ’•ite.

The Spanish Cortez lias been called to meet early in November. The most interesting feature of the work to be taken up by the Madrid Parliament will be the proposals for rebuilding the navy. The war with the United States deprived Spain of practically ail her warships. Th# purpose of the government to rebuild the shattered navy ia taken as evidence that not only will national pride do much for the restoration of Spain’* prestige, but that public spirit has set about in earnest in rehabilitating industry and commerce.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. \y" Hiding Place of Gold Revealed in a Dream—Pickle Crop of the StateYoung Millionaire Chase Disappears —Train Wrecked and Burned. David Sehwarze of Galena, a wealthy miller, has just found $l5O in gold as the result of a dream. Tlie money was hidden by Mr. Sehwarze during the Civil War, in anticipation of the raid of Gen. John Morgan. After Morgan had passed Sehwarze looked in vain for the money, and concluded that some one had stolen it. He moved to Galena years later. A few nights ago he had a dream, in which he located the spot where the money was hidden, and, going there, found it intact; Indiana Pickle Crop Booms. The pickle crop of Indiana, though a comparatively new one, is rapidly increasing from year to year, and the deliveries to the salting houses established by a big Pittsburg concern are the largest this year since the firm began buyingthe vegetables from Indiana growers. There are several establishments which are Operating in northern Indiana, but the Pittsburg house is the largest, with its thirty salting houses scattered over the country. Searching for Young Chase. Detective William J. Sutherland of the Mooney A Boland agency of Chicago has reported to the police the mysterious disappearance in Paris of Moses Fowler Chase of Indiana. Chase is a millionaire and had been placed in a private asylum by bis aunt, Mrs. Duhine of Cincinnati, lie was held in restraint because of a dispute over bis sanity and the ease has already gone into the courts of America. Train Wrecked and Burned. An accident occurred on the Evansville and Tern Houte Railroad seven miles south of Vincennes, in which three men Were badly hurt, one fatally, and five are missing. A freight train ran into a eow and the engine was ditched ami eighteen cars, four having oil tanks, were piled on it and burned. Eyesight of Four Destroyed. During a session of a class in chemistry in Shelbyville in which chemicals were used an explosion occurred, destroying the eyesight of Teacher John Jacklin, Roy Lee, Frank George Billingsley. Jacklin carelessly held a lighted lamp near the pipe through which he was passing the chemicals. Within Our Borders. Tomato pack in northern Indiana is unusually large. Jesse Rhoads. 78, Shelbyville, ;i wealthy farmer, is dead. John Bennett's residence, Valley Ridge, was robbed of $957. Fire Of supposed incendiary origin at Howell caused damage aggregating $50,000. A wolf escaped from a Fort Wayne zoological garden and killed many sheep. Farmers killed it. Fire did $4.00(1 damage in the carpet • department of the Golden Rule dry goods store. Ixigansport. Independent window glass manufacturers have signed a scale of 5 per cent in advance of that signed by the trust. Muncie window glass flatteners will receive $lO weekly benefits from their union, pending a settlement with the trust. Amos Coffman, a Dublin farmer aged 67, while working in a cornfield, was thrown from his wagon. His nock was broken. Joseph Brown. 24. Panhandle switchman, killed at Logansport by being thrown under the wheels of an engine that jumped the track. Hobart dedicated its new GermanbLutheran Church with all-day sernees. Rev. E. 11. Scheip of Peru and Prof. H. Dan of Hammond conducted the dedicatory services. The building cost SB,OOO. Over 2.000 persons were present from surrounding towns. The Kankakee land owners will combine in sending an agent to South Africa and Holland to encourage the settlement of Boer colonies in the Kankakee valley in La Porte. Lake. Porter and Stark counties. Tlie Kankakee lands are adapted to the raising of cattle and of recent years immense crops of corn have been produced. The Kankakee valley promoters took the initial steps to encourage colonization during the last stages of the Boer war. A bill is to be introduced in the Legislature this winter creating the office of State tire marshal. Auditor of State Hart is behind tlie proposition. The duties of the officer would be to investigate the cause of tins and fix the responsibility. It is believed he would be able to discover danger from spontaneous combustion inflarge manufacturing concerns in season to save heavy losses, thus saving the insurance companies large sums and thereby aid in reducing rates. The experiment has been successful in several States. Wesley Hummer, a well-known resident of Greene township, was arrested in Elkhart on a charge of passing counterfeit money. He had nine $lO gold pieces, eighteen $5 coins and three $1 silver pieces, all spurious. $13.25 in good money and a die for making the counterfeit. His plan was to make a small purchase, tender one of the gold pieces and receive good money in change. The gold counterfeits were poorly executed, consisting of stamped white metal, bronzed with a powder that rubbed off on the paper in whicji they were wrapped. Hummer confessed, telling the officers that no one else was directly implicated. He said he bought the spurious money from a man who mot him regularly at a point between South Bend and Plymouth. Joseph Poker. 27. was killed by a falling rock in a coal mitre nt Shelburn. /• Pittsburg capitalist* paid SBS,(MX) for the oil holdings of Alford A <Hl‘iild, around Van Buren. Benjamin Steele's family. Elwood. «a« poisoned by drinking tea. Narrow es•a’pe from death. j Night Watchman Brier Quirk. Gowan, •xchnnged shots with a burglar, but .either was struck. Edward Doran. Mir), g. t U:ly. chief ngineer and siq erinten ' < ' • on t ruelion of the State prion. ts uead. ;yy y: ■■