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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-07-18

deracion Libre de los Trabajadores
de Puerto-Rico, puede hacerlo.
Pero procure que la alianza sea
organizada trabajada por los de
xlevita, no manden a infelices ira
bajadores. 80. Al menos, tenga ell
valor el caracter de los adincrados de
Colorado.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1904-07-18

terno. al despacho de las prescrip-
clones facultativas.
La mejor garantfa de eeta ca
sa es ell crecien;e favor que Ell pu-
blico arecibeno le dispense y la
especial recommendation que los
principles medicos de la ciudad
hacen q sus clie ties
Prec os, sin competencia
Sc hacen analisis de orinas.
gratis para los parroquianos do
L. casa
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

mid climate of Copenhagen. His
efforts were at last rewarded with the
important discovery that part of the
rays of the suns spectrum destroy
bacteria, while others possess the
healing nature which physicians had
long ascribed to the ray of light as a
whole.
The first successful test of DR.. Fin
sens important theory was made at
Copenhagen in 1894, when he cured
many cases of smallpox, and even
saved the patients from being SCARED,
merely by hanging red curtains at the
windows of the sick room. He later
found way to concentrate rays of
the ordinary electric light so as to
cure long standing cases of the dread
ed lupus or tuberculosis of the face.
If DR.. Finsen had chosen to keep
his plan of curing lupus a secret and
to employ it only in his private prac-
tice he could have made a fortune
out Of it, and it would have been
deemed professionally ethical for him
to do SO. But, inspired by the same
generosity and desire to relieve suf-
fering humanity which prompted him
to continue his investigations at the
cost of mis- health, he made his meth
cd public. The Finsen rays are to-
day used for curing lupus and other
serious and disfguring skin diseases
in every civilized country.
DIR. Finsen was but 43 years old.
Overwork cut short his life. He was
a true martyr in the cause of hu-
mainly. Mankind loses more by his
early death than it would by the pass
ing of many statesmen and soldiers
who strut much more conspicuously
upon the stage of the world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

This argument would have some force
if protectionists argued that the mere
existence of a protective tariff would
suffice to raise wages, apart from its
effects in diverSifying industries.
England has relatively high wages be-
cause she is still enjoying the results
of five full centuries of protection to
home industry, in the possession OF
an abundance of manufactures. Ger
many and France are still struggling
with the harm inflicted on their in
duStrieS by experiments in free trade,
and their wages will not reach even
the the English. level until they at
tain that varied industry which is the
first condition of general prosperity.
Even free traders admit that the
wages earned by German laborers are
very much higher than before Bis
marck followed our example in estab-
fishing a protective tariff
We are also asked to infer from
this table that higher wages mean
lower cost of production, instead of a
proportionally higher cost, which is
the assumption on which the whole
wages side of the tariff argument is
built Then the compositor, who
gets 446 cents an hour in America, is
cheaper 10 his eInpIOy ludH liz WIZ
gets 17.9 cents an hour in Great Brit
ain, or he who gets 9-5 cents an hour
in Belgium. Why, then, do English
publishers employ Belgian printers
to manufacture cheap editions of Ten
nyson and other English authors,
when the Belgian compositor, at 9-5
cents an hour, is dearer than the Eng
1ish compositor at 17.9 cents? And
why do they not have their books
manufactured in America, in other
cases than those in which our copy
right law compels them? Or is free
trade economy altogether independ-
ent of the multiplication table? n
There are some other comparative
figures with regard to the condition
of labor, which would be still more
suggestive if we had them The CEN
sus of 1900 shows US that only per
cent of the married women of this
country are engaged in gainful occu-
pations, and only 81 per cent of the
single women. What other country
has any such record as that? Ger
tainly not Great Britain The Eng
fish workman, as a rule, works no
harder or steadier than does his wife
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
Judne Parker,s Answer

At every sign of Democratic weak
ness his supporters have turned to
him in Impotence for a rallying cry
and a bugle call And this is his an
swer: THE trouble here is not with
me, but with you. If we are in dan
ger, it is because there is too much
lnsistence among you for positive ut
terances that will only drive Demo
Gratis out of the party. What we need
is a policy of all things to all men
SO that nobody can take offense. You
tell me that the Vermont election
shows we must be more outspoken
and Straightforward, and 1 tell you
that it shows, on the contrary, that
we must be even more careful than
we have been along the lines of in
nocuous ambiguity
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
Nuts for Democratic Crackers.

