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The bee., 1901-12-05
Mr.. MILTON \. SMITHS
LETTER TO COURIER JOURNAL
Distorted View That There Have
Been Two Assressors Widely
Disseminated.


nall
Louisville, KY, Dec. 2, 1901
Permit me to protest against the
point of view from which your
Madisonyille, KY, correspondent
writes of the lawless conditions
that have SO long prevailed in
the mining district of which Earl
ington, Ky., is the center.
Every man has the right to join
a labor union organization. He
has the right to work for those
who recognize, and to refrain
from working for those who do
not recognize such organizations.
He has the legal right to decline
employment unless and until all
his fellow laborers are members
of the same labor organization
with himself. He has, however,
the equal right to work without
being or becoming a member of
any labor organization. He has
also the right to defend himself
and his property. He is entitled
in the exercise of any of these
rights to all and every form of
protection which the government
of this country affords to all and
every one Of its citizens; not
more than this, and no less.
All employers of labor have
the right to employ only those
who are members of labor unions.
They, however, have an equal
right to refuse to employ any
man who is a member Of a labor
union. They have the right to
defend themselves and their
property against violent and un-
lawful attacks. In the exercise
of any of these rights they are
-entitled-to all and every form of
protection which the government
of this country affords to all and
every one of its citizens.
The foregoing is simply a re-
statement of the general princi-
pie so clearly enunciated by the
Rt. Rev. John Ireland, Arch
bishop of st. Paul.. and published
in the Courier-Journ on August
10, 1901, upon which you made
the following comment:
"One vital trouble with the
strikers is that while they justly
claim the right to strike, they
deny the right of others not to
strike; that while they justly
claim the right not to work, ex-
cept ON their own terms, they
deny the right of others to work
on their own terms. Freedom
and right cannot be monopolized
by one set of men simply be-
cause they belong to labor unions,
and labor unions will never sue
ceed in accomplishing all the
good for the workingman which
they are capable of accomplish
ing for him until they recognize
and govern their action by this
truth"
Your correspondent, strangely
at variance with your utterances,
continually refers to the conten-
tion as having two sides, says
that both sides are committing
illegal acts, or that neither is;
speaks of two factions or both
factions.
In your issue of the Both of
November he outlines a plan to
require that both sides, !. e., the
union miners and the mine
guards, surrender all arms, and
that if this be not complied With
then ''any man found carrying
arms, whether around the mines
The bee., 1901-12-05

1t matters not how graceful a girl
may be, she simply can't enact the
part while trying to climb out of a
hammock
The bee., 1901-12-05

The Muhlenberg News is an
advocate of the union miners and
contends for their rights Of free
speech, which is acknowledged,
but a free American citizen who
does not want to join the union
has some rights, too, which ought
to be regarded.-Louisville Com
mercial.
The bee., 1901-12-05

Several hundred miners in East
Tennessee once sought to set the law
and the States authority at defiance.
A posse of law-respecting citizens
went forth and gave them battle and
quickly dispersed them. State troops
were also brought into requisition
and the law was enforced. The law
can always be enforced when there
is determination to enforce it,
Nashville American.
The bee., 1901-12-05

If the union miners in Hopkins
county resist the order of court, they
will not only prove themselves out
laws, but menaces to their families,
friends and to the cause they profess
to represent, as we'll. They have
congregated for an unlawful purpose,
according to the courts, are armed
The bee., 1901-12-05

You fellows who like to carry
guns and shoot should move over
to Hopkins county and shoot
non-anion .AiAeES- weman--and
children, mules, horses, dogs and
other cattle. Guns, ammunition
and grub will be furnished free
by men who never did a days
work in their life, and who are
living fine and fat from the la
Dor Of their servants. It's a
good place to go, where men
wont work nor allow their neigh
bors to do so.-Calloway Times.
The bee., 1901-12-05

1t is highly improbable that
there will be any battle with the
lawless campers near the Ken
lucky coal mines. There is a
material difference between mid
night assassination and an open
fight with anything like equal
numbers. Nashville American.
The bee., 1901-12-05

Two dead and another beyond re-
covery is the record of Sundays
fight at the Providence mines in
Webster county. When will this
end9-Uniontown Telegram.
The bee., 1901-12-05

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21
WILL REVISE TARIFF
AMERICAN REPREsENTATIvE NOW
ON WAY TO CHINA.

