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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
IARRED WITH THE SAME STICK.

II is amazing 70 US now readily our
Republican friends forget all the good
arguments which they used a year ago
to prove to the people that legislation
could not enhance the value Of a nat
ural product and how zealously they
are now engaged in attributing to leg
islation the beneficial result of natures
laws. What they are telling the peo-
pie today is just as absurd as what
the free silver people were telling them
in the last campaign. What they told
them in defense of the sound money
idea gives the lie to what they are
telling them now in frequent discus
sions upon the beauties of the Dingley
tariff act. For example, here is the
most rampant of the lot, the Iowa
State Register, which comes to the
front with an article entitled "The
Dingley Tariff Did It." Of course,
what the Dingley tariff did, in the Reg
listers opinion, was to bring back pros
perity and to raise the prices of farm
products It says that much explicit
ly. It's whole article is based upon
''the very plainly apparent fact that
the Dingley tariff is entitled to the
main credit for the higher prices for
grain and meats"
Now, the man who can say that is
not entitled to throw stones at Mr..
Teller or Mr. PETER or Mr. Bryan or
MI> Ia SC che nd Hot icf
as the worst of them. There is GER
tainly no more absurdity in declaring
that an act of congress can raise the
price of silver from 60 cents to S1.29
per ounce than there is in asserting
that the same agency can raise the
price of wheat from 60 cents to 81 per
bushel. That the Dingley law prom
iSed capitalists to raise the prices of
certain commodities by forbidding the
foreign article to be brought into the
country on equal terms is true. This
is not denial of the law of supply
and demand, because the law artificial
1y restricts supply by barring out the
foreign product; and, demand remain
ing constant with the supply dimin-
ished, prices must rise. In the case of
agricultural products of grain and
meats, of which we produce a surplus,
and whose prices are, therefore, fixed
in the worlds markets, this rule can
not possibly apply. The Dingley tariff
act cannot have particle more effect
nriOQC ho1 Of
feet, in fact, as a free coinage law
would have upon the price of silver.
The causes of the recent advance
in the produce market are world
wide and understood by all men.
We do not expect of the lesser fry
of the partisan press, like the Iowa
State Register, anything other than a
claim for the whole benefit for their
same thing if the cholera had prevail
ed in the United States in 1895 and dis
appeared in 1897 1t would, in their
view, be credited entirely to the virtues
of the Mckinley administration and
of the protective tariff. 1t seems to us
that they do pass the bounds of de-
cency, as well as of common sense, and
that they invite future danger to them
selves when they are willing to rest
their cause upon an argument that, if
| admitted, makes it forever impossible
/ to deny the fundamental proposition of
those who contend that an act of con-
greSS can restore silver to a MARTY with
J gold at the ratio of Is to l.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

And this is the kind of man the G o b e
helped to elect president.-St. Cloud Times.
Discussion that cannot be anything but
dispute is proftless. You will always be
welded to your notion, while we will be
equally firm in the conviction that he owes
his election to those Democrats who went
rainbow chasing with the Pops. Meanwhile
let us suggest that it is a condition. not a
"Reminiscences, that confronts
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

There has been so little said about the
sugar beet experiment in this section that
the Reporter would like to have report
from farmers, who have some planted, upon
the cereal-Belle Piaine Reporter
Upon the vegetable, my son. Keller is
the only serial involved in the experiment
and he is perennial.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

1t would also pay the G l o b e S Josh
editor to read the Alexandria Post-News OF
last week carefully and prayerfully .-Warren
Register.
We read it carefully and prayerfully; care
fully to see if Mitchell was in earnest and
prayerfully that he might be delivered from
his folIv
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

The Republican prices for wheat this year
as compared with the Democratic prices Of
a year ago. are very gratifying all around
Benson Times.
But to none so gratifying as the chump
who thinks that wheat prices are ever either
Democratic or Republican
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 1898; mean temperature, SO;
relative humidity, 76; wind at p. M, south
east weather, clear; maximum temperature,
20; amount of precipitation in last twenty
four hours, .27.
RIVER AT 8 A. NJ.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06
striking cioakmakers Give Up.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5-over 1900 union
cloakmakers returned to work today, and
800 struck. The -vestmakers expect to be at
work by Thursday at increased wages.
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Rermuaa,s Governor in New York.

