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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

There is some talk of an in
dependent society for the dis
cussion of economic questions
The idea is that a separate or
ganization could furnish an alb
solutely free platform from
which reputable citizens Of all
shades of opinion could express
their views, without in any way
compromising organizations
whose main purpose and most
serious work is the maintenance
of fair wages and decent con-
ditions of employment.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

Every enlightened nation
in the world" says Mr.. Handy
in his admirable book on The
Banking Systems of the
World, with the exception of
the United States, Germany
and Switzerland, has estab-
lished postal savings banks. y
But Germany has a system of
municipal banks and Switzer-
land of cantonal banks, that
for the most part answer the
Same purpose, so that the I'm
tied States-the boosted land
of freedom and enterprise
alone remains the paradise OF
the sancti,nonious bank wreck
ers.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

The cost of telephones in the
business districts of Des
Moines, Iowa, is $24 per year.
The former price was $48.
The reduction was brought
about by the prospect of an
other company securing a fran
chise to do business in that
thriving Iowa town. What is
the matter with Duluth re-
ducing her telephone rates?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

If the city fathers ever per
mitted an outrage to be perpe-
trated on the people without a
murmur, it is in allowing the
Hartley street car combination
to charge the abonninable
prices that are now in vogue on
the new toll bridge. Hartley
is friend of the people and is
greatly interested in their wei
fare so long as he is permitted
to plumber them. h.. II
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

. . q
Our friend Col. Flagg, editor
ial writer on the West Superior
Leader, must be away on a va
cation. We can not believe
that it is he who pens the Debs
articles which have been APP
pearing in that sheet 50 numer-
ously of late. Or, are the pro
prietors becoming more dicta-
torial? No matter! We have
read articles written by. Col
Flagg and good ones, too, that
were only dictated by a true
and generous heart.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

The recent grand jury COM
plimented Sheriff Sargent on
the excellent manner in which
they found the county Jail
conducted. There does not
seem to be any doubt but
what Mr.. Sargent is proving
an efficient official.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11
of American working

millions of American working
men. It's India's turn now;
tomorrow it may be ours. AS
sure as tornorrow's sun will
rise we must either face such
conditions in our own land or
cut the knot that binds us to
the monster from which they
originate.
Why, then, not face the stu
alton now? Now, while our
blood is still undiluted by star
vation and our spirits still un-
paralyzed by despair?
It's a terrible responsibility!
True. But what responsibility
can be more terrible than slav-
cry? Let the responsibility,
however, go where it belongs.
IF you shoot down a highway
man, the responsibility for his
death is his, not yours. Should
trouble come every drop of
blood on either side that is
shed, will be laid by unerring
Justice at the doors of those
who struck the first direct
blow at popular liberty-the
upholders OF government by
in linn ctiOr
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

Powderly announces as the
great purpose Of his official
career, that heaasswill keep out
the anarchists. And this moves
the Social Democrat to ,,insinu-
ate that if such be the purpose
of his appointment the place
should have been given to Pen
tecost, for he knows what an
anarchist is, while Powderly
does not. '*
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11
FAMINE IN INDIA.

we are told, has raised the
price of wheat. The. fact is
that the price of wheat has
gone up because of the famine
in India. This famine has not
been exploited much in the
newspapers. Of even the sill
yer men few appreciate it's ex-
tent or it's relation to the wheat
market.
India, you will recall, be-
cause of it's oppressed and de-
graded condition under Eng
lish rule, furnishes the cheap
est labor in the world, and,
therefore, has been the most
potent factor in forcing down,
in the worlds market, the price
of wheat and cotton: India
this year, however, is out of the
market. 1t has no wheat for
export, hence its depressing
influence on prices has disap-
peared and 81 wheat again is
talked Of on the board of trade.
With most countries, now,
the failure of one or two crops,
while it makes hard times,
does not cause people to die off
like plague infected rabbits.
With India under English rule,
however, it. is different. The
country has been left nothing
to fall back on. The extent of
the famine is far beyond any
information that has hereto
fore been given to the people
of the country. -. -
u1ian Hawthorne in the
August Cosmopolitan, writing
from the actual scenes of star
walton and death, reveals a
condition that one would never
suspect from the brief and cur
sorry references met with in the
associated press reports.
Eight million people, he says,
have persisted from hunger
and millions more are doomed.
All this and the unutterable
horrors that go with such a
startling record are caused by
the damnable greed of selfish
capital. There is in India no
lack of food to supply the en-
tire population, but the few
that have food hold it for spec
ulation, and the government,
instead of attempting to save
their people whom it's incom-
potency has left defenceless
before the gaunt' wolf of star
walton, stands behind the in
human monsters who have
brought about the present
state of affairs to protect them
in this wholesale slaughter of
the innocents.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