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 2O-Thad D.
Sharrets, who has been appointed by
President Roosevelt as the representative
o. this government on the commission
will undertake the revision Of the
:, q ..se tariff, has arrived here en- route
q nina. Commissioner Sharretts will
III IN the American Maru on Tuesday
;.xe He expects to go straight to Pc
. -, where he will present his credentials,
al will then return to Shanghai, where
the tariff commission will hold its ses-
sions. He expects to remain in China on
government business several months. In
discussing his mission he said:
1.-THE principles on which the new tariff
will be constructed are already generally
understood. The present ad valorem
duty will be abolished, and it is the in
tention of the commission to make
specific duty the dominant feature of the
new tariff. with perhaps one ad vaiorem
duty of or 10 per cent added The
difficulty will come in determining what
specific duty should be charged against
the various articles of import. Each
member of the commission will naturally
endeayor to protect the interests of his
own country as far as possible"
Mr.. Sharrets says that in addition to
his duties on the tariff commission he is
charged by President Roosevelt and the
secretary of state with other responsible
tiles of an important nature. When the
labors of the commission are ended he
will devote some time to a careful study
OF commercial conditions in the Orient
and the trade relations between China
and the United States, and will then CO.
operate with United States Minister Con-
ger in negotiating a new commercial
treaty, with China
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21
FRENCH MINERS INDOUB7
DELEGATES TO FEEDER ATTaN HON
MEETING At ST.. ETIENNE
Papers Take n Gloomy View of the
Situation and Fear Serf-
Gus Outbreak Is I'm
minent.

PARIS, Oct. A.-TWo meetings of the
delegates of tthe Miners Federation wero
neid yesterday at st. Etienne without
any decision being reached upon the dues-
ton OF the threatened strike. Another
meeting viii be held today Meanwhile
the papers are devoting columns to the
SITUATION ana generally taking a gloomy
view.
Dispatches from Monceaux les Mtnes
say that while the place is outwardIy
quiet, the feeling is such that a yery
Slight Incident would be likely to lead TO
an outbreak of violence among the 5000
miners in the locality These are divided
into two factions-the "reds,'' who favor
strike, and the t.ye1lows.'' who are op-
posed to such a. step.
The project, who has forbidden the sale
OF arms throughout the department, yes
terday seized two cases of muskets at St
Etienne that were on their way to Mont
ceaux les Mines. 1t is asserted that both
factions are already supplied with guns
and revolvers, which they have concealed
in their homes One of the leaders or
the reds declares that they not only have
GTas muskets, but also Lebel rifles, am
munition and bayonets.,
The chief element of danger is the pos
sfble action of some 1900 men whom the
mining company refused to re-engage ar-
ter the last strike and who have been I'M
employed since
Five thousands gendarmes are patroli-
ing Montceaux des Mines. The manager
of the company does not leave his office
except in a carriage and under the es-
cort of mounted gendarmes, armed with
fevoIvers and sabers.
The leaders of the reds insist that q
strike is inevitable, but many who are
in position to form d sober opinion be-
Iieye that a strike will be aV0Tted, or, at
all events, confined to certain localities.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21
AROUND THE HOTELS.