NEW YORK. Sept. 5.-Lieut. Gen. G. Dig
nv Barker. governor Of Bermuda, arrived to-
day on the steamship Orinoco accompanied by
his aide-de-camp, Capt. Plat. Gen. Barker
and wife intend to make a tour of the United
States and Canada.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

The man who gets the Republican nomina-
ton for governor next year will have to do
great deal of stomach crawiing.-Anoka
Union.
And the fellows who do not get it will do
the stomach aching
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-06

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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

ged pants held up by single gallows
that's what suspenders were called
then-and a shirt that had not seen a
wash-tub for weeks, turned to me and
cried: Soldier, will you work? No.
stree; I'll sell my shirt first!'
THE other circumstance occurred at
home. Opposite our house, in Bethel.
stood the old stage tavern, where man
and beast found accommodation. The
stableman was rather dissipated, but
possessed of some humor. On my re-
turn, l found him parading the streets
and attending in the sta hia, barefooted,
but in a pair Of sky-blue nankeen pan
taloons-just the color of my uniform
trousers-with a strip of white cotton
sheeting down the outside seams in i'm
itatiop of mine. The joke was huge
one in the minds of many of the peo-
pie and was much enjoyed by them,
but did not appreciate it so highly"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26
MISSING LINKS.

The United States sent 103,00O,00
pounds of ham to Great Britain last
year.
In Sweden women vote for all elect
i've officers except representatives; also,
indirectly, for members of the house OF
lords.
China imported 100000 square feet
of American lumber last year, most OF
1t from the states of Oregon and Wash
ington.
Japan now possesses one hundred
iron and steel steamships registered for
foreign trade, with gross tonnage OF
231, 139 tons
Miss Minnie F. Clay has been APP
pointed captain Of steamer on Lake
Sebago, Maine She passed the exam
nation for pilot and navigator.
w. A. Johnston, who is now associate
Justice of the Kansas supreme cou1t.
serving his third term, once was an
amateur baseball pitcher, and a good
one, 100.
Twenty cases of diphtheria have &C.
Cured in the SPOTS school district,
Union county, Pennsylvania, from the
use of the single drinking cup and old
time drinking pail
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

In and about Belfast, Ireland. 10000
linen workers struck against the intro
duction of fines.
Otto Mergenthaler, the inventor of
the type-setting machine bearing his
name, has bought gold mine in Ari-
IONA.
The Southwick convict goods bill is
likely to be defeated by Speaker Reed
not permitting it to be brought before
the house.
The proposal to abolish barmaids af-
ter the year 1900 was defeated in the
South Australian legislative council by
nine votes.
Boot and shoe workers have taken a
great organizing squirt in the last few
months. 1t is stated that they now
have 10000 members.
There is general satisfaction among
trades unionists at the reappointment
of Carroll D. Wright as United States
commissioner of labor.
A bill fixing the minimum rate of
compensation for labor on public works
at 50 per day was passed by the as
sembly of the California legislature.
There are 5000 destitute working
men in Dayton, o. An effort to relieve
them by raising fund to prosecute
certain public works promises success.
The waitress in Boston is compelled
to work from twelve to fifteen hours
per day and in some instances with
no Sundays or afternoons off, for $3.50
per week.
There is now before the city council
of Cleveland, Ohio, an ordinance pro-
viding that all contractors who sub
nit bids for work must pay minimum
wage of $1.5O per day, eight hours to
constitute a days work.
Two new unions were organized in
Toledo, Ohio, during the past week,
one composed of stationary engineers
and the other of ship calkers. The
non unionists will soon be small per-
centage of the workingmen of Toledo.
Fifteen years ago the Union of Ger
man Commercial clerks was founded
in Leipsic. Its daily increased mem
bership has formed so strong an army
of the laboring classes throughout the
empire that the movement is today up
held, considered and recognized as z
power by the government and in al
state affairs,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

