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S,,cOO Jon FOR WILLIAMS.
BROOKLYN Democrat Made chief Counsel
for Conservation Commission.

ALRANY. Aug, IS The State Conserva.
tion Commission tonight announced the
following appointments: Counsel, George
Y, S. Williams Of Brooklyn. at $1,000 a
year and expenses; first assistant counsel
George p, Decker. Rochester, s., ono a veal
and expenses; chief engineer. Richard W
Sherman. Utica. brother Of the Vice.
President, $1,000 year and expenses
deputy conservation commissioner fol
the fish and game division John b. Burn
ham, Essex, at $500 year and expenses
This ia a reappointment.
Mr.. Williams has been Interested in
bcmocrat!c politics for many years. He
was chairman Of the anti McC arrer
county committee at tho time the Demo
Gratis IN Brooklyn were warning over The
leadership. After peace YVES declared
Mr. Williams was made chairman of the
Jaw committee of the regular orpaniza.
non, which place he has ever since held.
Mi, Decker was deputy attorney.
general in 1908, and he has been serving
as chief attorney for the Forest, Fiah and
Came 'ommlssl0n, llo was the Demo.
trict last fall "''
Mr. sherman was city engineer Of Utica
in lss2-ss and iso3, and Mayor of Utica
fs8o-8l and is98a7 He was the Demo.
cratic nominee for State Engineer and
Surveyor in l8D?
Mr bnrnham served as chief game pro.
tector dGrng the administrato ion of James
=. Whipplc as Forest Fish and Game { ON.
missioner His work as chief protact or
was commended by the Hughes inyesti
eating committee.
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e6rAs0vW llAA1A cQe1la1-

the Democrats a great deal Of comfort
He asserted that panics were not caused
by tariff legislation but that the money
kings had the power to precipitate panics,
which they frequently did to discipline
the people He said that he would not
be surprised IL a panic were started very
soon to frighten the people away from
tariff legislation. He declared that the
panic of 1893 was not due to the Wilson
Gornan law.
Senator La Toilette having set the ex-
ample. Senator Reed OF Missouri. who 10
rapidly getting to be the long distance
talker OF the Senate. felt called on to
rebuke Senator Warren OF Wyoming,
who ia a sheep raiser. and Senator Smoot
"In my opinion" said he. .there 10 no
difference between man spending money
to corruptly secure a seat in the Seuate
and for a Senator by his vote TO pour
thousands OF dollars Into his own pocket
through protective tariff schedules. Yet
We see here the spectacle OF Senators
having vast interests in the subject under
debate proposing to vote to increase
their own profits in such business.
have noticed that no member OF the
Senate more actively opposes feduc-
tions in the duty on woollen manufactures
than those Senators who have interests
in woollen mills or are more, eager TO
retain a duty on raw wool than those
who own vast hocks Of sheep"
Neither Senator Warren nor Senator
Smoot made reply.
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had been killed by a train that the build.

had been killed by train that the build
ing Of railroads be stopped
These are sacrifices that are bound
to mark the advance toward the eetab-
lishment Of aviation upon a practical,
practicable basis
The speed biplane race was the big
feature of the day. McCurdy and Beachey
fought out the finals. They winged over
the one and third mile course. scarcely
off the ground. On the south turn Beachey
foued McCurdy by flying bene ath him
and was penalized a lap. When they
ended their nine laps Beaohey had slight
advantage but MoCurdy got first place.
Tom Sopwith. the king own aviator"
went out alone in the weight carrying
event. He carried two passengers fonr
miles over the course.
The speed biplane race was thriller
Beachey. McCurdy. Parmelee. Turpin
and Robinson entered in the preliminary
heat. Beachey's work with his Curtiss
was perfect. He few close to the ground
and banked low. At the turns on the fret
lap Parmelee in his Baby Wright. gave
him hard chase. but he dropped back
when NcCurdy's powerful machine.
driven at terrific speed 10y its so horse
power Gnome motor, passed him over the
axe
In the finish il was beautiful race
between Beachey and McCurdy. the latter
winning.
IN Ia nding Parmeiec dropped close
to the lake on account of motor troubleS
A groan went ny from the crowd, as it
was thought he had fallen into the water
but soon hs appeared unhnrt. His motor
trouble prohibited his appearance in
the finals.
The trial heat was six laps. or nine
miles. The resulta were: Beachey tCur-
ti>s, a:o7.,O; J. A. ". McCurdy tMcCurdy).
a:S? %; farmeiec ,Wrighu, iO:a3.p Tur-
pin Wright. ,o3l.il; Robinson tCurtss,,
iO:3a.ii.
The final heat nine laps. i3 miles
resulted: McCurdy ,NcCurdyI. li:iO. es;
Beachey ,Curtissi. i5:lo.O6.
Other contestants did not finish. The
prizes were: First. $500; second. 1900,
and third 500.
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UNDERTAkERS,

