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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
OUR PAUPER LABOR.

About 5000 women and girls in New
York are employed in making arti-
fetal flowers. All grades are made,
from exact limitations Of the most ex-
quisite French productions to the very
cheapest violets. The branching and
other difficult parts of the work and
some of the finer grades of flowers are
done in the factories, but fully two
thirds of the fower-makers are "out-
side workers." Most of these home
women are Italian women and chill
dren. Wages range from $1.50 day,
which the most expert brancher in
factory earns during the busy season,
to the 40 cents day which the "out
side worker" considers very good.
The flower makers work by the piece.
They receive from three cents to a
dollar a gross. The cheapest flowers
are the violets, daisies, and wreaths
of small flowers for children's hats.
The price for a dozen wreaths Is 51s
cents. Each wreath consists of thirty
nine flowers, 468 flowers in all. A little
Italian girl who takes this work home,
WIN tiS doSlSLdnCS VI uci ulOtuSl, uSi
sister aged 12, and her 9-year-old
brother, can make dozen Of these
wreaths, 5h cents worth, in two hours.
For the cheapest violets cents is
paid for 144 flowers. A mother and her
little daughter, workils together make
two gross in an hour. These are facts
and need no cor- -nent.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The comment needed is, that we had
, better change this sad state of affairs
before We take such a civilization to
distant islands and shoot it into the
natives.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
NOTABLY HANDSOME BLoUsEs.

in the new tea-rose yellow. coloring,
over this charming foundation coming
black net embroidered in jet paillettes,
and in its turn overlaid with design
of single flowers and leaves in ivory
lace applique; while then at the waist
there is a deep swathed band of rose
pink silk, twist of which-in a slight
ly paler shade-is drawn up between
the glittering meshes of the net in
front, and finishes in fiower-like
rosettes beneath yoke of shirred yell
low chiffon, which gives place to a
collar-band of folded chiffon decorated
with jetted flowers arranged in medal
lion form.
The second blouse is of plisse chiffon
in the delicate coloring of old ivory
the very latest fashionable shade this),
where the soft effect of the closely
clustering pleats is considerably in
creased by the use of pressing instead
of stitching to keep them in place.
Medallion insertions of mellow-tinted
old muslin embroidered in floral de-
sign are edged with black Chantilly
lace; while at the sides, as you may
see, some other lace of ivory-tint is in
troduced. Bands and rosettes of black
velvet baby ribbon hold the lace to-
gether in front over the fulness of the
pleated chiffon, and there is waist
band to match, while the revival of
the quaint old fashion in sleeves is
shown in quite its prettiest form by
the effective arrangement of the COM
bined laces which give place just below
the elbow to a big puff of the ivory
chiffon, which, after being caught in
closely at the wrist, is finished with
frili edged narrowly with black lace.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
OUR FORMER PLACEIN SHIPPING

Says the Chicago Chronicle: Our
republican statesmen do not venture
to say word about shipping bounties
or subsidies, but they bravely declare
for Legislation which will enable us
to recover our former place among the
trade carrying fleets of the world"
They are after our former place"
in this respect. What was our former
place?" What party was in power
when we held it? What is our pres
ent place? How did we get there?
During the three fiscal years i'm
mediately preceding the first republic
an administration-the years ending
June 80, 1S61-American vessels car
ried from 70 to 72 per cent of all our
exports and from so to 67 per cent of
all our imports and exports combined.
In 1862 American vessels carried so
per cent of the total aud in three years
following their share fell below 2S
per cent.
That we may lay to the civil war.
But after that there was only partial
and temporary recovery reaching a
maximum of less than SO per cent in
1870.
Since 1870 there has been pretty
steady decline, running down to bare
ly II per cent. from which figure there
has been no recovery. In fact, in 1898
the share of the American vessels had
shrunk to 9.3 per cent.
Our repuDucan statesmen do not
trouble themselves to call attention to
the fact that all this decline has oc-
CURED under republican administra-
tions and laws. except that there was
a democratic administration of repub-
lican laws for short time.
They are too modest to tell us that.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