A recent editorial, headed "Protec-
ton for Working Children" in the
Eight-Hour Herald, commended tho bill
drafted by the women of the Dorcas
Federal Labor Union. 1t seems the
cause of child labor was not dealt with
SO much as placing restrictions on such
labor without removing the cause. If
we wish to destroy an imperfect plant
we do not do it by cutting off one foot
of its growth each day. So it is with
making laws which do not remove the
cause of the evil, but only tend to
lessen it. Why do children labor, and
why men, strong and willing to work,
remain idle? Fruits of unnatural con-
ditions in land where there Is album
dance produced for all. Children, who
have any paternal affection, will work
and deny themselves rather than see
their parents suffer for the necessaries
of life. Looking around us we see plen-
ty of idle land locked up by speculation.
A tax on land values would give the
user a chance to keep all he produces
and make it Improbable to hold land
out of use. The rental value of land
or community value would go into the
public TILL instead of private pockets,
as it does now. By opening up natural
opportunities to labor, land. fathers
could easily support families. and chill
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26
About Child Labor.

In your issue of Jan. Goth you protest
against child labor and pertinently ask,
why should we favor conditions that
place the responsibilities of men and
women on the shoulders Of these little
ones? Let the children go to school,
and give the men greater opportunity
of returning to work" In the last
clause of the last sentence you strike
the keynote of the situation; but how
is this to be accomplished? All par
ents would welcome the possibility of
sending their children to school in
stead of to work; but the few dollars
earned by the children are, as you say,
"about all that stand between them and
starvation" So there is no choice.
Child labor is rapidly increasing, and
the result upon society, entirely aside
from the cruelty to the children, will
be fatal.
All are agreed as to the evil of child
labor; but the usual cure advocated is
such as is mentioned in your editorial
laws restricting the hours Of labor
as we'll as making age limitations. Such
laws are already upon our statute
books; but the evil is not abated, but
rather constantly increases. Evidently
the cure, If found, has not been applied.
But surely there must be one, and it is
this: Make it possible for every man to
earn a good living, and he will not only
not wish to put his child to work at an
! early age, but would be unwilling to
do so. 1t is necessity that compels
child labor.
All wealth-that is, everything we
eat, drink or wear-comes from the
land. Labor, applied to land, will pro-
duce any material thing the heart can
desire. There is plenty of labor, while
| several million people are begging for
a chance to work, and there is plenty
| of unused land; but the two are kept
apart by a system which allows men to
| own what no man ever did or could
| produce, but what was put here for the
use of all. If we will remove the bar
| riers and allow any one to use land as
long as he pays, in the form of rent,
| it's value to the rest Of us, we shall find
| that we shall have no problem of the
unemployed" In New Zealand this
system has been partially tried, and the
result has been far beyond all expec-
tations. Mills are running, and there
are neither unemployed nor hard
times" If this result can come from
only partial application of this sys-
TEN, what would it be from full free
ing of the land and exempting personal
property and improvements from tax
alton? No amount of restrictive laws
will ever effect cure for child labor;
nothing but freedom to produce, or
in other words, giving every one a
chance to earn living and allowing
him to keep the full product of his la
bor.-F. A. Burleigh, to the editor of
the Eight-Hour Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

