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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-07

nearly an operated Dy union men.
have not increased prices. Steel and
iron products are decreasing In price.
These are nearly all union made.
Clothing is nearly all made in non
union shops. Printing is nearly all
union, yet papers and magazines are
cheaper and better than ever. Hats
are nearly all union made. but they
have not increased in price. The build
ings are nearly all built by union Ia
Dor. and yet the present is one OF the
greatest building eras in our history.
Now. Mr.. Kirby. tell us what you
base your statement on. We admit
there is one way that the labor trust
may have contributed in a small way
to higher prices. By raising the stand
ards of living in the industrial centers
1t has increased the markets some
what Unions have enabled hundreds
into larger and better homes, and these
homes are better furnished. Music
dealers will tell you they now sell many
pianos to workingmen. They buy a
greater variety and better quality Of
food and clothing. But We assume MI.
Kirby will not find fault with this, for
his organization stands for larger mar
kets. Besides. if it is wrong for labor
to raise the prices Of living by living
better it logically follows that it is
wrong for his class to live high and
thereby make larger markets and high
er prices The Is per cent Increase In
wages is more than made UP by the
cheaper methods of production and the
larger efficiency Of labor.
The labor cost of factory product
Is now only 80 per cent OF the factory
price and only Is per cent Of the retail
price. An increase Of Is per cent in
wages would amount to less than 2la
per cent increase In the retail price.
This Is more than Offset by the i'm
proved methods. AS for the limiting OF
output. statistics prove that the union
factories turn out larger per capita
product than ever before. Mr.. Kirby.
the people want facts. not uusubstan-
tiated statements. If the statements
herein are not true We invite any one
to refute them.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-07
THEY GROW
Good Humor and Cheerfuiness from
Right Food and Drink.

Anything that interferes with good
health Is apt to keep cheerfullness and
good humor In the background. A
coffee alone made things bright for
her. She writes:
-Four years ago ] was practically
given up by my doctor and was not
expected to live long. My nervous
system was In a bad condition.
But ] was young and did not want
TO die 30 began to look about for the
cause OF my chronic trouble. l used
to have nervous spells which would
exhaust me and after each spell 1t
would take me days before l could
sit up In chair.
II became convinced my trouble was
caused by coffee. decided to stop
II and bought some Postum.
THE first cup which I made accord
Ing to directions. had soothing ef-
feet on my nerves and l liked the
taste. For a time I nearly lived on
Postum and ate little food besides.
am today healthy woman.
my family and relatives wonder il
am the same person ! was four years
ago. when ! could do no work on &C.
count Of nervousness. Now am doing
my homework. take care Of two babies
--onc twenty and the other two
months old. am SO busy that hard
ly get time to write a letter, yet l do
1t all with "A cheerfulness and good
humor that comes from enjoying good
health.
Il tell my friends II Is to Postum l
owe my life today"
Read THE Road to MELVILLE" in
pkGs. There's Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new
ono appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true. and full Of human
Intoeest.
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UNIONS NOT TOBLAht |
High Prices Cannot Justly Be
Laid at Their Doors.
KIRBY's STATEMENT REFuTED
Attempt to Saddle the Increased Cost
Of Living on Organized Lahore
Shoulders Fails For Lack Of Proof.
Facts to Consider. 'i'

