Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 April 1903 — Page 2
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Entered at the postofflce at Plymouth, Indiana, as second-class mall matter.
Plymouth. Ind.. April 23,1903. Toledo keeps on electing what is called a golden rule mayor," but has never yet succeeded in telling, the world anything about him except that bis name is Jones.
It is reported that a conference of leading Indiana republicans has decided to press Senator Fairbanks for the nomination of vice-president on the ticket with President Roosevelt.
Mr. Gorm in is endeavoring to be friendly to both tactions of the democracy. If there is any man on earth who can be on both sides of a fence at the same time we believe he is Gorman At the national Irish convention in Pulin the British ministry's Irish lind bill was indorsed in principle, and the Irish parliamentary party empowered to deal with amendments presented in the house of commons.
The lynching of a nero, the burning of negroes' houses and the driving of negroes out of to An will not be a pleasant thing for the people of Joplin, Mo., to remember when they cool down; nci will these actions do anything toward the future prosperity of the place.
William J. Stone, United States
senator from Missouri, confesses that he received an attorney's fee of 15,000
for getting a certain bill through the Missouri legislature. If Stone was a republican this would come very near
lein; bribery at least the opposition
pres would make the most of it.
Gov. Durbia evidently Intends that Indiana shall make a creditable show
ing. In the world's fair at St. Louis,
judging from the commission he has
chos.n. The citizens named represent
the life and Industries of the state.
Each man seems to have been selected
because he represents industrial and
business interests.
The bureau of forestry maintains
that the western plains the great
American desert" of fifty years ago
are not necessarily treeless, but can
be made productive of forests In many places along the streams where
fire and stock have J-een excluded for
ten or fifteen years are found thrifty
young cottonwoods, white elms, box
elders and other species which are
slowly invading the great plains.
From the open door of the insane
asylum in France to the open arms of his native city is a romance whose thrilling chapters cannot be appreciated by Moses Fowler Chase. Three years and more he has lain m a private asylum. He was left in the care of a physician in the caburbs of Paris
by the Duhmes almost four years ago. The search for the lost boy was cegun
by the father soon after he learned
the position in which his son was
placed. Young Chase is hopelessly
insane.
The thirty-first annual report of the
Indiana industrial school for girls
and women's prison shows an enroll
ment in the industrial school at the close of the fiscal year of 176, an in
crease of 31 over the previous year.
In the woman's prison there remained
52 at the close of the year. Seven of
this cumber are for life. The total
cost of the maintenance was $36,908.
63. Of the specific funds there were
used $3,649.18, making a total cost of
$10,458.84. The per capita cost of
maintenance was $192.09.
In excusing W. J. Stone, United
States senator elect from Missouri, for
serving the baking powder and school
book trusts, the St. Louis Republic,
the democratic state organ, says "a
lawyer cannot be expected to eat
snow and sleep under a fence." Re
plying to this the South Bend Times,
also a democratic paper, says: "That is fixing a pretty low standard of professional conduct. It virtually means that a lawyer is warranted in also serving as a briber. High-minded members of the legal profession will
demur to sach degradation."
The resolutions . adopted by the Manufacturers' Association at New
Orleans have a business-like ring.
They are, in effect, a declaration of
I rsonal rights and commercial inde
pendence. They admit the right of
the owner of labor to do what be pleases with It, provided be does not
Interfere wita the rights of 'others,
and they claim the Earns right for the owners of capital. - They recognize
the equal rights of - union and non
union workmen to employment and
the protection of th3 tovr, and declare
t-3 rijht of employers to be unmo
lested end cr.bcnipcrcd m the ciinige
rr-st cf their tucicccs. Thi3 13 the
7zz-3 to vrhlcb all parties mur fi
Canada continues to buy twice as
much from th3 United States as from England, though there is a preferen
tial tariff in favor of the latter. The
dominion's effort to turn the tide of
trade by admitting English goods at
a much lower rate has made but little
difference, because the Canadians can save money, as well as supply their
needs best, by dealing with this coun
try. -
The senate of Wisconsin has joined
in the demand .for the election of
United States senators by popular
vote. The resolution calling for a
constitutional convention to effect the
reform succeeded, however, In passing
only with the aid of the lieutenant governor's casting vote. Similar reso
lutions in other states have almost in
variably been passed unanimously or
by heayy majorities.
