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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20
STRIKERS FURTHER ovERTuREs
rs May Decline Compromise and
Use Non-Union Force.

A dispatch from Chicago last night saws.
II is generally predicted tonight that the
packers Will decline further overtures and
proceed with the work of building I'D a
non-union force sufficient to operate the
yards to their full capacity. In case they
do decline, 1t is almost certain a sympa-
thetic strike will follow, whether Michael
Donnelly, head Of the butchers organiza-
ton. wants II or not.
The latest request for a conference We'd
nesday is signed not only by the butchers
representatives, but by officials of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor the American
Federation of Labor, international Fire
men. Stock Yard Transfers, the Carpen-
ters' Council and others OF prominence In
union labor circles. Mr. Donnelly put in
another strenuous day trying to persuade
the allied unions not to go out. but the In
dications are that his wishes will be over
ridden unless the packers suggest some
satisfactory way out of the whole diff
Guilty in their answer tomorrow morning
new element was injected into the
packing house situation today. There an
peared on the scene, at the request of Pres
ident Roosevelt, a representative of the
Department of Commerce and Labor. This
courier from Washington and Oyster Bay
began quiet investigation into the labor
troubles.
1t is asserted that no Official interference
will be made, but that the President de-
sires only information at present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20
HEARST AND PARKER MEN JOIN.
Iowa Democrats Harmonic in Their
State Convention.

Iowa Democrats Harmonic In Their
State Convention.
A dispatch from Iowa City, Iowa, last
night says:
Harmony was the keynote of the Iowa
democratic state convention here today.
The prospective bitter fight to a finish be-
tween enti-Hearst and Hearst democrats
did not develop, and the two factions We'd
with each other in nomina ting and second
ing the nominations Of the candidates.
An effort to humiliate National Commit
teeman Charles A. Walsh, who is also a
member of the state committee, by limiting
his voice in the latter body to matters not
subject to contest, was not successful. 1t
was defeated in the resolutions committee
by a vote of to 5. Apart from defeat in
the Walsh matter, the anti-Hearst men
were in absolute control and now govern
the machinery of the party in Iowa.
The following ticket was named being
made up of men Of all shades Of party be-
lief:
Electors at-large-W. o. Schmidt of Dav-
export, J. B. Romans of Denison
Secretary of state-Charles A. Dixon of
Sioux City.
Auditor of state-Edgar F. Medary Of
Waukon.
Treasurer Of state-Henry Riegelman, Des
Moines.
Attorney general-Maurice oConnor of
Fort Dodge.
Railway commissioner-J p Monatrey Of
Fairfield
Supreme judge. w. s. Sullivan. Kos
suth county.
The platform is exceedingly brief, merely
indOrsng the declaration of principles put
forth by the st. Louis convention and
pledging support to Parker and Davis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20
Whv We Do Not Have the Trade.