President Kirby of the Manufacture
ers' association is reported to have
said in a recent address in the east
that the labor trust (the unionsl is the
principal cause Of high prices because
1t increases wages and limits output.
This is the most absurd statement /
have seen regarding the cause Of high
prices, writes D. +. Kennedy in the
American Federationist. Mr.. kirby's
position is untenable and utterly lack
ing in proof. The farm products have
increased more in price than any other
staple product. but there is no union
Of farm labor. Cotton has gone sky.
ward. and there is no union Of cotton
producing labor-in fact, it is the
cheapest labor in the country-and ma
chinery is now used in picking cotton,
which is still cheaper than the negro
labor
Lumbermen have no unions, and lum-
Der Is high priced. Woolgrowers and to-
bacco growers have no unions. Their
labor Is cheap from the ground to the
finished product. There is not single
trust tobacco factory organized. Sugar
uses no union labor.
The furniture industry and the
Standard Oil industry are uliNrgan-
lied. A large part of the stove foun-
dries are nonunion, and we note the
nonunion stoves are as high priced as
the union product.
<b~ ho bo nd n.
railroads, interurbans and street cars
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-07
CORN EXPOSITION
FOR COLUMBUS, 0,
In Will Be Held in Conjunc-
ton with National Rural
Life Conference.
palladium Specially

columbus. o.. Dec. THE Nation.
nj Rural Life conference. an exceed
ingly important adjunct to the fourth
annual National Corn exposition to be
held In this city two weeks. beginning
January 80. and occupying seven mas
sive exhibit halls on the Ohio State
exposition grounds. will bring scores
OF the deepest thinking men and best
speakers TO atte.4d this great national
agricultural exposition.
It will be broader i'm every sense
than any rural life conference that
has been held in the past. Ordinarily
such conferences have dealt with So
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FRUIT GROWERS TO
HOLD CONVENTION
american News Servicee

Indianapolis. Dec. THE Indiana
Horticultural society is celebrating its
semicentennial by holding the largest
convention in its history. The gath
ering was opened at the State house
this afternoon with an address by the
president, c. n. Lindley, OF Salem,
which was followed by number OF
papers on topics of interest to the
fruit growers. The convention will
conclude it's sessions tomorrow.
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RETURNED HOME

Miss Fannie Howell has returned
from q visit At Lafayette. Indiana.
where she was tho guest OF Mr.. and
Mrs. SNYDER.
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An Expensive Present.

Young Wife - Yes, father always
gives expensive things when he makes
presents.
= Husband-So / discovered when he
gave you away. land then he went
into the library to write check for
the monthly millinery billy
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-12-07

Fresh supply Of Mrs, Austins Fam
GUS Pancake Flour. At your xrocers.
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RED CROSS SEALS

Red Cross seals are now on sale.
a large number have been sent to
Richmond to be disposed of. The
Palladium has these seals on sale.
Cali for them at the business Of
flee. Each penny spent for Red
Cross seal goes into the war fund
for the campaign against the great
white plague.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-25
CHARLES STEELE

a small brewery. He failed. and then be-
came saloOnkeeper. ~ his death he
left us in poverty. I had four sisters.
all younger than myself
I'VE moved into two rooms on the top
floor of an East Side tenement. Ny
mother was a woman of spirit and did
not let her family know about her cir
cumstances She slept with the girls in
the back room, in which there was sim
gle window SO high from the flonr that
We had 20 stand on a chair to see out
and so small that only one of US could
look through il at a time
Il slept in the outer room, where we
cooked aud ate and where my mother
did her WOTk-seWing up calico wrappers
for 1928 cents apiece. She was a rapid
seanstress and made 81 a week. I would
get awake far into the night and see
her head bent over her work 1t took her
three days and parts of three night TO
sew dozen wrappers and earn s.
Our rent was s. q month. So we had
s. cents a day for six hungry mouths
and six pairs Of feet We lived mostly
on stale bread, eating it with salt a
relative of my father worked in a meat
shop, Occasionally We would get some
leaf lard from him az first cost and
mother would fry out the fat When
we had lard to spread on our bread we
were glad TO omit the salt We never
had any butter or fruit II was a hideous
hfe-my mother toiling day and night
and never telling her parents where or
how she lived. l carried the wrappers
TO little sweatshop.
1t the age of eight, after the close OF
school for the summer, went to work"
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Mr.. StelZle continued to say. He had
gone into the hard particulars Of his
childhood at my request, talking evenly
and quietly, but I saw tears in his eyes
when he spoke of his mothers lonely but
loving labor of the night Il got a place
in a basement cigar factory to strip to-
bacco, my wages being 30 cents a week
and two smokers every night 1 gave
the cigars away. ] didn't learn 20 smoke
then, nor have / learned since.
y attended school until I was ten
years OF age, working when ] could. In
the mornings and evenings 1 sold news
papers on the streets. AT Christmas
time peddled candy and oranges
through the tenements. For a while |
worked in a restaurant-not cheap
place, but where a regular dinner cost
So cents-and was put in charge Of the
ice cream. pies and cakes.
Finally. / thought / ought to become
n steady wage Garner and the real head
of the family. However, | went to school
for the next ten years every night Nv
hgSt regular job was in an artificial flow
er factory In Blocker street. / cut from
sixteen 70 thirty-two pieces of cotton or
silk at a time with a heavy wood mai
let on plaIe of lead Il was good ex-
ercise. even if my physical development
was rather lopsided / was paid 81 a
week at Tie stert remember walking
home the first Saturday night jingling
one silver dollar aginst the other and
feeling much ike a capitalist. At the
end ~ four years was earning $50 a
month.
"A cousin OF my mother was press
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FRENCH PREMIER WHOSE FIRM STAND
STOPPED PLAN TO WRECK THE REPUBLIC

