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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-08-11


81 y 81 she has burst forth into the rank of modern
w~x.e% nations Through the centuries she has stood
with her face to the past, the curtain of SUI
pesiton behind her and between her and the light of
gress her only illumination the weak glow from ancient
customs In moment she has turned and rent the veil
and stands blinking and amazed but happy in the bright
noon day sun.
Spain did not know of a MONDAY sun until Ferrer
Ferres voice proclaimed the prophecy through the hills
and valleys but she did not hear Ferrer But when the
church shot Ferer the reverbraon from emusket shots
rolled on and on, all over SPAIN even behind the VEIL
So history srepeated. Asayior IS killed, and then
it tanspres that only the was killed and that the
savior still lives and saves. Feer gave his talents and
his life to separating the church and state Feer was
udicaly murdered but the church and state have
been separated The temporal power Of the chuoch is
wiped out in this last ancient stronghold and now the
pie support their state without being compelled
port church from which they may differ.
Religion has been made private matter in SPAIN
as is the United States Spain win now go forward
as the United States has gone forward And as Lnco
death killed the Rebel South forever and death
killed anarchy in America SO Of Ferrer killed
the Spanish church politics.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-08-11
THE SONG OF THE SHIRT.

With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red.
A woman sat in tlnmomanly rap.
Plying her needle and thread
Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! >4s
In poverty, hunger and dirt.
And still with voice of dolorious pitch
She sang the song of the Shirt
Work! work! work!
While the cock is growing aloof!
And work-work-work,
Till the stars shine through the roof
It's o! to be slave
Along with the barbarous Turk,
Where woman has never a soul to save.
If this is Christian work.
Work woodwork.
Till the brain begins to swim!
Worx-work--work,
Till eyes are heavy ana dim;
Seam, and gusset and band,
Band and gusset and seam,
TIL over the buttons fall asleep!
And sew them on in a dream!
o, men, with sisters dear!
o, men, with mothers and wives!
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures lives!
Stitch! stitch! stitch
In poverty, hunger and dirt
Sewing at once with double thread.
A shroud as well as a shirt!
But why do talk Of Death?
That phantom of grisly bone;
hardly fear his terrible shape,
It seems SO like my own,
It seems SO like my own,
Because of the fasts I keep
o, God! that bread should be so dear
And flesh and blood so cheap!
Work-work-work!
My labor never flags;
And what are its wages? A bed of
straw,
A crust of bread. and rags!7
That shattered roof and this nakef
floor,
A table, a broken chair,
And g wall SO blank, my shadow thank
For sometimes falling there.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.!
From weary chime to chime
Work-workwork,
AS prisoners work for crime!
Band and gusset, and seam,
Seam, and gusset and band
Till the heart is sick, and the brain is
benumbed,
AS well as a weary hand.
Work-work-
In the full December light,
And work-worl-worlk,
When the weather is warm and
bright;
While underneath the caves
The brooding swallows cling
AS If to show me their pretty backs,
And twit me with the Spring.
OH but to breathe the breath
OF the cowslip and primroses sweet, |
With the sky above my head.
J : And the grass beneath my feet,
For only one short hour
To feel as used to feel,
Before I knew the woes Of want,
And the walk that costs meal!
o! but one short hour!
. A respite however briefi
No blessed leisure for love or hope
But only time for grief
A little weeping would ease my heart. |
But In their briny bed
Ny tears must stop, for every drop
flinders needle and thread.
With fingers weary and worn.
With eyeiids heavy and red.
A woman sat In unWOmanly rags
Plying her needle and thread
Stitch! stitch! stftchI
In poverty, hunger and dirt
And still with voice Of doloriousl
pitch
Wsuld that its tone could reach thel
rich
she sang the Song Of the shirt.
Thomas Hood.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-08-11
OUR HIRED RULERS
24N4NQ444AAAAAn
By Robert Hunter

