Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — As Explained. [ARTICLE]

As Explained.

Ping—Female barbers will never l>eooma popular. Pong—Why not I Ping—Men can’t forget the ecrape Samson got Into by going to a woman for a hair-cut. The first thing to do If yon have not dona It, Is to fall In love with your work.

Tlio receipts from the sale of Missouri’s surplus poultry and eggs last year were £17,000 greater than tho receipts from the state’s surplus crops of corn, wheat, oats, timothy, llax seed, clover seed, millet seed, cotton seod, castor beans, tobacco, broom corn, hay and straw. The acts of tho Legislature are all in typo, proof has boen read tho first time and the index is about half made. Daniel Storms, Secretary of State, thinks tho proclamation of tho Governor, declaring the acts published, can be issued nbout May 1. Two years ngo the proclamation was issued May 15. The anti-saloon people have succeeded in blnnkot-remonstra-ting the saloons from Ambia, Henton, county—or have, rather, a sufficient number of remonstrators to defeat all future applicants. Tho Fowler Leader says Ambia has long boen noted as a whiskey stronghold, and the number of signers to the power-of-attorney remonstrance came as a surprise to the advocates of temperance. The temperance people are working with good success in other sections of the county, and the tho remark of a Fowler saloonist, that in a year’s time there would not be a saloon in Benton county, seems likely to prove a reality. During the year of 11)02, two men in America were killed in prize tights, Hnd in a season of three months just passed, twentyone men have been killed playing football. Fifteen of these died from broken necks or broken backs. How many men have been ruptured and permanently injured in various other ways no j man can I know, snys Elbert Hubbard, in the March Cosmopolitan, that two young men with whom I am personally acquainted are now in lunatic asylums as a result of football, and their ravings are the cries ami signals of this game Ts yog still think that football [is manly sport, you might interview’* the parents rtf ! these young men. , . \ . ! - The decision of tho Anthracite Coal Strike Commission has just been made public and will doubtless be regarded£ns a victory for the miners, not only in that it awards to them tho increase in wages for which they originally struck, but in that it refutes tho economic propositions advanced by President*Baer and other mino operators. On this subject the Commission says, “Undoubtedly the proposition that men who own property and carry on the business must control it is generally true and its maintenance is necessary to the political and econom ical welfare of society; but it is also true that where a business is of Such magnitude and its physical conditi us are such as to constitute a n:t’. iral monopoly, it is affected with a public interest which cannot bo ignored by those who control it.’’ While submitting that they do not feel authorized. under existing conditions, to advocate compulsory arbitration the commissioners recommend a law proposed by Charles F. Adams which provides for federal timo of extensive

conflicts between employers and employees. The specific awards of the Commission, by which both operators and miners are bound, give to the latter a general 10 per cent increase in wages beginning with April 1003. Men employed nino hours are to bo paid on a ton hour basis and provision is made for an increase in wages of 1 per cent for every 5 cent increase in the wholesale price of coal, abgvo $4.50 per tori for pea coal. Tho average price of coal is to bo determined by a commissioner appointed by a United States Circuit Judge and paid by tho operators. Tho miners are permitted all the check-weighers they may demand but they ar"e to bo paid at the miners expense. Any increase in the sizo of a miner’s cars is to be mot with a proportionate increase in wages. It is further provided that all disputes arising during the period fop-which tho Commission makes its awards, shall be adjudicated by a “joint conciliatory committoo” to consist of six members, three to bo appointed by the operators and three by the miners. In the event that an agreement cannot be reached by this evenly divided committee, tho committeo shall select a seventh member who shall cast the deciding voto. No discrimination shall bo nmdo against union or nonunion miners and all awards shall stand until March 31, 11)06.

Well, Abo lias tried both White county and Newton county and been whipped completely in both counties. Is it not about time for his brother commissioners and the taxpayers to shut down on this expensive horso-playV This fol-de-rol of Marshall’s about the county council’s-having mode n specific appropriation of only SSO to print the ballots for the Inst election, is false, and Marshall, if he knows anything nt nil—which we seriously doubt Sometimes from his silly vaporings knows it did nothing of the kind. t \s A matter of fact it made no specific appropriation for billlots at all, and Abe and his cohorts falling back on this twaddle is amusing. But, ns a matter of fact, it made not the slightest difference whether it did m did tlot make an npproprintinn for this purpose or whether the appropriation was sufficient or not, the election must have been held, the ballots were necessary and the printer was entitled to a reasonable price forpriutiug them. A 3 there were congressional, legislative and

judicial officers to be voted for, the county council hnd nothing whatever to do in the matter nor does the duties of the election commissioners came under the head of “county business.” Abe knows just enough law to be dangerous to those who trust him, and Jasper county having trusted him—to her sorrow—most pay tho penalty.