Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 112, 27 February 1910 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND FAIXAD1UJI AD SUX-TISLEOBAM, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1910.

The Richmond Palladium

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a, uiotio unue siiuuK. uie pennies out oi the baby's bank to buy cigarettes with, Frftm the Indianapolis Star. Of course the lawyers on the Ballinger committee feel that any indlgni- ' ty that may be heaped on the witness f is perfectly proper. From the Chicago News. Mr. Glavis needs to have his torpedo netting set for frame-ups all the time. From the Milwaukee Free Press. Members of the Typewriter Pounders Union will scorn Mr. Glavis since his confession that he writes articles for nothing. From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. What they "grilled" out of Glavis was hot stuff for Ballinger. From the Detroit Journal. Button, button, who gave Mr. Glavis 1 official correspondence to the alert and patriotic magazine editor? From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. After reading a column or two of the cross-examination of Glavis on readily understands why the opposition examiners are cross.

THE ALBANY GRAFT INQUIRY. From the Duluth News-Tribune. The defense in that New York legislative scandal proceeds as if it thought by establishing that the chief witness for the prosecution had been a Sunday school superintendent it could throw his testimony out of court. From the Detroit News. The corruption fund scandal in the New York legislature has its sordid aspects, but still there is an air of respectability about it. Legislative graft is a "gentleman's game," you know. From the Baltimore Star. Shocked, but not dismayed, by the bribery revelations at Albany, the New York state republicans are turning to Governor Hughes as to a second Moses to lead them out of the wilderness. From the Springfield Union. Of course, if the New York legisla ture feels that it is so corrupt that it ought to be investigated, and insists upon being investigated and having its corruption shown up, we do not feel that we are called upon to interpose any objections. From the Buffalo Evening News. There will be no whitewashing in Albany. It Is not the republican Way to gloss things over or leave its house unswept. THE GENTLEMAN FROM ILLINOIS From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Doubtless Mr. Cannon is surer today than ever before that his House rules should be entirely satisfactory. Surrendering his gavel for a few minutes yesterday to Mr. Dalzell and essaying the role of an ordinary congressman, he had not the slightest difficulty, in "catching the Speaker's eye" and getting the floor for a ten-minute speech. From the Providence Journal. Speaker Cannon made so effective an impression when he stepped down from the tribune and as "the gentleman from Illinois." addressed th? House on a timely topic, that the movement to give him a desk there, in event of his election to the next congress must have b?en greatly encouraged. From the Providence Evening Tribune. Speaker Cannon declares that the party in power should have the machinery to carry out its plans. U cot only should have it, but it has it. From the Syracuse Herald. "Uncle Joe" better be a little cautious about how he takes the floor of tho House, as "the gentleman from Illinois." Some time when he is doing this "Vic" Murdock will grab his chair and refuse to give it up. Small Eyes. In China small eyes are liked, and the girls are continually plucking their eyebrows to get them small and long.

THE MARKET BASKET.

It was a little piece of yellow paper on the street A careful examination of Its scrawled contents revealed it as some school child's essay. The title was "What Causes the High Prices of Meat?" "One could write many pages on this subject, but I will undertake to explain it briefly on one page" so the little thing began. "First, the large packing establishments have a greater demand for meat than they can supply. Since pork is now scarce, the packers have to pay a large price for it. In order to make their profit they raise theirs on the butcher, who does the same with his customers. The price is naturally "out of sight," for some customers who, as a matter of course, fall back on beef. Now the demand for beef increases and so of course, the prices of beef will increase. It is in that way that the packer answers for high prices." And so he does: Only a simple little case of supply and demand! "These reasons explain, briefly, the cause of the high prices of meat, and the prices will remain high until enough stock is .raised to replenish the stock markets."

