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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
AS to Pauper Labor.

A great deal of the misunderstand-
ing is due to the use Of that term pau
per Labor l have estimated tnat
every immigrant in coming to Amer
lea spends on an average from $50 to
500 for transportation. This includes
his fare from his home to the point Of
departure, the crossing of the Atlantic
and the railroad fare to his destina-
ton. In other words, they spend up
ward of $100,0OO,OO a year in search
of work. Let us suppose, for sake OF
argument, that Russia suddenly held
out great opportunities for money
making so that Americans by the mil
lion were attracted there. 1t seems to
me that 100000 native born citizens
might have some difficulty in raising
$100,000,000 for transportation. And
in addition this army Of incomers car
ried with them more than $2O,0O0,OOO
in cash.
There is, of course, urgent need OF
the restriction of immigration, but
such restriction is already in force.
The laws governing the situation are
very rigid; they have been devised by
intelligent men, familiar with the sit
uation, working in sympathy with
these people as well as in the best in
terests of the country. And the laws
are being enforced. AS the need for
further restriction occurs it will re-
ceive due attention. Meanwhile the
demand for laborers throughout the
country is very urgent The immi-
grants are adding hundreds of mil
lions of dollars to the wealth of
America, while they help themselves
to broader and more prosperous life.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

the fact that the flag would have to be
as large as ireland. Possibility, how
ever, glimmers in the suggestion that
all the gas and electric lights in some
great city like London should be con-
trolled by one turncock and alternate
ly switched on and off to flash mes
sages to Mars.
Some years ago Francis Galton, the
English scientist, sketched out a solu-
tion of the problem, supposing the first
move to be made by Mars. One night
the earth astronomers are to notice a
peculiar scintillation on the disk of
that planet. These lights are to be
recognized as regularly varying in du-
ration, B being twice as long as A
and c three times the length. Soon
these flashes, distinctly divided by
pauses, are realized to be sentences
consisting of "a series Of numerals
Then the messages are spelt out,
as stating the distance of the planets
from the sun and other arithmetical
data. In short, Mr.. Galton imagines
that three or four years careful OBJ
servation would give a code of signals
for full and complete intercommuni.
cation nsfAaW'iLL3 ~ %
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
LOCAL PRODUCE MARKETS.
How Agricultural Towns Can Assist lr
Preventing "corners" In Produce.

Now and then complaint is heard Of
how the large packing houses and
handlers of produce manipulate prices
of eggs and poultry. These concerns
are enabled to do this through their
facilities for extensively handling
goods and preserving them in their
mammoth cold storage plants. Their
system is to buy in the lowest market
and hold the produce until the demand
is such that prices reach the top notch.
1t is evident that were the business
men OF small towns to follow out to
some extent the plans of these large
houses, the home market would be ma
terially improved. In the agricultural
towns merchants are the most exten.
sive handlers of farmers produce.
This business is incidental to the mer.
camille business, and few merchants
have proper facilities for the storing
and proper care Of perishable goods,
therefore, Immediately upon receiving
supplies from the farmer, consign.
ments are made to the commission
houses in the large cities, and thus are
the large commission men enabled to
obtain control of the markets and to
manipulate prices.
Each agricultural community pro.
duces enough poultry and eggs and
miscellaneous dairy products to sup
port a prosperous exclusive produce
house. But when the articles that the
farmers have for sale are distributed
among dozen or more stores, each
acting independently, it is evident that
highest market prices cannot be paid
The plan proposed for the organiza
ton of cooperative produce companies
in each town has many desirable
points in its favor At small expense
a coldstorage plant of adequate capac
ity to handle all perishable products
of the community can be put in order
A plant Of this kind, If rightly man
aged, would greatly improve the con
ditions of the local markets and higher
prices could be paid for produce than
the merchants could afford to pay fol-
the same.
A number of towns in the middle
west have adopted this system, and
with success. Not alone have the
home markets been greatly improved
but a greater volume of trade has
been brought to the merchants. Should
this plan be universally followed, in
agricultural districts, it would lessen
the opportunity for the manipulation
of prices of produce, and the corner
ing of the market" by the large com
mission and packing houses.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

