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The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16

The Banner Town.

Streator, Ills, is the best organized town in the United States from trade union standpoint.
 The city is so well unionized that at the present time 1t Is impossible for man or woman to work on any job, skilled or unskilled, without first being admitted to membership in some labor organization.
 A striking feature about Streator is the great success of the Federal Labor union. This union numbers about 800 members and includes all wagework- CTS who are not members of any regu- lar national union. It includes day ia- borers, hodcarriers, teamsters, etc., who have not a sufficiently large num- ber for separate trade local. The most recent acquisition of the Federal union Is that of all of the unskilled la bor in the large glass works of Streator.
 Following the organization of the Federal union as branch of the Amer ican Federation of Labor the minimum scale for unskilled labor was raised from $1 and $1.25 day to $1.6o for men. The union has two business agents, who give all of their time to the organization.
 Streator is a mining center and has a large union of mine workers. The unions are active in local politics ana have already elected members to- the municipal board of aldermen who are independent of the regular parties Professor John R. Commons.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
TRUSTS REACHING OUT.

Latest Development Ia the Great
 Transportation Combine.
 The community of ownership" idea, said to be an invention of John G. Car lisle, which is to be used by the Nor gan- n-Rockefeller-HH triumvirate in bringing under one management the most colossal transportation combine the world has ever known, Is intended
 JU acconpTfsr among other things an
 evasion of the adverse ruling of the su-
 preme court against the Joint Traffic
 association, says the Kansas City
 Times.
 By having one company practically
 owning a majority of the great railroad
 lines it is expected that the fanking of
 the Sherman law prohibiting ''unlaw- full combines in restraint of trade" can
 be effected. The defense that these
 consolidators if the law to restrain them is invoked may make will be that they are not a number of railroads sep arately owned and managed, associat- ed in an agreement to charge specified and infiexible rates, but that they are in fact one organization in ownership
 and management.
 Another purpose these three men and 1
 lined in an article in the Chicago Rec
 ord of Jan. ', in which 1t is stated that the financial powers controlling the
 destinies of the great railway systems of the nation are planning one of the biggest economical reforms In the his- tory of American railroad operations. The intention is to dispense with the vast army of travelling passenger and freight agents and other officials direct ly engaged in the soliciting of business for the lines.
 Should the plan be carried out The Record estimates that it means the discharge of more than 5O,O0O men and the annual saving of millions of dollars to the carrying companies.
 Here we have a trefoil exemplifica- tion of the fruitage of the trust devel- opment which the policy of the Repub- lican party has caused to blossom and grow rank upon our soil, sucking away the strength of the multitude of minor business interests, narrowing the op- portunities for wage earners and uulli- flying the expression of popular will at the polls through the leverage of the corrupting influences that vast wealth and the control of the arteries of com l merce can exert.
 The law restraining trusts is propos- ed to be defied by the invention of an ingenious technicality, an army of wage earners Is to be thrown helpless
 into field of employment constantly and rapidly narrowing, and the mill lions of shippers throughout the coun- try and the travelling public are to be
 placed under whatever tribute the par
 ticipators in this Community of own ership" scheme may choose to impose upon them.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
Verify, hypocritical newspaper is the meanest work of man.
WILL THE LIGHT NEVER
 COME 2'


 One of The Examiners intelligent subscribers-The Examiner has few of any other kind-writing from Poquonock this week and sending in his subscription (by the way the same having regularly come every year since the paper was started) facetiously remarks:-
 I suppose I ought to have sent this in before, as the powers that be claim prosperity and a full dinner pail as now abiding with us. Yet as I didn't vote for the same I suppose I am not to be considered as entitled to either. However, I don't know of many of those who dsa vote for prosperity who are getting any more of 1t than am, unless it be Carnegie, Morgan, Hanna & Go. What poor fools we mortals are. Will the light never comea w. G. c.
 Yes indeed, there Is lots of the fool in we poor mortals. Were it not for that the mortals wouldn't be so poor. But as to when the light" will come, that is as hard a question to answer as the masters query was to his slave when asked the number of dog days in the year. 'sAh dat am had question, Massa," replied the puzzled darkey. flor eb'ry dog has his day." So the fool cometh and the fool goeth, and the fool we have always with us; and he is .in- capable of seeing the light. Some seem to believe that we are already having all the light that we are cap able of making use of, and that now the lash must follow. That the one is as essential to salvation as the other, the people in general being too indolent or indifferent to do any, thing of themselves until driven to 1t by the scourge of the exploiting monopolist.
 l Our belief is that the people in general are constitutionally incapable of doing anything for. themselves. They are built that way and cant help 1t. They may follow but they will not lead. So whatever hope there Is for a betterment of the world lies in the few, denominated Headers" If they would only lead alright the multitude would follow. But as we have leaders whosa pur- pose is false leading, as, lead CTS of honor and honesty, the muffi. tude are divided because they are incapable of divining one from the other-the true from the false. Even the leaders of honor and honesty are not all leading, practically, in the same direction. And this is why the world is so full of impotent effort, and the great multitude suffer on in consequence.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
INDUSTRIAL POVERTY uN-
 OBTAINING RELIGION.

