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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-16

This story was related to the author by
Mr. Hope Kayanagh, the District Superin-
fendent Of Police at Saharunpore. 1t de-
acribes how a native banker resorted to
deception in order TO safeguard a case Of
bullion which he was sending by rail TO
customer, and how by a clever trick the
contents Of the box were stolen en- route,
the unhappy banker being preeluded from
prosecuting the thieves, although they were
discovered. through the possibility Of
being involved in severe penalties himself.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
A Fortunate Postmaster.

Kirk, Ark, July 14th.-Mr. William
S. brennan, Postmaster at this Office,
counts himself very fortunate man.
Mr.. brennan in addition to being
postmaster is Justice of the Peace,
member of the Christian church
and highly respected and useful cit
izen.
He has suffered for some time with
what some people would call rick
etts" or "rigors" of the kidneys-kid-
ney disease in a very painful form.
He could not sleep. he had dull
pain over his left kidney, was con-
tinually restless, could not lie still,
and had to get up through the night
several times and was also troubled
in this way during the day.
He used a few boxes of Dodd's
Kidney Pills, remedy recently in
troduced in this state and advertised
as a cure for Kidney Disease, Rheu-
matism, Malaria, ETC., and in short
time was completely restored to Wig
orous, good health. He is very CRATE
full to Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
The Labor Federations

While there can be no correct COM
parison between the American Labor
union and the American Federation of
Labor, the printed statements of each
furnish some ideas of their relative
importance in the labor world. The
income of the Western Labor union,
now the American Labor union, for
the past year was $4,000 for per
capita tax. This tax amounts to ten
cents per member per month, which,
averaged for the year, shows men,
bership of 1000. Allowing that the
membership has increased largely
during the past few months, 1t cannot
have over 10000 members to-day or
1t would not have had any a year ago,
according to its published statement.
The entire yearly income of the West
ern Labor union from all sources was
$4,000. The income of the American
Federation Of Labor for a like period
was $131 900, and the amount of per
capita tax paid into that body from
national and international unions is
but one-third of a cent per member
per month. At the end of last April
100000 members were paying per
capita tax into the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and it is estimated that
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Figures Show Relative
Importance of Each

at least 20 per cent more might be
added from the fact that many unions
do not pay their full membership. In
addition there are $40 city central
bodies affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, and as most of
them have unattached unions 1t can
be seen that the membership of the
American Federation of Labor is
much larger than is shown In the
amount of per capita tax paid. AL
though 1t was generally supposed that
the Western Federation of Miners
was a part of the Western Labor
union, Mr.. Kidd says that from the
information he received while in Den
yer the miners are not affiliated, al
though working in harmony and in
sympathy with the other organiza-
tions. President Daniel Mcdonald of
the American Labor union is said to
be a member in good standing of the
Iron Molders union, which is a part
of the American Federation of Labor,
and Ready Kenehan, a member Of
the executive board Of the American
Labor union, is a member of the
Horseshoers's union, also affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Not Arbitrary Dictum.
But Natural Low

of every new statute upon the sub
ject. The literature of the period,
from the statute of laborers 1350) to
the repeal of the conspiracy act
(182D, is continuous record of the
failure to govern wages by authority.
The development of economic thought
and the substitution of scientific for
authoritative and coercive methods of
dealing with sociological questions,
has given us the key to this failure.
We now know, as the schoolmen in
the middle ages and the politicians
of the eighteenth and large part of
the nineteenth century did not, that
wages are a social product; that the
price of service, like the price OF
every other marketable quantity in
society, is primarily determ'Led by
what 1t costs to furnish 1t. This
means that instead of wages being an
arbitrary quantity to be fixed by the
master or the maC;-trate, or by the
mere demand and supply of laborers,
they are really governed by the social
standard of living Of the wage class.
1t is not even an individual matter;
it is beyond the power of the individ-
ual laborer to regulate his own wages,
just as it is beyond the power of the
individual to regulate the price of his
own product.-Prof. George Gunton.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
What Governs Wages

Wages are not matter of individ-
ual caprice or arbitrary dictum, but
are governed by natural law. 1t is
not within the power of capital or of
the government or of organization
arbitrarily to increase wages. Wages
can be permanently influenced only
through the operation of the social
and economic forces which govern
all other economic movements,
For centuries it was believed that
wages were a matter entirely within
the power of the masters decision.
This was so thoroughly accepted that,
for hundreds of years in England,
wages were fixed by law. In the four
teenth and fifteenth centuries it was
penal offense for laborers to ask
for more wages than the statute pro-
vided. Under the Tudors the wages
were fixed twice year by proclama-
ton of the magistrates in the differ
ent counties. Despite the power of
authority, which was well-nigh alb
solute, backed by the influence of the
masters, the church and the throne, it
was found absolutely impossible to
compel wages to obey the authorized
standard. From Edward III. to Will
liam w. the statute books of England
are bestrewn with acts and proclama-
tions attempting to regulate wages,
but all in vain.
The evidence of the failure thus to
fix wages accompanied the enactment
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Supreme Court Sustains the Foot.Ease
Trademark

