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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
President Ratchford's Aims.

CLEVELAND, July 24.-On the action of
the labor leaders at the Wheeling confer
ence called for July q, by President Ratch-
ford, of the Mine Workers Union, seems
to hang the fate of the strike. 1t was in
timated in this city to-day that Ratchford's
aim is to induce the trainmen to refuse 10
handle West Virginia coal. Chief p. M
Arthur's refusal to attend the conference
does not occasion any surprise among or
gained labor here. 1T is not matter
which concerns our organization" said Mr..
Arthur speaking of the coal strike. 1T is
natural that trainmen should feel SYM
pathy for the striking miners, and 1 sup
pose they do but there is no reason why
they should refuse to haul West Virginia
coal the same as other freight. 1t may be
there are some who would be inclined to
refuse to handle it, / have not been asked
by any of our organization for advice on
the question. The organization has rules
governing its members in such affairs
President Ratchford it is understood
hopes to induce the trainmen, swtchmen
and conductors, through their leaders, TO
refuse to handle West Virginia coal not
mined by union labor. If he accomplishes
that the operators concede the market
would take a wonderful jump.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
Misleading Statements.

Special to tie indianapolis Journal.
SHELBURN, Ind, July PA joint meet
ing of the Shelburn and Curryville miners
was held to-day to condemn portion of
the statements included in the report of the
Governors commissioners sent out to in
vestgate the condition of the miners. Pres
ident Bracewell was made permanent
chairman and Mr. Ferguson secretary.
President Bracewen said the object of the
meeting was to correct several mistakes
which had been included in the commission
STs report as misleading. Mark Headly
one of the miners interviewed, denied that
he told the commissioners that he (Headly)
had money ahead. Headly said the con-
versation between Joe Martin and himself
was over a year ago and not at the present
time. The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved That we. the miners of Shell
burn and Curryville. condemn the action of
the miner who wrongfully informed the
commissioners that the miners of Shelburn
and Curryvi'le have had steady work as
day and a half week the past two months
has been the extent of the work DONE also
the statement that "A miner could make 81
per day, average. at the 60-cent scale as
ID would require a miner 10 dig four tons
nag 90 cents expense this would leave the
n1iner 81 at the 60-cent scale. while the av-
erage In this coal is only 2h tons per day"
Work of the State Commission.
10 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
What a truly good thought II was that
prompted Governor Mount to send Com
inissgoners Conner. Terhune and Fisher to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-25
FAULT OF THE OPERATORS.
Mine Owners ADMIT They Are to blame
for Present Conditions.

State Statistician John b. Conner and
Judge r. j. Terhune the commissioners
appointed by Governor Mount to investi-
gate the condition of the Indiana miners,
returned from their tour yesterday. They
win file their report with the Governor
Monday THE miners will need some help
from outside their own communities, said
Mr. Conner. Their own towns are giving
them some assistance, but most of them
are not strong enough to undertake the
whole burden The treasury of the miners
was depleted by the strike of last year and
they had not yet got out of debt when this
one came. In most places they have had
but three days work per week at AZ cents,
the lowest price ever known, and thus they
had no chance to pull out. Some of the OPP
orators with whom we talked admitted that
the present state Of affairs is all their own
fault. During the past three years they
have been cutting each others threats by
taking contracts at ruinOus prices and then
reducing wages to meet them. Why, we
We're told of coal sold at 60 cents on the car
at the mines. They expressed the belief
that they would have to reach some agree
ment to stop tho throat-cutting. The
worst point we struck was at Hymera, in
Sullivan county. The mines there have
changed hands frequently, and the miners
have received no pay since April. Two
merchants assigned last week because the
men were so far behind with them, and 1t
seems to be a bad state of affairs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13
A SUMNER DESIRE.

