Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 September 1897 — Page 4

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We seem to be at the beginning of boom times.

Yeilow fever isn't likely to spread this is an off year for calamities.

If little Johnny claims he is sick today the chances are that it will not be BO.

Once more in Terre Haute the young idea and paper wads are beginning to shoot.

It hardly will be seriously contended that Mr. Bryan is long on consistency or logic.

Says an enthusiastic Kentuckian: "There are riches in a glass of liquor." Yes and snakes.

The weather man is respectfully reminded that tfei3 is September and not July or August.

Asks an exchange: "Will Spaic end the war?" It looks more like Cuba is going to do that.

General Longstreet is still game. At the age of 80 lie atill retains sufficient nerve to get married.

Arkansas Jones says "free silver still has plenty off friends." Yes but they are showing up a trifle groggy.

John C. Sheehan says he is always glad to endorse his friends. But he ought xo foe kinder to them than to do it.

Rigid quarantine methods axe being enforced against yellow fever. The same 6houd toe true of yellow journalism.

Father Lambert thinks Bob Ingersoll will go to heaven. Possibly. But he is clear# determined to choose his own route.,

They say that Alfred Austin does riot pretend to be a great poet. This only demonstrates how modest some Englishmen can be, 'VAksmvw" i« •.

A Kansas .man' ^iays he has a pet pig that smokes cigarettes. Well, it shouldn't be blamed. It probably learned the babit from a human being.

Mr. Stead of London thinks faith will imake New York an ideal city. Faith without works won't -and by "works" is meant the defeat of Sheehan and the tiger.

Consul General Fitzhugh Lee does tot say so in direct language, but he gives one the impression that-he considers General Wc-y-ler little else than a clumsy barbarian^

Late reports from Cuba indicate either that General Weyler is getting decidedly the worst of it or else his typewriter methods have been adopted by General Gomez.

It is believed" that the Hon. Horace Chapman of Ohio does, not. konw of any tide in the affairs of men that be- can take at the flood and have lead him on to the Buckeye governorship^

The London Chronicle is urging Uncle Sam to fight Spain. Uncle Sam would prefer to tackle a nation that could at least keep the mosquitoes off him while he was administering the'licking.

In the j&irn)ingha.m, Ala.,,, district tbe wages of 15,000 men will be raised as a result of the. revival in

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END OF THE MINERS' STRIKE. In the fact that the strike of tftd coal miners of this competitive district is practically ended there is cause for universal rejoicing. The men may go to work this week and they may remain Idle for ten days from the date of the Columbus agreement, 'but it is assured that resumption is to come in a very short time and both operators and miners seem hopeful that the improved condition of affairs will hold out for a considerable period in any event. If tllinols shall prove obstreperous and refuse to take the place provided for her on the scale that enables Indiana to pay 56 cents a ton, a" reduction will ultimately, come about in this state. It is hoped, however, that the operators of Suckerdom will do all they can to prevent a collapse of the present arrangement and that the final result ofwill be a permanent gain for the coal industry of the country. •ferre Haute will be greatly benefited by the resumption of work. This city will lhare a part of the prosperity that will com£ lo th© miners and those with whom they trade. The mine owners will contribute a good deal of money to the channels of business here and everybody will be the better off. The most important reason for gladness over the final action of the Columbus convention is that it will bring food and comfort to thousands of families that have been on short rations for several weeks.

It cannot be denied that the manner in which the miners have conducted their Kruggle should forever be a source of gratification to them. They have committed to violence. They have counseled no lawlessness. They have not identified themselves with any of the radical reform forces but have quietly stood their ground and tested the strike proper as intelligently and jffectivejy as it could ever be tested. They tave gained a substantial increase in their wages and have cleared out the markets such a way as to make the chances for •steady work, at least until Christmas, very -jood indeed.

PFNNSYLVANIA'S SHAMBLES. The horrible occurrence in the Penasy!rania anthracite-region where. twenty-one nen were killed outright by a sheriff's posse md many more wounded, calls for an impartial investigation but from the facts at hand it is impossible -to see how the result at

that investigation can -be "Anyihiug other than an emphatic condeWfcMl&r/ trf

Martin and his deputies, says the Chicago Record. If an episode like this may occur without exemplary treatment of those who are guilty the people of this republic are beginning to have dangerously lax views regarding the sacredness of human life.

