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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
MAY SETTLE STRIKE.
Chicago Building Contractors Confer
with Union REPRESENTATIVES..

with Union Representatives.
A conference which is regarded ss the
first practical step toward settlement
of the Chicago labor troubles was held
between the attorneys Of the building
contractors council and representatives
of the unions involved in the tie-up in the
building industry. Though the meeting
was informal and preliminary il was not
without results. Men participating in it
expressed the opinion that It had smooth
cd the way for negotiations that would
effect speedy termination of the strife.
The meeting was held behind closed
doors. The unions represented were the
hosting engineers, the bridge and struc-
tural iron workers, the stationary engi-
neers. the carpenters, the plasterers and
architectural iron workers.
Attorney Knight, representing the
building contractors council. informed
the labor men that the contractors were
wiling to confer with the representatives
of The individual unions and arrange for
a settlement of the trouble, regardless of
the Building Trades Council, the final
terms of the settlement with regard to
the Building Trades Cou4cil to be de-
termined afterward. TIE only stipula
ton was that the parties to the confer
ence should not be present as representa-
tives of the central labor organization.
More conferences arc to be held soon. If
the sentiment for mutual Cancellation con-
tinues it may be expected that as a re-
suit of the peace negotiations joint ar
bitration committees from the bosses and
their locked-out workmen will be called
together and will effect an understanding
which will make the labor war thing
of history.
In St. Louis every street car line is af-
fected by the great strike which was de-
clared some days ago. Both sides remain
firm, the strikers refusing TO recede one
ota from their demands and their en-
ployers declining to accede to them. The
public suffers great Inconvenience as a
result of the strike, having to depend al.
most entirely on the hundreds of vehicles
that have assumed the task that the
street car companies is unable to perfom.
Many persons use wheels, while others
prefer TO walk. The owners OF vehicles
are making money fast, charging all the
way from 10 to 80 cents for trip that
cost but cents on the street cars. Cir
cles are being formed by those who sym
pathiZe with the strikers for the purpose
of influencing every one possible 10 walk
Until the strike is over. The crowded
sidewalks night and morning seem to
prove that this is working well. Gov
Stephens put his foot down on the strike
riots and mob violence which have pre-
vailed, and says unless disorder is stop
ped by the police he viii call out the en-
tire military force of the State
AT Kansas City a strike was ordered
on all the street car lines of the Metro
politan Railway Company. About 800 Of
the 1,50U conductors, motormen and grip
men responded.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
The Condition of Labor.

There is no denying the fact that la
Dor is not in as satisfactory condition
as the opponents of prosperity would
have US believe. 1t does not respond to
the Mckinley prosperity and the full
tin pals of the peranlbulating speech
milking President are limited TO meta
plior and TO the comic Republican
press. IL so prosperous, why these
strikes, boycetts, loekouts, etc? Per
haps there is prosperity, and labor is
endeavoring to obtain a small portion
of it, but at this present writing there
are no indications that it is receiving
what it should receive and what it is
entitled to receive according to the pre-
dictions of Mr.. Mckinley and the
benevolent trusts There never was
time when, and there never was ma
ton that has increased in its industrial
achievements to such gigantic extent
as have the United States. Such an
increase should have attached to it the
element of prosperity as a necessary
adjunct. But labor is not rising up to
the level of this wonderful prosperity,
and its unrest is caused by its struggle
to break through the restraining crust
But this means resistance to labor. 1t
is deprivation of the good things at
tepdant upon the startling era of trade
expansion, and when we seek for the
obstacle in the way of labor, the OBJ
stacle which it is striving to surmount
by the only means in its power, to wit.
strikes and boycotts, we find it in the
trusts and combines and also in capt.
tai in the sense of ex-Speaker Reed
that is to say. capital which is not
money, but expansive credit commonly
known as shares of stock" 1t is fig
ured by the New York Journal, and it
is fact, that the capital stock of the
combines now drawing a percentage
thereon out of the people amounts TO
ten thousand million dollars This is
capital, and it is the capital which is
arrayed against labor. We know that
it is not money, for our circulating
medium does not amount to One-fifth
of that capitalization. but we do know
that that capitalization is turned into
income-producing wealth, drawing TO
itself thestotal amount of our circulat-
ing medium as its profit, and this add
ed to the other multiplications of our
circulating medium. or our actual mon
ey, compe,s one dollar of actual money
to perform the work of three hundred
and thirty dollars of credit money. No
labor in the world and 10 combination
of labor can successfully fight against
this burden. The only remedy is to re-
turn to the people the power to create
money which they have been deprived
Of and to destroy the criminal aggres-
sorR upon their finances.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
News of Minor Vote.

