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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
LABOR AND THE LAW.

Two decisions of equal interest to
labor and to capital have recently
been rendered, one by Circuit court
Of Illinois, the other by the Appellate
Division of the Supreme court OF New
York. The first was the case of girl
formerly employed as can-painter by
a Chicago packing company. A strike
having occurred In which she took
part, the companies had placed her
name on the black list, and since then
she had been unable to obtain en-
ployment in any Of the factories.
She therefore sued the companies for
heavy damages. The court recognized
the probable intention of the packing
companies to injure the plaintiff, but
held that as no illegal means had been
employed to carry out that intention,
no ground for action existed. Refusal
to employ was held to be as much a
right of the defendant companies as
refusal to work was a right of the
plaintiff; nor did the right to labor
involve any obligation on the part of
the employers to furnish work. The
New York case was a suit against a
Buffalo typographical union brought
by machinist who had lost his posi-
ton because the members of the union
refused to work with him unless he,
too, became a member. The decision
Of the Supreme court hadr been in
favor of the machinist The Appellate
division reversed it,. unanimously rul-
ing that the members of the union had
acted within theft legal rights in de-
clining to work with a non-union man.
The latter had no recourse at law, as
no illegal act had been committed by
the union. The two cases are interest
ing chiefly because they show the ten
dency of the law to" allow. more and
more liberty Of concerted action both
to employer and employee. Under the
common law all combinations for the
purpose Of raising or lowering wages,
or influencing conditions Of employ
ment, were "consp.racies" ard illegal.
That view is now thing of the past.
Modern industrial battles may be
fought with modern industrial wea-
pons, the lockout and black list on one
side, the strike and the boycott on the
othA. but to neither party. let it be
noted, is any act of violence permitted.
AYotiths' Companion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

A worse thing might happen even to
Chicago than successful hired girls
union. In that Russian city ON the
Amur river. where last year the en-
thusiastic citizens drowned all the
Chinese residents, the great multitude
Of the drowned included all the house
servants Of the place. They were all
Chinese. Into the river they went.
But no more Chinese servants came
to take their places, and the house
holders in that city have made their
own beds and cooked thar own din
ners.-Harper's Weekly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

II you do not accuss orh yourself to
drink water regularly, you are liable
to have the waste products Of the :tis-
sues Of the body form faster than they
are removed. Great weakness and
langor on rising in the morning is
generally due to large secretion OF
these waste products, and the remedy
Is to drink tumblerful Of water
either hot or cold-just before retiring.
This materially assists in the process
during the night, and leaves the It's
sues fresh and strong. ready for the
active work OF the next day.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
KANSAS AGITAr0R. GARRETT. KANSAS.

receiving full pay till the case is De.
cided. To each side full justice IL
dAne. Such is the new Song of the
Shirt, Experiments in the interest
Of labor in all industries, begun in
New Zealand seven years ago. have
proved so. successful that since theii
adoption not a single violent labor dis
pute has occurred. Indeed, the prin.
cipal argument urged in New Zealand
against the long-proposed federation Of
that country with Australia is that the
smaller islands would thereby lose the
marked benefits Of its voluntary
adopted systems of Industrial arbitra.
ton.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
industrial Notes,

Child labor, the tragedy and shame
of industrial England 100 years ago, ii
the specter of the New South today.
The New York Shipbuilding com.
pany is improving about 100 acres Of
land in Camden, N. j., for homes fol
its employees.
The New York city Central FEEDER
ated union almost unanimously adopt
ed resolution debarring any man who
is member of the militia from a seat
in that body.
The daily fishing" is the means OF
subsistence Of about 10000 people in
Norway, and is the most important in
dustry Of the coast population, many
of whom combine 1t with farming.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

that II would do something in the line
Of an attempt to convince the coun-
try that 1t is no longer an active party
to the conspiracy against the victor Of
Santiago. 1t would better make the
effort before 1t is too late; because
every day now adds to the proof that
a plot has been Matching ever since
August, 1898, to rob Admiral Schley of
his laurels and transfer them to Samp-
son, the man of the Mantanzas mule.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

Youthful aspirants who plan. to
make living by writing poetry ought
to note the fact that the livelihood OF
the English poet, Austin Dobson, was
earned as principal Of the fisheries and
harbor department of the Board of
Trade. He has just resigned after
nearly half a century of service. A
few men only can earn fame as poets.
Fewer still are they who can trust to
the productions Of their muse to pay
the butchers bill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
THE TWO CAROLINAs.

