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LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Chicago. Sept. SEATTLE Receipts. 30; esti-
mated for Monday 30o. Market steady and I'M
changed.
HOGS - Receipts. SO9J; estimated for MonGay.
g CO. Market &c higher Light 62ja6sj; rough 57e
asCJ, mixed. 5.gja670; heavy. 6.l5a675; pigs 80
a6.5,
SHEEP Receipts 900; estimated for Monday,
3o0l5. Market steady and unchanged.
New York sept B.-CATTbE-Keccipts l075.
No trading iu lige cattle. N0minally finn. Dressed
beef SLOW brt fTm, at 5lzaC7s per pouudNor native
side. 6isaS for Texan b-eG
CALVES-No receipts Veals and gasaegs nomi-
naIly steady. Western duli. One car prime sold al
5cs: nc ether Gales reported Dressed calves steady.
Citydresed yealS 9all2 pcr IUund; country dressed
7alE'2
SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts 3.5'5. Sheep
steady; lambs firm On light Supply. All sold early.
Shccq lEs5.51: lambs. sslza609; culls 300; Ca
madam lambs. 1.75
HOGS Receipts. Ls8. Nomiually steady. NJ
gaIcs rCnCftCd
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Monday evening ". Z. 3. Dubois,
professor. of economies and history in
Atlanta University. Atlanta, Ga, the
author Of a number Of books of wide
celebrity. and who is general secretary
Of the Niagara movement, will deliver
an address at the Shiloh Baptist Church,
L street. between SiXteenth and Seven
teenth streets northwest, Rev. J. Milton
Waldron will preside. and John F. Clark
will introduce the speaker.
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rf Vienna Conservatory. studies 1881 X street and
6Is Thirteenth street northwest.
otto TraA SIMON ly0icJI. pgIii of Ee5uke, u
London. also c--ah1sstas with Ns5chesi OF Paris.
and prominent masters e Milan Itay; hrs wears
instructor in rcah1dy tu-tuat0v ri Baltimore.
Studios 40 sueet and 6i3 Thirteenth street
northwest.
The principal advantage of such CO.
operation is the creation OF a musical
atmosphere by frequent participation OF
pupils Of different branches in musical
evenings, when the teachers rwou.d also
lecture and perform.
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The following members of musical art
have joined in securing associate studios:
Folk GaIzish tidanol. prize rlpii of the Paris
Coascrfatcry- Studio. 6l3 Thirteenth street north
wtsc.
tiizhugh Coyle Goidsbuough tVieIin). punH OF
Greer, Winterutz. Maud Powell, and Rose; graduate
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WASHINGTON CATTLE MARKET.

CATTLE-Exira rcr crt.. 5.s0a5.75; butcher 450a
500; common 250s5e
HOGS-Pcr eWt.. gross 7.ooa7 .; ordinary 650a7.o0
SHEEP-Clipped. 35cai0j common. 250a30o.
LAAIBS-Srring choice. 7lS3; medium 7a7iz
CALY ES-Prime. per h., sass: medium, TsaS
S. 4aft
COWS PRIME. frcsh each 40 o0aJ00o: common,
2099a3l 09: Old aud dry sooal00o.
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Mime. Marie Won Unschuld has planned
Washington, and has accepted several
engagements for piano recitals 10 be
given iu New York City. She also has
arranged for several individual piano re-
citaIs by some of her pupils
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LOCAL STOCKS BRISK
WASHINGTON STOCK MARKET
sllcs-Beguiar cau. p O'Clock noon.

Salcs-Rsgular call u O'Clock noon
United States coupon IS. 5000 al Ic21z-
Capital Traction j., SI000 al u9l. S,Ool az uGl.
SIDJ at Il5l.
Washington Railway and Electric IS. $50 al g.
Capital Trctien 70 at l5Ga.
Washington Railway and Electric common, 80 at
47s.
Washington Gas. 100 az 75. 5 az IA at ~
3 al 7f'. 3 az 737s . at -. lbgyg1 6)
Mitchell Mining 10 al H. 80 az is. 100 az Is.
10 90 Ilz. 1850 at is. 100 ar is
Columbia Title Insurance. 81 al 3s-
American GraphoIhone preferred, % az 75lz.
After caU-Carital Traction IS. $50 1t li9is. S500
az Il5i. $50 az ll04
Washington Gas. > az 75 . at 75. 100 at 75&
Following are the closing quotations yesterday
local stock market:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
A. PROBLEM FOR THE
PREACHERS TO SOLVE