Our aristocratic daily con-
tenporaries are again indulg-
ing in letting the public
know what they think of each
other. If they continue their
readers will soon know how
a daily paper is conducted in
a metropolitan city.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

The British trades union
congress is in session this
week at Birmingham,4a Eng
land. One of the most inn
portant matters to be consid-
cred is the strike of engineers
which has assumed extensive
proportions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

IF the street railway COM
panv continues to reduce their
force, we may all have to walk,
The West Duluth and Wood
land service is abOminable
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11
Half Rates TO the Fair.

For the Minnesota State Fair and
Twin City Carnivals the Eastern Min
nesota Railway sells round trip tickets
for 81 80, plus 50 cents admission to
Fair. Tickets good from September
4th to 18th. on sale at Union Depot or
City Ticket Office, 432 West Superior
street.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

When G. G.. Hartley comes
out of his hiding and recon-
mends anything fer the public
good it is safe to presume that
there is also "something in it.
for the pretentious Mr.. Hartley
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

Entered at the postoffice at Duluth Minn.' as
second class matter.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

Letters and articles relating tosathe social
problem are solicited.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

At this writing it looks as if
there will be but one issue in
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-09-11

SABRE G. AKIN, Editor and Publisher.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-06

the universe manifests to us is utterly
inscrutable." when science means
knowledge.
He thinks that intelligence pro-
crosses toward a certainty, which is
that there is something which must
remain forever unknown. Herein. I
have supposed, he sees the reconcilia-
tion of religion and science. The
latter must yield to the former it's
eternal place of mystery. 1t, too,
knocks, but the door does not open;
it seeks, but does not find. And re-
ligion itself shall be content with
faith and will not fret at being de-
MED knowledge.
Yet science is enlarging the realm
OF the known. If religion looks with
approval upon what her sister does.
she, too, must learn many things,
and the fields of the unknown must
give up their facts, little by little. So
0oo snould not be forever a strang-
er, or altogether unknown to his chill
dren. What we learn of him must
give US a more intelligent faith in
him. God the known is part of the
unknown. Water flows from cease
less springs. The bucket we bring is
witness to its nature and to its
power to relieve thirst. It shall have
its Interpretation in limitations,
though we cannot house it all. Jesus
reasoned from the finite to the inf
mite. eff ye. being imperfect he
said, "know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more
shall God, your Heavenly Father,
give good things to them that ask
him."
LA CROSSE. Wis.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-06
CONCERNING A PROPOSED ORTHO-
DOX REVIVAL.
BY REV. GEO. A. sAHLIN.

In one of the most vigorous dis
courses he has delivered in Benton
Harbor, according to the editor of the
local paper, Rev. George A. Sahlin, of
the Universalist church, on a recent
Sunday expressed his emphatic op-
position to the coming union evange-
listic services. The subject of this
sermon was, "Why do the Churches
of Benton Harbor Employ a Revival
ist'" aquestion which he said he did
not approach altogether in a spirit of
controversy. He had found no one
individual minister willing to assume
the responsibility for the revivals,
which were, however, the off shoot of
the theological position occupied by
them. We give some pungent para
graphs from the sermon:
"In orthodoxy the partitions of in
ternal dissension have been thrown
down so that we find the Calvinist and
Arminian and Baptist are now unit
ing themselves, tacitly admitting that
salvation is TO be found in any of
these great theological camps. These
churches employ an evangelist whose
work is to save all who come within
his influence, which results in saving,
not to the Kingdom of Heaven but
to orthodoxy, all whom he can work
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-06
The Two Harpers VS.. Two Isaiahs.
(Interior.)

