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as masters. Since laborers became free
as far as the right OF individuals to unite
Is concerned. they can do SO with the view, View
TO making the best bargains possible. They
are determined 10 have a voice as 10 how
labor is bought and sold. The labor organi-
cation seeks 90 raise wages Tor It's own
members, say the employers. That is prac-
tically so. but organized labor throws wide
open Its portals and asks ali who work 20
come in and participate in the beneficial
influence that comes from organization. The
employers place the price Oh the commodity
they want to sell. To them labor is sim
ply commodity. Heart and soul count as
nothing in the calculations OF the modern
capitalists. They count labor as a COM
modify and they want to buy and sell II
as such. But in the buying and selling of
commodities, the price is set, and Ii you
In labor the employer sets the price and
denies TO the laborer any right TO determine
what his labor shall be worth.
80 organized labor has improved its own
condition, but IL has also improved the con-
dition of the nonunionist for the reason
that the employer knows that unless he
makes some concessions 10 the nonunion-
list he will join the union. Great charges
have been made against the American Fed
Grafton of Labor that We have secured the
eight hour work day. We plead guilty.
Some progress has been made, more ought
10 be made. When wealth Is produced
through the great body of the working peo-
pie is il not time some change took place
to establish q universal eight hour work
Gay. III the employer WlSneS 10 get all the
work out of man let him work him twen-
ty-four hours a day and kill him in a few
days: or let him work him fifteen hours a
day and kill him In u few years; or let him
work him twelve hours day and
kill him in ten years. If he wants
to get the best results out of
the working man during his whole
lifetime and make him a benefit TO the
present well the future then let him
establish an eight hour working day.
BARGAIN WITH EMPLOYERS.
1.-The union makes a collective bargain
with the employer. in the Office of the en-
ployer, resulting from intelligent discussion
of propositions not always fair. but eco
nomically sane and sound. And on the
other hand the union protects the employer
from cutthroat competition and makes the
unfair competitors be good in spite of them
selves"
Mr.. Gompers then took up the strike and
discussed 1t from the point of view of both
the working man and the employer. He
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repeated that in this country, in the long
run, all of us tend 10 go up or go down
together. II the average OF well-belng is
high il means that the average wage-work-
er, the average farmer and the average
business man are all alike well on. III the
average shrinks. there is not one OF these
classes which will not feel the shrinkage
OF course there are always some men who
are not affected by good times, just as there
are some men who are not affected by bad
times. But speaking broadly, IL Is true that
If prosperity comes all of us tend 10 share
more or less therein, and that il adversely
comes each of us, TO a greater or less ex-
tent feels the tension.
unfortunately. in this world the inno-
cent frequently find themselves obliged TO
pay some of the penalty for the misdeeds
of the guilty; and so if hard times come
whether they be due TO our own fault or
10 our misfortune, whether they be due TO
some burst of speculative frenzy that has
caused portion of the business world to
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FEELING IN CoNsTANTISoPLE.


CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. War be-
tween Turkey and Bulgaria il now regard
ed here as inevitable. IL is even believed
that the outbreak of hostilities viii occur
before the end OF September when the re-
Inducements from Asia will have been
concentrated in Macedonia and i'm the VII
ayet OF Adrianople. IL is not thought that
there will be any formal declaration OF war
in view OF Bulgaria's status. but that some
OF the frontier incidents will precipitete
hostilities. The Bulgarians and Macedo-
mans residing in Constantinople are IN ter
ror OF massacre. \ large number OF them
were arrested a few days ago pre-
ventive measure" and they have not yet
been released. The fear OF a massacre IL
probably exaggerated, although I'm view OF
the present excited state OF Mussuiman
feeling an insignificant incident might per-
haps lead TO a massacre
A consular dispatch from Salonica says
that according TO authentic information the
insurrectfon in the district of Monsstfr has
been practically stamped out. Bashi-
bazouks assisted the regular troops In the
work of repression which - said TO have
been carried out with sanguinary ruthless
ness. the object OF the Turks being APP
parently TO extermnate not only the Bull
garian Inhabitants but all the Christians OF
whatever nationality.
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Will STOP COMPETITION
PITTSBURG COAL COMPANY GOBBLEs
ONE 0F IT'S CHIEF RIVALS.
Has Arranged to Take Control of the
Monongahela River Consolidated
Coal and Coke Company.