From all accounts the miners who were shot were unarmed and were marching in peace along a public road. "hey were not trespassing upon private territory or upon any rights guaranteed toy the constitution to citizens. They were met by a strong detachment of deputy sheriffs, heavily armed and carrying Winchesters. Sheriff Martin says that the miners' force, which was headed by two little boys, "hustled him about" and trampled upon him. Can he explain how it is that, with his armed force at command, it should have been necessary for him to fire into a crowd of unarmed men, who at the first volley broke and ran like sheep? Can he explain why it was necessary, in the maintenance of law and order, for his men to fire repeatedly after the crowd had been dispersed and its members were running away? ^The testimony of Charles Guscott, the principal at a local school, who was a spectator of the tragedy, is disinterested and accords well with the most authentic accounts. He says that he does not think Sheriff Martin was knocked down or badly used, and adds: "I thought one volley wotild suffice to disperse the strikers. It did, hut it was not sufficient to satisfy the ungovernable rage for blood which the deputies exhibited. They no longer fired in volley, 'but one after another, taking careful aim and firing to kill and with deadly effectiveness, too, for man after man dropped as he ran, screaming with fright, for a place of safety. A bullet crashed through our schoolhouse window. Then one of the fleetest of the strikers, with blood streaming from his arm, ran toward •us togain the shelter of the building. He had alomst reached the corner, when he was shot between the shoulders and fell dead almost at our feet. You can judge of the care with which that fatal shot was sent when I tell you that the man fell 300 feet from the foremost of the deputies. I saw the men who had hidden behind trees and fences during the first fusilade leave their places of concealment, only to be deleberately shot down. The shooting continued for ten or fifteen minutes. I am sure it was more than ten."

If this account be correct the shooting near Hazleton was simply murder and should be adjudged and punished as such. It is useless to contend that for the safety of society the supremacy of the law shoud be demonstrated wherever it is threatened. FJitoe was no danger to the integrity of the 4a,w after the first volley, if there was, in fact, any such danger at any time. It is simply barbaric to pretend that because ther strikers were "uneducated foreigners," the sheriff lakes pains to call them, they not enjoy the rights of protection. If thqse men were foreigners they were brought to this country by th wealthy corporations now fighting them and came thereby under the protection of American law.

Although the blame for this deplorable affair may rest solely upon the shoulders of the trembling and nervous sheriff, the effects of the tragedy must toe disastrously demoralizing and widespread, both- in stirring up bitter sentiment and in weakening respect for human life. It is the duty of the authorities in Pennsylvania to bend every effort to secure a speedy investigation and adequate punishment for those who may have broken the law while pretending to uphold it. No other way of restoring confidence in the law wil suffice.

SECRETARY GAGE ANSWERS BRYAN. Secretary Gage in a few pregnant sentences punctures one of Bryan's favorite sophistries about "the mint price of silver." Mr. Bryan and all the silverites contend that if sliver is admitted to the mint for free and unlimited coinago this demand created by law will be sufficient to utilize all the silver presented, and thus the bullion value will be raised to coinage value, says the Chicago Times-Herald.

Mr. Gage replies that the free admission of silver under these conditions will mike no demand, and in the natute of things, cannot. There is no such thing as a "mint price," either for gold or silver. A man who has gold takes it to he mint and receives it 'back in gold coin, less a small charge for the alloy. A man who has silver, under free coinage, would take it to tho mint and receivo it b.ack in silver coin, less the charge for alloy. Commercially his silver dollars will exchange for no more than they would if they remained as bullion'. Only in their legal tender quality would any inoreasad value come for them, and what that would amount to is entirely problematical, it does not seem possible that''it could amount to anything. People would pay their debts in silver, to be sure, but all business does not consist in paying debts. Concerning such a demand Mr. Gage says: "We will grant there would be a demand, and' if there were now no silver dollars in existence those first coining into the market would bring high price. But there- are now about $500,000,000 and one dollar can be made to serve by repeated use in the payment of unlimited dollars of debt. So that if there was such a demand for the new dollars as to materially enhance their price in the beginning the increasing supply always coming through the mint would soon satisfy it, and the price, that is the market price, would soon decline again to a point where the value of the silver dollar would be relegated to its exchangeable power for things in the commercial exchanges of the world."