Gen. Grosvenor, McKinley's spokes-
man in the house of representatives.
Is frothing at the mouth over the re-
publican platform.
Over his own signature he accuses
ex-Congressman Quigg of New York
of having 'driveled" all the life, mean
ing and angularity out of that fateful
instrument. He states that plank
declaring that congress has full power
to legislate over the annexed territor-
les without constitutional limitation
had been approved by the president and
by the committee on resolutions, but
that Quigg, to whom was given the
duty of boiling down" the platform,
purposely omitted it, He is accused
of giving the same treatment to the
plank declaring in specific terms in
favor of the ship subsidy bill. Quigg.
of course, denies any underhand ac-
tion on his part, and says that what
he did met with the approval of the
subcommittee on resolutions and then
In turn of the full committee. But
these planks are gone, and Grosvenor
Is filled with wrath over the emascu-
I iated platform. He declares that the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THE
SURPLUS?

Mr.. Frank Vanderlip, one of the as
sistants to the secretary of the treas
ury, addressed the Michigan Bankers
association at their recent meeting in
Detroit He said to them that an evil
dence of national prosperity is the fact
that the surplus in the United States
treasury is now S45,000,000.
Every dollar of this enormous sur
plus was taken from the pockets of
taxpayers. This sum of 100000 in
excess of the needs of the government
was taken from them unnecessarily.
1t is the product of overtaxation and
oppression.
The favorite argument of Republican
orators is to brag about the immense
sums of money raised from the people
by taxation. They boast in eloquent
terms of how much we are taxed.
Even in effete and monarchical Eng
land the dominant party places it's
claims for popular support on the sue
cess of measures for tax reduction. Our
Republicans adopt as their platform
an egregious declaration of how much
the people are taxed in excess of the
needs of the government.
Instead of Dragging of the surplus
they should brag about the amounts
left in the pockets of taxpayers.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
PROTECTING
the Birds

The League of American Sportsmen
rejoices greatly at the passage of the
Lacey bird bill, and we'll it may, for
with its 5000 members 1t has done
yeoman service in the cause. 1t has
written and caused to be written
thousands of letters to members of
congress in favor of the bill. The
president of the league estimates that
more than 10000 letters have been re-
ceived by members of congress In the
last four months. In opposition were
the millinery interests and the game
trade interests. But as the president,
Mr.. Shields, says. there will be no
more shipping of prairie chickens, la
beled poultry; or of venison labeled
veal; or of quails labeled eggs; or of
bird skins labeled anything else than
they are; no more contracting for the
slaughter of 10000 birds in Maryland;
no more slaughtering of sea gulls, in
violation of the laws, and shipping
them, to use President Shields Ian
guage, ''to millinery bird hogs in New
York, no matter how labeled" The
provisions of the bill authorize the
lecretary of agriculture to buy game
birds and eggs for propagation in de-
leted areas. 1t is believed, for ex-
lmple, that prairie chickens imported
from Nebraska, and liberated in the
Shenandoah valley in Virginia, will
prosper. 1t prohibits the importation
Of foreign wild animals or birds, ex-
cept under permit, there being a spe-
cial prohibition of the mongoose and
lying foxes, and of starlings and other
,irds, known to be injurious to agri-
culture and horticulture. If we bad
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03

Soft fawn-colored or pearl-colored
suede leather or ooze leather forms q
stylish belt for the fastidious girl in
a world which is much given to wear
ing pulley belts of satin or corded silk.
The newer leather belt should match
as nearly as possible the tone of the
homespun suit. Beautiful light browns
or grays predominate. Select chate-
laine bag to match, for this is the
pocketless age. Get bag with an out
side half pocket, in which yac can tuck
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
An East Indian 'Kerchief.