There are some who look forward to
riches and fame.
AS they turn to a day-dream's delight;
Each longs for land that will ring with
his name,
As men tell how he scaled fortunes
height.
A few wistful eyes see a homestead and
rest
With ambition no longer alert,
But sigh for that season, luxurious and
best,
When a man may wear starch in his
shirt.
The negligee garment serves but to re-
mind
How useless our slight efforts are
To avoid all the woes that beset human
kind
When Sirius threatens afar.
SO, sing of your violets and daisies who
Will;
My muse shall her powers exert
For the days when the frost comes to
whiten the hill.
When a man may wear starch In his
shirt. Washington Star.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

The publication of the complete text
of Judge Jackson's temporary injunc-
tion restraining Eugene V. Debs and
others from entering upon the proper
ty of the Monongah Coal and Coke
company for the purpose of inducing
the employees of the company to quit
work, has caused a frank retraction OF
most of the criticisms which had been
elected by the earlier version of that
injunction that had been widely pub
lished. Only one journal Of repute
that comes under our notice refuses to
modify its first verdict of condemna-
tion. The Springfield Republican con-
tends that inasmuch as Judge Jack
sons order was chiefly Intended to
enforce the common law against tres
pass it was not properly a duty of a
federal Judge sitting in equity, and
therefore amounts to a perniclous mis-
use of the power of injunction.
This contention is ably disposed. of
by the Philadelphia Ledger which says:
"The company under primary law,
might have elected all trespassers from
it's property by force, after notice to
the trespassers to withdraw, but this
might have led to a collision which
would have warranted the governor
in calling out the military to restore
to the courts to define the right Of
assembly than to create a situation
perilous to the public order The su-
preme court of the United States de-
clared in the Debs habeas corpus case,
and with great force and appositeness:
Grant that any public nuisance may
be forcibly abated, either at the in
stance of the authorities or by any
individuals suffering private damages
therefrom, the existence of this right
of forcible abatement is not inconsist-
ent with, nor does it destroy the right
of appeal in an orderly way to the
courts for a judicial determination and
an exercise of their powers by writ
of injunction and otherwise to accom-
plish the same result Compared with
the expulsion of trespassers from the
companys property by the exercise of
force with it's incidental public peril,
the issuance of an injunction in the
West Virginia case was an orderly,
prudent and humane method of settle
ment."
This view of the matter may not sat
isfy Mr.. Debs, for he makes a living
out of not being satisfied, but it salts
fys common sense. 1t is poor time to
lock the stable door after the horse has
been stolen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13
rlr. Reed on Reed.

A defense of Thomas B. Reed by Mr.
Reed himself is the interesting feature
of the Illustrated American of this
week. Although the speakers central
theme is the DinGley tariff bill and his
main purpose to state the reasons
why he believes it's enactment will
prove advantageous to the country, he
takes occasion, in passing, to answer
his critics, who just now appear to be
neither few nor quiet. Concerning his
refusal to name the house committees
until toward the close of the session
Mr.. Reed remarks;
"The house was there in extraordin-
one alone, and that to dispose of the
one question which was really pending
before the people of the United States,
a question which we all knew had to
be settled and which we thought ought
to be settled speedily. once in session,
we were at liberty to do whatever we
deemed imperative for the good Of the
country, but we were confronted by
one simple fact. Legislation
was impossible, The two houses We're
radically opposed. Nothing
could come of it except the stirring up
of the country with crude propositions,
which, as they could not become law,
would be undertaken with no proper
sense of responsibility and discussed
solely on academic and political bases.
We therefore resisted all at
tempts to confuse the people and held
the issue up before the whole com
munity,w with the result that the popular
will has not been thwarted."
This salient and explicit explanation
will not suffice to still factional critic
ism by those who consider it their
duty to object to everything done by
the leaders of the opposite party; but
1t will end the discussion so far as the
mass of the people is concerned. We
cannot dismiss this hasty note on the
speakers instructive paper without ap-
pending his epigrammatic crystalliza-
tion of the protective doctrine. 1t is
a truth to be. enshrined in the memory
He says: 1--WE have learned at least
one lesson worth all the suffering, and
that Is that the great problem is not
prices, but the employment of all our
people. There is but one standard OF
real prosperity, and that is the whole
nation at work"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13
Farm settlements.


