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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
MAINE AND LICENSE.

The state Of Maine has not exactly
abandoned the prohibition law like
New Hampshire and Vermont have
done, but that state is getting ready
for just such move as Iowa did I'M
der the mulct law. Main will re-sub-
nit the question of prohibition to a
popular vote in the near future and
the indication is that the '.wets" will
win the day. The old law has been
very unpopular,and its fairly strict en-
forcementS in small cities has made it
more so than if its application had
been lax. The enforcement in the
smaller cities and towns and the open
violation in the larger places has caus-
ed a great deal of friction and disgust
with the law.
In most of the large cities liquor
has been openly sold without regu-
lation. This has brought the prohibit
ton law into contempt. Recently the
supreme court inaugurated a new way
of dealing with men who sell whis-
key, and they have been heavily fin
ed, and this has created furore in
that state, and has opened the eyes
of the people to former hypocrisy and
the general contempt formerly exist
ing against the prohibitory law.
The people who have given the sub
ject serious thought have reached the
conclusion that it will be almost i'm
possible to have a strict prohibitory
law obeyed under present feeling and
that it would be better to regulate the
traffic in intoxicants by license than
have men follow the business and pay
no revenue for the privilege. Wheth-
er a license law will carry in Maine
is uncertain, but it is high time to
either enforce the present law to the
letter or enact license law, which is
much easier enforced and better obey
cd
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
ARE BABIES BECOMING FASHION,
ABIE7

Atlanta constitutional is barely
possible that children may yet become
fashionable. At any rate there is a
take the place of the poodle dog in the
family carriage.
Queen Alexandra, so 1t seems, has
set the pace by riding through London
holding little Prince Henry of Wales
in her lap. And since then London
society women have. Of course, been
driving out with baby in the carriage.
Some of them base discarded the
lap dog entirely. while others still
cling to the poodle. and allow the baby
to sit in the nurses lap. But it is at
least hopeful sign that they are not
ashamed to be seen in public with
baby
Evidently the war that is being
made on race suicide" is having it's
effect. The world is in need of ba-
bies. Without them everything would
soon come to standstill.
Now that Queen Alexandra has Civ
en- babies precedence over the lap dog
1t Is to be hoped that her example will
be generally followed. Women, it
seems, delight to follow her lead in all
other things; why not in this matter?
True it was her grand-child that
Queen Alexandra had in the Carriage
With her. But her own record proves
her sincerity While always a recog.
llzed leader OF the worlds society she
mas ever been good wife and mother.
And what more need be said oil any
woman?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
TREATMENT OF /. ASSUMPTION.


Baltimore Sun: According to DR..
Latham, whose essay on the proposed
sanitarium in England for the treat
ment of consumption won the prize in
the competition instituted by Edward
VII, the essential principles are life
spent in the open air, complete free,
dom from any facilitating circum-
stances, or anything which may lead
to the eXacerbation OF the disease,
methodical hill climbing when the pa
tient is equal thereto, an abundant
diet liz which milk, fatty food and veg
etables hold an important place, yari-
Gus hydrotherapeutic methods and
constant medical supervision. AS ma
ny as $50 essays were submitted by
medical men of all nations, each essay
being accompanied by a plan for build
ings, arrangements, letc., for santa
rum. A great deal of attention is
being given at present in Europe to
the treatment of tuberculosis, which
is recognized as one Of the great
plaques of mankind.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
I'M a BAD TANGLE.