III the last ~ months South Caro-
lima has taken position next TO Mass.
achusetts, the leader in cotton manu-.
featuring, passing Rhode Island In
number OF looms and spindles. North
Carolina stands next below Rhode Isl.
and. There is of course a big gar
between the Old Bay and the Palmet.
to state, but the latter is closing it up
The figures for the present time give
RHODE Island 2,O90,13S spindles and
South Carolina 2,249,7C Rhode Isl.
and has 1861 looms and South Caro-.
lima 63,612. North Carolina has L..
6S2,3S3 spindles and 35,5SS looms. New
Hampshire ranks after North Caro-.
lima, then Georgia and Connecticut
The other states that manufacture op.
crate less than million spindles. Ac.
cording to the figures of a recognized
textile authority there was a gain In
the United States for the last year Of
1,57S,0S9 spindles. or rs per cent. and
S4,OS4 looms. or per cent. South
Carolina furnished 40 per cent of the
entire loom increase for the United
States, and about 6S per cent of the
increase in the South. The increase
for IL months in spindles was 1916, SO;
for South Carolina, or just about ore.
fourth of the total increase in the
United States, and 40 per cent of the
additions in the South. Two years
ago some business men declared thai
manufacturing in South Carolina was
being overdone but after such remark.
able expansion that idea is not now
entertained. There seems no dispo.
sition to check mill building. A great
water power on the Catawba river has
recently been purchased by persons
who contemplate its Immediately de.
velopment, and it is intended to moi
only build mills near the river, but dis
tribute thousands of horsepower by
electricity where wanted in adjacent
counties. The labor element is in al
primitive state in the Carolinas, as in
the South generally. In some mills op
eratives are organized; in others, the
management excludes organizers anG
union men. Labor is almost all local
but in the heaviest manufacturing
centers the supply has been exhausted
and in some instances the mountain
regions of Tennessee have been drawn
on for hundreds of operatives. Ir
three factories in Columbia anc
Charleston negroes have had trials in
cotton mills, and in every instance
have failed. They are bright enough |
but yill not work steadily.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
SLAVES UNDER FLAG.
THOUSANDS OF BoHpsMEN IN THE
PHILIPPINES.
Oflcial Report to the National Govern
ment Gives Facts and Figures--A Con-
slant Source of Trouble to American
Rulers in Far East.

