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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-10
THE RAILROAD Y. M. c. A.
Programme of the International Con
ference Mt Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct 9.-Scores OF del
egates to the tenth international confer
ence of the Railroad Department Of the
Y. NJ. C. A., which will begin on Thursday,
arrived in town today.
Col. John ]. McCook. one Of the famous
fighting McCooks." will preside over the
conference. which is to be held in the as
ISOLATION building at Forty fourth Street
and Westminster Avenue. The following
programme has been arranged for the con-
ventiOn:
Thursday-5:.O to 80 p. NJ. reception
to delegates rendered by the ladies' aux
Hilary. assisted by Miss Helen NJ. Gould,
Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. A. j. Cassatt. and
other lady friends of the department; S
p. m. addresses of welcome by W. A. Pat
ton. chairman of the department; William
Bender Wilson. first vice chairman. and
Walter C. Douglas. general secretary; S:i5
D. m, address by Rev. Theodore l.. Cuyler,
ID. d.. of Brooklyn.
Friday-Morning and afternoon sessions,
$50 a. N. to l. IN. and to 4:30 p. IN. !;
7:30 p. m, addresses by prominent rail-
road officials.
Saturday-Mo Morning and afternoon ses-
sions, $3.50 a. m. to l. m. and to 1880
D. ~. 7:30 p. M, words of greeting from
foreign delegates. and an address by c.
NJ. Hobbs purchasing agent of the Den
yer and Rio Grande Railroad.
Services of unusual interest will be
held on Sunday, including a mass meet
ing for railroad men at p. m.
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One rrust-unl>novvn to Hanna.


(ErOm the New lork NOIluJ
The International Paper Company is a
tariff-protected monopoly. 1t owns large
quantities of spruce timber from which it
makes wood pulp; but here it has compe-
tition and must pay. 1t controls also
about all of the available water-power.
The tariff, which excludes Canadian tim
Der. not only increases the price Of paper.
but comDels the destruction of cur for
ests This. however is another story.
In 1897 ordinary news printing paper
sold at S1.65 per leo pounds. or ss3 per
ton. few months after the trust was
formed the price increased 50 ton. since
then the price has been put up until IL
has reached sos a ton, an increase OF s2z,
or about 20 per cent. In the mean time
the price Of wood pulp has increased from
between $11 and sic to s23 ton,
The trust was formed in 1888, with a
capital of $40. 600 eco and authority to issus
SO 900. geo in bonds 1t took over twenty
five of the principal pulp and paper mills.
producing from - to 80 per cent of all the
news paper manufactured east Of Chicago.
Since its organization it has acquired five
additional mills. Excessive prices vera
paid for many of these mills. Some had old
fashioned machinery. Some were situated
on exhausted water-power. The whole CT
the common stock of the trust is water.
acknowledged to represent merely good
WILL and yet l per cent quarterly diFi-
dend was declared on it at the end OF
1898. the year of organization. The trust
officials have claimed that they can make
$40 a ton on its output. Experts say that
it's entire plant which must pay dividends
or interest on s55.CO0.OGO. can be dupli-
Gated for S15.000.OC0.
The tariff duty on pulp and paper era-
bIed this trust to be formed and now leaves
the domestic market to 1t free from COM
petition The tariff on news paper is now
SIS a ton the tariff on ground wood pulp is
sl.6I a ton.
The trust has taken advantage of art;-
fetal conditions. notably the tariff. to ex-
clude foreign competition. 1t has a's)
taken advantage of natural conditions. like
the drought of last year, and of its control
of the mills to limit production. 1t has
been selling its garnered stock of paper at
enormously high prices. depressing the
publishing business and threatening to
raise the price. Furthermore under nor
NAL conditions the consumption of printing
paper increases in this country at the rate
Of about 200 tons a day. For two years
this natural growth has been stopped by
the trust.
Free pulp and free paper would break
up this trust.
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COercive Policies.


