The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-10
MEN AND THEIR METHODS
Continued from page one.

paper made from esparto, the New
York Evening Post, bitter opponent
of unionism and manned by non-union-
lists, said that certain publishers were
asked why such paper was not utilized
more generally by the makers of books
in America, and that one of them de-
clared that difficulty had been expert
enced with the union printers who de-
clined to. use the new (sjc) material
for their work as it had not been APP
proved by their organization" This rs
as astute way of poisoning the mind Of
the public against the union printer.
Why the Post should give currency to
such a bare faced lie in inconceivable.
The union printer does not care con-
tinental what his employer uses III the
way Of paper. 1t is, of course, useless
to ask such paper to undo the damage
1t has done in this respect.
Recently some interesting facts con-
ce-Mng pensions, ETC., in Germany were
printed in this column. The man who
reads and studies the article referred to
W ill hardly be unprepared to hear that
there are no tramps or hoboes in Ger
many. When the German workman be-
comes old or an invalid the state,
pensions him. The tramp does not
haunt the highways and byways and
make a general nuisance of himself, as
with us and with other countries.
Every loafer is required to give an ac-
count Of himself and has no induce
ment to remain idle. True to, it's pater-
nal instincts the government puts him
at such hard work that the would be
idler finds it incumbent on him to seek
some other-more congenial-enploy-
ment as son as possible.
The worlds growth in the printing
and publishing of newspapers is strik-
figures which it were we'll to reprint in
The Journal. It appears that Germany
stands at the head Of Europe in the
number Of newspapers, it having over
$500 Of which 500 are. dailies. France
comes third with $500, of which a
quarter appear daily. bi or tri weekly.
Italy has 1,400 while in order follow
Austria. Spain, Russia, Greece and
Switzerland. These figures refer only
to newspapers. 1t is not SO, long ago
that Paris boosted of 800 publications
of all sorts, the dailies numbering 40,
the weekl!es 781, and the monthlies 933.
In the provinces there were a,s49 -four
nails" The patriarch of French pub
locations is the Gazette de France,
founded in 1881. OF the 40 Pari.
dailies it should be stated that some
exist only in title, for in several cases
the same matter is utilized under diff
ferent names.
In the United States there are 20,879
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or less since the
census was taken. The first six states
in the number Of their newspapers.
rank as follows: New York. 1886;
Pennsylvania, 1893: Ohio, 1,21S: Iowa,
1,0S2; Mississippi, 1,045. Alaska has
two dailies Zone Of which lately Install
ed linotype) and the Philippines four.
We don't make such a bad showing,
do we? Besides. we publish news
papers abroad. ALL the newspaper
reading World knows Of the Paris
edition Of the New York Herald, and
Of the Paris edition Of the New. York
Times, published during the last expo
sition in vile lumiere. It will be news
to many that Galignanis Messenger is
dead; it died last year. It was the old
est newspaper printed In English on
the European continent-ninety-o one
years old. It had many rivals-e phen-
eral with one exception, the Paris
edition of the New York Herald star
ed In the late eighties. It: is stated
that Mr. Bennett negotiated for the
purchase 81 the Messenger and In fact