z The influx of foreign workmen into
this country this spring is something
phenomenal. About the only thing of
value in this country in which there is
free trade is labor, and yet the tariff
is supposed to be for the protection of
the American workman. Tariff laws,
are however, so made that the American
artisan has to compete with the cheap
est labor in the world--Dubuque Tele-
graph.
Evidently the esteemed Telegraph is
being tangled in it's economics. But
1t is only natural for democratic pa
per to get befuddled on this subject.
1t is supposed to talk free trade from
early morn until late at night" When
the editor becomes run down he is
quite liable to jump at conclusions and
make all sorts of wild statements.
The above in the Telegraph is one
OF them. Labor is better paid today
than it ever was when democratic tar
III laws We're in force. The reason for
IT is that duty is laid on articles
: made in foreign countries by cheap la.
Dor. Remove this duty and American
laborers would be idle. or il employed
at all, their wages would be much low
er than they are now The American
system of protection is what keeps
men employed at living wages. The
Telegraph knows this.
The views OF the Telegraph are con
Trajectory. Ii free trade in labor is
wrong. then the whole fabric of free
trade is wrong. 1t is up to the Tele
graph to explain itself.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
PROTECTION AND WAGES.

Occasionally some democrat asserts
that American labor as whole is UNI
derpaid, and that protection does not
protect wage earners. This is all po-
litical clap-trap 1t is done to fool the
people. Take for example the sched-
ule of wages paid to men engaged in
the building trades in New York City.
The wage scale is as follows:
Amalgamated Painters and Decorat-
ors, 81 day.
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and joiners, 50 and $3.50 a day.
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers,
81 day.
Plain and Ornamental Plasterers, 81
a day.
Plasterers' laborers, 1925 day.
Plumbers and Cashiers, S4.25 a day.
Tar, Felt and Waterproof Workers,
$3.50 a day.
Brotherhood of Boilermakers, 81 a
day
Electrical Workers, 81 day.
Metal Workers, 81 day.
Mosaic Workers helpers, $265 a
day.
Marble Cutters, $3.50 a day.
Marble Polishers and Rubbers, So SO
a day.
Marble Cutters Helpers, s265 a
day.
Bricklayers, so cents an hour
Safety Association Steam Engineers,
$3.50 a day.
Gas and Electric Fixture Hangers,
81 day.
Tile Layers Union S. a day.
Tile Layers Helpers So day.
Wood Lathers' Union, 81 day.
Portable Hosting Engineers Union,
$24 a week.
Steam and Hot Water Filters, 81 a.
day.
Steam Filters Helpers, $3.50 day.
House Shorers' and Movers Union,
$3.50 day.
Cement Masons' Union $3.50 a day.
Cement and Asphalt Laborers, $3.50
a day.
Laborers' Union Protective Society,
37R cents an hour.
Housesmiths and Bridgemen's I'm
ion. "a day.
Metallic Lathers' Union 81 a day
Granite Cutters Union, $3.50 day.
United Derrickmen, Riggers, and
counters OHlOH, 20 udS
Journeymen Stonecutters Associa--
ton, 81 to SIS day.
Boiler and Pipe Coyerers' Associa-
ton, 81 a day.
Dock Boilers Union, 81 day.
If you have doubt in your mind,
that American artisans are underpaid,
read again the wage scale given above
If the men engaged in the building
trades in that city cannot live on their
earnings they can lay it to themselves
and not to conditions. But what gives
them these good wages? Is it not be-
cause times are good and there is a
large demand for labor in this line?
If business were duh and money scarce
there could be litue demand for labor
and small wages would follow. The
man who asserts that our protective
system does not aid labor is intention
ally misrepresenting facts or is Woe
fully ignorant.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
VIEWS OF CONSERVATIVES.

The conservative members of the
Chicago Federation of Labor at late
meeting of the order took the ground
that too many strikes are hastily or
dered and do organized labor an in
Jury. 1t was pointed out that this is
too much the case with young socie-
ties, which declare a strike immedi-
ately following organization and in
volve many other orders which strike
in sympathy without becoming familiar
with the nature of the grievances of
the new order. Harry MacCormack,
a conservative and leading union, man,
said in the course of speech on the
subject:
The Chicago Federation of Labor is
beginning to be classified by business
men and the conservative element as a
strike fomenter. OF late this body has
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
HOW COMPULSORY ARBITRATION
WORKS..