No employer of labor either corporate or pri
yatc, has a right TO influence the votes oil eni-
p,Oyes by methods which SAVIOR Of coercion. Such
conipulsion is not only morally wicked. denial
to the employc of the most sacred privilege which
his citizenship confers upon him, but it is also
an injury to the State. 1t makes ii impossible to
a fair expression Of public opinion quc>
tiOns which concern the welfare of the nation. IL
is an odous form OF tyranny which, il persisted
in. may lead to anarchy. with these who devise
aud employ cCcTcivc measures the arch-Anlr-
chsts The porpetuity OF his Republic depends
upon the maintenance of the principle that all
men are politically equal. There bc po-
litical equality however. when any set of citi-
zena arrogatc to Themselves the right to dictat@
to other citizens how the latter shall vote upon
questions of public policy and national Admins
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Miners and Farmers.

In his speech at Marion. Illinois. on
Monday Mr.. Bryan said something which
was worthy of Abraham Lincoln. and re-
minds one of the homely epigrammatic
philosophy of that greatest of all Ameri-
cans. 1t was this:
.sThe miner has to cast in his lot with the
farmer if he wants any protection or any Justice
in legislation: for the farmer stand bad laws
longer than the miner can. Ii things get 50
bad that the farmer cannot buy coal he can
burn corn: but when things get so bad that
miners cannot buy corn they cannot eat coal
In view of the bitter struggle of the
coal miners in Pennsylvania, for some
concession from the Coal Trust that will
enable them to live on the lowest plane of
human existence known to this country,
these pregnant and convincing words CT
Mr.. Bryan come very appropriately. 1t iss
indeed. the duty and the only chance of
the industrial serf TO Join hands with the
agricultural class in a fight for economic
freedom. Both miner and farmer were
caioled or bullied into the commission of
grave and, possibly. fatal mistake in
1885, when SO many Of them permitted
themselves to be driven to the polls b.
MIR. Mckinley.
The Hanna quadrennate has. or ought 10
have shown them the evil of the. thing
they did. In four years the trusts have
grown from the condition of possible
menace to the country, to that of its own
ers and cppressors. Artisan, agriculturist,
and small merchant alike have felt the
-pIt haa1 ff h.atr
faces Labor has been reduced to slavery
and starvation as in the anthracite coal
field, and in the gas belt Of Indiana. The
price of the farmers product is dictated
by the trusts and is kept down to the
point at which crops will be what the
trusts desire and design. But everything
the farmer must-buy has been increased
in price and every time he goes to mill,
store, CT blacksmith shop he must pay to
help support the palaces. yachts and game
preserves of his masters, and to supply
them with the millions IT costs to keep
them in political power at his expense and
for the purpose of destroying the institu-
tions upon which rest his hopes of liberty
and civil rights.
In the fierce fame of hopeless COMPETE
tion with the giant trusts. the small mer-
chants and dealers have all but disap-
peared. Give trusts and monopolies an
other four years Of unlimited control over
legislation. and immunity from prosecr-
ton for illegal acts, and the entire mer-
camille business of the country will be
in its last analysis in less than hundred
hands: just as, today, less than that num-
her of concerns monopolize the chief in
dustrial interests of the United States II
is. indeed, time that the under dogs in the
fight should join hands. They may never
have another opportunity to do so Wit.
the smallest chance of success.
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SOME CAPITAL NECESSARY.
General Wood Regards Cubn ms
Good Place for Investors.