FRANK =. CAM PBELL. 2Al.3AS ". 7S4 o.
Chapels. Ambulance Service. Tel 1874 ChsleaA
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The Best Waterway

Is BY rail from EllenviIle, N. ", to
this city. That is the way
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RESOLUTION TO ADJOURN.
One Fixing August n for Congress 10
Quit Receives Scant Consideration.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.-A concurrent
resolution providing for the adjournment
of the extra session of Congress on Tues
day. August 2o at o'clock was offered
this morning in the Senate by Senator Pen
rose of Pennsylvania.
The resolution was sharply criticised
by Senators Cummins OF Iowa and Bris-
tow of Kansas. The former said he would
oppose adjournment unless there could
be coupled with it assurance that a vote
would be had on the pending cotton re-
vision bill and amendments in the mean
time.
Senator Bristow made the same point
The resolution was referred to the Com
mittse on Appropriations.
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vi Sobioc tIlCtc - n ulHcTeHCe DetWfen
the argument directed to whether the
Senate has the power TO submit TO conf
mission the question whether difference
is arbitrable or not and the policy Of
doing 30. confess myself unable to
find any just argument upon which a
defect in the power of the Senate for
this purpose can be urged.
Mr.. Taft said that he himself would
have been willing to have every dispute
submitted to arbitration. but admitted
that public opinion was not sufficiently
far advanced TO accept such policy and
that therefore they had adopted the com
mission plan to decide upon which ques-
tions should be arbitrated. He continued:
Il believe in arbitration to the point
that | am willing to arbitrate anything
IN which believe have good cause. and
II don believe Ihave good cause wish
TO give i up in advance OF farbitration."
Mr.. Taft then defended his course in
proceeding with the negotiating of the
treaties without taking the Senate into his
confidence: This has aroused considera-
BILE Ill feeling in the Senate
"lcould have called the Senate in advance
OF the making OF the treaties, and il would
not have been departure from the proper
method FOR mo TO have learned in advance
the action the Senate might take Ipon
licly declared my Willingness to initiate
such treaty and so far as my authority
went to carry il 10 n successful negotia-
tion. IL did not seem wise. therefore. TO
submi, the matter TO the Senate until
after it had taken definite form and until
after We had found that the other coun-
tries eswere willing To join us in such treaties.
NOW ] freely concede that il il within
tho power Of the Senate in it's function
OF advising and consen,ing to the treaties
either 70 reject them or to amend them
They do not amend the treaties, strictly
speaking; they merely continue the neeo-
tiatlng by suggesting another form To- be
submitted to the other party to the treaty, =,
ana thnt understand is what the Foreign
done: TO wit, IL has stricken out the third
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
OPENNEss OF OPPORTUNITY

Senator Albert B. Cummins of
Iowa, in an address at the gradu-
alton exercises of the Washington
college of law coined the follow
ing:
1.-The greatest problem that we
are facing today, and the one up
on which the American Republic
will be wrecked, if it is ever
wrecked, is the question of dis.
tribution of the vast wealth of
the nation. I do not for a NOM
ent suggest the equality of for
tune. The openness of opportun-
ity is what is needed in this coun-
try today. Business is being
concentrated into the hands of
the few, and the vast opportun-
ity that once existed is being
taken away.
If competition disappears and
the mighty combinations control
the wealth, there are only two
remedies-fixing Of prices Of
commodities by the government
or the judicial restoration Of the
creed of competition.
Competition has been called
wasteful, evil and cruel, butt I
would rather have all Of it's
wastefulness, it's evil and it's
cruelty than that one power have
the right to say what prices
shall be paid for all commodities
used by the people of this coun-
trv.'
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ture declare that the earth is
fixed and standeth fast forever?
How, then, can it be round and
travel round the sun?
In spite of the theologians
.Copernicus was shown to be right,
and Sir Isaac Newton (born 1912,
died 1727) explained the move
ments Of the heavenly bodies by
the one law Of universal gfavita-
tfon. 49, =.
We now know that the earth
is round and that it moves round
the sun. We know that the stars
are bodies billions and trillions
and quintillions of miles away.
We. now smile at the Ptolemaic
theory. Yet. it created a great
furore in it's days and those who
asserted the Copernican views
were held to be heretics, destroy
ers of human happiness and
haters of Cod. z.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
FIRST PAGE ARTICLE,