New York World-New Zealand is
sometimes referred to as the land
Where there are no strikes,
but even in this South
Sea labor paradise there are la
Dor question quite as difficult to settle.
as those which from time to time con-
front Americans or Europeans Where
arbitration is compulsory, as in New
Zealand, it might be supposed that ev-
erything in labor circles would keep
moving even if it did not move rapid
ly But this suppositon has met rude
shock. The compulsory arbitration
law has taken on a new phase of de,
velopment which may be of as much
interest to labor in America as in
lands under the southern cross.
A few weeks ago the employees in the
furniture trade concluded that raise
in wages would be desirable The de-
mand for increase was made, and the
employers refusing to accede to it, the
matter was promptly taken before the
arbitral court This body at once adj
vanced the wages of the men from 81
cents per hour to 81 cents. But just
at this point the unexpected happened.
The employers shut down their estab-
lishments, saying that they were UNI
able TO pay the rate assessed, and that
they could import furniture, pay %
per cent customs duty and still sell it
cheaper than they could make and mar
ket it at this new rate of wages to
their men,
1t is at this interesting stage of the
game that news ceases for the time.
More than 1000 men have thus lock-
ed the door of employment against
themselves and will now have leisure
to reflect upon the bearings of the great
law of supply and demand, a law
which takes precedence even of arbi.
trail courts. In other words there is
limit at which employment ceases to
be profitable to the employer, and the
New Zealand furniture men seem to
have reached that point
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
WHY THEY CANE.

A distinguished German statesman
recently said in a speech in the reich
tag: Germany has exported 10000.
900 men to the United States who are
now fighting Europe worse than the
Americans themselves" The 10000
600 Germans to whom the speaker re-
ferred embody the qualities which
make America formidable compete
tor of Europe for trade and power.
The Germans Americanize quickly and
form an important part of what is
good in labor, scholarship and con-
sseryatiye craftsmanship. They are
people who would have done as much
for the land of their nativity had cir
cumstances been favorable at home.
But these were not given to them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
THE BEST COUNTRY.

Mr.. Alfred Moseley of England, who
was sent to this country last year to
study labor conditions, has made his
report. There were twenty-three dele
gates in the party, and their views are
synopsized in the report, which is GER
tainly favorable to the workingmen in
this country. 1t was the consensus of
opinion, and so noted by Mr.. Moseley,
that British worllingmen are not in
advance of the Americans, while en-
ployers are behind.
Mr. Moseley says that the American
workman has far better education,
SIS infinitely better paid, housed, fed,
and clothed, and, moreover, much more
sober"
He also says in his report: eff we
are to hold our own in the commerce
of the world, the old methods must be
dropped and the old machinery aban-
doned.a He believes that some sort
of profit sharing is the true solution of
the capital and labor question, and
that the organization of capital on one
hand and labor on the other will solve
the labor problem.
The British delegates, after thor
ough investigation. did not wonder at
our national progress in national
way. They were also surprised that
American wage earners took a direct
interest in politics and that their voice
Is needed in campaigns. 1t was new
phase of the question to them, as 1t
convinced them that laborer in the
United States is not mere machine,
which is too much the case in Europe.
American laborers have no reason to
be ashamed of their positions or the
country they live in.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Which of the Euils2

When such man as w. R. Hearst
is seriously considered as possible
nominee of the democratic party for
the presidency, the depths to which the
democratic party has fallen may be re-
allied" declares the Adams County
Union Republican. ''Ee and his pa
pers are an offense to decent people.
AS between Bryan on the democratic
ticket and a man like Hearst on the
republican ticket we would not even
have to take to the woods. And it
would take a good deal to induce us to
vote the democratic ticket, too"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23

The official call for the state demo-
cratic convention has been issued and
the day of trouble is set for June %
and will take place in the city of Des
Moines. The convention will consist
of S53 delegates. Scott county will
have membership of "a. Dubuque 81
Clinton %. Pottawattamie 81, Linn
10, Lee IS, Wapello II. and Des
Moines H. The counties named have
the largest delegations, while most OF
the other counties have much smaller
Humboldt, Worth and Winnebago
have only 2 each; Hamilton, Hancock
and Mitchell. and Dickinson have
three; Calhoun Cherokee. Story, Sac,
Wright and Clay have only four The
ratio is one delegate-at-large and one
for each 200 votes or fraction there
of cast for secretary of state at the
last election. From this it will be
seen that in many counties the demo-
Gratis are few and scattering.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23

