Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 46, 24 December 1908 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1908

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THE CONTEMPT DECISION. And so Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Secretary Morrisson are to be sent to jail as an outcome of the long deferred decision of the contempt proceedings of the injunction obtained fcy the Buck Stove company. It will remind those who heard Gompers speak in the last campaign of his declarations that he would pay ' no fine and that he would go to Jail. As far as the technical side of it is concerned, there is little doubt that the decision of Justice Wright is correct. If the injunction granted by the court to the Buck Stove company "was right against a secondary boycott, there is no doubt that the defendants disobeyed deliberately, the injunction. Gompers did not deny this, but took the stand that under the constitution he liad the power tovsay anything in his editorials that be pleased. Indeed, the evidence showed that ten thousand copies of the Federationlst, containing the editorial telling union men not to purchase a Buck stove, was sent out after the injunction had been issued. There Is but one sane way to look at It. It is nothing less nor more than the question whether or not the secondary boycott is to be used or not. The secondary boycott is, in the eyes of the labor leaders, the only way in which the futl strength of the federation can be used in fighting an effectIve battle against their enemies. It is for that reason that they are going to jail rather 'than pay their fines. It Is the question which came up in Judge Taft's decisions qn the secondary boycott made famous at the time of the Pullman strike. This Is only another chapter. That is the reason that Gompers says, "If men have to suffer for fighting the battles of their fellow men I am willing to Buffer." There is no doubt that the standpoint of Mr. Gompers Is a sincere one. Whatever might have been the opinion as to his sincerity in the last campaign In some of bis statements and doings or whatever may have been said of him as a political adversary in this, at least, Mr. Gompers is sincere. He Is fighting for the secondary boycott, However much people may believe that the secondary boycott is an unfair weapon and that It is dangerous

to the people themselves who are the

innocent bystanders, yet most people will respect Gompers'6 action as being consistent. But on the subject of a secondary boycott there is no doubt in most people's minds that it is dangerous, unfair

and disruptive. Whether the second

ary boycott Is employed by labor or capital, it Is equally Ticious when used. It falls on the people, who have no rolce in the matter. That is the trouble. It is to be hoped that this decision and even the going to jail of Gompers will have a salutary effect on the whole situation. Among a certain

type of laboring men the three labor

leaders will become heroes, second only to Debs. But the other class the clearer

beaded ones, will welcome it as a

step toward a solution of a problem which has become acute. They will

see in it only a bringing of the matter to a head. In the end it will mean a greater respect for the courts, a clearer definition of the rights of labor and better understanding of the whole

thing. Gompers should not be made

a hero any more than should a capital

1st who is convicted of contempt of

court because he believes conscien tiously in the blacklisting of his em

ployees that have engaged in a primary strike. The conviction . of such a man would bring the matter to a focus

and would be welcomed as straighten

ing out the situation. That is all that

this really amounts to, although there

will be many laboring men who will

resent the action of the court.

BROWN WINS $400.

George Brown, a well known local

young man, who is the agent for one

of the leading monthly magazines, has

received word that he had received the $400 prize offered to the most

1 successful agent in November. There

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NO ROOM IN THE INN!

"Because Ihere was no room for them in the inn. St Luke II, 7. Christmas is indeed the home festival. Today all over the world people are traveling homeward. Trains and stations are full of people with huge packages bulging with the cheer of Christmas. Tomorrow the tables of ail will be groaning with turkey and the air will be redolent with the savor of bounty. The tables of all? Would that that statement were true. But, let it go at that. For Christmas is the festival of Optimism a feast of Lights in commemoration of Him who is a 'light to lighten the Gentiles. The Christmas creed is one of hope. " Those acute men who had t'ae making of the Christ ear were thoughtful enough to put the feast of

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Stl Thomas the Doubnr6n the darkest and shortest day of the December 21. It is the darkness which is blackest before dawn.

year,

A tired little family party was that which was traveling along the road to Bethlehem before tfl'd First Christmas. Just as there are tired mothers on the road today going home to spend Christmas somewhere. But when they arrived at the Inn they had to go to a stable in which there was not much cheer "Because there was no room in" the Inn."

