The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-15

combination is to secure legislation
favorable to the employers. The Rail
road Review asserts that one firm has
placed $4,000 ($175,00O at the disposal
of the organizations parliamentary
committee though how it could be ex-
pended 1egitimately does not appear.
If such a thing happened in America,
1t would be called a corruption fund"
The second object Of the organization
Is to secure for employers freedom to
make contracts with individuals in
stead of with the unions. The en-
ployers pledge themselves not to ne
gotiate directly with strikers, but to
deal through the committee Of the
organization. The backbone of the
scheme is found in an arrangement
by which any firm fighting a strike
will receive an indemnity equal to it's
average profits. Even the Daily
Chronicle, the workingmen's organ,
warns the labor leaders that they have
been carrying matters in, little too
high-handed manner, and admits what
every one knows, that the standard
days work fixed by the unions is be-
low the capacity of the average manu-
facturer. Unions will not permit their
members to exceed the standard. and
also assert the rights of workmen to
take holidays whenever they please,
regardless Of their employers inter
ests, and to- protect them for so do
ing. The employers complain that they
cannot induce idle men to work, even
at the high wages which prosperity
warrants. The Chronicle admits that
there are many workmen living on the
union funds who could get employment
If they choose.
OVERENTERPRISIN
The American society here is taking
extraordinary measures to check the
great notoriety attained by Col George
Gourand. who, on his own motion, as
sumed the leadership of the American
wing of the Anglo-American move
ment in London. Col. Gourand first
came forward on the occasion of the
arrival Of Gen. Lord Kitchener, of
Khartoum. in Egypt. The colonel went
to Dover to greet him, and is the most
conspicuous figure in the microscopic
pictures OF the event shown in the
music halls. Since then he has de-
luged the papers with letters, writing
always in the name of the United
States or of the Americans in London,
signing string Of titles to his name,
Of which the first was Zone time as
sistant inspector general of artillery
on the staff of Gen. Sherman"
Ex-Congressman Bourke Cochran Is
a passenger on the American line
steamer Paris. which sailed for New
York from Southampton today. He
may re-enter politics on the issue of
imperialism. The former congress-
man said he felt strongly on the sub
ject adding that this was stage in
the nations history at which no citi-
zen who had convictions was justified
In holding off from the conflict. But
he did not think an interview was the
proper medium for declaring himself.
and he would take other means to do
SO In the near future
RUSSIA AND AMERICA.
John w. Bookwalter, of Ohio, whose
views on Russia were published in a
dispatch from here to the Associated
Press, under date of Dec %, is return
ing to the United States with the inten-
ton of writing a book describing his
travels in Siberia. Incidentally. this
book will be plea for an American al
lance with Russia instead of Great
Britain. He says his observations in
this country have strengthened his pro-
Russian views. and adds: '"The inter
ests of the United States and England
anr radically antagonistic, and the at
tempt to foster an alliance is an arti6-
cial movement, so far as England is
concerned. 1t has not captured the
hearts of the people, and is merely a
political device with two aims. First.
to divert Americas attention from con-
f1icting interests in her own hemTs-
phere. Second, to make the United
States Great Britain's catspaw in her
diplomatic game in the East She
thinks that if she can point to the
United States as an ally she will be
able to extort better terms from Rus
STA. What America wants in the East
is trade, and she will do more by CO.
operation with Russia than by antag-
onizing Russia. The latter already
practically controls China, and will
give the United States what she wants.