The sun., 1897-11-07

THE sIX pnbisc every and distributed Throughout
by mail or telephone
Coop morning
demand for law forbid the payn, of foot ball is the
latest and richest development o. the fad Of making the e
ture guardians of all the people,
THE indications point successful year Delaware busy
time Wilmington and prosperity Let pay debts fast
muzze all the demagoge and keep at work
The rest will take of itself.
For time past the newspapers have been describing
length the execution o: Indian baseb III player named Waa
Tonk played ball while under sentence Of DEATH and when
the day of execution took affecting leave of his wife,
forth and duly shot by "expert marksman ETC.
Now that he has been granted trial If Waa
Touka has been executed it har what good trial
will do nm And he alive, the papers which graphic
descriptions his execution ought be trial for enlacty
in the first degree
STAIN has determined do she peases Cuba and threatens
search American vessels the high Nobody here is
scared however, and business will go along usual American
vessels the high must be caught before being searched
which is point which Spain may have overlooked. AS the
naughty Caslians have made rather poor fist of catching the
hbuste who they have been landing in
Cuba the danger of their capturing and searching American vessels
the high does not serious The
over largely nonensca America is in way scared
Spanish threats but lot Of sensational journals bear stock opera
tors and hare Drained individuals about the country howug
OF
Spain has about all the hand that she without
hunting for more.
THE October bulletin the State Bureau Of Labor Statistics
of gives leading the question under
contracts for public work and the which have been taken in
prevent from bidding down pay labor
This live subject part of Massachusetts, and Of
keen interest the labor unons and the latter will be saed
know that the Bureau to lean favor Of restrictive
policy Anyhow the bulletin brings to the aid of the unions in
their contention the action o. the British Government As OBJ
vous the unrestricted letting of for public work
the lowest bidder brings into play the principle of called
the sweating system, and makes the government local
NATIONAL aderent the methods of the sweahop and
policy which tends force down wages bare
minimum This matter in England was brought to the attention
OF the House of Commons 1884, when resolution adopted
stating that in the opinion of the House the duty the
in all contracts make provision against
the abuses revealed before the sweating committee and
effort ito the payment Of such wages generally
accepted current in each trade for competent wokmen'
six after committee of the House Of Commons appointed
how far and with what result the instructions 1891 had been
carried out by the government has lately made report and
bulletin reviews this report length may be briefly
summarized by saying that while the committee divided
certain minor points, there agreement of opinion that the
departments of the had acted under the spirit of
the resolution 1884, and that the effect had been decided,
favorable to the maintenance of and fair wage Co-
tractors not permitted to discriminate between and
non-union workmen, but they required pa; current
wages such might be determined from the observation
of the government agents having charge of contracts We
have in this action of the British Government further recog
milton of the usoundne Of the et-aone schools economists
and Of the necessity of state interference establish gen.
era conditions in competitive industry for the aban
the harsh and destructive force unrestricted competition The
sweating evil represents the competitive principle carried
unresraned and the
system brings into play precisely the tendencies 1t ques
ton therefore, whether the government which recognizes the evils
of the sweating system in clothing manufacture and which goes
to expense investigating that evil and reporting upon it, and
devising schemes for abang should itself
ample in the execution Of public work. which the sweat-sfop
contractor point for support If we could be Of agents
the government who would that honest and full DAYS
labor given by each epye public work. and who
would be influenced by political considerations their conduct
of such work. the best would of be the plan d.
rect employment by the state municipality and this plan
being quite generally rsorted to by the London County Council