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Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-01
THE NATIONS BURDEN.

(TO BE CONTINUED
THE NATIONS BURDEN.
The civilizing of the world goes on:
The slumbering dreams of savage life are
Ger;
The iash-lght of people yet unborn.
Is lighting up the earth from shore to
shore.
The children of a barbarous age gone by.
Have in their fertile brains conceived the
plan:
Our glorious eagle gives his fearless cry,
And Nations. trembling, say: That's I'm
Gle Sam"
We've shown to all the world without Il
doubt.
That we were born to conquer and to rule:
And If other nations haven't found it out,
They had better stack their arms and 90 to
school.
We know what means advancement power
ard wealth;
Wh.t medicines will kill. and what will
cure:
We've practced on the native Red Mans
health;
And we can ''fx" the ''Brown Man" that
is sure,
We clicked" cur father once whcr lut q
youth
We cudgeled him again in later years:
Our srouse, The south we knocked out
her b!aoI, tooth.
And raade her dr. nix her former servants
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-01

POLITICAL associated togeth-
WORK. cr in colony work
as to the extent TO
which colonies or colony members
should enter political work; to what
extent their journals should dea)inD0-
litical propaganda. Some colony or
gans entirely ignore the political side
OF the situation, some deal to a slight
extent in it.
There is, no doubt. room foran hon
est difference i'll opinion in the matter
and desire to state my reasons for
standing flat-tootcd for the greatest
possible aomunt OF agitation along
political lines. "On the fence was
never a comfortable position for me.
| find myself much more at home
square on one side or the other, en-
gagged in the propaganda Of the prin-
ciplcs to which my faith is pinned
Besides they began on me first" and
show no disposition to let ND because
| refrain from disturbing their mach-
nations. Busy men are the ones to
look to for more work, and because
one is engaged i'll solving the problem
along industrial lines seems to me no
reason why he should avoid the broad
or battle ground of political action.
1t does rot seem to profit me that
by cooperation | am placed in a posi-
ton towards the plutocrat so that
when he SAYS "gO' | can come and
when he saws come | can 60 and
dig clans; if crawl in a hole and pull
the hole III at.cI me. Ivalue any in
dusttial emancipation from the Pluto
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-01

HEN liquid air furnishes all
the power the fireman
and engineers can learn
the art of living ON the
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-01
NY FrieDdo yobD Sn0itb.'' lou Louis ranro,n
AN EVENINGS CONVERSATION ON SOCIALISM,


7OHN SMITH.-what is this
thing you call socialism?
SOcialiSt-It means to own
I all things by society, the same
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JUNIOR REPUBLICS.

New York Is successfully experiment.
ing with q new method of treating way
ward boys, boy waits and unfortunates
of the streets. They have formed an
industrial association, which has a
farm and village, in Ulster County.
where boys exposed to criminal sur
,roundings in the city are taken. At
present the work is confined to lads
between II and 10 years of age, as a
rule, though some exceptions are made.
At this retreat the lads are taught to
be cleanly, industrious and self helpful,
and are instructed in the arts of self
government.
To the fullest possible extent the boys
are required to maintain and adminis-
ter their own government, a form mod-
eled after the best of our republican
systems. There is governing body,
with an executive head, judicial and
police arms, and all the details of q
well-managed city or State Govern
ment The lads are required to. do
enough work each day to equal in value
the cost tor food and raiment, and
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We have been having an unusual
amount of frost this winter. The frosty
nights have outnumbered all others.
Many people have been disposed to re-
gard this as bad for the general health.
But DIR. Felix Oswald in a recent es-
say in the North American Review
tells us that on the contrary frost is
a good friend He says:
Jack Frest, indeed, seems to have been
more outrageously slandered than Lord
Byron, or Artillery Captain Dreyfus.
The health-seeker's truest friend has
for centuries been denounced as a har-
binger of death. The most effective
specific for the cure Of pulmonary disor-
ders has been mistaken for their cause.
Frost is natures panacea for half a
hundred different diseases, and the
motto of the glass sanitarium should
be answered as follows: Yes, frost,
long continued, will at last effect the
destruction of all organic life; but will
destroy disease germs long before it
begins TO affect the health, or even the
comfort. of human being'
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mixes "other property" besides Terri
tories. which are under the, sole control
OF Congress. A territory or district, or
possession, has not, heretofore, an in
herent right to enter the; Union as a
State It cannot do SO without the
consent of Congress. It can have no
form of government except such as
Congress prescribes or approves, and
the inhabitants Of the territory or other
property have not even the right of
self-government since they are but
tenants, and occupants by sufferance
In the Alaska liquor case, the most
recent judicial construction of the
clause quoted, the Courts have held
that Congress may make any needful
regulation concerning the Alaskan pos
sessions, and that there is no appeal
from the exercise Of this power by
Congress.
Interpreting this same quotation
from the Constitution, Judge Cooley in
his commentaries says Congress has
the sole right ito govern at discretion
such territory as it possesses beyond
State limits And it is added that
there is no question whatever that
Congress has the right to govern the
people in a territory, and we may add
district or other Federal possession
On this point Judge Cooley says:
1t is no doubt most consistent with
the general theory of republican in
stitutions that the people everywhere
should be allowed self-government
but it has never been declared matter
OF right that local community should
be suffered to lay the foundations of
institutions. and erect structure of
government therein, without the guild
ance and restraint of a superior au-
thority. The practice of the
government, originating before the.
adoption Of the constitution. has been
for Congress to establish governments
for territories; ~ and Congress
has unquestionably full power to gov
ern these districts, and the people. ex-
cept as Congress should provide there
for, are not of right entitled to par
tcipate in political authority, until the
territory becomes q State
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CONGRESS AND FEDERAL POS
SESSIONS.