Is this the real reason for the in
difference Of SO many workingmen to-
ward the average church, as set forth
by Frank K. Foster, Of Boston, chair
man Of the Massachusetts, branch Of
the American Federation Of Labor,
speaking at the Seabury conference at
Northampton, Mass, on ''The Church
and the Man Who Works With His
Hands,: 80 far as theological institu-
tions are concerned it is my firm con-
V1ct1on, speaking as the descendant of
a long time Of New England Profess
tants, that the Catholic church alone
has retained Its old time influence as a
working factor in the life Of it's COM
municants. In this conviction I may
be mistaken, but thousand and one
evidences confirm my Judgment in this
regard. Why this is so, shall not even
indulge in speculation about Clergy
men who preach to empty pews where
workingmen are not, and who have
knowledge of the throngs which crowd
the capacity of the great Catholic tenn
Piles of worship, may answer the ques-
tion to suit themselves If they can."
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state, the work contemplated to be per-
formed by convicts under the contract
system.
Our friends inform me that they
have thus far been unable to prevail
upon the legislature that the course
contemplated is not only inimical to
the interests of labor, but also of en-
ployers who employ free workingmen,
and am therefore impelled to appeal
to you, that, should the Legislature
fail to appropriate the Importance Of
the injury contemplated by passing the
bill, that you will defeat it's enactment
by the exercise Of the great power
vested in you-your veto.
Primary Effect on Labor.
mo matter what the industry, as
soon as convict labor under the con-
tract system comes in competition with
free labor. the effect is not only the
deterioration Of the conditions and the
standard of life Of the free workmen
employed in that industry, but it also
tends to increase the number Of unem-
p.cyed free men therein. 1t also has
a similar effect, even though not to so
large an extent, upon all labor.
THE position which labor takes upon
this subject should be clearly UNDER
stood. We recognize the economic wis.,
dom and the human purpose in find
ing employment for those confined in
our penal institutions but we protest
against the labor Of societys derelicts
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
American Federation Of Labor
Alert on all Matters Affecting
the Interests of Labor Particu-
larly, and People Generally.
Bill Before Minnesota Legislature
Having for its Object the In
stallation of a Large Industrial
Plant in State Pentitentiary.
Result Will be Not Only Inimical
to Interests Of Labor General
ly, But Also Injurious to En-
ployers of Free Labor.

President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation Of Labor yester-
day threw bomb shell into the posi-
ton of the rural representatives in the
legislature of Minnesota, because of
their attitude on the prison labor ques-
ton.
Organized labor in Minnesota has
been making stubborn fight against
fearful odds to prevent the installa-
ton of harvester plant in the Min
nesota prisons. Organized labor fail
ed because the politicians who get
their votes from the farmers consider
ed that competition by cheap convict
labor would do more to destroy the
harvester trust, than legislation to de-
stroy the trusts.
The political farmers" at st. Paul
failed to consider the interest of any
| other class when they acted favorably
upon the bill to extend prison labor in
the state penitentiary. They consider
ed not what effect the competition of
! prison labor would have upon free,
! lava biding citizens. But that is the
| farmer all over. 1t is this same spirit
which is prompting him to enact laws
to escape taxation, by placing burden
some taxes upon industry, with which
| he has little connection.
Gompers on the Alert.
! Word reached Mr. Gompers during
! the week that the Minnesota legislature
was enacting some hostile legislation
to labor, and he very promptly sent
! the Following unansWerable argument
to Governor John A. Johnson, with the
request that he exercise his veto pow
er. in behalf of not only labor, but So
ciety in general:
| 1T has been called to my attention
that there is now pending in the leg
islature of Minnesota, bill which has
for its purpose the installation of a
plant for the carrying on of a large
industry in the penitentiary of your
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
SENATOR PUCH WILL
PASS ELECTION BILL
Bill Drawn by Duluth Trades
Assembly Recommended to
Pass by Senate Committee.
It Extends the Hours for Holding
School Elections so Working
men May Vote.