Sifted to the bottom, these charges
of Republican extravaganza merely
show that national expenditures are
steadily growing, and that they will
continue to grow, no matter what ad-
ministration comes into power. Dem
ocratic rkeynoters' clamor vaguely
for economy" But they are much
too cautious to specify the economies
they will make. Are they willing to
abandon our programme of naval de-
velopment, to reduce the army, to
abandon the Panama canal. to cut
down pension expenditures, to for
swear river and harbor improve
ments, or to abolish the rural free de-
livery service? The Democratic plat
form squirms and doubles on all these
subjects, and finally finds courage
enough to say that army expenditure
should be cut to "a point historically
demonstrated to be safe and suff1-
Gent" That is the single dubious
economy the Democratic party is can
did enough to promise. When Mr..
Davis and the World again assail Re
publican extravaganza" they would
do well to tell us what specific re-
forms the Democratic programme of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

twelve 3-pounders (automatic), eight
1-pounder (automatfc) eight machine
guns, two 3-inch field guns and four
torpedo tubes.
1T goes without saying writes the
naval expert of the Scientific Amer
lean, that this is a tremendous bat
terry. All the guns are of the latest
high velocity, long calibre, rapid-fre
type. The 12-inch has a muzzle veloc-
1ty of $500 foot seconds, an energy of
46,246 foot tons and a penetration of
iron at the muzzle of 472 inches. The
8-inch gun has also a velocity of 2,SOO
foot seconds, and its energy at the
muzzle is IS 900 foot tons, while it is
capable of penetrating 31.4 inches of
iron at the muzzle. The finch gun
is fifty calibres in length, has a veloc-
ity of 1900 feet per second, a muZzle
energy of 9,646 foot tons and can pen
citrate 2S.7 inches of iron at the muz-
zle. The excellent 3-inch gun has the
high velocity of 5000 feet per second
and a muzzle energy of S74 foot tons"
around the Horn and her splendid
work at Santiago, the Oregon has been
popularity regarded as a battleship
unequaled. The Oregon certainly
was and still is a superb fighting ma
chine, but her chances of winning in
an encounter with the Connecticut
would be about the same as those of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

and his grown-up daughters. They
have no such home life as is possible
to the family of the American work
man under our usual conditions.
Again, the number of men at work
in America amounts to %, 4S9, 425,
while that of women so employed is
but 1888 $50, and of children, 1,750,-
17S Here again we see a state of
things superior to what any other
country has to show. The American
workman earns wages which enable
him to keep his wife at home and his
children at school. In what other
country is this the case? Not in
Great Britain.
Again, America furnishes employ
ment to 11,166,4 All persons of foreign
parentage, about half of them immi-
grants, and the other half children of
immigrants. What other country Of
fers such attractions to the labor of
the rest of the world as we do? Well
did President Harrison boast that the
gates of our land swing always in
ward to admit labor, never outward to
have it depart.-Robert Ellis Thomp-
son in Irish World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

The free traders ask our attention
to the fact that most of these indus
tries are Independent of protection,
so that the higher rates commanded
by American labor cannot be traced
to the tariff. If men were born with
some conformation of the hands
which destined them for a specified
trade, there would be force in this
argument. But as every man is free
to choose whether he will enter upon
an employment directly affected by
the tariff or one that is not, it is to
be presumed that employers in the
latter have to compete for workmen
with some reference to the fact that
other channels of employment are
open. The free traders among our
farmers complain that since the fac
tories became so numerous they can
not get a barn painted at the rates
they used to enjoy. Yet barn paint
ing is not protected.
We are also invited to observe that
wages are higher in Great Britain
than in France or Germany, both
countries which have protective tar
ifs, while Great Britain has none.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
The President and the Peo,,..

Roosevelt himself is the paramount
issue in 1904. He is stronger with his
countrymen now than he was in 1902
He has honesty and courage and ex
allied patriotism. He has done many
things since which have endeared him
to the masses. Among these notably
were his halting of Germany, England
and Italy in their contemplated raid
on Venezuela, and his prompt settle
ment of the Panama canal treaty
These two brilliant achievements. as
well as the other splendid results OF
his government, will gain him the en-
thusiastic approval of sweeping ma
jority of the American people Cd
Nov. S.-Leslie's Weekly
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
CONNECTICUT IS POWERFUL
ADDITION TO AMERICAN NAVY

There went overheard from the gov
eminent ways in the Brooklyn navy
yard Sept. 20 battleship the superior
of any of her type save her sister yes
sci, the louisiana, which was recently
launched from the yards of a private
shipbuilder.
The Connecticut and the Louisiana
are two of the most powerful battle
ships that have ever been built The
designs were found to be SO satisfac-
tory that they were adopted for three
later battleships subsequently author
lied by congress, these being the Yer
mont, the Kansas and the Minnesota,
all now in course of construction, but
none very far advanced toward COM
pletion.
Designed for giving heavy blows
and for receiving them, the main
points of interest about a battleship
lies in her battery and system of ar
NOR protection. The Connecticut is
designed to carry battery of four
12-inch rifles, eight 8-inch rifles, twelve
7-inch rifles, twenty 3-inch rifles,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
Any Issue Will Do.

