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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-04-18
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Sata NJ I s 1solos las manos de la supuesta viuda
~ '@a ss''sS0ai psFo de rePente e diio;
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eStan compuestas de productos Vege-
tales que obran directamente sobre ell
higado intestinos.
Secretase mayor cantidad de bills.
la elimination de substancias venenosas
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-04-18
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INGENIERO CIvIIEs

l56 Fifth Avenue, Npw York
Sc enoargaran do organizar empresss
para la exploitation do ooncesiones naD
lie minss, riegoa obras de interes ge
neral en- Porto Rico en combin aoi6n de
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Represent5nte en- Puerto Rico
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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-04-18

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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-04-18
LA VHEl 50 OR1
COmpanla de VapOres italianOs

Un iaano de Compsnfa legara
de cada tomar Saint Thomas Santa Cruz de e
nere G6nova Napoes Veneca Lvorno Trieste; pasaeros
1nicamente para Saint Thomas, Santa Cruz de Tenere
Geneva, Napo Barcelona, via G6nova
PRECIOS
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1900-04-18
CLAsE DIsTINGUIDA

Para uformes generates dirgrse en-
esta plaza.
FRFFzE, tHMBF = Ca
Ponce, Diciembre 18 De 1899
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST To
UNION WORKMEN.
Tho silk Industry - Why We Cnhaot
Proc ice Raw silk-where the Negro
Finds an Opening-The ItalisAs Arc
Coming-Industrial Notes.
Home, Sweet Home.

["Home, Sweet Home" was written by
John Howard Payne. one dreary day in
October, 1922 in Paris far from his own
home, and in poor circumstances. Payne
was born in New York City, June 3, 1I!9,
and was designed by his father for
mercantile career. but he abandoned COM
merce and became an actor. He contin-
ued to act In different parts of the coun-
try, and was likewise contributor TO
New York papers and journals He went
to London to try for favorable verdict
from a British audience. There he met
for a time with success; but he soon
abandoned the stage and took to writing
or adapting plays Home, Sweet Home"
appeared in one of these plays. an oper-
attic drama called. "Clari, the Maid of
Milan" and when sung at the Covent
Garden Theater by Miss Ann Maria Tree
in 1923 at once took its place as the most
popular song of the day. Nor has its
popularity ever shown sign of diminish
ing. The air is usually regarded as an
adaptation of a Sicllian one. which had
appeared In collection of national melo-
dies published some years before; but
Mr.. Charles Mackay, the poet, In COM
munication to the press some years ago.
stated that the composer was Sir Henry
Bishop. Sir Henry was the editor of the
volumes of national melodies referred to.
and not being able to find a Siclian one,
he wrote one himself and called 1t ST.
Gillian; and subsequently adapted 1t TO
the words of Home. Sweet Home AS
Mr.. Mackay's information was obtained
from Sir Henry himself. his statement
must be regarded as conclusive.
John Howard Payne returned to the
United States in 1882, and was employed
as a writer on the press and play
writer, until he was appointed United
States Consul at Tunis, where he died IN
1852 Thirty years later his remains were
removed to Oak cemetery, Washington,
where they now rest. The song as 1t ap-
peared In the play consisted of but two
stanzas. and as usually sung includes
them only Che first and third as given
below.l
Mid pleasures and palaces though wo
may roam.
Be 1t ever so humble, there's no place like
home:
A charm from the skies seems to hallow
us there,
Which, seek thro the world, is ne'er met
with elsewhere.
Home, home. sweet. sweet home.
There's no place like home.
Oh, there's no place like home.
I gaze in the moon as I tread the drear
Wild
And feel that my mother now thinks of
her child;
AS she looks on that moon from our own
cottage door,
Thro' the woodbine whose fragrance shall
cheer me no more.
Home home. sweet, sweet home,
There's no place like home,
oh, there's no place like home.
An exile from home, spiendor dazzles in
vain:
Oh, give me my lowly matched cottage
again;
The birds singing gaily, that came at my
call:
Give me them. and that peace of mind.
dearer than all.
Home, home. sweet, sweet home.
There's no place like home.
Oh. there's no place like homo.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16

home he did some thinking. INDUCED
in a right smart of profanity, and
incidentally called himself an ass.
We could also tell another story about
the man who spliced his two yard
sticks and made single-standard
yardstick out of them; but we think
our friend will see the point.
"In the same letter this single
standard yardstick friend of ours en-
deavors to defend the acts of the old
Republican administration in this
state, but that is so much like trying
to take the smell out of rotten egg
that we pass it by. He concludes by
hoping that we will not become
angry at him! Why, bless his dear
soul! not for anything. We would as
soon think of getting angry at luna
tic because he did not know better
than to make a fool Of himself"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
What Old Glory Means.