Considerable friction has arisen be-
tween immigration Inspectors De
Barry and O'Brien and Collector Doyle,
says the Buffalo Courier. Superintend-
ent ]. B. Morford of the Michigan Cen
trail railroad wants to put Canadian
clerks in his offices at Niagara Falls
and he has been refused this privilege
by Inspectors De Barry and O'Brien.
They wrote him joint letter, quoting
the law to him and strongly stated that
such an action on his part would be a
gross violation of the alien labor law,
irrespective of the information he had
received from Collector Doyle or other
sources to the contrary. Inspector De
Barry was unwilling to express himself
upon the subject when seen by Cour-
Ter reporter. But the following dis
patch was received from the Courier's
Niagara Falls correspondent: "lmmi-
grafton Inspector Maurice O'Brien says
that he received letter from Superin-
tendent Morford, of the Michigan Cen
trail railroad, asking to be allowed to
put Canadians in as clerks in the COM
pany's freight Office here in case of va
cancy. Inspector De Barry received a
similar request regarding Buffalo and
they sent joint answer declining to
allow it. Inspector O'Brien received a
second letter from Superintendent Nor
ford stating that Collector Doyle would
allow it at Black Rock. Mr.. O'Brien
took the letter to the collectors Office
here and was advised to write the let
ter which he did, stating that such ac-
ton would be violation of the alien
labor law and could not be permitted"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26
MOVING A MOUNTAIN.
This Stupendous Task Was Done In .
California Town.

This stupendous Task Was Done in .
California Town.
good section of the mountain at
San Diego overhanging Moreno dam
on one side was torn off the other day
by 100000 pounds of powder, lifted sew
eral feet straight up, and then pushed
bodily forward 40 or so feet, trembling
over the mighty gorge below the dam,
and then falling with an awful roar
1875 fleets, to remain hereafter Tor all
time as the bulwalk of the great dam
being built to impound water for the
city. The dam is 43 miles east of the
city. For two months or more prepare
tons had been made for the monster
blast, in common with another blast
that is nearly ready. The plan is to cut
tunnels into the side of the mountain
at various points about the bed Of the
creek, and to place in these tunnels,
first, great stores of black powder,
which ignites slower than giant pow
der, and therefore, has more pushing
power and less shattering effect. On
mountain side were placed big depos-
its of giant powder for the purpose Of
shattering the mass and lifting 1t up.
According to plans, the black powder,
when it exploded, would hurl the mass
straight forward, making bridge of
granite across the gorge and blocking
the stream. The plans were carried
out with the greatest care. Danger was
constantly feared from the great mines
of powder, but all went well, and the
blast was finally ready. At lot of in
sulated electric wires, connecting with
each deposit of powder, and attached
to exploders, were gathered into one
circuit in a tunnel across the gorge and
above the blast, where the foreman,
John Duggan, stationed himself to
press the button.
At 2:45 o'clock the signal was passed
along that all was ready. The work.
men had posted themselves at a safe
distance and eagerly watched to see the
stupendous break in the hillside. Fore
man Duggan closed the switch, and a
wonderful scene instantly followed.
The side of the opposite hill, composed
of great powders and masses of gran
lite in bikes, quivered, rose from its
bed of centuries, and shot out thou
sands of little squirming tongues Of
dust that gave the whole hill pecu-
liar fuzzy appearance. This was for
fraction of second. A growl, like
the angry diapason of the ocean,
sounded deep down in the hill, and be-
fore the spectators recovered their
equilibrium after the earthquake the
mass was falling. An incessant rattle
of rocks filled the air like regiment of
musketry. Dust arose in pillows and
hung over the wrecked hill for an hour.
The falling of small rock continued
for almost as long When the dust
cleared away it was found that the
blast had dislodged mass of rock 400
feet up and down stream, and an aver
age of 60 feet in height, completely
bridging the canyon. The engineers
estimated that the amount dislodged
weighed 100000 tons. The rock was
thrown exactly as the engineers had
planned Francisco Chronicle.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