One Democratic newspaper saws
that the paramount issue this year is
the "robber tariff Another Demo
cratic newspaper says it is constitu.
tionalism VS.. Imperialism. Still an.
other declares that trusts are the is.
sue And so it goes The organs OF
the Democracy agree that there is a
paramount issue, but they cannot de
eide among themselves, for public
purposes, which it is. Privately they
agree that anything which will get
the party into power is "a good
enough Morgan till after election
Kingston IN. Y. Freeman
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
Puzzle to Medical Men.

Harry J. SCOTS skull was frac-
tured several weeks ago in Goshun,
N. Y, when the tank of a chemical
engine exploded and a piece of the
metal penetrated his brain A sue
cessful operation was performed, but
he was partially paralyzed and unable
to speak for days after consciousness
returned. Finally, slow improve
ment began, and when he made an eff
fort to speak was able to enunciate
only the word mamma" The man
is now able to walk, but the only
words he can speak commence with
the letter M Physicians say he
will eventually recover his speech per
fect1y, but are unable to account for
tho popularity in the case.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
AS THE WORLD
REVOLVES
HERO OF SCIENCE DEAD.
Late DR.. Finsen, One of the Worlds
Greatest Benefactors.

Late DR.. Finsen, One of the Worlds
Greatest Benefactors.
DIR. Niels R. Finsen, who has just
died at Copenhagen, deserves to rank
among the great heroes, as well as
among the great benefactors of mod
ern times.
The healing power of light had
been recognized, in a general way,
by the medical profession long before
his time, but little practical use had
been made of it. When DIR. Finsen
was a young student in Copenhagen
university he began a series of in
vestigations to discover to what prop
critics of light it's curative influence
was owing. He was naturally of frail
constitution, and excessive exertion
broke down his health. Nevertheless,
with indomitable perseverance he
continued his work in the cold, hui
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

complete steel deck three inches in
thickness, which slopes toward the
sides Of the vessel to a junction with
the side armor below the water line.
1t is also sloped forward and aft to a
junction below the water line with
the stem and stern
In addition to the belt of Krupp
steel that protects the waterline near
~ 5000 cubic feet of corn pitch cellu-
Use will be driven in back of the belt
armor throughout the length of the
ship, the mass being tightly rammed
into steel cofferdam, which is
worked in as part of the structure of
the ship. Should a penetration of the
belt occur the shot would probably
pass through the corn pith cofferdam,
but as soon as the water followed the
saturation of the corn pith would
cause it to swell with great rapidity,
until it acted with an obturating eff
feet in closing the hole.
Before the shell could reach the en-
CINE room or boilers or magazines it
would have to pass through several
feet of coal stored in the coal bunk
ers, and then it would have to effect
a very oblique penetration through
the sloping sides of the three-inch
deck. If it should penetrate the three
inch steel deck several feet more of
coal would be encountered, and it is
pretty safe to say that such frag-
ments of the shell as might reach the
vitals of the ship would have lost SO
much of their velocity as to be capa-
BILE of doing very little harm when
they got there.
1t is interesting to note that in the
building of the Connecticut and the
Louisiana there has been rivalry be-
tween the government builders and
the Newport News Shipbuilding COM
pany, which has had no parallel in
this country. The vessels were au-
thorized by the same congress and it
was stipulated that one be built at a
navy yard, the other by a private ed-
terprise.
The Newport News company got the
contract for building the Louisiana,
and the work of constructing the Con-
necticut was intrusted to the New
York navy yard. The Louisiana was
so far ahead of the Connecticut that
she was launched several weeks ago.
This would seem to indicate that pri-
vate shipbuilding enterprises can turn
out battleships faster than can the
government at its navy yards.
But it should be recalled that no
vessel had been built at the New York
yard since the Maine was construct
ed, whereas numbers have been con-
structed at the hands of the Newport
News company. The one had already
been equipped with every necessary
appliance, whereas on the other hand
these had to be supplied.
Moreover, the men in private en-
p1oy might work overtime if they
liked, whereas the other being in gov
eminent employ had stipulated hours
of labor, and there being no govern
ment warrant to hurry work these
worked the regulation hours and
ceased.
The Connecticut measures $50 feet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
Rounded Out Name.