from that bourse after all this time had
elapsed. that the revolutionary decree of
the general strike was issued last au-
tumn.
What These Unions Mean
A general description of the Bourse du
Travail, the Seine Federation, and the
C. G. T. may help the reader 20 grasp the
significance Of an outbreak that may
have either developed into a civil war OF
may have been stopped by order of the
leaders and explained by them as a rev
olutionary rehearsal II is but little
known that there have been several such
''rehearsals" at Paris within the last
three years. king Pataud's extinction
of the lights Of the entire city OF Paris,
for example, while Pataud himself, snok-
ing a cigar, staggered about the boule-
yards 10 see how the bourgeois liked H.
The establishment in Paris Of the La
Dor Exchange in 1856 has often been de-
scribed as the most important event IN
French trade unionism since the birth OF
Marxist international" The exchange
is the Headquarters Of the trade unions
(Syndfates) Of France. Somes 20 Of the
unions have their offices IN the huge exc
change. and 10 Of these 80 formed them
selves into the Seine Federation. That
bourse was established TWO years Rfter
the passing of the law Of 1884 which abol-
ished the old restrictions on association
and authorized the free establishment
of trade unions for the promotion of
strictly professional objects. The Paris
establishment was promptly copied in all
tho chief towns OF the 100000 work
"a -
trade uniDnists. and large numbers Of
these are nonsubscribers. but. as hap
pens in all revolutionary movements. the
militant minority moves the mass
Assume Political Character.
During the hrst years after the pro-
mitigation Of the law Of 1884 the unions
observed. or were supposed TO observe.
the legal prohibition against political asi-
taIion and propagandism. They profess
ed tdNconfne their activities 10 purely
economic matters. such as wages, work
ing hours, and negotiations with the
masters on behalf Of the unemployed.
But from 1882 the syndicates assumed a
political character. and became a state
within the state "FederatiOns'' of d.
verse. unrelated trades were constituted
IN violation OF the law which permitted
decorations OF one and the same trade
only At first the majority of trade
unionsts disapprOved Of this ELEGANTLY,
bun they were gradually overruled. he
minority had The advantage in viii. en-
ergy, and lack Of scruple. At last, IN
1895. this new movement still i'm its in
fancy received o formidable impulse by
the formation within the bourse itself Of
"a revolutionary nucleus. the c. G. T.,
already named
The c. G r. was, and is. composed 81
two Sections the Federations Of Unions
and The Federations Of the Labor Ex-
changes. scattered throughout the prov
inces. This second section is chiefly con-
CeTned with statistics, administration,
and general policy. The first section may
be described as the general executive A
committee representing both sections
bears similar resemblance 20 the COM
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ready had done. is trifing with the fate
Of France But the C. C. r. was left un-
touched
About the game timr and also i'm the
Bcurse du Travail, there was housed an
other revolutionary body. the Federation
Of pie Syndicate ttrade unionsl of the
Seine This body was turned ont by
CIemenceau himself in this case expul-
sion was useless; the newspapers gener-
ally protested. And they were right. for
the very next morning after the Seine
Federation had fitted 90 Sc Rue de Ia
Grange aux Bellies. tha G. c. It's new
Headquarters It's leaders wrote TO the
project of The Seine assuring HIM ir0ni-
cally that he was mistaken il De mag
ned that he had done them any harm
and thanking him for having strength
ened the revolutionary movement The
federation was "luite comfortable thank
you,' with its comrades of the g. q. g.
The expelled ORGANIZATIONS still kept their
grip over the Bourse du Travail 1t was
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bon and minister Of public works both
Socialists. have stood uuhinohingy by
the premier NJ. Niyinia went ~ far AS
TO say that in this ease socialism had
adopted sabotage methods, anti patriot
ism and anarchy"
The French republic of law. order, and
progress has found In the present pre-
mier the strong man she has been wait
ing for, the man of clear vision the
realist OF persuasive eIoquenee, humane
sympathies and-What IS needed most IN
turbulent Frauce-ind0mitable viii. the