At the Merchants-Mrs. J. r. Welch
and daughter, Miss Grace WEIGH. st.
James; John Cooper, ST. Cloud; s. w.
White and son, Skule, n. D.; III. w. Ly-
man, Winona; B. f. Lambert, Evarts;
g. w. Haggart, Fargo; e. A. Putnam,
Fargo; II. B. Wakefield, Hutchinson
w w. Roberts, Duluth.
At the RyaR-G. w Wilson and wife.
Duluth; J. w. Williams and wife, Far
go.
At The CIarendon-R. T. Ecker, Fargo;
D. M. Larsen, w. A. Donahue, Clare
mont.
At the Windsor-H L. Slade and wife,
Wmona; NJ, F. Williams, Fargo; K. N.
Hapgood, Lena Blisa Milbank; E. P.
Watson, Morris.
At the Metropolitan-P. J. Brady, Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich. II. Clifton, Milwaukee,
Wis; George S. Decker, Tacoma, Wash.
Charles P. Rice, New Haven, Conn.
Adoiph link, Philadelphia, Pa; Harry
McDonough, Duluth, MINI; E. C. Bar
nard. Washington, D. c.; D. B. Staples
& wife, Lakeland, MINI.
At the FoIey-J. Frankel, Spring VAL
ley; e. L. Depue. Olivia, Mimi. w L.
Buck, Luverne, MIMI; T. E. Wightman,
Watertown; j. E. Mays, Pennington; J.
w. Have Milant d. G. Buck, Horton,
Mimi; B. K. Swertly and wife, Howard
Lake.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21
FIT The 5heaters.

From rag time to the classical is a far
cry, but both are found in satisfying
quantities at the Grand this week True
there is much in the line of undesirable
nonsense, but the Black Patti Trouba-
dours did not lack in favor with first.
nighters at the Grand last evening be-
cause of the surfeit in this respect.
Nine. Sisseretta Jones, the self-stvled
Patti of her race, is naturally the stellar
attraction, and while possibly slightly
passe in the eyes of some of her adj
mirers, is still a vocalist of more than
ordinary ability. Her voice has great
volume and is under excellent control. A
chorus of much strength and unusual
sweetness assists her
"a Filipino Mis-Fft' is the opening
number and is featured as mirth pro-
Queer, but it has little to commend un-
less as a vehicle for some very fair yau-
deviIle in the line of rag time. A vocal
selection by Misses Green and Forcen IS
probably among the best.
In buck and wing dancing the negro is
in his element. and the attraction hap
PLY does not lack in this respect A cake
walk, also peculiar to the ebony-hued
race, received boisterous approval from
the gallery
Of the olio which follows the nonsan-
steal first part John Rucker.. the Alabama
blossom, is the stellar attraction. His
attempt at a monelogue has little to COM
mend, but In a delineation of rag-time
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21

and who has committed an act OF bank
ruptcy within four months after the com.
mission of such act The provision
quoted by Mr.. Prendergast4 says that the
claims of creditors who have received
preferences shall not be allowed until
such creditors shall surrender their pref
erences. The effect of these provisions
is that any creditor receiving a pay
ment within four months before the ap-
pearance of the bankrupt in court may
be compelled to hand over the payment
thus made or else goNwithout the balance
of his claim.
Under TIE Pre- sent law Il man is de-
clared insolvent when the aggregate of
his property shall not be sufficient in
amornt at fair valuation to pay his
detts. So that if Il business man gets
in that situation, whether or not his
creditor knows it, if he pays that c,edi-
tor anything, the money he pays must
be returned, even if it has been paid
in the best of faith, at any time within
four months of the bankrupt's appear
ance in court.
This is palpable injustice. There are
numerous cases where creditor is paid
something on account when he believes,
and his debtor believes, that there is no
danger of insolvency. If afterwards
within four months it is found, On a bal
ance of the debtors books, that he
owed more than he owned. the creditor
must give up his payment under the
law. There is no question of good faith
here. The creditor is simply made the
victim of a purely accidental circum-
stance
Four months is a long period when es-
timated in connection with business
transaction. There is nothing in the
law to prevent a dishonest debtor rob-
bling his creditor to. whom he has paid
money in satisfaction of a just debt by
announcing himself bankrupt within
four months after it's payment and de-
claring that he was insclvent when the
payment was made. The interval is ut
terly unreasonable. Sixty days of an
interval would be really longer than
business ethics or sound legal precaution
would dictate.
Business men generally will do well to
unite with the members of the Credit
Mems association in bringing about dur
ing the next session of congress ma
terial lessening of the period within
which a preference may be created un-
der the present bankruptcy act.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21
UNJUST TO CREDITORS.