The editor of Baptist paper in Waco,
Texas, finds it easier to believe in two
Harpers than in two Isaiahs. The style
of Isaiah XII, may be quite different from
the style of Isaiah xxxix., but the asser-
tions of President Harper in one part OF
his writings are contradicted by asser-
tions in what follows. In one part of his
essay he says that the early chapters of
Genesis constitute "the beginning of his
tory" and in another that these chapters
contain neither history nor geography. -
In one place he says that the writer of
these chapters "takes the stories COM
mon to all ancient nations, " and in an
other place that the book is a cOmpila-
tion from written sources not one of which
goes back to the days of Solomon. Our
critics do not agree with each other, but
that is no reason why one of them should
get into a shindy with himself.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-06
CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. MARCH 2. 1ss'
A RELIGIOUS AND FAMILY WEEKLY

Page One.
Editorial Briefs.
"Ian Maclaren's" Teachings Again.
Concerning Proposed Orthodox Revival.
Spencer's UnknOwable.'
Universalist Thought.
Page Two.
sermon-The Victory of Kindness.
The Greed Question.
New Books.
Page Three.
The Sunday School Lesson.
Page Four.
EDITORIAL:
History Repeating Itself.
A Responsive Creed.
The Supernatural Origin of Christianity
The Monastery of ST. Bernard.
Universalist Personals.
Exchange Notes.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Page Six.
The Family Page, Farm, Garden and DAIRY
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-06
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
BY PRESIDENT 1. M. ATWOOD, D. d.

PRoF. A. BALMAIN BRUCE is certain
that Jesus did not attempt to save men
by getting them to adopt hastily and
sfor prudential reasons an orthodox
system of theology" His method was
rather to make them acquainted with
himself and with the Father. and then
to piuGfe them to his service on the
grz bf their perception OF its value
a. |auty. 1t is obvious that these
methods have nothing in common. Prof.
Bruce must have in mind the usual
method of what is miscalled evangelism.
The truth of ian orthodox system OF
theology" is assumed. the necessity OF
accepting this system in order to safety
flor prudential reasons"-is also as
sumed; and the appeal is mainly. il not
wholly, to self.interest. The people to
whom this appeal is addressed know
nothing of the grounds Of this system,
no effort is made to enlighten them;
suppose they accept the system and
comply with it's conditions, "for pruden-
tial reasons" what is it but blind rush
for position of personal safety?
We suspect this is what very
large and hourly growing party in all
orthodox churches see and feel. And it
ia their conviction of the essential ira
tionality and non-spirituality of the pro-
ceeding that constitutes the paralysis
of which Mr.. Moody and other evange-
lists complain. To Mr.. Moody and
others of his way of thinking the truth
of the orthodox system is unquestioned.
And with such conviction he is in the
way of his duty in urging compliance
with its terms. But the state OF mind
which is the logical antecedent of assent
to his appeal does not exist to the sans
extent as formerly. Something has
gone into the air which has changed the
thought of people who think. 1t may
be bad for them, as Mr.. Moody believes;
it may be good for them, as we believe.
At all events it is fact aud must be
reckoned with.
-Scant facts and imperfect memory
are the most noticeable feature of the
Trust investigation thus far. Yet some
important if not valuable information
filtered through the pores of the emi-
nent philanthropists who have been in
Lexow's steam. box. The Sugar Trust
was instituted on combined capital of
100000. That has in some unex-
planned way grown into plant capital
lied at S74,00O,000. 1t does not appear
that any more refneries or any addition
al machinery went to the making OF
that enormous increase. Sugar. it was
pointed out by Mr.. Havemeyer and
others, has become much cheaper mean
time, and the benevolent gentlemen
comprising the Trust were inclined to
take the credit to themselves, for this
public benefaction. But further in
quiry revealed the fact that the reduc-
tion was not in the expense of refining
but in the cost OF the raw material. We
get hint here of what it means to
make money"
Formerly the streets of New York,
except in a few "best neighborhoods." 4"
were the amazement of the stranger and
should have been the reproach Of the
resident. For the first time 10 its his
tory an attempt was made under Col.
Waring to clean the streets of the entire
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-03-06
Moody ''lRevivalism.