Both Senators Vest and Hoar in their
elaborate arguments against the acqui-
sition Of new possessions e,ntend that
there is no power given by the Consti-
tuition for such acquisition; that when
territory is acquired 1t is with the at
taching right of that territory to be-
come State of the Federal Union:
that the application Of the taxing
power to any people under our control
carries with it the right of represen-
tation.
The mistake of these Senators is that
they do not distinguish between the
right and the privilege. It is not, nor
has 1t ever been the doctrine that the
electoral francise is an absolute right
On the contrary, it is privilege con-
ferred. 1t has distinct limitations
reached, regardless Of intelligence. We
refuse 1t until a certain time of resi-
dence has elapsed. We deny it to
women and refuse It to inmates Of GER
tain institutions. We strip the privi-
lege from one class wholly as a pun
ishment. But these limitations are not
inconsistent with the broadest and
most liberal Interpretation of the Con-
stitution, nor with. the narrowest and
most CONSTRUCTED view of that instru-
ment
The Constitution by the third section
of the fourth article. provides that
Congress shall have power ito make
all useful rules respecting the territory
or other property belonging to the
United States" Thia clearly recog-
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THEY NEED TO BE EDUCATED.

The San Francisco Press, at least a
portion of it, needs to be educated upon
the physical conditions of the State in
San Francisco papers are constant in
making blunders concerning the in
terror of the State. Either there is en-
ployed upon the news departments of
these journals men who are wholly
ignorant Of State topography and eli
mate, or they are men who delight in
sensational statements regardless of
their truth
In nothing does this same metropolitan
press stumble, blunder and misrepre-
sent more persistently than concerning
the Sacramento and San Joaquin Riv-
ers. Let these streams be at their low
est stage, so low that terrapin can
scarce cover himself in the current,
and navigation Is brought to a practi-
cal standstill; then let half inch of
rainfall bless the State, and immedi-
ately the San Francisco press begins
to dilate upon the probabilities of flood
currents in the rivers, the menace Of
inundation, etc., alarming ill-informeG
people, injurfng trade and shaking
credit in the stability of river towns.
Last year when the river was at an
exceeding low stage, with scarce water
enough in it to float a canoe, there
came on a beneficent rain which raised
the stream inside of seventytwo hours
about two feet, and permitted thesre-
was then still below high water-mark
some twenty-one feet. But the San
Francisco press Immediately began to
speculate upon flood possibilities, in
undations, and threats to life and prop
erty, and dispatches came from the
metropolis to reporters of the Bay press
in Sacramento to send latest and full
est particulars concerning possible
floods.
This winter the river has been the
lowest known for an age. 1t has been
little more than rivulet. The late
rainstorm has given us some twelve
or thirteen feet of water in the stream,
and invested navigation with new en-
ergy. Still the river is away down,
fully fourteen feet below high water
mark, and not more threat to people
on it's banks than is a hydrant stream
from San Francisco garden hose. Yet
one Of the ill-informed press Of San
Francisco gravely tells it's readers in
glowing headlines that the river has
fallen and all danger of flood has
passed at Sacramento.
1t is incredible that such ignorance
can be; that such idiotic editing of a
paper is tolerated In city Of the in
telligence OF San Francisco A hun
dred thousand people in that city know
that the statement referred to is abso-
lutely silly, yet the press of the me-
tropolis insults its readers by such
silly sensationalism, 1t would seem
that self concern for reliability and in
telligence upon natural physical condi-
tions would inspire the proprietors of
San Francisco papers to place at the
helm of expression and news gathering
sufficient intelligence to prevent the
| idiocy the average stories in the metro
politan press evidence as prevailing
upon those journals in the news and
headline writing corps.
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Side Lights on History.