PITTSBURG. Pa. Sept. 7.-Official sane
tion was given to the purchase of the con-
troll Of the Monongahela River Consolidated
Coal and Coke Company to-day by the
board of directors of the Pittsburg Coal
Company. The deal Is not a merger of the
two companies and there is no intention
of making it a merger, according to the Of
fetal statement of President Frank l..
Robbins. the chief figure in the negotia-
tions Ii will. however. bring the river coal
Pittsburg Coal Company I'm the future and
there will be no competition i'm the sales
departments. President j. B. Finley, of
the River Company. is to retire and it is
likely that President Robbins. of the Pitts
burg company will become the official head
OF the River company. There will be no
other change I'm operations. the two COM
panies being conducted as independent Of
each other as I'm the past.
President Robbins was asked IL there
was anything done at the meeting about
the negotiations with the Pennsylvania and
other railroads and the coal company. He
replied that these negotiations were only
generally discussed. He did not think any
public statement could be made concerning
them for at least thirty days. This pro-
posal, he said, did not involve the selling
of any stock of the companies or of the
sale of anything belonging to the Pittsburg
Coal Company. 1t was of an entirely diff
ferent nature than had generally been sur
missed and when 1t was given to the stock
holders all would be made clear.
Regarding the stories afioat that the deal
with the Pennsylvania and other trans
portation lines in Pittsburg would in a
measure cut off the Wabash road tonnage
Mr. Robbins emphasized his denial of this
report. saying that absolutely nothing of
that kind was considered or even hinted
at and that the Wabash would be as warm
ly welcomed to this field by the Pittsburg
Coal Company as any other line.
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Correspondents at ConstantinopIe OF
Opinion War with Prince Ferdi.
nand Ii Almost Certain.
EFFORT TO coERcE BULGARIA
RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA HAVE PRO-
POSED ACTION BY THE POWERS.
Germany Has Consented, hut other
Nations Have Objected and Moth
fng May he Done.

LONDON, Sept. ESPECIAL dispatches
from the near East published this morning
add little fresh news regarding the situa-
ton in the Balkans. All the correspondents
at Constantinople emphasize the apparent
danger of war with Bulgaria, while the
Sofia correspondents are equally insistent
as to the prudent and correct attitude or
Prince Ferdinand and his government.
Accounts from both Turkish and insur-
gent sources of the operations in Macedonia
show that the work OF determination is
proceeding unchecked, and, although ap-
parently realizing the danger OF a confia-
grafton, the powers are making some at
tempt to interfere, it is believed that moth
ing of a serious nature will be done until
after the meeting Of the Gar and EN-
peror Francis Joseph at Vienna, when it
may be too late.
The insurgents are now said to number
2s,OoO well-armed and efficiently command
ed men. Their leaders seemingly will stop
at nothing to secure resources for their
equipment.
The Sofia correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph says: 'T am in close touch with
the insurgents, and am enabled to affirm
emphatically that unless acceptable pro-
posals are made within two or three weeks
Europe will be startled by a record OF
deeds unequaled in the blood-stained his
tory of the East"
The Morning Leaders correspondent at
Sofia says the Turkish policy is to draw
the insurgents into action at all points.
The bands however, avoiding conflicts
until their preparations are completed
They are gathering in strong masses at
various strategic positions with view TO
comprehensive movement inside OF ten
days.
A dispatch to the Times from Monastir.
dated Sept S, says: '1n Turkish circles
war with Bulgaria is thought to be imml-
nent. Hilmi Pasha, inspector general OF
Macedonia, himself says he sees no other
solution. The inal reserves are warned 20
hold themselves I'm readiness and orders
have been issued to the principal towns 20
supply horses and money and otherwise TO
aid the military preparations. In the fever
ish attempt to stamp out the insurrection
in this quarter, so as to release the troops
for operations elsewhere, there Is unfor
tunately every reason to suspect that an
attempt is making TO produce the indis-
criminate slaughter of the Bulgarian ele-
ment in which Christians OF all denomina-
tions are in danger of being treated alike.
Should this prove true there can be no hope
of saving the greater part Of the Christian
population in the remote districts OF west
ern Macedonia"
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BERLIN, Sept 7.-Russia and Austria
have proposed that the powers take coer-
Give diplomatic action at Sofia with the
aim of severing the relations now existing
between Bulgaria and the Macedonian in
surgents Germany has assented. but sew
eral OF the powers have objected and tho
Russian and Austrian proposal. the Asso-
ciated Press is officially informed. has prob
ably fallen through. The Russian and
Austrian representations reveal the attitude
OF these powers towards Turkey and the
whole Balkan question. They affirm that
Bulgaria has been acting In bad faith IN
giving secret countenance to the fnsurgen
and giving them hope OF ultimate success.
thus rendering Turkeys task OF pacifcation
more difficult and delaying yet longer the
execution OF the programme or reform ac-
cepted by Turkey. The joint proposal as
sumed that settlement OF the Balkan
troubles Is attainable IL Bulgaria is forced
to cut of all connection between the two
sides OF the frontier.
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THREATENED PRESIDENT
ARREST OF A GERMAN AT SYRACUSE
ON A SERIOUS CHARGE.
He Is Alleged to Have Said He Would
Shoot Mr. Roosevelt, but Denies
the Charge.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. John Miller,
a German, was arrested this afternoon at
his home and is charged with having
threatened to shoot President Roosevelt
during his stay in Syra acuse- Sunday even
ing the police learned that a man of the
name Of Miller living in the southwestern
part of Syracuse. had said that he would
shoot the President while the letter car
riers' parade was in review. They could
find no trace Of the man until late this
afternoon, when he was arrested. He de-
MES that he made threats against the Presi-
dents life and says woman. through
whom the police learned of him, is lying.
When questioned at police headquarters he
was unable to give a clear explanation of
his whereabouts since Sunday morning He
is held pending a more thorough investi-
cation.
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WOMAN'S TRAGIC DEATH
JEFFERSONvILLE WIFE THREW
HERSELF IN FRONT OF A CAR.
Had Quarre1ed with Her Husband,
Who, Hearing OF Her Act, Became q
Raving Maniac from Grief.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Sept. IA
tragic suicide occurred here at $40 O'Clock
tonight Mrs. Jacob Woerner, forty-five
years of age, threw herself in front of q
car of the Louisville & Southern Indiana
Interurban line near her home at Four
teenth street and Duncan avenue. Both
legs were cut off and her right hand
crushed. She bled to death in eight minutes
Mrs. Woerner and her husband had had
trouble during the day and had sworn out
cross warrants for each others arrest. Al
o'clock, while Mrs. Woerner was at home
with her two children, she rushed franti-
cally from the house exclaiming, Stay
here children, am going crazy, / am GO
ing to kill myself" She ran to the car track
and threw herself in front OF the approach
ing car. Woerner, after hearing of his
wife's tragic death, became penitent and
surrendered himself to the sheriff. When he
was locked in jail he became a raving
maniac from grief.
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WOMAN sECRETED DIAMOND.


