Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-11-19
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DoI eteS CuaL nave CIedleu ~ ldCu
distreiin different portions of the
countr Congressman Heating of
Colora, has been pressing resolu-
ton fo.n investigation of the coal
strike his state, and this has
broughtIt the fact that distress !
sing conion likewise exists among
the mine in upper Michigan. Rep
esentati'Ma Donald of the upper
peninsula.f Michigan is urging the
Departmeio of Labor to interest it
self in theonditions in his district.
1t has alsoeen brought out by Rep
resentativevis that splendid results
were obtaii in. West Virginia
through thtnvestigation conducted
by the Sena Committee, where the
usurpation the rights Of en-
ployees haveeen largely checkmat-
ed. Congress making an effort to
curtail the nlber of Investigations,
since many o them have proven
something of bore, and often quite
needless. ThOepartment of Labor
has made peunctory investigation
of some of thtabor difficulties, but
strange as it ny seem, this institu
ton of the Comment, which has
been lifted to I position of a Cab
met, place, is 81 without sufficient
funds to proper proceed with it's
work. Leader ann of the Repub-
licans, has facetsly observed that
the strikes amonminers, as well as
the great disturbce of labor in In
dianapolis, are NJ at all strange in
view of the fact hat there is a
worse strike on inhe House of Rep
resentatives. MrMann is entirely
correct, in that on a handful OF
Congressman are washington on
the governments bsiness. In view
of the West Virgila investigation,
and of the disclosurs that have been
made in reference D strike condi-
tions and the indusiial wars in Col
orado, Michigan and elsewhere
there is great ned for remedial
legislation, and a nmber OF Con
gressmen, including Quin of Missis
sippi, Mondell of Wyoming, Johnson
of Washington, an, Fowler anC
Buchanan of Illinois have been, EN-
phasiZing the fact hat sometbin!
] must be done by Congress- to regtaat
conditions among the employers IN
4 the employees in the regions wher
these strikes have been most dett
mental
Senatorial Fathers-in-Law.
There seems to be a good deal {
entertainment furnished by Senate
ial fathers-in-law as illustrated
the earlier experiences of Augustl
P. Gardner of Massachusetts,, VIII
took many vigorous cracks at his di
I tinguished faIher-in-law, Senate
Lodge. Gardner has for long yeal
been running under his own polit
cal steam, and gradually the Peep
of New England and Washingto
have grown accustomed to his pyr,
technics. Now the latest illustr.
ton in this class of political ind
pendence has been furnished by Du,
ley Field Malone of New York, WI
has recently been appointed cole
tor of the port of New York to su
coed John P. Mitchell, who has bee
elected Mayor. OF course Senate
O'Gorman is in no way opposed
/ his son-in-law although the latt,
does not usually agree in polite
matters with his wife's papa
/ O'Gorman is Tammany man, wifi
Malone is progressive Democrat
and an anti. Immediately up(
the appointment of Malone some
! the newspaper men rushed over
/ Senator O'Gorman to ask him VIII!
he had to say regarding the conf
nation of the appointment. The d
| tinguished Senator observed: "Io
doubtless have read OF the lr \
judge in Galway who once sat
magistrate in the trial of his o.
son and sentenced him to death; II
/ was three hundred years ago. ii
world has made some progress SIP
/ then" OF course, Judge O'Gornni
being Observation-Disclosures tn
/ he is Senator, cannot help but ID
pleased at the rapid progress that e
been made by the energetic Mr..
lone, who has found his own roI .
in the New York political highT a
and byways. n
The Advance i'm Farming. Y
Honorable James Wilson, of III .
county, Iowa, is engaged in wrlp
a history of the growth and Ell
sion of agriculture during the Z
teen years he was Secretary of
culture. Mr.. Wilson's book VIZ :
more or less of history of the
forward strides in farming, All
accomplishments quite as wonq