Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — Page 6

RIGHTS OF LABOR

Several Important Cases In Which Judge Parker Stood Consistently For Labor’s Rights. r A number of important laws affecting labor were before the courts of New York for adjudication while Judge Parker was on the bench, and all of bis opinions asserted the right-of the state to legislate for better conditions among its wage earning classes. The Republican press has criticised some of those decisions and has intimated that they were made for partisan effect, but the independent legal thought of the country has indorsed them, both on account of their consistency and their just and equitable conclusions. One of the first and most important cases t.;at came before Judge Parker’s court was in relation to the law which required- that contractors on public work should pay their employes not less than the prevailing rate of wages. A street improvement contractor In the city of New York had failed to comply with this provision of his contract and the comptroller refused to Issue a warrant for the amount due, bolding that he had not complied with bis contract. The court of appeals held the law, so far as it related to such a case, unconstitutional, but a dissenting opinion was written by Judge Parker in which he defended the law as a proper exercise of legislative power. In 1896 the so-called “convict-made goods label act” was passed. It required all goods made by convict labor In any penal institution to be labeled “convict made’’ belore being sold or exposed for sale within the state. The law was undoubtedly aimed at convictmade goods of other states, since the products of convict labor of New York could not under the constitutional provision be placed upon the market. This law was held by the court of appeals to be unconstitutional, because It was an attempt to regulate interstate commerce and thus violative of the commerce clause of the federal constitution. Judges Bartlett and Parker wrote dissenting opinions, insisting that the act was a proper exercise of legislative power. The true purpose of the law was tersely stated by Judge Parker in the following language: , “This statute neither prohibits nor attempts to prohibit other states or citizens of other states from putting prison-made goods upon our markets, nor does it prohibit our own citizens from buying or selling them; if it did, then, concededly, the statute would be in violation of the commerce clause of the federal constitution and void; It simply requires that prison-made merchandise shall be so branded that our citizens shall know- where the goods they are buying were made.” Another case before the court grew out of rivalry between two labor organizations' and has led to much comment. Charles McQueed, a member of the National Protective Association of Steam Fitters and Helpers, a corporation organized under the laws of New York, brought an action on behalf of himself and his fellow-members to restrain the board of delegates and certain individuals, members of the board of delegates and of the Enterprise Association of Steam Fitters and of the Progress Association of Steam Fitters and Helpers, from preventing the employment of the plaintiffs, and from coercing their discharge by any employer, through threats, strikes, or otherwise, and to recover damages. Judge Parker wrote the prevailing opinion of the court and in it he lays down in the most comprehensive terms the rule that members of a labor union have not only the right to refuse to work with others, but that it does not affect their right because the reason given does not seem adequate to other people so long as the object to be attained is a legal one. He says; “Stated in other words, the propositions quoted recognize the right of one man to refuse to work for another on any ground that he may regard as sufficient, and the employer has no right to demand a reason for it. But there is, I take it, no legal objection to the employee’s giving a reason, if he has one, and thaf fact that the reason given is that he refuses to work ■with another who is not a member of his organization, whether stated to his employer or not, does not affect his right to stop work, nor does it give a cause of action to the workmen to whom he objects because the employer sees fit to discharge the man objected to ratner than lose the services of the objector.”

More “Prosperity.”

Residents pf Pullman. the “model" suburb of Chicago, are having trouble. Of 7,000 heads of families who work in the carshops, the town’s sole industry, only a few still are on the pay-roll. It la estimated that more than 3,000 workmen are idle. It is feared that the shops soon will close indefinitely. "The trouble is that we are paying higher wages than other car companies with which we are brought into competition," said one official of the company, “and a reduction seems inevitable." The foregoing is a sample of what is going on the country over in a greater or less degree, according to locality and industry, and yet the Republicans insist that this is a time of great prosperity. But when the Pullman employes’ wages are reduced, who is going to reduce for them the cost of living?

THE LEAP YEAR LEAP.

