The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-03-21

Timber SPECTATORS secured over hVe
hundred thousand acres on the east and
west slopes of the Rocky Mountains
last year under the timber and stone
act. The secretary Of the interior has
asked Congress for two years to re-
peal the law, and substitute therefore
an act which would give the govern
ment a chance to apply a scientific
system of forestry to all the timber
on the public lands. There seems to
be little inclination however on the
part of congress- to prevent the spoil
alton now in progress.
The people Of. Europe have learned
their lesson and the farmers of France
Germany and other intensely cultivated
lands would rise in revolution if their
governments should permit any such
Wholesale, destruction Of the timber on
the water sheds as is now in progress
in the United States !. Congress Should
put. the caresof{ AL the il inber on the
public lands III the hands 81 the bureau
Of Forestry of the Department of Ag-
riculture. and under proper restrictions
timber could be sold for industrial and
farmingt purposes without injuring the
forests or destroying their usefulness.
eMAXWELL'S TALlSMAN.
The fake-humorous speaker has an
easier career than even the fake-e1o-
quent speaker. Yet at any given din
ner. the orator who passes out more
e1ocutfon to his hearers has a. successes
almost az instant and splendid as his
clowning brother. It is amazing what
things people will applaud when they
have the courage of each others in
eptitude. They will listen, after dinner,
to anything but reason. They prefer
also the old speakers to new ones;
they like the familiar taps of humor,
Of eloquence; if they have tasted the
brew before, they know what they are
going to get. The note of their mood is
tolerance, but tolerance Of the accus-
toned, the expected, not tolerence Of the
novel, the surprising. They wish to
be at rest, and what taxes their minds
molests their intellectual repose. They
do not wish to climb any great height
to reach the, level of the orator. Per-
haps, after all, they are difficult in
their torpidity.--W. D. Howels:
If low wages and the absence of trade
trial supremacy then Russia and China
where low wages and no unions exist
would be at the head of the van. AS
! a matter Of fact the reverse Is the rule.
! We find that in countries where the
labor movement is the best developed
and the wages highest the greatest
| progress is being: made in all depart
ments Of human activity and civil
| lied advancement.
| England forged to the front indus
trially under the trade unions which
have existed in that country for 100
years. If England is now losing ground
! it is due to her, lack. Of natural resour-
ces. No country with little or no land
can afford to. compete with a country
whose NATURAL resources and feItile
land is unlimited. If nature has been
unzind to England and her statesmen,
business men and reckless spectators
have made mistakes and something
happens, the blame is at once placed
at the doors of the trade unions.-
Cigarmakers' Journal.
The editor of this sheet is lying on
his back with cute little pains chasing
each other up and down his spinal
stairway, and all over his darned sys-
tenn, and with temperature of 1S0
degrees above the sea level. And he
feels about as much like writing slusk
for this column as a hen with the gaps
feels like dancing the can-can. So il
any of you readers think L am going to
write. anything joviaF this: week you
are going. to get mighty badly fooled
The Cherokee Democrat: r.
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When John. D. Rockefeller, Morgan
Baer. Armour; and ): the rest Of the
ghouls who have cornered the neces-
saries of LIE, wax tat III prosperity the
masses become lean on the husks OF
\ adversely. The man Tho is compar
s atively. Spauper an !. have no identity
] of interest IN the. pIutocrat5 who reveals
n I'M hefopulen mi lions. The more
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