The next fay after Grover Cleve
land said there was no race predjudice
against the negro in the South, the
pood people of Joplin, Mo., hung a
negro on suspicion of having com
mitted a crime, drove hundreds of in
offensive negroes out of town and
burned their houses. There is evi
dently a little race predjudico at Jop
lin and a yiciousness among white
people that does not compare favorably with the characters of the colored
people of Joplin.
A Remarkable Engine. Probably one of the largest locomo
tives in service In this country has been
leased by the Wheeling & Lake Erie
railroad. It weighs 300t000 pounds,
is of peculiar construction and has power and speed that have never been
pushed to the limit. The locomotive was built for passenger service, but
Js now hauling frieght trains. No
one has ever known what it could do except that it seemed able at all times
to pull anything that was loose at
both ends. The heaviest train that
the Wheeling & Lake Erie is able to haul over any of its divisions is easily
pulled by this engine. The engine is
so large that it can be used only between Massillon and Toledo, as it will
not pass through any other of the bridges the road has. The other day
something of a test of ' its speed and
power was made. The company usu
ally makes the run of Its freights
orer its main line at eighteen miles an hour; in fact, that is a rule on that division. There were some perish: -
b!e goods at Massillon which had to
reach Creston to make a connection
with the Erie railroad. The distance
is thirty miles and under ordinary cir
cumstances the run would have taken
almost two hours. The word went out that the Erie connection must be
made, and this big engine was hooked to a train of fifty loaded cars and made the trip in forty-hve minutes.
There was no slipping of wheels, no
Doise cf the engine as though under
heavy pressure, but' it was a big mon
ster. pulling with ease. Half a mile
out the train was under good head'
way. Wealth and Idleness, ' Since the earliest history of the hu
man race it has constantly experienc
ed that only a small portion of the hu
man race can withstand the allure
ments of combined wealth, idleness
and luxury.
One cannot fira a boiler without giv
ing vent to the steam, generated.
Common practice puts the steam to
useful work in an engine and the boil
er pressure is thus at a safe limit. An
animal has some of the characteristics of a steam boiler; A horse in the full
yigor of life is apt to become vicious
and dangerous if he is fed with stlm
ulatmg food and deprived of exercise. If be does not he soon becomes fat,
sluggish and diseased. A man who
lives on the top shelf, eating three or
four big meals a day and drinking all sorts of stimulants, often resorting to
various narcotic drugs merely for the
sake of variety, is sure to become de
moralized if be does no work to relieve
the pressure set up by such stoking Detroit Tribune.
A Curious Will Case,
A curious will case has been decided
in Paris. A rich man well on in years
married a young woman and settled
his fortune on her. Later he discovered that she had misconducted her
self with another man almost since
the day of his marriage. The blow killed him. His relatives brought salt to have the settlement set aside
oa the ground that the widow had
displayed the blackest ingratitude
toward her late husband. The courts have admitted the validity of the argument and have set aside the settle
ment in favor of the relatives.
A Htsvy SctrJc Production.
Exchanges say that the setting of
the Holy Cross church in the second
act of "The Millionaire Tramp" is one of the most beautiful realistic
stage picture they 5 have ever witnessed. The third act contains a novel Atting, -th3 exterior of an opera bouse," changing to the Interior with' the audience seated and the performance in process. In this scene theater goers v?ill have the unique experience of watching another, audience vrateh another phy, or in other vrcrcb, an cudience that is to itcclf an audience will to the rcil audience bcecme tetere. - -
THE NEGRO PROBLEM
What Will the Ne$ro Do When He Is
Educated and Acquires Property.