He's been her steady company for six or serves™; He seemed’to like to linger at her side. But he had never asked her if she’d share the name he wears, Nor mentioned her as his prospective bride. Of course, he always took her out to parties and to shows; He gave her all the pleasure that he could. But still, his conversation never turned to wedding clothes. Nor did it seem as if it ever would. Her girlhood friends had married off and left her by herself; She often sighed because she was alone. She trembled when she thought about reposing on the shelf, Like lots of other spinsters she had known ; So straightway she proposed to him, in leap s year’s early days. She told him something had to come to pass; She said they’d taken lots of time to learn each other's ways And burned enough of papa's precious gas. Of course, be was surprised at her, but what was he to say? He saw the situation at a glance; He plainly understood that he must either name the day Or let some other fellow have a chance. He pleaded for a little time; he asked her for a week— She gave him twenty minutes to decide; He said that it was sudden, but as he was forced to speak, He'd always wanted her to be his bride. They seem to be contented in the flatthey occupy; He says she makes a model little wife; She says they never disagree, because they always try To make each other satisfied with life. But there is just one secret they will always try to keep, And they've agreed to keep the subject closed— He'd hate to have his friends suspect what made him take the leap— She'd hate for hers to know that she proposed, —Lippincott’s,

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capitol. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: Moßt of the White House clerks are on a vacation now and there is no visible activity around the Executive premises except the silent coming and going of tourists. The single clerk still on duty at the white annex has little information of value to politicians, but yesterday announced that the President’s letter of acceptance will not be issued until September 12th and possibly 15th. Judge Parker’s letter will greet the public a week later. This is quite in accordance with the purpose of the Democratic national committee to have a very short, sharp and lively campaign, not beginning till October. The solitary clerk who sits behind the Federal inkstand as above mentioned, announces with an air of boastful superiority that the Republican committee has closed contracts for 525 tons df white paper to be used for campaign literature. Five Chicago paper jobbers have the contracts and some twenty paper mills are busy turning out the stuff in its immaculate form of harmlessness. The Tribune correspondent figures that the paper when it has become offensive with ink and gall, would be sufficient to lay a paper sidewalk all the way to California, or Patagonia, the quantity increasing with each repetition. Democrats do not pretend that they are going to use more than a hundred thousand acres of paper, but they mean to glut the l\ S. mails with it during September and October. T t t Xhe famous old Long Bridge, which, for a generation has been the only connection between our northeastern and southeastern states, has permanently retired from business. The new doubletrack bridge built at a cost of $750,000, has been opened this week. It is half a mile long and a marvel of engineering skill. A brilliant coat of red paint brings the great steel structure out in bold relief, contrasting it with the blue river and sky and the green of luxuriant foliage. The old bridge crouches, friendless and tottering in the shadow of its successor, doubtless remembering, before it plunges to oblivion, the proud days when it extinguished the commercial life of Georgetown and, two generations later, when it bore the tramp of a million men marching to meet the hosts of the South. The passing of the old bridge and the dedication of the new may be said to be accomplished during these weeks by the transit of th.e tens of thousands of soldiers and thousands of commissary wagons moving to the mock battle of Bull Run around and beyond Manassas. Three headquarters have already been established on the "contested” ground, the warlike appearance of the vast area of a hundred square miles being broken only by a solitary Quaker who obstinately sits in the middle of it upon hie 300 acres and refuses to permit the hostile legions to trespass on his land. The scream of the bugles and the throb of the drums are alresdy heard across the river, and Friend Pearley sits triumphant in his doorway and laughs

