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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
DEPARTMENT OFLABOR

The Democratic House of Repre-, sentatives, by the passage of bill to create a department of labor, ha2 paved the way for distinct advance ment to the cause of labor. The or ganized working men of the country have for years sought representation on the Presidents cabinet, and spe- cial department to investigate and inn prove the conditions of labor. The Democratic House gave ear to this ap- peal, and the new department of la bor practically is assured as a re- suit. The department of labor, as provided in the House bill, provides for a Secretary of Labor, who shall be a member of the Preside cab met, and three assistant secretaries
 together with such clerks and officia s as may be necessary to carry on tho business of the department. The bill authorizes the scollection of statistics relative to the conditions of labor. It authorizes the Secretary of Labor so act as mediator in labor disputes
 thereby giving the influence of the government toward industrial peace
 Chairman Wilson, of Pennsylvania
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
FOR THIRSTY TRAVELLERS

Travellers on the New Haven road trains were agreeably surprised to- day to find an ingenious device for the automatic delivery of free individual drinking cups installed near the ice water tanks of nearly every train called the Baldwin holder. for individ
 ual cups and contains about 100 feld- ed paper cups of the fin-back varie- ty It's operation is about as sirn- pie. as can be devised for the purpose and all that is necessary to obtain a CID is to take hold of the fin of the folded cup and pull 1t out. Another one immediately drops into place and so on until the supply is exhausted. Another package of hundred or so can then be inserted by the trainman who carries a supply for that purpose. This is a decided improvement over the conditions heretofore existing since the law requiring individual drinking cups in, public places became effective. At first the old style drink ing glasses were withdrawn without any notice to the public and without any substitute for them. The ice water tank was there but nothing Tn sight to drink out of. The trainmen carried few folding cups in their pockets and supplied them to those  who asked for them and lately a sign was tackled up near the water tanks announcing that free cups might be had from the trainmen for the asking. The round cups were the kind last used and the train em- ployes- as we'll as the travelling public welcome the Baldwin holder and folded cups as the last word in sani- tary thirst quenching devices.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24

leaps and bounds. That of Europe as a whole amounts to more than $26, ,OO0, ,0O0, bearing interest at the rate of s1,150, 1000, 900 8 year. All these endless caravans of ciphers represent sums which have never been paid, will never be paid, can never be paid, so long as the present system of national armament goes on. For practically the entire amounts now raised by taxation in civilized nations go to support the armies and navies.
 The United States, in splendid iso- lation from old entanglements. with out an enemy in the world, and bound by ties of blood and commerce to all civilized nations, spends 1870 of her income in this way.
 It is estimated that the total di- of the world each year, in time of peace is s2,500,00O,OOO, which equals the total valuation of the wheat ana corn crops of the whole of the United States.
 The philosopher may rightly ques- tion the sanity of the human race. With squalor, vice, ignorance, abjecr poverty, and preventable death and sickness our sordid fanailiars; with direst need as a result of famine, pes tilence and flood staring us in he face in every quarter of the habitable globe, it would seem nothing short of naniacal for human beings to pile up this frightful cost of war armament, all for the gentle and brotherly pur- pose of blowing one another into fragments.
 With a tithe of the money wasted in this world wide idiocy, poverty and ignorance could be banished from the world, S09t of disease obliterated the stern beckoning hand of Death stay ed, and this old Earth be made to blossom as the rose.
 We are a brutal, blood thirsty lot of savages and barbarians; our civi- lization a rude concourse- of armed camps; our highest and most honor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24

who had charge of the bill op the es in it's favor, and he also bore the brunt of the debate incidental to the passage of the measure.
 Mr. Wilson pointed out that while there are upwards of 30,000.000 la borers in the United States, they have, up to this time, been without direct representation in the Presidents cab met. One of the most important features of the bill, if not its most valuable provision, is that which au- thorizes the Secretary of Labor to ac! as umpire in labor disputes Chair man Wilson pointed out that this pro- vision of the bill would make it measure of the greatest value, not only to the parties directly interested, but to the general public as we'll The Secretary of Labor, he explained, would have the confidence of both sides, and would be in a position +o bring the contending parties together on a basis of agreement. MT. Will son. President Gompers, of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, and the Labor Group" in Congress are unan- imous in the belief that this bill will advance the cause of labor immeasur- ably in this country. While it does not provide for arbitration in labor disputes, it does make it easier for the two factions to get together, and this, the labor leaders say, is alway. sthe hardest step in the settlement of trade dispute. The new department, in addition, will prove of immense ed ucational value, in that it will dis. tribute facts and figures showing the condition of labor in all industries And education, says Chairman Wilson, is the main thing needed to better the condition of the worker The Democratic bill is one of the greatest victories the working man ever gam cd in Congress.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24

