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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
NEW RICHMOND HAS A STRANGE
STRIKE,

The eyes Of the municipalities Of the
West are on New Richmond, Wis. It
is not new thing in any community
for men dissatisfied with conditions sur
rounding their work to quit their places
in a body. At New Richmond it is
not the employees of the mills who go
on strike, but the aldermen, the city
fathers, who, having asked for better
hours and less overtime and secured no
satisfaction, refuse to attend any more
council meetings until their wishes are
granted. Only last Tuesday night the
mayor called a meeting Of the body,
but only one member responded.
Whether they will ever again respond
to call Of the city's chief officer is
problematical. In the meantime, much
Of the regular business Of New Rich
mond is at standstill.
Most Of the trouble seems to have
arisen from the fact that the mayor is
a thinker Of more than usual strenu-
osity, who, whenever he has a new
idea in city government, calls the coun-
Gil together to discuss it. This has be-
come source of great irritation to the
aldermen, who assert that they are
called from their homes and their rec
reations at all sorts Of odd hours. They
even go so far as to say that the mayor
is an imperialist who has altogether
too many businesses. They say he Is
not only the citys chief, but regular
practicing physician and president of
the city pumping works.
At any rate, matters have reached
such a crisis at New Richmond
that the corporation really has
only the semblance of a. govern
ment, and it is doubtful if
the councilmen would help put out a
fire in the town if the mayor assumed
direction Of the work.
The situation is, of course, ridicu-
lous one. Men who are of sufficient in
telligence to make ordinances for a
community ought to be above acting
like a lot of school boys. New Rich
mond's solons should pocket their pride
for the sake of the community which
they represent and keep the wheels of
government moving in spite of their
dislike of mayor who mixes pumps.
politics and physic.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
ECHOES OF WORKSHOP
MILL AND MINE
Review Of the Weeks Work of Every Ma.
tIon on the Globe Where Artisans
Hold Sway.

Freeport (Ill) bakers have formed a
union.
Creston, Iowa, printers have organized.
Striking masons at Barcelona, Spain,
have returned to work.
Day laborers in the Philippine islands
receive 20 cents day.
Molders at Guelph, Canada, are still
on strike for an increase in pay.
Perchers (cloth examiners) at Law
renee, Mass, have organized a union
New York cloakmakers are trying to
raise $4,000 to start cooperative fac
tory.
Railroad shop mechanics are in great
demand by the Mexican International
railway.
Seventy-five new unions of street rail-
way employees We're organized during the
past year.
San Francisco (CaL) Newsboys' Union
has voted $25 to the striking anthracite
miners.
Indian hop pickers at North Yakima,
Wash, have struck for SIPS, an advance
OF 70 cents per day.
Girls who work in the bottling depart
ments Of the American breweries are or
ganlz1ng a national union.
Bethesda miners have decided to ask
Lord Penryn to receive Mr.. Balfour or
Lord Rosebery as arbitrator.
Merchant tailors. at Buffalo, NJ Y, are
slow in signing the scale demanded by
the striking Journeymen tailors.
Linemen and electrical workers at Og-
den, Utah, may be called out in sympathy
with the strikers at Salt Lake City.
The domestic silk industry employees
1000 men, $4,000 women and 5000 chill
dren in 4S3 mills, with $S1,OO0,O0o capital.
Chinese laundrymen at San Francisco,
Cal, made a demand for SIS a week, and
ff4r CHI ,ff ,friJr +1,As,,
coded.
have been reduced 21 per cent, making
them 1874 per cent above the standard.
East enc (London) Jews have organ
lied the United Garment Workers of
Great Britain, one of the chief objects of
which is to combine against American
competition.
Fig packers at Fresno Cal, have struck
for increase pay: They demand 81 day,
an increase of 25 cents.
Grave diggers at West Seneca, N. Y.
have. demanded an increase from $37 so
to $40 month and the elimination Of
Sunday funerals.
All the union tailors in Nashville. Tenn.
went on strike for higher rates. Most
Of the employers have acceded to the
demands made
California has made the eight hour
work day the legal work day. In g. test
case before the state supreme court the
law was declared valid.
Coal mines at Calvert, Tex, have been
closed down as a result of competition
from oil and a cessation Of its contract
for convict labor.
The North Western Railroad company
is experimenting with Sioux Indians as
laborers on the Elkhorn line, in North
western Nebraska.
A movement for enlisting workingmen
throughout the United States into semi
political organization has been launched
in Chicago, Ill.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
IMPALEs SECRETARY ROOT.