We reprint elsewhere an instructive
editorial from the Philadelphia Times.
in which the distinguished editor of
that paper, Colonel Mcclure, para
phrases the proverbial advice of Gree
ley into: GO South, young man."
Colonel Mcclure took that advice him
self thrty-odd years ago and afterward
was one of the first to learn that the
war had ended. His statement Of the
case uf the new South as an inviting
home for the surplus urban labor of
the North cannot be improved upon.
1t is true and Il is timely, and the sug-
gestion which he makes merits the
thoughtful consideration of every phil
anthropic citizen. The overcrowding
of our great cities by vast numbers of
wage-seekers who, in the very nature
of things, can either find no employ
ment at all or can find it only on terms
ultimately prejudcial to the best in
terests of society, has become in these
days n problem of pressing gravity;
and it is obvious that until the tide
shall reverse itself, carrying this idle
surplus back to the farms and teaching
it to be content with the modest but
certain rewards of agricultural toll, our
entire social order must be character
izcd by growing unrest.
1t has been calculated that forty per
cent. Of the adult male inhabitants Of
our principal cities are either without
employment or else are earning their
livelihood surrounded by circumstances
which, in any sensible view, should
cause them to welcome the wider free
dom of rural life. We do not know
how accurate this estimate is; natur-
ally in such direction absolute
accuracy is impossible. But 1t
certainly is true that the city
is inor1inately overcrowded and
that this overcrowding, by crush
ing down the weaker ones and sitting
and stunting child life, is the one seri-
Gus sociological problem Of the hour.
But it occurs to us that there are other
communities than the large cities which
might profitably try to place its surplus
population on inviting southern farms.
If there is one fact clearer than another
throughout the coal regions it is that
the supply of mine labor is far in ex-
cess of the demand and in excess, more
over, of any probable future demand.
In consequence, while upon the whole
the rate of pay has been fairly well
maintained, the large distribution of
work has forced into real or cOmpar-
ative poverty many families well able
to better their c3nGSion materially if
afforded the opportunity. 1t would be
TO the advantage of this surplus ele-
ment no less than to the. decided relief
of those remaining if a plan of farm
settlements could be carried into effect
among the unemployed or the poorly
employed in the anthracite counties.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13
RAILROADS OF THE WORLD.
From the Buffalo Express.

FTONl tHb 11UIldIO ENpTtbs.
The Railroad Gazette gives a very in
tcresting summary of a compilation of
facts and statistics regarding the rail-
roads of the world made by the Archiv
fuer Eisenbabnwesen published by the
Frussian ministry OF public works. The
German periodical Is considered to have
excellent facilities for obtaining the most
reliable statistics upon the subject of rail-
roads. The ables which 1t gives in its
latest presentation cover the year 1895 aid
show especially the changes which have
taken place since 1891. The extent 20
which raili oadirg had gone in the year
1895 and the relative gains made by the
great subdivisions of the word are
shown in the following table,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13
IN DEFENSE OF NOISE.

