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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17
SWINDLING MINERS.

An investigation into the condition
of the miners of the Pittsburg district
is being held by a committee of the
Pennsylvania legislature, and some
very disagreeable facts are being
brought to light. One great source of
complaint is town lot speculation and
company stores. This one man testi-
fed that the company for which he
worked had purchased a large amount
of ground which had been cut up into
lots, though there was nothing to rec
ommend the place for a town site as it
was a wilderness. This company en-
ployed five hundred miners and each
miner was compelled to purchase one
of the lots at $500 apiece. There was
no difference in the price of the lots,
it being the same for all. Each miner
had S. taken from his pay each month
and applied on his lot account. Others
testified about the company stores and
how the men were discharged if they
refused to trade at them.
In an investigation. of course, only
the bad and disagreeable things that
called it out in the first place are
Drought 10 tlEHI anu what III reality
are rare instances are often taken to
be the general condition of things. But
these rare instances of outrages show
the possibilities of the system under
which they grow up. AS they generally
grow up under legislative sanction it is
proper that they should be corrected
by legislative action if possible.
The trouble at bottom is avarice and
unscrupulousness to take advantage of
workingmen's necessities. 1t is all very
well to talk about the liberty of the
workingman to quit his Job and go
elsewhere, but the fact is that the
laboring man is usually anchored to
his habitat with the iron chain of
necessity, and when his necessity is
being taken advantage of. to tell him
that he is at liberty to go elsewhere is
to mock him. And because of the
necessity he is under to hold on to
his job such impositions as are put
upon him as revealed in this investi-
cation into the condition of the miners
in the Pittsburg district become
crimes; they are pure swindling opera
tons gotten up to rob the miner out
of his hard earned but small wages.
The coal company that gets up a town
site scheme knows absolutely that the
payments on the lots will become for
feited before a dozen of them have
rolled round and that the lot will re-
vert to the company. And then the !
swindling operation will be begun !
again with another poor devil of a
miner. And so it goes on. One thing |
that does much to make these things |
possible is the fact that corporations |
are allowed to include altogether too |
many objects of operation in their ar
ticles of incorporation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17
WHAT WILL THE ANSWER BEp

AT the close of an article on the I'm
ternational Bimetallic Enjoys" the
Chicago Times-Herald says:
1t will be remembered that at the
] last International conference held at
| Brussels in 1892 the first question put
to the American delegates was: What,
definitely, does the United States pro-
pose in respect TO bimetallism?" Messrs.
! Allison, Jones and McCreary were not
able to answer the question, and the
conference adjourned never to meet
! again
| Would it not be well for the present
! embassy to formulate an answer to
that question, or at least to have some
clearly outlined proposition 10 lay be-
fore the European governments before
starting?
1t might be we'll to formulate an an
swer to this question, for it is. almost
certain to be asked. But it is far more
difficult to answer than would seem at
first. Can anybody in the United
States, in or out of the cabinet, say
what this government proposes to do
so far as the silver question is con-
cerned? Aside from the declaration in
the act repeating the purchase clause
of the Sherman law-that it is the pol
icy of this government to keep the two
money metals at a parity-there is
nothing else to indicate what the gov
eminent will do. that is, unless the
declarations of the st. Louis platform
be considered as outlining our silver
policy. And the declarations there made
may be so considered, seeing that the
party that put them forth triumphed
last November and is now in possess
sion of the government. Those declar-
atoms simply stated that the present
gold standard must be maintained and
that the Republican party was opposed
to the free and unlimited coinage of
silver without the consent of other ma
tions. That is simply notice that if
other nations will not agree to the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to !
this country will not adopt it. We
know that the bimetallic commission
ers win not be authorized TO say that
if foreign governments will not aid us
in restoring silver to its old-time place
in the worlds monetary system this
country will undertake to do it for it
self at least.
When Messrs. Wolcott, Paine and
Stevenson are asked 10y the represent
atives of foreign governments whom
they may approach on the question of
an international agreement on silver:
What, definitely, does the United
States propose in respect to bimetal-
lism?" they will find themselves up
against a stone wall in all probability.
1t will be one of those questions that
will upset any system of theology, we
fancy.
And what do the United States.
definitely, propose in respect to bimet-
allism? Taking the declarations of the
st. Louis platform as being the policy
of the administration in respect to BIZ
metallism. the policy of the United
States will simply be to dance attend
ance on the will of foreign nations in
respect to binetallism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17
GOOD FROM EVIL.

