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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26
AN ANECDoTE OF PLATT.
Holland. in Philadelphia Press.

"Holland,". in Philadelphia Press.
President Roosevelt who knows the tns
and out of New York politics as we'll as
any man who has fathomed the inner ma
ture of many who are of high authority
in the counsels of his party. will, upon
his convalescence in Washington, read
the report of what took place at Saratoga
probably with no great surprise. And
just here an anecdote may he illustrative.
At the time when it was deemed essen
tial that there be a change in the direc-
ton of the police department of New
York city, Senator Platt was strongly
committed to a plan involving the es-
Establishment of state constabulary. He
felt sure that the evils that saturated the
New York police department could not
be cured in any other way. The legisla-
ture was impressed with his view. He
urged that body to adopt legislation of
that character
One Saturday afternoon there filed into
the senator's office on lower Broadway
a company of legislators. They had come
not to consult with the senator, but to
ask him to relieve them Of an embar-
rassment. They said to him: 1--WE are
anxious to do what YOU want to have
done, but Governor Odel tells us that he
will not stand for canstabulary bill.
that he will veto it if it Is passed and we
know that we will incur his personal dis
pleasure if we pass bill of that kind.
Yet You want it done. Now, we feel that
we ought not to be placed in this position.
Won't you help us?"
The senator was of very grave mien for
a moment. Then he said: Does the gov
ernor intend to veto a constabulary bill If
it passes?" and they told him that the
governor did. They noticed that the sem
ator became very pale, his lips were tight
set; he stared vacuously at this self-ap-
pointed committee for a moment, then
he went to the water cooler and drank a
goblet of water. Then returning to his
seat, evidently having mastered the
strong feeling that for moment pos
sessed him, he said, speaking in the gem
te moderate way that is characteristic
of him We'll Roosevelt was a pretty
good governor, after ALL" That was all
he said but the committee understood
that he did not intend to keep the leeis-
lature in embarrassment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26
FACTS ABOUT CUBA.

From a recent bulletin issued by the
United States Geological survey, entitled,
"A Gazetteer of Cuba" compiled by Hen
ry Gannett geographer, the following
suggestive facts regarding the island
are taken:
With an acreage of 44,000 square miles
and a population in 1899 of l57a, 1877, only 3
per cent of the area of the island and
only 10 per cent. of the area in farms
was under cultivation. The most highly
cultivated portions of the island were in
Matanzas and llabana provinces, which
lie adjoining in its western part, while in
Puerto Principe. the large central prov
ince, cultivation was comparatively slight
and the land was used mostly for cattle
ranches. The crops. in the order of areas
cultivated, were: First sugar cane, Oc-
cupying somewhat less than half of the
cultivated area: next. sweet potatoes, oc-
cupyng II per cent of the area; tobacco,
. per cent. and bananas Il tritie less than
0 per cent. Tobacco and sugar were
grown in all the provinces. In 1899 there
were in Cuba 291 sugar mills with daily
production of 81, 407 bags.
Light Is thrown on the depopuatng eff
feet of war in Cuba by comparison of
the census of 1899 with that of 1877 In the
latter year it was 1854 ,6s7. or $1,000 more
than twelve years later I'm 1890. Allow
ing for the probable increase i'm the pop
ulation between 1887 and 1895, the year in
which the insurrection broke out, the loss
of life, as indicated by the two censuses,
may be estimated at nearly 100000, loss
to be attributed to the war and the ac-
companying RECOMMENDATION.
The bulletin is accompanied by maps
and charts, and contains nearly 1900
geographic names,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26
BRET HARTE's LAST POEM.

In Harper's for October Bret Harte's
last poem. found after his death, is
printed for the first time, 1t was written
at the time of the death of Queen Vic
toria. The poem is reprinted in full:
When your men bowed heads together
With hushed lips,
And the globe swung out from gladness
To eclipse,
When your drums from the equator
To the pole
Carried round 1t an unending
Funeral roll.
When your capitals from Norway
TO the Cape
Through their streets and from their
houses
Traied their Grape,
Still the sun awoke TO gladness
AS of old,
And the stars their midnight beauty
Still unrolled,
For sthe glory born of Goodness
Never dies.
And it's flag Is not half-masted
In the skies.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