The eleventh annual report OF the de-
partment of labor, just transmitted to
congress by Commissioner Wright, re-
lates entirely to the work and wages OF
men. women and children. 1t shows
that the proportion of women TO the
whole working class is increasing,
while that of children has decreased.
The agents of the department have Sc
cured information from 1,O67 estab-
lishments of various kinds, located in
thirty different states, and employing
las, 1867 persons, a number large enough
to insure that the data collected was
thoroughly representative. Male EN-
ployes IS years of age or over increased
in the present period over the former
period 61.3 per cent, while female EN-
ployes of the same age and period
increased 66.3 per cent. Male employees
under Is years of age increased So.o
per cent, while female employees under
IS years of age increased S9.1 per cent.
The main reason given for the employ
ment of women and girls is usually
ludl lucy arc DClICl adaPeSN W S~
work at which they are employed.
Other reasons are that they are more
reliable, more easily controlled, cheap
er, more temperate, more easily pro-
durable, neater, more rapid, more in
dustrious, less liable to strike, learn
more rapidly, etc. On the other hand,
the reasons for their opinion, given by
those who did not believe that there
was any tendency for the employment
of women to increase in their indus
tries, were that very often women who
are better adapted and cheaper are I'M
reliable and that their physical
strength is inadequate to heavy work;
that machinery is gradually displacing
them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

tits certainly grievous that the New
York man who for three years has
washed the dishes, cleaned the house
and taken care of the children while
his wife worked out to gain the neces-
sary domestic supplies should not be
allowed a day or a night off now and
then. His rebellion is surely justifi-
able. The exacting nature Of the new
woman is plainly in evidence in this
sase.-', 1t is easy to see what we may
come to when woman shah have OBJ
tanned complete mastery in all things.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

A smile is as cheap as frown, and
has occasionally turned out to be worth
vastly more in hard cash. Recent En-
slish newspapers tell of a lonely old
bachelor. leaving all his property to a
young lady known to him only from
the fact of living opposite, because for
several years she had smiled pleasant
ly upon him when they casually met in
the street, and the smile had cheered
his lonely heart and won this practical
recognition in his will.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

Giving employment rather than aims
is an idea that is making progress
In New York large work rooms have
been opened where women can be en-
ployeq at tasks requiring little skill.
and similar work is provided for men
at the "Wayfarers' lodge" Books of
tickets have been prepared to be sold
at the rate Of So for u, or s. for 20
tickets, each ticket emitting the bear
err to "a days work, a hot lunch and
about 80, cents worth of groceries and
supplies to be taken home at night.
There is so much work that ought to
be done that there should never be
lack of employment anywhere. Until
our civilization shall have so far pro-
pressed that no willing hands shall be
idle, we shall have little reason to
boast .of our moral advancement.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

dren would no longer work at mini
mum wages, thus competing with par
ents for work. Let us work to remove
the cause which compels these unnat-
ural conditions-land monopoly. The
report of the Illinois Bureau Of Labor
on taxation shows plainly the injustice
of our present tax system. The single
tax will remedy this evil.-Mamie Bo-
eek.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26
Wealth..

Wealth is an opportunity for doing
good would not destroy wealth,
but I would unlock and employ it for
humanity. The sacred mission of
wealth is to uplift the fallen and to ex-
tend the friendly hand in sympathy OF
man with man.-Rev M. G. Peters.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26
Charity,

The conditions in which thousands
of our fellows live and die challenges
society to put away for awhile frivolity
and gayety. Our present duty is to
consider soberly how we can help the
cause of the poor. Philanthropy alone
will not suffice.-Rev. G. r. Gebaur.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

A member of the South Carolina leg
1slature proposes to wiring few dol
lars out of labor by imposing tax
upon washerwomen. 1t is scrubby
sort Of statesman who would favor
q law of that kind.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

From the manner in which Mr..
Lexow tackles the tobacco trust 1t is
evident he thinks that where there is
so much smoke there must be some
fire. He also intimates there is good
deal Of water.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

An Eastern exchange says scien-
tist has discovered that the earth will
be dead in three hundred millions OF
years from now. Whether it will be
totally annihilated or just dead, like
David B. Hill, is not stated.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-26

An Oregon pioneer has sent MAJOR
Mckinley a tomahawk, but the Major
will not need it in his business during
the next four years. No kind of hawks
are needed.