The existing bankruptcy law has been
directions, but has stood the test of ex-
animation on the whole with great sue
cess. 1t has been found simple in its pro-
visions, in nowise promotive of Iitiga-
ton, and to involve less expense both
to creditor and debtor than ever was
possible under the bankruptcy act of 1867
Indeed under the former law the bank
rupt, voluntary or involuntary, who came
out of the proceeding otherwise than a
ruined man had reason to regard him
self as exceptionally fortunate
The present law has not been as gen
orally resorted to as many supposed GER
tain. The results of the panic of 1893 had
been in considerable measure discounted
and the operation of the state insolvent
laws had been found in considerable
measure promotive of the necessary adj
justments 1t is generally regarded as
an advantage of the present system that
its gain is rather to the worthy debtor
than TO any other class aHected by IL.
And rightfully so. But even its operation
in that respect may result in injustice to
other interests quite as we'll entitled to
protection.
The meeting of credit men held at the
Minneapolis Commercial club on Satur-
day evening was effective in having
pointed out an injustice of this char
acter. The address of Mr.. Prendergast
on that occasion was directed toward the
operation of subdivision G of section 81
of the law as tending to work injustice
to creditors acting in good faith and en-
titled to be protected iii their rights. The
defect thus pointed outsis serious one,
and its effect is as indicated.
In defining acts of bankruptcy section
8 of the law in one of its. subdivisions
declares that petition may be filed
against person who is insolvent
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21

, awake, when / heard the bolts being
drawn back. Do you doubt that state
ment?"
II do not doubt that you made 1t In
good faith-to the best of your knowl-
edge and belief; all the same, it is
wrong
You sreak confidently" said the Gu
rate, coldly. Perhaps you will tell us
exactly how the thing happened You
were not there, but don't let that hinder
YOU
Il won't" said the doctor, good-tem-
peredly. But let me first of all point
cut that in sleep and in states approach
ing sleep we lose all right conception of
time. A lazy man sets an alarm at G
o'clock, intending to get up at that time
The alarm goes off and-more or less
fully-wakes him. He decides that he
will get up i'll a couple of minutes He
seems to himself to have just begun to
doze off, and then with sudden squirt
of energy he jumps out of bed The
sound of the alarm is still fresh in his
ears. But when he comes to look at the
clock he finds that iI is not O'Clock,
but 8. In a state of sleep he has mis-
judged the two minutes, and finds that
they have become two hours Something
similar to that is a not uncommon expe-
rience with most men. Now, If l may
say SO, you are of a nervous tempera-
ment, and you had taken this investiga-
ton very seriously and earnestly. In a
somnambuistic state you got out of
bed, unfastened the bolts and opened the
door. You then returned to bed. When
You awoke suddenly, the sound of the
creaking bolts seemed SO recent TO you
that you assigned that as the cause of
your Weakening. Possibly an hour had
elapsed, but in sleep one does not Judge
time accurately. OF course you had,
and still have, no recollection of un-
fastening the door; that is what one
would expect. You switched on the
light, and you found things just as you
had left them-the bolts drawn back and
the door opened
But the heavy steps-how do you ex-
plain them?''
You were barely awake, and your
mind was in state of expectant atten-
ton. Many men find it difficult TO To-
cate sounds and classify them accurate
ly, even when they are wide awake. ana
there is no preconceived idea to pervert
their judgment You heard something
probably-the creaking of a wicker chair.
or the tapping of the blind at an open
WlndoW-and your mind converted it into
the sound of footsteps
But I don't walk in my Sleep
You sleep in a room alone?''
= Always"
Ihen you are not in a position to
speak as to that. I'm sorry if it annoys
you at all, but there can be no reason
able doubt that you were your own
ghost''
1T seems to me very far-fetched ex-
PLANTATION said the curate suIkilv. as
he rose. to go.
We'll. if you prefer to believe that a
ghost walked straight through solid
door shut, and drew back the bolts i'm
order that he might return and walk
through it opened-you can, you know
Sorry l can't join you
The earate muttered that there were
many thlngs which we could not expect
20 understand, and left the room.
strange. said the doctor, meditative-
ly. Nothing makes a man more ansr,-
than to be deprived of a sunernatIfrsI
experience which he has never had
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21
His Own Ghost: BY Barry Pain.
Black and White.