What would really happen would be that we would descend to the silver standard and gold would go to a premium, as it did during the civil war, and become merchandise. In tie disturbance of values that would follow this change many persons would lose heavily, and some few would win, but the disastrous effects would far outweigh any apparent benefit.

CURRENT EVENTS^

It was a hot "day for the opening of the schools yesterday but the attendance was larger than ever before on the first .lay. The enrollment in the High School was 640, which was 140 more than on the first day a year ago. The total last year was 715. It will go considerably beyond that .number this yeifr.

Some of the local industries that have been getting coal from across the river yesterday curtailed their orders. They believe they can soon be supplied from the mines whence they obtained coal before the strike. There are about 200 men employed In the Sugar Creek mines and perhaps that number will be given employment until well along into tho winter.

The Hazeltofc tragedy has organized sentiment among tbe workingmen ot the country, as could not have been done by armies of agitators. Many workingmen may have questioned the truth of the assertion often made that corporations use the law and jts officers to gain their purpose in overcoming labor in its demands, but the Hazelton sheriff has unified sentiment on that point.

There is another story which gives added significance to the tragedy. It is told as follows: "The men who were marching and who were ordered to halt by Sheriff Martin ^ferCvt&paAdff*8t>me years ago to take the

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places of American miners who were on strike for an increase in wages. The native miners were defeated and the new men were armed with Winchester rifles'to protect themselves Yfter a year they- right to occupy the mines was "undisputed and they were left to themselves. Then came a cut in wages, which they resisted, and the same rifles, that were given them with which to defend themselves were turned against their employers. These were afterward recovered. Now it Is said that the deputy marshals who fired into the crowtf, were for the most part men who had been supplanted by the new comers, and that they did not need a second order to fire. It Is also pointed out that Sheriff Martin, prior to his election to office, was a mine boss.

It is such facts as these that are setting people to studying the industrial situation. At the recent meeting of the national bar association President Woolworth dwelt at length on the growth of socialism and said .the fact of its growth must be accepted and the conditions which developed it studied and changed, if need be, to check the growth. Any suggestion for a departure from the present form and idea of our government would make but little headway if there were no ground for dissatisfaction* It is not convincing even to the hard working wage earner to say that the tramp is a degenerate and won't work. The wage earner is beginning to understand that there is something wrong when the tramps multiply. He isn't-particularly interested in the dirty loafer himself, but is asking what produced him. ... •. ...

The report from Indianapolis of an organized movement in this state for the repeal of the cavil service law, follows the report from Washington that there is such a movement on a national scale that is worth heeding. It is said to be of formidable size already, and that men of natfonal reputation and influence are interested In it.

Perhaps no other state has as many opponents of the law among the party leaders, local and state, as Indiana. The Indianapolis plan is to make it a non-partisan movement, but to get pledges from the congressional candidates of both parties to vote for the repeal of the law.

If the heavy storms from September 10th to 13th had: come, as Hicks predicted, we could now "look-, for a very cool Wave and frost," which he said would follow the storms.

Hush county is first in wheat production of the counties of the state. Stat* Statistician Conner reports more than one million bushels for that county. The average per acre was 19 bushels. Vigo is given 318,188 bushels, average 13 Parke 396,048, average 16 Sullivan 476,928, average 16 Clay 206,232, average 12. The average area for the state for the past five years was 2,631,992 acres. This year it was 2,479 077 acres, which was about four hundred thousand less acres than last year. Vigo's acreage is put down at 24,476, Parke 24,7G3f Sullivan 29,808, Clay 17,186. The total yield for the ,state,, was 37,769,875, and it averages of a high quality.

The corn acreage according to* the'statistician's report will amount to 4,101,655, which is 100,000 acres more tha nlast year. Vigo has 57,611 acres, Parke 49,724, Sullivan 55,136, Clay 36.491.