In many circles throughout the coun-
Sry there Is In progress serious dis
sussion as to the adVsabllity Of curb
ting the immigration flood. This nat
uralIy has led up to the question of the
Immigrant, his value or his menace,
and his position in the social machine.
The New York Herald has invited
opinions on the subject, and presents
the views of three men who may reason
ably be said to have studied the
situation. We reproduce them below:
BY Sidney A. Reeve.
Former Professor of Steam and Hydrau-
Mc Engineering at Worcester Polytech-
mic Institute and Lecturer at Harvard.
Current conversation and the peri
OdiCal press are full of condemnation
of our lax restriction of immigration.
All the evils to which our country is
heir are explained by the undesirable
horde of aliens which is pressing into
the land with ever increasing volume.
The steady increase in criminality
which has now become unquestioned
Is attributed to this overflow" of the
Undesirables from the older countries,
and these countries are accused of col
LusiOn with the steamship companies
toward promotion of the volume of
migration. That portion of our citi-
Zens which is interested in the labor
market is in chronic rebellion against
this influx of cheap labor, destined to
compete upon an un-American basis
with American labor. Those of us
who are interested in purity of poll
tics see in the inaowing torrent cur
rent supply Of corruptibles upon
whose votes political machines may
be reared and supported
Upon every side arises this denun-
citation of immigration. Nor is it a re-
cent phenomenon. Look up the litera-
ture Of immigration, and you will find
the decade of 1S40-1S50 supplying its
fair quota of 'kicks, in goodly proper
tiOn to what our increased population
puts forth to-day. For 60 years we,
as nation, regardless of whether our
continent yet contained undeveloped
territory, as in 1847, or undevelopee
possibilities, as in 1907, have been OBJ
Jccting strenuously to immigration.
Meanwhile the immigration has
been steadily increasing, except dur
sng the period of the civil war, and at
the end of the 60 years we enjoy phe-
nomenal prosperity.
There is an inconsistency here
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12


made my way to camp as quickly as
possible and told my story. The guide
made me lie down, removed the thick
stocking through which the snakes
fangs had penetrated, and bathed the
wound. He then broke open cart
ridge and spread the powder on the
open sore. I started to protest against
his evident intention, but he told me
that 1t was the one chance OF saving
my life, so l kept still.
HE touched of the POWDER the
fash cauterizing the wound effective
ly. He then mashed the leaf of plant
which grows wild in the desert and
applied it like poultice. l went tc
sleep and woke up in the morning suf
fering from nothing more severe than
a very stiff leg. This lasted for about
a week and then i was as well as
ever. Sentinel.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
HEROIC SNAKE BITE CURE.
Operation Was Unpleasant, but Ger
tainly Saved Life.

Il got lesson in treating snake
bites awhile ago that may stand me in
good stead some day, although can't
say it was pleasant to learn" said
Frank Hargis. Il was out with pros
pecting party in Nevada and was cross
ing one of the arid wastes that made a
large part of that state desert until
the discovery of gold attracted people
there.
There were two other eastern men
besides myself and we had a veteran
guide with us. Rattlesnakes are numer-
GUS in that country and the guide told
us to beware of them, as they are
just about the color of the sand and 1t
is very difficult to see them. l was
walking along the sand during short
stop when a warning rattle told of a
snake in my path. |. jumped to one
side and almost on top of another
snake. II
I just heard 1t rattle and then felt
"a singing sensation III my leg. ]
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
HOW SIGNAL TO MARS?
Problem Has Long Occupied the
Minds of Scientists.

Mars is now much nearer the earth
than he usually comes, which fact
suggests an inquiry as to what use has
been made of the 10000 francs
6$2,OO0) which an old French lady be-
qUeathed to the Institute of France
for the discovery of some means of
communicating with the planets in
general and Mars in particular. This
bequest was made about ten years
ago and it was safeguarded by the
provision that if the French scientists
refused the sponsibility-which they
did not-it was to be offered to Milan
18d, failing there, to New York. One
man has suggested monstrous tri-
singles in the Sahara to attract the at.
tention of Martian astronomers and
convince them of our knowledge of
geometry. But line on the earth's
surface would have to be at least 30
miles broad to be visible from Mars.
The suggestion that earth dwellers
signal by flags also. overlooks
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
WHAT THE WORLD DRINKS.
Britain Shown to Be at the Top of
Drinkers.

Some interesting facts are brought
to light in a statistical abstract issued
by the board of trade of the city of
London, England, showing how the
various nations of the civilized world
compare with each other in their con-
sumption of alcoholic beverages.
The latest figures available are those
for 1905, and they show the total
amount of wine, beer and spirits con-
sumed in the British empire and IA
foreign countries.
The following table shows the con-
sumption per head in gallons of the
populations of the principal countries
in 1QCh.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

To which class, then, belongs the
average immigrant? Is he producer
or dissipator of net wealth and NOR
ality? If the former, what is our i'm
migrant worth, net, to the nation?
The law says that dead male adult
constitutes loss of $4,000 to his fam
lily. In this it strikes a rough average
and draws no distinction of any sort
between individuals. So it is hard to
get at it in that way.
The average adult male immigrant
land half of our immigrants are of
this sorD earns at least 5000 per an
mum soon after his arrival. Rather,
that is what he is paid. My estimates
have led me to state, elsewhere, that
his actual productivity is from three
to four times that amount, the balance
going to pay the cost of doing "busi-
ness with what he produces and con-
sumes. But the benefit of this doubt
will be left, for the present, to the op-
position.
The right will be reserved, however,
to class all immigrants under this fig
ure, for the majority of them have
been here long enough to expand their
income beyond $780, That is to say,
most of those who were classed as
children at the time Of entry are now
adults. OF the women some are off
set in their unproductivity by the men
who earn more than $500; the rest
are producing more than that value in
the form of children.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
Plan Fiant on Saloon.