Moorfield Storey, counsel for the
New England anti-imperialist COM
mittee, has written an elaborate re-
view of the Philippine situation which
is a severe and in many particulars
just arraignment Of Secretary Root.
Mr.. Storey finds that the responsibility
for what has disgraced the American
name in Luzon lies at Roots door. Mr..
Storey shows that 100000 persons
have died on the island from gunshot
wounds or fever in the first three years
of the war, and remarks, with impress
sive irony, that Secretary Root calls
this marked humanity and mag
nanimity."
Mr.. Storey makes the points that
from the beginning Of the war the
practice of burning native towns and
villages and laying waste the country
has continued; that this was the in
| ception of the policy that was pursued
until Sumar was made bowling
wilderness;" that the secretary Of war
never made any attempt to check or
punish this method of war; that from
very early day torture has been en-
ployed Systematically to obtain in
| formation; that no one has ever been
| seriously punished for this; that the
secretary of war has never made any
serious attempt to stop barbarous
practices; that he has shown desire
not to investigate, but, on the other
hand, to conceal the truth touching
the war, and to shield the guilty, and
by censorship and otherwise has large
ly succeeded.
Mr.. Storey says, and he is backed
up by evidence that ought not to be
overlooked, Secretary Root is con-
spicuously the person to be investi-
gated. But Mr.. Storey does not ex-
pect fairness from Mr.. Root because
of ''his standard of humanity, his at
| titude toward witnesses, the position
which he has constantly taken and the
| statements which he has given to the
public" He asks what the American
people propose to do about "this ter
rible record" After insisting on the
| importance of rectifying our record in
the Philippines by visiting those who
have been guilty of outrage with severe
punishment, Mr.. Storey concludes
with these singing remarks:
"Our soldiers are not to blame for
all this. 1t is the American people I'M
der false leaders who have set them to
subjugate and have been content not
to ask how the work was done. We
at home may initiate the ostrich, but,
hide our heads as we may. we cannot
escape their national guilt"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

dent Mckinley. That William McK1n-
lev stood high in the esteem of his fell
low citizens cannot be doubted, but
when it comes to subscribing 81, 81 or
SO to erect an appropriate shaft In re-
membrance of his virtues and his SER
vices to his country, these same citi-
zens dodge, make excuses and get away
from paying the money in dozens OF
ways, most Of which are to their dis
credit.
Nor is the Mckinley monument an
exception to a general rule. The same
thing happened when it was proposed
to erect national memorial to Gen.
Grant some years ago. Grant was be-
loved by millions of his countrymen,
most of whom were willing to go miles
and put themselves to much incon-
venience to hear him praised from pull
pit or rostrum, but when it came to
putting their hands into their pockets
for a pitifuI share Of their pelf they
hesitated, ran away or pleaded poverty.
So it mas been with other American
soldiers and statesmen, and 1t Is In
fact so difficult to raise funds for such
purposes that none except men of the
most sanguine temperaments ever at
tempt work of such strenuosity. 1t
is hardly the thing to ask the nation, a
state or a municipality to erect monu-
ments to individuals, but If such an ar
rangement were possible many deserv-
ing men and women would get monu-
ments who have hardly a chance in
million to get them under the voluntary
subscription plan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
1.-THE NINETY AND NINE" DRAMA.
TIED.