admit him." said Frederick William
of Prussia
With a low bow the lackey withdrew.
He returned presently with a man
nearly eight feet high, whom the royal
agents had picked up somewhere in
Ireland and secured for the Kings
Guards by the promise of a large
bounty.
What does he cost?" inquired the
King.
Thirteen hundred pounds, your ma
jesty," replied the attendant.
HE comes high" murmured Freder-
ick William, gazing steadfastly at the
giant, ''but I must have him.
And the phrase passed into the cur
rent slang of the day.-Chicago Tribune.
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MIR. cARNEG1Es REASONS.

Mr. Carnegie says civilized peo-
pies are chief consumers of our
products; that barbarians are small
buyers: that the Philippines have a
certain trade incapable Of much ex-
pansion; therefore, we should have
nothing to do with their possessions.
Professor Gunton indorses what An
drew Carnegie thus says, as also the
fear of the wealthy iron monger that
possession of the Philippines will in
volve us in constant wars. He adds that
20 cents day added to all wages Of
labor at home would do more for the
nation than all possible foreign pos
sessions. But does Mr.. Carnegie take
the hint?
However, consider the statements.
Not all Filipinos are barbarians: the
coast and towns people are quite well
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The Philadelphia Ledger puts it
properly when it says that continuance
of the rebellion in the Philippines is
against America, not against Spain. It
is, therefore, our duty and province to
suppress it. Aguinaldo contends that
Spain had no title to transfer to u.s.
But we have decided, and under the
Paris treaty it is admitted that Spain
had title and that we claim under her,
first by the act Of war and victory ac-
complished; second, by treaty transfer
of authority. We must, therefore, fight
the insurgents if they still resist us.
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7s-f9s7cisf
liitlz something over. Those who are
too lazy to work are appreheded by the
boy police, and after being tried are
sent to the community, work or poor
house. where they must labor within
their strength or starve.
The result of this treatment is that
those Committed are very solicitous to
be discharged from such restraint, and
soor become Industrious and independ-
ent citizens of this Junior republic.
Trust is reposed in the boys to select
the most capable from among them
selves to fill the official places, and in
all cases the selections are made by free
balloting. The ordinary rules and regu-
lations of the colony are made by the
boy Legislature or Council. where the
lads are taught civic arts and what 1t
is to govern and to obey, the value OF
law, and the obligations and powers of
the majority.
The system has been in operation
about one year, and to this date has
been complete success, benef1ting the
lads morally and physically and 6f The
same time securing for them a good
is entertained that the success will con-
tinue, and that by this new method
the problem Of caring for boy waits Of
cities in whom there is any particle of
material for reformation left, is solved.
Assuming that this expectation Is
justified, there seems to be no reason
Why the system may not be generally
applied, and the great cities thus do So
ciety infinite good by promoting just
such enterprises. Surely it is cheaper,
better and far more fruitful of good
than are reform schools, law-imposed
restraint and punishment. For society
all such efforts are better than work.
houses, prisons and penal reformator-
iess The lad who is sent to one OF
these junior republics Is likely to come
out at his majority self-respecting, low
ing honest labor, unbranded with the
stamp of penal institution. free from
the vices of the great city, cleanly in
habit, prepared in large degree to
make his way in the world honorably,
ard generally he will be found good
material for useful citizenship.
The junior republic idea was at first
the notion of single individual, who,
at his own cost, established one Of them
for summer seasons only. Such was
his success and the demand for admis-
sion that his means were unequal to
the command Of capital to enlarge the
institution, whereupon generous men
and women came to his aid. Out OF
that effort has grown the later one re-
ferred to, and now the original pro-
luoter is appealed to from Illinois, Ohio
and Pennsylvania to come to those
States and institute his republics there.
But in a late paper on the subject
ne has said that he must decline the
invita- tions, though some of them are
very tempting. He does this because he
wishesoto remain by his original insti-
tuition, and because he conceives that
in every State there are plenty of
broad minded, kindly men, as well
adapted to institute the work as he is.
All 1t needs is man of humane spirit,
some knowledge of boy life, ambition,
temptation and trial; large fund OF
patience, plenty of frmness and
wealth of big heart.
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THE AMERICAN SOLDIER CRITI.
CIZED.