Judge d. Cady Herrick, Democratic
candidate for governor or New York,
was baptized plain Cady Herrick, the
name having been selected by his
mother But this did not please his
father The latter thought that Cady
might be softened into Katie-and his
child was big, bouncing boy When
the boy attained a few years his faith
er told him to write his name d. Cady
Herrick. He said: 1.-The d will signify
the only letter of the alphabet for
which it stands. If people choose to
think that it stands for a name in
stead of a letter~they may; but as for
you. write your name D. Cady Herrick
ID. to please me and Cady to please
your mother. Then wen both be rep-
resented"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

to wait in long line of gaunt-eyed,
skivering humanity, in the most in
clement of weather, he was hungry
enough to deserve his half-loaf and
cup of steaming coffee. So the bread
line" continued and grew, and often
has it been taken as an index of the
number of needy and unemployed in
the great city of the East The man
who established the bread line is
gone, but the line remains, an elo-
quent tribute to the memory of one
of the gentlest and bestowed phflan-
thropists in this land of more or less
unequally distributed abundance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
ANGR4d SH0I.1VC zN Ny21RER~ SIZE POSITIONS ar c1zs
Lates to United Navy.

John L. Sullivan if now pitted against
Jeffries, the new champion of the ring.
The defense arrangements, accord
ing to the expert authority quoted, are
the most complete to be found in any
design built or building today. There
is an unbroken belt of Krupp armor
from stem to stern, which is eleven
inches in thickness at the water line
amidships, and tapers gradually to
minimum thickness of four inches at
the ends. Associated with this is
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
Soldiers Enduring Fame.

s'Dulce ct decorum est pro patria
mori'-thus it has always been and
thus it will be so long as international
disagreements continue to be settled
by resort to arms. Not only do patri-
OTIS deem it sweet and becoming to
die for their country, but the mem
DRY of those who fall in defense of
flag and country is cherished more
sacredly than that of those who
achieve the greatest and most benef-
icent triumphs in the arts of peace
No other fame is so enduring as that
of the military hero On no other
are honors so gratefully bestowed.
This is demonstrated in the history
of the United States quite as conclu-
sively as in that of any other country.
-WashinRton Post
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
WILL LONG BE REMEMBERED.

Louis FIeischmann, Called Home, Was
Genuine Philanthropist.
Louis Fleischmann of New York
cast his bread upon the waters and it
returned to him an hundred-fold. Mr..
Fleischmann was a practical phflan-
thropist. He was called .'pauperizer
of the idle ten years ago when he
established his bread line but this
did not turn him from his purpose. To
him anyone who begged something to
eat was sufficiently in want to deserve
charity. If the suppliant was willing
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

in length and has an extreme beam Of
70 feet 10 inches. She displaces 49,
900 tons, is fitted with triple expan-
sion engines, and is designed to have
a sustained sea speed of eighteen
knots an hour. Her engines are of
the vertical triple expansion type and
are supplied with steam from Babcock
& Wilcox boilers The indicated
horsepower is 1880, the coal capacity
1900 tons. Her complement is AZ
officers and 761 men.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

Gen. Henry V. Boynton, president
or the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland, which recently held its
reunion at Indianapolis, is a distin-
guished soldier of the civil war and
later was widely known as dean Of
the newspaper correspondents at
Washington. He was made a briga-
der general by President Mckinley.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15

Very instructive is the table which
Col. Wright gives us to show the
comparative rate of wages in the
large cities of this and four European
countries. 1t shows the wages on an
hour in cents:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
Oldest Love Letter.

The oldest love letter in the world
is in the British museum. 1t is the pro-
posal of marriage for the hand of an
Egyptian princess, and it was made
$500 years ago. 1t is in the form OF
an inscribed brick.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
HIGH ANDLOW WAGES
HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER coUN-
TRY.

Mechanics and Laborers in the Unit
ed States Receive Two to Five
Times More Pay Than Those of
England, Germany, France and Bel
qium.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-15
THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE.

Mrs. S. w. Marine, of Colorado
Springs, Began to Fear the Worst.
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Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 ST. Urain
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me, but l found
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and money to
take them, and
began to fear
that l would
never get well.
A friend adj
vised me to
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Tribune.
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