Mr.. Bryan then explained what the
flag means in different places.
"The flag does not mean in the Phil
ippine Islands what it means here. The
flag here means the right of citizenship
and the duty of subjects. 1t means
here trial by jury; there by military.
Here, participation in government;
there taxation without representation.
What defense can be given for it?
I have heard. three. First a financial
defense, because there is money in it.,
and second, a, religious argument, that
God is in it; third, a political argu-
ment, that we are in it and can't get
out.
"If you could show what 1t would
cost to conquer and hold in subjec-
ton 100000 Malays, 1000 miles
from our shores, scattered over 1900
islands, living under tropical sun,
and fighting for this protection of
their jungles. you could not show
that we would ever get back enough
to cover the expense. The money
spent upon the war of conquest will
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16

Paris Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch:
There is a curious little scandal In the
fashionable world. 1t appears that
some time since a company started
cemetery for dogs. so that an animal
which had been a friend for years
should not be thrown in dust. Certain
fashionable ladies, however, carried
the idea further, and when their dogs
died issued funeral cards. The funeral
services were held In drawing rooms.
A day or two since a dog funeral card
sent out by titled lady reached
bishop, who took 1t upon himself to
send singing reproof for the travesty
on Christian service. The bishop was
told the thing was general. Thereupon
he wrote in religious publication q
TRADE against the lack of decent feel
ing on the part of modern society
women, and the whole thing has Gre
ated quite little sensation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
The People Should Elect Them.

Public officials should not be permit
ted to forget that they are servants.
not masters. The tendency to forget
that fact is a very common fault of
all classes of officials whose tenure of
office is not dependent upon the will of
the people as expressed through the
ballot box.
Department clerks at Washington
are as rule quite overbearing and
despotic, and not infrequently uncivil
to common people, but very polite, and
often obsequious to their superiors in
office. congressman, on the contrary,
are as rule polite, affable and oblig-
ing. Health officers are appointive Of
ficials. They are often uncivil and des-
potic. They are, as rule, appointed
to Office as a reward for political serv-
ices rendered to the appointing official
by themselves or by some active par
tisan friend, and not on account OF
their eminent fitness for the position.
They should be chosen by the popular
vote, for definite term of service, and
not a very long term. If one should
prove to be a good health official he
could be reelected. But If not, the
peoplU could, and probably would, elect
some one who promised to serve them
better Health board doctors display
their official Importance, and exercise
their arbitrary power in inverse pro-
portion to their natural talents and
scientific attachments. Small-brained,
political doctors, who get themselves
appointed on health boards magnify
their official Importance and lord 1t
over the medical profession and the
people in a manner to not only be Of
fensive to free-born Americans but OPP
pressive and injurious. Such men by
their vicious and pernicious activity
in the exercise of their official author
ity often imperil the health of the peo-
pie instead of protecting 1t. In de-
handing a reform in this matter the
Union Medical Journal voices the
views of the rank and file Of the medi-
cal profession.-Union Medical Review,
Chicago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
Room For All In Ono County.

"You can put all the people in the
world, men, women and children, saw
age and civilized-1, 400, 900, 900 of them
all of them, in the state of Rhode
Island. and each will have twenty
square feet. You can put them all, all
the people of the world, in Chsrry
count, Nebraska, and each individual
will have seventy-three square feet.
You can put all the people Of the
corld in that part of the United States
west of the Mississippi river, and they
can live and be prosperous and have
practically all the things which the
people of the world now enjoy. : .
We have room here in the United
States for indefiDjte expansion"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
ROCKEFELLER'S WAY.