dominate our legislatures. on,
Congress and our courts.
One of the most distinguiSba1
representatives of that profpssion
sits today in the presidential cI,,i,.
at Washington.
In the present United States
senate there are fifty lawyers. two
farmers, two manufacturers, five
bankers, five public officials. one
stock raiser, etc.
In the House of Representative,
there are two hundred and twelve
lawyers, sixty-four public official
sixteen farmers, nineteen bankers
etc.
In both houses the large major.
ity is made up Of lawyers.
Now lawyers are a. peculiar
breed of the serving class.
They may begin by handling tn.
cases of the poor but if they are
bright and able they end by hand
ling the eases of the rich.
And the ambition of every law.
yer is to become the servant jof
a great railroad, a trust or some
other wealthy corporation.
They belong as much to those
they serve as those who follow
the profession Of a coachnan. or
valet.
AS class they serve with their
brains those who pay well and
their chief work is to help 'thp
rich to evade the law which other
lawyers have made.
Probably every lawyer in the
Senate and in the House is at
present in the employ of some.rich
and powerful corporation.
They are there because they
have ably protected the interests
Of corporations in the courts and
are therefor doubly able to pro.
tect the interests Of corporations
by drafting laws.
The lawyers control absolutely
our courts and they control no less
absolutely the bodies that make
the laws upon which the couFts
pass.
Lawyers have always been
much-hated class chiefly because
they supply the brains and do the
dirty work of every tyrant.
There are Of course good law
yers and bad lawyers and as the
later are worse than the first the
por employ them while the rich
employ the good lawyers.
If you will go to any Of the
capitols Of the United States you
will find the hotels filled with law
yers.
Lobbyists are there with the
yellow dog fund and they are law
yers.
Public officials are there to be
oribed by the yellow dog fund and
they are lawyers.
Lawmakers are there yearning
for fees and they are lawyers.
= And in the quiet courts most
distinguished men sit in Judgment
and they are lawyers.
In proportion to population the
lawyers are not numerous, since
they "represent" a class 50 small.
But lawyers never represent them
selves.
They represent thoselwho can
pay fees; they represent money
and power.
They are selected by capital to
represent it because the lTzF#TT3rs
are the ablest, best trained minds
that will serve for hire.
Thomas Carlyle many years-ago
explained the use of lawyers.
"Stump orators. supreme .sor
otherwise are not beautiful to me
inp these days, said Carlyle.
"But the immense power pt
lawyers among us is sufficiently
Ineligible.
81 perceive it proceeds from
two causes, first, the presided oSFr ;.
the management and security OF
Prosperity which is our god at
present.
"They are thus properly our
Pontifs, the highest priests we
have.
"Then furthermore theypossess q
the talent most valued, that OF the
Tongue. :"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-08-11
Don't Wake the Fools.

sWhat did you tell that man jus:
now?''
! told him to hurry"
What right have you to tell him to
hurry 2"
pay him to hurry"
What do you pay him?"
Five shillings day."
6 Where do you get the money to pay
him?''
"I sell bricks
Who makes the bricks?"
He does. a.
s.How many bricks does he make?''
t'Twenty-four men can make $4,000
bricks day.
How much do bricks sell for?"
Seventeen shiI1ings and sixpence .
thousand.
You give him five shillings and keep
the rest?''
ssSuFei'.
"And how much is the cost of your
seryices?''
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-08-11

&PAIN has surprised everybody. Suddenly,
) from the dark ignorance Of the middle ages,
4 she has burst forth into the rank of modern
= nations. Through the centuries she has stood
~ with her. face tn the mast the curtain of Sll-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
G O N TIN u f D
r o
P A G F. 0 N f
MARCH WILL BE ON
TUESDAY

protest Tuesday night is believed
certain by the leaders, who have
felt the pulse of the workers of
Spokane, who, without a dissenting
voice, say they are tired of the
lodging and postponement of the
council.
Either we are going to get what
we want, Tuesday night, or there
are going to be some new faces in
the city council. and if the mayor
wants to discover the temper of the
workers of Spokane all he needs do
is to attempt to postpone action on
the wage and matrOn questions UNI
til Wednesday," said MI Coates at
loon today.
The parade will form at 1880 and
march on the city hall, and every
Spokane union is ordered into the
parade.
1t is the first time in the history
of the city that a body of 5000 citi-
zens, demanding justice, have
marched on the city hall, and union
leaders apparently have no especial
fear of Chief sullivan doing any
clubbing, or of there being any Jail
coils filled with enthusiastic union
men.
1--WE can't get anything out of the
council without soaring them; they
have repeatedly gone back on their
solemn pledges and rescinded their
ordinances proposing a square deal.
The only way out now is to fight,
and We are going to fight
That is the way another member
of the protest parade committee
feels about it.
Next Tuesday night will be the
liyeliest evening Spokane has eX-
perienced in months, and without
definite action from the council on
the question of an increase for the
city laborers and on the police ma
iron problem the last attempt of
labor to politely request things
from the council will have been
made. 1t will be recall a special
election, and the putting in office
of fair men-that is the last word
Of labor.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
ANOTHER
PRINTING
HOLD Up