st. Paul, Mimi, March 15.-(Special
to the Labor World. 1.-The bill sent
here by the Duluth Trades Assembly,
which is designed to extend the hours
of school elections in Duluth, was rec
commended to pass yesterday by the
committee on election in the Senate.
Senator Pugh, the introducer Of the
measure, said yesterday that he would
push the bill to passage, and hopes
that 1t will be reached today-Friday.
For time some question was raised
by opponents to the measure on it's
constitutiorality, but Senator Pugh,
who has heard this doubt used with
such frequency i'll measures desired by
workingmen got busy and held that
he wanted the bill first, and if it was
necessary tney could amend the con-
stitution to conform to it. When 1t
was seen that the Senator meant bus
mess they withdrew from the open.
The w; w;rking people of Duluth, a
large number of contractors and bus
! mess men have been eager for the ex-
tension of school election hours to en-
able them to vote but interested people
have in many ways attempted to block
! legislation making this change during
the past ten years. Every bill thus
far drawn has been defeated because
OF question as TO it's constitutionality
! The Independent School district of
Duluth Is organized under a special
law. and as a constitutional amend
ment was passed some years ago pro-
h1biting the legislature to enact laws
of this nature, the supreme court held
that special laws passed prior to the
passage of the constitutional amend
ment cannot be amended without re-
pealing the law itself.
No one cared to pass a law which
would change the splendid system un-
der which the Duluth schools are con-
Quoted, SO it required a great deal OF
study to draft measure to apply tc
cities in the class of $4,000 population
or over, without stirring up the wrath
of the Legislators from st. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Senator Pughs bill cvercomes the
objections of all. 1t provides that
where school elections are held separ-
ate from general or city elections In
cities Of over $4,000 inhabitants, such
elections shall be held between the
hours Of s o'clock in the morning, and
. O'clock in the afternoon.
In Minnea polls schoC' elections are
held with the general election. In st
Paul the school directors are appoint.
ed by the Mayor, SO the bill! can only
he construed to apply to Duluth, and
yet it can .ict be classed as an amend.
ment to special law. .-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
FORTUNES IN TIPS.

Who wouldn't be a waiter in FASH
ionable hotel or cafe, no. matter how
small the salary, after reading the fol-
lowing news items:
Martin Kellar, waiter in Seattle
cafe. a few days ago heard guests at
table discussing the chances of for
tune to be made in Tacoma tide lands,
Having saved $4,000 from tips, he hur-
ried to Tacoma on the interurban train
and secured an option On a $4,000
block Of land. Yesterday he received
an offer for $4,000 for the block from
the Union Pacific and sold it, cleaning
up 100000 on the investment of his
savings"
Charles Miller, for many years, has
been. working in the Astor House res
taurant, New York, on wages OF, $50
month, but by means of plentiful tips
he has amassed a fortune of $3.50, 900. -
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Our Government Apparently Re-
luctant to Let the People Know
What a Burden the Islands Are
to Nations Taxpayers.
No Probability That Our Country
Will Ever Be Compensated for
the Tremendous Expenditures
Occasioned by Our Purchase Of
Them.
National Government Should Be
just Before Being Generous
Think What These Hundred
Millions Would do for Destitu-
ton at Home.

Senator Clay of Georgia, introduced
a resolution in the United States Sen
ate, at the session Of Congress just
closed, aiming to inquire into and as
certain the cost to the people Of the
United States of holding the Philippine
Islands.
Republican Senator Objects.
Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts, OBJ
,jected to the consideration Of the res
olution and asserted that the govern
ment's facts with reference to the mat
ter could be gotten out of official re-
ports. One of the Georgia papers,
however, calls attention to the fact
that items of cost and expenditures
are scattered through hundred diff
ferent accounts in such way that it
would take an expert accountant a
hensive form, and even then they
would probably not be accurate.
ConceaIment tho Rule.
1t seems as If the government has
been anything but anxious that the
people should know what the Philip
pines are really costing this country.
Three years ago Judge Parker, who
was then the Democratic candidate for
President, estimated that the cost of
the Philippines up to that time had
been $s5o,oo0,o0o. Ek-Secretary OF
State Richard Olney estimated the
cost at $7oo,ooo.ooo, and Edward At
kinson, the statistician, at $1,000 ,000,-
600. Senator Clay thinks the annual
cost Of the PHILIPPINES is between $685.
100000 and $75,0OO,O00.
Are islands Worth While.
These figures naturally raise the
question in the mind Of the average
American voter whether the Philip
pines are worth while? Financially
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16