An unusual degree Of interest is
taken in a new religious drama, 'The
Ninety and Nine" founded on the
famous song by Ira D. Sankey. The
play is written by Ramsay Morris,
forceful dramatic author of marked
creative power and is to be given it's
first presentation in New York in Oc-
tober.
Admittedly during the past few years
most of the stage productions have had
little attraction for church people. 1t
is announced that the purpose Of this
drama is to interest the religiously in
clined, both clergy and laity. Mr.. Nor
ris observes his opportunity in the re-
cent tendency Of the church to give
the stage greater countenance. This
he sees in the success of such produc-
lions as "Quo vadis," "The Sign of the
Cross" "The Christian and ben
Hur."
Mr. Morris believes that there is
wide field for the play possessing a
strong religious tone, and that the
patronage of church people, who are
not blind to the great moral force a
theater exerts in every community
where it exists, is now assured. He
feels, too, that as powerful a sermon
may be preached from behind the foot
lights as from the pulpit without intro
ducing religious ceremonies into
play.
Three of the religious plays which
have proved successes the past five
years have been founded on old world
history. "The Ninety and Nine" will
deal with problem of contemporary
life. 1t is designed to be a pathetic
demption Of fallen young man, lost
to family and society, by young
woman of exalted character, actu-
ated by that most sublime Of human
motives-sense Of duty, the outcome of
religious training. Mr. Morris be-
lieves his drama will be as powerful
an influence for good as was the hymn
Of Mr.. Sankey. The hymn is, it will be
remembered, full of pathos. After say
ing "There were ninety and nine that
safely lay in the shelter of the Lord,
but one was out on the hills away" the
verses continues:
How deep were the waters crossed;
Nor how dark was the night that the
Lord passed through
Ere he found his sheep that was lost"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
ToDAY's WEATHER.

Ninnesota-Showers Monday; cooler in
west portion; Tuesday fair; variable
winds.
Upper Michigan Partly cloudy Mon
day; cooler in west portion Tuesday;
cloudy; fresh winds, mostly north.
Wisconsin = Partly cloudy Monday;
probably showers in southwestern por-
ton; Tuesday fair in north, showers in
south portion; variable winds.
North Dakota-Fair Monday; Tuesday
fair; warmer.
South Dakota-Fair Monday; cooler in
east and central portions; Tuesday fair;
warmer in west portion.
Montana-Fair Monday; warmer in
southwest portion; Tuesday fair; warmer
in east portion.
Iowa-Partly cloudy Monday; probably
showers in west portion; Tuesday fair in
west, showers in east portion.
Yesterdays temperatures
ST. Paul-Yesterday's temperatures,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, p. F. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last night-baromete corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
allure, 81; lowest temperature, "A; average
temperature, So; daily range, IS; barom-
eter, 20. So; humidity, IS; precipitation,
0; p. m. temperature, 60; p. m. wind,
southeast; weather. clear.
Yesterdays Temperatures
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

fellow creature. Few really civilized
men and women who were apprised of
the attitude of the Doukhobors in this
regard but entertained more or less
sympathy with them. Now, however,
the sympathy is shown to have been
utterly misplaced, and the objects OF
it no more entitled to consideration
than any other body Of men and
women who show themselves to be the
victims of religious mania
Whether the Canadian authorities
will allow these people the free ex-
ercise of their peculiar beliefs, or, re-
fusing so to do, what disposition Will
be made of them, is a subject which
may before long assume worldwide
interest and Importance.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
REJoINDER is PROMPT.
Operators Say This Is MitcheII's Last
Statement Before Strike Ends.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Sept. 2S.-
Some of the local coal operators, after
being shown a copy Of the statement
issued by President Mitchell today,
say it will probably be the last he will
give to the public before the ending Of
the strike. They assert that his ap-
peal Is made up of generalities and
that he endeavors to win public SYM
pathy by making plea for child la
Dor. One operator said the condition
of child labor in the coal region is
much better than 1t Is in the manu-
featuring districts of the country;
that the wages paid are better and the
working hours shorter. At strike
headquarters. Mr.. Mitchell's latest de-
liverance is termed "a tens strike"
and the facts and figures he presents
irrefutable.
1t is reported again that attempts
will be made tomorrow to resume work
at several collieries in this region
which have been idle since the strike
began, but the report cannot be veri-
fed.
At strike headquarters it was as
serted that there will be no change in
the situation the coming week, which
is the twenty-first Of the strike; that
the strikers are as firm as ever, and
that there will be no assertions from
the ranks to make it possible for the
coal companies to start up any new
collierieS.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
THE DoUKHoBoR MANIA.