The plague has appeared al several Red
Sea ports
A rebellion on large scale has begun
IN the interior Of Corea.
Five Pullman sleeping ears have been
shipped from Chicago 10 Japan.
The late Silas r. Cobb Of Chicago leo.
an estate valued at SG,05J.O0O
Albert and Frank Krak. Chicago. died
Of pto-aaine poisoning from eating canned
meat.
The rumor that Ars. james Brown
Potter had been divorced III London and
would marry Lord Kitchener was false.
The Prince 81 Wales admits that he i
one Of London's -slum landlords" but
says he can't break bis long-term lease.
Of tenements.
Ems---- William Of Gtrmany. King
HumDe-s * Italy aud the Shah Of Pers.a
viii vst-eSs a great naval parade in the
Soient in July.
Nj. Hippoiyte Jayr. the last Of Louis
Fhiiirpes ministers died rcceLfIy NJ the
age 81 - years. He held the Office Of
minister Of public works under Guizot for
few months frcm 1877 III the rerolu.
tion OF 1915.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

BLACK taffeta bolero, stitched, corded or
laid in tiny tucks, is one of these ideas
that spread fast. and is both useful and
pretty. An example is put beside to-
days initial picture. 1t was stitched all
around, aud collar and revers were COW
cred with heavy ecru lace. As a finish
for the pictured bodice of biscuit poplin
it was very dainty. Between its fronts
showed shocked white chiffon yoke,
topping a deep girdle of draped panne vel
vet. Its lining was pink silk. White or
any color that is pretty may be used for
the lining and now and then you sec one
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
ENGINEERED OUT OF TOWN.
How West Virginia Liquor Men Got the
Best of the Prohibitionists.

How West Virginia Liquor Men Got the
Best of the Prohibitionists.
Il reckon we're got the oldest town
n our State that there is in the United
States" said a West Virginia man.
Ever hear OF Culloden? | don't mean
the clans of Culloden described by the
poet Campbell. | mean Culloden, w.
Va. Well, sir, about half the popula-
ton Of the town doesn't live in the
town and can't vote in the town, al
though they are right in the town.
IN explain. The good people, and
they are in the majority, too, are down
on saloons and liquor in any shape.
They got up a temperance meeting and
purposed to drive the liquor men out
Of the town When you find a West
Virginian who believes in liquor you
find man who is ready TO fight for it,
The liquor people got together and in
some way got the confidence OF the
town engineer. / don't know whether
he was liquor man or not, but they
got him on their side. The engineer
discovered that the town was not laid
out right, and he got authority to
change the metes and bounds. When
be finished the job the temperance peo-
pie found out that they lived just out
side of the line of the town, no matter
what part of the town their houses
were in. A man could stand in his
back yard and talk to the man whose
place was right up against his place
and who was voter, but the first man
had lost his vote.
''The lines Of the engineer excluded,
as l have said. the temperance people
1t took in the license folk all right
The map of Culloden as it now is looks
good deal like a sheet of paper after
fly with ink on its feet meanders
across it. You can. tell how citizen
Of Culloden stands on the liquor ques-
tiCn by the place where he builds a
house, If he builds one, which doesn't
often occur In spite of its zigzag
boundaries, however, Culloden is a con-
tented community. New York Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
GERMANS ARE STIRRED UP.
Speeches of Root and Lodge May Hasten
Passage of Navy Bill.