THE FIRST CHRISTMAS.

the inn: The Inn is full this eve! Nay. I care not where you go. Haste you beggar take your leave. No room in the Inn. I told you so. (Faith like as not she will but theive). Go to the stable till the morning glow. THE KING'S STAR. I see a King's Star the east heaven ride, With blazing gleam and awful light. Past all the Houses of Despair and Pride, And with no show of Earthly Might. I see Three Kings at eventide Follow the King's Star through the night THE STABLE. . s . A stabled ox and docile sheep; A weary mother and her child; The woman's eyelids long to weep Her girlish face is pale and mild. "Little darling go to sleep." Then the baby turned and smiled. THE THREE KINGS. "Spices, Frankincense, Balm and Myrrh, Finely stilled Balsam, all fresh from the Fir, A Crown and a Sceptre of rubies rare, Poor gifts for a Heaven Born King we bear. O King of Kings! Look down upon us," We be Kings Of the East, so Kings of the Earth, We saw Thy Star gleaming afar Calling the Nations to Worship Thy birth.

And so there was no room in the Inn! Is there in this world, no room for the spirit of hope and charity which above all other things is what the Christmas time stands for? Hope for the life hereafter and charity for all while we stay our little hour or two in this world? Is there no room in the Inn?

There may not be as yet room in the Inn for all. There are out in,the cold a crowd of men with gaunt haggard faces full of despair when at this time they should be full of 2se. They are waiting for the afternoon newspapers in the hope of getting work. Tonight these same men will be fighting to get a place in the Bread Line. If you have ever seen it you will not soon forget it. There Is no room in the Inn.

And somewhere, all too conspicuous, is a cringing half flaunting woman, in faded finery. Men push her out of the way and women half close their eyes as they walk by. There Is no room in the Inn. In a garret a child is gasping out its life with membraneous croup. The father is in the first line at the newspaper office still waiting for the paper to come off so that he may find work. There is no one to help and nothing to eat But there is a row of bottles empty and a woman in the corner sound asleep in a drunken stupor. There Is no room in the Inn.

But the creed of Christmas is one of Hope and Charity. Some day there will be room in the Inn. ' There is a sinister tinge to that old Christmas Carol; "God rest you merry Gentlemen 1 Let nothing you dismay, For Christ Our Lord and Saviour Was born on Christmas Day." Yes! Let nothing you .dismay. . Tes, merry gentlemen, Were is still, "No room in th Ins." , CARL BERNHARDT.

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delegation. The Tenth has a larger republican representation than any other district in the state. The Tenth district men will stand by Wickey in the contest in the legislature. Mr. Wickey declares that he has assurances from the republicans in every district that they will support him, eveiMo the point of appealing to the senate to give aid. Action by the

republicans would probably be the.

only thing that could keep the democrats from unseating Wickey in case they should decide that that was the thing to do. Democrats Dictate. In the house the democrats will be be in the majority and will be able to unseat whomsoever they please. In the senate the republicans will be in the majority. Mr. Wickey believes that if the democrats in the house attempt to unseat him the republicans

in the house should cive the demo

crats in the house to understand that''

a democratic senator win be unseated in the senate. Mr. Wickey believes this would be nothing more than fair. "Mr. Wickey was elected by a plurality of more than 1,300, said one of the Tenth district men." It may be that there were Irregularities among the republicans at election time in Lake county. But there were irregularitis among the democrats, too, and it was merely a question of which party could do the most There is no reason why ''Mr. Wickey should be unseated. Representative Gil Elliott of South Bend, declared that there was no more reason for a contest in Lake county than there was In St Joseph county or several other counties. "They will have to go some if they unseat Wickey," said Elliott It is said that the reabttoan state

organization feels the same way about it One of the leaders of the state

committee declared that whenever, the democrats started to unseat Wickey in the house there would be things

doing in the other branch of the legislature. Contest First. Cash. , There is little doubt that the Wic-key-Slmon contest will cause the first clash in the legislature. It is largely on the irregularities in Lake county that the democratic candidates for state offices are basing their contests.

