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The National tribune., 1907-12-26
EMPLOYERS LIABILITIES.

The first reading of that portion of
the Presidents message, referring to
legislation on employers liabilities for
injuries to worbingmen, gave a distinct
shock to the manufacturers of the
country, but upon more careful exam
ination the soundness of the President's 8
position is being accepted The loss of
life, limb and wage-earning capacity in
our great industries is something fear
full, and annually far exceeds that Of
many noisy wars in Europe The Pub =.
lie Utilities Commission of New York
lately pointed out that during &c days
of August of this year $500 accidents
occurred on the surface roads of New
York City alone, which was at the rate
of 211 day, or 1900 a year The
New York Health Department says that
the fatal accidents in the city reach
1871 annually. or an average of 10 a
day. On the railroads of this country
every year are more injuries to life and
limb than occurred on both sides dur
ing the whole BOer war
One of the evils which have accom-
panied this is the development of what
is called ambulance chasing" When
ever an accident happens in a factory
or other concern of some Importance
there are usually shyster lawyers on
the watch to take advantage of the
fact, and annoy the employer with suits
for damages, in which the victim or his
family get comparatively little and the
shyster a great deal.
What the President proposes, and
the employers are now accepting as re-
lief from this aggravated situation, is
a law which would provide definite but
limited compensation for all accidents
to worisingmen within the scope of
Federal power, including the employees
of navy yards and arsenals. The law
should be SO framed that the payment
should be automatic. workingmen re-
ceiving a certain and definite rate for
injuries and accidents without the in
of annoying and expensive
law suits.
The benefit of this would be two
fold, since the employers would at once
know the extent Of their liabilities, and
the workingman or his family receive
without having to give
up the greater part of it to the avari- |
cious lawyer.
The legislation proposed will only
bring us up abreast with other civilized |
whose laws in this respect are |
far ahead of ours.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
A TOUGH jon FOR rHE POLICE.

The New York police are having a
strenuous wrestle with the ordinance
which specifically allows sacred or
educational vocal or Instrumental con-
certs. lectures, addresses, recitations and
singing, provided that such above-men-
toned entertainments shall be given in
such a manner as not to disturb the
public peace or amount to a serious in-
ierruption of the repose and religious
liberty of the community
Gen. Bingham. the Chief of Police,
has asked the Corporation Counsel's
opinion as to what this shall mean. par
ticularly as to performers wearing cos
tunes, ana the raising and lowering of
curtains. the shifting of scenes. and
most particularly as to what a .'mono-
logue' shall mean. The Corporation
Counsel finds himself at loss TO exact
iy define ''monologue." which may be
sermon or lecture or recitation He
can give no definition. and must refer
1t back to the discretion of the police
officers as to what may and may not be
permissible. Certainly a burnt-cork
monologue will not be tolerated. but
judgment between the police and the
show people as TO where the line shall
be drawn. The Corporation Counsel is
clear that vaudeville performance,
wearing theatrical costumes, the shift
ing of scenes and the raising and lower
ing of curtains are not to be permitted,
nor are moving picture shows Sunday
dancing and roller skating are now be-
lore the courts. and nothing will be
done until decision is handed down.
The Chief of Police ordered his Cap
tains to select their best men to send 10
all the Sunday shows and to exercise
the widest discrimination. When they
were in doubt, they were to make notes
and report the cases.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