they are not. There is little probable
pensated for the. tremendous expendi-
lures arising from the taking over and
chaperonage of the islands. How much
it is worth to us that we should con-
tinue to protect the Filipinos against
themselves and against foreign aggres-
sion is question, for the American
people to decide. They will hardly
consider that this job is worth ST.
000,000,000 to us.
Taft and the Assembly,
The Filipino assembly meets this
year. Secretary Taft will &c over to
see the thing started and will prob
ably deliver a few object lessons in the
lid-holding business. No doubt there
will be a field for such instruction.
Maybe, after this assembly meets the
American people can get line on the
aspirations of the Filipinos land the
capacity of their chief men to intelli-
gently transact public business. The
impression seems to prevail in this
country that if the Cubans did not
have enough sense to transact public
business, it is hardly reasonable to ex-
pect the Filipinos will prove an i'm
provement in this matter.
Secrecy Not Approved.
However, since the American peo-
pie are paying the enormous expendi-
lures incurred from the Philippines
they have right to know what these
expenditures are, and the administra-
ton, through one Of it's mouth pieces
Senator Lodge, will not be commend
ed for blocking efforts to get that in
formation. =.
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crime charged against him three times,
being twice sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life and once to die on the
saffold,. but each time the court of
appeals came to his rescue. Every
prominent Republican in the United
States has contributed to the fund for
his defense, and among them are men
| toned President Roosevelt, the late
Senator Quay, Secretary of State Taft
| an dthe late Senator Hanna
The appeal to reason <observed the
! dispatch and comments thereon very
| alertly as follows:
I'm the first place let us say that, be-
ing opposed to capital punishment, We
| are not in the least opposed to the
efforts that are being made to save
the life of Caleb Powers.
What we want to call attention to
is vastly more important than the life
| has been convicted of assassination by
| three separate juries and sentenced to
| death, President Roosevelt stands be-
| fore the country declaring him inno-
cent and subscribing money to secure
| his release.
| "!n the case of Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone, who have never been tried,
never convicted, never sentenced, and
| who under the law are presumed abb
solutely innocent, President Roosevelt
stands before the country pronouncing
| them guilty and condemning them to
die on the gallows.
"Tne Appeal to Reason, in the name
of fc rri1?irr holf fc
| it up to President Roosevelt to answer
the following questions:
'First-Why do you, Mr.. President,
pronounce Powers innocent after three
juries have pronounced his guilty?
".'Second-Why do you pronounce
| Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone guilty
| before they have been tried at all?
'Third-It is because Caleb Pow
ers is a Republican that he is inno-
cent in spite of three lawful convic-
| tons?
| Fourth-1s it because Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone are workingmen
and Socialists that they are guilty
without having been tried at all?
:Fifth-Is your activity in these
two particular cases, seeking in the
one to free man three times lawfully
| convicted and in the other to kill three
men by pronouncing their guilt before
they have been tried, becoming the
high office of President of the United
States?
'Sixth-1n the face of the above
stated facts, are you to be considered
a law-abiding citizen?'>
'"The columns Of the appeal are wide
| open to the President. The case is
up to him and it certainly demands
explanation.
THE President cannot escape by
sneering at the appeal for it talks to
enough people to make up one -fiftieth
of the entire population of the nation
and of the class which does its work
and produces its wealth.
I 'The President will receive the paper
containing this article by registered,
person mail, and million and a half
of thinking American people will await
his answer s: s.=. -..:s $e k. s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
Continued on page 6.
Poor but Honest.

David Jones, colored man,
walked into clothing store in
Springfield, Ohio, one afternoon this
week and bought a pair of suspend
ers, costing Is cents. He made the
purchase just as the woman cashier
was rapping up the days cash re-
ceipts to take to the bank. She
used the same kind of paper to wrap
up the money and the suspenders,
and got the two packages mixed.
As> a result the colored man got
an even $1,000 and the girl gave
the suspenders to the manager to
take to the bank. After the mistake
was discovered the whole store force
turned out to watch trains and
depots, but to no avail. At 5 o'clock
Jones, the colored man, walked into
the store with the money, his wife
having discovered the mistake on
opening the package.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
A YANKEE FROM JAPAN.

A young Japanese compositor, em-
ployed on a Japanese paper In New
York, was riding down town in a City
Hall train the other morning. He
was engrossed in his morning paper,
and paid little attention to the other:
passengers.
But. fresh looking young man, who
sat next to him, and who had been
eyeing him all along, suddenly asked
What sort Of a 'nese' are you, any.
way; Chinese or a japanese %
The little Jap was not caught nap
ping. Quick as a wink he replied:
What sort Of a key are you. any
way; a monkey, a donkey. or a YAM
keep 4. s,sSS " s.
The fresh young; man had no moro
to say, and left the train quickly when
City Hall station was reached. The
Crown. As :. s.# @=A
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
GOMpfRS' PROTEST
TO GOV. D.: A. JOHNSON
PRISON LABOR SHOULD
NOT MENACE SOCIETY.