If Mr.. Thomas G.. Sherman is right
| in his representations concerning what
the result of the Dingley bill will be,
the silver men will say that it will be a
| case of good coming from evil. He pre-
diets the defeat of the Republican
party in 1895 and in 1900, though he
/ frankly confesses there is small credit
/ to be gained in predicting it now. The
grounds upon which he bases his pre-
diction is the impossibility of modera-
| ton on the part of the protectionists.
! He does not regret in the least the pro-
/ digious scheme of public plumber for
private benefit that the Dingley bill
contemplates 1t will aid in the ulti-
mate victory of free trade, he thinks;
its victory. he declares. is assured.
Then he comes down to the question
of what the effect of this reaction will
be on the currency question. 1t must
be remembered that Mr.. Sherman is
an out-and-out gold standard man,
with no sympathy whatever for silver
and hence will not exaggerate what
the effects of the reaction against a
high tariff in favor of the silver cause
will be. He says:
Il regret to say that all present ap-
pearances indicate that in 1900 the
country will be swept over the silver
precipice. The silver men have COM
plete control over the Democratic or
ganization, and they will, with justice,
feel so certain Of regaining the votes
of one million gold Democrats, in the
reaction against the Dingley tariff.
that the prospect of any terms of recon-
ciliation being offered on the silver
question is very doubtful. Moreover.
by adherence TO the free silver issue,
they will have 35 electoral votes guar
anteed to them from the mining states.
for any kind of tariff, or no tariff at all,
which they would lose on any other is
sue. Nothing will induce them to risk
the loss of these states, except such
united action on the part of New York.
New Jersey. and Connecticut as would
convince them that the votes of those
states could certainly he had for the
Democratic party without silver, and
could not probably be had otherwise.
But the probability is that by 1900 New
York and New Jersey will be ready to
vote for any Democratic ticket in
preference to any Republican"
He says the country. from present
appearances. will be swept over the
silver precipice." Let him use what
metaphors he chooses. the great thing
is that he acknowledges that now APP
pearances indicate the triumph of silver
in 1900. So after all good may come,
in 1900, from the infamous tariff bill of
1891
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17
REPUBLICAN PAPERS ON CHAN
DLER'S BILL.

The Chandler bill to confiscate the
armor-plate plants of the Bethlehem
and Carnegie companies was bound to
stir UP a good deal of comment, and
comment that would be interesting. 1t
is amusing If not instructive to COM
pare Republican views on the bill. The
views of the San Francisco Chronicle
and of the New York Mail and Express
are as far apart as their places of
publication are. The Chronicle stands
by Chandler; the Mail and Express is
against him. The Chronicle is indig-
nant and would like to see the gov
eminent use its strong right arm
against the armor people 1t SAYS:
Disinterested people who have
watched the progress of the armor-
plate controversy and realized the
stand taken by the Carnegie trust will
be likely to sympathize with the moral
aspects of the two drastic bills of re-
taliation which Senator Chandler will
introduce today. Upon the legal pro-
posals involved il is not for us to pass
But if any constitutional way can be
found to seize the Homestead and
Bethlehem armor-plate factories and
conduct them under government aus
pices until the plate for the three new
battleships has been supplied, it will
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