Whoever our anonymous and lucid young friend may be, we give him praise for giving as much light as a congressional investigating committee after the packers have testified. He has explained the riddle of the Sphinx that is feeding on our pay envelopes. He has given us the same answer which Mr. Armour himself gave the other day and added that the American people ate too many of the choicer bits of carcass and that this had the effect on the prices. All these things, and a great many more, are true! For instance, the packers, .those mere annunciators of the laws of supply and demand, are among the most powerful set of people in this country. They have the railroads about where they want them (which is a little more than can be said of the average citizen or business organization.) Something may be said on the side of cold storage houses under their control. On the whole, one would suppose that the cold storage? business would tend to pull down the price. But as a part of the selling organization of the packers it puts the finishing touch on their hold. You may also set it down as a fact that the price of commodities increased sixty per cent in the last twenty years and the wages twenty-five per cent. No wonder that you can't buy as much for your money. But why? There you have it. The trusts, the retailers, and the tariff. As the packers regulate the price and meat has to be doled out to us we may as well leave out the retailer. Grant that he makes a profit of from thirty to fifty per cent over the wholesale price he has to make a living and to cover the waste and the small volume of business as he always did. The wholesale and distributing houses of the trust have forced the small dealer (as well as the public) up against the wall.

Take another look. Last week frozen beef sold in New York from $11.50 to $14. The same day frozen beef shipped from New York sold in London at what would, over here, be from 8.25 to $9 a hundred. Why should American beef sell so cheaply over there? Isn't it just possible that the protection of the American packing trust has kept out the competition of Argentine and Australian beef? Isn't it just possible that the tariff which Mr. Aldrich labored so hard to revise, enables the citizens of London to buy meat from our packing trust more cheaply than the citizens of New York and Chicago? That surely is one cause. Mr. Andrew Carnegie (who certainly ought to know something about the operations of the tariff since he made a colossal fortune out of it) said: "If the tariff did not raise the price it would be of no use to have one."

Behind this tariff the selling departments of the trusts have so built up their trenches that they have become more dangerous than the mere increased cost of meat it has given them a monopoly. If this is all a pure school-book-politico-economic condition that we are facing, why wouldn't it have done just as well to take the tariff on meat off in that last conference? We. are glad some senators voted against it.

The farmer, who is rejoicing over the price of livestock, may as well remember that any organization in the hands of a few men which can dictate the price may be dangerous from his point of view, some day.

TWINKLES (By Philander Johnson) Dread of Penalties. "How did you like your dinner?" in quired the epicure. "Well," answered the dyspeptic, "it was admirable in every respect. But my doctor has put me into such an apprehensive frame of mind that when ever I really enjoy eating anything I become utterly miserable." An Endless Chain. "Why do you insist on forcing up prices on the necessities supplied by your great enterprise?" "I've got to do it," replied Mr. Dustin Stax, "in order to keep up with the high prices other fellows charge for the things I'm compelled to pur chase." The Best Policy. George Washington was never knowTo tolerate t mendacity. Oh, would that Dr. Cook had shown Such honest perspicacity! A Solemn Thought. "This talk of enormous canals on Mars seems to fascinate you," said one statesman. "Yes," replied the other, "think of the appropriation bills." His Point of Excellence. "Does your husband plav bridge well?" "Some portions of it," replied young Mrs. Torkins. "Everybody says that Charley is a good loser." Mr. Winter. Done our bes' to be polite. But you's tired our patience out. You ain't treated no one right, Yet you sort o' loafs about Like you was a welcome gues'. Might as well inform you dat We all like you less an' less. Mistuh Winter, here's yoh hat! We is wishful foh de glint Of de springtime on de hill, Hopin you might take a hint But we doesn't speck you will. When yoh visit's fully done. We'll be glad, we tell you flat. Don't let us delay you none. Mistuh Winter, here's yoh hat! Papa's Reformation. Visitor (to daughter of wealthy American who has just bought old country place) Does your father preserve pheasants? Miss ColumbiaWhy, no! He quit the canning business way back in the nineties. London M, A. P.

