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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

THE RECORD Is THE OFFICIAL
PAPER OF THE COUNTY OF
cHAvES AND THE CITY OF
ROSWELL.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

The Record is satisfied that the De
m~ocratic party win nominate . city
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

Cement and Concrete Work.
Cement walks and foundations for
buildings, built promptly, and all work
guaranteed first class, or no pay.
STA w. w. PETTY.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

The useless expense of submitting
the statehood proposition with the
Foraker amendment was ave by cut
ting New Mexico and Arizona out.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

Probably the senators concluded .af,
ter the adoption of the Foraker
amendment that it was just as we'll
TO let the tail 60 with the hide.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

. Mayor Hinkle having cleared out
the underbrush and shown the way,
his successor can hardly miss the
trail.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

"Some folks am pawerful good
schemers. all right" says Remus
Washington. "on'y dey4 schemes doan'
wuk." 80
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

The Santa Fe New Mexican now
has the permission of the Record to
hold any kind of a constitutional cor
vention 1t pleases.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-03-10

The Record has een authorized to
Mr.. A. Pruit as a candidate
for the Office of City Treasurer, sub
iect to the action of the Democratic
primaries and convention.
A lazy man is in everybody's a
-~
The senate evidently doesn't care
to increase its membership.
An individual who lives for him.
self alone, should live alone.
The home beautiful" idea seems
t. be taking all right in Roswell.
Benevolent assimilation" continues
to make good Indians in the Philip
pines.
The Record told you last week that
Friday would be an unlucky day for
statehood.
Inc development OF the HecOS val
ley will continue, statehood or mo
statehood.
Hinkle having cleared out
the underbrush and shown the way,
his successor can hardly miss the
trail.
Som folks am pawerful good
schemers. all right" say Remus
Washington. "on'y deyt schemes loan
wuk." 5R
The Santa Fe New Mexican now
has the permission of the Record to
hold any kind of a constitutional con-
yention 1t pleases.
Probably the senators concluded ar
ter the adoption of the Foraker
amendment that it was just as well
60 let h tail 90 with the hide.
II
The useless expense of submitting
the statehood proposition with the
Foraker amendment was saved by cut
ting New Mexico and Arizona out.
The Record is satisfied that h De
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
RHEUMATISM CURED
The Disease Yielded Readily TO Or.
Williams Pink Pills After Other
Treatment Failed.

DR.. Williams Pink Pills cure rheuma-
tisin because they supply the necessary
elements to the Initiated blood and en-.
able nature to cast out the impurities
and effect q cure. Mrs. A. Baker, Of No.
119 Fitch street, Syracuse, N. Y, will
furnish living evidence Of the truth Of
this statement. "There has been rheu-
matism in my family ever since 1 can re-
member" she says. my grandmother
was a great sufferer from muscular
rheumatism and my mother also had the
disease in a mild form. About n year
ago I had n hard cold and rheumatism
caught me in my left knee. There were
sharp pains, confined to the neighbor-
hood OF the knee and they seemed to go
right into the bone. The pain I suffered
was intense and / also had dizzy spells.
"The doctors called my trouble
uriatic and sciatic rheumatism. When
/ didn't get better under their treat
ment my brother-in-law suggested that I
try DIR. Williams Pink Pills. / bought
three boxes, and, by the time I had
taken them, the pain and dizziness had
entirely left me 1 wanted to make
sure of a cure SO / bought three more
boxes, but / didn't take quite all of them
as I found that / was entirely cured.
Before L took the pills the pain was
go severe that l had to cry at times and
when I was cured / was so thankful and
grateful and ! am glad to recommend
them to every one who suffers with
rheumatism"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills have cured
severe cases of anemia, sciatica, nervous
ness, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia
and st. Vitus' dance that have not re-
sponded to other modes of treatment.
All druggists sell DR.. Williams Pink
Pills or they will be sent by mail, post
paid, on receipt of price, so cents per
box, six boxes for $3.50, by the DR.. Will
lialns Medicine CO., Schenectady, N. Y.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