Doubtless very few of the great multitude of protesting Christians ever realize any relationship as ex- isting between our prevailing indus trial system and the institution of religion itself Yet the student of industrial economy has no difficulty in detecting this relationship. And he believes that the general ignor- ance relative thereto will yet sound the death knell of religious practice
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
THE MEANEST WORK OF
 MAN.

One of our leading New England Republican organs, the other day, in commenting on the effort being made in the Massachusetts legislature to prevent the trusts dictating to retail dealers the goods they must or must not keep for sale, very indignantly asserts that the great American peo- pie will not long stand this kind of thing, that all the people are greater than any few of the people, no mat ter how powerful the few may con slider themselves to be; and lots more of the same kind of philosophy.
 We cannot divine why it is that a paper advocating the success of the Republican party in the last cam paign should now turn to criticising anything the trusts may do. It helped to make them what they are, and what they must of necessity be while members of trust. They are not in business flor their health, no more than is the paper refecting on their conduct. They are there to play according to the rules of our prevailing commercial game and take every trick that can be brought their way. And this can only be effected by enforcing the doctrine of aAll the traffic will bear" This opens the way for the non-trust operator to come in and by lower prices cut out the trustifed trade and send its peo- pie into bankruptcy. So the trust must rule or go to ruin. It mast wage commercial war against its rivals, for self-preservation, or allow them to drive 1t to the wall.
 It seems to us that any man cap able of writing a grammatical sem tence ought to have common under standing enough to see this. And especially when that man is selected as formulator of thought on lead- ing state newspaper Then why is 1t that such parsonage will talk one way and act in the opposite way ? No sincere man can do this. There fore 1t must be that such newspapers are edited from the counting room. This leading paper endorses the policy of the Republican party, as a matter of 6Usiness; and then rails against one of the results of this policy, as matter of business also, well knowing that the majority of its readers are opposed to the dom ineering and exploiting conduct of these trusts and that a sop must be thrown to their sentiments to hold their confidence and their patronage. We can't conceive of any other de- sign, for let the only effectual rem edy for the trust evil be proposed and this paper maker cries out against it, denouncing the proposer as a socialist" anarchist or by any other obnoxious title that per- verted ingenuity can invent or in-
 spire.
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16
TOO MUCH ENERGY.
Two Views of What aEconomista1
 Call "Overproduction."

Two Views of What "EconomistsS
 Call "Overproduction."
 ''We have bad times in this country as result of the tremendous energy of our people. This energy must be given a vent some way or other, and one of the results is overproduction-
 ''If we could getnsomething to keep this industrial energy within bounds, it seems to us it would have very wholesome effect"
 The above is some oe the testimony given before the industrial commission by Thomas s. Green, vice president of the Audit company of New York. When reading it, I wondered if he knew that the workers who are using all this energy only receive wages suf- ficient to pay for 10 or 20 per cent of what is charged at retail for what they. have produced.
 The workers are unable to purchase more goods than they have money to pay for, so we see the spectacle of the rich man who has the white mans burden on his back, having soldiers sent to the Philippines and China to force our products upon the poor heath en while the brothers and sisters of the same soldiers are suffering for the want of the things that our energy has created. MT. Green thiaks that monop- oly will solve the problem because mo- nopoly can limit the production, but he does not remember that monopoly at the same time limits the consumption
 Personally I believe that the trusts are solving the problem between capi- tai and labor, though not by any means as MT. Green thinks it is being accom- plished. When all our industries are organized into trusts, as they will be inside of five years, and the whole peo- pie work for the lowest wages they can exist upon for the exclusive benefit of a few rich men, then they will conclude it is just as we'll to own the trusts themselves. When they do come to that conclusion, they will take these trusts We shall see the widest Uto- plan dreams of Bellamy realized. Let me quote some statistics from the Unit ed States labor commissioner as pub lished in the thirteenth annual labor report,
 The following is the labor time re- quired to produce each article:
The weekly examiner., 1901-03-16