patriot who cares nothing for his own
greatness in comparison with that 90
France. He has proven this by forsWear-
ing his own former s0cialistic tcarnings
when they came in conflict with the
safety Of the country whom he Has sworn
10 serve
IT is a social danger: il menaces
France and the republic Let the gov
eminent act without delay The time is
ripe. So exclaimed Clamenceau's old
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Advertising pays, ! long since found out.
in religion as well as groceries and dry
goods
But you were not preacher / said
81 applied to Princeton, Union, and
theological seminary out West, hut was
turned down on the ground that / was
not "a college graduate. Therefore, / ap-
piled to the Presbytery Of ST. Louis for
ordination. The committee examined me
four hours on theology alone and the
chairman said / was as competent edu-
cationally and in all other respects, as
any candidate who had ever come before
the presbytery. ] lecture now at the
seminaries that refused my application
and the students and members or the
faculties seem glad 10 see me and 10
hear me talk"
Go ahead, DR.. Dixon called from ms
seat on the platform.
II hurriedIv outlined the plans on
which / had been rejecting. For one
thing / said. I should hold meetings in
tents ana out of doors A preacher
stood up and asked: Are you willing to
try it tonight in Joplin?'
Yes. / answered, II you will go
along and help me-
we drove in A barouche 10 the cen
ter of the business district. The streets
were full of men from the zinc and lead
mines. We happened TO stop in front OF
the clothing store of a man named Gott-
Heb saw the sign and took ii for
text saving that Gottlieb was German,
and meant Gods love The Jewish mer-
chant standing in the door shook his
head in confirmation. II was a good
meeting.
Just now I am showing the churches
that they are committing a sin and are
laundering in their business by abandon
ing the down town districts in large
cities. An old church here was about
TO be closed. II was given to me six
months ago. that I might stest my the
cries. ] have conclusively proved my
case. The church is filled 10 the doors
with Italians, Jews, Hungarians and
other aliens We hold thirty meetings a
week Workingmen do not 60 10 church
on Sunday morning. and SO / preach TO
them in the evening. We have con-
tinuous service on Sunday from early in
the afternoon until late at night-songs,
organ recitals. suppers. moving pictures,
sermons. and other forms OF social. spir-
itual and educational teaching and en-
tertainment.
NO effort is being made 10 convert
anybody. We are simply showing those
who come how TO live. and they are
eager 10 learn and are keen and intelu-
gent, and far more appreciative than is
commonly believed
Copyright. 1910. b. James B. MoarO~l
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paper. the Aurore. more than two years
ago at the first sign of the serious symp-
toms OF the movement which Nj. BRAND,
who has been too indulgent toward his
former confreres of theOretic socialism,
now denounces as criminal and revou-
tionary and the ringleaders of which ne
has put under lock and key. And now
what is that revolutionary body which
recently has been menacing France to
such great extent as 10 call forth all this
connection. fear and denounciag2 1t is
the Confederation Generate du Travail,
familiarly known Ia France as the c. G.
T. Dissolve IT, was tie cry from the
moderate and patriotic press. Merely to
turn II out of the BOurse du Travail Ia
Dor Exchange, as Clemeneeau's prede-
oessor in the ministry Of the interior al
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socialism with anarchy-conhned here TO
the strike alone the only question at
issue-is "A remarkable feature in a re-
maTkable debate yield 20 the Social
lists" he exclaimed, and you will de-
stroy our parliamentary institutions.
DO not submit 20 anarchic tyran-
ny. I have acted as tie friend Of
liberty in arresting a plot which for days
has paral zed our commercial Industrial,
and agricultural life. Never will
be numbered among those who have at
tempted 10 strange q government CRAP
piinS with a conspiracy against the
state"
To complete the breach between the
socialism of the theoretic stage. and the
anarchic socialism of to-day. Messrs
Niviani and Millerand, minister of Ia
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written for The Sunday Washington Herald.
By FLANEUR.