The wife OF a prominent saloon keeper
was out seeing the town last night and i'm
bibed a little too freely, according to a
story told by Patrolmen Pope and Cox. She
was driving around the city in a cab be-
longing to the indianapolis Transfer Com
pany and when her ride was finished she
refused to pay the cabman his fee. claiming
that he had stolen diamond brooch from
her. A large crowd was soon attracted and
Patrolmen Pope and Cox were called by the
woman, who claimed that she had been rob
bed She told them her tale of woe, said
that the .cabby had stolen her diamonds
and demanded that he be arrested. The
policemen examined the womans clothing
carefully and found The brooch secreted
under a fold OF her waist. She later ad-
mitted that she was merely attempting 10
beat the cabn.an out of his fare and knew
where the pin was all the time.
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THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Relations of Capital and Labor and
Citizenship Discussed.


The Presidents speech at the fair
grounds was as enthusiastically received as
was the Presidents appearance in the
streets of Syracuse. In answer to the cries
Of the audience, after President Roosevelt
had finished his talk, Senator Chauncey NJ.
Depew spoke briefly pronouncing the Presi-
dents speech the best he had ever heard
Roosevelt deliver. President Roosevelt s
speech follows:
I'm speaking on Labor day at the annual
fair of the New York State Agricultural
Association, it Is natural to keep especially
in mind the two bodies who compose the
majority of our people and upon whose
welfare depends the welfare of the entire
State. If circumstances are such that
thrift, energy, industry and forethought en-
able the farmer, the tller of the soil, on
the one hand, and the wage worker, on the
other. to keep themselves. their wives and
their children I'm reasonable comfort, then
the State Is well off, and we can be assured
that the other classes in the community
will likewise prosper. On the other hand.
if there is in the long run a lack of pros
perity among the two classes named, then
all other prosperity is sure to be more
seeming than real. 1t has been our pro-
found good fortune as nation that
hitherto, disregarding exceptional periods
of depression and the normal and inevitable
fluctuations, there has been on the whole
from the beginning of our government to
alike in the condition of the tiller of the soil
and in the condition of the man who, by
his manual skill and labor, supports him
self and his family, and endeavors TO bring
up his children so that they may be at
least well of as, and If possible, better
of than he himself has been. There are,
of course, exceptions. but as a whole the
standard of living among the farmers of
our country has risen from generation to
generation, and the wealth represented on
the farms has steadily increased, while the
wages of labor have likewise risen, both as
regards the actual money paid and as re-
CARDS the purchasing power which that
money represents
ALL HAVE PROSPERED.
side by side with this increase in the
prosperity OF the wage-worker and the
tiller of the soil has gone on a great in
crease in the prosperity among the business
men and among certain classes of profess
sional men; and the prosperity of these men
has been partly the cause and partly the
consequence Of the prosperity OF farmer
and wage-worker. 1t cannot be too often
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MEXICAN VETERANS.