A great many girls like to cover the
top Of the head when bathing with a
silk handkerchief of some becoming
color, instead of wearing one of the
macintosh caps. The handkerchief
can be chosen of becoming tint or
to match the bathing suit. If your
suit is of black serge, satin or brillian-
tine, or of navy blue material, you can
use one of the bandanas of glorious
East Indian coloring, tropical greens
and orange, blue, violet and dusky
reds. Cut the bandana in half diagon-
ally and then it is just the right size.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
HANNA rs THE MAN.
THE ONLY REPUBLICAN CANDI-
DATE FOR PRESIDENT.
The Mckinley Roosevelt Ticket Redeemed
The Great Promoter of Trust Legis-
Not Blind.

The Republican national convention
has met and done it's work. President
Mckinley, as was expected, has been
re-nominated, while from among the
numerous candidates for vice-president
Governor Roosevelt of New York was
selected by acclamation. The platform
Is sort of an excuse for the miscon-
duct of the Republican party and a
series of promises to do better. Senator
Hanna was the guiding spirit in the
whole affair, and his absolute control
OF the party was so evident as to be Of
fensive to even the federal Office hold
ers composing the convention.
The nomination of Roosevelt was in
tended to keep alive the war spirit and
to fire the hearts of the young men of
the country who are supposed to love
military heroes. The express censor of
the rough riders is expected to offset
the unpopularity of Mckinley and sub
stantial statesmen were set aside in Or
der to give him place on the ticket.
Under the circumstances 1t made lit
tie difference as to who was nominated
for president or vice-president or as to
what the platform contains. The peo-
pie in their hearts look on Hanna as
the real candidate and on the record of
the party under his direction as the
real Republican platform.
Hanna is the whole thing. There is
nothing to the Republican party ex-
cept his boss-ship and his wishes. The
Democrats accept the issue.
PAST AND PRESENT.
Cuban horrors at our doors and the
murder of American citizens by the
soldiers of Spain could not move the
administration, and it was not until
the destruction of the Maine aroused
the whole people that Mckinley and
the Republican congress could be
forced to take action in defense of our
trusts and the Republican bosses were
timid and did not appreciate the full
advantage Of a war in the way of army
contracts during its prosecution and of
carpet-bag government in the con-
quered territory
Now there is trouble in China. With
out waiting for any authority McKin-
ley has ordered ships of war to take
joint action with those of the Euro
pean nations and American troops are
on their way to help in the scheme of
grabbing slices of the Chinese empire
in due proportion to the injuries re-
ceived by each nation. The ostensible
motive in these acts is to protect the
lives and property of American citi-
zens in China, but the imperialist ad
ministration would hardly take such
prompt measures if it were not for the
fact that China is considered the rich
est of all fields for conquest and that
all the powers of Europe as we'll as
Japan are after the choicest bits.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
New Summer Stockings.

There is no silk nor design of foriated
pattern on the new summer stockings
yclept foulard stockings. 1t is simply
the clever idea of a merchant who sells
silks and also hosiery. Fine isle
thread stockings of colors to match
the foulards most in demand, blues of
various shades, browns, gray, a few
crushed raspberry" amethysts, sage
green or tans are heaped up by the
silk counter. Some, but not all, have
open work mesbes as decoration. They
are obviously meant to be worn with
low-cut shoes.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03

had such law thirty years ago the
English sparrow might not be here.
The bill prohibits any common carrier
from transporting the dead birds or
animals. or parts of them, killed in
violation of the law. The package
containing them must be plainly and
clearly marked, both as to the address
and as to the nature of the contents
Another section regulates the traffic
IN foreign game, which is designed to
prevent unscrupulous game dealers or
hotel men from maintaining a fence"
as President Shields says, for the
handling and selling of American
game. All game, animals or birds ON
arrival in any state or territory for
sale or storage, shall be subject to the
operation and effect of the laws of the
locality, and shall not be exempt by
reason of being introduced in original
packages. President Shields thinks
the passage of this bill with the en-
forcement that he believes will go with
it means gain of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars to the agricultural in
terests of the country in the next
twenty years. Coincident with work
of this kind is that which our Audu-
bon society and which this paper are
doing in endeavoring to arouse inter-
est in birds. 1t is all part of one great
movement. 1t should be pushed in the
schools. The pulpit has given II at
tention. Unquestionably we are COM
ing on better time, time when we
shall use not abuse our opportunities
with reference to helpless animals and
when we shall treat them all, domestic
and wild, with greater mercy.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
PRESIDENTIAL YEAR