campaign in 1904; and it said some thing for Judge Parker, too, though to an extent unknown, because the books were burned and human mem ory is sometimes very short. MT. Taft in 1908 was backed up by nll- lions as we'll as millionaires, and, ac- cording to reports, both he and Col onel Roosevelt are well "heeled" Tor the present campaign.
 Some anxiety has been expressed by those who regarded money as essen tial to victory at what they coRsider Governor Wilson's overscrupulo odsness in scanning contributions and keeping the tainted dollar off the Democratic grass. So far from creating anxiety, this should inspire confidence. It is one of the greatest assets that the Democratic party and the Democratic nominee could have. It will give him and it more strength than million aires army with banners of gold made in Wall street.
 This, is essentially a. campaign not of Barrel vs. Barrel but of Man against one, and perhaps two, barrels: It is a false and insulting assumption that the American people must be bought. The glory of Wilson's cam paign is that it is an appeal to clean American manhood, and not to the l barrel"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
History.
(Hartford Post.)

During the Bulkeley- Mclean sena- torial fight the charge most frequently made against Mclean by the Bulke- aey forces, was that he was basely un- grateful, in forcing the fight, to the man who had made him politically and had given him his start as a law yer.
 Now listen to this from A. F. Howe, whose letters in the New York Sun day Herald have indicated that his worship at the Roraback-(McLean shrine has become almost fanatic ism:
 ''The report that Senator Mclean will retire at the end of his first term without an effort for reelection pro- notes a fine development of the imag- inative sense. Whether there is any thing to the report, it may take at least three years to tell. There have been symptoms of dissatisfaction for some time with his attitude toward patronage and on other matters on the part of many who helped Senator Me Lean crush the Bulkeley power. to a pulp.
 "There have been stories to the ef- feet that he has not exhibited the gratitude to some of his most service able supporters commensurate with the services rendered"
 What is history, anyway, but mere repetition of similar happenings!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24

ed intelligence, the perfection of Knowledge in wholesale murder.
 The value of the educating infiu- ence through the Peace Bulletin and similar, propaganda cannot be over estimated. It is to be hoped that nothing will occur to prevent it's distribution.
 The same sinister influences which coin the hearts blood of the world into corpulent dividends through ship building, armour plate and arma- ment manufacturing and through sup plying rotten food. may cooperate to kill this effort to publish the nefar- ious details of this riotous dissipation of wealth.
 This Bulletin was to have been is- sued, last May. Has any one seen it yet?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
STUPID ROAD BUILDING

Good will flow from the meeting wise the building of roads in Connec- ticut, From such an association unity of road purpose should come and finally-unity in road building. The exigencies of the town system, and the political necessities of a political road builder have created in this state plan of building roads in frag- ments, a plan duplicated nowhere else in a civilized state, a plan with out Justification in economy, science, or common sense.
 To put down a little piece of high way here, and trifling bit of maca- dam there, and a mean little strip somewhere else, appealed momentar- fly to the vanity of the towns and cities in which the work was done, but the appeal was to ignorance about road building, and now that wisdom has arrived, the bulk of citizens re- sent the trick that has been played upon tnems ana rea1Zo now ch0aD and how flimsy and how exceedingly costly was the bid for their favor.
 Not 'only has the political system of road building failed to give high ways that lead from somewhere to somewhere else, but it has closed year after year highways that have been built, compelling roundabout journeys over all but impossible ways
 Build a mile of road on a trunk line this year. Next year build au- other. creating a ten mile detour, be- fore the first mile can be used. Do the same thing every year for twenty years, shutting off the use of the road while each mile is building.
 There you have a typical example of Connecticut road building, and evil Hence of the unmeasured stupidity of connecticuts chief road builder.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
REVIEWS
 " FROM % Our Exchanges
County Government.
(New Haven JournaI-Courier. )