derisively to behold the expenditure of a million and a half of dollars to enable vast brigades and divisions of parading men to fire blank cartridges at each other, make flanking manouvers, and delight the imperialistic spirit of the American President. t t t Another great naval Scandal has broken out this week. Forty seizures of dutiable merchandise have been made in San Francisco, revealing a wholesale smuggle of oriental goods. There are more than one hundred cases of goods in all, worth tens of thousands of dollars, many of them consigned to commander Bull and Bear-Ad-miral Stirling. Probably Secretary Shaw will simply reprimand the offenders, as he did the naval officers who smuggled into Porto Rico, for the cases seem exactly similiar. Secretary Shaw told your correspondent that he should Jet those offenders off with a reprimand, while native Porto Ricans were still in jail and had been there for a year, for doing precisely the same thing. t t t The high water mark for pensions was reached September 80, 1902, when the rolls carried 1,000,732 names. There is one Revolutionary widow on the pension rolls to-day—Esther S. widow of Noah Daimon of Vermont. She must have married at 17 when her husband was 70. He served as follows: Six days from April 19, 1775, in Captain Tucker’s company; twenty-five days in Captain Summer’s company; sixtyfive days in Captain French’s j company; three months in Captain Thomas White’s company; three months in Captain Lapham's company; thirty-seven days in Captain Clapp’s company; nine days in Captain Abner Crane’s company; thirty-one days in Captain Richard’s company and eight months in Captain Champney’s company. These companies were generally in different regiments, and the record shows the curious instability of military service during the Revolution. The last survivor of that war died in 1869, aged 109 years. t t t The citizens of Washington and visitors are being entertained now by an unusual exhibition of war vessels in the Potomac. There are the battleships Texas and Massachusetts, the monitors Arkansas, Florida, and Nevada, eight torpedo-boat destroyers and the training-ship Hartford, the old flagship in which Admiral Farragut led the fleet up Mobile Bay. The squadron is in commaud of Rear-Admiral Sand, and the big guns frowning over the water and the decks crowded with sailor lads in white duck present a picturesque spectacle rarely seen here. f f f MacMonnie’s statute of General McClellan proves acceptable and will stand on the triangle at 18th and N. streets. Fifty thousand dollars was appropriated for it by Congress.... Vice Presidential candidate Davis is in this city and will start next week on a stumping tour, to set the pace for the other youngsters... .Col. Biddle, Engineer Commissioner of the District, has returned from an inspection of the Panama Canal zone. He thinks it a wonderfully salubrious spot, and a nice place to live. But his friends notice that he didn’t stay there... .Pension clerka went down the river yesterday to hear their Chief Commissioner Ware read a new poem. Was the invitation equivalent to a command?

BOY WRITES VILE LETTER.

Federal Authorities Discover Unususl Case ot Youthful Depravity Near Wheatfteld. Monday's Indianapolis Sentinel: A flagrant violation of the postal laws has just come to light, which puzzles the Federal authorities. Gale Smith, an eleven-year-old boy, was arrested yesterday and taken before Commissioner Reiter of Hammond on the charge of writing an improper letter. He pleaded guilty to the charge but the authorities are at a loss to know what would prompt a youth of that age to do such a thing. Some time ago young Smith saw a picture of a beautiful eight-year old girl of Louisville in a monthly magazine. He cut out the picture and wrote her a letter which was vile in the extreme. Smith was bound over to the Federal grand jury and his bond placed at SSOO. He lives with hie rather in the country near Wheatfield, Jasper County, and is said to be a bright little fellow. The Federal authorities say it is the only case of the kind that ever occured in this section of the tryMerchant cigars at J. W. King’s.

******* < I | i99c Racket Store WVVVSiVuVIIVW'I.WWWWWWWWSVI.VSWUWWVSVIiIW^ftIWM'SWIiSiVWWWrfW'.IVSISftniWUWW.'to Great Sacrifice Sale ON SCHOOL SUPPLIES, Tablets, and everything needed at this time of year. We have a stock unsurpassed for QUALITY, VARIETY and CHEAPNESS, and we defy all competition to duplicate the same goods for less money than we are selling them for. If you have been paying fancy prices it is time you cut it out and buy your Tablets, Pencils and Stationery at the 99 Cent Racket Store, the store made famous by selling you the same goods for less money or more and better goods for same money. We will quote a few Cracker Jacks for you to crack. There are not many, but while they last they are yours at the prices below :

Any box paper in store, lots worth as high as 35c per box, for this sale, only 10c Box paper worth 10c,now 5c High grade ink tablets, for this sale, 0n1y.... 8c The finest ink tablet in state. For this sale. 5c Pencil tablet, the largest manufactured; we will sell at only 5c Pencil tablets others get 5c for, we will sell 2 for 5c Pencil tablets, the largest ever made to sell for a penny. Per dozen.... 10c Pencil pads from lc up Slates, 5x 7, 0n1y.,.... 3c “ 7x 9, “ 5c “ Bxlo, “ 7c “ 10x12, “ 10c Pencils, common, 2 for,, lc Pencils, lead,with rubber tip, only lc Pencils others get oc for 2c Pencils others get 10c for 5c Red and blue pencils... 4c Slate pencils 2 for lc