Not only labor organizations,
but the people at large, should
move quickly and determinedly,
in putting their seal Of dlsap-
proval and condemnation upon
any such Regulation as Ia con-
templated In the measure re-
referred to by Mr. Gompers. The
history of the world is replete
with illustrations Of the demOr-
aliztng effects upon commerce,
upon society, and upon individ-
uals, of permitting the normally
healthy conditions Of trade and
society to be disturbed by an
abnormal product produced un-
der enforced condit ions. Con-
finement In pentitentiary is n
deprivation Of freedom as a
punishment for transgression.
1t is the only approach to slav-
cry now Tolerated in civilized
countries,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
AND IDAHO
JUSTICE DIFFER SOME
Appeal to Reason Puts Rather Di.
rect Set of Questions to the
President.
Wante to Know Why MIR. Roose:
velt Distinguishes Between
Powers and Miners.

The following Associated Press dis
patch. from Georgetown, Kentucky, ap-
pears in the daily papers:
"Caleb Powers, Kentucky's most not
ed prisoner, was called into court to-
day to again stand trial for alleged
completely in the assassination of Gov
ernor William Goebel. seven years ago
Powers has already been tried for the
of an Individual, for it involves the
integrity and possible fate Of the ma
ton.
I'm the case of Caleb Powers. who
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
COST TO our NATION
OF philippine ISLANDS
PEOPLES RIGHT TO KNOW
HOW MONEY Is EXPENDED.

Just why Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, rs the spokesman
of the administratdon, should
have peremptor1ly objected to
the consideration of a resolution
which Senator Clay Of Georgia.
undertook to get before the Sem
ate, inquiring into the cost of the
philippines up to the present
time, together with current of
expenses, does not seem to be-
altogether clear unless the ad-
mipistration il little timid
about letting the people know
what the possession, or more
properly the chaperonage of
these Islands, mean to this
: country i'm the matter Of expense.
! The time has gone by when q
suppression Of facts will satisfy
the American people.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
COMMITS SUICIDE IN
SIGHT OF HUNDREDS

CINCINNATI, March 13.-Leaping
head first from a window ledge on the
thirteenth floor Of the Traction build
ing, Gertrude Hanish, aged 20 years,
stenographer, committed suicide to-
day in the sight Of hundreds of peo-
pie. In falling she struck and broke
an electric feed wire before landing
on the curbstone near Walnut and
Fifth street, the busiest corner of the
city. No cause Is known for the sui
eide.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16
OHIO BANKER SUICIDES.

CANTON, Ohio. March 13.-Horace
G. Mcdowell president of the Farmers
Bank of Canton. shot and killed him.
self at his country home. five miles
north Of this city this morning. He
was known throughout Ohio as a
breeder and buyer of high class sheep,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16

Mr.. Union Man: Notify your drug
gist that the Bell Phone ID. Unfair.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16

Mr. Union Man:-Notify your rental
agent that the Bell Phone Is Unfair
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-03-16

REASON FOR GRATITUDE,
so you're friendly with Cranker, are
you? Why, he tells me that he won't
have 9 thing to do with you.s
That's just why feel kindly toward
the old cranl -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-09

be protected" from the Commissioner and the
Mayor. But that would mean logically the
erection for all time of a self-perpetuating pO-
lice autocracy, not responsible TO the city au-
thOrlties or 10 the voters who choose the city
authorities. 1t would cement the alliance which
has been so long maintained between the inner
police ring and the politicians who protect the
vicious and live on the profits of vice. This
alliance has been the more difficult to break
because It is subterranean. But with head
OF the police force vested with adequate dis
ciplinary powers protection to lawbreakers
would either cease or the responsibility for 1t
would be brought home to two individuals
the Commissioner and the Mayor. If the peO-
pie of New York show that they have not civic
virtue enough TO elect Mayor who will cut
out graft in the police service and restore that
service TO its proper public function, it will
then be time enough 10 return TO the old method
of checks, balances and divided authority. But
1t is only reasonable TO give the contrary theory
of concentrated power and responsibility fair
trial. Let us see what can be accomplished by
a Commissioner who earnestly desires reform
and has the means to compel subOrdnation and
cooperation.