The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton leaders of Philadelphia are plan
ming to fight the saloon by the. estab-
lishment Of workingmen's clubs, and 4
centrally located lunch room, at which
meals can be secured for Is cents.
while wagons will convey beerless
lunches tdstores and factories fhroiigh-
out the center Of the city.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

IllS pCOSlllllSIO anu Iuc ldCIO, anu d DlS
one, too.
What are the facts?
Question of CrimlnaIity.
AS to criminality, we can find none
supporting the theory that in general
immigration is of a criminal sort
Here and there may be found minor
facts and figures on that side, it is
true. The southern Italians, without
question, are unusually illiterate and
addicted to the settlement of differ
enceS by stiletto. We even identify
the Italians roughly with. the Black
Hand system of blackmail. The south
Italians are but a small fraction of all
immigration; the class of crimes to
which they are prone is minor one
in our criminal records; the black
mail eXtorted by the Black Hand is
but drop in the bucket compared
with the volume of eXtortion currently
practiced by American business men,
within and without the law, against
Americanborn victims.
Viewing the situation broadly, there
is no decisive evidence pointing to
the crimnality Of the average immi-
grant. There is much pointing to his
superiority over the average native
American to industry, sobriety and the
patient liberation of adverse condi-
tlOns without outbreak. Indeed, the
most decided evidence on this point
comes from Great Britain, which coun-
try complains that of all her immi-
grants the Americans are the most
criminal, being three or four times as
bad as the average of the rest and
ten times as bad as the Poles and
Hungarians.
We do not conclude from this too
hastily that America is ultra Grim
inal. But we quote it to signify that
he who seeks statistical support for
antiimmigration views, doing it in
sincerity and breadth, is apt to meet
with sour comfort.
Standard of immigrants. ., F..
Our own conclusions are that the
vast majority of immigrants are Slight
ly above our American standards in
industry, sobriety and patient self-re-
straint, though they are undoubtedly
below us in initiative. They come
from countries where urceasing toll
is the price of life, and where the get
rich-quick microbe is virtually un-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

known. In their fatherlands drunken
ness is a minor crime, whereas in
Great Britain and America it is a ma
jor one. And as to patience under
conditions inviting to revolt, America
is proud of standing first among all
the non-Latin peoples of the temperate
zones in her promptness to resent pub
licly, by the passive rebellion Of the
strike, If not by actual violence, the
presence of conditions unnecessarily
hard. Our complaint against the i'm
migrants must be that they are too
patient and submissive for American
standards, rather than that they are
too violent and resentful.
AS to illiteracy, it is true that the
immigrants are below our standard.
What of it? Education is a thing of
itself, neither conducive to nor antag-
onistic to morality and happiness. 1t
may be a powerful tool to both. But
it is often used as an equally power
full tool against both. Our educated
classes are not always the happiest
ones. Our worst and biggest crooks
are the educated ones.
In short, a man is of value to a
country solely according to whether
he produces more, of material or of
morality, than he consumes. He may
produce very little, yet if his wants
are less than that little he is still a
profitable investment for the nation.
He may, on the other hand, apparently
produce millions; yet if he consumes
more than that, or if he underPines
our standards of morality, or If he
is found to produce actually much
less than he apparently produces, he
may be great source of loss, in spite
Of his prominence and power.
The people understand this well.
1t is their habitual application of this
new economic trysquare to men in the
public eye which is now making mil
lionairism so uncomfortable.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
CONTINGENT,

Soulful Girl-Oh, does it not make
you happy. as Ruskin says, to watch
Young Farmer-Well, that depends
on whether you're watchin' it grow
on your side or.the ether side e-of the
line fence,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
Hard - the pio.

A western man has. succeeded in
breeding what ne calls a fenceless
pig. This pig has only one eye,
which causes him to travel in cir.
cular. direction. and thus assures his
owner that he viii always come home
and does away entirely with the neces.
sity OF fences.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
Charter 1wo centnrlea Old.