Mr.. Moody is conducting enormous
revival meetings in Boston. People
come early in great crowds and hun
dreds are turned away. The fact that
the evangelist is presenting his ideas of
an infallible Bible, wrathful God, the
blood atonement, and an endless hell.
and presenting them with such popular
acceptance ought to assure US that
whether our thought is right or not, it
is at least true that not all have yet
come to its adoption, that there are still
some churches that are not "pretty
much alike in these days" But, may
the Lord bless Moody, even though his
theology be as stupid as of old and |
guess he will.-Rev. Carl F. Henry.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
TRADE THE COUNTRY OVER
Dun Comments on Disruption OF the
Steel Rail Pool

Dun Comments on Disruption of the
Steel Rail Pool
New YORK, Feb. 13.-R. G. Dun &
Co. IS weekly review of trade says;
mo other event of the week APP
proaches in Importance the disruption
of the steel rail pool. In two days
after it, greater tonnage OF rails
was probably purchased than the en-
tire production last year, reported
as 100000 tons, and instead of $9s
in December and $25 in January, SIT
is now the price at which works East
and West are seeking orders, the Car
negie company even selling at ST.,
Chicago delivery These sales will
employ many thousand hands, with an
important decrease in the cost of track
laying or renewals to railroads.
Also important is the struggle be-
tween the two great companies pro-
ducing Mesaba iron ore, one allied
with the Illinois Steel and the other
with the Carnegie company, which is
expected to bring about lower prices
for ore, and to push many mines to
their utmost capacity. But in the war
of rival interests wages are already
reduced by some large concerns.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
IN LINCoLN's MEMORY.
Anniversary of His Birth Is Generally
Observed.

obhtENtus
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.--The Marquette
club last night celebrated the ami
versary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin by banquet ut the Auditorium
hotel. About 600 were present at the
banquet, the majority of them being
members of the club The great ban
quet hall of the hotel was decorated in
a lavish manner with garlands, cut
flowers and the national colors. The
banquet proper began early IN the
evening and it was three hours later
before the intellectual portion of the
programme was reached.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 13-The
Indiana commandery of the Loyal
Legion celebrated the eigh ty-eighth
anniversary of the birth of Abraham
Lincoln last night with banquet at
the Commercial club, at which covers
were laid for 175 members CT the Lee
gion in the state and guests. General
Lew Wallace presided. a
MINNESOTA, Mimi, Feb. 10 Lin
coins birthday was commemorated in
this city by banquet given at the
West hotel by the Minnesota COM
maudery Order of the Loyal Legion.
There were 800 guests present from all
parts of the state. The addresses were
delivered by General John G. Black of
Chicago. commander of the Illinois
commandery, on abraham Lincoln"
and by Archbishop John Ireland.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-The statue of
Abraham Lincoln in the Hall of Rep
resentatives was draped yesterday in
the American flag and wreathed with
flowers in honor of the ssth ami
versary of his birth.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
Would Order the Lands opened.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-An impor-
tant amendment has been made to the
Indian appropriation bill by the Sen
ate, which provides for a different
course than heretofore adopted fol-
opening lands to settlement. The
amendment is as follows:
"That all that part of the Uncom-
pahgre Indian reservations in the state
of Utah, except such lands as have
been heretofore allotted or selected for
allotment to said Indians, is hereby
declared open to public entry under
the land laws of the United States;
provided, that no one person shall be
allowed to make more than four claims
on lands containing Gilsonite."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 13.-Burglars
entered the office of Secret Service
Agent Murphy in the Federal building
here and stole all of the counterfeit
money in the possession of the depart
ment. This robs the government of
its chief evidence against counterfeit,
ers now in jail, and practically pre-
vents the effective prosecution of the
cases. The police believe friends of
the men now in Jail committed the
burglary.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
Mckinley and Hobart Are Formally De-
clared Elected.