The German military critics of our
soldiers as represented in the late war,
and at present in Manila and Cuba, are
rather kindly than otherwise, but
sharply adverse in some respects. The
judgment is pronounced that physically
the men are not too small, are well
built, are courageous, intelligent, and
are excellent material for soldiers. But
it is added that they are not to be ap-
proved for discipline, obedience and or
diliness. For these reasons the German
officers think them of little use in battle
where unison, harmony and strict disci-
pline are essentials. 1t is added that
neither our men nor their officers have
the necessary training, nor due compre-
hension Of their duties. For guerrilla
warfare it is conceded that American
troops are unsurpassed, but as now Or
ganized it is held that neither men nor
officers would prove formidable against
a good European force.
OF course we must assume that this
criticism is directed against the Ameri-
can volunteer, and not against the reg
ular arm of our service, of which the
foreign onlookers saw but little. There
is. it must be conceded, a good deal Of
force in the criticism. At present it is
to be noted that our officers find great
difficulty in so controlling the volunteer
soldiers at Manila as to make them con-
y L
It is humiliating to learn that a COM
manding General has issued IAN ap-
peal" to the volunteers to refrain from
certain drinks, food and practices. be-
cause indulgence in them will surely
bring sickness upon them. In a Eu-
ropean army there would be no zap
peal" but an emphatic order and dis
obedience to it would be followed by
dire punishment. The reason lying be-
: hind the complaint against our men is
clear to all Americans 1t resides in
the itizen-independence of the volun-
teer soldier, his entertainment of the
idea that the officer appointed over
him is not his superior in any thing,
and that he dare not assert his author
ity harshly. because, when the parties
return to private life the soldier may
have the upper hand of the officer.
PROFESSIONALLY the American volun-
teer is sui generis. There IS no other
like unto him. Old army system cam
ont be applied to him until the organ
lied militia is put together and MAIN
tanned upon a different basis, drilled
and disciplined upon lines somewhat
similar to those obtaining with the reg
ufar army. 1t is this problem that is
now claiming the attention of Congress
and of the best military minds of the
nation.
1t Is because the American volunteer
upon whom we must always depend for
great and immediate force, is what
he is and will likely remain, that the
argument is advanced In part, and we
concur with it, that we should more
than double the number of men in the
regular army, and thus have not only
force necessary to garrison our posts
over such a wide territory as ours, and
to care for the Government military
property, but to serve as the leaven and
balance wheel of the greater army we
call from civil walks in time of war
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Nleekison which well
of his his section the State He had been afflicted
benefited
durability
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l " " w IL B O0oOo
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we'll of that dreadful
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years, and it was 9
very aggravated case
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Rain Sunday; high
southeast shifting to southwest winds on
northern coast.
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ever saw. have M. d / = 1Va11ce'
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IOuOWmg statement
II was afflicted for 20
y g ar 8 and did not
know what allied me.
My h us b and en-
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but they did me no
good. I took differ
ent kinds of medi-
cine, all to no effect.
In 1895 q friend told
me I had catarrh. I
had a bad cough and
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Catarrh Nine Years.

Mr.. Peter Hattenberger, Porterfield,
Wis.,, writes to DR.. Hartman under the
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years standing, and
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past going. I COM
menced to use Peru
ma according to your
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Catarrh Twenty-Five Years.

Mr.. John o. Atkinson, n jefferson
avenue, Freeport, III, says: "My case
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Catarrh Fifteen Years.

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Catarrh Twenty Years.

Mrs. M. NJ. King, Waterlo>>, N. c., in
recent letter to DR.. Hartman, makes the
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catarrh is leaving my head and throat.
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