A special from Washington says that it
is the belief Of well-informed department
officials that Germany viii heed the
warnings given her by Secretary Root
aud Senator Lodge by more strongly urg
ing the passage Of the bill providing for
The increase Of the navy desired By the
German emperor ii is understood that
the administration expects Germany TO
try to block, automatically, every plan
which may strengthen the position Of the
United States, as in the case Of the Dan
ish West Indies, but il is not supposed for
a moment that she viii 90 to the extreme
Of hostilities. il is thought to be her
policy to continue the colonization OF Cen,
trail and South America to get a prepon-
derant German influence in those States,
50 that in case Of war with The United
States these German communities might
have an important bearing upon the de-
gree Of neutrality the southern republics
would enforce
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
The Trend OF Politics.

The nearer we approach the focus of
the political contest about TO be waged.
the closer are aligned the various ele
ments which go to make up the two
great parties before the people 1t ap-
pears from the present outlook that
there is more disintegration than crys
Utilization in the ranks of the Repub
lican party. For reasons which are
well known to the American people
and which they will consider next No
vember, we have a departure from the
organic law to begin with and the in
famous financial measure in which the
government relinquishes its exclusive
power to create money, into the hands
of bankers and bondholders. But this
is not the worst of it. 1t is the disposi-
ton of the Mckinley administration,
manifested ever since it's Inauguration,
to utterly ignore/the will of the people,
their expressed wishes and desires, for
the purpose of benefiting special class
which sets itself up in some sort as
the arbitrary guardian of the masses.
The reign of the people is the reign of
God. This axiom is forgotten by the
Republican party, and hence it may
be said that in deriding the will or the
sovereignty of the people, Mr.. McKin-
ley and his advisers are flying in the
face of Providence himself. On the
other hand. the Democratic party is
rapidly crystallizing into a huge unity
of strength, which, if it remains a
unit, will prove Irresistible. The Demo
cratic party has now become the vox
populi in contra distinction with a
plutocracy.
Local issues, if not wholly lost in the
great and absorbing national issues,
have become subordinate thereto, this
being presidential year, and we now
find from the present outlook that the
Democratic people, meaning the Dem.
ocratic party, may take heart of hope
that the vox populi will become truly
the yox Del. To that end all seem to
be working. giving up petty differences
and contrarieties of opinion for the ben
eft of the common good, which, it is adj
mitted, stands in need of drastic meas
ures to prevent its destruction.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
Antitrust Bosh.

Has the time arrived when all of the
people can be fooled all the time? The
great party of trusts seems to think so.
for 1t is making preparations to deceive
them by hypocritical assurances of
anxiety for the public welfare owing to
its own creatures. the trusts. The
Washington Times puts the matter in
the following clear and expressive
fashion:
Are the American people such fools
rs that they cannot see the impudence
of antitrust utterances from the
mouths of men who are owed aud op-
Grated by the trusts: who owe their
public positions 10 trust influence and
money. and ~ho dare not speak or vote
in either house Of Congress save as the
trusts iictateg If. indeed, the voters
of the country have fallen to plane OF
political intelligence and virtue so low
that they are open to delusion by these
demagogie and corrupt creatures Of the
trusts they viii richly deserve what
they viii get by it.
Throughout the present session of
Congress the issue between the trusts
and their legislative tools on one side
and the representatives of honest l,Sp-
ular opposition TO grinding monopoly
and corrupt privilege on the other has
been continually in evidence and de-
fined ON strictly political lines The
Porto Rican infamy was accomplished
by the majority under coercion from
the executive branch of the govern
ment. With hale dozen exceptions,
in this as in other trnSt legislation. the
Republican Senator's and Representa-
tives have obeyei the orders OF their
crust control while the Democrats il.
Congress have hattled for public de-
cency and respect for our Institutions.
Every effort by the minority TO reduce
the power for mischief OF favored mo-
nopolies has been defeated. Every job
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

armor Plate and guns thus receives adj
d;t.onal strength. While it usually costs
more to buiid under Government con
troll than in private plants, the increas-
ed cost is due almost entirely to the
fact that eight hours constitutes a
days labor under the Government.
while private concerns exact ten. In
regard to guns and armor plate it is
now known that the Government can
cut largely under contract prices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
Information for the People.

