Lower coast gazette., 1913-03-22
NATIONAL NEWS.

nois State Senate, says that if tn
wages of his employees are raised tn,
Increase must come from highe
prices. The State apparently contem
plates legislating q legal minimum
wage. Needing the boastfui testimo
ny OF this manager, it would be RICH
to also, if possible, fix q legal maxi
mum price. All value a girls sou
above the value of money. Ever
though it should be necessary to gel
Q minimum wage that would support
a shop or factory girl, that the woman
of the home should be given a heav
Ter burden, it would be indeed virtue
cheaply paid for. But why should the
consumer pay? Why should the div
idend remain stationary? The bur
den justly belongs on the shop own
ers' shoulders. Share the profit with
its producer. Take it from those who
need it least. Give it to those who
need it most. 1t is their product. Cap.
ital is entitled to its interest. Labor
is entitled to its just reward.
The ChiIdren's and Misses Dress.
makers Union have voted to strike for
q 50-hour week and q rs per cent in
crease in pay. The present average
wage is $3.50 a week. The union has
a membership Of 10000. Strikes this
year have been numerous. These
seem to be but the forerunners of the
anticipated general strike, which facts
show may beaa bloody war between
Capital and Labor.
The Children's and Misses Dress
makers Union has been settled. The
demands made by the strikers have
been granted.
A letter received by the vice prob.
ers of Illinois, written by a girl Of the
underworld who fell, %piteously and
truthfully sets down the reason why.
The men are all bad, she says, when
girls are concerned.
Another girl appends her initials to
her letter. She concisely states that
low wages, hunger, cold and dance
halls helped, but smiling friends"
brought the climax.
These letters are valuable. They
bring the problem carer to the root
of the evil-men. The law restricts
the victim. 1t frees the victimizer.
The law inflict penalties upon the few
whom it is forced to convict out of
proportion to the gravity of the Of
Tense. The man, after serving his
short sentence, is set free. While he
is imprisoned the law allows him all
but freedom. He is then a released
menace land time shortly finds him
at his old game. The injustice Of the
law makes the stealer Of souls bold
er. Vice commissions heretofore have
failed OF their purpose il their pur-
pose vas for good. But il is posi-
BILE that probers found the probe re.
vealing things. 1t is possible probers
see the faint reflection OF the public
flash light half turned upon them.
selves. Then it is probable they falter
in their determination to follow the
light that leads them. And ii is sure
they take another path where their
own personal regulations are not
.jeopardized.
Forty thousand fourth class post
masters will undergo q civil service
examination. John McIlhenny, a Civ
il Service Commissioner "a Louisiana
am, suggests this. II followed, the
plan will reduce the value to Republic
an Office holders of the moves made
by Roosevelt and Taft rewarding their
followers. This test of abil-
will purge the list OF ill-fitted Off
Gals.
In New York, craftsmen working
underground to q jewelry store, sue
,eeded in gaining admittance through
tunnel and fobbing the store of
valued at s350,000. The street
front OF the store was crowded
With pedestrians while the burglars
were stealing the jewels and gold. The
york preparatory to the job was start
ed Saturday evening and Oh Sunday
afternoon the reward for the work
vas distributed.
John Mulreny, murderer OF q New
York character, Paddy the Priest"
!. saloon man, has been reprieved for
;ixty days. His electrocution at last is
delayed for two months, and posi-
by he may be freed. Governor Sui
.er granted the respite because OF the
condemned mans personal appeal, de-
his position to have been
orced upon him b. his W obserr-
nee OF "the underworld code OF hon
~ which condemns a ~squealer. The
asked time to present new ey-
dence.
The Carnegie peace trustees want
he bill permitting american ships to
'ass free through the Panama Canal
epealed. The peace prescribers 49,
;ert such an act to be q violation OF
he treaty between Great Britain and