The general tone of the press of the
country is strongly condemnatory of the
attitude of the Jews in New York
against the singing of Christmas songs
and other exercises pertaining to the
holiday season in the public schools.
The Troublesome Hebrews who have
been responsible for this movement are
reminded that the bulk of their people
have only recently escaped from the
horrible prosecutions of Russia and
other European countries. No sooner do
they arrive in this country than they
are made use of to attack its institu-
tions and set themselves in hostility to
the great majority of the people, Many
of the Jewish papers take the same
view, and condemn their brethren in
New York, who, for the sake of a few
songs, are jeopardizing the most vaIu-
able asset the Jew can have-good will
of the people of this country
1t seems We are not thru with aboli-
ton. Gen. j. Pienarr, formerly of the
Boer army, has arrived in this country
to arouse sentiment in favor of gen.
eral emancipation of the slaves in Afri-
ca, particularly those in the Portuguese
portion. AS soon as he can succeed in
his abolition work in Portuguese Africa
he will turn his attention to the slaves
progressed great deal since South
Carolina threw down the gage of bat.
tie in behalf of slavery.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Reports from reliable sources set
forth that the inhumanity of the Japan
ese labor system is something appalling.
There has been much said of the Jap
anese contempt of life, and this seems
to be strongly exhibited in the merciless
way in which the employers grind down
their helpless workmen. The country is
over-populated, the means of subsist-
ence are difficult to obtain. and men
and women both work for the merest
portion that will sustain life. All this
has been greatly aggravated by the in
PRODUCTION of the factory system. Under
the old system each workingman fol-
lowed his trade or calling in his own
house, and managed to get more of the
comforts of life than he can at present,
where he is worked in gangs by relent-
less task masters and for a bare sub
sistence.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
DATE OF THE NATIONAL ENCAMP.
MENT.

Strong dissatisfaction as to the date
for the National Encampment is ex-
pressed in some letters which we have
received. The date is Aug. 3O-Sept T.
at Toledo. This is held to be inoppor-
tune, since about 100000 pensioners
will get their pensions Sept. 4, and con-
sequently not in time to use the money
in going to the Encampment This will
be great hardship to them and a loss
in the attendance. The Pension Agents
at Augusta, Me-; Boston, Mass; Column
bus, o.; Detroit, Mich: San Francisco
Cal, and Washington, D. c., all pay on
Sept 4. These cover about six-tenths
of the pensioners. The Agents at In
dianapolis, Knoxville, Louisville. New
York City, Philadelphia and Topeka
pay Aug. 4, so those pensioners are the
only ones who will have their money in
time for the National Encampment We
presume that the date was fixed in To-
ledo after study of the meteorological
tables, giving a conclusion that the best
" heather would be most likely found in
the week following Aug. 80. Probably,
also, the opening of the Toledo schools
had much to do with it, in the use of
the school houses for lodging places.
We suggest to the Commander-in-
Chief and Council of Administration to
consider this matter of payment of pen
sions to such great proportion of the
and decide whether it would
not be better to make the time of the
Encampment a week later.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

There is some discussion as to the
exact status of the two delegates from
the Philippines. They receive salary
of $1,000 each, with $4,000 additional
for expenses. Apparently they do not
even have, under the law, as much
rights as a Delegate from a Territory,
as it is a question whether they can
even sit in the House of Represent :
tives. They certainly have no right on
the committees, nor can they appear
before them except by the courtesy of
the committees. They represent two
different parties of their people Mr.
BenitO Legarda is a very able man, a
leading business man and a strong be-
lever in the American supremacy. He
is opposed to any independence for the
islands. His colleague, Pablo 9cambo,
represents the Aguinalda Party, and
fought Tor some time against the Amer
leans, finally coming in and taking the
oath of allegiance. No matter what
their status officially, the delegates will
be of great value to Congress in fur
nishing exact information as to matters
there, and they may be helpful in bring
ing about the passage of a proper Phil
ippine tariff bill.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

France is a Roman Catholic country.
IT never can be anything else, as Ma
poleon Bonaparte decided. He was a
practical politician-inteuseIy practi-
cal-and cared no more for one church
fhan another He saw that. despite the
bloody revolt of the Revolution against
the crimes and corruptions of the men
who had been using the Church for
their own purposes. the French were al
heart Roman Catholic, and, like the
able politician that he was, put him
self in accord with that idea. In spite
are more radically repressive of priestly
power and privileges than any other
people in the world. The Government
has all the time been able to command
u fine majority for all of its repressive
measures, and substantially the whole
people emphatically approves the sep
aration OF Church and State and the
confscation of the Church property. The
latest question to come up WAS as to
the disposition of the legacies left for
saying masses and other religious pur-
poses. The Ecclesiasts sought to foil
the Government by having the distant
heirs sue for the recovery of the lcga-
cies. By a.decisive vote these legacies
Were directed to be turned over 10 the
different departments and communes
for use for charitable and religious pur-
poses.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
A TOTTERING THRnsE.