ACADEMY OF CRIME

One Of the strangest educational in
situations in the United States has
been found in Brooklyn, N. Y. In this
school all kinds Of evil doing is taught.
Boys are taught how to steal, pick
pockets, snatch purses from the hands
of women, break into stores, private
residences-in fact, do every thing
but commit actual murder But diplo-
mas from this so-called school entitle
graduate to go the limit of human
crime.
When the academy, as the police call
it, was discovered, it contained class
of thirty boys ranging in ages from
~ to 10 years. A boy was given a GER
tain district to work and was COM
PEELED to turn in to his preceptors the
results of each days work and give
a full account of everything that
transpired, so that he could be in
structed to head off future accidents
in failing to connect with the proper
ty of other people.
1t is not stated how long the course
of study in that academy is, but it is
evidently not very long. as the boys
no doubt, soon strike out for them
selves. The average boy finds it much
easier to learn wrong than right I'M
less he curbs himself. Old man Fagin
found it an easy job to make profess
sional thieves of boys, but he was
scarcely the wretch the"Boston Bros .
are, who are operating the Brooklyn
academy. When they once get a boy
in their power they threaten him
with severe bodily injury il he does
not show an aptness for crime. The
wrong an institution OF that kind can
do is incaleulable.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
AN INFAMOUS LAW.

The legislature of Pennsylvania has
passed libel law in the interest of
rascals and political hold-up men. The
law is so fixed that if an editor knows
a man to be an internal scamp he dare
not warn the public against thim or
even cite in proof his record to prove
his character. No picture, caricature
or cartoon dare be published of a man
without his written consent Even a
fellow in the penitentiary could collect
damages.
The law also applies to all personal
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23

been indorsing strikes of which they
knew absolutely nothing on the spur
of the moment. | am not opposed to
strikes that are necessary But this
body must take the position that it
does not exist to cause and encourage
strikes. Men should know the move
ment and should be thoroughly expe-
rienced before they are allowed to
strike.
James Linehan, another leading
union man, aroused much enthusiasm
by his speech, in which he said:
Things have reached stage in this
city where organization is no longer
the object, The object is strike, strike,
strike.
Who is to prevent such anarchy but
the Chicago Federation of Labor?
Trades unions must be made bulwarks
of safety. l do not believe in strikes
where men go out and then rush home
to tell their wives and children they
must starve. This is the policy of late
and we are facing serious condition.
This shows in a measure how men
who believe in labor unions view the
seriousness of premature strikes and
the injury they do organized labor.
Many strikes are inaugurated which
could easily be settled by arbitration
and the worlmen thus retain the re-
spect of their employees Well regu-
lated labor unions are necessary and
protect wage earners. Men who COM
pose them are becoming more and
more students of the great labor prob
lem and more liberal in their concur
sions, while at the same time securing
for labor it's dues. Neither side to
this great question can afford to be too
unheeding and arbitrary and that
seems to be the end sought by the
leaders in the Chicago Federation of
Labor
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Do Work hy Proxy.

The Greenfield Transcript reprints
an editorial ii favor of allowing the
county officers of Adair county deputy
hire. The Transcript says that TOR
years the republicans have elected
their county officers with the tacit uf-
derstanding that they were to have no
Office help, but that the labor is now
becoming too heavy for them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Too Ear From the Crib.

"Mr. Bryan seems to have grudge
against the Iowa democracy" says the
Clinton Age. "a democracy of close
adherence to principle and party, fight
ing against fearful odds, sure defeat
awaiting it, not even a promise Of nip
at the public crib, it has commanded
the respect and sympathy of both par
ties the country over. Why Mr.. Bryan
should select the democratic party of
Iowa as his chief object of assault and
antagonism it is difficult to under
stand"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Locating Capital Letters.

