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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25
Japanese Labor Cheap, but Not Good
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM.

7 NEVER glance into Clarence
Poe's book, where Half the
World Is Waking Up" with
out finding some interesting view
of the human problem This vista
of Japanese labor is timely:
In the very outset, the as
sumed parallel between Japan's
rise as a military power and her
predicted rise as an Industrial
power should be branded as the
groundless non sequitur that it is.
All our present has its roots in
the past as my first Japanese
acquaintance said to me; and we
ignore fundamental facts when
we forget that, for centuries up-
numbered, Japan existed for the
soldier, as the rose bush for the
blossom. The man of martial
courage was the goal of all her
striving, the end of all her ira
vail. Society was a military aris-
tocFaey. the Samurai the privi-
legged class. And at the same time
commerce was despised as dis
honorable and industry merely
tolerated as a necessary evil.
In the race she has to run,
moreover, the Mikado-land has
no such advantages as many of
our people have been led to be-
lieve. In America it has long
been my conviction that cheap
labor is never cheap; that So
called cheap labor is a curse to
any communicated because it is
cheap, but because it is inefi-
Gent, The so-called cheap negro
labor in the South. for example, I
have come to regard as perhaps
the dearest on the continent.
Here in Japan. however. I was
quite prepared 10 find that this
theory would not hold good. BY
reason Of conditions in a print
tive stage of industrial organiza-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25

ton, ! thought that l might find
cheap labor with all the advan-
tages Gin so far as there are
any, and few of the disadvan-
tages, encountered elsewhere. But
1t is not so. An American fac
tory owner in Osaka, summing
up his Jobs trials with raw Jap
anese labor, used exactly my own
phrase in a newspaper article a
few days ago. Cheap labor is
never cheap And all my investi-
cations have convinced me that
the remark is as applicable in
Japan as it is in America or Eng
land.
The per capita wages of Japa-
nese laborers in Japan are, OF
course, amazingly low. The latest
1910 statistics of Japan, as fur
nished by their Department of
Finance, indicates a daily wage
american money! of 40 cents
for carpenters. 81 Ia cents for
shoemakers. "a cents for black
smiths, 25 IL cents for composi-
tors, 10 1-2 cents for male farm
laborers and % cents for male
weavers, and IL cents for female.
In the cotton factories I visited,
those Of the better sort, the
wages run from cents a day for
the youngest children to % cents
day for good women workers.
But in spite Of the fact that
such figures as these were well
known to my Japanese host Gone
of the Emperor's privy council
Tors, and a man of much travel
and culture). he expressed the
conclusion that japanese factory
labor when reduced to terms of
efficiency is not greatly cheaper
than European, an opinion which
has since grown rather trite. in
view of the number of times that
l have heard it."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25
Is Woman, Like a Rabbit, Made
to Breed?
c. B. Shaw Says That the English Statesman So Consider Her
A Good Many Statesmen in America Have the Same Idea


Shaw the clever redheaded rhman says that British
Prime Minister puts ones mother the footing of rabbit
1t not bad description Others besides Asquith look upon
merely breeding machine made to produce human
being intervals and to do homework and take of some
between whites,
In this country are many men that opnion-the
shame to them
But luckily there also fortunate in their
prenos than those who look upon their mothers
as dull machines, unfit vote, unable to think.
Americans and English Irish Germans and others proud
Of that their mothers something than
species rabbit something than slaves to drudge
household and let superior beings in coat and trousers
think for them.
as rabbits breeding machines diminishing The number of
those who realize solve their problems
have solved their problems BALLOT fortunately
increasing.
That extraordinarily courageous young Miss Davi
killed the Derby track the other day. set
tied foolish argument against suffrage.
Idiots fond of saying that could not vote be-
cause they lacked physical courage,
The favore argument of the fool Since women can
go war can't fight can be policemen and can't catch bur
glars how can they expect to vote"
Dawson who lies in her grave having given her life to
and for all the silly argument about womans courage
She determined rebuke the Queen of England who had
forbidden to equal suffrage badges,
Derby track determined to seize the
Kings horse by the bride and pull him to the ground
Do you know what kind of an undertaking that was?
Imagine twenty horses flashing the turf at the rate of
thirty miles hour faster Ask yourself YOU could identi
fly the coors of particular jockey riding for the King rush
into that crowd of horses that particular horse and
drag him to the ground,
That is exactly what Miss Dawson did She killed herself in
doing but she disposed of the asnne argument that
ought not to vote because she hasn't courage.
How many do you suppose you could find in the British
Army able to do what that woman did?
Another woman who has discouraged the silly talk against
courage and determination that magnificent leader
and heroic fighter, Mrs. Pankhurst.
Feeble and past middle she has deed successfully the
whole power Of England.
They have locked her up and she has starved herself until
they have been forced to let her out for fear that she would die
their hands.
She will Gle in the end of and before long probably
Meanwhile she has demonstrated that woman weak she
spite of the cowsrdy and brutal which
jected VIII find way to assert and get her rights
Woman is NOT breeding machine, a human rabbit
and she doesn propose be treated such forever
SOONER -
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25