not protected by the tariff. 1t .is al
ready on the free list and has been for
many years. Any American Is at lib
erty to import anthracite coal from
Wales without paying a penny Of Gus
tom tax. These two great corporations
or combinations come nearer to hold
Ing n monopoly In great staple products
than any other In the United States.
No so-called trust comes anywhere
near TO exercising the monopolistic
power that the Standard Oil company
exercises or that the railroads in the
coal combination have exercised in re-
gard to the output of anthracite coal.
And yet neither of these great products
has ever been affected In any way by
a protective tariff, because they have
always been on the free list.
1t was admitted in the testimony be-
fore the Industrial commission by such
trust managers as Mr.. Schwab that
the trust could continue in business
after serious reductions in the tariff or
even with free trade, but the tariff re-
ductions that have been advocated by
the Democrats would utterly destroy
all competition with the trust in this
country. 1t would present a condition
of home trust fighting foreign trusts
with the American market as the great
object of all
President Roosevelt, therefore, warns
the country against vindctive legisla-
tion and agitation against corporations
simply because they are big. The best
way to destroy the evil of trusts is to
follow the presidents plan for their
regulation by government control and
not their destruction, which would de-
stroy the business in which they are
engaged and at the same time destroy
our prosperity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26
Compulsory Arbitration.

Nun MANN, tne noted EnSllSn
labor leader, is in New Zea-
Il land investigating the work.
ing Of the compulsory arb-
tration law in that country. Mr. Mann,
if not professed socialist. is an advo-
cate OF radical changes in the existing
relations between labor and capital In
the Nineteenth Century for September,
Mr.. Mann publishes q short article on
the working of the compulsory ar
bitration act in New Zealand He
had, at date of writing, been
seven months in the island. He
had. therefore, had sufficient opportun-
ity to observe the practical applica ton
of law which the New Zealanders
believed would end the antagonism be-
tween capital and labor. Compulsory
arbitration has not been failure there,
broadly speaking. In it's New Zealand
application it has practically subserved
so far the purpose for which it was
instituted. During the five or six years
in which disputes have been brought
before them, the judgments of the ar
bitral courts have been Loyalty accept
ed. There have been few occasions in
which the penalties which bring the
statute within the definition and usage
of organic Jurisprudence had to be en-
forced. Perhaps it is not altogether the
more socially serviceabe for this. The
viriity of law is in an appreciable
measure maintained by the occasional
enforcement of it's mandates.
Although Mr.. Mann does not say so
directly, it can be readily deduced from
his statement of the case that compul-
sorry arbitration in New Zealand will,
in the course of a short time, either fall
into desuetude, be radically altered to
meet the views of trade unionists, or
be altogether repealed. Since the law
was passed trade in New Zealand has
been in very prosperous condition.
But in Mr.. Mann's opinion the prevail
ing hours of work and wages would
have come about, without the law, by
automatic increase or by strikes. The
time when the arbitration law was
passed was an era of great depression,
when strikes We're an every day occur
renee, when the little commonwealth
was driven to find an escape from its
economic diemmas in some direction or
perish. Compulsory arbitration brought
harmony out of chaos, not so much by
virtue of it's wisdom or the principles
upon which it was based, as through
the tranquilizing effect which it had
upon mems minds in an exceptional
crisis.
Mr.. Mann does not believe that COM
pulsory arbitration is adapted to the
settlement of labor disputes in coun-
tries like England or the United States.
New Zealand has only population all
told of six hundred thousand. The gov
ernment finds work for the unem-
poyed. There are no extremes of
wealth or poverty, although living and
house rent are exceptionally high in the
cities. The island is Verdant, fruitful
and with an equable temperature win
ter and summer. If compulsory arbi-
tration could succeed anywhere 1t
should be there But it has not succeed
ed automatically. 1t does not realize
the expectations that We're formed of
it. AS provisional experiment 1t has
served its purpose, locally. Only a
visionary can hope for its universal ap-
plication.
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dered is to prove that every necessary
and legitimate expense Of state gov
ernment, with the exercise Of only fair
and proper economy. can be met with
out imposing one dollar Of taxation
upon the farm owners, the house own
ers and the rent payers of any COM
munity, and without laying hard or
unreasonable charges upon other forms
of property" Without detracting any
thing from the credit properly due to
Governor Odell, 1t is satisfactory to be
able 10 say that long before he worked
out such welcome results in New York
state the Republican party had ac-
complished them in Pennsylvania.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