It was eight weeks yesterday since Terre Haute ha9 a rain that laid the dust. There have been two light "sprinkles" In that time.

A metropolitan newspaper jesterday contained an editorial in support of the injunction in strikes and gives what purports to be a history of the use of the injunction at such times. It is said tliat "the first case in which the injunction figured in a labor trouble was in the great railroad strike in 1894." The first case was the Toledo & Ann Arbor engineers' strike, a year or more before the Pullman strike in 1894. The Jenkins injunction in the Northern Pacific case was prior to the Pullman strike. The editorial proceeds with the story of the latter strike and in the course of it is said: "He (Debs) was arrested on the ,1011^., cf July and arraigned before, a United States commissioner on the charge of obstructing 'ie mailt and, hindering the execution of United States laws. He was released on hall, and t^n days later he Tsas Indicted by? the federal grand jury for contempt of court, and in Septemhber following was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the judgment. The enforcement of this sentence was what Debs characterized as 'government by Injunction.' ©very workingman knows how erroneous this is and it is the appearance of such statements that causes labor to believe the press is prejudiced. It is not believed that their appearance is solely due to ignorance. What must every lawyer think of a newspaper which says a man was "indicted by the federal grand jury for contempt of court." Also, the statement that the United States Supreme Court "affirmed the judgment." Debs was indicted by the federal grand jury for conspiracy to obstruct interstate commerce and the United States mails. He was enjoined by Judge Woods from obstructing interstate commerce and the United States mails. Judge Woods tried him and found him guilty. He was placed on trial in the federal district court, before a jury, and was not found guilty, although it was the same evidence in both trials. After the prosecution had submitted all the evidence a juryman became seriously ill and at the end of a week's delay the case was dismissed as a mistrial and the United States district attorney refused Debs' application for another trial. The eleven jurymen congratulated Debs when they left the box and said that without a word of evidence for the defense they would have voted not guilty. All of them were quoted to the same effect in the newspapers. The United States Supreme Court passed on the contempt case, but it did not affirm the Judgment in the sense implied. simply said it could not review the proceedings. That, of course, let the Woods judgment stand. Last winter tbe United States senate unanimously passed a measure denying to federal judges the power to do what Judge Woods did. It provided for a trial by jury. Senator Hoar and Senator Fry opposed it en some points, but in the end it was passed unanimously.

It is just as well to be accurate and fair in these matters.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Who Are the Citizens Coocarltad in the North Fourth Street Fnviag. To tbe Editor of The Express: -'. f-v-yt-

Sir: I see in Sunday Express' that"-the postponement of the paving of North Fourth street is objected to by the cltiaens concerned. Who are the citizens concerned when three-four Mis of the citizens owhing more than three-fourths of the lineal -feet have remonstrated against the pavement? The wishes of three or four men that have lucrative positions and paying business are not the citizens concerned.

The old citizens and t3if-ir heirs tvho have spent all their lives and means bui'ding up Fourth street and have paid thousands of dollars to grade and pave sidewalks are the citizens concerned. They will have the oppressive burden that they are unable to bear. Have they Tights that are to be respected? Have they no claim as a majority, not to have a debt thrust upon them that they are unable to pay? Our street is again solid and good we have had it torn,up enough for one year. Citizen.

TO SAVE DOCTORS' BILLS .,,, Use "Garlajid" Stoves and Ranges-

CITY SCHOOLS OPEN

ABOUT SEVEN THOUSAND PUPILS BEGIN THEIR STUDIES rOK 1897-8.

Yesterday Was a Day of Purchasing New Books and Trying to find Placet For All the Children.

Yesterday tbe Terre Haute public schools were opened for the pupils of the city to begin the work of the year 1897-8. There were scenes of activity at the High School and all the district buildings. The young people came to the various buildings at 9 o'clock in the morning and stayed logg enough to find their rooms, get a little slip of paper bearing the names of the books required for tho year's work and get out again. Then they swarmed into the book stores and other places where what they wanted was to .be found and purchased the sources of their trouble for the next nine months. In the afternoon lessons were assigned at all the buildings except the High School. Work begins in the latter place this morning.