was important to his ambition. Conse-
quently, after standing out ct the first
Joint conference and declaring the adj
n demanded was impossible, he
made a sudden change which obvious
ly will aid his political interests, a
change which has been interpreted by
the press and public as due to orders
from the steel trust" that the adj
vance must De granted the miners II
that be the price of peace.
This change on the part Of Robbins
aroused a bitterness of feeling among
the smaller operators Of Illinois, In
diana and Ohio which never could be
assuaged. In Joint conference Com
missioner Philip Penna, of the Indiana
Bituminous Coal Operators associa-
ton, challenged the miners to grant
the coal companies Of those three
states the same conditions as those
which prevail under the miners agree
ment in the Pittsburg field, and de-
clared that IL they would do SO the
operators not only Immediately would
grant the IN per cent. advance In
wages, but would furnish the miners
their powder free.
This challenge was directly aimed
at the stand of Francis l.. Robbins
who was proclaimed a traitor to the
cause OF the soft coal operators. Its
apparent fairness vas a bombshell In
the campaign Of Robbins and the min.
ers as well. 1t brought no further re.
suit than a hot discussion. The mys.
terry of 1t is uncovered in one under.
lying reason for the strike.
The Great Industrial War.
So after three days in the final strug.
gle in joint conference all e..orts tc
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING
STRUGGLE BETWEEN MINERS
AND OPERATORS.
GREATEST IN HISTORY OF COUNTRY
War Cloud Has Been Gathering for Some
Time-Disaers Have Laid Aside Formid-
able Fund to Push Fight-Proposi-
ton to Incorporate Union.
BY CLYDE ALISON MANN.

district" into the markets Of Indian
apolis and Chicago. The reason lay
In the cheaper labor secured In the
%nonunion mines and the longer hours,
which enabled coal mine operators to
secure a greater production per day.
1t also lay In the growing carelessness
of the union miners in the mining of
coal; while the graue of West Virginia
coal was improving, the complaints to
the district unions of Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio regarding the increasing
carelessness of the miners were each
month growing more frequent. In
those fields, moreover, under the gen
eral agreement with the miners ma
tional organization, known as the "in-
terstate agreement" the conditions i'm
posed in the "~differentials'' between
machine and hand mining reached a
point where 1t amounted to practically
% cents a ton.
Tension Constantly Growing.
The stories told by miners of the
numerous small strikes which have
occurred in the Illinois and Indiana
fields in the last two years illustrate
the tension between the miners and
operators, growing constantly greater.
The two interests were not working
in harmony.
At a mine in southern Illinois where
over 400 men were employed, the man
in charge of the pit mules ordered hay
for them, but because of a lack of the
hay in the local market he woke up
one morning with less than a bale of
hay to feed the hungry mules. He
filled them up on oats and sent them
into the mine, but the miners learned
of the lack of hay and in a few min
utes they walked out and refused to
work for several days, notwithstand-
ing the mules were fed.
At another mine a strike resulted
from the hardness Of 20 minutes of
the paymaster upon pay day at the
mine.
These facts the miners boast about
laughingly, but the operators each
month grow more restless, till the op-
%portunity was offered to stand on what
they believed to be their rights. Then
they promptly refused to grant the in
crease of wage Of 12h per cent.
which was demanded by the United
Mine Workers.
Press dispatches have told the tale
of contention, pickering and delay in
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
PROVED HIS RIGHT TO DRINK
Unknown Lawyer Went to Some
Trouble to Get Even with
the Judge.