THE ZEHNER CASE
Jury Says the Plaintiff is Entitled to $4.000 Damages.
It has seemed to us that those who
discuss .the negro problem from the
point of view of education, and who think that if we only educate suffi
ciently and along right lines, we shall
reach a wise solution, overlook several
very Important facts. In his admira
ble address last week Mr. Cleveland followed the beaten track. He, too, missed what seems to us to be a very important point. What he said of the negro was wise and true. He
thought that he ought to have every
chance, and he said, what we all know
to be so, that in many ways the negro has a better chance in th? South
than in the North. Booker T. Wasifington was cited as a witness in sup-
dort of this statement. He has said
that "when it comes to business, pure
and simple, it is in the South that the
negro is given a man's chance in the
commercial world."
The Southern negro has a much wider industrial sphere opened before him
than has his Northern brother. We
of the North, as a rule, treat him as a
menial, exclude hia from the skilled trades and craftsr and limit him
grievously in bis activities. All this
is brought out by Mr. Cleveland,
It is further shown that the South
is really doing much to educate the
negro. She is taxing ber people to maintain schools for the training of
the negroes, and is putting no obsta
cle in the way of bis securing an ed
ucation. All this is admirable. There
is probably no more prejudice In the South against the negro than there is in the North. But there- is still some
thing behind. And it is well to be
entirely frank in such Important mat
ters. Many people are wondering what is to become of the negro after
you have educated him. Is it proposed to bold him in his present state of
political subjection? Are we to continue to deny him the right to vote,
and to hold office If he can be elected
to it? Is he to be allowed merely to make bis own living, and to enjoy himself only as long as he keeps out
of politics? If this is to be his status
is there not some truth In the fears of
those who dread the effects of educa
tion on him.
So it does not seem possible to con
sider the question of negro education apart from the question of the future status of the negro. For. in the first
place, we must consider his education
in the light of his future sphere In order that we may tit him for it. This of course, is of great Importance. But
more Important yet is the question of what will be the general effect of education on the negro. In the slavery
days the people of the South were
right In opposing as many of them did, the education of the negro. For an lntelligient and educated man can not long be kept in slavery. To educate the slaves, therefore, was equivalent to emancipating them.. Education and slavery were deadly enemies to each other. Is not something of the same con dition presented at the present time? We doubt whether millions of educated, trained and cultivated men would long consent to be deprived of the right to vote. It seems impossible to think of the permanence of a society in which there are two classes sharply defined, and having no political relations to each other. When the nenegroes get property, and they are acquiring it in the South with considerable rapidity, and experience the awakening which education must bring, it may not be easy to exclude them from their political rights and privileges. An educated man, with
the right to vote, can no more be kept
from voting than an educated man could be kept in slavery. . These matters do not receive the attention they deserve. We are not depreciating education. On the contrary, we regard the work of such men as Booker T.
Washington as the most hopeful thing in the South .at the present
time. But there ma.t be this looking
ahead .Indianapolis News.
Dodging a Load ot Buckshot
The Chicago Chronicle a leading democratic paper says: With all def
erence to Mr. Cleveland's wisdom, it is not exactly clear how educating a colored citizen at Booker Washington's Tuskegee establishment would aid him in dodging a load of buckshot and that is undoubtedly the accomplishment which the colored brother will have to acquire before he succeeds in exercising the elective franchise In the sunny south. Mr. Cleveland sees only the academic side of the question.