This sale starts on August 20th and lasts as long as we have the goods in stock. Do not wait, but take advantage of same while you can. Do not forget that the Racket Store is in the Makeever Building, two doors west of the First National Bank, opposite the Court House, and that all parties that are telling you that the Racket Store has gone out of business are liars from the first water. Do not be deceived by such, but come and see for yourselves that we handle more goods than ever, and they are the best that money can buy. No old shoddy or shelf-worn goods, but new and up-to-date. Our fall goods are now arriving, and we are slaughtering prices on everything in every line we handle to make room. Do not miss this sale, but come in and see for y.ourselves. E. V. Ransford, Prop., of the 99c. Racket Store North Side Square, Rensselaer, Ind.

WILL SUE COUNTY TREASURER.

Goodland Herald: The town trustees of Goodland have employed Attorney Chas. E. Thompson, of Lafayette, who will be assisted by Mr. Oswald, town attorney, to collect if possible the $3,000 tax apportionment due the town, paid to F. D. Gilman by county treasurer Coovert some time before the Ist day of July, the time directed by the statutes for its payment, and lost in the Home bank failure. The matter will in all probability be settled in the courts.

REDUCED RATES TO THE WEST.

To all points in Montana, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, September 15th to October 15th, 1904. Write at once for information and maps to C. C. Hill, Traveling Agent, Wisconsin Central R’y, 230 Clark Street, Chicago, 111.

MONON CHEAP RATES.

65 cents for the round trip to Monon, Sept. 20 to 23: limit Sept. 24, Street Fair. $16.40 for the round trip to Jamestown, N. Y., Sept. 11,12,18; limit Sept. 20. $1.95 for the round trip to Lafayette, Sept. 20, 21. 22; limit Sept. 24. Reunion of Wilder's Brigade. $20.30 for the round trip to Baltimore, Md., Sept. 9,10, limit Sept 20. One fare plus 25c for the round trip, Sept. 5. limit Sept, 6, to points within 50 miles except where one way rate is less than one dollar the 25c will not be added. $52 for the round trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 15 to 27. Aug, 28 to Sept. 9; return limit Oct. 23. Low rates West, September 15th to October 15th; one way to— Billings, Mont, $26 35 Helena, Butte, Salt Lake City.. 3135 Spokane, Wash.- 32 05 Portland, Tacoma. Seattle...... 34 55 San Francisco, Cal 34 35 Round trip rates for the world's Fair at St. Louis commencing April 25th, good until Dec. 15th, $13.65; sixty day excursion tickets $11.60; fifteen day excursion tickets, $10.80; seven day excursion, $7.80.

Real Estate Transfers. William W. Watson to Chas. Schleman, Jr; July 11, Its 2. 11, bl 8, Rensselaer, stffeth add, SI,OOO. Mary E. Troxell to Jesse I, Tyler, Aug. 18, pt nw 36-83-7, Keener, sl. q. c. d. Russell D. Coleman et al to International Oil & Refining Co., Apr. 7, ett se 7-81-5, Walker, $1,300. Melaena Losh to Isaac J. Clark. Ang. IT, eH ne se 31-38-5, Milroy, $775. Thomas J. Turpin to Mary B. Greenway, Aug. 35, It 8, bl 8, Remington, SIOO. q. C, d. Jease I. Tyler to C. E. Earl, Aug. 33, pt nw 36-82-6, Wbeatfield, SBSO. Morris* English Stable Liniment Sold by A. F. Long.

Agent.

W. H. BEAM,

Slate pencils, wood covered, per dozen 10c Pen holders.common, 2 for lc Pen holders, red finish, Pen holders, best made.. 5c Colored crayons, per box lc Colored crayons in oil.. lc Colored crayons, in oil.. 5c The finest pencil sharpener on earth. For this sale 5c Compass pencils, each.. 5c Rulers 2 for 5c Pencil and sharpeners for this sale at 5c 1 lb. writing paper 10c Composition books others get 10c for, we sell 5c Envelopes others get 10c per package for, we shall sell for this sale 2 packages for 5c Memo, books, for the vest pocket, from lc up; the finest line in city to select from. Ink, per bottle 3 and 5c LePage’s glue, per bottle 8c

Wabash Specials.