Tbera ia scarcely an article in the long
ust of imnorts that could not have been
furnished by the United States. but. for
several reasons was not. In the first place.
the carrying trade is against us, but the
Frye act, compelling all commerce between
the Philippines and the United States 10
be carried in American vessels, is gong 10
help it indirectly a good deal. Again, the
importing merchants of Manila and the
other towns are still following their Ola
habits; the merchants and manufacturers
of the United States have done very Httle
to work up trade thus far, and, hnally,
If they are going to accomplish mucn the
government must give them special adVan-
tages over their coreign competitors by re-
ducing or removing the tariH on American
goods.
The American merchants are wasting a
good deal of time. it seems to me- waiting
for the tariff question to be settled While
they might be working up trade COM
ma ratiyely few commercial travellers from
the United States are coming over mere. oc-
casionally one appears with cases OF sam
PIES and he usually does very well. Ihere
has been a bright young man here Tor sew.
eral weeks from a hardware company OF
ST. Louis. He has done good work and
has made many friends, and If every other
large manufacturing concern would send
over similar representatives the total OF
importes from the United States would
multiply more rapidly in the future than In
the past There are many things to learn,
however. before our manufacturers can
compete in this market with the Europeans
who have been supplying it thus far. You
hear many complaints from importers
which must be looked into They assert
that American manufacturers and export
ing merchants will not give them the same
credits that are offered by Europeans, and
everywhere one hears hard stories about
careless packing.
Among the articles showing increase
from the United States were wheat flour,
meat and meat products; vegetables, fresh
and canned condensed milk canned fruits,
mineral waters, chemicals, drugs and dyes,
cotton manufactures, hats and caps. boots
and shoes, manufactures of rubber, illumi-
mating and lubricating oils, scientific In
struments, plated ware, nails and spikes.
copper manufactures and certain kinds or
machinery. These gains We're slightly over
balanced, as a result of the general falling
off In demand, by decrease in the follow
ing lines: Agricultural implements. glass
ware, paper pulp, watches and parts OF,
nnc and manufactures, electrical ma
,u,nery builders hardware, iron and steel
and their finished forms, wood and its man
.iacures. mineral oils, malt liquors and dis
titled spirits.
Consequences Of Bad Packing.
Clifford d. Ham. deputy surveyor of GUS
toms. was explaining to me the other day
about the consequences Of bad packing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20
Two Killed in a Tunnel.

A dispatch from Elkins, w. Va, last night
says: This evening James Kearney, aged
twentyseven, conductor, and Elmer Town
send, aged forty, fireman, were killed six.
miles south of here on the Coal and Iron
railway. An extra freight of thirty cars of
lumber, with an engine at each end, parted
in Tunnel No. 1. the twenty cars in the rear
pushing the engine down the steep noun
tain. Kearney was knocked from the top
of a car to the tunnel and killed his head
being crushed. Townsend was jostled from
the train in the tunnel and terribly man
ele6 Bruce Phares, engineer of the rear
end is unconscious from the conclusion of
four runaway cars which struck his engine
after ii had come to standstill on the bot
tom of the grade.
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warding Capt. Eewell's report to the secre-
tary Of War, said that 1t was plain from
these estimates that the buildings, APP
completed for the 100000 provided. He
therefore recommended that the Secretary
of War now officially determine that the
cost shall not exceed the sums available IN
order that active work on the enlarged
plans of the building may be initiated with
out delay.
Acting Secretary oliver yesterday ap.
proved the recommendation OF the chleI OF
engineers and Capt Sewell was advised OF
that fact and instructed to go ahead with
the work. In conformity with that action
Gen. Mackenzie, chief of engineers. yester-
day awarded William Bradley Son OF
New York. the contract for furnishing the
necessary quantity of dark blue Indiana
limestone for the walls of the Army war
College building, at their bid of $94 ,s74 ~.
J. Veihmeyer & Son were the only WASH
ington bidders for this work. Their bid was
SlU1 1875 Al.
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c-HEoGGEC-

lowing table will show where they have
done their shopping during the last hVe
years.
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otals. oof,fo7,ooo S~'o''i'of
Commerce of the Islands.

But the development of these possibilities
must be left until more pressing matters are
attended to. The direct trade of Manila ana
the other ports of the archipelago must be
attended to first and it requires immediate
attention. The commerce of these islands Is
much larger that that of the American
colonies four years after they achieved
their independence, and but three customs
houses in the United States-New York,
Philadelphia and Boston-do more business
than that of Manila. People may be sur
prised at that statement, but the figures
will prove it. 1t surpasses Baltimore. New
Orleans, Galveston and San Francisco.
Last year more than $6O,000O00 worth of
merchandise passed in and out of this port.
That was 100000 more than during the
previous year, $26OOO,O0O more than during
the first year Of American occupation and
10000, 900 more than the entire volume Of
trade during the period of the highest pros
perity enjoyed under Spanish domination.
Here are some very significant figures
showing the foreign commerce of the Phil
ippines from 1880 until 1903:
1sS0-lss4 $3.50 s19 500 PA $40, SIS 1926 $40, 1898. 500
Average annual
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Convict Hid in a Box and ESCAPED.

dispatch from Wheeling. w. Va, last
night says: o. G. Smith. convict, escaped
from the state prison at Moundsville, w.
va, today by concealing himself in a box.
He was employed in the enamel ware de-
partment preparing boxes for shipment, and
he crawled in one which he had labeled.
The shipment was loaded in a wagon and
taken to railroad station mile away.
The driver saw Smith get out Of the box
and run toward the hills, and he notified the
guards. but Smith had too much Of a start
to be readily recaptured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20
Will Upset Plans.