Not long ago the Manila government
sent us the news that one Of the dates
Of the Sultan of Sulu had abolished
slavery. This was an evident effort
of the censor to lead us to believe the
whole institution as it exists in our
new possessions was being extinguish-
ed. The official report of Col Pet
tit and Major o. p Sweet, who are
the commanders of the United States
troops in the islam where slavery
and polygamy exist, tell different
tale. The first named officer says:
Under our orders l believe all Fill
pino slaves and captives have been
turned over to us, and further slavery,
either by conquest or traffic between
islands, has been prohibited. The
adjustment Of slavery can be at
tempted in one Of two ways-by war
or by purchase. The latter would be
futile. cannot imagine a more DESC
late people than the More slaves would
be X set free. Their freedom would
be Of short duration. War could be
had for the asking. 1t is for the
United States government to decide II
1t wants it. The Mores have plenty
Of arms and ammunition and coun-
try passable only by its waterways"
Major Sweet says: THE question of
slavery, although not recognized by
the United States, is still fact, and
is constant source of trouble on ac-
count of slaves escaping from one mas
ter to another, or their being stolen.
Whenever question of relating to
slavery comes before me, I simply
make the owners prove they are slaves
beyond doubt, in which case l have
nothing to do with them, but in case
can pick flaw in their title, give
the alleged slaves freedom papers.
Thousands of Mores are held as slaves
who are by right free people"
Thousands of free men slaves under
the stars and stripes and the Taft
commission and the home government
doing nothing to free them. "If they
are slaves without doubt, have moth
ing to do with them" says this officer
Sixty thousand troops hunting down
Filipinos and not a man or gun used
to even attempt to suppress this trade
in these unfortunate and miserable
people.
Congress has given President Nc
Kinley full power in the Philippines.
increased the regular army to 100000
men, appropriated all the money asked
for and yet he has made no move to
suppress this blot on our civilization.
In his tour through the South and
West his every hour theme was full
Of rapture and exultation that the flag
waved over freedom and prosperity.
How free and prosperous are these
slaves? But they can daily gaze upon
the flag. The Republican party has
made President Mckinley as great an
autocrat in the Philippines as the Gear
Of Russia is in his dominions, and
Russia with all her barbarous customs
has none of this.
Yet the American people with their
eyes open but blinded by partisanship
Or the pelf promised and distributed
by the Republican machine, voted for
of which this slavery in
The Philippines is one of the attributes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
Our Fellows.


Mr.. Herbert Casson makes these OBJ
servations: Many a wealthy mar
lives in FOOLS paradise. He is moi
wilfully Indifferent to the sufferiDgs o.
others. He is only ignorant. AS he
dictates 10 his stenographer, he does
lOt know that her mother Is dying
from consumption. for the lack o.
railway fare to Colorado. She is tc
him as much part of his Office furni.
ture as the telephone. He does moi
know that the paper upon which his
letters are written was made in 6
Molyoke factory, by half-naked slaves
who get less than 10 cents an hour
He does not know that his clothe.
were made in a New York sweatshop
and that little 5-years-old tots pulled
out the hastings. He does not know
that the chair he sits in was made BY
the women carpenters of Michigan
who toll among boards and shavings
and whirling belts and saws for 81
a week. He does not know that the
glass out of which he sips his ice
water was made by dying glass
blower, killed by the unhealthy con-
ditions OF his trade. He does not know
as he watches the curling smoke
wreaths, that his cigar was made by
a young Jewess who suffered from
nicotine poisoning; or that the match
with which he lit it was dipped by q
pretty Swede girl, who died shortly
afterward Of 'phossy jaw "-Pennsyl.
vania Grit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

BY the will of the late Jacob H.
Rogers, the locomotive builder, the
bulk of his fortune, possibly eight mil
lion dollars, is left to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, as an en-
dowment fund, the income to be used
for the purchase of objects Of art. This
will place the museum on splendid
footing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

The report that the key combine of
the army and navy departments, head
ed by Corbin and Crowninshield, are
to represent this country at the coro-
nation of King Edward, is not extra
ordinary in view of the other antics
Of these favorite ridden departments.
Congress should stop this nonsense,
anyway, we are represented enough
now with an ambassador and attaches
both military and navy and sons of
some father to whom Hanna is under
some obligations for a good stir con-
tribution to the Republican campaign
fund.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
KANSAS AGITAT0R.
BARNETT, KANSAS.
KANSAS.
BARNETT,

The Nebraska State Game Warden
has forbidden the farmers to fight the
grasshoppers longer with poison, say
Ing that the loss of birds and game is
too costly a price to pay for the de-
struction OF comparatively few insects.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

A railroad company that operates
coal mines in Pennsylvania recently
prevented its striking miners from in
terfering with non-union workmen,
who were employed in pumping water
out of mines, by building barbed
wire fence seven feet high about the
pump house and dynamo plant and
then charged it heavily with electric
ity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