Another race for the Americas
Cup. What with yachting cups.
polo cups and other cups that
are piling up in this country, Wen
have to build some new store
houses If our rivals don't lift some
of them soon.
Society is divided over the
tango. Some think it's naughty
and must therefore be nice;
others think it's nice and must
therefore be naughty.
OF course there is no such
thing as a sugar lobby. Can't a
man spend $500, 600 for desirable
publicity" without being badgered
about it?
The reluctant buyer general.
secures the bargains.
Horse racing in England has
become the sport of suicides.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25

show the man on the bench has chance to draw
blood to the surface of the other mans skin, and
so on.
Whiskey with its m allied fist, always leaves a
mark. The man on the bench NEVER gets a
chance to win.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES

SKILL, INDUSTRY AND La
Dor. Never except with one
eye and sometimes both eyes,
squirting backward over their
shoulders
The idea OF presenting a united
front is not now, and never has
been, adequately considered.
As against all the world we
have certain natural and certain
acquired advantages, and in re-
spect to particular nations we are
at certain disadvantages.
To Extend Our Markets.
Every country able to do so Is
fully aud eapably exploiting these
our disadvantages. Whether It be
Germany or France, Venezuela or
Brazil, each has found that par
ticular weak spot in our tariff ar
NOR which concerns it and each
is driving the knife in full up to
the hilt.
But we fritter away our adVan-
tages and we fight among our
selves.
Reciprocity is the policy. To
give other nations an open way to
our markets in the things we need.
and to secure in full return an
open way to their markets for our
most desired product. This is the
fair. reasonable policy A reduc-
ton Of the tariff may be a good
thing. AN EXTENSION OF OUR
MARKETS IS CERTAINLY A
GOOD THING.
If we can get the extension OF
our markets while we are getting
the reduction of our tariff we will
undoubtedly be doing a wise and
beneficial thing. THERE SEEMS
NO OTHER WAY IN WHICH
WE CAN DO THIS so LOCI
CALLY AND so SURELY AS
BY RECIPROCITY.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25

The Bontoc Igorrotes of the Philippine Islands
play what they call slapping game One man
sits on a bench; the other slaps him with all his
might on the thigh hould blood show beneath
the skin the slapper wins. If blood does not
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25

WHETHER high or low, pro-
wv tective or revenue, our
tariff laws have always
been built upon one and the
same model.
Wing, Democrat or Republican,
the point of view of the matter
was always the same The Walk
er, Wilson, Mckinley, Dlngley
and Payne laws are like the I'm
derwood bill, in that they all look
inward. They are all intended to
produce q certain amount of rev.
enue, and primarily or incident
ally to benefit, protect" it is
called, someone in the country at
the expense Of someone else in
the country.
Or If 1t be a free trade provi-
sion to destroy someone's advan-
tage for someone else's benefit,
this latter is a case of putting
the bottom rail on top.
The clashing interests are
those of one group against an
other, Of one section against an
other. of producer against con-
sumner, or Of middleman against
one or both, but always the clash
of interest is American against
American. We may shut the
foreigners goods out or we may
let them in, but always in the
interest Of someone of our own
groups, or factions, or industries
as against the others.
The Reciprocal" Idea.
Never have our legislators
grasped the RECIPROCAL"
idea-the idea Of the great IN
TERNATIONAL value of a tariff
law. Never have they sought to
use the TARIFF AS A LEVER
TO PRY OPEN THE WORLDS
MARKETS FOR THE ENTRY
OF THE PRODUCTS OF OUR
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-18
ENGINEMAN ON The
E.P. IS. w. ROAD
Carried Plant Juice To Sick
Man at the End of Run
IN Arizona.