The labor trouble at the washington bar
racks has happened at most inopportune
time so far as the progress of work on the
Army War College Is concerned for it was
only yesterday that final arrangements
were made for the active resumption of
work on that structure. The original appro-
priation for the Army War College, con-
tanned in the army appropriation act, ap-
proved June 80, 1902. was 100000 Work
under that appropriation was suspended
last fall after the foundation walls had
been built In order to secure an additional
appropriation for the completion OF the
building under revised plans. On the recon-
mendation of the Secretary of War and
Gen Mackenzie. Congress at Its recent seS-
sion made an additional appropriation of
$500 900 to meet the increased cost of the
proposed changes. In making this appro-
priation it was specifically provided that no
mart of the money shall be used until it
shall have been determined by the Secretary
of War that>the entire cost of finishing the
building, providing the approaches. heating
and lighting plant, shall not exceed the ap-
preparation herein made.
Cant John S. Sewell. Corps of Engineers,
who Is In charge of the construction work
at the Washington barracks, after long and
careful consideration. prepared estimates
for the work, for the action of the Secre-
tary of War, as provided by the law. He
s6T4, So. TO- leaving a margin of nearly $685.
600 for contingencies, such as fluctuations
in cost of labor and material. Capt. Sewell
said that all the important items had been
determined within sufficiently close limits to
insure the erection of the building within
the appropriation limit. but to do that 1t
had been found necessary to eliminate GER
tain decorative architectural features OF the
Slans.
Gen. Mackenzie, chief Of engineers, In for
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supply. Perhaps you have not considered
the Philippine question from that point of
view, but If you will take a glance at the
map you will notice that Manila Is in
very favorable geographical location, and
that it might be made great center of ex-
change and mercantile distribution. like
Singa pore More than half the people of
the earth live in countries commercially
adjacent to Manila, as you will see by the
fo!I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20

George b. Barriers. a Cuban, arrested in
Vera Cruz, is to be returned to Havana.
His alleged defalcation amounted to ST., COO
Mexico Will probably receive In exchange
an alleged diamond thief named Soler.
AT Keysville, Va, Sunday night two sis
tiers died within two hours of each other
aged twenty-three. and Mrs. Susie M Tn
Ter, twenty five years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20

We are particularly interested in the
imports, and the following table will
show what they are and the proportion Of
each group of articles purchased by the
Filipinos in foreign countries during the
last five years:
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TRADE WITH MANILA
Valuable Markets Awaiting
American Exporters.
GROWTH IN COMMERCE
LITTLE OF THE BUSINESS IS DONE
BY THE UNITED STATES.
Our Manufacturers Do Not Send Out
Their Agents and They Do Not
Pack Their Wares Properly.
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.

Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star and
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-20
Consequences Of Bad Packing.

Clifford d. Ham, deputy surveyor of GUS
toms, was explaining to me the other day
about the consequences Of bad packing
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10
1T PAYS TO ADVERTISE.

w. L. Douglass, democrat, who was
elected governor of Massachusetts
Tuesday by 10000 majority over Gov
ernor Bates, is known to nearly every
man, woman and child in the United
States through the advertisement Of
his line of $3.50 shoes, his picture ac-
companying every ad.
Although Roosevelt carried Massa-
chusetts by about 100000 majority,
Douglass won easily. His victory is
probably due to the union labor vote,
which for once seems to have gotten
together. The result shows the power
of the labor unions when they have a
fixed purpose. 1t also shows the trend
of the country toward socialism, which
is likely to be the great issue of the
campaign of 1908, just as the late
Mark Hanna predicted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF THE
FUTURE.