Letters TO the editor are an institu-
ticn in Sicily. as well as in more civ
ilized countries, and one which has Just
appeared in the leading papers of Pal
ermo is worthy of note. Ii bears the
signature OF Candino. the most feared
and murderous of Sicilian brigands,
and is destined to inform the readers
that he has expelled from his band q
notorious robher named Gaibo, as hav-
inc been guilty of 'discourreous and
unmannerly conduct in his dealings
with the public" The letter ends with
the words. .'klndest greetings of friend
ship for the editors.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
a Bad Memory.

That was an uncommon lapse of
memory in Col. ]. w. Gates. of Ameri-
can Steel and Wire publicity. He Jug
gled Wall street ont of S1,000,000 the
other day, deposited it in bank, and
forgot all about it until the cashier
called his attention TO it. 1t is by this
constant disregard of trifles that the
trust magnates have the advantage of
the men who have their daily bread
ever before their eyes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
A Matrimonial Announcement.

A Yorkshire vicar recently received
the following note from one of his par
ishioners: This is 10 give you notice
that and Miss Jemima ArabelIa
Brearley are coming to your church on
Saturday afternoon next to undergo
the operation of matrimony at your
hands Please 10 be prompt. as the cab
Is. hired by the hour. Forewarned is
forearmed. London Tit-Bits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
Hanna to Re Very Busy.

Mark Hanna, in speech at Column
bus the other day, announced that he
was going to withdraw from the Ohio
delegation in favor of General Gros-
venor, at the same time saying: Il will
have enough to keep me busy without
being connected with the Ohio delega-
ton This is strictly true, for there
win he more States than Ohio TO work
the barrel in this campaign.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

work The clear air of the country is
missing, and the drying linen cannot
be satisfactorily bleached.
1t is reported that an enterprising
Partisan laundry company has solved
the problem of bleaching linen in the
city as effectually as it can be done in
the country. 1t has hit on the idea OF
bleaching linen by balloon.
A few hundred feet above the earth
the atmosphere is nearly as pure over
the city as in the open country, and it
is in this higher region that the linen
is dried by the aid of a captive bal
loon.
The linen is attached to bamboo
frames and sent up, considerable
quantity being taken at each ascent,
There are about six ascents in a day
An extra charge of from five to fifty
confines, or from one to ten cents, is
charged for each article.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
AMERICAN PAVILION oPEn.
National Building at Paris EXPOSE
ton Is Dedicated.

National building at Paris EXPOSE
ton Is Dedicated.
The American pavilion at the Paris ex-
position was formally turned over to the
authorities and public Saturday after
noon. The inauguration took place in
the presence of embassy and consulate
officials, number of high French func-
tionares, foreign diplomats and commits
sioners and such concourse of Ameri-
can citizens that many who were provid-
ed with tickets We're unable TO gain adj
mission to the building. 1t was an Incl
dent of more than ordinary interest 10
American visitors to the Paris fair-this
formal opening of the United States pa
yilion on the Street Of Nations" In the
presence of hundreds of Americans and
Frenchmen Commissioner General Peek
welcomed NJ. Picard, director general Of
the exposition, in the American pavilion
and at the close of a graceful address
handed him gold key and pendant typi-
cal of international good will and hospl-
taiity The commissioner general re-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
slippery Depew.

Senator Hanna says if he had been
in Washington he would have voted for
the exclusion of Matt Quay, but he
paired with Depew, and thus both of
them performed their conscientious
duty in escaping the infection of injury
upon the Pennsylvania statesman.
Hence Quay is still in politics and
Marking for Mckinley
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
sole Custodian of pro.peritr,

1t is safe to say that the Mckinley adj
ministration and the trusts are the
guardians and custodians of prosper
ity. There is No controversy about
that. the grievance being that they
guard it SO carefully that none of it
ever gets beyond their control
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
The Right way.