The damage suit of William Zehner against the Vandalia railroad which had occupied the time of the circuit court for five days was concluded Friday afternoon and the case given to the jury. The jury reached an agreementduring the night - and returned a verdict of $4,000 damages for the plaintiff. This case was brought ten years ago, and this was the third trial. At the first trial the plaintiff won a verdict of of $1500, and oa the second was given judgment for $3,875, but the company got the case sent back for a new trial both times on appeal to the higher courts. Mr. Zehner's suit is based on the ground that he has a legal right to the water of the head lake of the Twin Lakes in West township He formerly used this water to furnish motive power for his grist mill at Sligo. When the road was built its track passed between these two small lakes, and Mr. Zehner claimed that the water was diverted from the old channel. Attorney Kellison assisted by C. P. Drummond conducted the case for Mr. Zehner. Williams, Oglesbee. Martindale and Stevens were attorneys for tha railroad.
CORTELYOU TO YOUNG MEN.
The Secretary of Labor Speaks from a Full Experience.
True Story of a Farrrer, The Sioux City, (Iowa) Press tells a true story of a young farmer in Northwestern Iowa who took a load of hogs to market, ten years ago, which he sold for $94.35. With this m- ney he paid the taxes on the farm he was trying to own, paid his grocery bill, called at the bank and paid for an extension on half a dozen notes, paid $30 on a mower note, and went home with $2.50 in bis pocket. That night the grocer paid his clerk and delivery boy: the delivery boy went to the skating rink and the clerk to see bis best girl and then with her to the theatre; the lawyer sent $27 of the money collected on the mower note to the company and, with his wife, blow in the other $3 at a church social; the bank cashier was there too: the taxllector went home
and enjoyed a choice Havana by his own fireside, while the farmer and his
wife spent the evening poring over a
sheet of figures trying to figure out how they were to meet the spring In
terest on the farm mortgage.
Ten years have cone by. Today the
clerk is still a clerk, the delivery boy
is running a bowling alley for another man, the bank cashier is dead, the lawyer has gone west and Is booming
some mining stock scheme, the tax collector ls.runniDg a snide real es-
füte nffir-o whHo tho farmorand hit
wife come to town in a double seated
surrey, and last winter spent several
weeks in California, leaving their sixteen year old boy to manage their fine farm which is now free from debt.
Mr. Cortelyou speaks as follows to young men beginning business: If men spent s much time doiog their work and perfecting themselves In trying to do it still better as they do in endeavoring to secure political influence, and , promotion on the strength of that influence, it would be much better for them, and their success would be more rapid." He added that his expeiience had taught him that in the government service, as everywhere else, in the long run merit tells. Here and there, of course, luck or favoritism helps a man and for the time being he pushes rapidly to the front, but It is the old story of the hare and the tortoise. The man who wins in the race of life is the man
who has staying qualities and who
uses his brains. "The trouble with so many men," Mr. Cortelyou continued, "is that they are lacking in the essential qualities. For instance, you find a stenographer who may be a good stenographer in so far as he can take down the word? you utter and accurately reproduce them, but who is simply a machine. If for example, you should make an obvious mistake, or if, as so oflcn happens in dictation, you use a plural where manifestly the singular is intended, the stenographer will transcribe it without either hav
ing the intelligence or the desire to
make the correction or to call attention to it. Again vou find a good stenographer who has absolutely no initiative or no imagination. Give him the exact words to write, and hs will write them, but give him merely a skeleton and trust him to dress it up, and the chances are that be will be unable to do it. Then there are the men who never appear to get into close touch with their superiors or to understand their idiosyncrasies, so to speak, who every day rr.ust be told
the same thing and' who only do just
exactly what they have to do. An
other class is composed of intelligent
mea who begrudge their work, and who think that when they are employed to do certain things they must not be asked to do any more. These
are the men who show in venous ways
that tbey regard it as a hardship, and in fact as an imposition, to be asked to work half an hour overtime. Now, when you find a man who combines all the qualifications that are requisite he is bound to succeed. Men may think at times that their work is unappreciated, but good men are always in demand and the employer rec
ognizes ability when he finds It."
Saturday Evening Post.