Banking Record of South

(New York Commercial.) A favorite theme with certain of our economists and those who, professionally or otherwise, are given to the regular projecting of diagnoses on commerce, industry and finance is tile barometric character of the country's leading stock and produce exchanges, along with the money conditions and movements at the great business centers wherein these institutions operate; that is, it is assumed or taken for granted that when conditions in one or more or all of these great markets are unfavorable, general business conditions throughout the country promptly reflect the thing to a greater or less extent. And observation and experience do not run contrary to the argument. But occasionally some exceptions or contrasts are presented and, while they do not go to disprove the theory, they are extremely interesting as showing how, occasionally, the affairs of a certain section may stand on their own bottom and move quite independently of those in the big financial centers. In the early weeks of this year, for instance, when stock market values were steadily dropping lower and lower day after day, when, apprehension of the "Washington program" was causing business to halt and business sentiment to be one largely of doubt, when the end of the "decline" seemed still a long way off. and when new enterprises in the North and East particularly couldn't even get themselves talked about, all over the South the people were going into new banking enterprises every day. During the past month more capital was devoted to the establishment and extension of banks In the 10 Southern States than for any similar period covered by the record. The amount of new money added to the South's banking capital during the month in question was $4,757,000; 56 new banks having' an aggregate capitalization of $2,800,000 either started business or applied for charters, and 19 banks increased their capital $1,957,000. MASONIC CALENDAR. Monday. Feb. 2$. special conclave Richmond Commandery, No. S, K. T. Rehearsal. Tuesday, March 1. Richmond Lodge. No. lOtl. F. and A. M. Stated meeting. Thursday, March 3, Wayne Council. No. lO. R. and S. M. Stated meeting. Friday. March 4, King Solomon's Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M. Called meeting. Work In the Past and Most Ex cellent M. degree. Saturday. March 5. Loyal Chapter, No. 49, O. E. S. Stated meeting.

Child Life Versus Dollars: Battle Against Child Begin Again: Politicians Cannot Dodge

I u- I iuuuf commissioner's Forthcoming Report to Congress May Herald the Dawn of a Better Day. BY W. S. COUCH. Washington, Feb. The battle over child labor is about to begin again. Indiana is especially interested in the conflict because of the part Senator Bevcridge has played in proposed legislation against child labor. On one side are arrayed a few heroic men who hate the traffic in the bodies of American boys and girls. Against them stand brutal manufacturers, backed by smug politicians of high and low degree, who are willing to enslave the children of the poor, grind their tender flesh upon industry's dollar wheels, take t from the bleeding hands of babes, silkc and laces, autos and yachts, homes and plenty for THEMSELVES AND THEIR WIVES AND CHILDREN. Labor Commissioner Chas. P. Neill is about to report in compliance with an order issued last spring by the government bureau of labor for an investigation of conditions of child and woman labor. The report will be sensational. It will describe conditions in American factory life which will make red-blooded men and protected women shudder with horror. A Million Child Slaves. It will show how some 1.000,000 American children are being sacrificed; their blessed childhood, their education, their physical, mental, and ofttimes, moral development stunted or completely destroyed in the name of dollar greed. The details of the report are now available, but it is known that Commissioner Neill has facts to present which will startle the political protectors of the evil practice and will doubtless FORCE A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION. Neill says his evidence is complete and he can support every statement. When It was noised about in inner circles that the Neill report was going to "take the lid off" the stinking child labor situation, manufacturers and their political aids essayed to head Neill off. They know Neill as a courageous man, a man after Roosevelt's heart. He made the famous report on the Chicago packers for T. R. So. the thing was to DISCREDIT HIM. if possible. This was carefully plannedNearn's Recantation (St. Louis Mirror.) For much of the prevalent Japanomania in this country Lafcadio Hearne was responsible, after Whistler, of course. To those who have been infected by that mania the last paragraph of a letter from Hearne to Prof. Chamberlain in the current Atlantic will come as a shock. The recantation is sweeping and it is good enough to quote entire: "The finale of my long correspondence with you on Japanese character is frankly this (I know it is unjust: I know it is small. But I suppose it is natural and I am not superior to nature besides I see no reason why I should not be in all things frank. with you): "I hate and detest the Japanese. "I refused even to attend a banquet given by a European merchant the other day because there were Japanese present. I wish to make no more Japanese acquaintances. I shall never again be interested in any Japanese of the ducated generation. I shall never even receive any of my former pupils. I simply abominate the Japanese. ' There's a nice confession for the author of 'Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan' to make. But remember the book was finished a long time ago; and the illusion had not worn off. I should not like now to trust myself to say what I think of the Japanese in their relation to us. I fear the missionaries are right who declare them without honor, without gratitude, and without brains. ' Damn the Japanese! "Excepting, of course, the women of Japan who are well, who are not Japanese. They remain angels. Sufficient for this day is the evil thereof." The obvious comment upon this will be that it is unfanged by the sentences in parenthesis, that therefore it carries no weight. But that won't do. The force of the abjuration lies in just that thing, that Hearne, who had set himself with all his power of will and heart to like the Japanese, couldn't do it, that after years of life with them, the begetting of children by a Japanese woman, the absorption of the Japanese ideas of existence, racial antipathy, like murder, would out. It doesn't imply anything discreditable in the Japanese, or in Hearne, either. They probably tried as much to like Hearne as he tried to like them, and failed as completely. Who shall explain this feeling, which persists though reason 'condemns it never so strongly? So They Do, Soma of Thorn. The teacher had been giving a class f youngsters some ideas of adages, and to test her training she pat a few questions: "Birds of a feather do whatr "Lay eggs. piped a small boy before anybody else could apeak.