An order has just been issued by
the city of Spokane to the Cole
Printing Co. for the printing OF a
pamphlet containing the annual re-
port of the board of health of SpO-
kane.
Including the four pages Of COW
er there are SO pages in the book
and conservative estimate places
its cost of production at 500 to
SIPS, yet the requisition for the re-
port has been issued for the sum
of $3.50. Six pages are blank and
four more pages have only from
one to Is lines to the page.
The question naturally arises,
how much of the cost of the book
went for the actual work of print
ing, and how much for other pur-
poses?
The Press had two printers fig
men are not actively engaged in
the job printing business, but fig
ured it from the standpoint of the
cost of production. One said that
the book can be produced for $50
and the other said that there would
be profit in the job at 500. Hence
The Press concluded that a liberal
allowance void be 1925, yet the tax
payers are asked to pay $3.50
This was the price paid for the
printing of the report last year,
and it was taken as a criterion for
basing an estimate Of the cost this
year. Last year the Century Press
took care of the job.
At the office of George w. Arm
strong, city commissioner, who is
sued the requisitiOn for the work,
this afternoon it was stated that
the work had been held up pending
an investigation of its cost. 1t is
claimed that bids were received
from four printing houses and that
they bid a common price-$350.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
IS
INDICATED
COURT FINDS THAT HE DID
NOT ABUSE THE BROWNING
ESTATE

w. II. Plummer, the prominent
attorney against whom charges of
fraud and ENLIGHTENMENT were
made week ago by Attorneys o..
c. Moore and George H. Armitage,
has been vindicated.
Judge J. d. Hinkle dismissed
Plummer from further accounting
in the matter of the Margaret
Plummer estate this morning, sig
nifying that the court was satisfied
that the attorney acted within the
law in the case.
At the hearing this morning Mr.
Plummer presented his side of the
case, proving that the funds and
jewelry comprising the estate in
question were in his hands only a
few hours, and Immediately placed
in bank to the credit of Mrs.
Ray c. COrbit, the Administrative.
Although Attorney Plummer and
Coroner Schlegel, who was made a
party to the action, were dismissed
by Judge Hinkle, Mrs. COrbit, the
Administrative, will have hearing
on March to determine whether
she shall be removed.
According to advices from Michi-
gan, the two children of Fred and
Margaret Browning, deceased, are
not receiving the monthly sums or
dcred paid by the court for their
maintenance. Mrs. Corbit claims
that she sent the money to a bank
er with instructions to pay it to
those who are caring for the chill
dren
Following the charges made
against Plummer of Withholding
SIG in coin, a $1,000 note and
jewelry from the administrator of
the estate of Fred Browning, Plum
mer made a sensational and violent
attack upon Moore and Armitage,
following the verbal shot, with a
petition for the disbarment of his
detractOrs.
No action has as yet been taken
in the disbarment proceedings.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
NO LESS THAN
IS WASH0UTS

E. w. Evanson of the Hardware
Dealers association. with offices
in the chamber of commerce build
ing, has returned from Lewiston,
Idaho. He says the conditions in
that country and practically all the
way between Lewiston and Spo-
kane in respect to washouts and
floods are very bad. Prospects are
that the trouble Is growing with the
melting snow. There are no less
than Is washouts on the new road
between Riparia and Lewiston, he
says. 1t took his train over two
days to come from Lewiston to
Spokane. Part of the time 100
people were shut up in baggage
car. and caboose. In Mr.. Evan
sons car were two sick women, a
blind man and corpse. You can
see what a merry time we had,
said Mr.. EvansOn this morning.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
& O N tt n u E D
r o M "
P a G f O N E


ported to have saved in his alimony
bill.
In London. Mrs. Astors friends
are rejoicing at the prospect of her
receiving 100000 a year alimony
instead of a meager $4,000, as re-
ported. No one knows where the
rumor originated, but it has not
been denied. 1t is said that in pri-
vate conference Aston settled
$10,000,0Q0 on Mrs. Aston.
Mrs. Aston is expected to marry
an English nobleman. and it is ru-
mored that Lord CurZon. whose first
wife was Mary Letter of Chicago,
and who afterward became viceroy
of India, is the favored sutton from
among a half dozen nOblemen.
The countess of Essex, who was
Miss Adele Grant of New York, is
with Mrs. Astor. 1t is said Lady
Essex is using her social influence
to further the match.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
CANNON WILL. |
AGAIN Be A.
CANDIDATE
(By United Press Leased Wire)