When Count Tolstoi succeeded in
arousing the sympathies of humane
persons all over the world in behalf of
the Russian sect which had adopted
as it's prime element of social belief
the moral wrongfulness of engaging in
warfare, the Doukhobors became
known for the first time to the civiliz-
ed world. Their attitude as subjects
of the czar met with universal ap-
prevail; and they furnished the text
for many eloquent discourses on the
evils of autocratic government. 1t was
largely, if not entirely, through the
efforts of Count Tolstoi, also, that these
people were furnished with homes by
the Canadian government. Today
representatives of the sect can be
found stretching from Western Mani
toba to the Saskatchewan valley.
General attention has again been di-
rected toward the Doukhobors through
the peculiar developments which ap-
pear to have recently taken place in
their beliefs. They no longer present
themselves to general attention as per-
sons who have a conscientious obiec-
ton to the shedding of human blood.
or as being opposed on conscientious
grounds to making war on their fell
lows; but they appear to have evolved
into half crazed fanatics.
A letter from one of the members
of the sect recently generally published
in the daily press reveals them as not
only unwilling to engage in the she'd
ding Of human blood, but as showing
like unwillingness to shed the blood of
animals; to cut animal flesh, or even
to utilize beasts of burden for working
in the fields. The advancement of this
latter theory Of conduct has placed
these people outside the pale of sane
society. Having followed the express
sion Of their convictions in this last
mentioned respect up by sending their
cattle adrift, the problem of what to
do with the Doukhobors now becomes
a serious one for the Canadian govern
ment.
1t will not now be possible of course
for the Canadian government to deport
these people. Civilized men and
women had rejoiced that there were in
this world others who We're willing to
stand unflinchingly on what Count
Tolstoi had declared to be the only
rational and logical position for those
who desire the uplifting of the race,
in dealing with the requirement of en-
forced military service-of absolutely
refusing to do violence toward their
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
STONE THRoWERs GET BUSY.
High Constable Tries the Soldiers to
See if They Are Reliable.

SCRANTON, Pa, Sept. Estate
last night shots were fired at strikers
or supposed strikers for the first time
since the troops went afield. At Grassy
Island colliery, half mile from the
Thirteenth's camp, two soldiers from
Company A were stationed in a patch
of underbrush, as part of the outpost
of the camp. A volley of stones de-
scended all about them and one Of
them struck one Of the soldiers, fell
ing him to the ground. The two SOL
diers shot at fleeing figures and a
relief detail attracted by the shooting
secured the country for two hours in a
fruitless search for the stone throwers
AT 1890 this morning shot was
heard on hillside near the camp and
the searchlight was turned in the d.
rection whence the shots came. The
man with gun was described running
to the cover of the woods. The search
light was kept upon him and after
short chase two soldiers from the out
post on the hill ran him down. He
proved to be Michael Gaughan, the
high constable of ELEPHANT borough.
The only explanation he vouchsafed
to Col. Watres was: II wanted to try
your soldiers and see if they were
to be depended upon"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
Martial Law, II Necessary.

MERIDEN, Conn.,, Sept 2S.-A mass
meeting under the auspices of the Eco.
nomic league was held here today at
of Pennsylvania, were adopted. After re-
citing that as a result of the miners
strike the price Of coal is daily increas.
ing and the supply diminishing, which, If
suit in the death of many persons from
exposure to cold and it's effects, the reso-
lutions continue:
1--WE petition you, therefore, to start
the mines through a receiver, if that be
possible; If not, then by ntrtial law, and
military taking possession in the name
of the state"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
SICILY HAS A FRESH
AND FURIOUS STORM
Hundreds Of People Are Drowned-Ihs
Ruins and Bodies Are
PiIlaeed.