Campaign committees are generally
extensive patrons of what might by
stretch be termed the arts and also Of
what its writer's fondly believe to be
poetry.
Under the head of the arts may be
included the millions of candidates'
portraits which are put out under COM
mittee auspices, also the cartoons, ,dia-
grams, maps, badges (pins and but
tons), and the like. Opinions differ as
to the value of such things in the get
ting OF votes, but committees always
spend thousands, sometimes hun
dreds of thousands in this direction.
Most committees buy campaign
songs pretty freely and it Is agreed
on all hands that a taking composition
set to stirring music is mighty good
investment whether the poetry Is very
good or not. The poetry sent to the
committeeman it arrives at head
quarters in wholesale quantities daily
is generally in the form of songs. 1t
need hardly be stated that most OF 1t
is written by persons who have never
learned to scan their lines and have
little idea of rhyme.
Leaving out the chairman and pos
sibly the treasurer, the functionary in
charge of the speakers bureau sees
more grief probably than any other
committee official, and his department
is one of the heavier committee ex-
penses. There are always hundreds Of
real and alleged orators in touch with
the committee. The more effective
speakers generally give their services
to the party from sense of loyalty,
and because they know that political
promotion lies that way; but nearly
all draw expense money and the ma
jority, pretty poor speakers as rule,
draw salaries; not large individually,
but sometimes almost treasury break
ing In the aggregate.
All these departments employ type
writer's and stenographers, and clerks
and messengers in numbers. Many of
the clerks are employed because of po-
litical pull, but the stenographers and
typewriters get their jobs on their
merits. Women typewriters are sell
dom in evidence at committee head
quarters.
OF course money in wads and rolls
and bags is needed to keep the COM
mittee departments mentioned and
others, of which there is no room to
speak, in operation, and the real storm
center of every national campaign
committee is the treasurer's office.
How he gets his cash nobody but him
self ever knows in full, and there is
no doubt at all that he and his col
lectors-more often than not political
stars of the first water-are driven to
their wits ends to gather the needful.
Presidential candidates themselves
have rarely made heavy contributions,
for the reason, among others, that they
have rarely been able to do so. 1t may
be mentioned in passing that while
candidates seldom visit
headquarters, ce-presidential candi-
dates often do.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03

The national campaign involves the
creation of an executive organization
quite as elaborate and complicated as
that required to carry on the most
extensive of modern enterprises, the
collection and expenditure of sum of
money so large as to require seven fig
ures for its expression, the selection
and employment, directly and indi-
rectly, of thousands of workers, the
gathering and dissemination of spe-
cial information on a scale not less ex-
tens1ve than that of great telegraphic
news association, and hundred other
things beside, none of which can safe
iy be intrusted to anyone not an ex-
pert In his line. Until 1896 campaign
headquarters were invariably estab-
iished in the city of New York, and ac-
cording to an unwritten rule they were
almost always located in a four-story
house on Fifth avenue. That year,
however, both parties broke away from
the old order of things and housed
their chief headquarters in Chicago
though each committee perforce main
tanned branch In the metropolis. In
Chicago the forces of both committees
were quartered in modern office build
ings; in New York the Republicans
took one whole floor in a handsome
white marble structure on Union
square, while the Democrats occupied
rooms In a well-known hotel not
Sfnnn'd
ters Of national campaign committee
must OF necessity be almost as extern
sive as big railroads executive Off
ces, since room must be afforded for
half dozen different sets of employees,
besides suites for the various commit
tee officials.
In sense, the "press bureau is
next in Importance to the chairman's
headquarters, since through 1t the
reporters and correspondents are fur
nished with such news as the commit
tee wishes to give out. This bureau,
however, is only small part Of the
committees machinery for the distri-
button of correct political gospel. The
bureaus relations are mainly with the
country journals, but city papers are
sometimes supplied with special in
formation. The amount of plate mat
ter sent out through the country week.
lies during the heat of battle is ap-
palling and costs an immense sum of
money-in the millions.
1t has commonly, though not always,
been considered good committee prac-
tice to issue translations into almost
every European language of nearly all
the documents got out in English and
the troubles of the functionary who
has to look after this job are simply
1ndescribable. To begin with, he is
generally and of necessity ignorant of
the languages into which the docu-
ments are to be translated, and there
fore quite incompetent to judge the
ability of those whom he has to engage
as translators or their work when it
is finished. His only safety lies in en-
gaging two persons familiar with each
OF the unknown tongues" into which
the matter is to be done. One of these
he intrusts with the translation; the
other examines it carefully when fin
ished to see that no error has been
committed.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
Concerning Dutch Annexation.