Some men will buy two or three
black derby hats a season, and these
Will always look rusty and old Other
men will buy not more than one a year,
and that will never lose its deep and
brilliant gloss. Now why is this? Well,
one man brushes his hat with a stiff
bristled whisk, and the other rubs his
The felt of a hat is such a delicate
stuff thata stiff whisS applied to it has
pretty much the effect of a currycomb
or a rake would have on a suit of
clothes. 1t wears the nap off, exposing
the bare gray foundation in short order
A piece of wollen cloth, rubbed over
hat with a circular motion that con
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
NJ nnn,t Need ! yice President.

II is absurd to worry about the sec
ond place on the Republican national
ticket. Under the rule of the trusts a
President without backbone is ali that
is necessary TO successfully govern the
country. BY and by all of our executive
offices will be filled by committee of
trllSt macnates
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

In Puerto LiEson. tlss prshcipaI sea-
port on the Atlantic ss5e Of Porto
Rico. there are more people who talk
English. French and German than
those who speak the native tongue
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
NEW JACKET NOTIONS.
BOLEROS AND BOLERO FINISH
GENERALLY WORN.
Useful and Pretty Garment of Black
TafFeta that Is Very Popular-Sten-
ciled Effects in Which Innings or I'm


ANY new notions are
appearing in jackets.
Boleros and bolero
finish are so generally
Worn that fashionable
women will pay the
holders price for any
novelty in these ar
engagements, and that
results in a considera-
bic output of novel
ties. Pretty ones are
so promptly copied
that the original
wearer has but a brief
spell of exclusive
ownership, and WON
en- whose means are
limited thus get quick
~ Il chance at the
new faucies The
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
A Bee'a Wings.

A bees xs-=- are said TO beat the air
at the rate of 100 strokes per second.
and to propel the bee a distance OF
thirty miles in an hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

IL woman is a good cook, she owes
the wrold no apology II she does NOT
show on well In society.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

forms TO the grain. doesn't rub off the
nap at all. but keeps it lustrous and
firm and of good color.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22
odd Use for a Balloon.

Everybody knows that the dust and
CRIME of a city put it at disadyan-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

Lore Is not only sentiment: it IS an
art
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

Why isn't counting an helress a check
suif1
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

Jacob DE Haven loaned the Govern
ment Of the United States $4,000 liz
years ago, and now Uncle Sam Is 10 pay
the money TO his heirs after litigation
which HIS been carried GU for genera
tons. The claim against the Govern
ment, with interest, amounts TO $1,000.
900, and this is TO be divided among the
De Haven heirs. 2
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

Senator Peitus adheres TO the old
fashioned custom Of keeping his Office in
his hat, and when be starts out from
home in the morning it IS filed with let
ters aud papers, which be distributes
among the different departments as he
works his way downtown. He gathers
good many papers on the route and
when he arrives at the capitol his OLD
black broad-brimmed SLOUGH hat IS bulg-
ing with letters and documents. When
he takes il off be dumps the contents up
on his desk in the Senate chamber and
sends Il 10 the cloak room By page.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

The Chinese minister - the United
States is having built. along lines plan
ned by himself. gorgeous automobile OF
the phrefon type. The body viii b.
painted brilliant Oriental yellow. and
the velvet upholsfe-ing win be OF the
same hue.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

The opinion of the supreme Court ar
iirming the constitutionality of the inher-
itance tax was surprise 10 many learned
lawyers, who expected decision similar
to that in the income fax case. They rea-
soned on the theory that if il is unlawful
for the Federal Government 10 Impose
a direct tax upon mans property wien
he is living ii should he equally unlawful
to impose a tax when he is dead. The
court, however makes the distinction
very clear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-22

There is need Of additional men in tho
Philippines, and il will be necessary 20
open additional recruiting offices and in
crease the facilities two-fold for getting
enlisted men. The number of men re-
quired to replace soldiers discharged from
service with the force under Gen. Mae
Arthur is fully 100 per week. There are
$500 vacancies in the enlisted force.
number which is daily Increasing. with
scant prospect that the present rate OF
enlistments will ever replace. II il pro-
posed 10 establish new recruiting offices
at points throughout the country where
men are likely TO be secured