A European throne which is likely to
fall any day and will meet a most de-
served fate is that of Belgium. 1t is
astonishing that the Belgians, who are
really a democratic people, have not
compelled the abaication of the worth
less, sensual and unscrupulously greedy
Leopold long ago. Leopold H., who was
born April 3, 1885, is the son of Leo
pold, an uncle of Queen Victoria, and of
Princess Louise, daughter of the late
King Louis Philippe of France. His
father was an estimable man, and aItho
the throne was a recent institution, he
fastened it so firmly in the affections of
the people that his degenerate son has
not been able so far to bring it down.
Leopold succeeded his father in 1865,
and has since followed course of sci
fish qualification better beftting a King
of a century ago. He has been inordi-
nately fond of money to expend upon
his amours and dissipation in Paris. He
has been so frequently absent from his
Kingdom as to greatly embarrass public
business and ALLEVIATE the people from
him, and on top of all this comes the
Congo exposure.
The Congo Free State was established
by the European powers as a philan-
| thropic move to protect the negros from
the slave hunters and help them ad-
vance in civilization. Leopold was made
King because Belgium being one of the
least important States in Europe, there
was no fear of her using the country
for aggrandizement and conflicting with
the spheres of influence" of Germany,
France and Great Britain. Leopold's
management of his trust has been
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
NEW YORK PENSION LAW.

Many inquiries have been sent us as
| to New York's pension law. 1t is not
strictly a pension law, but a poor re-
lief outside of the ordinary poor fund.
An act passed In 1899 recognized the
Commanders of G. A. R. Posts as State
officials in extending relief to veterans
and their families. 1t requires each
Commander to file with the Clerk of
the town or County a notice that his
Post desires to undertake a supervision
of the relief of veterans and their fam
| lilies. This notice should contain the
names of the officers of the Post and
the members of the Relief Committee,
with a sufficient surety for the proper
discharge of the duties under the act.
Every Commander is required to file
in the month of October with the City
or Town Clerk statement of the
amount of relief requested by him dur
ing the preceding year, with the names
of all persons relieved, a brief state
ment of the case from the Relief Com
mittee, upon whose recommendation the
relief was asked for. In the cities this
statement was filed with the Commits
sioner of Charities. and it became the
duty of the Commissioner or Superin-
tendent to include in his estimate the
amount of money required to carry out
the Posts relief requests. The money
expended by the Post is REIN bursed by
the Comptroller. 1t also provided that
where in cities or Counties the Grand
Army Posts had organized or may or
ganize a Memorial and Executive Com
mittee, the same should be regarded as
Post. This act was amended in 1900
as follows:
mo poor or INDECENT soldier, sailor
or marine who has served in the mill
tary or naval service of the United
States, nor his family nor the families
of any who MAY be deceased, shall be
sent to any almshouse, but shall be re-
lieved and provided for at their homes
in the city or town where they may
reside, so far as practicable, provided
such soldier, sailor or marine or The
families of those deceased, are aud
have been residents of the State for
one year, and the proper Auditing Board
of such city or town in those Counties
where the poor are a County charge,
N-'N
perintendents of the Poor, as such Aud
iting Boards in those Counties, shall
provide such sum or sums Of money
as may be necessary to be drawn upon
by the Commander and Quartermaster
of any Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic of the city or town, made upon
the written recommendation of the Re-
lief Committee of such Post. or if there |
be no Post in the town or city in which
it is necessary that such relief should
be granted. upon the like request of
the Commander and Quartarmast@ and
recommendation of the Relief Commit
tee of a Grand Army Post located in |
the nearest town or city, to the town |
or city requesting the so furnished re-
lief, and such written request and rec |
shall be sufficient au--
thority for the expenditures so made"
This law applies to residents of New
York State, whether they served in
State regiment or not, and does not |
apply to residents outside of the State,
even tho they served in a New York
regiment
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