Justice Laughlin, in Supreme Court.
Buffalo, has ordered permanent in
junction, with costs, and full ac-
counting of sales, to issue against
Paul B. Hudson, the manufacturer OF
the foot powder called "Dr. Clark's
Foot Powder" and also against u
retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining
them from making or selling the DR..
Clark's Foot Powder, which is declar-
ed, in the decision OF the Court, an
imitation and infringement of Foot
Ease" the powder to shake into your
shoes. Allen S. Olmsted of LIE Roy,
N. Y, is the owner of the trademark
"Foot- Ease" Similar suits will be
brought against others who are now
infringing on the Foot-Ease trade
mark and common law rights.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Use Biblical Quotation.

Edward Lauterbach, who is men
toned as a candidate for lieutenant.
governor Of New York state, has two
sons, who are extremely proud of him
and who talk great deal about him.
"You would think" said friend Of
the family the other day, that those
Lauterbach boys were saying con-
tinuous prayer. They begin every
other sentence with our father"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Profits Of the Coal Rino.

The coal fields of the country con
tain over 1000 billion tons of coal
equal to a 5000 years supply at the
present rate of consumption. In view
of the assured discovery of new
methods Of heating-by oil, gas, cleo
tricity, etc.-this is practically an in.
exhaustible store Of coal. Yet, with
the labor cost of mining only 40 cents
per ton and it's total value at the
mines mouth only $3.50 per ton the
American people are paying on an
average about Sc ton for their coal,
taking hard and soft together, and
cannot tell from day to day when 81
or So will be added to that price,
nor whether they will be able to get
10 at any price.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
From Various Points

Some of the Belgian coal pits, on
resuming operations after the strike,
reduced wages per cent, and in the
coal districts of the Borinage the col
liers' wages have now been reduced
IL per cent and more. Some pits also
contemplate reduction in the work
ing hours.
The organization called Federation
Regional" composed of employers, en-
ployes of the municipalities and sup
ported by the Porto Rican Republic
ans, are opposed to the organization
Of the workers at san Juan, Porto
Rico, under the American Federation
Of Labor.
The clothing manufacturers at Syr-
acuse, N. Y, having declined to accede
to the demands of the garment work
srs for an increase Of 8 per cent to
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Happenings of Interest
to Organized Labor

their sub-contractors, made necessary
by the concession of the nine-hour
work day, and 1900 employees have re.
fused to work.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has Cancelled the
charter of the Kingston (Ont.) Iron
Workers Union because the men
would not support the machinists, now
on strike there. Such a step was never
before necessary in the history OF
unionism in Canada.
Terms of settlement of the trouble
between the papermakers' unions and
the manufacturers at Providence, R.
l., have been ratified and peace
agreement, to run for year, has been
signed. The pulpmakers receive an
advance of 10 per cent in wages and
some other concessions.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
A Natural Presumption.

It strikes us as just possible that
the trusts and combines will regard
the Republican programme Of tarix
revision as tub thrown to the whale
of Republican discomfort and intended
for use only during the campaign
Surely the fidelity with which the fif'
ty-sixth and fifty-seventh congresses
have stood by the monopolistic com
binations entities the leaders to a
continuance of the confidence Of those
great interests.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

American Descendant Of csorue W..
George Fitzgeorge. a reputable and
prosperous news dealer of Trenton.
N. j., claims to be a cousin Of King
Edward. He says he is directly des-
cended from the morganatic marriage
Of George Nv. to Mrs. Fitzgeorge.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Strenuosity Is Not Popular.

The strenuous manner OF the presi'
dent, the rough-riderish treatment he
accords senators and representatives,
naturally offend the political leaders
of both houses. especially after the
suavity and politeness of his predeces-
sor. The enmity thus aroused will
make itself felt later on. but it played
no important part in the reciprocity
fight, although there are probably
many Republicans laughing in their
sleeves at the worst thrOw-down ever
received by q president.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Sunshine Kills Nine MuIea.

The coal companies at SusQue-
hanna, Pa. and in the vicinity are
losing quite a lot of their mules,
which were hoisted to the surface
since the strike and placed in the diff
ferent yards. Some Of them, not see
Ing daylight for fifteen or twenty
years, cannot stand the rays of the
sun and are dying daily from sun
stroke, being accustomed to the cool
mines.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
The PIunderIne Steel Trust.