The annual reunion Of the National Mexi-
can War Veterans Association will be
held at the Statehouse Wednesday and
Thursday of next week, Sept. 16 and IL.
The Grand Hotel will be headquarters OF
the association. The annual meeting OF
the Indiana Association of Mexican War
Veterans will be held during the meeting
of the national association, also at the
Statehouse About 200 old soldiers are ex-
pected here from all parts of the country.
the Danes of 1886" will have their an
nual meeting during the reunion of the
veterans
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NEW YORK, Sept. IA powerfully built
man caused considerable excitement as
President Roosevelt was about to board the
train In Hoboken for his trip to Syracuse
by persistently trying to follow and making
several efforts to speak to the chief execu-
tive He was seized by the chief Of police
of Hoboken and two policemen, and hustled
into a waiting room. where he was searched.
He was found to be unarmed and was re-
1paca cal
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HAITI'S FINANCIAL SCANDALS.
Nearly All Former President Sans
Ministers Charged with Fraud.

PORT AU PRINCE, Sept. THE
Monteur Officiel to-day published the second
report of the commission appointed to in
quire into the financial scandals here Man
ager Delamyre. Assistant Manager Olerich
and Puybaudete and Tipperhauer, chief of
department. all formerly in the employe of
the national bank. former President Sam
and nearly all his former ministers are
charged with being connected with the is
suing OF the fraudulent government securi-
ties TO the extent OF $4,000, discovered sew
eraf months ago. In addition to NJ. Gedeen
and Saint Victor. former ministers under
General Sam. who were arrested Sept
by order of President Nord i'm connection
with the bank scandals. former Minister
Guiliaums has been arrested and NJ Le-
conte. also a former minister. has fled from
Port al Prince.
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CIRCUS TENT BLOWN DOWN.


ANTHONY. Kan, Sept. 7.-During Sc
we're windstorm to-day Robinson's circus
tent was blown down. An immense crowd
was in the menagerie, and when the poles
and canvas came down one hundred persons
were hurt. Price Joyner was probably ia
tally hurt. Animal cages were overturned
some of the cages falling on people. None
of the animals escaped.
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo-. Sept. IA severe
wind and rainstorm tonight broke several
electric light poles and endangered the
lives of many people. A live wire on the
pavement killed True Rainey and severely
burned William Downs.
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REcALC1TRANT WITNESSES.
They Decline to Testify in Regard to
the Alleged Western Coal Trust.

TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. 7.-At the inquiry
at the District Court to-day before Judge
Hazen to ascertain if possible whether
coal trust exists among the operators and
dealers. John Jacks. a mine owner of
Page county, the first witness. refused to
testify. declaring IL was discriminating. The
rest of the day spent in arguing the
question of compelling the witnesses to
testify.
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STEAMER PROBABLY LOST.
No Word Of the Louise, Which Left
Sandusky with I25 Persons.

SANDUSKY. o., Sept. THE steamer
Louise, with 125 persons aboard. which left
Sandusky at o'clock this morning for
Leamington, Canada, has not yet landed
there and IL Is thought the boat Is lost
The trip usually requires only few hours.
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LABOR DAY PARADERS.
In Indiana.

Many cities in Indiana held celebrations,
but did not report number Of men in pa
radPS
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uous by being the only one to vote against

uous by being the only one to vote against
the measure. The other members of the
minority voted aye to man, and evidently
were as anxious to see the measure pass as
the Republicans. Mr. Moriarity made an
other speech, in which he said the time is
not ripe for a boulevard system, that il
would cost the city an immense sum of
money more than had been appropriated,
and that all kinds of things would happen
If the ordinance was put through. His
speech was received in chilly silence, and
the redoubtable Jim retired in disorder.
MINOR ACTION TAKEN.
Council passed an ordinance requiring the
Indianapolis Union Railway Company to
station a watchman at the Belt and Mar
ket street. An ordinance authorizing Reed
& Graham to build and maintain a switch
across the first alley east of Cornell avenue
was also passed.
On the recommendation of Controller
Breung two ordinances were introduced
providing for a transfer of funds for the
benefit of the fire department. The first
transfers $500 from the fire force pay roll
to the fund for the repair Of buildings. The
second transfers $500 from the fund for new
apparatus to the printing and stationery
account. An ordinance was introduced to
allow the claim of Joseph Behringer, ad-
against the city for $93. Is. Mr.. Expert In
dianapolis Union Railway Company to lay
and maintain a switch across the first alley
east of Rural street, running north from
Roosevelt avenue.
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such Is the Opinion at Constantinople
Situation Not Improved.
LONDON. Sept. The Balkan situation
shows no sign OF improvement Indeed. ina
constantinople Il Is now thought war be-
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A TIMELY SUGGESTION.

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