Sir John Henry de Villiers, chief
justice of the Cape of Good Hope, who
IS now in London, says that all Dutch
annexation of the republics. He adds:
This war was forced on President
Kruger. What Mr.. Chamberlain asked
him to give up was the equivalent of
Dutch independence. The story that
Presidents Kruger and Steyn aspired
to drive the British into the sea is
fable. All the Dutch leaders wanted
was to preserve the Dutch nationality.
When the British field marshal, bril-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03

A hat trunk or hat box, as our Eng
lish cousins say, will accommodate as
many as half a dozen pieces of milli.
merry. Each hat has stout cushion,
which enters the crown and serves as
a mount. The hat pins run through the
cushion and fasten your big hat to the
mount. Now it Is firm and cannot
wabble about and SO get out Of shape.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03

speeches of Walcott and Lodge Will
constitute the real platform on which
to go before the country.
The platform praises what the ad-
ministration has done to lift public
credit, because it has foated per
cent thirty-year gold bond at par, but
it fails to state that the bond is at par
because it carries the privilege of
drawing its face vaxse in bank notes
from the treasury as premium II,
for comparison, a government bond
carried the privilege of free
pass on every railroad in the country
for its bearer, a l per cent bond could
be put to premium Of 300 per cent
1t is the privilege and not the security
which has put the per cent bond at
par The platform "weasels" a plank
on the trusts, but two republican con-
crosses have failed to pass antitrust
legislation, and the republican senate
deliberately e-tracked an amend
ment to the Sherman act.
The platform prates about the well
fare of the annexed territory, but 1t Is
silent on the subject of "our plain
duty" which the president set forth
in his message about Porto Rico. The
president is praised for securing to
our undivided control the most i'm
portant island of the Samoan group
and the best harbor in the southern
Pacific" This is deliberate falsifica-
tion of the record. The harbor of Pago
po hne ho11 - H.. IT,,;4
for more than twenty years in ex-
elusive possession, and the island of
Tuituila Is the least important of the
three principal Samoan islands in
population, in material resources, in
size, in commerce, in location. The
platform declares for the construction,
control, ownership and protection of an
Isthmian canal. Yet the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty, which takes away from
the United States the power to pro-
tect the Nicaragua canal, is still before
the senate as an administration meas
ure and the Nicaragua canal bill itself
which passed the house by an over
whelming non-partisan vote was
blocked in the senate by Mark Hanna
at the instigation of the Pacific rail-
roads.
The platform favors the policy of
reciprocity, but the administration can
not point to a single one of its reci-
procity treaties which has not been
held up by republican opposition in
the senate. The platform is for the
protection of free labor against con-
tract convict labor, yet bill to that
end is hung up in the senate by re-
publican opposition. At every point
the republican declaration of purpose
can be confronted with the republican
record of failure.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-03
Artificial Coffee Rerries.

Unroasted coffee berries are often
made from oat and rye flour and corn
meal. The natural aroma of these
grains is destroyed by some process
and, after the proper amount of coffee
aroma is added the berries are formed
and caused to maintain their shape,