The steel trust was created by the
most stupendous watering" Of cap
italization ever known in the history
of this or any other country. Its
promoters" received as their pay the
most outrageous commissioner
would more properly be called plum
der-ever exacted for such services.
The proposed new deal in the con-
version of preferred stock into bonds
brings the same syndicate a further
enormous and unearned bonus. And
for all this the public has to pay In
the end.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Growing Division in G. o. P. Ranks

Growing Division in G. o. P. Ranks.
Mr.. Mckinley, in the speech made
just before his assassination, clearly
pointed out the necessity of tariff
reduction, and there is an element OF
the republican party committed to
the same policy. This element has
been defeated in the fight over Gu
ban reciprocity, but it may be a vic.
tory that will cost the winners dear.
The first assault on the system has
been repealed, but another will soon
come, and it will be more successful.
The element Of division has been in
troduced into the republican party,
and the differences on this subject
are of the kind that must grow.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Has POSTPONED His Reform.

Representative Babcock has dropped
his plan to repeal the protective du'
ties on steel manufactures and other
products controlled by the trusts TN.
til some other congressional cam.
paign. AS chairman of the congress
sional committee he is conducting this
campaign on another basis. But by
all accounts many Republicans of Wis
consin and other states of the West
have quite different views on this sub
ject,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Manila Labor Troubles

The labor troubles in Manila which
have been brewing for a month are
now on the eve of coming to head.
Three of the largest American employ
ers of Filipino labor were notified that
they must advance salaries so per cent
all around or face strike. One firm
three years ago paid employees SO
week and Is now paying them $50
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Merchants Arc Alarmed
Over Recent Actor

weekly. The firm says a further adj
vance is impossible. 1t is the inten-
ton of Isabelode Los Reyes, the or
ganizer of labor associations there, to
secure an increase Of wages In all
trades or force general strike. The
merchants are alarmed at the outlook.
They say Filipino labor costs more
now, in proportion to the results, than
American labor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

High Tariff the Cause of Oppression
Public sentiment in Illinois, as in
other states, is fully aroused to the
necessity for tariff revision and trust
restriction. Developments of the very
recent past have shown the people
that the exclusive beneficiaries of the
high tariff are the trusts and that the
trusts are enabled to Cypress the peo
pie because of a monopoly of trade
created by the tariff.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
FreiQht.

While 100 tons is load for an Eng
lish freight train. an average load on
one of our railroads last year was $40
tons On two British railroads It
costs from 4S1s cents to move ton
of freight one mile, while the cost
on a leading New York road is 22h
cents q mile.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
The objectionable Sin.

If the high tariff Republicans make
Republicanism synonymous with brok.
en- pledges and with inhumanity to
trusting and suffering Cuba, the party
will 60 the way of that Democracy
which inflicted wanton injury on
bleeding Kansas" nearly fifty years
ago. Brutality is the objectionable
sin in American politics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
An Unremunerative Investment.

Gov. Taft has concluded negotia-
tons for the purchase from the vati-
can of the friars' lands in the Philip
pines for $5,O00,00O. Let's see: Orig
inal price paid Spain, $4,000, 900; cost
of benevolent assimilation to date, &C.
cording to Secretary Root. $17O,0O0,'
900; price of friars' lands, $4,000, 900;
total for four years occupation, $685.
100000, or at the rate of about $780,
100000 per year. Secure investment
but rather unremunerative.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Reason to Suspect.

Sometimes" said Uncle Eben, "a
boy has reason to suspeck dat he's be-
In scolded fob doin' what his fathuh
would do hissef If he weren't too busy
or hadn't the rheumatic. Washing.
ton Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
A cowardIy Kind of Strategy.

If opponents Of reciprocity hold out
in their stubbornness and President
Roosevelt's stiffness of neck stands
the strain, then the Republican party
may enjoy chance to catch votes go.
ing and coming. BY the way, maybe
this is the game. A party thus divided
against itself on this and other public
questions may win some votes from
both sides.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Pernicious Activity In Ohio.

Pernicious Activity In Ohio.
Federal officeholders in Ohio would
be amazed, indeed, should President
Roosevelt order an inquiry into their
relations with partisan factional con-
troversies in the buckeye state. The
Ohio idea in politics is to get office
and fight hard for continuance there
in. No secret is made of activity in
party service, which is both credita.
BILE and necessary, from the practi.
cal workers point of view. Investi'
gate, forsooth!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

The New York Judge who has de.
cided that $4,000 year is the least
possible income that will support d
society girl must have daughters who
are spending the summer at fashion
able resort.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
PersecutIno General Miles.