-People Feci Thtrnstlvts. A great many people fool themselves in the .course of their lives. They think they can go on working incessantly with hand and brain and not come to .the need of medicine. They find they can't. . And then many of them fool themselves again by accepting a substitute for Hood 's Sarsaparilla, which is by far the best medicine v?e know of for restoriag health and strength and
Lbuilding up the whole system.
Tell your neljhocn about the good qualities cf Tun Txasuirs,
Life is Cheap. According to the courts human lire is decidedly cheap in St. Joseph county. Not long ago a man who deliberately shot another without any just provocation got thirty days in jail. The result of the trial of Henry Swearingen In Goshen for the killing of Michael Schricker In this city a few months ago. is but further evidence that murder is not considered very much ot a crime in this locality. There was nothing that called for the desperata assault of Swearingen upon Sohricker with a big knife except that Swearingen was frenzied with liquor and intended to kill another, the saloonkeeper Haas, who bad ordered him out of the saloon. That Schricker, a purely innocent person who was merely calling at. the place to bid his old friend Haas goodbye before leavlog the city, should receive the fatal blow does not seem to be an extenuating circumstance of sufficient proportions to make the crime less than murder in the second degree and the sending of the murderer to prison for life. The Goshen court appears to have looked at the matter in a different light and made the verdict manslaughter, appending a sentence of from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary. South Bend Tribune. The Game of Flinch. i i There are many who do not know what the new gameof flinch is, for whose beneflS the following Is reproduced from an exchange: Flinch is a new parlor game. It is played with numbered cards and resembles solitaire somewhat in the system of building up from the numbers, The game is as Innocuous as authors, as exciting as whist and.is so tedious that many of its firmly wedded victims believe that it promotes long life. rA choicebetween two hours' seige at flinch and sitting up with a corpse by any man who has Indulged in both pastimes would leave a decision in favor of the corpse. Flinch Is favored by many girls and old maids who are too bashful to hold any other kind of hands. The game was named "flinch" by a man who had been asked to play it a second time. He "flinched."
Some Facts About Kid Gloves. Of course the women think that kid gloves are made out of the tanned
skin of kids. Manufacturers have their secrets, and three or four names
suffice to designate all finished gloves.
yet those who know say that if all the
animals which contribute skins could
be reincarnated it would be the most
remarkable menagerie eyer exhibited,
and few known animals would be missing. Even the water has been
searched and an attempt made to use
eelskin. Coltskin from Buenos Ayres,
sheepskin from the Cape of Good
Hope, ox bides from Calcutta, antelope skins from the Rocky mountains
and Mocha sheepskins from Aden, on
the Bed sea are perhaps the staples, but moose, musk ox, llama, kangaroo,
peccary, water hog and many others
lose their identity when they reach
the glove. Reads Like a Romance, Many of the . older residents of Plymouth will recollect Prof. Carl G.
P. Leutweln who came to Plymouth
and taught music, fell In love with a
Plymouth girl, married her and afterward moved to Ann Arbor, Mich.,
where be became a teacher In the
high school. His wife died after a
few years und left him with seven
children, but his eldest daughter,
Isabel, took charge of the family and
gave them a mother's care.
Now this daughter has been called
to Southwest Africa by her uncle,
who is the governor general of the
German provinces there,to take charge of his palace and he also promises to
give her three years of vocal and in
strumental music at Berlin and many
other nice things for taking care of
his palace at Great Windhoeck. ' Michigan papers have columns describing the journey and the country. Miss Leutwein's urcle has been an In
timate friend of the German emperor
from childhoood.
Try Tub Tribune.
Reformatory Law Changes. During the last session ot the legislature senate bills Nos. 56 and 57
were passed, which , among other
things, changed the name or the inai ana Reform school for boys at Plain
field to the Indiana boys' school. This legislation also provides' that vicious and criminal boys sixteen years of age and older, shall be sent to the Jeffersonville reformatory instead of to the Indiana boys' school, as has heretofore been customary. If you want sll .the news, and in a clear and readable shape, you'll fjet it in The Tribune.