These contests are backed by the democratic state committee. Both party committees will be lined up in the WIckey-Simon contest in the house. It was stated by several of the representatives who attended the meeting that this contest should not be allowed to interfere with the passage of laws designed to purify the elections. . The democrats are favoring laws that" will require a foreigner to have lived for five years in the United States and to have been fully naturalized before he may vote. The republicans also, it is said, will aid in the passage of such a law. but they will not by any means admit that the republican party has been wholly to blame for election irregularities in the past. "I am for a law to purify elections" said Representative Brown. "I believe foreigners should be residents of the United States for five years before they are permitted to vote. But in the last campaign in Lake county the democrats were just as guilty of irregularities in election work as were the republicans. It was merely a question of which party could do the most of It" It was thought that the question of the selection of a floor leader for the republican side of the house would be taken up at this, meeting, but some of those who attended said the subject was not mentioned. This will be left to the caucus to be held just before the session opens.

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THOMAS F. RYAN. Thomas F. Ryan, the multimillionaire financier, whose retirement from the directorates of thirty-one corporations is announced, talked of his plans for the future when his prospective announcement was first given out last June, when he said: "What I want is peace and quiet I am going to retire , to Oak Ridge as soon as I can consistently and in justice to my friends leave the many interests with which I am identified. I am gradually accomplishing this now. I want to go back to old Virginia and live among the people I know and the people who have known me since I was born. I love my home. I am fond of my cnttle and horses, and down there I hope to find the peace I want."

Heart to Heart Talks.

By EDWIN A. NYE.

Copy.ight, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye

SPECIAL FAVORS TO THAW. Harry Thaw killed a man. He was saved from the electric cbaii cy his plea of insanity and the expenditure of $700,000 in high priced lawyers, experts, etc. He was finally declared insane. During his stay in jail he had special accommodations and enjoyed many luxuries refused to the ordinary Jail prisoner. In the lunatic asylum where he was sent he was given comparative freedom and was served with many dainties. Then Thaw was released from tht insane asylum by a writ of habeas corpus. He was taken to jail, where the privileges granted him became a constantly increasing scandal. Thaw had an entire floor of the jail to himself, with thirteen cells for his bedrooms, the hall for a smoking room and dining room. His meals were served by a private caterer; he had flowers, books and magazines in profusion. Besides This degenerate Pittsburger with sybaritic tastes enjoyed frequent automobile rides ostensibly on business gay excursions to the referee's office, court hearings at White Plains, etc. And all this was done under the legal fiction that he was "a dangerous lunatic with homicidal tendencies," but really BECAUSE THAW HAD PLENTY

No poor man could have had such privileges and attentions. For the ordinary prisoner the narrow cell, the Iron cot, the coarse food, the gruff orders. Now, such discrimination is not only subversive of Justice and wrong; it is impolitic and DANGEROUS. It tends not merely to break down prison discipline; it outrages every sense of Justice. When you show the poor man that equity is denied him in the courts because the rich man can hire able lawyers, when you show him that money will buy special privileges and immunities' from prison officials, privileges denied the poor prisoner, you foster class consciousness and strike a body blow at Washington's republic. The nauseous details of the. Thaw trial carried contamination and moral danger. The story of the special fa. vors granted this weak minded murder, er Is even more dangerous socially.

The following Is a letter a little New York girl wrote to the New York Sun and the reply she received from an editorial writer on that paper: rnr Krtitor; I am 8 years old.

Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says: "If you see it In the Sun it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA OlIANLON. 115 West Fifty-ninth Street. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe, except as they see. They think nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere Insect compared with the boundless world about him. as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and kuowledge.

Yes. Virginia, there is a Santa Clause. He exists as certainly as love aud generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as If there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We thould have no enjoyment except in sense and sight. The eternal light

with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe In fairyland ! You might get your papa to htre men to watch in all the chimney a Christmas eve to' catch Santa. Clan 4. but even it they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus. but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody ean conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable is the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle, and see what makes the noise Inside, but there Is a veil covering the unseen world, which not the strongest man. nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the perpetual beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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