 other than by a charity organization.
 If the fear of future poverty could be taken out of the minds of people, a great burden would be lifted, because mans fears are often greater concern ing the future than the present. If the apprehension of poverty were removed, it would tend to stop the mad scramble after wealth that causes many to lose the highest and truest aims in life The thought of future poverty and de pendence stiles the vital energies and tends to make many useless members of society, but if one could be assured of work and of enough material means to keep him in comparative comfort when unable to work there would un- doubtedly be radical change in the minds of many regarding the advan- tages that might accrue from vast ac- cumulations of wealth. If organized charity Is going to become of real serv- ice in life, let it try to secure for the unemployed work that will develop them both physically and mentally. The men and women that are employ ed will lead more moral and upright lives than those that are unemployed. Society, the state and the nation will be uplifted, strengthened and redeem ed when every one is engaged in some service that makes for the good of all.
 'It is better to lend than to give," says a writer in the Talmud. ssTo give employment is hetter than either"
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
MAYAGUEZ

Sc observa mucha animation ent-e l0s
asturianos residences en- esta ciudad, para
contrlbuir al monumento que en- honor de
CampoamOr 50 levantara en- Navia, pueblo
natal del autor de las "DoIOras".
En- ell cuarto de socorros, fueron assist
dos Ruperto Mendez y Jose del Carmen Nc
rales. heridos en- una rifla.
Para cubrir una vacante de cabo de la
policia municipal, Sc propone Carlos Mu1t
que hace POGO ingres6 en- ell cuerpo.
Sc nota una gran escases de moneda
fraccIonaria; difcultandose por tai motive,
las ventas al por menor.
-Si el municipio no seflala una subven
ci6n la banda de mdsica que dirige ell Sc.
nor Mesorana, SO tendra que disolver, pri
vandose al vecindario de las retreats que
constituyen todos los espectaculos pnblicos
--El local en- donde cumplen condena los
sentenciados por el Tribunal de pollcfa &c
encuentra en- un lamentabe estado de aban.
dono.
--El dia IL tuvo efscto en- el teatvo Ia
conferences peda gogics dada por los sefiores
Corson y Hcuck.
- Han obtenido titulo de maestros Ora
duades, don Arturo Richard - Rnrales,
don q. Delgado, don Pedro Martirez, dofia
|. Ramirez.
---Han empezado las obras de compost
ci6n del Inuells de nierro de Ia PnntflIa, La
mado del Estado.
--Ha renuDciado el cargo que yenia de-.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
More Riots in 'ataIull
Aspect serious-Militia inter-
fers-Antl Jesuits join
strikers
Governor unable to control
situation
Special cablegram to Boletin Mercantil

Special cabegram to Boetin Mercantil
Barcelona, Wednesday.-Great agitation
and excitement, caused by strikers reings
throughout the Province of CatAiuna.
A strong force of Militia are patrOiling
the streets. At midnight, attempS were
made to set fire to several stores.
The incendaries were frustrated In their
attempt by the local militia VINO were forced
to fire on the mob A number Of the strl
kers were Injured.
The ant-Jesuts taking advantage Of the
panic joined the strikers and were tht canse
of more riots and interference OF the pant ot
the troops.
The Civil Governor TELEGRAPH ID to the
Minister of the Interior asking # he shout
tIausfer his power to the mlItary authorl-
ties.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
Boths will probably surrender
Negotiations with
Lord Kitchener
Difficulties over unimPortant
details
Especial Gable to Bolr,in MercantiI