HAVANA, Oct S.-Governor-G General
Wood will leave here on Saturday for New
York. He said today that he wished it I'M
derstood that he never said that Cuba was
not a good country for Americans to live
in. On the contrary. he believes that Cuba
is a splendid country for Americans and
affords a good opening for people from the
United States with little capital.
There was meeting Of the Democratic
Union party today. at which $50 delegates,
representing every province in the island,
were present. This was the first political
meeting at which all the provinces were
represented. The only action of any mo-
ment taken was the appointment Of a
committee to revise the programme OF
this party.
A delegation from various merchants
guilds called on Governor General Wood
today and presented diamond pen to
him in recognition of the decree which
he issued recently for the protection of
merchants from, INSCRIPTIONS retailers.
The habeas corpus decree was issued to-
day. 1t is the first time that such q de-
cree was issued on the island.
At a meeting of the Havana board of
health today, a resolution was adopted
declaring in effect that it was essential
to the health OF the city that new sew
erage system should be adopted, and that
the streets should be repaved. The resp
luton also stated that while these i'm
proyements will not eradicate yellow
fever. they will improve the sanitation
of Havana.
This resolution was read at a meeting
of the municipality this evening and led
to sharp debate over Michael j. Dady,
of Brooklyn. who secured the contract
before the Spanish American war and who
recently made rough bid of SIC. 500, 900
for the work. Senior Zayas argued that
while the resolution of previous mu-
nicipality declaring that the work should
be carried out without advertising for
bids was obviously Illegal. nevertheless
the present officials could not undo that
action and therefore should proceed to
take the next step, which was to hand
the matter over to the civil governor.
This official, Senior Zayas commended was
the one to decide whether the contract
should be put up at auction. This argu-
ment was combated by many members.
1t was finally decided that as soon as the
municipality should decide that the work
must be carried out, ways and means for
raising the money necessary for this pur-
pose would be discussed. Some members
OF the cornell argued that Mr.. Dady had
no rights beyond those recognized by the
intervening Government. which only emit
tied him to compensation for drawing up
the plans for the improvements Senior
Casuso argued that the plans now under
discussion were in no sense Mr.. Dady's,
and. furthermore that they had been
drawn up at Cuban expense.
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THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS.
Cabinet Council Selects Wednesday
November :, ~ the Date.

MONTREAL. Oct. 9.-.The date Of the
Dominion elections has been fixed FOR
Wednesday, November :. with nominations
week earlier. The cabinet council
which met in Ottawa yesterday came TO
that decision. and his cxcellency the
Governor General granted dissolution of
the present Parliament.
The Government originally Intended TO
hold the elections early in October. but
put them off from day to day. One reason
given for the delay was that it was i'm
possible to get the writs out in time.
Both parties have been preparing for
the contest and have been campaigning
actively since August last In fact. the
last session of Parliament was devoted by
each side to delivering speeches intended
for campaign purposes.
The campaign Is expected to be one of
the most bitterly contested of any con-
Quoted in Canada. New Brunswick is one
of the principal backgrounds, with the
Conservative party OH the defensive. The
central figure in the contest in New
Brunswick is Andrew G.. Blair, Minister of
Railways and Canals in the Laurier Cabi-
net. and formerly Premier of New Bruins
wick.
Another prominent man who is seeking
election is George f. Foster. the Minister
Of Finance of the late Conservative Gov
eminent.
One of the issues to be threshed over
here is the responsibility of Mr.. Blair,
the Minister of Railways and Canals. for
the threatened transfer of the extensive
grain export traffic during the winter
months from this port to Boston. The
Liberals assert that the railroad has
taken advantage of the approaching con-
test to make better terms and that there
is no danger of the export traffic going to
Boston.
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TRIAL OF THE WISCONSIN.
Hoping to Break the Record of the
BnttIeship Alabama

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Oct. 9.-The bat
tleship Wisconsin sailed this morning for
Santa Barbara Channel. where her official
trial trip will probably be held tomorrow.
In Santa Barbara Channel she will find the
battleship Iowa, the cruiser Philadelphia.
the gunbOat Ranger. and tug Unidilla to
act as stakeboats. In order to comply
with the requirements she must maintain
a rate of sixteen knots for four hours
The record for battleships is now held
by the Alabama. sister ship of the Wis
consin. Capt. Albert +. Pillshury. of the
City of Sydney. will be in command of the
Wisconsin during her trial. and the engi-
neer's room will be in charge of Robert
Forsyth. engineer-in- chief of the Union
Iron Works. Forsyth has occupied the
same position on all warships built at the
Union works. Irving NJ. Scott, builder of
the Wisconsin, is hopeful that she will
break the record made by the Alabama.
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have been such as to debar him from ap-
pearing to defend either upon the public