"a friend in need is a friend indeed"
and that is the kind of friend that En-
erineman ]. ]. BIoomer is to a man at
Douglas Arizona Mr.. BlOOmer lives
at PIG Myrtle Avenue. This is his
story:
Il am getting this bottle of Plant
Juice to take to a friend at Douglas,
Arizona. That is the end of my run on
the FL PasO & Southwestern He is
LOSING flesh and strength and I be-
Iieve Plant Juice viii build him up.
know it is great, for I have used nearly
a hottie myself for constipation and
stomach trouble. 1 was in a pretty bad
wav. Would blcat after meals and suf-
fered a great deal The Plant Juice
acts on my liver and gives me a nat
ural action. 1t is fixing my stomach
fine too. It seems to build up right
from the start"
Plant Juice is purely vegetable. It
is the greatest known combination Of
Juices of medicinal plants of the earth
1t is an immediate specific for cOnsti-
patton and in fact for all arrangements
of the stomach, liver, kidneys and
blood. Constipation causes great deal
of sickness. Masses OF deCOmpOSed
food carried in the intestines generate
a poisonous gas, like sewer gas, and it
pOisOns in the same way. Plant Juice
clears the liver purifies the circula-
ton removes the causes OF indigestion
and in fact is a perfect remedy for all
arrangement of stomach, liver, kidneys
and blood. Call at Kelly & POllards
and get a bottle today.-Adyertisem
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-18

him everything he owned Originally
a forty miner, Metcaf, who was a ma
tive Kentuckian, had returned from
stake from the gold fields. He invested
this in negroes and lands and was IN
a fair way to make his big fortune,
when the civil war broke out
In this he lost all of his negroes, and
his lands became worthless because OF
the lack OF labor. He had fought
through the four years of the strife
and. discouraged, he left for the west,
intending to go to CALIFORNIA and re-
gain his lost fortunes Had he car
ried out his original intention. the his
tory of Arizona copper might not have
been written when it was
Hearing OF Silver City, they called
il silver in those days, Mr. shannon
says, Metcalf stopped off there and
went to the clifton country IN q 2, where
he became associated with Mr. Lesinsky,
who had come there from Las Cruces
the same year The discovery of the
native copper deposit has been made
by Metcalf and Lesinsky-
Was Pioneer Newspaper Man
Active as he was as mining man.
Charles shannon was equally well
known as pioneer newspaper man OF
the southwest 1t was he VINO assisted
in establishing and Issuing the Globe
Silver Belt at Globe, Ariz- This was in
1878 when the iTst edition Of the week
" mining and local paper appeared
from the hand press of the Silver Belt
office This paper was sold only re-
Gently and viii be moved TO Miami af-
ter "a years of continuous publication
in Globe.
Mr.. shannon was also associated with
S. II. Newman, of Fl Paso in publish
ing the -"S4' a newspaper which was
published at La Mesilla, y. NJ, in 1881
This paper derived its name from the
fact that an organization of "a men
had won a political victory with the
assistance of the paper Afterwards
Mr. shannon came to FL PasO with MI
Newman and assisted in establishing
the Lone star which was published in
FL PasO.
This was> in 1882 and Mr.. shan
non tells a number of interest
ing stories Of the events that occurred
within a short distance of the Lone
Star office which as he remembers it.
was located on the corner of Overland
and Santa Fe streets. One night as he
was about TO enter the door of a va
riety theater on Ell PasO street. he says
be heard shots, and behind the doors
he saw the body of Doc" Cummings.
a bartender, who had been killed by
one Of the we'll known characters OF
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-18
SHANNON Tells Of
EARLY COPPER DAYS
Pioneer Arizona Copper OPP
orator Is on His
Way to Europe.