William j. Bryan is right. There is
alive parties advocating practically the
same principles and policies. When
the democratic party at the ST. Louis
convention abandoned all the reforms
for which it had contended and placed
itself on the republican platform by
accepting Judge Parker as it's candi-
date on a gold platform, it ceased to be
the democratic party of Jefferson,
Jackson, Tilden and Bryan and be-
came a mere annex of the dominant
party in the nation. At Tuesdays
election nearly one-half of the demo-
Gratis of the northern states expressed
their condemnation of this cowardly
change of policy in the name of ex-
pediency by voting outright for the
genuine republican candidate Parker
cuts a sorry figure indeed in the vote
except in the South, where there
is no opposition to the democratic or
ganization worth taking into account.
The democratic party cannot con-
tinue to exist on the conservative lines
marked out for it at st. Louis. The
astounding increase in the socialist
vote shows the trend of democratic
thought in the nation. Bryan foresaw
this when Immediately after the ST.
Louis convention he announced that
after the election he would undertake
to bring about the reorganization of
The democratic party on radical lines
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10
THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN


The fight for government. control OF
the railroads in this state has just
begun The carrying Of nearly every
county in eastern Washington by
George Turner, the railway commission
candidate for governor, and the heavy
reductions made in the regular. repub-
lican majorities in the west side coun-
ties, as shown by a majority for Mead
of from 10000 to $4,000 while Roose-
Welt has between $4,000 and 10000,
shows the strong sentiment in all parts
of, the state in favor of reasonable
regulation and equitable taxation of
the railroads and other corporations.
Nothing but the unprecedented tidal
wave for Roosevelt carried Mead to
victory.
The $4,000 supporters of Roosevelt
who voted for Judge Turner and a
railway commission and the demo-
cratic supporters of the same PROPOSE
ton will not now give up the contest
and bow the knee to railroad domina-
ton of the state. The fight will be
fought over again in 1906 and in 1908,
and it will be continued until victory
rests on the side of the people. The
recent contest in this state between
the people on one side and oppressive
corporations and industrial cOmbina-
tons on the other is only one of the
preliminary skirmishes that will lead
up to the great battle in the nation
four years hence on the issue of gov
eminent ownership or control of the
great transportation lines of the coun-
try and of the monopolies that now
prey at their own sweet will upon the
helpless consumers of the country.
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with government ownership or control
of the great transportation companies
as the paramount issue. There must
be two political parties in this country
of nearly equal strength in order to in
sure honest and Efficient government
on constitutional lines. With only one
party we would have practically a
monarchy controlled by a few billion
aire plutocrats. The radical element
of the democratic party will form the
nucleus around which the opposition
party of the future will be formed and
it will embrace the populists and the
socialists.
The movement for government con-
troll of railroads and other corporations
is gathering strength and impetus.
The fight of LaFollette in Wisconsin,
of Johnson in Minnesota, and of Tur-
ner and Mcbride in this state were
only incidents of this great contest.
By the time 1908 rolls around there
will be in battle array, full panoplied
and aggressive, a powerful socialist
democratic party that will enroll in
it's ranks the large majority of Bryan
democrats, Debs socialists, Watson
populists and union labor organiza-
lions. This mighty host will wage one
of the greatest and fiercest campaigns
in the history of the nation and moth
ing but the expenditure of a billion
dollar corruption fund can prevent it's
sweeping the country and electing the
next president. Roosevelt as candi-
date for a third term might stem the
tide, but he has given his word that he
will not again be a candidate and his
word is conclusive. Fairbanks will
probably be the republican nominee
and he will fairly typify the capital
istic elements to which the socialist
movement is opposed.
Let no true Jeffersonian democrat
despair. There is plenty Of work for
a real, live, progressive democratic
party to do in this country and there
will be the right kind of a democratic
party to do it in 1908.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10
no SALOON ON FIRST STREET.
Council Turns Down Petition of Nc
Donald Brothers.