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What British Workmen Who Have Taken Notes Think of Our Methods.
0UB ADVANTAGE IS IN MACHINERY
chlnery and the best method. The United States employer and employe realize more fully than the Britishers that brains and not brawn count."
CRITICS HAVE A WORD TO SAT
They Say, Xot In Men, Britishers Having Nothing to Learn from Us as to Skill.
London, April 18. The report of the commission of British worklngmen who were taken to the United States at the end of last year by Alfred Moseley, a wealthy Englishman, to study conditions of labor there, has been issued. It presents the views of twenty-three delegates who separately synopsis their deductions resulting
ALFBKD KOSKLY. from the United States trip. The report shows a lack oj& unanimity, except that all agree that the British workman has nothing to learn from the United States workman, while British employers are not as far advanced as those in the United States in the treatment of their employes. Conclusions mt Mosaic-y. Moseleysays the United States workman has a far better education, "is infinitely better paid, housed, fed and clothed; and, moreover, much more sober." Moseley says in" .conclusion: "If we are to hold our own in the commerce of, the world, the old methods must be dropped and the old machinery abandoned." , He believes that some form of profit-sharing Is the true solution of the capital and labor question. He welcomes the trusts as best able to compete on the most economical lines. . He says that the organization of capital on the one hand and of labor on the other will solve the Industrial problem. We Are licit Up-to-Dxta. The reports of the delegates differ concerning the up-to-date methods of production, though the consensus of opinion Is largely in favor of the United States where "the distinctive feature is a hankering for the latest ma-
Chicago's King Is the "Aiml-Lty Dollar" Blast at Our Morals. Delegate Walls, representing the British blast furnace men, says that while the output of the United States blast furnace Is double that of the British furnace not more than half of the United States furnaces are of the most modern type. James Cox, the delegate for the Iroa and steel workers, pays his respects to Chicago, where, he sajs, "The almighty dollar Is the unquestioned king." Of the new postoffice he says "any third-rate corporation in Great I ritain would have accomplished the work in four years lnstead of eight This Is illustrative of government work in general." D. C. Cummings, of the Iron and steel shipbuilders, quotes Shipbuilder Cramp as saying that "Great Britain's position as the leading shipbuilder is unassailable, and unlikely to be seriously menaced for the next quarter of a century." Cummings concludes with a severe criticism of the social and moral life in America, where, he says, "gambling und pleasure seeking appear to be characteristics. The disregard for human life, the corruption In politics, and other Immoralities tend to the moral and physical deterioration of the people and must be arrested if disaster is to be avoided." II. R. Tayior, the delegate of the operative bricklayers, says he would be sorry to see United States methods of building adopted in England. M. Dellar, representing the national plasterers union, found the plastering bad, "even in the rooms of the White House, where the delegates were received by President Roosevelt." W. C. Steadman, representing the parliamentary committee of the trades union congress, says the British workman cannot be beaten in the world for solid and well finished work. The delegates unite in extolSng the hospitable reception they met with everywhere from all classes, which was so marked that it interfered somewhat with their investigations. Summing up the reports of the delegates, the conclusion seems to be that while keenly conscious of United States competition, it does not mean a hopeless position for Great Britain, for the report says: "The workmen who have built up American industries are largely Britishers. Most of the inventions in American workshops come from men hailing from the old country.. "Let ns adopt modern methods and England will hold her own In th commercial rivalry, of the world."
Strlko Is Saro to Berfa. Appleton, Wis., April 18.- The International Brotherhood of Paper Makers at Neenah has refused all offers of compromise in the struggle for fewer working hours and a strike of 1,000 men win begin might.
laborer and Bod Cam-Ion. Washington, April 17. The International Hod carriers' and Building Laborers Union of America has fidopted a resolution indorsing arbitration for the adjustment of all labor disputes Xlovrlsb Protondor Is Zlortag-. Tangier, April 18. The pretender is marcliins from Tara on Fez.