It is always a pleasant sight to people beyond the public school age to see the younger generation preparing to resume their books. The joy is not so keen among the children themselves. Now and then a little girl is found who is glad that the vacation is over and that study is at last in order, but she is probably a comparive rarity. It is also (juite safe to say that her little brother is not like her, but like the majority of persons of his age. Dollars to doughnuts would be a good bet that to him going to school, at least for the first few days, is like pulling teeth. The chances are that he secretly wishes he might be stricken with yellow fever or get damaged by a motor car in some such way as would shield him frojp the terrors of the school room.

But nothing serious happens to him and he is required to get his books together and say good bl to the commons and the happier brats that a partial Providence excuses from study. He can at least get a little comfort this year out cf the thought that these highly favored youngsters are not to be permitted to play hookey—at least not if they are under 14 years of age. Thet ruant officer with his uniform and star is going to be the Nemesis of the streets and the playgrounds from now on for all boys and girls who do not go to school when theirag es are such that the law s'ays they must. The sad little boy, to whom the teacher and his books are twin evils—the lad who heretofore has seen certain of liis fellows go scott free from school—will from now on have the pleasure of seeing them brought under the same severe discipline to which the common run of boys have to submit.

The various session rooms at the High School yesterday morning were crowded. Not all of the children could get seats. Some occupied chairs and others were compelled to stand. It is supposed that when the classes are arranged enoughr oom will bei found for all. The changing of .the limits of certain of the districts and the opening of new school rooms will make the work of placing the children the much more difficult this year than usual. Hoiyever, it will be completed in a few ^days and then the grind will begin in earnest.

The dountry schools in this county also opened yesterday. Mr. Harvey W. Curry, cx-county superintendent, will teach the school at Ellsworth. Heretofore there have been two tcachers at Ellsworth, but it is said that Mr. Curry will be able to do the work himself. The two grades will be merged into one. The Ft. Harrison school begins the new year with an unusually large attendance.

Thus far the city schools have not been able to secure their winter's supply of coal. It i3 generally iput in ihe bins during the month of July, but the strike this year rendered that impossible. Now that the miners are afoout to return to work it is supposed that the schools will get their supply of coal in a very short time.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of tho Old 5?orld. Although a brief announcement has been made of the fact that a German sailor who used his saber to kill a Russian comrade at Cronstadt during t'^e visit, of the kaiser to St. Petersburg was hanged as a murderer two days after Emperor William sailed for home, yet it is only now that the Novoe Vremya, the leading organ of the Russian press, ventured to call public attention to the circumstance that the affray between the German and Russian sailors at Cronstadt was by no means the only incident of the kind that signalized the kaiser's visit to the czar, writes the Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. (WHliam was not welcome he had come self-invited, and, although he was received with every conceivable courtesy by' the czar and czarina, yet the general public, and in particular the military men, did not hesitate to show by their behavior how little they appreciated the visit of the Germans. The latter were exposed to every conceivable annoyance and slight whenever they appeared in public.

One evening a number of German officers of the emperor's entourage were being entertained at one ot the city gardens or parks by a number of Russian officers of the imperial guard, who had been assigned by the czar himself to this by no means congenial duty, The band which was playing struck up the "Marseillaise," whereupon all present, including the Russian officers, rose from their seats and uncovered in compliment to the country which has adopted this inspiriting song and air as its national hymn.

The German officers, as guests of their Russian comrades, had no alternative but to do likewise, but they did it in such an ungracious and sneering manner and gave such undisguised signs of exasperation that the populace became distinctly hostile in its manifestations, and when they were passing put of tbe garden a man deliberately got in the way of one of the German officers, jostled him and trod on his foot without apologizing and with the obvious intention of insulting him.

Without a minute's hesitation the officer whipped out his sword and ran the Russian through the body, mortally wounding him. According to the military ethics which prevail in the moharchial countries of continental Europe he* tad to alterfia'tlve but to act thus. This was realized so entirely by the Russian officers themselves that they crowded round him to save him from being torn to pieces by the Infuriated public, and escorted him on board ship, where, after the matter was reported, to the kaker, he was placed under ea^y arrest until the squadron sailed.