A western lawyer says that he va
once in a court in Missouri when a
young man most fastidiously dressed
sauntered into the temple of justice.
None of the officials of the court had
ever seen him before, and as the pro-
ceedings were %unimportant and some
what tedious, it CHANGED hat the
stranger attracted some attention, re-
lates L~ippincott's Magazine. On his
part he eyed the judge narrowly, sized
up" all the attorneys, drummed loudly
on the bench in front of him, and
finally rose and sauntered up to the
bar, where he poured out for himself
a glass Of iced water.
The judge presiding, a nervous and
testy old Fellow, had himself observed
the young man. and by his frowns had
given evidence of. his disapproyal.
When the stranger had boldly marched
up to the bar and had taken the water,
it looked as IL the Judge would boil
over with indignation at this exhibit
ton OF temerity. amounting almost to
contempt. THAT water. sir" roared
the judge, lis for attorneys and other
officials of this court"
Whereupon the strange young man
turned red and left the courtroom. But
| the court was to see more of him; for
in about half an hour he returned. bear
ing in his hand a roll of parchment,
The judge now glared at him in the
most savage manner, but the young
man Hinched not. Finally. during a lull
in the proceedings. the eccentric young
person addressed the court:
your honor!"
What is it. sir?"
Il wish, your honor. to submit To
| this honorable court, my certificate OF
admission to practice in the supreme
court and all other courts of THU
| state"
well. what Of thatg" growled his
honor.
simply this. your honor. Now thai
I have presented the proofs Of my ad'
mission to the bar. l would now NOV,
the court that | be permitted to driRl
from the official pitcher"
The young attorney got his water.
- ZN
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
CHURCH

A lectern of carved wood is to be
placed in the new All Saints church, APP
pleton, as a memorial to Amos Adams
Lawrence, of Boston, founder of Law
renee university, in Appleton, Wis.
Ex-Representative H. Kirke Portet.
who represented Pittsburg in the last
congress, will make a tour of the world
to raise 81 500, 900 for Baptist missions.
This money will be used to endow
schools in foreign lands.
Rev. P. Bonvin, s. j., the eminent mu-
stefan of Canisius college, Buffalo, has
written a new mass. the manuscript of
which was submitted to Rome for ap-
proval, and at once received the i'm
primatur of the committee of cardinals
having the matter in charge.
Rev. DR.. William S. Rainsford, widely
known as the strenuous parson," who
has beer successful in building up a
large institutional church work In New
York, has resigned the rectorship of st.
Georges Episcopal church, in Stuy-
vesant square, on the ground II i'll
health.
Rev. Robert Harley is the only Con-
gregational minister who is a member
of that famous London club, the
Athenaeum, and he is also a F. r. s. 1t
is curious to reflect that whereas he has
made a world wide reputation as a
mathematician he showed but little APP
titude for mathematics as a boy, and
was IA before he really knew his multi
plcation table.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

men will undoubtedly go to the nom
see, Alabama and West Virginia. Aft
er a protracted strike the union has
been driven out OF Alabama and the
mines are run on the plan OF the
open shop"
For weeks both sides of this giant
struggle between labor and capital
have been maneuverlng for position.
like great armies. One cause OF delay
before the final breach between the
operators and miners was In making
these maneuvers in tactical Owe Of
one side and then the other.
When a disagreement seemed prob
able President John Mitchell, of the
United Mine Workers, secured a letter
from President Roosevelt, urging that
a second effort be made to prevent a
strike, and tried to put the RESPONSE
bility for the strike upon the oper-
ators.
In return the operators promptly
agreed to a second joint conference, to
be held at Indianapolis, beginning
March 10, and which was prolonged
for ten days.
The third move en- the battle field
was Mitchell's announcement that the
Pittsburg Coal company with an out
put of 100000 900 tons per annum)
would compromise by granting an ad-
vance of 5.55 per cent.
The operators made a counter-move
by proclaiming Robbins a traitor to
their cause and not representative OF
their will.
Mitchell made a flank movement by
declaring the railroads were respon-
sible for the failure of peace negotia-
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