Charlie Shannon-eYeryon in Ari-
iona, New Mexico and FL Faso cars
him Charlie was here FRIDAY, IS
on his way to New York, where ne VIII
Gail for Europe. The name shannon
has a good, old Irish turn TO II ina
stamps its owner as a descenoent % %
the Celts, although 1t means more IN
Arizona than it does in ireland. Inc
shannon Cooper company at Clifton,
has long been one of the Dig producers
OF the southwest Mr. shannon was Ine
man who made the Shannon what II IS
and with which he was associated our
inay the early days of copper develop
1nent in the red metal state
It is a coincidence that two OF AT
zona's pioneer copper miners shouio
haDpen to be in FL PasO within the
sane week. H Lesinsky, the man VINO
shipped the first copper ore out OF the
state of Arizona, was here recently 70
visit his old time friends he IOlu Of
the strenuous times he and his asso-
ciates had in the early days Of Ari-
IONA One Of these associates was tsoo-
ert Metcalf who discovered the Ilrst
copper deposit in Arizona AnotneT was
Charles Shannon, a nephew OF MeIceLILi
and one of the little group OF men VINO
wrote the early history Of Arizona cop
per development
When Clifton Was Frisco
Going TO Clifton when that city was
known as Frisco" because it was on
the San Francisco, and because 1t was
nOt like San Francisco, Cal, Mr.. Shan-
non helped in the development OF the
ongfelloW, the Metcaf group and the
Coronado mines which are now produc-
ing copper at the rate of hundreds OF
thousands of tons annually. He went 10
ssFrisco' from Silver City on January
I 1872 making the trip by stage, as
railroads were then unheard of in the
land His uncle. Robert Metcalt, had
preceded him to that country by Few
Years. having arrived in Silver City in
1869, following the civil war which lost
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-18

deavoring to get extra, wagons to haul
its ore to the railroad, all bins being
filled.
Iron Cap to Increase Force.
The output of the Iron Cap Copper
company for December last was about
$50 tons Of ore averaging 61z percent
copper and Az percent iron. The ore
from this mine is shipped to the Old
Dominion smelter at Globe The Slope
sheets show a steady increase OF de-
veIopment and output since work was
begun September, 1912. On the $50 and
500 foot levels more or less develop
ment is being prosecuted continuously.
The WORK Is DeInS done at the VII
hams shaft, 500 feet deep. A force of
50 men is employed at the mine and
manager Woodward says the force will
be increased during the present year.
At the South Live Oak hole No. 8
was started Tuesday, jan A. and was
sunk 40 feet the first "a hours This
hole is in the same formation as that
feet southwest Of No. 3, which is south
west Of No. 3. No. was the first hole
in which the management reported dis
covery Of commercial ore, So feet of
ore having been penetrated In hole No.
the South Live Oak reported IS
feet Of Ia percent copper ore
At the Arizona Commercial COM
panRs Copper Hill shaft where the
work of rehabilitation has been going
forward at a steady rate under super
vision Of superintendent Robert Boyd,
the shaft IS now repaired virtually to
the bottom, 500 feet The large steel
head frame formerly used at the com
pany's Eureka shaft was erected at
the Copper Hill shaft several months
ago, when the hoist engine was also
removed to the present working shaft
from the Eureka
The hosting plant has been aug
mented by ore bins, q SaWmill and all
other surface equipment necessary to
operation OF the property shipment
of ore, however, will not begin for
some time
At the Cole Development com
pany's property near the Gibson con-
siderable high grade chalcopyrite ore
is now on the dump awaiting shipment
to the Old Dominion smeIter at Globe
Among the more important of the
smaller shippers of the Globe Miami
district are Smell and Fisk at the War
riOr and Hubbel and Wilson at the
Geneva The former are shipping about
20 tons of percent ore daily to the
is yielding about 40 tons of similar ore,
shipping to the same reduction plant
New Dominion Has Good Ore.
At the new Dominion property. one
half mile north of the Gibson mine
after two years of unsuccessful work
in the barren schist, the owners of the
property have the satisfaction of being
on well defined and richly mineral
lied vein. Two months ago the New
Dominion management decided to
crosscut to the north. Coming back to
a distance AVO IeeI distant from the
face of the tunnel the north drift was
started, and within a distance of 100
feet the vein was cut 1t contains a
foot wide chute of chalcopyrite that
assays % percent copper.
At the Magama Copper company's
property near superior, work is being
prosecuted vigorously in the way OF
development as well as ore extra ction.
On the 500 foot level, where the rich
bornfte ore, carrying high gold and
silver values, in places in two sets
wide, diamond drilling viii be started
soon At present about 125 gallons per
minute are being pumped from the
mine
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-18