We would call special atten-
ton to the leading article on our
first page from the pen of No.
Ian r. Best, editor of "The
Continent the National Presby-
terrain weekly.
The article will certainly give
many Of our readers an entirely
new view point, as to what
should be THE attitude of the
church toward the trades union
movement. ...-. .a
H Mr. Best shows very clearly
that the most landable of human
reforms are in a more or less de-
gree tinctured with human frail-
tx, and that the church at its in
ception was no more proof against
such weaknesses than is the
trades unionism Of today.
! z MI -
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THE INITIATIVE
.=. AND REFERENDUM

The initiative and referendum
has reached the stage where
there are now no doubts of it's
being adopted by a great major
$ity of the states. At the last SEES
.sions Of the California, Wash
ington, Wyoming, Colorado, Ne
braska, North Dakota, Wisconsin
and Florida state legislatures
bills were passed looking to its
establishment. Only one serious
rebuff has been encountered. The
legislature Of Iowa adopted the
Oregon plan,> but Governor Car
roll vetoed it. Oregon, Okla
homa, Nevada, Missouri, Mon
tana, South Dakota, Maine, Ar
kansas and Utah have constitu-
tional provisions covering this
mode OF legislation. Arizona, the
near-state, has also provided for
it. Utah, however, adopted the
provision in it's constitution when
admitted as state, but the leg
islatures since that time have
steadfastly refused to enact a
statutory law putting it into
operation. We all know how this
meritorious reform Jared at the
hands of the last Minnesota legis-
lature, but it's coming yet for a.
that.
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A REPREHENSIBLE
PRACTICE

"The fool who rocks the boat
again materialized on Spirit Lake
last Sunday: :
Beyond all question, such a
character is unfit to associate
with young people, and our boys
and girls should shun his society
as they would a pestilence.
It is hard to classify such an
individual. He is near relative
of another idiotic character who
points gun with the subsequent
exclamation, II didn't know it
was loaded.
Some states have made pro-
vision against such offenses.
Michigan has a statute making it
a felony to point an unloaded fire
arm at another.
Among the sayings of famous
men we find this one accredited
to Washington (at Trenton) =:
IF any fool rocks the boat, my
lads, throw him overheard.
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TREND OF EVENTS.

The Rt. Rev. Charles David
Williams, bishop of Michigan,
sees the trend of events and is
not afraid to condemn the cring-
ing servility of many Of our peo-
pie.
In his sermon recently, he said
"The United States and Russia
stand side by side in the black list
Of nations that have failed to pro-
tect the poor and weak with pro-
per legislation. II \ II The govern
ment has existed to back up sue
cessful men, n n The nation is
being conducted in the interest of
the wealthy and successful citizen
eve have false standards and
no national ideal worthy the
name. The financial barons and
merchant princes are worshiped
with even greater humility than
the old feudal lords of other
ages. The highest avocation, the
greatest achievement is the accu.
mutation of wealth. There is a
deplorable lack of taste, all tend
ing to glitter and tinsel."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10
THE TRUST QUESTION.

To handle the trust question
properly it may be necessary to
elect Legislators of different cal
ibre than has heretofore been the
rule, or it may have to be done
through the initiative and refer
endum. Restrictive legislation
like the antitrust law or inter
state commerce law can bring no
genuine relief. The repeal of old
laws is a far more urgent require
ment than the enactment of new
ones. It is never unconstitutional
to repeal a bad law. It frequent
ly is to enact good one. One
bad law that must be repealed is
the tariff law. That will put an
end to all the trusts that are up
held by protection.
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AN ABSURDITY.