Had the affair happened in England or the United States a demand would have been made at once for his surrender, and any plea which the German emperor might have made to the effect that a reigning Monarch on his travels was entitled to the same prerogative and immunities from local jurisdiction as his ambassador—immunities that are extended to the suite—would have been examined and passed upon by the tribunals. The czar, however, declined to raise any such controversy. He knew th%t his own officers would have been expected to act in precisely the same way had they been subjected to any .such Insults In Germany. Moreover, it ie extremely probable that

Emperor William would have refused to surrender the officer, whose behavior In the matter be approved. So the matter was hushed up, and, although everybody In St. Petersburg was talking of it, the newspapers were forbidden to publish anything about it for the time. being, telegraphic dispatches to foreign newspapers about the matter being barred by the sensor. The whole affair serves to show how very strained are the relations between the Germans and the Russians, and at the same time deserveq to be placed on record.as an incident unique in modern times.

No matter what wealth, no matter how great natural generosity they may possess, there is in all rich people one point, where a touch of avarice is to be found, and in many cases it leads to the most ridiculous freaks, which of coarse are more especially conspicuous and noticeable among the titled folk of the old- world, who are exposed to the fierce g!are of tbe public eye. Thus one well known peeress of London who uses a quart bottle of eau de cologne for her bath every morning, sends in next door for the loan of a newspaper, declining to buy it. Another great lady if anything is wrong r/ith the carriage horses will walk in her most elaborate dress and most artistic hat in hail, wind and storm rather than pay a shilling for a cab or even a penny for a bus.

Mr. Christopher Sykes, the most hospitable and popular of hosts in London, and an enormously wealthy man. whose entire existence seems to be devoted to organizing dinners and parties for the entertainment of the Prince and Princess of Wales and of his other royal friends', keeps a little King Charles dog, to which he is devoted, shut up all the time indoors because, he won't pay the dog lioense. .ViiP-lnpGZtiil

Yet another great lady who M$s hot live far from Park lane and who is renowned for the perfection of her dinners sends her footman around in the dark to drop invitations into her friends' letter boxes because she won't spend the money needed for postage.

Sir Edward Clarke, who has been solicitor general in tho Tory administration and who now enjoys perhaps the most lucrative practice at the English Bar, grudges the money needed for his lunch in tbe middle of- the day. He buys roast potatoes in the street and eats them walking up and down £n any deserted alley he can find, his conduct being all the more strange as in winter he is in the habit of coming down to the law courts every day in a sable-lin^d coat worth more than $6,000. In "fei1 o?8£r 'cases this tendency to avarice le'a$r ftfeo$Jle to take things, and there is scairMfiRa hostess in London who has entertaihed bn any large scale who has not stories to fell of the most ridiculous petty thefts, by thf6 most affluent of her guests, thefts ran^ihg1 ail the way from bonbons on the tafile Surreptitiously pojket.ed to silver forks and 'spoons, bric-a-brac and even jewelry. Volumes might be written about this, and not the least interesting chapters thereof would be those devoted to the petty meanness of royal and imperial personages.

Sir John Millals, the eminent painter and president of the Royal Academy, has not been survived for any length of time by his eldc-st son and heir. The latter, Everett by name, who has inherited none of his eminent father's artistic genius or tastes, but only his love for dog3, a subject on which he was one of the leading authorities in the United Kingdom, has now followed him to the grave, leaving a little 9-year-old boy named John to succeed to the baronetcy. Although the baronetcy is of recent origin, having been conferred upon the great painter in 1885, yet the Millais are an old family of the Channel islands, who are able to trace their ancestry back to the year 1540, when the "Milays" of tho day became possessed of tbe estate of Tapon, which remained in the family for more than three centuries.

There are at the present moment two Lady Millals, each widowed. The younger, wife of young Sir Everett, who has just died, by birth is one of that family of "blasted Hopes" o« which the diminutive earl of Hopetown is the chief. The eider Lady Millais, as every one knows, was the wife of John Ruskin until the time when the latter, having discovered that she was in love with his handsome pupil.jJohn Millais, chivalrously permitted her to ylead for an anaulment of his marriage on grounds which enabled her to wed Millais as Miss Grey instead of as the divorced Mrs. Ruskin. The queen, of course, frowned at this, closed the doors of her palaces agalflst Lady Millais, and only conseti't^d to receive her ladyship a few weeks beffife 'the fScmise ot Sir John, and then only .in^'cfereu^to the latter's dying request^

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EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Kansas City Journal: Mr*. Bryan can hardly be blamed for sticking to sliver. It is worth $500 a speech to him in ROW, besides the personal glorification.

