The San Francisco call., 1901-11-20
MINERS MEET
IN A Dat TIE
Union Forces Close a
Shaft and Destroy
Property.
Tools Are Burned, Men Injured
and a Town Is in
Terror.

VlNCENNES. Ind. Nov. I9.-Three hum
ored union miners from Washington,
Princeton, Petersburg, Linton, Sullivan
and Bicknell came here during the night
and early to-day marched to the shaft
of the Prospect Hill Coal Mining Com
pany, where non-union miners are en-
ployed, and closed the shaft. They de-
strCyed property, assaulted a number of
miners and are still in the vicinity of the
mine. The entire city is excited and more
Owing to g recent strike the mine was
not being operated at night, and only the
Waterman, Buck Azbell, was on duty He
was beaten and placed under guard
while fifty men went to a shack ocou-
pied by half dozen miners, when a gen.
eral fight resulted, in which Perry Collins,
iting the owner of the shack, and Will
liam Scott and Joe Devine, non-union
miners, were badly beaten and left In
serious condition.
The union men then returned to the
mine, stopped the pumps, burned all the
tools they could find, and after leaving
instructions that they would return in
case. the mine was started and the scale
not paid marched back to town and dis
banded.
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which they have been and are now COM
Jn6T6 Will D6 no more
of our rights than there will be violation
of the rights of others. The President to
whom you have given your inyaluable
trust and confidence, like his now immor
tai predecessor, is as incapable of bully
ing a strong power as he is of. wringing
weak one. He feels and knows-for has
he not tested it in the currents of heavy
fight, as we'll as in the tolsome work OF
administration? ?-that the nation over
whose destinies he presfdes has a giants
strength in the works of war, as IN the
works of peace. But that consciousness
of strength brings with 1t no temptation
to do injury to any power on earth, me
prOudeSt or the humbleSt. We frankly
confess we seek the friendship OF all the
powers; we want to trade with all peoples,
we are conscious of resources that VIII
make our commerce a source of advan-
tage to them and also proht TO ourselves.
But no wantonness- or strength VIII ever
induce US to drive "a hard bargain with
another nation because 1t is weak, nor
will any fear of ignoble criticism tempt
us to insult or defy great power because
it is strong or even because 1t is friendly.
THE attitude of our diplomacy may oe
Franklin-the first and greatest OF our
diplomats-tells us passed through MS
mind when he was presented at the court
used to quote to him in the old candle
shop in Boston when he was boy:
''sSeest thou a man diligent in business,
he shall stand before kings.
Let US be diligent in our business and
we shall stand-stand, you see, not crawl,
nor swagger-stand as a friend and equal,
asking nothing, putting UP with nothing
but what is right and just among our
people in the great democracy OF ma
tions.'' n
ambassador Choate Speaks.
After he concluded Secretary Hay was
obliged several times to acknowledge the
applause accorded him by the diners.
Governor oden spoke to the toast,
elect Low replied to the toast. THE City
of New York.
Court of st. James, was next introduced.
After the applause had subsided he spoke
with his usual eloquence, dwelling mostly
on the recent visit of the delegates OF the
New York Chamber of Commerce to
which had been shown by the British
people at the time of the death of Presi-
dent Mckinley and said that not only had
the sympathy been MAJ manifested tts lain almost s1t
royalty, but that all classes We're quite as
sorrowful. In view Of these facts Choate
thought this Government justified in
l.. hiking that England's grief was an ex-
preston of national sympathy.
Choate was followed by Senator Nc
Laurin of South Carolina, who spoke to
the toast of The Monroe Doctrine of the
twentieth Century," The Senator's ad-
dress was very we'll received and he was
frequently applauded.
Senator McLaurin elucidated the Nc
Kinley doctrines to be as follows:
FYrst-That as our own manifold productions
largely exceeded home consumption, the
pansion of territory, trade and commerce was
the only means OF securing markets for our
surplus products.
Second-That as a nation with firmly es-
tabished constitutional government and en-
larged national obligations We could no longer
abstain from participation in the affairs of the
world, but must take our share of the re-
Third-That while maintaining the doctrine
that no government on the American continent
must be interfered with controlled by any
European power, yet we must cultivate friend
ly relations with them and be prepared to
seek and control our share of the trade Of
the world.
Fourth-That we should not and could not
as nation safely shrink full performance of
all the responsibilities cast upon u.s. but must
move forward to the fulfllment of our
tional destiny.
The propositions embraced in this doctrine
will be to the twentieth century what the
Monroe doctrine to the nineteenth IT,
as nation. we would enjoy the commercial
fruits we need and desire, we must like in
dividuals, make national ventures and heroic
efforts
Governor-elect Albert B. Cummins of
Iowa followed Senator McLaurin. He
said IN part:
gates duties upon non-competitive products
imported into the United States is so plainly
and the consumers that there can be no con-
troversy with respect to the wisdom of giving
tne principle Tree scope In these neldS. Let
us hold fast to these fundamental principles
We must not surrender home market for a
foreign market of equal extent. We must not
yield sure market for uncertain one
The consumers of this country will not tolerate
as permanent trade policy, the selling of
goods abroad at a less price than they are sold
at home, and if they believe that tariff duties
have any influence upon the maintenance of
such conditions the man or party that stands
for the perpetuation of such duties is destined
for bitter disappointment.
Improper Feeding Of Chickens.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 19.-An agent of
the State Board Of Health has gone to
Petaluma to Investigate alleged improper