WASHINGTON, March A.
Joseph G. Cannon will be candi-
date for speaker of the house in
the siXty-Second congress despite
his recently reported statement to
Representative Mckinley that he
would withdraw to insure repub-
liCan control of the next house.
This information was obtained to-
day from a source that makes its
authority unquestiOned. 1t is also
reported that President Taft and
Postmaster General Hitchcock have
agreed to throw the administra-
tons Influence behind the Cannon
forces.
Taft gave a dinner at the White
House last night at which Cannon
was the guest of honor. One of the
guests said today that the president
feels that the country will expert
ence a reaction by next fall and be
ready to repudiate the 'insurgents"
by voting a straight administra-
ton" ticket in the congressional
elections.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
CITY WINS IN
|. v. v. FIGHT

\ conference between the city
officials and representatives of the
Industrial Workers of the World at
Occur d Alene last night resulted in
settlement between them, which
closes the street speaking fight
and brings matters to exactly the
same conditions that existed before
the fight was taken up. The police
conceded nothing. but got every
thing. /. w. w. will be allowed to
conduct their hall and publish their
paper as long as they raise no dis
turbance about it. They will not
be permitted TO speak on the
streets and they will be allowed
no privileges which they did not
have before the fight began, all of
which means that the Industrial
Workers have lost their fight.
Fligno must serve whatever SEN
tence is imposed on him. No ap-
peal will be taken.
The perjury charge brought
against Martin J. Burns, captain of
detectives. in connection with testi-
mony given by the sleuth in the
Heslewood case, has been with
drawn. HeslewoOd himself was
forced to stop habeas corpus pro-
ceedings and give himself up to
the Spokane officials. Here he will
probably be placed on his good be-
havior with a $1,000 bond hanging
over his head.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
A LOT OFlGR|MES
BUT NO ARRESTS

Two daring burglars. thought by
the authorities to be the same men
who robbed, bound and gagged D..
G. Dahl and his wife at their home
en- Princeton avenue recently, en-
tered the home of Nathan Ander-
son last night and got away with
jeweIry valued at $500.
SO successful was the previous
robbery. and evidently of the same
opinion held by all crooks who
have operated in Spokane that the
local detective department is a
lead pipe" the burglars, who an
swer the same description of those
who entered the Dahl home, broke
their way into the Anderson resi-
Gence at 01010 Summit boulevard
last night Entrance was gained
from the basement by breaking in
a door with an axe. No one was
at home when the thugs entered
so they waited until Mr.. Anderson
and his wife returned.
As soon as the occupants of the
house opened the door the robbers
leveled two guns at them and COM
manded them to turn their backs.
The victims We're marched into the
sitting room. where they were tied
to chairs and blindfolded. Two val
liable diamonds, a shirt stud aid a
ring and a watch valued at $500
were taken from Mr.. Anderson. A
solitaire diamond ring and an opal
ring set in the center of IS small
diamonds We're taken from Mrs.
AndersOn's hands.
The victims kept UP conversation
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
SUIT OVER 20
INCHES 0FLAND

Although Geo. A. Biebel and wife
started an action some time ago to
secure possession Of 20 inches of
land from Lucy J. Reynolds and
$50 rent on the strip for four years.
when the case came up before
Judge Huneke this morning it was
discovered that Biebel had sold
the property and the court post
poned the trial, ordering that the
new owner be made plaintiff in the
case.
The Biebels secured possession
of the land, lot in CrOwders SUBJ
division of STATIONS addition, on
December 10, 1905, and discovered,
so the complaint reads, that the
Reynolds, next-door neighbors,
We're using 20 inches of land that
did not belong to them.
r. M. Barnhart, former prose-
cutting attorney, who lost his life
in the Cascades horror, was one of
the attorneys retained by Reynolds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
SPOKANE FEELS BLOWS OF
DISASTERS MOST KEENLY
FIRST TRAIN MAY RUN TO WELLINGTON TONIGHT AR
OF MEN WORKING.