From the Times-Herald.
A well-known English medical man
writing in a recent number Of the Lancet
enthusiastically takes ZIP the defense or
noise Crying children, he says, should
not be suppressed. Crying should be re-
strained within limits, but there can be
no doubt that is primarily physiological,
not only favoring the proper expansion
of the lungs and accelerating the circu-
lation, but deadening the effects of pain
and relieving nerve tension" He quotes
a German scientist to prove that many
diseases or after life may take their
origin in the practice Of mothers to stop
their infants from screaming by soothing
them to sleep In their arms" Children
should be allowed to chatter, sing and
shout, as well as weep.
O.
Nor does this doctor stop at children.
He advises adults to laugh, shout and
talk. He tells of the value to women Of
"a good cry" 1.-THE profuse flow Of tears
lessons blood pressure within the cram
ium; the voluminous discharge Of nerve
energy relieves nerve tension; the sob
bing movements of respiration influence
in q vcry decided and doubtless beneficial
way the circulation, while the widespread
contraction of the muscle system has
probably also a good effect" Nay, he
gees further and justifies swearing
shouting and gesticuation which ac-
company an outburst of passion act ply
siologically by relieving nerve tension; !;
swearing may hot be without it's ply
siological justification; passionate out
bursts are generally succeeded by a pc
riod of good behavior and, II may be, i'm
proved health. Shouting favors the de-
velopment of the lungs and acceierates
the circulation Of blood and lymph"
10 bok o't
is conducive to longevity? We have no
doubt of this. On no other theory can we
account for the persistent presence OF
politicians and agitators. Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Debs will undoubtedly survive Mr.. j.
Pierpont Morgan. They will talk away
all their own ills, whether they are able
to cure the body polite or not. But is
not his writer discussing the question
rather from the position of the practition-
er than from that of the public health Of
ficer? 1t is easy to understand how the
health Of the individual howler might I'M
prove at the expense of the community.
1t is better for a smallpox patient to be
treated at home, but 1t is better for his
family and his neighbors that he be re-
moved to a distant point. A public man
may live as long as his speeches-or
| longer-but what of the victims of his
| oratory? In this case we ought to con-
slider the virtuous average. Some of us
must be silent part Of the time, and the
amount of harm inflicted on the nerves
through the ears is not offset by isolated
| cases of "noise cure"
This physician is leading his patients
| into a trap. They may feel better for
'hollering," but they are running head
| foremost into a violent death at the
hands of the undemonstrative The punish
ment of making too much noise in this
world is that one passes before his time
to the Silent majority"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

Secretary Atherton, of the Board Of
Trade, is right, as usual, in his con-
tention that If the United States gov
ernment intends to build a plant for
the manufacture of its armor plate,
Scranton is the proper site. We have
little expectation that such a plant
have Scranton's advantages put on
record in the navy department, for
present edihcation no less than future
reference
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune AstrOloGer.
Astrolebe Cast: 1lS a. m, for Friday,
August 13, 1897.
IN TN SpIes
NM " sgRS

A child born on this day will notice that
the editorial silver cargo of the Scran-
ton Times is lighter than aluminium lately.
The Gum family of Susquehanna coun-
ty will hold a reunion in September. I'm
less the Gums are too heavily loaded, it
will doubtless be a pleasant affair.
George Washington never told a lie.
But then George never had TO sell sewing
machines ION easy terms" or write spe-
cial articles for living.
Burgess DuGgan Is now losing sleep for
fear that some one win tamper with the
Observation-Disclosures nominating machine.
Breakfast Chat.
hear that Bristles paints from nature.
Yes He paints so far from II that no
one would ever recognize the subject.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

The Philadelphia Times is pretty
good Democratic authority, and it may
be worth while for it's Scranton name
sake to preserve for reference the Phil
adelphia journals admission that bad
as were the Republicans in the last
legislature, the Democrats were no bet
ter"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

1t is to be feared that the Georgia
woman who in lecture before the agri-
cultural society of that state recon-
mended "a thousand lynchings a week
If necessary to protect woman's dear
est possession from human beasts" has
not grasped the fact that violence in
requital for assaults has utterly failed
to prevent other assaults. The human
who is already bestial cannot be i'm
proved by being goaded until he be-
comes more bestial than before.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

Those Democratic conventions in
Pennsylvania which declare openly
and above board for free riot and free
silver are entitled to credit for exhibit
ing the courage Of their convictions;
and the advice of the party leaders
and party organs who want the Demo-
cracy to gag itself on national issues
and conduct a state campaign on false
pretences merits the contempt 1t is re-
ceiving.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