A famous entomologist says that not
one mosquito in four hundred ever
tastes human blood. To know how to
avoid making the acquaintance OF that
one is the important thing, and on
that problem the scientists seem to be
making good progress.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

Commander-in-Chief Frederick st.
George de la Tour Booth Tucker Of the
Salvation army, is now citizen of the
United States. The commander has
secured his final naturalization papers,
having been in the United States the
required five years. He will vote at
the coming election but will not say
what ticket he will indorse.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

When some poor devil of a moon
sinner with no political pull is caught
by the government he is put through
the courts and imprisoned without loss
of time. If bogus silver dollar or
bank bill is passed, the secret service
is everlastingly after the forger. There
seems to be great tenderness in
bringing the larger thieves, like Nicely
and Rathbone. who are accused of
looting the Cuban postal department,
to Justice. In the New York customs
department peculations have been
going On for a long time and the
treasury department had full informa-
ton to that effect but has not dared
to even arrest the thieves because of
their high political standing. 1t
would hurt 1.-THE party" you know.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

According to the Medical Record, a
gang of swindlers has been playing a
,despicable trick on numerous pharma-
'cists in Brooklyn. A man goes to a
drug store with simple prescription,
has it made up, and takes the mix
ture away with him. In an hour or
two, or the following day, the pur-
chaser returns with the medicine.
which he says he gave to his wife or
child, as the case may be, and that the
patient was nearly killed by poison
which was there through the blunder
of the compounder. He says his ply
sician has analysed the mixture and
demonstrated the presence Of poison,
and he allows the druggist to test 1t
then and there. The poison is, ot
course, found, as the swindler has
added it himself, and he thereupon an
nounces his determination to sue the
druggist for damages to atone for the
results of his alleged blunder. If the
pharmacist becomes frightened at the
idea of suit for damages, and thinks
IT may be possible that mistake has
been made, he may accept the sugges-
ton of the blackmailer to settle the
case out of court. The amount of set
tlement is said to vary from $50 to
5000.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
NEW "soNG OF THE sHIRT.r

New Zealand has been called the
advance experiment station of liber-
alisni. In those far-off islands of the
sea, which were almost uninhabited
two generations ago, save by savages,
may be found some Of the most inter-
esting developments in the social and
industrial world.
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red.
A woman sat in unwomanly rags, ;
Plying her needle and thread.
So wrote Thomas Hood of the Eng
lish seamstress,'s but 1t has not yet
ceased in America to be a true pic
ture. What happens when the sweat
shop operator reduces the pay Of a
sewing-woman? She. moves from her
dark little closet to one still smaller
and dingier; eats less and works
longer hours. 1t Is impossible in New
Zealand. Around the sewing-woman
of that colony the law has drawn a
protecting circle. II the employer of
the sewing woman reduces her. wages
unduly, the circle of which she is a
member invokes the law. The man is
compelled to appear before an indus
trial court to justify his act, and II
required. he must produce his books.
Meanwhile the sewing-woman sits in
the factory. well lighted. heated and
ventilated. continuing her work and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
sc%E I1.-:;s OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Two Court DecisI6ns Recently Rendered
Are of Interest to Labor and Capital
Their Bearing on Blacklists, Lock-
outs, Strikes and Boycotts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20
Fashoda Accentuatcd,

II the Observation-Disclosures railway
is built with Eaglish capital not only
will Jiboutil be annihilated from the
political point Of view, but the whole.
Of the Abyssian market will be lost to
French commerce. The English do not
hide their intentions, and II ever the
vertebrae of the serpent belongs to
them they will not leave his head be-
meath our heel. Thus will the misery
Of Fashoda be accumulated, and what
was only an effront to- our. amour
propre will become political and
commercial NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Figaro.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

Miss Matte Helen Beals, the young
woman Of Wichita, Kan, who drew
a farm near Lawton, Oklahoma, in the
recent land lottery at Ell Reno, was
marshal of the new town OF Lawton
for one day, and she says that was
enough. She says: II am mighty
glad to get out of Lawton. Such
shooting, drinking, robbing and kill
ing you never saw. 1t makes me shud-
der. 1 don't think there are dozen
women on the town site. But those
there are well treated" She thinks
she will get $4,000 for her farm,
which is to be cut up into town lots.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

A married man who was hypnotized
says it felt like it does when his wife
makes up her mind -e'-~ .ss<..
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-09-20

The man who is unable to borrow a
dollar suffers from financial depression.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-11-09
OUR PARAMOUNT INTEREST.