have been such as to debar him from ap-
pearing to defend either upon the public
stage.
So Odell squats, like spider in his
web in a little room in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, and there receives the offerings
OF those who ar anxious for his election,
and pours out steady stream of checks
and money packages to be transmitted
up State to the districts where Hanna
and he think money is the only political
argument worth advancing.
The Republican campaign in New York
is one of doodle" only. Ii is mere as
founding and despicable than an ordinary
Doodle campaign, because the candidate
for the highest Office within the gift of
the people of the Empire State is him
self the dispenser of Doodle Such state
of affairs was there never known before.
odell is unique in being the first nomi-
nee for the goyernorship who has de-
clined to show himself. and certainly tn,
first one who ever has dared to gather
the tribute of political corruption and
dole it out in the we'll known ways of Re-
benefit.
People in New York are beginning to
ask if it is not high time that the chief
of police and the grand jury were aroused
to action in the face of such a spectl Gle?
Everybody knows from experience and
observation in former campaigns. con-
Quoted il; the Plat machine interest
what all this lavish expenditure means
1t can have no legitimate excuse. 1t is
matter for the criminal courts.
Yet in principle the scandal is no worse
in 0dells case than in others. The
means used to secure his election are be-
ing used even more lavishly to rob the
people of their popular majorities against
the trusts and the Hanna Mckinley COM
bination representing them, in Ohio, In
diana, West Virginia, and Maryland.
Throughout the country, on the Repub-
lican side, the campaign has descended to
the plane of simple DOODLE and de-
pendence alone is placed upon the power
of doodle" to steal the election.
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BRYAN's NEW YORK ITINERARY.
Speaking Arrangement. Announced
by the Democratic state Committee.

NEW YORK. Oct. 9.-William j. Bryan's
itinerary in this State was given out at
Democratic State headquarters this after
noon. Mr. Bryan and his party will
travel on the Pullman private car "Lucul-
lus" and will start from the Grand Central
station October II at . a. m. Following
are the speaking arrangements:
October 17--Ncw York Central and Hud-
son River station at Yonkers. 9:S1. ten
minutes; at Tarrytown. 9:53. five minutes;
at Sing Sing, 1906. five minutes; at
Peekskill, 1926 ten minutes: at Cold
Springs. 1854. five minutes; at Fishkill,
II 10. five minutes; at Newburg. 1905,
one hour: at Fishkill depot. at 1910; at
Poughkeepsie. 1910. ten minutes; at Hud-
son. 1:53 ten minutes: at Troy, 300. two
hours. Leave Troy, Delaware and Hudson
500: at Mechanicsville. 5:25, ten minutes:
at Cohoes, 80, ten minutes; at Albany,
$40. night.
October 1S-Leave Albany by New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad at
sos; arrive at Schenectady at 8:35, twenty
minutes: at Amsterdam, 9:22. fifteen min
utes; at Fonda. $50 ten minutes: at
Jamestown. 1912, twenty minutes; at Clio
versville, 1912, twenty minutes; at Fonda,
11:20. no stop: at Fort Plain. I'LL. five
minutes; at Little Falls. 1907. twenty
eight minutes; at Herkimer, 12:45. ten
minutes: at Ilion. l, fifteen minutes: at
Frankfort, 1:1S, five minutes: at Utica,
]: 35. thirty minutes: at Rome. 2:25. TWEEN
ty-ive minutes; at Oneida. 3:o5. ten min
utes: at Canastota, 3:25. ten minutes; at
Dewitt. 1858, ten minutes; at Syracuse,
4:25, no stop; at Osweso. $50, thirty min
utes; at Syracuse. Z, hight.
October 19-Leave New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad station at Syracuse
at 500: arrive at Solway. $3.50. five min
utes: at Auburn 9:25. one hour: at Ithaca,
Lehigh Valley Railroad station, II. thirty
minutes; at Cortland 2:20. thirty minutes;
at Binghamton, Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, $780, thirty minutes; at
Syracuse, 1:15, no stop; at Rochester, 3,
night.
October 20-Leave Rochester at p. m. !:
leave Elmira, Erie Railroad 10; arrive at
Corning 1890. twenty minutes: at Bath,
11:30, thirty minutes: at Coshocton. 1926.
five minutes: at Wayland, 12:47. five
minutes: at Rochester, 2:20, thirty
five minutes: at Spencerport, New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad. 3:15.
five minutes at Brockport, $3.50, five min
utes; at Holy. 3:45, five minutes; at AL
bion. 4:05. five minutes; at Medina, 4:3S.
five minutes: at Mddleport, Asa. five
minutes: at Lockport, 5:13, one hour; at
Niagara Falls, 700. one hour; at Buffalo,
night
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YIELDS TO MARRoQUIN.
Sanclenente Resigns the Presidency
of the II "1ubiic of Colombia.

