Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-29
GOT ENOUGH.
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"Whst the Qle its OF Labor are DOiUl
fer Women Mrs. Barry spoke will
e..e and Effect. Her address create.
g. melting ike sensation, and sht
} was recslled twice. Sac said: "Wt
are 5uliIlug aT0uad our working girls $
wall to defend end protect them from hu-
Mutations, which heretofore they have
ben subjsc to. There are no better
ls~ supporters, no more loyal citiz 4ns,
true to the law OF their country and lheir
countEy's fig, than the organized work
ing Men and women Of to-day. They do
not dsmand revolution, but they do de-
m.nd reform. They 90 not ask it by the
power ct physical or brute force or
strength. They DO not ssk it by the de,
struction of life or properly. They sim
ply ask 1t at the hands Of the law nakfog
bodies OF their nation. Only four years
ago | became Kuight OF Labor. Seven
years ago wss left without Knowledge of
business, without knowledge of what the
world WAS, with three fatherless children
looking to me for breao. To support
these children II became my duly TO go
out in The army Of employed, and IN one
OF the largest factories In Central New
York l went, and for fonr years became
a factory woman. Four years ago l be-
| i .
member OF en- assembly of l500 women,
and let me say that although here Ses
not one amongst them that could boast
OF more than miner part Of common
school education, yet In thst body Of
women there was more executive ability,
more tact, more keen calculating
power, than could be found in
twice that number Of any body Of
| N irh 0f
taxing little girls from the factory, work
| saop and mine and educating them be-
Gauss We know that the little Guild OF
to-day Is the mother of the future. We
koow that the Preside, the CITY, the state
council and the ration is NJ )ulded by the
| hsno OF wives and mothers Of our chill.
dren. As these are the children OF to day
aud as they shall be the workipgwomen
OF the future we demand that they Shall
| be Is ken from the workshop, factory and
mine and put into the school to Develop"
| The c0nvs ntion closed with q we'll re-
ceiv-d address on "aomen as farmers"
| cy Esther T. Warner.
CRAI,'S AMENDMENT.
special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, March 20 Mr.. Grains
| Proposed amendment to the constitution
! will come up for action n K M0rdsy. L,
substitutes April 80 for March 4 ss the
| commencement and termiuation of the
Q iii :tsl term OF the President, and Deem
Der 81 for March as the commencement
and ieJmioation nf the official term OF
| OF Memssrs Of Congress. 1t Is good
smentmen! and should be acted Oh
| promptly.
MR. MILLS CONDITION
is Improving. H. sat up for = while to-
6sy. He slept fur hours 10 day and ate
3 hearty luoch. The doctors think he
will be abie to leave the house S.turIsy
The ways ard mesrs committee will
meet tomorrow snd will repor5 The tsriff
! bill TO the House.
TEXAS PATENTS.
TIE folio Hing T,xas patents were
granted to-day: Horstio B. French,
wills Point, grain aciuster; Hugh W.
Harvey. Forr Worth, metallic sbi Gle;
james Hoinbv, San An onio, fire escape;
I'm j. Staple, Bslleville, carpenter
Ratchet; Harry J. Williams, Decatur,
saeh festner.
John Fl. Kirk, Jr., Of Austin, has been
granted & medal for desi!n.
Mr.. B. Fl Davis of Fl Paso and George
Sealy Of Galveston are at Wizards.
Mrs Fannie Chambers Couch Is here
attending the wOmen's convention.
THE INTER STATE TELEGRAPH BILL.
Green, president OF the Wes'ern Upiou
rel.eIspa Company ,addresss 4 he Senate
committee on Interstate Commerce this
morning on the Spooner inter state tele-
graph bill. he said he did not appear to
f.sr n
the regulation Of telegraph. If telegraph
WAS comm. rec in the 1pstiiut!ona
sense, and the Supreme court had decided
| that its business j. commerce, thin there
could be NO question Of the power al
Congress to enact laws such as that pro-
pused. Ordinarily the company wUuIo
desire 20 be let alone, bu. under
the circumstances it was not aver.e To-
such enactment 81 proposed, with certsin
ntj .ctiCn.be features stricken cut. II
was led to this conclusion from the IA
that his company owns an operates four
dim, p maps sev+n-eieh hs, OF all ths
| telegraphs in the Uai:ed States and is
therefore apparently 3 monopoly, while
IN point OF fact it has mol
exclusive franchises, no legal privilege
that shy baCy else cannot get. Alimen-
tary patents nave expired, and except ss
TO Some impruYed methods, any body
might build and operate telegraph, pul
telegraph has driited into a combination,
not from the graspipg Efforts of any one
man. or set cf men, but from the ne es,i-
les of the laws Of trades. R.tes had
been cheepened and The business has
zresly improved In It's facilities and
promptoess # serve
After going over the question OF tariffs,
the cost II handling message the gen
eraf cheapness OF the present service, tbt
value OF the property, exc, which he had
given on two or three pre- vious occasions,
Mr. G'een came 70 what he described |
as the OH .ctlonable features Of the bill
reported oy the posfofi;e committee. H
drst took up the arbitrary 6. ction relxtive |
10 the handling Of messages according 10 |
he time OF their receipt. He said that
10 the smaller fices thst rule |
could be easily observed, but II |
were not so in the large flies like New
York with 1900 wires. Oae operator
might work faster than another, and II
would be almost impossible to
exactly dlstribus- the messages and
keep them In their precise order.
Therefore he believed that section ought
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