the early days. Those were pretty live
" days in FL PasO. as Mr.. Shannon de-
scribes them
He left here for Arizona in 1882 and
again engaged in the mining business.
His uncle, Robert Metcalf afterwards
sold his claims and returned TO Lex
ingtOn, KY, where he died The shan
non mine was not originally called by
that name, but was a part of the Net
calf group Gradually the miners gave
it the name Of Shannon because of its
manager and owners activities there
Later he sold a half interest in the
mine 70 Gen Bella NJ Hughes. Of Den
yer.
shannon COmpaz- Formed.
When the mine was finally sold to Y.
B Thompson, then Of Butte. Mont, now
Of New York, the shannon Copper com
pany was organized and named in
honor OF M Shannon, who was forced
to retire from the mining field because
Of his health
Since going to the Pacific coast Mr..
shannon has become a very wealthy
man, his mOdesty preventing any Of his
old friends in FL PasO learning just
how much he really is worth He was
engaged in the lumber business on the
north Pacific coast and maintained an
office in Seattle. he disposed of this
however. and is now en- route to Europe
IS search OF health. His home is in Los
Angeles. although he still claims Ari-
iona as his adopted state and Licking
ton, No, his home tOws.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-18
PAY $4,000 FOR
BUSINESS BUILDING
Two New Pressed Brick Residences 10
Be Built In Cotton Addition;
Part of Ranch bought


Arthur Fullan and Norwood Han
Saturday bought the building occupied
by the Pew shoe store. on San An
tonic street from judge John Frank
lin and Winchester Cooley for $40 600
The building has a frontage of "A feet
on San Antonio street and extends
back 81 feet.
The shoe store will remain there as
AIesSrs. Fullan and Hall bought it for
an investment. The building formerly
extended back to Texas street. but the
Rio Grande Valley bank purchased the
Texas street front for an annex to its
banking building.
To Build Two Residences.
O. c. Coles, George L. Hit and J. +.
Coles have bought fractional block "a
in Cotton addition on Montana and
Cotton avenue from G. S. Johnston and
DR.. James Vance for $500. Two
pressed brick houses, each two stories
in height will be built on these lots
Buy Part of Old Newman Ranch.
Through a P. Coles & Bros. Z. Il
and P. II. Neville have bought sec
ton q, block, 70, township 2, which
is a part of the old Newman ranch,
northeast of town, for S3,400.
c. L Aspary has bought a house and
lots at 1103 North Florence street from
Mrs. Alice c. Phillips through A P
Coles & Bros.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-18

point ITO feet from the station. The
drifting has been started from what IS
known as the south crosscut, and to
date looks very encouraging, contain
ing copper stain and iron, like the
ground beneath Its face is now 40 feet
from the crosscut On the 500 foot level
two drifts are being driven. one to the
east and the other TO the southeast, the
faces of both being in ore of a good
grade From the 500 foot level raise
being lifted 20 the 500 foot level is now
$50 feet high and still IN good ore, al
though the ore streak is variable IN
width. On the 500 foot level the south
easterly drift is being swung more 10
the east to connect with the raise be-
ing lifted from the 500 foot level After
a preliminary examination of the prop
erty J. A Thomas. mining engineer and
geologist, selected by number OF >
& 3. stockholders TO make an lnde-
pendent examination of the property,
said: The rock is well mlneralized and
the geological conditions are very Ia
vOrable for other ore bodies. / am
much Impressed with the property
Gibson Shipments Reduced.
At the Gibson Copper company's mine.
southwest of Miami the shipments dur
ing December fell off about carload
because of the difficulties interpOSed
ia TRANSFORMATION by the cold weather
that has prevailed IN this district LOT
the past three weeks However, ~
tons of is, percent ore were shipped TO
the Old Dominion Smelter at GLOBE IN
December and the January shipment
viii reach 300 tens. The raise lifted
from the 500 to the 400 foot level has
been finished and stopping along the
entire length of the raise will be be-
gun in the near future East OF the
long raise another raise (also on the
Pasquale vein) will be lifted to the
four from the five The 800 foot level
on the Summit vein is being rettmbered
with the purpose of extracting cOnsid-
cradle good ore on that 4eTel, and the
500 foot level on the Pasquale ledge
also is being retimbered to a point
where a raise will be lifted to the
neighborhood of a Wine on the zoo
foot level on the same ledge, where
high grade ore has been uncovered IN
A Wine now 20 feet deep.
The Summit tunnel, 600 feet lower
than the collar of the Summit Shafts
collar, and with portal 1900 feet south
of the Summit and Pasquale shafts, IS
now 500 feet long. General manager
Henderson has decided to resume work
in the face of the tunnel and drive II
northward until it reaches the sum
NIT shaft. from where he will crosscut
to the Pasquale vein. The Gibson Is en-