Andrew, M, Camp, town clerk Of
Durham. Conn, is in possession of the
original charter OF the town. dated
1908, and signed by Gov. Saltonstall.
which was recently found among some
old papers in the garret OF one of the
ancient houses at Durham.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
Musket of His Ancesto,rs,

A resident of Wilton, VT, has an
old musket which is said to be a relic
of the days when the settlers devoted
a few hours to an Indian hunt as
often as occasion required The bar
rel is four feet, nine inches long. and
the whole weapon stands over six
feet.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

The value of the return chiefly con-
sists in it's leading to further examina-
ton. 1t will be observed that the re-
turn is in gallons, and a gallon of spir-
its consumed does not favor compare
son with a similar quantity in beer.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
Wise pareon-

,"Parson, somebody dared US to get
married, and we never take a dare.
Here we are" t'e
Well my young friends. dare
you to go home and endeavor to cult.
vate some common sense"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12
The Reason.

'Tn this settlement, said the Bill!
vile farmer, I'VE call all the literary
fellers we kin ketch 1eadin' authors,
because as a rule they're powerful
handy at Ieadin' mules to water" At
lanta Constitution.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

The following table shows the con-
sumption in 1891 ia years previ-
ously):
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-12

somewhere between the theories of
the pessimists and the facts, and a big
one, too.
What are the facts?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-25
STEUENBERG
 IMPLICATED Asassinated Governor Represented as s.JOhn Doe" in Timber Land
Fraud Indictment.

Boise, Idaho, Sept, 24.-ln be- ginning the work here today of en- paneling a jury to try United States Senator William k. Borah, charged with conspiracy to defraud the gov ernment of valuable timber lands. District Attorney Norman M. Ruick announced that former governor Frank Steunenberg was one of the men indicted with Senator Borah for conspiracy. Steunenberg IS represented in the indictment as John Doe.
 The indictments against Senator Borah and the twelve others charge that they entered into a conspiracy with 1OS residents of Boise, where by the latter were to take up tim Der land claims of 160 acres each paying minimum price to the gov
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-25
LOTION BELT
 STOCKHOLDERS
Mill Hold Annual Meeting in Tyler October ,. at General Offices.

Official announcement has been made that the stockholders of the St. Louis and Southwestern Railway Company of Texas will have their an nual meeting in Tyler, Texas, October
 B at the general offices of the compa-
 ny.
 The purpose of this meeting will be l to elect a board of directors for the
 ensuing year. Also on the same day
 the board of directors of the company Twill meet for the purpose of electing la president and secretary and such other officers for the company as pro- vided by law. Other business mat ters will be transacted.
 The meeting in October will likely take most of the high officials te Tyler and the meeting will doubtless be attended with considerable inter- est
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-25
GRAND JURY MEETS
 IN GARLAND COUNTY
Men Prominent in Reform Moyemcn, Are Members oi B0dy-,Judge
 Hits at Pistol ToterS."

fot springs, ArW., Sept. 24.-Im- portant developments, ncludjng T passing upon tn" contest case for the office of shrriff of the county the prosecution oi q number of wit heS5es ill previous charges for per tury, the trial of two alleged mur- deFers and the possible indictment of officials for the nonenforcemeuf ot law, are expected to occur dnrin. the term of Circuit Court opened here yesterday by Judge W. H.. Evans.
 The Grand Jury chosen today numbers among it's members some of the strongest adj rents of the reform movement IIamp Williams who was defeated by by 5G votes ill his race TOT the office of mayor. when q candidate on the reform ticket in the spring election is foreman of the Grand Jury. The other members are: II. V. Fowler, C. (. Ritter, Ii. l.. Hale, R. E. Sig man. A. k. Marshall. F. A. Etearnes J. W. Lawson. M C. Milton, T. J. Lavendar, ]. A. Townsend, Jesse Rowe, $. II, Stitt, ]. R. Henderson. w. A. Kirkpatrick, and Silas Sims.
 l should regard either as a des- perate character or an awful coward the man who possesses no authority but who carries a pistol.' said Judge Evans, i'll charging the jury with the enforcement of the laws. He urged the prosecution of the pistol toter and the man who sells the pistol refer ring to the state wide agitatiOn against the man who unlawfully car ries a gun. Young boys of IS, 19 and 20 years of age are the worst offend CTS in this respect, declared the judge.
 Judge Evans charge consumed over an hour and a half in delivery and referred mostly to problems con fronting the municipality. He urged the jury to indict all persons. ire spectiye of station or identity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-25

VitatiOn of President DiaZ, will be an important and logical complement to his tour of South America in 1906. The preparations made by the MeXi can government and people to make his cstay among them notable. show that there is great interest in this
 event of international significance It will be another step in the broad policy initiated by the present admin istration of the United States to get into closer sympathetic touch with the governments and peoples of the other American nations. Although MeiXco is geographically nearer to the United States than any other Latin American nation, the people at large of the United States have not yet full rial development of that republic, and to it's general progress along many different lines of political, economic educational and social development Just as Secretary Roots journey to South America turned the eyes of North America to that part of the world and provided a clearer vision of it's mighty pOtentialities, so now there will be a corresponding direc tion of attention to Mexico and Gen. tral America