One of the inexcusable absurdi-
ties of existing law is made mani
fest through the Standard Oil
litigation. It took that corpora
ton two years to definitely learn
whether or not it was violating the
law.
The ablest attorneys that its
money could employ informed it
that it was not.
The judges Of the supreme
court were unable to say whether
it had or not, but had to think
about the matter for weeks be-
fore deciding. -
Yet the ordinary layman who
has never been to law school is
held strictly responsible for any
violation Of law, even if the law
happens to be one that no one
had ever heard Of it would think
possible for a sane legislature to
pass. Ignorance Of the law is
no excuse. > r.
The matter would be a proper
subject for a comic opera if ii
did not SO frequently have results
that are not at all funny.
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THAT OLD CHESTNUT.

1--WE are all equal before the
law,' has been thoroughly explod-
ed and no sane man should longer
express any faith or confidence in
the fallacy Of such a shattered
dream.
Taylor Of Kentucky was fug-
tive from justice and was indict.
ed on the charge Of murder, but
for seven years the fugitive from
Kentucky had the protection of
the state Of Indiana.
But, when labor official of
the state of Indiana who was not
a fugitive from justice, is charged
with crime, the state Of Indiana
offers him no protection but per.
mits his legal rights and constitu.
tional liberties to be trampled un.
der foot. ....ss
r..~lt
But Taylor of Kentucky was q
politician and capitalist, while
Mcnamara was a labor official
who was consecrating his best ef.
forts to iberate the slave from the
shackles of industrial servitude -
The Miners Magazine. I.
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CLASHES WITH COURT.

President Taft IN his special
message to congress in 1910, evil
IDENTIFY did not anticipate the de-
cision Of the supreme court, for
he then thought the insertion of
the word reasonable in the
Sherman act, would involve our
whole judicial system in disaster.
This is what he said:
MANY people conducting great
business have cherised a hope and
belief that in some way or other
a line may be drawn between
''good trusts and "bad trusts
and that it is possible by amend
ment to the antitrust law to
make a distinction under which
good combinations may be per-
mitted to organize, suppress CON-
petition, control prices, and do it
all legally if only they do not
abuse the power by taking too
great profit out of the business.
They point with force to GER
tain notorious trusts as having
grown into power through GRIM
inal methods by the use of ille-
gal rebates and plain cheating,
and by various acts utterly vio-
lative Of business honesty or NOR
atty, and urge the establishment
OF some legal line Of separation
by which terminal trusts" of
this kind can be punished, and
they, on the other hand, be per-
mitted under the law to carry
on their business.
Now the public, and especially
the business public, ought to rid
themselves of the idea that such
distinction is practicable or can
be introduced into the statute.
Certainly under the present Anti
Trust law no such distinction ex-
lists.
1t has been proposed, however,
that the word reasonable
should be made part of the STAT
ute, and then that it should be
left to the court to say what is
a reasonable restraint of trade.
what is reasonable suppression
OF competition, what is a reason
able monopoly.
l venture to think that this is
to put into the hands of the court
q power impossible to exercise on
any consistent principle which
will insure the uniformity Of de-
sxcision essential to good Judge.
ment.
1t is to thrust upon the courts a
4 burden that they have no proceed
ents to enable them to carry, and
to give them power approaching
the arbitrary, the abuse of which
might involve our whole judicial
system in DISASTER
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Our legislators are evidently
willing to do anything to destroy
the trusts except to repeal the
laws that create them. Congress
a and the state legislators could
Ions long ago have wiped every mo-
1nopoly out Of existence without
any resort ESQ., to litigation had they
been willing to act on the ques-
ton sincerely and "a q rational
manner.
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vately. owned. They hold, we be-
lieve, that wealth is the private
property of the individual who
produced it, and that he should
not be deprived of it by any sub
terfuge or legal scull duggery:
A great deal of falsehood is cir
culated about the Socialists.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10

Suppose the men who profess
to be SO intensely interested in
the development Of Northern
Minnesota have punches Of
stumps and rocks they wish to
sell at ten times their value,
never mind that, the agitation
will do good, even if the motives
that prompt it are not above
reproach. III
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The union man is the best

The union man is the best
workman to have in a city, for he
makes more money and is able to
spend more. He gets the price
he sets on his work and Is willing
to pay the price the merchant
sets on his goods. He is not a
bargain hunter or a cheap skate.
He knows the rules Of the game
of life and is willing to abide by
them. s. s8fs.-.1 10. - sz@1
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HOW: THE FARMER Is
FLEECED.