NATIONAL EN AiTPMENT UNION VETERAN LEGION, JAMESTOWN, N. Y. Rate $13.75 for the round trip. Tickets on sale Sept. 11, 12 and 13th, limited to Sept, 19th. LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS. MO., APRIL 30 TO DEC. 1. Rate for 15 days $9.15, 60 days $9.55. Season tickets $11.45. On sale daily. Commencing May 17th and on every Tuesday and Thursday thereafter during the months of Aug. and Sept., a 7- day excursion ticket will be sold to St. Louis for $5.10. This ticket will not be good in parlor or sleeping cars. KNIGHTS TErtPLAR AND ODD FELLOWS’ MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., SEPT. Rate, direct route going and returning via Portland, $63.00. Liberal stop overs going and returning, final limit Oct. 15th. ANNUAL MACINAW EXCURSION VIA. WABASH, nONDAY. SEPT, «th. Tickets will be sold for train leaving Lafayette 6 o’clock a. m., Monday, September sth, return limit 10 days. The Detroit and Cleveland steamer “City of Alpina” will be used on the going trip from Detroit to Machinaw Island, State room $3.00 which will accommodate three persons. Lower berth $1.50, upper berth SI.OO, 50 choice state rooms at the disposal of our patrons. Give reservations as early as possible. Meals on steamer 75c on the American plan. Round trip summer tourist rates to all summer resorts. Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, $30.95; Salt Lake City and OgdeD, Utah, $44.90; Petoskey, Mich., $17.00; Mackinac Island via steamer, $18.15; Boston, Mass., $38.00. Rates to other points on application. Round trip tickets limited to 15 days will also be sold to all summer tourist points in Michigan, South of Mackinac Island and north of Reed City, Mich., for one fare plus 50 cents, thus giving the business man, whose family is spending the summer at one of the many Mitchigan resorts an opportunity to visit them at a very low rate. Rates and conditions quoted above apply from Lafayette, Ind., and are subject to change. THUS. POLLEN, Passenger and Ticket Agent, Lafayette, Ind. '

Liquid glue, per bottle.. 5c Mucilage, per bottle.... 5c Colored inks, per bottle. 5o Photo paste, per bottle. 5c Gold paint, per bottle.. 5c Gold paint, per bottle.. 10c Floating gold paint, per bottle 25c Artists’ brushes, each... 5c Receipt books only ,5c Playing cards, per pack. 10c Vertical school pens, 2 for lc Rubber bands, per gross, 10c Thumb tacks, per dozen 10c Pencil rubbers, each.... lc Pencil rubbers, each.... 5c Stereoscopes, each... .25-35 c Stereoscopic views, per dozen 25c Texas eye shields 25c Deed and cash boxes.... 49c Shelf paper 5c Crepe paper, all colors.. oc Tissue paper, 2 for lc Shawl straps, each 5c Shawl straps, each.,.... 10c Pencil boxes, with pencil pen-holder, ruler, slate pencil and key, all for 5c

Upholstering and Repairing Having sold my bicycle repair business, I have concluded to put in the place of it. and in connection with my undertaking business, a first-class Upholstering and General Furniture Repair Business. a I have secured the services of a first-class upholsterer. Work call- . ed for and delivered to any part of the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. ’PHONE 56. A. B. COWGILL. V . y IH] L DEALER IN I ( Ur. Hi. Hi i ttil. 5 RENSStUER, IND. J A'Sf RE VI VO yJP restores VITALITY «n«nwUl recover their youthful rigor by Mins BEVI VO. It quickly sndagr sly msoessßtfro as--S&3SSS3SSS3 W hiohsafltaon«fortody,bßelniworatsnla««.ll aot coly eoree by atartiß* at thoaydo* «!•••». bat SESw&ss ether. It cube csrrled la seat pocket. Br mail, »LOO per packs—, or ate «or na*Q>'wltawgg KiiniEWOßircar^^iSlr' For sale in Renaaelaer by J. A. Lank druggist. Read The Democrat for news.