1T has gone down to a point now"
says the Gideon Graphic, where ALI
son and Roosevelt's speeches can be
quoted approvingly by both sides. 1t
is simply a question of locating the
capital letters. All of which proves
that it is not the tariff that has Gre
ated all this ruction."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Works Like a Charm.

Osllaloosa Herald: Convention does
not sit heavy on the jewellers of Okla
homa. A year ago man and his wife
were divorced, the reason being incom-
patibility of temperament. In the di-
vision of property which followed the
man got possession of the house The
woman rented it from him at $3.50 a
month. and since the divorce was
granted he has been boarding with her
for SIS month, and the neighbors say
they get along beautifully under this
arrangement.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Came Ahead of Time.

Des Moines Capital: Hoke Smith
says a democrat of the Mckinley
type" is what his party needs. We
knew that the democratic canoniza-
ton of Mckinley would come in time,
but we hardly expected it would be be-
fore the man had been dead two years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Should be photographed.

Somebody ought to photograph the
mythical Iowa Idea before it is en-
tombed. 1t was very pretty-as pref
ty as a big iridiscent soap-bubble float
ing in air-but it has burst, without
noise nor did it leave as much as a
wee drop of dew on the carpet.-Wash-
ington, Press.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
They Mean Business.

According to the Audubon Republi-
can the United States court decision
against the merger of the Northern Pa
cific and Great Western is a great legal
victory for Attorney General Knox and
Roosevelt's administration. The Re-
publican thinks that more is being
done against trust monopolies than ev.
err before
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
cARNEeIE's DONATIONS.

New York Tribune-Th gifts made
by Andrew Carnegie. since 1895 for
the founding of libraries and for educa-
tional purposes in America and Great
Britain amount according to the re-
port of the commissioner of education
contained in a pamphlet recently is
sued by the United STAGES bureau of
education, to $67 PIP, 92S. OF this sum
over $52, 000, 900 was given in this coun-
try, according to an extract of the
Washington Post. said to have been re.
yised by Mr.. Carnegie himself. The
report contains table showing the dis
tribution and amounts of the various
fits.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23

1t is rumored that Iowa republicans
that the call will be issued when the
committee meets the latter part of the
present month. AS the democrats meet
June "a, the republicans will probably
meet early in July.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Would Be Valuable.

The Mondamin Enterprise says that
if the farmers really understood the
actual worth of rural telephone sys
TEN, there would be scarcely farmer
in that community who would be with
out telephone connections with some
market place.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Parry,s Bad Break.

Des Moines Capital: Mr.. D. NJ Par
.ry, president of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, has been in
dulging in some very foolish talk con-
corning organized labor. In other
words, sparks from the finder box of
his Imagination appear to have caused
quite confagration among the tail
feathers of his judgment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Favors Van Waqenen.

The Onawa Democrat has little
doubt that Judge Van Wagenen can
have the democratic gubernatorial
nomination if he will take it. 1t thinks
his government ownership issue is a
live, popular issue-one that will be
a reality sooner than majority of the
people think
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23

The Chicago police have unearthed
a murder case that occurred nearly
five years ago. A young man told the
girl ne expected to marry he saw the
crime committed near the Douglas
monument, and she failed to keep the
secret. Now her sweetheart is in Jail
charged with being an accomplice.
Some people cannot keep secrets even
though they were to hang for telling
them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23

Lieutenant Governor Lee of Mis-
souri, gives as excuse for his failure to
to answer several summons to appear
before grand juries investigating hood
lerism, that he is tired and needs rest.
He seems to have worked hard
enough placing that $4,000 where it
would do the most good to entitle him
to a long rest at state expense.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-04-23
Make Them Work.

The Valley junction Express advo-
Gates the establishment of new state
institution for the treatment of inebri-
ates-a place where manual labor
would be part of the treatment III
stead of making their life their one of
comfort, ease and pleasure" says the
Express. "let it be understood that
along with the treatment for the whis-
key habit must come work and plenty
of it,"