The first great rift in the Duma. and
American sense of the term. is over the
use of the words ''Autocratic" and
Constitutional" The Autocratic Party
insists that the Car is by the grace of
God the ruler of the people, with all
over in his hands, and that the Duma
is merely a delegation of some of his
powers. which he may resume at any
time and dismiss the Parliament. The
other wing, which has some glimmer-
ings of a real democratic Government,
insists upon the word constitutional"
which would place the Government upon
something like the basis that it has in
America, Great Britain and France. In
Austria, Italy and Germany the Gov
ernments proceed upon the principle of
the monarch delegating his powers TO
Parliament and being in position to re-
sumo them at any time that Parliament
may not act to suit him The Emperor
of Austro-Hungary actually did this
some time ago when the Reichsrath be-
came hopelessly turbulent. 1t was the
attempt of Charles l. to do this in Great
Britain which cost that gentleman his
head. Bismarck advised his King to
the country if King William would take
the chances of becoming another
Charles 1. From the experience in Aus
tro-Hungary it would seem wise that
the autocratic theory of Government be
adopted, since there is every prospect
that the Duma may at any time degen-
crate into a far worse tangle than that
which disgraced the meetings of the
Austro-Hungarian Parliament.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

the issues of additional notes equal to
35 per cent of its capital by any Ma
tional bank, subject to graduated tax
of from two to six per cent.
The Treat plan provides for a bond
and secured emergency note system, in
which each National bank would be al
lowed to issue so per cent of its circu-
lating notes on other security than Gov
ernment bonds, but which must be re-
tired in four, six or eight months.
The Fowler plan provides for credit
currency system, on the basis of bank
book credits and deposits.
The Shaw plan provides for an emer-
gency circulation by National banks up
to so per cent of their capital, subject
to a tax of five per cent. Most of the
bankers of prominence favor the Central
Bank idea, but many dissent strongly
over it, and there is wide difference
among all of them as TO the exact lines
upon which such bank should be or
ganized. A recent canvass of the bank
ers in the District of Columbia, Mary
land, Virginia. West Virginia and North
Carolina reSulted aS follows.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Forester Pinchot does not feel the
general alarm expressed in hundreds OF
letters received by him every year as
TO the devastation of our forests by
Christmas trees. The much more seri-
GUS matter, in his mind, is the destruc-
ton thru the paper-pulp industry and
numbering. The Christmas trees are
mostly cut from openings where they
are doing little good and If they are
cut intelligently will improve the re-
majnder of the trees. The main objec-
tion is the beggarly amount that the
men who cut the trees get for them. If
owners of wood lots would study for
estry little bit, they would find that
they could supply their Christmas trees
with profit to their remaining young
timber
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Something like locking the stable
door after the horse has been stolen
comes the activity of the New York
Bank Superintendent in requiring from
all the banks in the State specific
statement of the amounts loaned to di-
rectors. The practice of the directors
borrowing out all the banks money has
done about all the harm it could in the
present stringency. The banks which
could not stand it have failed and sew
erai cashiers, tellers, etc, have blown
their brains out
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

papers about opossum meat, by men
who never saw an opossum and have
no idea whether it wears feathers or
has fins. Those who are acquainted
with opossums find the long, naked. rat
like tail decided bar to getting up any
appetite for the little persimmon-eating
beast,
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Such revelations as those connected
with the looting of the California Safe
Deposit and Trust Company come as a
mockery to those who are clamOring
that Roosevelt precipitated the crisis
According to the confessions of Manager
J. Dalzell Brown, ne and the directors
of the bank proceeded to loot the Sc
curities and lend themselves without
security the money which had been
placed in their trust by confiding depos-
itors. He confessed to making fictitious
entries in the books and other criminal
acts. There was a wave of such NAL
feasance on the part of bank managers
in all parts of the country. Most fire.
quently it was not of the glaringly
vicious kind of the acts of the Califor-
MIA bank managers, but everywhere it
was a recklessness that could lead to
nothing but disaster. This led to the
feeling of insecurity, and it was so
barefaced and colossal that in time it
would have exposed itself, no matter
who happened to be in the White House.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