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AN ARGUMENT FROM Thos. R. Dawley, a former employe of the bureau of labor, came out with charges intended to discount all effect the report may have, and to destroy the reputation of Commissioner Neill as well. Dawley charged that, sent to investigate conditions In southern cotton factories, he found that the transfer of children from the mountains to factory life civilized them. He declared that Neill suppressed his (Dawley'si findings and the evidence he offered in support of them. Commissioner Neill and his subordinates doctored facts and figures, said Dawley, and made up tables to substantiate a case against child labor without regard to the facts. Grabbed at Dawley's Charges. The child laoor manufacturers pounced upon the Dawley charges with glee. Senator Bailey, of Standard Oil fame, has a bitter personal feud on with Neill, and be grabbed at Dawley's charges like an assassin would seize a knife. Other senators and congressmen turned to Dawley for ammunition with which to attack Neill. Dawley is an ex-newspaper man and war correspondent, and an ex-filibust-erer in Central America. He is acquitted of having slipped into the child labor investigation as a secret agent of the manfacturers. but he did acquire a yrude against Neill early in the game. This is now bis dominating passion. On the general proposition of child Wrong Views Washington, D. C, Feb. 2;. Letters from the census supervisors to ihc United States Census Bureau 6how the erroneous apprehension of a consider, able element of the population that that their answers to the enumerators questions in the next census, beginning April 1C. this year, will cause increased taxation, legal entanglements, or injurious consequences to their persons and property. In order to quiet such unfouuded fears, which would, unless removed, materially affect the accuracy of the census, the bureau has prepared an official statement relative to the decennial census, Its origin, purpose and uses. This statement should furnish complete assurance to those concerned that information given the enumerators 13 held by the : Census Bureau in tne strictest confidence with reference to the identity of the informants, as required by the policy of the bureau and commanded by the law of the United States. The bureau earnestly hopes that clergymen, priests, physicians. - school teachers, employers, and other publicspirited citizens who come In contact with large numbers of people, will cooperate with the bureau by telling persons who are believed to entertain erroneous opinions of the census the real j facts and urging them to give full im plies to the enumerators. Teachers are particularly requested to speak of the census to the school children and ask them to tell their parents about it. The statement Issued by the bureau explains that the Constitution requires a census of the population to be taken every ten years in order to reapport!on state representation in the National House of Representatives. It is the means also to ascertain the increase in the population, agriculture, indusries, and resources of the nation since the last census. It is emphatically declared, by the statement, that the information soujht from the people of the United States is used solely for general statistic!:! ; purposes. It will neither be published nor used in any other way to disclose facts regarding any individual or enterprise. The census, it goes on to say, i. not, never has been, and can not be employed to obtain information that can be used in any way in the assessment of property for purposes of taxation, or the collection of taxes, either national, state or local: or for deportation proceedings, extradition measur?s, army or navy conscription, internal revenue investigations, compulsory school attendance, child-labcr law. prosecutions, quarantine regu'tions, or In any way to affect the life, liberty or property of any person. It points out that replies to the enumerators are and must he held by the Census Bureau In strict and absolute confidence. All the bureau officials, supervisors, supervisors" clerks, trum era tors, and Interpreter, before en