special meeting of the city council
was held yesterday afternoon at 4: 90
o'clock at which the petition of Nc
Donald Brothers for a license to con-
duct saloon in the Barrett building
corner of First and Alder streets, was
denied. The firm applied for the Ii
cense some time ago, but it was held
up at the time. The majority of bus
mess men and property owners in that
locality filed a remonstrance against
the issuance of the license and the
council took final action yesterday
1t was decided to purchase from Gill
bert Hunt for $500 a strip of land near
the Gilbert Hunt company machine
shops, which extended out into West
Main street.
w. w. Baker was granted permits
sion to retain the open CRATES and
opening in the sidewalk on the east
side of the Baker-Boyer National bank,
which were used to allow the light to
penetrate the basement under the
building;
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10
REMOVE TO TACOMA.
Jacob Betz and Family Will Make
Residence in Sound City.

Mr.. and Mrs, Jacob BetZ and family
will leave tonight for Tacoma where
they will make their future residence.
Mr.. Betz recently purchased a hand
some residence in that city. Mr.. BetZ
has been one of the leading citizens of
Walla Walla and has done much to adj
vance the interests of Walla Walla
He is still the possessor of a large
amount Of property in Walla Walla
and will make regular trips. to the city
after he removes to Tacoma.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10
TO MAKE THE RAILROADS SAFE

Should the Safety of Employees and
Travellers on Railroads be Promoted
by legislation" is the question which
Congressman John J. Esch considers
vember number of the North Ameri-
can Review. Mr.. Esch presents some
cidents which have occurred, of late,
on American railroads. and as to the
loss of life for which they have been
responsible. Analysing the circum-
stances to which the accidents have
been due, Mr.. Esch urges legislation
which would provide for an increased
force of government inspectors, the
prevention of excessive hours of work
for railroad employees, the prevention
of the employment of youthful or mex
perienced men, the compulsory install
lation of the most improved block
signal system, the change of specified
tons by the government for all mail
cars from wood to STEEL the compul-
sorry use of passenger cars with steel
under frames, and steel frame work
for superstructure.- Referring to the
block signal system, he says:
The argument has recently been
made that the installation of the block
signal system on nearly thirty thous-
and miles of the busiest railways of the
United States fails to show any APP
preciable effect in reducing the total
of casualties Granting this to be true,
who can state how many more casual
ties there might have been had such
system not been installed. For the
year ending, June 3Oth 1902, ten out of
eleven of the worst collisions oc-
CURED on roads not using the block
system. Great Britain has been making
use of it universally for years past,
and to its use may be largely ascribed
the remarkable fact that not a single
passenger was killed in train accidents
in 1901, and only six in 1902 The slow
but voluntary extension of this system
by some of the leading roads IN this
country is the best evidence of it's eff
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10

The successful physician must be a
student all his life. The same is true
Of the successful business man. He
has to be up to the times and know
how to advertise. In business many
ideas that were acceptable decade OF
SO ago have no value today. Only the
wealthy can conduct business along
lines that are, generally speaking, OBJ
solete for the adherence to such plans
is always very costly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10

Jim Hill won his fight for control of
lost his fight in Minnesota. His nOmi-
nee for governor r. w. Dunn. was de-
feated by Johnson, the democratic
nominee, despite a republican majority
for Roosevelt OF over 100000. If the
contest in this state had not been COM
plicated by the presidential campaign,
Mead would have been defeated by
$4,000 majority
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cheney. No system, however perfect,
whether automatic or otherwise, can
wholly eliminate the human factor in
the problem of safety. Trainmen will
fall asleep, repair men will become
negligent, officials will relax discipline
in short some one will blunder: and yet
this system is the most practicable
method thus far put in use to insure
safety"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10

Governor Peabody, of Colorado, who
used state troops to expel union miners
from the state in violation of the fund
amental principles of human rights and
republican government, has been given
the punishment he deserved by being
beaten for reelection by a large ma
jcrity. This free country has no use
for such tyrants as Peabody.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-10

The public is always in the market
to buy. Advertise in the right way
and you will get the trade.