The administrations attitude
toward Gen. Miles has been for many
months such as to resemble persecu-
ton. The nation does not take kind
~ to the criticisms and insinuations
against the general commanding the
army. whose gravest fault has been
an honest frankness, which Is GER
tainly foreign to the methods of the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
TILL DEATH US PART.

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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

sportsmen from the northern part
Of Wisconsin report that it is 80 cold
the fish are wearing pond lily leaf NIT
tens on their fms. but allowances
must be made for the effects of dis.
appointment on the general nature
Of the complete angler.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

The czar has decided that hereafter
he wiz meet all classes of his subjects
and hear their grievances. This will
likely prove much better than to allow
the Glasses" to take the initiative IN
securing interviews.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Women of Now Orleans
Have Taken Strond Stand

and boys under twelve in any factory,
warehouse or workshop where the
manufacture Of any goods are prepar-
ed for manufacture. Notwithstanding
this little girl of ten was injured
in a recent panic in a factory, prov
ing that the law is not strictly OBJ
served
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Time Wasted in EIectinq Senators.

Notwithstanding Senator Vest'S op
position to the election of senators by
the people good many Of us cannot
forget the numerous corrupt legisla'
tive elections and the costly and an
noying deadlocks that have occurred
in the work of choosing senators. 1t
is absurd that state legislation should
ever be delayed by senatorial cleo
lions.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
AGRICULTURAL.

Agents for American agricultural
machines sold in Constantinople last
year $40 reapers and mowers, 2 bind
ers, 4 rakes and thresher. No effort
is made to sell binders, because they
are considered too complicated for sat
isfactory use by the Turkish peasants.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Russian Merchants Afraid,

Siberian merchants are loudly COM
planning that Manchuria and ports in
Siberia are flooded with American,
German, Japanese and other foreign
goods, and that Russian trade is dis
appearing. Energetic measures are
demanded, particularly frontier
guard sufficient to prevent smuggling.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

The announcement that an Eastern
railway has provided special ticket
six feet long leads to the fear tina,
the traveller of the future will need
an extra piece of luggage in which
to carry his transportation permit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

Eskimos claim to have found the re-
mains of Noah's ark away up near the
arctic circle. Can it be possible tina,
Noah started in search of the pols
without first having relief expedi
ton provided for?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
A Suburban Gentleman.

This definition of gentleman was
provided by a suburban butcher. He
was asked for some details concern
ing q man who had just left his shop
what, i'm, sir?" he replied. "Oh, 'e's
q thorough gentleman. e don't go up
to London every day."-London
Globe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

Having received your semi-annua
dividends, are you going to buy vel
low automobile or a porterhoust
steak?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

No matter how many canal com
panies are incorporated in New Jer
sey. Uncle Sam is likely to handle
the pick and shovel when it comes to
actually digging through the'ssthmus
The biggest corporation in this coun
try is the people.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Wiser, But More Wicked.

Senator Hoar continues to applaud
his party for its great wisdom and
to regret that he Is forced by con
stitutional moralities to disagree With
1t on this occasion. 1t would seem
from what the senator says that his
party is much wiser than he, but II
is also far more wicked.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

An Indiana lover who sang Good
Morning, Carrie" beneath his sweet
hearts window was shot by irate
neighbors, who claim they thought
It was a tom cat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
AGAINST Child Labor

The women of New Orleans are TAX
ing up the matter of child labor, and
several have volunteered to act as in
spectors of the cotton mills and cigar
factories of the city, where, it is said,
the law is persistently violated.
The law of the state prohibits the
employment of girls under fourteen
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

A trade journal reports that the Wis.
ible supply of caviare has been great
ly reduced. This is calamity that
most persons can view with stoical
Indifference.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

A Chicago man has been elected
president of the American Whist
League. Yet they say the people Of
that city are noisy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
Woman as Doctors Detective.

One Of women's latest professions IL
that Of femme resident of Los An
geles, Cal. who acts as detective
for a medical society. She visits doc
tors suspected Of practicing without
licenses and gets them to prescribe
for any number of purported Ills. Then
the doctors are called into court.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18
baltimore to Honor schIey.

Baltimore is considering a plan OF
changing the name Of its North ave-
nue. to Schley avenue in honor of the
rear admiral. The present name is no
longer appropriate, the northern boun-
dairy of the city having extended far
beyond the avenue.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

The way the young king of Spain
is behaving toward his mother seems
to show that the maternal slipper
was not properly exercised in his ear
lier years.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

Why not speak a good word for
Alfred Austin? His coronation ode
contains nothing that could bring the
faintest blush to the cheek Of mod.
esty.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-07-18

Edward Ffuhl of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
wants the court to let him change hia
name. 1t would surely be fool court
that denied such petition.