1t seems that Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy Theodore Roosevelt was to
have delivered an address before the
patriotic and historical societies OF
Tennessee on Kings Mountain day
during the Nashville exposition. Now
he will not because the Campbell chap
ter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution object to what he has had
to say about John Sewer, the first gov
ernor of Tennessee. 1t seems that Mr..
Roosevelt said in one of his books on
early life in the west. that after a bat
tie with Indians in which the troops
under Sewer were victorious and cap
tured a number of Indians, he permit
ted his men TO butcher the Indians
Mr.. Roosevelt says that historically
this is accurate, and he is generally
regarded as an authority on matters
connected with the winning of the
west The statement should be sus-
ceptible of proof, and is one that so
affects Sewer that it should never have
been made unless it was susceptible of
proof No doubt Mr.. Roosevelt was
The proba bilities are that the ladies of
the Campbell chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution have al
lowed state pride to overcome their
better judgment. In any event they
have raised a historical question of
some Importance and one that, owing
to the fact that Tennessee will cele-
brate the centennial anniversary of her
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

be welcome as well as a powerful
weapon of defense against an unpatri-
otto conspiracy of wealth.
The position of the Carnegie trust is
linexcusabie. When the government
asked it to put in an armor-plate plant
ii was understood that high prices
should be paid for the product until
the initial cost of the works had been
made good. This bargain the govern
ment adhered to. Armor plate which
cost $3.50 per ton to produce was bought
| at S53S. Out of the profits the trust
paid for its machinery and gained a
| clear plant, with the prospect ahead of
ii of $50, 100000 worth of orders. Then
when the government insisted that the
rate should be cut down to $500 ton.
the trust insolently refused 10 bid, and
as a result the three new battleships
will nave to lie idle on the stocks until
an arrangement can somehow be made
for an armor supply. The trust feels
that it can safely take advantage of
the public need and drive congress to
give it $500 per ton. 1t is making the
government the victim of a monopoly
which. by navy department favor, has
already yielded its stockholders profit
of million and a half.
The Chronicle would have the gov
eminent establish two armor-plate fac
! lOllCS VI llS oN H. OllC Oit tHC <AlAdiNiC
coast and the other on the Pacific That
would solve the problem for it. II has
heavy ordnance factories at the Wash
ington navy yard and at Watervleit,
n. Y. Why not have its armor plate
factories also?
The Mail and Express takes a far
more conservative and proper view of
the question than does the Chronicle.
1t says:
Senator Chandler is so angry because
the steel manufacturers declined to bid
for the privilege of supplying the gov
eminent with armor plate for less
money than they think it is worth that
he is resolved to get even with them.
To do that he suggests plan which
is both original and startling. He pro-
poses that the government shall seize
the plate mills, manufacture the
amount of arInor required for the bat
tleships now in course of construction
and then restore the works to their
owners. leaving the latter to recover
damages by legal process Mr..
Chandler would have the government
conflscate the property OF private cor
porations-and why? Merely because
they are unwilling to make arnor plate
at lower prices than they think it IS
WOrtni On the strength Oh their ldlI-
ure to bid for contracts TO supply 5000
tons of plate at a price not exceeding
$500 a ton, the maximum figure fixed
by the last congress, the senator from
New Hampshire wants the government
to take possession of the FORCES and
make its own armor with their ma
chinery, no matter how much loss such
a seizure would cause to the owners
by interfering with the business they
might have in hand.
There is no justification in the world
for Senator Chambers bill. He is very
angry and when a man is very angry
and does anything it is usually fool
ish thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17
THE OLD CABIN.