COMMISSIONER NEILL'S CONGRESSIONAL REPORT.

labor. Dawley argues it is a good thing and civilizing Influence for the poor children even of the cities. "It is better for them to work than to run the Btreets." he declares, seeing no middle ground. At that, he docs not claim his findings have any value except as to certain southern mills, the labor in which comes from the "poor white" or "mountain white" element. To Figure in the Fight Dawley's charges were carefully Investigated on Neill's demand under the direction of Secretary Nagel. Several other dismissed employes appeared with Dawley to support his charges. Neill. by his own choice, was not represented. Members of his staff were assured their commissioner would not hear their testimony. The verdict was that Dawley had made no case, nor even the shadow of a case. At the same time the Dawley charges will figure prominently in the fight. The manufacturers are overlooking nothing. As for Neill, who will bear the brunt of this battle over child labor, he is a character. He is a Texan, and a former school teacher, tall and slender in appearance, but really a sinewy muscular man. His hair is iron gray, his pointed beard red. and his eyes a grim gray. Roosevelt discovered Neill and found in him that type of man who Is willing to sacrifice personal credit for the success of his mission. As commissioner of labor, Neill has of the Census tering upon their duties, are obliged to take a solemn oath not to disclose any information they may obtain, except to the Census Bureau, and a violation of the United States law in regard to this oath means a f l.ono fine or imprisonment for two years, or both, n the discretion of the court. A Prayer for Lawyers (American Magatine.) "O Lord. Thou art the eternal order of the Universe. Our human laws at best are but an approximation to Thy immutable laws, and If our institutions are to endure, they must rest on Justice, for only justice rests on Thee. We beseech Thee for the men who are set to make and interpret the laws of our nation. Grant to all lawyers a deep consciousness that they are called of God to see justice done, and that they prostitute a holy duty if ever they connive in the defeat of justice. Fill them with a high determination to make the law Court of our land a strong fortress of defense for the poor and weak, and never a castle of oppression for the hard and strong. Save them from surrendering the dearbought safe-guards of the people for which our fathers fought and suffered. Rather revive in them the spirit of the great liberators of the past, that they may cleanse our law of the ancient wrongs that still cling to it. Let not the web of obsolete precedents veil their mortal visions; but errant them a penetrating eye for the rights and wrongs of today, and a quick human sympathy with the life and sufferings of tne people. May they never perpetuate the tangles of the laws for the profit of their profession, but aid thera to make the laws so simple, and justic so swift and sure that the humblest may safely truBt it and the strongest fear it. Grant thera wisdom so to re fashion all law that it may become the true expression of the new ideals of freedom and brotherhood which are. now seeking their incarnation in bu manity. Make these our brothers the wise interpreters of thine eternal law. the brave spoken men of Thy will, and in reward bestow upon them the joy of being conscious to-workers w ith Thy Christ in saving mankind from the bondage of wrong." Miss Martha Berry, head of a school for poor white boys near Rome. Ga, has Just succeeded n raising the $& 000 necessary to secure an equal sum from Mrs. Russell Sage and Andrew Carnegie. This school grew out of a little Sunday school that Miss Berry started in the mountains of Georgia about ten years ago. The school now! owns a thousand acres of land, a large part of which is under cultivation, andJ several good buildings. It has ISO pupils and fifteen teachers. Th $1 OOjOOO will be used as an endowments fund.