1t Is true, as some of the continental
critics of Secretary Hays note on the
Roumanan Jew question take evident
pleasure in pointing out, that the pro-
test of the United States Is not backed
by either an emphatic public opinion
or military strength sufficient to
cause 1t to be effective. So far as ac-
eomplishing anything Immediately it
is probably failure. But in interna-
tlonal, as in personal affairs, 1t Is a
long lane that has no turning. Secre-
tary Hay is not given to shooting into
the air. Neither does he miss many
targets
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

1t may be true that the use of "A neu-
tral flag is permissible in war when
the object Is to deceive the enemy and
when the flag is lowered before the at
tack begins; but our government does
we'll to notify the frisky cutthroats In
Venezuela that Old Glory is something
they had better leave severely alone.
We haven't enough confidence in their
Judgment to let them take liberties
with 1t.
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

When the Northern Democratic can
didates for congress appeal to the SOL
dier vote, have them explain why their
brethren in Virginia disfranchsed 5000
old soldiers in the National Soldiers
Home at Hampton, Virginia.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

The Princeton professor who took an
overdose of chloral has awakened. 1t
evidently takes more than an ordinary
drug to produce slumber at period
when the boys are practiclng the foot
hall veil
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

AS an indication of the direction of
the industrial wind 1t is merely neces-
sary to mention the fact that railroads
have placed orders for locomotives for
ten years ahead. Did such state of
affairs exist under a Democratic admin
iStratiOnp
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

Before Uncle Sam gets through with
the Venezuelan naval commanders it
may be demonstrated that there is a
sweeping copyright upon "Old Glory"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

Lieutenant Peary is still copfident of
reaching the pole, but the element fur
nishlng the funds begins to take on the
air Of Keely motor stockholders.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

There is a possibility that the specu-
lators who corner anthracite for fancy
prices may get caught with surplus
stock ere many days have passed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

1t Is hardly fair to Senatorial Candi-
date Guffey, the payer of the freight,
for Make Believe Candidate Pattison
to try to play away from the fact that
he is Democrat.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

The issue of imperialism" has gradu-
ally dwindled to such infinitesmal pro-
portions that even the most radical
Democratic orator can hardly locate it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26
Legisl

little more of this firmness earlier
IN the game would have been q valu-
able thing for the anthracite region
and the commonwealth of Pennsylva-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

In the language of Quigg, 'the signal
service which Governor Odeu has rem
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
State.

State.
Covernor-S. W. PENNYPACKER.
Lieutenant Govcincr--W. NJ. BROWN.
Secretary Of Internal Affairs-lSAAC B.
BROWN.
County.
Corgress-Wi!.LiAN CONNELL.
JuGge-.A. a. NOSBt'R
CoirHissionels--JOHN COURIER NOR
RlS. JOHN PENMAN.
f;ine Inspectors--LLEWEL NJ. EV-
ANS, DAVID 7. WILLIAMS.
Legislative.
Sena.or-JOIIN B. JORDAN.
representatives
First District--JOSEPtT OLIVER.
Second Dstrict--JOHN SCf1El FIR, JR.
Third Dis;rict-EDWARD JAMES
Fourth District--P. A. PIIILBIN.
Election day. Nov L.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

Even Tom Platt's enemies will have
to admit that he took the axe gamely.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26


to foster monopoly which
does i'll, why of course no protectionist
would object to modification sufficient
to meet that evil" In that sentence the
president said about all there is to be
said on the question of tariff revision.
The Democratic talk about placing all
trust made articles on the free list Is
easily demonstrated faulty because 1t
so happens that no trust has mon
opoly on the production OF any one pro-
tected product in this country
The Standard Oil company has prae-
tically a monopoly in petroleum, but
that article is not protected and the
tariff does not affect it's monopoly one
way or another. The coal roads are
charged with holding monopoly in
anthracite coal but anthracite coal is
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26

All of which goes to show that it is
easier to start a strike than to end one.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-26
Tariff and Trusts.

f; : a:
to foster n mOnoDoly which
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07

A Yorkshireman who las
been a citizen these twenty
years of the United States took
a fellow countryman to Judge
GilderSleeve's court the other
day to have him naturalized.
The foreigner entered the court
room with cigar and kept the
smoking butt between the fin
gers of his uplifted hand as the
clerk perIunctorily recited the
oath. Without rising or falling
infection the official reeled it
off thus: Il swear that I will
support the constitution of tie
United States, and that I dbso
lutely and entirely renounce
abjure all allegiance and fideli-
ty to every foreign prince, po-
tentate, state or sovereignty,
particularly to Edward VII ,
King of England, of which
country I have been subject"
just then noticing the
if you don't take
that sinking cheroot out of
your hand before his honor
happens to look this way and
sees it he will have you deport.
ed, so help me Cod" The butt
dropped without exploding, and
the man became a citizen. New
York Press.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07
The Company We Keep.