I Upon the prairie. as the sun is sinking
see the cabin of a pioneer:
The clapboard roof is tagging to the
rear.
The walls reject their inartistic chink-
ing.
The broken porch hangs in unwilling
The truant chimney never has returned.
AND in the fire pace, where the embers
burned
Defiant sunflowers wave their thought
less frontage.
The waning sunlight seems to flash and
flicker
And through the empty. open-hearted
door
And vacant windows. seems to run and
pour.
Upon the prairie like a crimson liquor.
With bloom of June the spongy air is
swollen;
The pompous zephyrs slowly swagger
Then comes a purple tremor in the
sky.
And twilight's silence-nature's semi
colon.
Here years ago, when civil war had
A soldier came. and with him came a
He once had charged up Lookout Noun
tain's side,
And felled proud oaks when Nashville
was defended.
So when he came to Kansas. strong and
fearless.
Fate had no terrors which he dare not
face:
A soldier in the vanguard of the race,
He did his share to make his country
peerless.
Here now is ruin; yet. among the
brambles
A melancholy rose peeps at the sky.
And shudders at the footsteps, passing
OF warrant horses on their aimless ram
bles.
Upon those pegs. above the chimney
A sluggish Misunderstanding musket slept:
Within the porch, upon that hook, was
kept.
Among the groves. that by the streamlets
nestle,
No more is heard the noise of freight
ers camp,
OF railway trains upon the rumbling
trestle.
No more are deer inquisitively peering
Through brown November at the Chin
ney's smoke;
No more the vicious stroke and counter
stroke
OF warning buffalo arrest the hearing.
No more the cyclone nor the hungry
locust.
Imprint shadow on the summer sky;
The drouth has gone-and there have
vanished by
The ills that on the lovers once were
focused.
knew them well-the wife and he now
Beside the ripples of the Marmaton;
Both gone away, where years roll on,
ana on.
And ever on. and cares no more encum-
Der.
Love lives again. observed the Hebrew
rabbin:
Love lives again in worlds succeeding
worlds
And so it was Six boys and four
bright girls
Bado hope Good morning in that
humble cabin
From cabins such as these come sturdy
natures,
Who give proud inspiration to state.
Who fight it's battles and decide its
fate.
Who make its courts and shape its Iegis-
latu-es.
Good-by. old cabin: times relentless rigor
May grind you up at last to shapeless
dust:
But faithfully have you performed your
trust.
And sheltered manly worth and moral
F. Ware, Rhymes of Ironquill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17
TALES OF THE DAY.
Pinninr Him Down.

Louisville Courier journal: "John
Henry Skidmore,'' said the irate young
woman, u want to know why you now
spurn me- after winning my love and
engaging yourself 10 marry me?"
Very well, Miss Teeters, if you insist
upon It L will tell you
Il do insist
You have lately announced yourself a
believer in theosophy.''
Il have. What of it?
You declare that you have already
lived several times on this earth
Il do. Is that any reason why you
should cease to love ,ne2"
You say that you lived in Central
Africa at least $50 years ago"
Yes. l did
And in Eastern Asia thousand years
before that"
Just So
wei. don't you see that all this
changes our relations entirely?'
Il can't see that il does
Then I VIII enlighten you. l think
that husband and wife should be nearly
of the same age, the husband a little
older than the wife. Certainly l cannot
think of a marriage with you now that
I have ascertained that there is such a
disparity between our ages"
Very well. M. Skidmore. | will see
whether the courts will entertain your
view of the matter. Tomorrow / begin
suit for $4,000 damages for breach of
promise of marriage ..s
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brother abused her on the other side, as
little brothers are wont to do.
Suddenly the brother broke away and
sat down on the bank. The sister and
her young man called him repeatedly.
but he did not bulge They skated past
him and wanted him TO come on but his
only reply was Il can't
Finally the sister. growing impatient
called to him in a somewhat sharp tone:
Owen, why don't you come on? I'll
tell MARINA
oh. can't bawled Owen. now thor
oughly desperate: Il busted my sus-
penders, an my britches won't stay up"
a silence as thick as molasses in cold
weather spread itself over the lake and
remained unbroken for ten minutes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17
Why Bud Couldn't Move.