SYRACUSE, Sicily, Sept. 2s.-A fresh
storm burst over the district of Santa
Maria today and many houses were oe-
stroyed. The stormy weather continues
generally throughout Sicily.
1t Is now believed that 200 persons per-
ished at Modica during the tornado. IN
one instance family Of ten persons were
drowned in bed. The village Of Sortlno
has been practically destroyed and forty
three persons were drowned The water
rose in the church to a height OF tweive,
feet. Many children lost their lives. TneEe
have been some disgraceful scenes OF Pr
lage from the ruins and from bodies.
The total damage is expected TO amount
to over s2,500,000.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
PETITIoNINe THE PRESIDENT.
Catholics Ask His Good Offices to Ter.
inmate the Strike.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28.-Petitions are
being circulated throughout the coun-
try by the members of the various or
CARNATIONS comprising the American
Federation of Catholic societies ask
ing President Roosevelt to use his good
offices to end the coal strike. The
members of the societies making up
million persons.
Bishop McFaul, Of Trenton, N. j.,
and Bishop Mesmer, Of Green Bay,
Wis, are the spiritual advisers Of
the federation and are interested in
the circulation Of the petition. The
petition reads:
eve, whose names are underwritten,
citizens Of the United States, most
earnestly ask you to use your good
offices in bringing to an end the UNI
happy strife now prevailing In the
coal regions. Some Of us are men and
women who work with our hands, some
of us are earning our livelihood in other
ways; many Of us are losers now by
this conflict, all Of us are appalled, by
the prospect of suffering before the
country if it be not speedily termin-
ated; and we feel that we have a right
to call on you as our representative
to see what you can do to make peace.
1--WE do not ask you to use any off,
cial power in the matter, for you have
none to use; we ask you, the first cit
izen Of the nation, only to mediate be-
tween these contending parties. You
can speak as no one else can speak for
the plain people of the country. Ev-
cry working man knows that you are
his friend; no capitalist of common
sense can imagine that you are his
enemy The fact that others have
spoken without effect does not bespeak
the fact that your words of Cancellation
would pass unheeded. We want no
adhesion to either party in this con-
flict. We want no coercion implied or
used. Coercion is a game both sides
can play at. We want both to work
together"
The petition is signed by the presi-
dents and other officers of Catholic
societies Of this city and Brooklyn.
MORE TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
Sheriff Says That the Call For Them
Is Forgery.
HARRISBURG. Pa, Sept. 2s.-Gov.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
MONDAY, SEPT. 20, 1902.

Secretary Shaw is about to resume
the stump. This is really joyful news
for the Democratic party. If he will
only stay to the end of the campaign
and furnish such chunks of wisdom
as he fired at the heads of his audi
ences in his recent speech up in his
old home, he can do splendid service
for our side.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29
VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR
MONUMENTS.

Sentiment and the American pocket
book do not travel in parallel lines.
Nothing could show this more plainly
than the effort of score of committees
to get together money enough to erect
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

The war prevailing on the govern
ment education bill grows more and
more bitter in England, but yet no an
nouncement has been made Of the re-
suit of the golf contest between Eng
lands prime minister and the Bishop
of London, which has been in progress
during the bitterest engagements OF
the war.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

If it is true that Lory Rosebery
has decided that liberalism in politics
is played out, he has also doubtless
concluded that the world is to have
renaissance or toryism and special
privilege. On that basis he ought to
have no hesitation in joining the
English tory party-that is, unless he
contemplates emigration to America,
where he may join the Republican
party with all advantages.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

Minneapolis and st. Louis are again
running a neck-and-neck race as to
which city was the more hopelessly
submerged while Republican reform
and reformerS prevailed. The revela-
tons of the second Ames trial would
indicate that our sister city Is still in
the lead.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

Those Boston citizens who are about
to ask for a receiver of the coal con-
Germs will at least succeed in set
ting one question in that controversy,
viz: whether or not providence is will
ing to step in to protect it's self-ap-
pointed representatives in the owner
ship of the mines against outside in
reference.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

There was a pretty unanimous opin-
ion prevailing during his visit that
the German prince, Henry, is level
headed fellow. His latest statement
of a wish to see the West without the
fuss and formality of public receptions
offers pretty effective Endorsement OF
the opinion.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-29

Bosses Platt and Odell promise a
waiting nation that the party of trusts
in the empire state will. if necessary,
furnish additional legislation whenever
necessary, for the suppression. Con-
sidering the admirable effect of the
legislation already enacted in that di-
rection, let us all be content now to
await the inevitable.