The call of President Charles Scott to the presidents
Of the Board OF Levee Commissioners published else
where in this ISSUE is of interest not only to its recipient
but vitality concerns every whose home business
is under the protection of the evees fhe principal OBJ
iect Of this meeting is to consider for enabling the
association TO continue It's important work, and especially
to defray the expenses of its representative in Washing
ton The chief bu1den of the expense, as is generally
known, has recently been borne by few of the most
earnest members of the associaon Mr. Scott especially
having used his private with generosity and dis
iherestedness which can of course not be allowed to
tinue The work of the association indicated in the
caption of this article is matter of paramount import
ance to the people of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta; and
every business interest Of the region demands that 1t
should not be suffered to fail into allegiance
The presence and active cooperation of the president
Of the local board, worthy representative ls
foregone conclusion.
Capt: Henry, whose valuable work in Washington has
done so much to advance The interests of the levee dis
trcs has resigned his position special representatives
ments in regard to salary but just to say and
excellent authority, that Capt Henry has been actuated
largely by public spirit and has annually spent in
the interest of the work than the association has been able
To pay him. There is little doubt that with reasonable
chat the proered salary will be paid he be
induced to withdraw his resignation, and continue the
work which he has been useful No connected
with the ASSOCIATION has treess in it's behalf
lavish with his time and personal Chairman
Scott; and he should have the cordial support of the
whole evee region in this effort to keep its interests be-
fore congress-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-11-09
A SUCCESSFUL NEWSPAPER.

To successfully manage newspaper is task few men
do By successful management mean to realize a.
profit out of the paper and the time that il
it will be voice for government education, society and
business This has been found of accomplishment
iD large cities than small ones for there the paper
have policy, and if part of the citizens don't like it, it
will not effect the paper In town small city, every
merchant citizen who gives paper work is virtually
sockhoder in it, and nearly every one has sugges
ton to offer which, in many instances, is against the poll
% of the paper and if not advocated wthdraws his pat
homage, thereby killing the goose that lays the COLDER
egg.
There is only one way to successfully newspaper
and that is to have money to back and then manage
with eye single to its interest and public
ends; for when paper is used instrument of any
pvate design ambition not tributary to its pros
perty, it suffers in character and value 1t suffers if
be employed to exploit fad, to grasp nomination, or
to help speculation To the who is born to be 8
journalist the success and good name of his Journal
higher than all things
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-11-09
WHAT THE DELTA NEEDS.

The question of high rents and cost of building
houses is doing much if not more to keep away from
Greenye people who want to here and make their
home In the delta than any other The areslan
ter has solved the question Of health in the delta that it
is the bugaboo to keep investors home seekers
away And if rents board and the cost of building Of
homes could be reduced GreenvIe would double its pop
uiatian in the next ten years.
WAcan the of rents aud house building being
high die to high taxes high labor high freghts, and no
home manufactures.
Taese things must be remedled by and econom
ical administration of council and board of supervis
The rate of taxation be reduced; the legislature
should he petioned to the from all home cap
ita loaned to build homes home enterprises in the
state; this will cheaper money. Again, the question Of
freight building material should be taken up with the
railroads 10 regard to reduction of rates. Then, with
less taxes cheaper money, less freight houses win cost
less to build and rent will be lower which will also re-
duce the price of board Do these and it will not be long
before nearly every citizen viii own his own home