Thus the worlds railroads in 1895
reached the length Of 1858 miles-more
then seventeen times the length of the
equator, and in the four years since 1891
they had grown nearly one-tenth, by the
length of $3.50 miles. But this has been
period notable for a decHne in the con-
struction in this country, which, in the
period under consideration built only H.
40 miles. The percentage of increase in
Europe was greater than in America,
which as not happened before in a long
time. America. however, has more miles
Of railroad than all the rest of the world
topatbar
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13
WILD SOCIAL STATISTICS.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
A specimen of reckless assertion, used
to extend the socialist doctrines that
some persons are preaching In connec-
ton with the miners strike, was pre-
scented in one OF the speeches at the
meeting night before last. This was the
statement that there are two and half
millions of babies working in the fac
tories and five million men begging for Il
chance to slave" If that assertion were
true 1t would show a deplorable state
of affairs. II Is therefore pertinent to
inquire what foundation there is for II.
o
The United States census shows us that
the proportion of children, both male and
female, from s to Is, which is the age
at which child labor is possible, is 2S
per cent. of the total population. 1t also
shows that the'rural population, OF which
there can be practically no child labor
in the factories is 100000. The urban
population of 100000 has therefore 5,OO0,-
900 children of the age when child labor
is possible The assertion consequently
is that half OF all the children OF that
age In the cities, towns and villages are
working In factories. Everyone with his
eyes open knows that the assertion is
ridiculous. The fact is that the indus
trial census of 1890 showed l2O. 900 opera
tives below 16 years of age and there
Is no reason to suppose that the proper
tion has been materially increased.
The assertion, Joined with IT, that there
are ave million men begging for
chance to slave Is OF similar quality. It
is certain that none of these Ave millions
are among the 100000 engaged In agri-
culture, for that interest has been ali
summer begging for men to come and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

cent. from Cuba and n drop in the in
nux OF Russian Jews from 45,1S7 to &c.
750
But the lesson taught by these vari-
Gus figures is that with returning pros
pprty In the United States there Will
come large and serious revival of I'M
migration unless congress shall take
action in time to avert it. We have
ample welcome for all who can bring
to this country qualities and attain
ments calculated to add to its welfare;
but In common prudence the line must
be drawn ON all who cannot.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

work. Nor can this idle mass be among
fve millions engaged in professional, DO
nestle or personal service. IL therefore,
follows that the assertion Is that OF tine
S,5O000O engaged in trade and transpor-
tation and manufacturing and mechanical
Industries in 1890, 100000 or nearly 80 per
cent, are now out of employment. The
assertion is plainly the product OF
wild Imagination. Industrial statistics
show that the largest number OF men
thrown out of employment at the period
of greatest depression was 20 per cent,
or a maximum of 100000. In 1895 the
total number of persons employed in
nearly 400 representative establishments
of Pennsylvania was only per cent. lcss
than in 1892, or about half million on
the entire industrial total. At present II
is a well-establshed fact that more men
are employed than before the panic.
The justice and desirability of securing
better wages for the miners Is beyond
dispute. But IL the meetings In support
of that movement are to be used for the
preaching of socialistic doctrine, should
not the statements made there be gov
erned by little respect for the facts?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

Paraphrasing Shakespeare, now is
the rainy season Of Spain's discomfort
made Cuba's glorious summer by the
sword of Gomez. The end is drawing
npar
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

We cannot see that it should in
any wise affect the main question
whether Chairman Sweeney of the
Vice and immortality committee of
common council has or has not
a personal motive for seeking the
suppression of the pool rooms, gamblN
ing places and other unlawful resorts.
The fact that the law says these places
should be closed is ample warrant for
closing them, and It is all the warrant
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

which those invested with authority
In this city should require. on with
the crusade, therefore. and let the band
pIau
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

When the Republican orators prom
ised dollar wheat if Mckinley was
were joking. But dollar wheat is COM
ing, and so are the other good things
promised last fall Nothing is so con-
vincing as experience.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-13

The Popocrat may be defined these
days as a calamity howler out Of
Job.