Especial Cable to Bolrtin Mercantl
London, "Wednesday. .-AdVlceS are eX-
pectel here momeutarily advising tuat Tue
Boer general Boiua has surreLd-red arms
TO the English troops.
Late cables give an account that Lord HI
chener has YET to approve lew unjmpor;aat
demands made by the Beers btt re they
will surrender to the Engl 81 authorities.
Notices published in newspapers of ,hIs
city STATE that the peace ntgotlaiors Oet
ween Botha and Kitchener are of privat.
nature and for tuat reason nave pass d
unnoticed by President Kruger,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

Amplando la nc ticia que en- otro lugar
de nuestra edici6n publicamos, referente al
incendio ae Hormigueros, podemos afadir
los siguientes detalles:
Sc incendiaron tres casas, las cualeS fue-
ron derribadas pOr los bomberos de Maya
guez, que scuderon al siniestro.
Ell fuego comenz6 en- la casa de dofia Lu
cia Msrchaui. que la habitaba desde el dia
anterior el senior Gallardo, pollcia insuar,
quen no pudo salvar mas que una CANA.
Otrs de lbs quemadas, es propiedad del
sen n o Ter la habita ban los l6v-nes Fer
nando Rodil Jose Garcia, savando todo
el ajuar.
Ora de la pfopiedad de dona Belen Pc
reg, que desde hacia cuatro dlas era hablta
ds por ella.
Una casa de la Sucesora de Esmoris J
Ca fue desmantelsda.
Sc ignoran las causas que motivaron el
iLcend:o
Las perdidas matera.es Sc calculan er
1000 dollas, no hay que lamentar ninguns
desgracia personal.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
MAS DH7URBIOS
IN CATALINA
Resuelta actitud de los
amotinados
Servicio cablegraico especial del Beletin
Mercantil

/ Barcelona, mlercoles.-Reina extraordi
maria agitaci6n en- todo Catalina con mott
vo de los des6rdenes producidos por los
huelguistas
NuIerosas fuerzas de la guardia civil
patrullabsn anoche por las Gales.
A. media noche trataron los revoltosos de
prender tuego varios almacenes, aunlua
no lograrOn su intento por la Intervention
de la pol;cia que dispar6 sobre elos.
Han resultado algnnos heridos.
Los antijesuitas, aprovechandose del pa
nico producido en- la poblaci6n por los huel
guistas, Sc han lanzado tambien la calle
produciendo nuevos disturbioS y originandO
serias collsiones entire la tropa ell psisa
nsje.
Ell Gobernador Civil, ha preguntado POI
telegrato al Ministro de la Gobernaci62 81
delega sus funciones en- la autoridad mi
litar.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
Probable rendici6n
!. del general Botho
Negociaciones con Kitchener
(Servicio cablegraico especial del Boletin
Mercantil)

Londres. microbes. es.-Aguardase por mo-
mentGs Ell esta ciudad la noticia de la ren
dIc6n del generalisimo del ejercito boer
Luis Botha, al ejercito ing6s.
Los dltimos despachos dan cuenta de que
falta cue Lord. Kitchener apruebe algunaS
demands POGO .importantes, Eechas por el
general Luis Botha para que Sc rinda este
caudillo al ejercitO brItanicO.
Las noticias publicadas pOr la prensa di.
cen que las negociaeiones de paz entabladas
eEtre L>rd Kitchener Luis Botha tienen
caracter fntimo y particular, por cuya raz6n
han pasado lnadvertidas por ell Presidente
Kruger. t.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

Sabemos que ell yapor s.Pio XIs saldra
de este puerto el dia %, y no ell 20, como
estaba anunciado. Dicho buque sal1ra el
24 10 la Habana.
HHneE
80 halla en- esta eindsd e| loctor w. W..
King m61icc del puerto de Ponce.
AIN ~ sQUH5 de Bailiy Baillier 9
,aFa i9el i 90 ceDtavos en ii "BuetiD
he csntsn
Ha sido detenido el individuo Vicente
Felciano, que fu6 sorprendido por nm de-
pendlente del cafe sEl Polo Norte,u en-
momentos en- que con una lave falsa tra.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
A Y I S @