Chicago Inter Ocean: General Weyler claims 'he was "sent to Cuba to wag^ a pitiless war." He has done it sure, and Spain will have to stand the consequences."

Atlanta Constitution: A cdebratrd musician plays "Vampire" on the violin. Tnis is eminently appropriate a vJoilu merely a board and a bow and a hank of 'hair.

Omaha World-HeraM: Ottawa (Kan.) girls have organized a "Sappho club." Some of these days one of in© girls will read "Sappho" and then there wili be a sudden rechristenlng of their organization. .St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The Democratic state platform adopted in Pennsylvania in April, 1899, begin! with: "We are in favor of a*fihn, unvarying maintenance of the gold standard" Last month the Democratic state contention In Pennsylvania adopted a p'.atform beginning: "We are firmly and unalterably opposed to 'he single gold standard." The fre«e use of the word "firm" in these decuments is quite striking.

Buffalo Times: The most important news of the season for the summer girls is the action of the American Society of Professors of Dancing In deciding to abolish the waltz. But now, having decided that the waltz must go whether the summer girls and the summer men like it or not, do these professors of dancing really suppose that they can enforce their decree? If it is to be a fight to a finish between the professors and the waltz, we place our bets on the waltz.

Boston Herald: How complex is modern society! Here is a writer in the Atlantic caring attention to the testimony of the city missionaries of Boston, who say that a great social gap exisis tetween the peanut vender on the sidewalk and the peripatetic organ-grinder, and that the children of the former are forbidden by their parents to play with the- children of the latter. It is only a revamping of the oid lines, which tell us that the smallest fleas have lesser fleas upon their backs to bite 'em.

The Hxpma is the only-Sunday mbmlag paper in Terre Haute, 15 cents wesk.

WOULD KILLTHE RICH

SOCIAL DEHOCEATS' HOT TALK At THE IB SUNDAY NIGHT MEETING.

Dwtoanoa tha Slaughter of Buieton Miner# and Advocate tbe Killing of MUIIou. aires By Way of Reprisal.

Chicago, Sept. 13.—Incendiary speeches by I men whose blood was stirred over the killing of the Hazleton miners wore applau«3el' yesterday afternoon at the meeting of th« Social Democracy branch at ISO Washing-. ton street.

President Fits^fkld Murphy dosed an inflammatory eddreas with tha emphatic statement: "If I had my way I would 6* out and kill twenty millionaires tomorrow."^ Other speakers followed in a similar veial and the audience applauded. y-

Jesse Cox counseled moderation, art'l reminded the branch that men who talked! that way sometimes got into jail an did?.' no good to the cause. O, A. Bishop sccond-* ed his efforts, but the 400 men who were assembled wanted the other kind of speeches. Parsons, Spies and the so-called anarchist* were lauded as heroes and martyrs to tha cause of humanity. The torch, tbe kaifa and the gun were declared to be the only Instruments whereby liberty could be attained.

Jesse Cox, J. J. Cook and Miss fanny Kavanaugh drafted 'the following: "The class conflict between the proletariat and the capitalist has resulted its bloodshed. The cause of this deplorable result has been the violation cf con&tltut'.cual rights by the denial of the right of wai by jury and the substitution therefor of th« decision of individual judges, who by th issuance of injunction declare lawful acti on the part "of tile poor to be crimes and the arrogate to \h?mseives the final determination of the guilt or innocence of th« accused withou .'he intervaa'ion oi a jury. Tho attempt to enforce these un»awf*ul «.nd unconstitutional orders cannot but resuit in forcible renista'ice tc them—a result which we deplore, but wuich wc s*e ,-o be unavoi.iaWo unless the hon&ituttonai rights of trial by jury be secured by tho poor as-well as the rich. Therefore "Resolved, That we brand as rruvder the attempt to enforce these unlawfully Issued injection and assert that these writs furnish no legal warrant to any officer attempting to enforce ttwm, nml that if in so enforcing them these officers cause bloodshed the act is murder and should be punish as such."