Extract from testimony of Hon. M. l.
Lockwood, president American Anti
Trust league, before the industrial COM
mission.)
"Mr. Chairman. in the oil regions
of Pennsylvania have lived a set OF
men who have never bowed the knee
to Baal. They have continually bat
tied for their rights over the railways
of the country. 1t has been a long
battle. Many of them who buckled
on the armor in 1872 have been
claimed by the hand of death; few
of them have gone down before the
Establishments and money OF the
Standard Oil company. Many of them
have been bankrupted and reduced to
servitude, and have been obliged to
go to work for the great monopoly in
order to obtain bread for their fami-
lies. Some of them, with a deep
sense of the great wrong that has
blighted all their hopes and darkened
all their future lives, with a deep
sense of the great wrong that has
driven them off from the highways Of
the country and chained them to the
rock helpless, while this great mo-
nopoly has robbed them-some OF
these have been driven to the grave
of suicide or to the insane asylum,
but there are enough left to keep the
faith and battle on for commercial
liberty and equality. They have never
faltered, but have battled as best they
could with the means at their COM
mand. They first built the twenty-six
pipe lines to which | have referred;
they then found that 1t was railway
discrimination. They then went to
the courts; when the courts failed
them they went to congress for the
interstate commerce law. When the
interstate commerce law failed them
they had attempted to hew for
themselves a pipe line to the ocean,
where commerce is free. thinking,
hoping, praying, that somewhere be-
yond our borders we might find land
and government where the equal
rights of the people are maintained
over the highways of the country.
Mr.. Chairman, we have found it. In
the great German empire, where the
government owns and controls the
railways, the poorest man in Germany
can ship a barrel of oil from one end
of Germany to the other end Of Ger
many just as cheap as the Standard
Oil company can. In Germany the in
dependent producers and refiners OF
America are not only able to success
fully compete with the Standard Oil
company, but in addition are enabled
to earn flattering profits upon their
entire capital. Give us national owner
ship of the American railway, which
will insure us equal rates, and we will
soon give the people of America their
oil at competitive prices. Then the
people of America will not be obliged
to pay 40 per cent dividends on Stand
ard trust stock, at least so per cent
water. Because capital will be glad
to serve them at per cent profit upon
the actual amount of capital invested"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
Tho Italians Are Coming.

Mr. T. v. Powderly, Federal immi-
grafton commissioner, looks forward to
a tremendous influx of foreigners this
year. During the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1899, there arrived 311,715, OF
these, nearly 100000 were from South
ern Europe, and the increase among
Italians in 1898 was 10000. This year
it promises to be even greater. In the
last annual report of the New York
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Commits
sioner McMackin makes, and quotes
from other sources, some interesting
matter on immigration, and also COM
ments of trades unions on the erect
which this enormous increase to our
foreign-born population has on wages.
Commissioner McMackin says: ITO
economic reasons in general may be
attributed the large immigration of re-
cent years. The improved facilities
nowadays for transportation across
the ocean make it an easy matter for
people to change their homes. The
foreign agents of steamship companies
have induced thousands to immigrate
through their alluring advertisements
to the effect that employment was
steadier here, with more remunerative
wages; that lands were cheaper and
the opportunities for procuring homes
were far better than in any other coun-
try" Mr.. Joseph Powder1S, member
of the Federal commission, which, in
1891, investigated the causes of emigra-
ton from Europe, said in his report to
the Secretary Of the Treasury: 1.-THE
swamps of Florida, the mountainous
region and alkali beds of the West and
Northwest look as well on paper as
if made up Of the most fertile lands;
and when the exceedingly low price OF
these lands is advertised, it need not
be wondered at that the tide of emigra-
ton to the United States becomes more
rapid and swollen. On reaching the
United States and discovering the real
nature Of the swindle, there is only one
thing for the emigrant to do-turn to
the already crowded manufacturing
center to look for employment"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
Industrial Notes.

Philadelphia has 1913 trade unions.
st. Paul (Minn.) employing painters
favor a shorter workday.
Chicago electrical mechanics will de-
mand 81 per day after the first OF
April.
Twelve hundred cigarmakers in Bos-
ton. Mass, have struck for higher
wages.
Louisville, KY, union carpenters
have secured an advance of thirty
cents per day for the year 1900.
Nearly all the national trades union
organizations report large increases
in membership during January.
An increase of twelve per cent in
the wages of 400 weavers in the lace
mills of Wilkesbarre, Pa, is an
nounced.
South Carolina cotton weavers who
went to Pawtucket, r. l., refused to go
to work when they found they were
wanted to take the place Of strikers.
The Berwine-White Coal Company
of eastern Pennsylvania, has announc-
ed an increase in the wages of its 3d.
900 employees. to go ito effect April l..
The shipbuilding yards in San Fran
cisco and Puget Sound are so crowded
with work that many owners have
been forced to send orders for vessels
to England.
The Bricklayers' union of Denver,
COL, has notified the contractors that
they will demand 62R cents an hour
and the eight-hour day and Saturday
half holiday.
The Philadelphia United Labor
League will employ an agent to pro-
cure evidence of violations of the city
eight-hour law by contractors and 9TH
ers doing municipal work.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
The Silk Industry.