tons and vehemently proclaiming that
an investigation should be made of the
relations between the coal companies
of the soft coal fields and the railroads.
The operators retorted there was
nothing in it and that Mitchell was
simply pandering to public prejudice
against the railroads.
Mitchell jockeyed for the position
of asking restoration" of a wage scale
that vas in force one year, the year
of 1903, trying . make the operators
appear in the position, of refusing a
wage scale which previously had been
in force, Notwithstanding Che claimed)
the steel trade and railroads now were
prospecting wonderfully.
Average Wage Of Diggers.
Reports of labor commissioners of
the various states give the average
number of days which coal miners In
each field work ana give the average
daily wage at s2.42. Many of the min
ers earn, when they work, from 81
to So and even $40 a day, but there
has been an overproduction of soft
coal and al influx of coal from non
union mines which has restricted the
operation Of the mines in Illinois and
its sister states. The miners then
earn through the year an average OF
$2.42 per day. The statistics of the
state of Indiana permit comparison
with the wages paid to the butcher,
the baker and the furniture maker;
the butchers being paid an average OF
$z.19 per day, bakers $2.04 per day,
and the furniture makers S1.S7 pei
day. Quarrymen, whose work is sim.
liar, but not underground, are paid an
average of $1.40 a day. The average
wages of engineers and firemen of sta
tionary plants is 80 per day, that o.
brick makers $1.s5 per day. and brew
ers are paid s2,35 per day.
There are occupations for which
higher wage are paid than coal min.
ing. but they are not numerous.
The changes in the coal fields in the
families during the last ten years are
so striking that they furnish one o.
the best examples of the progress and
prosperity which is becoming each
year more general throughout tn,
United States. The traditional habit!
of the miners have not altogether beer
changed. but there are many NOR,
miners who now own their homes. an,
there Is a smaller percentage of tn,
men who generally spend their liberia
wages at the saloons and In dissipa
tion. The typical home OF the mine
is no longer q shanty. and the condi
lions within no longer are those o
sQualor. The miners child Is now Il
the schools. when In former years the,
ran the streets. dirty and ragged
These changes have been wraight h,
their unions, and the operators hev
found great advantage In dealing W.T.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

the miners through their organized
Jodies. . The hard work Of the con
servative leaders in the national or
g%anization has accomplished very
much, but the most desperate sltua-
ton has been brought about by the
increasing numbers OF the radical and
socialistic element, which regards a
strike too lightly.
Would Incorporate Union.
During the final Joint conference at
indianapolis the Illinois coal operators
began advocating the incorporation d
the United Mine Workers of America,
Its assets to consist of the amount OF
strike fund accumulated at this time
or on hand at any time. This is the
first case known where employers have
definitely urged the plan which theor-
lists In discussing labor troubles have
urged as a remedy. Economists OF
distinction have urged that the incor-
poration Of unions would diminish the
number OF strikes, practically do away
with violation Of contracts between
employers and their men, and give
both capital and labor an equal stand
ing before the people. No less a per-
son than the general manager OF the
Illinois Central railroads coal COM
pany, A. ]. Moorshead, was sponsor
for this movement, which may grow
to historic Importance.
MI. Moorshead Is of English birth,
and In England the miners unions are
incorporated. Employers never have
been willing to urge the unions with
which they do business to take advan-
tage of the corporation laws" said Mr..
Moorshead. I'm England violations or
a~brogation of contract Is very rare,
for the unions are financially respon-
sib!e when Incorporated. If a contract
is violated by the employer, he or the
corporation Is now responsible to the
unions or their members; the reverse
should be true, and If the miners are
earnestly seeking equality and fairness
in their relations with employers they
ought to be willing to assume this
financial responsibility"
The Illinois Coal Operators associa-
ton took no action, but favored the
plan and it is likely later to be given
formal recognition by the association.
What such action might lead to In the
relations of labor to capital cannot be
predicted, but it is an important de-
velopment of the question which each
! year grows more important OF solu-
ton.
Following are the statements of the
leaders of miners, John Mitchell. and
of the bituminous coal operators, John
H. Winder, of Ohio.
John Mitchell: The American peo-
pie will place the responsibility for
the miners strike at the door of the
railroads owning the big coal fields.
They will also urge this great indus
trio conflict to the men who have
large stocks of coal stored away out oil
which they purpose to make vast for
tunes"
John H. Winder: 81 look upon the
situation as a business disagreement
between the miners and the operators
and not as a strike. A suspension OF
work will follow our adjournmen,
without agreement upon a new work.
ing contract. l do not predict tht
shutdown will be attended with viola.
lions. No attempt will be made,
think, to operate the mines with o
union men"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
MnNMQ M5zRHxR5