! kNHlten Tor Inc SUNDAY Washington hGraid.i
By FLANEUR.
And now. gentlemen, / am going to
say something which will make you
jump (qui va vous faire bondir). These
were the words of the French premier.
Aristlde BRAND. as he faced the tumult
in the Chamber of Deputies when the
Socialists, his former confreres. took him
10 task about his drastic measures in
suppressing the big railroad strike.
They did jump. They jumped with an
/ energy unexampled even in the stormy
annals of the Palais Bourbon. What did
they jump at? Why did they jump? Let
US hear what the belligerent premier had
70 say
In securing control over the railways,
which are indispensable to the defense.
10 the everyday life OF the nation, we
have acted within the law; bat the gov
! eminent also would have acted without
J il had such a course been necessary"
! But such strong words also brought
the dissenting Radicals TO their feet.
They joined the~Socialists in the frantic
cry. Dictator, Down with him" a
basl
| Well and good. But / ask what would
any one think Of a minister, a premier,
who. when confronted with a national
disaster, should hesitate TO do the nee
| essary' thing? Grant the necessity
say and all talk OF dictator becomes
/ mere nonsense.
/ True, the Socialists and their allies de-
/ ny the necessity" Bat the damning
proof that the strike was a revolutionary
plot for the destruction of the political
/ and economic bases Of the existing order
was supplied in the list of elaborate I'M
/ stru tons which the ringleaders had
/ ISSUED to their agents and which. in
/ spite of their secrecy, had come into the
/ hands of the minister of public works,
/ who read them out IN the Chamber Of
Deputies.
/ Then why did the Socialists jump ut
the words of the premier? just because
he told them TO? Or because they saw
/ that they were caught? Or we're they
really unaware of what was going on in
their very ranks2 The men Of the other
political parties sat unmoved They were
aghast. They knew that the premier s
ironical warning was not addressed TO
them
spoke sound, Common Sense.
They were with NJ. BRAND 10 a man
In their opinion he had spoken common
sense The statement which threw the
Extreme Left into a paroxism Of fury
merely were a reiteratiOn of the obvious
doctrine that he had enunciated before
the maxim that the nations right to
existence is superior 10 the right to
strike" The premier had merely reiter-
ated what, during the same debate. a
RadiCai-Socialist deputy NJ. PUec him
self had stated: 1.-The vital interests OF
the nation transcend the interests Of any
section of it. The strike was
from the very start revolutionary and
anarchical ] therefore approve
the steps taken by the premier in the
face of SO grave an emergency"
From the viewpoint Of parliamentary
evolution NJ. Brands identification OF