dertaking company. Masonic serv-
ices We're held by the local lodge
for Pascoe and RitchOt at the Gem
etery and ministerial services for
the children.
This afternoon Richard Movie. a
Mace victim. will be buried at
Greenwood under the auspices of
the |. o. O. +. The above bodies
were brought here in order to be in
TERED in some regularly organized
cemetery.
Mrs Kittrell and two children,
former residents of Spokane. who
lost their lives at Mace, were buried
here this morning, after funeral ser
vices before large crowd of
friends at the Buchanan parlors.
Two hearses were used in carrying
the family to its last resting place.
No funeral arrangements for ,the
victims of the Wellington wreck
can be made until it is known when
the bodies will arrive.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
BEWARE OF THIS MAN.

If a man dressed in light over
coat and a stiff black hat calls at
your house with a subscription
blank. soliciting money for the aid
of a sick woman, supposed to be
at the Sacred Heart hospital, you
will do a great service to the po-
lice by hanging on to him until
the patrol wagon arrives. Yester-
cay this man called at house at
Fourth avenue and Browne street.
The woman to whom he talked was
impressed with his story. She
wanted to help the unfortunate
woman at the hospital. but instead
of giving money to the man with
the subscription blank she called
up the hospital and asked about the
patient. She was informed that
there was no such case at the Sa-
cred Heart.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04

with the thugs, who were as gallant
as Diamond Dick society burglars.
They brought a glass of water to
the victims and talked to them as
they worked. The telephone wires
were cut and the electric light
globes on the front porch were IN
screwed and taken away.
Warning the Andersons not to
move for ten minutes in danger of
their lives, the daring thieves de-
parted. One was a tall man and
the other short. The tall one ap-
peared to he the elder of the two.
He talked about his accomplice as
the kid"
While the Anderson burglary
was taking place other thugs were
busy. The room of w. Gustafson,
in the Colorado house. was entered
and two coats, vest and check
for $13 were taken. - ..-.-
FOotpads entered the home of
Mrs. d. d. McMillen, 1904 River
side. A half dozen knives and
forks and five tablespoons bearing
o grape design were taken.
Seven cans of HeinZ's apple but
ter were taken from the Northern
Pacific refrigerator car which was
broken open last night. An East
man folding camera, belonging to
w. G. Gill, who resides at E3204
Second avenue, was stolen from
the Great Northern depot.
Of all the cases reported, no ar
rests have been made with the eX-
ception of the young ciearmake
brought to the station by Detective
Lister
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
PACK TRAIN SUCCESSFULLY
REACHES STARVING VILLAGE

starving to death, the pack train
fought its way through the drifts
and won its fight.
Tacoma is really not town, but
a construction camp, composed
largely of men, with but two women
and a few children.
The Milwaukee has no hopes of
clearing its line for many days. The
rotary pillow, buried under SO feet of
snow in the mountains, is still there
today, with no prospects of another
plow reaching it for several DAYS.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04

Probably the grief and sorrow Of
the horrible iandslides of the past
week have been felt more in Spo-
kane than any other city in the
northwest not directly in the path
of the calamity.
Yesterday afternoon and today 10
victims of the Landslide at Mace
were buried here. The one man
killed in the Milan wreck lies in a
local undertaking establishment
awaiting burial arrangements, while
nearly a dozen people from this city
have lost their lives in the wrecked
Great Northern trains at yelling
ton.
Al Laird and mother, Mrs. A.
Laird. victims of the Mace land
slide. were buried at Greenwood
yesterday afternoon. This morning
r. Fl. Pascoe and two children, Ina
and Edward, and their friend, A. d.
Ritchot. all Mace victims, were bur
led at Greenwood by the Smith IN
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-03-04
ORIENTAL WRECK
COST $4,000

Great Northern officials estimate
that the loss in the wreck of the
Oriental Limited at Milan, in the
destruction of equipment, will run
TO S160,0 900.
The injured victims Of the wreck
remaining at the Sacred Heart
hospital today are Citing along
quite we'll and none are seriously
hurt There are but three persons
in the hospital-Alonzo Carrie. the
engineer; William O. Eldridge, the
hoy hobo, and Albert II. FOrtman.
Carrie was the most seriously in
jured. but he is getting along fine
and will get out of the wreck with
out permanent injuries.