The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-07-20

state Labor Commissioners Concerning
the Work of His Bureau-The solution
OF the Arbitration Problem Dinicult.
Chicago, July 15.-Apostle Brigham
Young, of Salt Lake City, the eldest
son of the former head of the Mormon
church. was at the Grand Pacific hotel
yesterday. His present eastern trip,
which will be followed by one to Mex
ECO, is in the interest of the church, of
which he is prominent member, and
which he declared is in a most prosper
GUS condition. In connection with free
discussion of the several phases of the
Mormon question which have come into
prominence recently, he also said the
church expected, within a compare
lively few years. to begin the erection
of magnificent city of the faith at In
dependence, Mo-, which would be its
headquarters. He said:
1t was our former home. from which we we're
driven by unreasonable and bitter prejudice,
and IL has ever been our wish TO redeem the
waste places Of Zion. We desire to build there
the most beautiful city In the world. We will
construct q magnificent tabernacle, much finer
In every respect than the one we have at Salt
iadht NlAf anu IN Otnef RESPECTS make our Olu,
ana vet new, home Of the church most bcauu
ful place. We have part Of the necessary land
| already, ana are going TO have no difhculty in
securing all we need.
Speaking about the prosecution of
Angus M. Cannon for living with more
than one wife, he said:
The members of the Mormon church who have
contracted polygamous marriages do not shrink
from the issue involved in the case recently be-
gun against Angus NJ Cannon. The present is
probably MS good time as any for determining
whether we are to live undistUrbed the lives
which the most solemn obligations have i'm
posed upon u.s. or whether we are 20 suffer the
pains and prosecutions of those who have the
courage Of their faith.
In regard to the contemplated pro-
| ceedings against Congressman-elect
| Roberts, he said:
have little doubt he will also be proceeded
| against, and, as in the case OF Mr. Cannon, we
| nave no disposition to avoid the issue. We
| night as well determine now as any time
| where we stand and II we have got to go TO
| prison, so let IL be We can be imprisoned, but
40 power short OF death can force me or Others in
| he same situation TO break the most solemn COW
| snant that man can make. |, for instance,
| 'ovenanted to be q faithful husband TO my
| wives and true father to my children. Would
| lot be false to every obligation of honor and
| rue uloIdlllN 10 nov cast lneLl OHE / nave ndu
! more thpn one member of congress tell me that
| broke the covenant thus made and cast of
| hese children and wives who gave me all they
| lad in the world would be nothing less than "a
| icoundrul.
Statement on Missouri Labor Laws.
jefferson City, Mo-, July l5.-.State
labor Commissioner I. p. Rixey is IN
attendance at the fifteenth annual
Meeting of the National Association of
state Labor Commissioners, which is
being held at Augusta, Me-, this week,
md will present the invitations of Gov.
stephens and Mayor Zeigenhein to the
association to hold its next meeting in
st. Louis. In the report by states,
given in the meeting, Commissioners
RiNey said on behalf of the Missouri
bureau:
our factory inspection law is inadequate ana
unsatisfactory. 1t requires the authorities OF
all cities and towns of over 5000 TO appoint O
factory inspector to work under the supervision
Of the labor commissioner and to make two re,
ports each year OF inspection of all factories aut
workshops employing ten or more persons But
no penalty Is provided for failure to appoint OF
to inspect and report after appointment How
ever, through diligcnt effort, we have secured
| the observance OF the law by nearly
all the cities TO which IL applies Will
paSsably good results and by this mean,
have prevented many casualties ant
corrected existing abuses. We made an Cftor
With the last legislature to secure remedial leg
iSlaton on this subject, but being the revising
session. attention was so diverted by othe
matters that the proposed amendment failed o
enactment. Anumber of bills proposing NOR,
stringent and comprehensive arbitration law
(among them one prepared by our bureau) wer,
considered by our last legislature, but the sou
tion Of the problem to the satisfaction OF al
parties concerned seems quite dificult and n,
changes were made. The free employmcn
office, established by my predecessor in the cit
: of st Louis in october, 1897, is yielding ser.
satisfactory results.