the joint conference of the miners and
the operators, first in February and
again March IS. During the second
convention another influence was
brought to bear which added certainty
to the expectations that the miners
and operators could not agree.
Why Robbins Turned.
Francis L. Robbins, president of the
Pittsburg Coal company. the biggest
corporation operating In the bitumi-
nous fields, will be a candidate for the
United States senate at the next ses-
sion OF the Pennsylvania Legislature.
His announcement has not been made
public. but In Pennsylvania It il .
well-known fact. The Liiners' vote
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13
BITS BY n WAY.

Many raindrops are hollow.
The Cape Colony earthworm is six
feet long.
Miners commit suicide least of all
workingmen.
Queen Elizabeth had 1904 dresses
when she died.
One mahogany tree. when cut into
logs, will sometimes fetch as much as
$4,000.
A genuine cashmere shawl requires
ten goats fleece and three mems work
for six months.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

roads and the priests Of the foreign
churches in the mining districts.
On the side OF the operators, condi-
lions existed which also foretold an
abrupt clash which would be likely to
result In strike. At the threshold OF
the central competitive district" COM
prising the states OF Illinois, Indiana.
Ohio and western Pennsylvania, lie the
non~-unionized bituminous fields Of
West Virginia. Kentucky and Tennes-
see. The West Virginia field particu-
larly has been an aggressive compel
Itor In the soft coal market of the
middle states, In the last year West
Virginia coal has gone into the very
strnnghold OF the central competitive
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-04-13

The facts underlying the great strike
In the bituminous coal fields are the
most remarkable that have been in
volved in any labor question in the
history of the United States, as the
strike will be the greatest strike in the
.country's history.
Few of the moving facts became ap-
parent during the joint conferences at
indianapolis. They had their origin in
the previous strike in the bituminous
fields and the remarkable recruiting to
the ranks Of the United Mine Workers
of America which followed upon the
heels of the strike in 1902. The oppor-
tunities In organization shown then
appealed to the element OF the miners
which previously had secuted the idea
of organization, and this element has
proved to be, as 1t got o and more
into the harness, a radical, even social
istic element-much more radical than
the leaders of the United Mine Work
,ers or the older membership in that
body.
Miners Well Prepared.
Through III check off system. the
collection by the co0perators of union
dues and fines, a system which existed
through the foolish indulgence of the
operators, an enormous strike fund
has been piled up, the total being to-
day at least 5 $4,000, 900 in all the district
and national treasury. There is a fund
of $3.50, 900 in the Illinois treasury
alone. This Is a sum which would go
but a little way In paying strike
wages, but vas a sum so large that
the new element in the United Mine
Workers had fixed their eyes upon 1t
greedily with jealous misgvings OF
what might be done with 1t. In the
ranks of the miners, therefore, the
majority sentiment was in favor OF
radical demand, which their leaders
knew were wholly unlikely to be
granted under the existing conditions
John Mitchell and his lieutenants were
put in a position of choosing between
continuing to lead their men and sub
scribing to the demands of the rad
ical majority, or being thrown from
their high position and trampled upon
by thousands of union members. Such
q situation among the miners was
known to exist and that a strike was
likely has been known for months to
many Of the big operators, the rail-