Today the United States makes IS
per cent of the silk it consumes. Do
nestle products supply the whole mar
ket except that for the finest products
of the hand looms Of France and Swift
zerland. Imports of raw and spun silk
for the last fiscal year were 10,500,000
pounds, valued at $32, asa. The
raw silk comes from France, Italy,
Austria, Spain, China, Japan, India,
and the Levant 1t is in hanks or
twists of the filament as it has been
reeled from the cocoons. Each thread
of these skeins is composed of five OF
the original filaments, cemented into
one by the hardening of the gummy
envelope of the filaments after these
leave the basins Of warm water in
which the cocoons are put to be I'M
wound The preparation of the silk
for the looms is called throwing, and
this consists of about a dozen distinct
operations. The first of these is put
ting the twist OF raw silk on reel
and winding it off upon spools, turn by
turn. Then comes the combining and
twisting of the filaments into threads
Of various kinds. An idea of the in
tricacy and labor involved in just this
part of the operation may be gathered
from the fact that thread of ordinary
sewing silk contains about 200 fila
ments of the silk as the worm spun 1t.
Every part of these operations must
either be done by hand or watched
continuously, for the silk thread is
built UP entirely of continuous fila
ments. Although the silk throwing,
spinning and weaving mills form the
foundation Of the industry in this
country, and their products for this
year will probably amount to $780,
900 900 or more, this Is by no means
the whole of the benefit which the
country derives from them nor the ex-
tent to which they give occupation to
workmen or capitalists. Around this
central industry cluster those OF the
dyer, printer and finisher, the makers
of machinery, the dealers in raw silk
and in the manufactured goods and
many cognate businesses. How much
these all represent in capital and
hands employed it would be difficult to
estimate, but in the various direct in
dustries of producing ribbons, broad
goods, sewing silks and twist, tie silks,
hat bands. knit goods and laces,
fringes, braids and trimmings, some
thing like S20,O00,00O is now invested,
and close to 1000 hands are employ
ed. Rough speaking. about SO per
cent in value cf the silk product is in
broad goods. - per cent in ribbons and
perhaps 10 per cent in sewing silks and
twists. leaving Il per cent for the
varied products Of the other factories.
No attempts TO rear the silk worm
ana produce raw silk have been fnan-
cially successful in the United States.
silk. from the first branch OF its pro-
lucticn, IL assent'ally rrodigal of labor
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16

clared by an expert that 1t takes moro
time to build a spool of silk twist
than it does to build modern locomo-
tive, and during much of this time
some ones hands must be employed
in the operations. 1t Is the anca.at Of
time used in raising and tending the
silk worms and Keeling off the fla
ments Of the coco0ns that has defeated
each attempt to introduce silk raising
as an industry in this country. and
will probably continue to defeat its
successful introduction. OF late Penn
sylvania has become great silk
weaving state, manufacturers at the
original centers having found it desir-
able to scatter their plants, In order
to more readily obtain girl and child
labor at low wages. Today, of the S61
establishments in the country, New
Jersey has 257, New York 228, and
Pennsylvania 172, but in the list of
looms and spindles required for the
equipment OF new mills in 1898 Penn
sylvania led with 1885 looms out of a
total Of 2,340, and $1,000 spindles out OF
a total of $4,000, and there are silk fac
tories in more than fifty Pennsylvania
towns.
Another field where silk manufac-
turing may become an important in
dustry is just being exploited by New
York city house. Within month or
two a mill has been put in operation
in Fayetteville, N. c., by the Ashley DC
Bailey Manufacturing Company, In
which it is their intention to use young
negro labor exclusively. The mill has
been provided with competent teachers
and already from seventy-five to 100
hands are at work, led by the first pu-
pill, young negro preacher. The pro-
jectors of the enterprise believe that
the young people of the negro race are
we'll adapted to acquiring the manual
dexterity needed for silk handling, and
il this proves true they will go on and
build other mills as hands become
available. The present mill will en-
ploy $50 hands and will do spinning
and broadsilk weaving.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-03-16
Effective Intrench m ents.

With regard to the Boer intrench-
ments, 1t may be noted that. according
to the reports Of Boer prisoners, the
comparatively small effect produced
by the English artillery fire is largely
owing to the trenches being made in
straight lines adopted by European
armies. This pattern, which has been
borrowed by the Beers from old
Basuto methods affords, it is said both
freer movement and greater protection.
Many Of our present ideas with regard
to intrenchments have been learned
from the Turks.-Lnndnn Mall