Ell que suscrbe ofrece lena gruess y de
superior calidad por vagones completes pues
tJs en- cualquiera de las estaciones desvfos
en- ell trayecto de Camuy San Juan, para
preciO condolences dirigirse al que suscri.
be en- Barceloneta.
15-15 MIGUEL ARSUAGA
Ha alberto sus oticinas como Notarlo "a
blico ell la plania j dc la casa nj neFo
"a de la plaza de as I1aac as. en Pon =,
ell liCenclado don Rate To Vendren.
Anteayer ha rscibido el aqua del hautis
mo en- San German, ~ no d. lbs espo
SOS don kurique QulfOnes J dofia Juan
San Miguel.
En- el correo de hoy, ha embascsdo para
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

los Estados Unidos, en- donde permanecera
algdn tempo, ell Jefe de Cuarentenas doc.
tor III. S. Mathewson. Durante su ausen
cia desempehara su cargo ell doctor W. W.
King, medco del puerto de Ponce.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
Ell VINO DESILES

Merced & estas cuatro substancias: kola,
yodo, fosfato de cal y quina, ell "Vino De.
siles" es ell mejor de los profilacticos contra
las Intermediates infecciosas, tales como la
influenza, la pneumonia 6 'pulmonia," tn
berculoss, etc Obra q la vez sobre el or
ganismo para fortificarle sobre los micro
BIOS para disminpir su vitalidad y atenuar
su poder homicida.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
Mas l'ObabiIiladeS
de que DOtha Sc rindl
[Servicio cablegrafco especial del Boletir
Mercanti

Viena. miercoles.--El peri6dico Eetra
blatt ha recibldo un despacho fechado er
Lorenzo Marquez sfirmapdo que Prinsl6o
ell general que traicion6 los beers, ha de
claradO quo Botha ha escrito Lord Kit
chener participandole que dspondra las ar
mas 81 SO conceden algunos bene6cios sus
compatrotas, cuya causa esta, segun mani
festaci6n suya, completameDte perd da.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

Han sido va colOcados, d la parte norte
de la carretera de Santurce, todos los postes
de la communication telef6nica.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

sempehando de Gobernador de Ia sucursal
del Barco Espafiol, don Jose Maria Salasar.
-En Hormigueros, Sc declare anteanoche
un vioientc incendio, que pudo ser extin-
guido por los bomberes y personas de la 10
caildad.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

A tres mil lIega va ell nGmero de los in
dividuos anotados para la emigration |;
Rep6blica del Ecuador.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
Considerable. ninIerO De i'd rzl2
en- persecution de DeWet
fServicio cablegrafco especial del Boletic
Mercantil

Cape Town, mi6rcoles.--Numerosas CO.
lumnas iDglesas perslguen con entuslasmo
actiyidad al herdlco DeWet, creyendo rem
dirlO poT las dficultades con que avanza y
Ell tesaliento que en- IL ha producido la mott.
cia de las negociaciones do Ia paz empfendi
das por Botha.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
A IIens papers receive a cable tllI
Bvtha Will SurIeIdcr / con-
ceSSIOIS arc made
Especial cabIegram to 3 letin Mercauti

Viona, Wed esday The Extrata't /"
has received a cab despatch dated from
Lore 20 Marquee affirming that PrinSoo,
the Beer traitor, has stalei that Grueral
Luis BOihn has mluu0lcated with Lord
Kitchener Offering to Surren.er arms if
som, concessions are allowed his people as
their cause, according to his own declaration
is entirely lost
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

Don NJ. Perez Av;lGS don Gregorio
Lezcano, de Arecibo, Sc encuentran tempo.
ralmente en- eSta capital
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13
P0R 5 S

En- ell estabIecimiento del " Boletin oil
pesos Sc construyen los sigulentes sellos
de gonna superiores: sellO comercial de
Cualquier forma; id pdgaeSe d Ia Orden
etc; l id daplicadO l i'd pdgddo; | i'd re-
cibimos id aceptamOs; cualquier otrc
en- ese estilo, con su almohadilla inagotabe
Todo por $5 moneda corriente
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

Durante ell mes anterior Sc registraron en-
Arroyo 16 nacimientos y 10 defunciones.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-13

Durante la semaDa pasada entraron en- ell
puerto de esta capital 13 buqleS de trave-
STA SO deSpacharOn 8, pormonociendn on
puerto.