Farmers pay at least 60 per
cent Of all taxes. The total
amount of land value in the
United States is about $50, O0O,-
600, 600, Of which at least 20 per
cent is owned by: public service
corporations, owners of mining
lands and owners of city and
suburban lots. It follows that no
more than 80 per cent Of land
value is owned by the farmers.
If. the tax system would be
changed SO that all public reve-
nue. would be raised by a tax
on land values alone farmers
would pay no more than 30 per
cent Of it.
Minnesota State Federation Of
Labor convenes in Mankato,
June 10.
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Answer: In the second century
after Christ there flourished one
Claudium Ptolemy, who enunci-
ated the Ptolemaic theory of the
universe. =:
According to this cosmography,
the world was flat and was the:
center Of the universe. The
earth: was enclosed in a number
Of crystal spheres, each sphere
innermost had the moon i'm
bedded in it. The next sphere
had the sun embedded in it. The
outer spheres had the visible
planets. The next the outermost
had all fixed stars. The outer
most sphere has the background
for the twinkling and quivering
lights. These separate crystal
spheres moved in different direc
tions. This was self-evident and
proven by the course taken by
the sun, moon and planets. AS
these hollow, concentric bodies
moved and ground against each
other they produced music. This
was the music of the spheres"
which was supposed to be pleas
ing to the Creator. s.>-.
There was hole through these
spheres through which the angels
descended and assembled and
through which the souls Of the
dead escaped. This was proven
because Jacob in dream had
seen the angels walking up and.
down the hole.
This universe was attached to
heaven by four golden chains.
Up above was heaven and down
below was hell. This theory Of
the universe was the one adopted
by Milton in his Paradise Lost, Z
Milton wrote this poem after the
Copernican theory had been given
to the world. The Ptolemaic
seemed to him the grander con 81:
ception. AS q result Milton g great
poem is little read today. This,
is scientific age and Milton:
chose to be poetic rather than
truthful. s.. II
In 1913 Nikolaus Copernicous,
q native Of Thorn in Prussia, ad-
yanced the theory that the earth
revolved on its own axis and re-.
wolves around the sun. This at
once provoked : great storm. The.
ologians denounced the i'm
pious views Of the wretch. They
triumphantly marshaled religious
dogmas to their aid. Does not.
Revelations declare that the an,
gels stood at the four corners
Of the earth How can the an
gels stand on the CORNERS S. The;
earth BE round [ Does not SCRIP Is
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-10

Flattery and slush don t
amount to. anything, but good
honest, well meant praise means
good deal, especially where it
is honestly due. =. 49,. !
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Duluth Mimi. June 4: 1911.

GQlCVT IdUOr WOrlQ 49,
I wish you would give me a good
recipe for making root beer and gin
ger ale. am now making dandelion
beer from your recipe Of two weeks
ago. -:... ~ RI .e. =.
Thanking you for favors, I am
-. Yours Respectfully,
SUBSCRIBER, Lakeside.
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Y0ur1 truly, n
[ SEVERAL SUBCRIBERS

Answer: No it Is not q fact.
Az we understand the position Of
the Socialists, they want every
thing that j. pub licly used to be
publicly owned md every thing
that q priyately med e be pri.
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Duluth Mimi. June 7. 1911

Duluth Mimi. June Z, 1911.
Editor Labor World: e.,
I: hear good. deal said. Of the
Copernican and Ptolemaic systems Of
the universe I wish you would ex-
plain what is meant by each system.
HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL.
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The honest man takes pains,
and then enj joys pleasure the
. knave takes pleasures, and then
nj ers pains.
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Ginger. Ale
Duluth. Mimi, June !. 1911.

Editor Labor World sa ts .ss
We have an argument over ques-
ton we have left for you to decide
IS you know. The question Is this:
IT = 9 fact Is II not. that the So
sciaists are opposed to the private
ownership Of property .,.=..'3f
49, E.. - Esaass e Ynlra truly