Chicago News: A certain young won
to go skating at the park one evening
during the late freeze by her best young
man. He IS quite handsome and good
catch, hence she was more than anxious
to make as good an appearance before
him IS possible.
Her mamma insisted upon her younger
brother going along, much to the young
lady's displeasure, for she knew his ca
pacity for making breaks to be prac-
tically unlimited. However. go he must.
and go he did.
At the park they skated about in an
ecstatic manner. the young man whisper
ing confectionery language into one of
the young lady's ears, while the little
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

When the weather was bad and the
ground was hard with frost there was
much talk about building a road to
Deep Creek Now that the weather is
beautiful and the ground is in perfect
condition for grading there is no talk of
building railroad to Deep Creek. AS
the Indian said, Heap a talk, all same
siN-shnnfer,'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Can the report be true that John
Hay is not proud of the authorship of
the Pike county ballads. and wishes he
hadn't published them? Let's hope not.
1t would be a clear case of kicking over
the ladder by which he assembled to
fame" says the Boston Herald. But,
then, how often man spurns ladder
after he has reached the top as Hay has
done
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

existence as state. will become prom
inent for time at least. But as they
have challenged the accuracy of Mr..
Roosevelt's statement the burden of
proof will rest upon them and not upon
him
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Fine aphorism that of the presidents:
The people are more anxious about the
opening of the mills that the enlarge
ment of the minis. The people are get
ting mere anxious all the time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Friends of Lieutenant Peary say that
the order transferring him from the
New York navy yard to Mare Island
navy yard Will involve his proposed
Arctic expedition in failure. 1t is bet
ter economy to have it fail at the start
than at the finish. His last expedi-
ton was not such a world-startler that
there should be any great haste to send
him on another one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Governor Wells planted tree on Ar
Dor day. Some day the governors lit
tie son may exercise the George Wash
ington born right of chopping that
same tree down.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Harold Frederic says the best news
paper correspondents are now with the
Turks. Does this account for the great
moderation the Turks seem to be man
ifesting az present?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

ST. Louis Globe-Democrat In the jubi-
lee procession Queen Victoria will sit in
a rocking chair of American design,
which VIII enable her to bow constantly
with little exertion. Nothing is com
plete in these times without some con-
tribution from the Yankee inventor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Before any measures are taken to
suppress microscopic exhibitions of the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight it should be
definitely ascertained whether the neg
atives can be successfully developed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

None but the brave deserve the
fair" Who viii take up Phoebe Cous-
ms since she abandoned woman suf-
frage?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Kansas City Star: Hereafter President
Mckinley will not receive personal calls
after l O'Clock, which means, of course.
o'clock pm. This rule makes an
equitable division of time between the
office-seekers and the great American
public which nobody will kick on, ex-
cepting the style of "pap-sucker' that
ought to be excluded from the White
House altogether.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

The Patriarchs of New York are
about to expire, they having had no
leader since Ward McAllister died
Why do not the Patriarchs import the
Ward McAllister of hicago-Robert T.
Lincoln?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Washington Star: A Possible Assist
ance.-"Willie is remarkable boy said
the lads mother to the eminent musician.
He remembers every tune he hears:
faculty." "Well-it may enable him to
become a successful composer"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

the number of Spanish troops in
Cuba is 10 be reduced. II the Madrid
government will only keep them there
they viii not only be reduced but ami
hilatad
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

The people of the east are terribly
shocked over a bull fight in Arizona.
and yet there are bear and bull fights
in Wall street every day and nobody
protests.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

The arbitration treaty is said to be
in danger. In fact, almost everything
that gets into the senate nowadays is
in danger.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

1t is said President Mckinley has an
eye on Hawaii. That is all right, but
what does Hanna say?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

DR.. Lyman Abbott says there is no
hell. There should be, then, so that
good people may have a place to send
all whom they don't like
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Chandler will next be introducing a
bin authorizing the government to
seize the collection plates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-17

Lillian Russell is said to have won
new laurels in The Wedding Day"
She may have but the other fellow
didn't