1t is gratifying to know that the ru-
NOR that ambassador Bryce was to be
recalled has no foundation, and that
genial gentleman will remain with us.
No man in the world understands
American institutions better than he,
and he is peculiarly persona grata in
Washington.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

No panacea outside the testimonials
to patent medicine seems to work
with success everywhere and all the
time. Financial panaceas certainly do
not Great Britain has an absolutely
rigid, inelastic currency, and yet Great
Britain does not seem to have as many
and as severe panics as Germany, which
has very elastic currency, based on
aSSets
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Nothing illustrates SO well the do
mestic subsection in which German wo-
men are held than that the Kaiser buys
all his wife's hats. Audacity would be
no name for an American husband who
would attempt such thing
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
WASHINGTON, D. c., DEC. 2s, 1907.
NOTICE.

When you send in your subscription
always state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
When you renew from another post
office give former address as well.
When change of address is desired lie
sure to give former address.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Nothing is too cheap to be counter
feited. Pittsburg girl has found that
the Italian Countship which she mar
ried is bogus. 1t has always been sup
posed that Counts were as common in
Italy as Celonels in Kentucky.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Most slang has short life, and is
soon utterly forgotten Looking over
the Editors Drawer in Harper's Maga-
zine for 1854, we find pages devoted to
a phrase which was then in everybody's
mouth who was at all smart" It was,
Does your mother know you're out 90
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

The Hughes boom is growing in a
way to surprise the old political man.
'agers. There has been no clarion
sounding about it. but it has simply
grown up among the people, and the
politicians feel the need, little as they
may wish to, of recognizing it. Timothy
L. Woodruff, the Chairman of the State
Committee, has had his ear to the
ground, and announces the change of
front on the part of his associates. He
says that it is popular movement of
the ground-swell character, and the
party organization should recognize
this and get into touch with it, No
manipulation will be necessary or
should be employed. Before the hold
ng of the State Convention the wish
of the people will be known beyond a
doubt, and if an instructed delegation
is desirable the delegation will be in
structed.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

There have been 200 inches of rain
fall in Samoa this year, which makes
the island the dampest of any of Uncle
Sans dry land. Spending millions to
irrigate the arid West, he will next be
asked for an umbrella for Samoa.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

Senator Bailey not only denies the
rumors that he intends to resign, but
adds that not 10 per cent of the people
of Texas are opposed to him, and sub
stantially all the decent ones are on his
side. If this be true, then few Texans
have great ability for noise, while the
rest are singularly reticent.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
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The National tribune., 1907-12-26

The Chaplain of the Oklahoma House
prayed for Mr.. Bryan's election as
President. 1t is these suppiications for
the impossible which have cast so much
discredit upon the power of prayer.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

The Georgia press are assuming with
quiet pride that their State is really
the leader in the South, and sets the
pace for wisdom, justice and modera-
ton in legislation" They think now
is the time for Georgia to take a de-
cided step in the direction of sanity
and justice, and with such wise conser-
vatism in legislation as will tend to pro-
mote the revival of business and COM
mercial activity and the progress of
the South in all material things.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

After all, which one of the Presi-
dents acts which We're so fiercely as
sailed at the time would the people now
have undone? This is the final test.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
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The National tribune., 1907-12-26

They are commenting upon the fac
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opossum meat isn't fit to eat. There
has been a whole lot of gush in the
The National tribune., 1907-12-26

The Kaiser has been playing penny
ante, but there seems to be no w. c. T.
U. in Germany to call proper attention
to the immoral fact.
The National tribune., 1907-12-26
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