 We find it easier to follow Judge Mathewson in. his crusade against the Connecticut form of county gov ernment than in his assault upon former political friends and associates. When he declares that it is his intention to smash the county commission system of gov ernment in this state he interests us nightly, not that We have any per- sonal reason in the world for slug ging the New Haven county commits sioners over the ropes, as a certain distinguished political quack doctor would say, but because we have been viewing the system for years with hor- TOT, while the political nachinists with whom Judge Mathewson was so long associated and evidently to his profit were successfully resisting our ap- peals to the state Legislatures.
 When we get down to technicalities, there is a difference in the attitude Judge Mathewson assumes towards the county system of not governing and that we take. He appears not to have awakened to the political dis grace of it until he felt it's relentless power. eAhas learned through suf- fering and distress of heart what we learned years ago through a rational study of the system itself. operating without regard to the men who hap pened to be commissioners. The coun- ty government of this state, in each of the eight counties of the state, is not a whit more corrupt in principle since Judge MatheWson discovered it's power than it was all during the time he and other off1ce-holders and candi- dates for office, in a single political party shared in the benefits of that power, and gladly so. If the county government system of Connecticut was not exactly what it is, a partisan po- litical machine owing allegiance in no way to the general public, it would never have appeared right in the eyes of Judge Mathewson, or any other man willing to profit by the influence.
 The Journal-Courier wants the coun- ty system of no good government abolished in each of the eight coun- ties of the state, not because We have taken a dislike to the three commits sioners in this county, which we have not taken, but because as a system of alleged government it is archaic, es- sentially corrupt at heart, and neces- sarily inefficient. However we will be found fighting by the side of any body who wants the system abolished waiting until the victory has been won, and popular government to that extent recovered in Connecticut, to an- alyze the motives of the soldiers by our side. The system is much more rot ten than any set of men can possibly be that strikes at it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
Popular Campaign
 Subscriptions,
N Y. Sum-

(N. Y sum-
 It is good news, and not for Cover nor Wilson and the Democrats only, that small subscriptions for campaign expenses are flowing into Sea G1rt multitudinously.
 Those expenses. even if cut down to the narroWest necessity, take a lot of money. Laws and chastened pub lie sentiment, weariness or groutiness, prevent the old accustomed milking of the corporations and the plutocrats.
 It is we'll if the peoples hand Is to take the place of the capitalists hiti1- erto perennially pulled leg" if the ancient blackmail is no more; if, to put the best face on an ugly habit, a party can go into and through a cam vass with no angelic aid, with no sus- picion of implied or possible obliga- ton to anybody but the mass of its members.
 Of course the Roosevelt or Moosis party is privileged exception and keeps herd of unusual good milk CTS" and great yielders, Not for nothing does it's totem, the four leg ged Moosis, wear bag or pouch at his
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
The Sour Milk Fallacy.
(New York Sun.)

Since Metchnikoff published his re- markable researches on the germlcldal properties of the Bulgarian tactic acld bacterium, and startled the world With the theory that old age may be de ferred by destroying the putrefactive micro organisms abounding in the irl- testinal canal, and to which he as- cribed properties hitherto unknown and undreamed of, many enterpr1slng individuals have striven to utilize the discovery for the benefit of man kind. chiefly themselves. A number dry. have been exploited, and the us- ual gullibility of the public has made them financially successful. Forum ately little if any harm has been done; perhaps many have been benefited Dy- renewing acquaintance with the lac teal fluid which gave them the first staut in life, and others have d1nan- ished the quantity of alcohol to which their stomachs have been accustomed by assuaging their thirst with butter milk to prevent hardening Of the arteries It would seem therefore an ungrateful task to destroy the happy illusion that sour milk contains the tactic acid bacilli which kill intestin- al putrefaction and prolong life. The Sun must tell the truth, however.
 Dr. J. c. Clark read a paper before the American Medical Association, which is published in the last nun1Der of it's Jorunal, in which he demon strates practically what the experi-
 nents of White and Avery showed three years ago, that the true Bulgar- ian tactic bacillus is the only tactic acid bacillus that destroys intestinal putrefactive bacteria.
 In the treatment of the intestinal diseases of children, summer coAn- plaints, he failed to neutralize putre- faction with several acid bearing bac- teria preparations obtained from yaunted sources, but when he procured the true bacterium, lactis BulgaNcus, from Johns Hopkins Hospital, which had imported it from the Pasteur In stjtute. he failed not in a single in- stance. Dr. Clark reports that with oDt change of diet the most severe types of intestinal diseases which had resisted the action of other highly val ued remedies, including favorable environment, yielded. at once to the true Bulgarian bacillus. He cdn- cludes that 'the negative results pre- viously obtained with the various oth- CT dry cultures were unquestionably due to the small numbers of the true Bulgarian bacteriun in the tablets which contained chiefly paralactic acid bacilli.'' The latter would in com mon parlance be called near latte acid bacilli.'' -
 The lesson from this unbiased inves- tigation would be to avoid taking the yaunted preparations and to depend on a phy sician's prescription and a rell- able druggist for filling it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
Senator Judson Better.
(New Britain Herald


 It is pleasant news that Senator Judson has recovered from his ner- vous breakdown, and that he will be at his post as states attorney in Fair field county when the September term of. the criminal court opens.
 The senator has been i'll for almost year, and were it not for that fact there would not be so much specula- tion as to who would be the next Re publican candidate for governor. He is one of the abest public men in Connecticut, and though the Republi- can machine disliked him for his un- compromising attitude towards the, lobby as the leader of the last State' Senate, it would have found it eX- ceedingly difficult to prevent his nom- ination if he became a candidate. He went to the Senate endorsed by the Democrats of his district and made splendid record. It broke him down physically, but he has recovered now and, though he will hardly participate
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
Appeals to Clean
 American Manhood,
Baltimore Sun.l