of the Republic of Colombia.
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.-Word was re-
ceived today by Edward Esp n za, Consul
General of Colombia that old age and
desire to avoid the disruption OF the Con-
sentative party, have caused Presiden.
Emanuel a. Sanclemente, Of the Republic
of Colombia. to relinquish his office to
Vice President Jose NJ. Marroquin, who
assumed his place on July 81 last. Mr..
Espinoza thereuDon sent the following
cable despatch to Bogota, resigning his
office: Having been informed that DR..
Sanciemente has recognized the nsw Gov
eminent. l. too. recognize it, and tend n
to it my resignation"
The action OF President Sanclemente
followed a visit to Villeta. his country
residence, by Gen. Prospero Pnz n. who
was sent there by Marroquin. One Of the
conditions of the surrender is that Dr.
Sanclemente will retain what is known
as titular presidency. which carries VITA
it a pension and no authority. He will
go to Buga, department CT Cauca, his IA
tive town. ard there spend his declining
years. The opinion Of Colombians here
is that Marroqun has promised high Of
fetal places to members of the National
Conservative party.
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The Republican Campaign in New
York,

Four years ago, although there was ex-
political syndicate which had bought and
mortgaged the Republican candidate was
using an enormous corruption fund, to
secure his election by fraud, still such
thing on any comprehensive scale was
SO unusual in our national politics that
the public at large hesitated to believe
it true. After the game had been played
with complete success facts began TO de-
velop, and have kept en- developing ever
since. all combining to show that, but
for the bribery ana corruption of voters
and election officers, and wholesale falsi-
fication of returns. Mr.. Bryan and not
Mr.. Mckinley would now be in the White
House.
In the campaign of 1896, however. while
these criminal means were used to defeat
the popular will of the country, the Re-
publican managers as yet retained
enough Of respect for public sentiment to
conceal their wicked methods and prac-
tices as much as possible. In their tri-
umph. due to humbug, COERCION. and pur-
chase, they seem TO have lost any care
for what honest people may think of
them, and this year are conducting bust
ness in the same old way, on far larg er
scale. and without any apparent attempt
10 conceal the fact that their only id
of carrying the Presidential election is
TO buy it outright.
Identical tactics are resorted to in i'm
por.ant States, in connection with guber-
material campaigns. This is especially
the case in New York, where Thomas C.
Platt's lobbyist, odell, is candidate for
Governor, and not only that, but is con-
Quoting his own canvass behind closed
fributions of trusts and corporations who
look TO his election to save them from
franchise taxation. State supervision AMI
other burdens which, If imposed, would
rob the people of New York OF many
millions annually.
Candidate Odell as lobbyist for the
Ramapo water steal, as lobbyist against
the bill to tax corporate franchises. and
as lobbyist for every sort OF job interest
ing &c his master. Platt, is VIGOROUSLY
afraid to mount The platform and meet
his fellow citizens as a candidate Ee
knows that he would be exposed to in
yidious questions which he could not
evade and dare not answer. He knows
that his public record and personal past
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BOUGHT BY THE FRUIT TRUST.
Sale of the Control in the Guatemala
Central RniIrOad.

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 9.-Passengers
from Guatemala announce the definite
sale of the Guatemala Central Railroad,
over which there has been some litiga-
ton. to the United States Fruit Company,
known as the Fruit Trust. The company
is to be put in possession CT the railroad
from Puerto Barrios to FL Rancho at
once. and must complete the line from Ell
Rancho to Guatemala City within two
and cne-half years.
1t is to have control of the railroad for
ten years. at the end of which me- the
Republic of Guatemala will have the
privilege Of purchasing it for 81 Geo. 200 n
gold. The company will operate TIE road
as Il trans continental line. running a
line of steamers from Puerto Bcrrios to
Atlantic terminus to New Orleans, and
from San Jose. it's Pacific terminus, to
China.