The iesol:ition mpt with unanimous approval. Fitzgerald Murphy, a t)?in, toyish penjon who is president of branch No. 1, took the floor in response to the request of a man who had come there to learn something and wanted some speeches. With 'the miners' troubles as a text Mr. Murphy said: "Wtysre these men made a mistake wa* in not carrying arms. The day of pacsive resistance ,1s passed. Force must be wet with its kind- Some day a Napoleon will spring up out of the seething mass of rocial unrest and lead the people on to wc'iitlon. The newspapers of today do not print the truth. The Tribune this morning ju.*-iflod the shooting of the miners. If I had my way I would hang its editor to a tamp post. Already the Lexingtons and Bunker Hilte have been fought and when !he full t-de of the revolution which is comiug sweeps over the land I would not give much for the' lives of the editor of the Tribune and others of his class."

Applause which had punctuated bis remarks became douhly demonstrative at this point. When it bad subsided. Mr. Murpiiy closed with a eulcgy of John P. Altgeld and then made the declaration that if he Lu'd Lis way he would go out and kill twenty millionaires tomorrow."

Leo Itirhordson wanted all oppressors of man euppreased, be they "politician, parson, priest or flunkey." The constitution he .icclared a "eon," ecd t^e stars and. striped an emblem of Mark Hanxia. From top :a bottom it was all one ring and teat a rdtien ring. He -wanted to elect honest men ta the city council, even if they did not have two shirts, end hang them if they betrayed the people. As a precautionary measure he would have 1,000 feet of scantling at the city hall t6 hang one betrayer out of each window.

T. M. Quinn, president of branch No. 2, Social Democracy, removed his hat from a shiny bald' head, came to the front, stroke^ his gray beard and said: "Without repudiation and confiscation this social question cannot be settled." Paying tribute to the men hanged because of the Haymarket riot, he continued: "Deep in our hearts is burned the memory of the tragic -ast and when the time oomesuihst»» are some of us who will not'give Quarter. I want to commit treason. I understand the full import of the words. When the time comes I will carry a torch, a knife and a Winchester. .Issse Cox secured possession of the floor end tried to stem the tide of blood that v/as flowing, but only with partial success. He toid the speakers that for no greater offense than the kind of talk they had been indulging in men had been hanged. He earnestly advised his bearers to convert their fellowmen to the principles of Social Democracy and leave out the guns and the torch. Without ?. majority he could sec no good to come of force, and with a majority of the people with him he thought the ballot more effective.

Leroy Goodwin, a member of tho national executive board, replied to Mr. Cox: "Ballots are no good when you are count, ed out. Didn't John P. Altgeld tell you last fall and prove it that the Democratic ticket was elccted and counted out. I wo ild not meet them with a gun. I would attack them with a torch and burn their fine palac3. Talk of war, I would rather see 1,VOO.COO men go to th«Ir death on the battlefleld than to «ee 100,000 women driven dreadful life. Js human life then so precious that it murt be enslaved rather thaa destroyed? No, let it be swept away rather then prostituted."

O. A. with the bearing of a minister and tfce beard of a grandfather, who said he had |a«n the friend of Parsons and Spies, coun3eled moderation, but the meeting was aoi in that mood.

Christopher Columbas a Record Hreakev Dtiluth, Minn., Sept. 13.—All records in marine excursions were broken today when the big whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus arrived at the docks in Duluth froa» Chicago to go into winter quarters at West Superior. Barring one or two side trip* from here, today practically ended the leason for the huge flyer ar.d the books showet a total of 81,143 passengers carried sine# the Columbus left here for Chictgo, Juna 27th. to begin the summer's traffic. This Is a new world's record "not only for passenger business on the great lakes, but easily surpassing in volume anything previously known in marine history—r^ver, lake or ocecn, anywhere. The World's Fair record at Chicago was outdonie by m«ny thousand passengers.

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