The evidence before the Senate com mittee which is investigating Presi- dential election expenses merely con firms in detail what everybody knew in substance before-that is, that vast sums of money have been raised and expended to elect Presidential candi- dates The Mckinley campaign fund in 1896 was enormous-nobody knows exactly how much, because that and many other secrets of that campaign are buried in the grave. Money "talked'', under it's breath, but none the less literally, in MT. Roosevelts
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
THE CRUSHING COST
 OF WAR ARMAMENT

The Peace Day Bulletin soon to be issued by the United States Blu reau of Education. in discussing the cost of war says. Since 1900 the war debts Of the nations have grown by.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
LOSING MORE THAN A MILLION A YEAR


 The public owes gratitude to Benjamin l. Spock at orney the New Haven Railroad who in his eagerness prevent certain troleymen receiving wages has burted out the truth about the effcency of the ggan tic corporation whose servant he is. We cannot afford to pay the wages says Mr. Spock, because the Connecticut Company is 'LOS ING MORE THAN A MILLION DOLLARS a YEAR"
 Bridgeport conducts large enterprises and pays all expenses-besides supporting many persons who able to support themselves-on less than $2O0OO00 a year.
 Imagine if you can, readers of this newspaper Bridgeport with deficit of than million dollars year. What cry of inefficency there would be- What accusations should hear, and noisy assertions that democracy is failure and that incapable of self government
 Here is corporation which has monopoly of street railway transportation in of the most densey popu lated portions of the United States, and assured that it does business badly that 1t losing prlncey fortune every twelve months.
 What does it mean? Many private business men, who in keen competition with other business men, are making money
 Why should the Connecticut Company, without com petition, lose million dollars year and more?
 What waste does this mean what gross carelessness what fa1sehoods what financial methods born in the dark and kept in closet? x~
 What compendium of stupidity something worse that the managers of this company making profit of nearly cents each five cent fare losing than million wear as Spock has thoughtfully-or it the arbitration committee in New Haven
 : One fact Mr. Spock omitted He has not informed us who pays the more than million dollars year that is lost in conducting this street railway monopoly.
 Is this the deficit contributed by Carnegie, some other philanthropist?
 How it that the Connecticut company keeps out of bankruptcy when it is dosing than million dollars year,
 The answer is simple
 The deficit is charged to the steam road patrons THEY PAY TIN THE FORM OF TARIFFS ON FREIGHT, EXPRESS AND FOR PASSENGER SER VICE
 Which opens another interesting question. Why did the road purchase trolley business that is losing lover million vear?" Why did the managers of the railroad impose this vast burden steam road stock holders and the public that depends upon steam roads to do a necessary work?
 Who were the insiders benefited by such transac tion?
 legislative investigation of the whole financial sys tenn of the New Haven from 1900 the present ment is necessary.
 Nothing else will show why men, presumably equip ped with brains and capacity manage to monopoly of commodity in universal demand to lose more than million dollars year.
 Benjamin Spock is public benefactor. But he increase his public value by explaining WHY the Connecticut Company loses ore than million dollars year.''
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
Joy Riders.
(Bristol Press. )

A disgrace to civilization is the drunken automobile driver He should be dealt with in the most se- were manner. People become hys- terical with fright when a mad dog is reported in the street, yet an in- toxicated man at the automobile wheel is g thousand times more dan gerous and deadly. Many of the so- called accidents" are directly due to drink and drunkenness.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24

Now that your indignation has been aroused by the reform forces desire to call attention to the "raW" deal handed
 m is the only outsider who staged without the aid of scenic nvest- 
 women would be interested in baseball if they believed it would help them socially
 Every man has good points His neighbors point pride that when Sim Heck1e gets drunk goes 10 sleep. So many drunkards insist oK giving a torchlight procession
 prize fighter gets his share win. lose draw. But in order share in the purse must win.
 A plays golf because he likes the sport. A wo- plays golf because it is proper thing to do
 If going to be anything, be professlonai' No amateur attracts much attention bible any portion of it. But the story of the olive branch in its beak is strain on te who tested intelligence of the dove. misleading the to the effect that "o-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-24
SPORTING GOODS

Baseball Gloves, Bats, Balls, Sup plies, Tennis Balls, Packets, Nets. {, Markers, Tennis Shoes, SneaIxs, Bath. ing Suits, Water Wings.