The National tribune., 1903-07-09

publican is yet croaker. He views with
alarm just the same now as when ne
was herling with the Populists. Then.
rs now. it is the currency question which
is giving him trouble. Representative
CannOns plan. he says. is very bad.
..To let the crash come and thus squeeze
the water out of these stocks, and after
the crash to reestabish things on Il tirmer
basis. is more dangerous than appears on
the face of it. The whole country is likely
to suffer- | think that the best way to
Straighten matters out is to increase the
volume of currency little. thus prevent
ing an immediate collapse. 1t is my be-
lief that Congress is going to take TINS
view of the matter. because should the
big crash come it is likely to carry down
with it the prosperity that the country Is
now enjoying. and this would mean hard
times again for several years.
The new pure food law went into eff
feet on July l. 1t slipped through Con
greSS last Winter and became law be-
fore anybody knew it. almost. Such a
bill has often been introduced. but it has
nevcr been possible to get If passed before
1t provides that ali imported goods shall
be exactly what they are labelled to be.
Very often. because the duty is high on
VI tl'l'- iiiiB'i 'N4
the goods as an inferior article and then
after it has come into the country. put
upon it the proper label. 1t is also aimed
at importers who bring in inferior articles.
such as wines. for instance. and then label
item as something much finer. The eX-
porter must now make affidavit that the
articles he is sending to this country are
just exactly what they are labelled TO be-
that they are pure. and that the samples
pies of the identical cargo. and not of
cargo of similar goods. Despite this afti-
iavt. the Agricultural Department will
select samples of its own, and examine
them whenever it sees fit. which is OK
pected to act as check on would-he dis
honest shippers. DIR. Wiley, of the Agri-
cultural Department. thinks it Il very good
law. 1t will be in his hands to enforce.
Mr.. ii. o. Weaver. of Ohio. has been
appointed Private Secretary to Secretary
COrtelyou. of the Department of Com
merce and Labor.
A woman and a little child burned to
death in Washington one day last week,
fn plain view of 4 panic-stricllen crowd,
when they might have been saved if
single man or woman had seen fit to
exercise Il little common sense. Instead,
the little child stood in Il second story
window begging for help. when a man
could almost have reached him by standing
on store box. and there were 40 inside
the little grocery store just below him.
There is work yet for the fool killer
There are four new ushers at the White
House. They are Charles Thairn, l. H.
Hoover. Patrick e. McKenna and George
S. Vincent. The two former are old
White House employees.
The annual report of Chief Wilkie, Of
the Secret Service, is full of interesting
facts. 1t shows that the arrests for the
year numbered 424. New York led with
54 cases, Pennsylvania came next with
42, and Missouri third with "a. The total
amount of counterfeit notes captured and
withdrawn from circulation during the
year was .S16,212. Counterfeit coin cap
tured, S15,479.
Strikes and lockouts in the building
Trades of the District of Columbia are no
more. T"ese gratifying results are as
sured by the operation of an agreement
entered into last week between the EN-
ployers' Association of the Building
Trades of the District of Columbia and
the Council of Allied Building Trades of
the Central Labor Union, an affiliated
body of the American Federation of La
Dor. In the future all grievances, no matter
what may be The bone of contention. aris-
Ing between the employer and the en-
ployee of the building trades will be sub
mitted to a board of arbitration as pro-
vided for in the agreement referred to.
The provision that there shall be no sus-
pension of building operations during the
tendency of dispute or controversy is
especially significant.
The establishment of such board OF
arbitration has long been desired and is
regarded by employers and labor leaders
as solving a great labor problem. 1t is
thought that the adoption of the arbitra-
ton plan in the District of Columbia may
je followed by New York. Indeed, it is
said to be an assured fact that the New
York building employers will proceed
along lines laid down by the District of
Columbia labor leaders.
Mr.. c. Fl. Carmichael. OF London. is
In Washington, and he is complaining that
so few Americans whom he meets
abroad know anything about their own
country. He considers this a wonderful
country, with very beautiful scenery. but
he says that when he would talk about
this country TO an American the Ameri-
tdh iIIiin'Aldttis DtSIHS ~ Idlh Oh SDLlp-
thing he has seen in China, or Asia or
Australia. He thinks it is very bad
taste. to say the least that an American
should prefer England or any other old
place to his native land in which to take
vacation. Mr.. Carmichael must not get
it into his head that the Eastern swelIs
who go to Europe to spend their wealth
are typical Americans. As matter of
fact we think mighty little OF that kind
of people over here. They serve to put
money into circulation. and that far they
are tolerated. but no further. They know
the United States as far west as Niagara
Falls perhaps, but it would not be
healthy for them to penetrate much west
Of that, because they would 20 under In
the strenuous life of the Middle and Far
West. There is no place in the plan of
the Western life for these parasitic crea-
lures, and fortunately there are not so
very many of them.
Gen. Henry V. Boynton has been re-
elected President of the School Board of
the District of Columbia. Gen. Boynton,
1t will be remembered, has been putting
In his spare time picking flaws in the
school histories in use in the District Pub.
lie Schools. He has managed to infuse
some new blood into these, but he cooked
things for the publishers Of them who
hoped TO send the renovated histories