| clared Elected.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE first
public exercises in connection with the
incoming administration occurred at
the capitol yesterday when two houses
of congress in joint session counted the
electoral vote of the various states and
heard Vice President Stevenson for
lam Mckinley as President and Gar
rett A. Hobart as Vice President.
Vice President Stevenson, who by
law presided over the joint session,
took his place by the side of Speaker
Reed and then the tellers, Messrs.
Lodge of Massachusetts, and Blackburn
of Kentucky on behalf of the Senate,
and Grosvenor of Ohio and Richardson
of Tennessee on behalf of the House,
assembled to the clerks desk immedi-
ately below the Speakers table and
prepared to count the vote.
At 1:40 o'clock the Vice Presiden
stated that the count had closed and
directed the tellers to announce the re-
suit There was computation by the
tellers
Then Mr.. Lodge announced: "The
state of the vote for President and
Vice President of the United States, as
found by the tcllers is: Whole num-
Der of electors, 447; of which a major
ity is 224. William Mckinley of Ohio
has received Ell for President and
William j. Bryan of Nebraska has re-
ceived 176 votes. The state of the vote
for Vice President is: Garrett A. Ho-
bart has received Ell electoral votes,
Arthur Sewell 149 and Thomas E.
Watson 81 votes"
Mr. Lodge handed the result to the
Vice President and Mr.. Stevenson
arose and repeated the detailed vote,
adding the constitutional announce
ment that William Mckinley and Gar
rett A. Hobart were elected President
and Vice President respectfully for
the term beginning March H. This
closed the proceedings, which lasted
just fifty minutes and had been devoid
of incident or applause. The Senators
marched back to their chamber and
the House adjourned
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
Married In Tights.

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 13.-Arthur T.
German of Baltimore, who is said to
be nephew of United States Senator
German, was married last night to
Miss Annie Mailman of the Wood Sis
ters' Burlesque Vaudeville company.
The marriage was performed on the
stage of the Capitol Square theater
and the bride appeared in her costume
of tights worn by her during the regu-
lar performance. The novelty of the
wedding and of the brides unusual APP
parel provoked much applause from
the large audience. Justice Teagan
performed the ceremony.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
Stricken on the Stage.

New YORK, Feb. 12.-Armand Castle
mary, while singing the role of Iris
tano in Flotow's opera of Martha" at
the Metropolitan opera house last
night, dropped dead in front of the
footlights and almost in full view of
one of the most brilliant audiences
that has filed the theater this winter.
So quiet was the matter kept, however,
that few in the audience knew a
tragedy had taken place before their
very ewes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
ONLY HIS HEAD FOUND.
A Wealthy Indian Territory Stock
Raiser Murdered.

INDEPENDENCE, Kan, Feb. 13.-Last
night wagon and team were found in
q secluded place in the woods, not far
from the road, at the crossing of the
Verdigris river, about three miles
east of Newata, l. T., fifty miles
south of here. to-day it was
identified as that of Mr.. Joel Mack,
wealthy stock raiser, who owns
large tract of land near Bartlesville,
but whose family live in this city. His
coat and hat were found near the
wagon, and indications were that a
struggle had taken place. Excitement
ran high and upon further search it
was found where his clothes had been
burned. and later his head, detached
from his body was discovered in some
underbrush on the rivers bank. His
body cannot be found and it is prob
able that he was murdered and his
body thrown into the river.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-19
ALICE PLATT is FREE.


Polsoner of the Mussey Children.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 13.-Alice
Platt was acquitted this morning of
the charge of poisoning little Eliza
beth Mussey. AS she left the court
room with her father and sister she
waved her blue veil excitedly and
shouted to the great crowd that had
gathered: Ibid you ever get left?"
The jury at first stood seven for ac-
quittal TO five for conviction, but the
five were gradually won over to &C
Quittal