Labor About to It Now.

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accomplished torn; most reuiarkabie work. He settled a long list of what promised to be savage strikes. Railroad men know, and trust him. Magnates and other employers of labor on a large scale trust him. too. Time and again he has held the confidence of both sides, arbitrated to a hair line and left both satisfied that they got the best the situation held for them. Prepared With Great Care. The coming Neill report on ehtld labor has been prepared with more care than was the famous report on the packers. Neill. is better equipped now. with experience, and be knew at the outset what a fight woull be made on this report. As one precaution, because of the jealousy between southern and New England cotton mill men. Neill restricted bis field agents In the south to southern and middle western men. agents most likely to give the conditions they found a sympathetic study. Then he turned these same southerners loose on the New England mills. Congress postponed action on the child labor probleui by the time-honored expedient of asking for a report. Now that the report Is forthcoming, congress will have to do something. THE POLITICIANS ARE AT LAST FACE TO FACE WITH THE SITUATION. THE END OF POSTPONEMENTS HAS COME. AND MAYRR THE END OF THE HIDEOUS CHILD TRAFFIC 13 IN SIGHT. Lady and the Cigarette (The New Wk Globe.) It Is plain that the Treasury Department does not believe the stories toM about the Increasing consumption of tobacco among women. For if it did believe them, surely it would not bav changed the order i-ermlttlng each -senger. regardless of sex. to bring in "free of duty and iiternal revenue tax ro cigars or cigarettes." It as changed to provide that "each passenger over 18 years of age" may bring t in the same number of cigars or ciga rettes, "for his or her bona fide Innivldual personal con sumption." Clearly, it imagines that by making this change it merely makes it more difficult for men to get their tobacco duty free, and that it puts no temptation In the way of women's feet. The Treasury Department Is nothing If not gallant. Hence it wouIJ seem that the women smokers, should they prove numerous, need have no wear. If many women are embarrassed. If many of them are compelled to admit that the cigars or cigarettes brought In by them are" for their own bona fide, indvldual and personal consumption, who can doubt that the Treasudy Department will discontinue the new rule and restore the old one? It could not be so complimentary now without being equal to such a contingency In the future. But. of course, if the women smokerslady smokers, would doubtless l" a more accurate and descriptive tem - suffer from no embarrassment from the new order It will be allowed n stand. If. as some fear, but the Treasury Department refuses to believe, we are making back foi the days when the grandma sat in the sun and pulled her pipe unconcerned an unafraid, the order will cause no complaint. It will not be regarded either as an insult or an unreasonable annoyance. The library at Hamilton college has recently received a valuable addition in the form of a rare collection of vol umes on mathematics and science. The gift ws made bv Senator Elih'i Root, of the class of who has previously by liberal gifts enriched the college and increased its facilities. The collection is one of the most complete of Its kind, and was the property of the late Oren Root, who was for many years at the head of the d--partment of mathematics at Hamilton. Included in this new accession la one of the most complete astronomical 11 braries eTer collected, together with many extensive series on scientific and historical matters. Authoritative. "Yes, she's the author of 'Familiar Talks With Young Mothers. " "What's her name?" "Emma Jane Dibby." . "Married, of course T" "Oh. no! Entirely unprejudiced." Cleveland Plata Dealer.

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