Black and White.
Well he said, continuing his story of
his experience in the haunted room. Sin
the middle of the night woke suddenly
The bolts which I had fastened were
ereaking back again. Then the catch of
the door went with click, and | heard
heavy steps enter the room. NY hand
was already on the switch, and in an in
slant had the whole room flooded with
the electric light. There was no one to be
seen; the room looked just as IL had done
when L switched off the light on getting
into bed, with this exception-the door
was standing wide open, and the bolts
which l had pushed to had been pushed
back again Mind, when L fastened these
DOTS had previously assured myself by
a careful examination from floor to cell
ing that there was no one In the room but
myself. And before that 1 had examined
the walls of the room, with the aid of a
practical builder. offer no explanation.
Nobody can. l simply state facts"
TO the best of your knowledge and be-
lief," added the stolid man.
"Of course said the Citrate ''Per-
haps so distinguished man of science
can help us to a solution There was a
shade of irony In his voice.
I'VE needn't use so big a word as sci
enee" said the doctor. would you be
- l. e@~1ASO JOo a qucSlIOn VI
two"
ASK any questions you wish. L have
the measurements of the room here, and
| think can convince you that
Pardon. L am not anxious on that
point. You are assured that your nightly
visitor was immaterial-in fact, spirit .
1t is the only possible hypothesis,
think"
In spite of the heavy steps entering
the room?"
We'll yes. No form was visible when
turned on the light. It is conceivable
that spirit might in some degree be sub
Ject to the conditions of the material
world
.'And that without feet or boots it pro-
duced the sound of heavy steps? Quite
So Most things are conceivable when
one begins to talk about spirits There
was another point where the spirit was
subject to the conditions of the material
world; it could not pass through a closed
and bolted door. It had to open the door
before it could enter"
Certainly" said the curate. .sthat is
further evidence that spirits manifestine,
themselves in any way in this material
world are subject to certain material con-
ditions''
The spirit was on the outside and the
bolts We're on the inside 1t could not
enter until the door was unooIted and
opened. Then how did it get through to
draw back the bolts?''
Well. I've only to abandon my position
and say that the spirit could pass
through the closed door,
In that case why did it draw back the
bolts and open the door?'
The curate paused moment Super
hclally that seems difficulty. But" he
added, with happy inspiration, ST never
denied that there were difficulties. I did
not ask you to point them out, but to
give us solution of them. IF it were not
a supernatural power that drew back the
bolts. who was it?''
self
What the eurate exclaimed. etReaI-
ly, this is too prepost erous made if,
clear that I was lying in bed. only just
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21


country sought to maintain in power and
whose murder of the state executive the
same press sought to palliate. if not TO
justify, there was reason for believing
so exert itself as to put an end to
the reign of anarchy. 1t may have done
so; but if it's efforts are to be gagged
by their fruits they cannot be regard d
as having been seriously entered on.
The blame lies with the authorities of
Kentucky. On them must rest imme-
diately the burden of the dishonor If
the representatives of the law are treat
ed with contempt and shot down on the
public highways; If men are done to
death from the cowardly ambush; if the
individual, the family, the political and
the fractional feud finds qualification in
human blood day after day and the
crimes are committed which result in the
roasting of negroes neither the RESPONSE
bility nor the remedy is far to seek,
Other states and communities have met
corresponding conditions successfully.
The story of the San Francisco vigil
lantes is not forgotten. Almost every
American state in it's beginning or at
one or ether stage of its progress, pre-
sentse an object lesson of 1aw-abiding
and courageous men taking on them
selves the restoration of society to nor
NAL conditions. Why is this not done in
Kentucky? Why, if the officers of the
law are tarred by the same bloody stick.
or are too cowardly to establish the as
cendancy of law and civilization, do not
the representative men of the several
Kentucky communities, in professional
and business life, get together, and
wrest their state from the domination
of murder and lawlessness?
If every crossroads of Kentucky were
for the next six months to present it's
gibbet to the gaze of the carrion crows,
the penalty would not be too heavy for
the state to pay to be rid of it's burden
of armed savagery.