L would give my rignt hand if
l could forget that which l have
learned in evil society; if l could
tear from my remembrance the
scenes which have witnessed
the transactions that have
taken place before me. We are
walking Photographs. and
register with fearful accuracy
everything we see, touch. feel,
think. experience. Men be-
come false if they live with
liars; cynics if they live with
scorners; affected if they live
with the affected. ard actually
catch the expression of each
others faces. Every youth
should choose a high ideal in
the person of some one to whom
he can look up and whose
character he would like to re.
semble. This constant struggle
to tain the chara cter of our
ideal is wonderful uplift 10
the mind. 1t sustalns and
strengthens. -Selected
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07

This is the time to advertise.
Crops we're never better and as
Il result the farmers will have
much money and will buy heav.
lily and merchants who make
the necessary effort will enjoy
the benefits Of the farmers pros
perity. IF tie merchants just
stand around and wait for
trade to come to them and
make no effort u get the trade
thousands of dollars which
should come to Monroe City
will go to Hannibal, Shelbina,
Palmyra, Paris. Chicago and
st. Louis advertisers. Let the
people know that there is no
better place to trade than is
Monroe City and thus you will
greatly increase your business
and will be doing something
for the good of Monroe City
and the country surrounding.
You we'll know that our mer-
chants sell goods as cheap a.
they can be sold anywhere,
but the people must be shown
and i'll order to show your goods
you must get the people to
your store. The best way to
set them there is TO advertise,
and by the way August is a
mighty good month in which to
advertise and the best medium
is the Monroe City DEMOCRAT.
Do your duty.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07
Hatch.

Too late for last week.
DR.. John Bell has threshed
his big wheat crop. Average
30 bushels per acre. The cere.
al is the best quality.
Quite a number attended the
funeral of All Martins child at
st. Peters cemetery Sunday
Death occurred Saturday,
Owing to the busy time the
picnic at Dripping Spring has.
been postponed until some fu>
ture time.
People here all say they will
take in tie Monroe City fair,
Highest prices are paid for
poultry aud eggs, hides, ETC., at
-BALzER & DIRIGo's.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07

Do not blame the editor if
your name is not in the DEMO.
Graf. We are glad to publish
locals or personals about you
and your friends and if we DO
not do so it is because you have
failed to inform us. You will
do us a favor by letting us
KIN ow of any item of interest to
you or your friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07

When a man takes a county
paper out of the office and reads
it for years. and then discovers
that he don't want j., ana with
the politeness ot II Cnr te"deld
asks the editor o., buther
him'any more, he 40 doubt feels
that he has filled the editors
soul with joy, and congratulates
himself on having done noble
act. We'll, if he gets satisfac-
tion out of il, the editor should
not fret, for he has grown in
knowledge, and is, therefore, a
wiser but poorer man. We have
heard of such kindnesses from
our brother editors, and have
not been wholly neglected our
self. 1t certainly requires nerve
to do so. but then some men are
all nerve, and as a consequence
are lacking in sons Of the other
qualities that enter into the
c imposition of the highest ideal
of manhood. The editor is rob-
bed of that which is due him,
but the devil is gathering his
own.-Ralls County Times.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07

Professor Hasselbring of the
Illinois Agricultural College
has issued a sta ement, telling
how to kill the 'skeletonizers"
which has made It's appearance
in the orchards. He says a
sprinkling OF lime and Paris
green will drive the insect
away,-Elsberry Democrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07

Soldiers" remarked the
Kansas City Journal, ''are the
only ones who have pride in
their profession, When SOL
dier dies he is hauled to his
grave on the trucks of an old
cannon, and his memory would
be disgraced if any other We
hicle were used. But think
what a howl would go up
against his family if a dead
farmer should be hauled to his
grave on the trucks of a sulky
pillow"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07
and humanizes heaven. X. @.
World.
Rainfall For July.

Byron Mcfarland says that
the rainfall for July 1902 was
3. 80 inches. Last year for the
same month the rainfall was
less than .. inches.