Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-31
OINTE-A-LA.HACH LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1913.

erector of two $1,000 900 hotels in Flor,
ida, and interested in everything big in
Florida, and owner of a 81, O00,O 900 res.
idence at Palm Beach, died after SO
years of a life we'll spent in which he
accomplished much for this world and
drew his just pay therefor. His second
wife became insane and about the
same time the Florida Legislature
sanctioned a law making permanent in.
sanity sufficient grounds for a divorce.
Some ascribed it to F1agler, who was
rich in Florida property then, and CON
%sequently powerful politically and fl
nancially.
Six people were killed when a train
they were riding on was thrown from
the tracks by a landslide near Hinton,
w. Va. All along the route they en-
countered small slides which had fol-
lowed a c%loudburst of the day before.
DR.. friedman obtained an injunc-
ton from the New York Supreme
Court preventing DR.. Sturm who last
week announced that he would treat
any volunteering patients with the
Friedman vaccine which he had Sc
cured from the doctor-from using the
vaccine which friedman alleges he
stole.
If the eight-hour-day law prompted
by the O'Hara vice Investigation in H.
linois passes and is enforced, manu-
facturers affected threaten to reduce
wages Or remove to other States. Some
may, all cannot. Some States have
those laws. All States will. Then to
remove to other States is to postpone
the %bankrupting Of factories which
must recognize the new point of view
of the people or fail. Better they
should stop and put their houses in or
der, so as to still exist when the new
order comes into being. They cannot
make these people believe their false
doctrines. But the people IAN make
them believe that they mean business
that the time of fake consideration
has passed. Men now want more than
justice in the way of work and wages,
because in the past they got less than
justice. Men who have paid the bills
now want what they have been paying
Tor. Sugar-coated legislation no longer
fools, and the man who attempts to
pass such bitter sweets must be ar
incurred for the attack that will follow.
There is no use trying to frame laws
that will help the oppressor and the
oppressed. The oppressed we're for
gotten when in the past laws consulted
the oppressor. The oppressed now
want to frame laws forgetting the op-
pressor. The past has made the prob
lem of the future. On dead men rests |
the blame of the present unrest. Had |
the past wisely foresaw the effect Of
their oyer-zealousness to create a pros
perity which forgot all things else but
the accumulation of money, this clam
orlng uneasiness and growing d~issatis-
faction which has demanded laws aim
ed at the destruction of individual
rights would never have been more
than a whisper. The voice of the many
cries for the suppression and annihila.
ton of the few. This is the reaction
that menace the future made by the
sins Of the dead mems past. This is
the discomfort that naukes the law.
This spectre of increasing volume no
man will dare rise up and challenge.
Men are afraid of that power of the
men Of this country that at this crisis
when reason is crushed by revenge,
stand ready to carry their desires into
effect even at the cost of the dissolu-
ton Of their government.
The legislature of Illinois exonerated
Lt.-Gov. O'Hara of the charges Of i'm
morality made against him for the pur-
pose OF hindering the vice investiga-
ton in Springfield. The instigator of
the charge, it was proved, framed up
the affidavit to prevent the truths
about vice in Springfield being made
public, knowing that such published
truths would have injured him because
he was one of the why's" that the
Vice Commission seeks to have an.
sWered.
In Lawrence, Mass, when the Amer
lean Wooden Company's employees
were on a strike, the American Wool
en- Company paid an undertaken who
believed in dynamite as a promoter Of
peace to plant the explosives in build
ings inhabited by the strikers. This
mans civic pride made him agree to
attempt the destruction of the men on
strike who were, it would seem, the
obstacles in the way Of peace. This
mans lofty civic pride had dreamed
the deserved of Lawrence, Mass. For
$700 this Judas sold his own life and
attempted the sale Of the lives of
others. And he blamed it on his civic
pride. His civic pride no doubt coin
cides with his exaggerated sense Of
avarice or it approaches sublimer
heights than any Of the civic prides
that in these times build cities.
Cotton operators have protested
against the proposed 20 per cent duty
on ivory tusks, crying out that it will
break up their barter trade with Afri-
can tusk dealers, by which they re-
ceive for their cotton ivory tusks
which they realize on by selling them
to piano manufacturers. This Is sing.
nlar but senseless. 1t possesses the
characteristic damnable selfishness of
all tariff protests, which not only have
the effect of being themselves unheard
and unheeded, but also reflect their
damnability upon whatever just pro
tests that may hereafter be advanced
against any other proposed economic
mistake.
The Senate Finance Committee con.
siders the income tax section of the
tariff bill as perfect as possible and
will not make any changes in it's pro.
visions.
A rumored change has been made in
the tariff bill by the Senate sub-com.
lnittee putting pig iron and ferro.man
ganese on the free list. The House
bill, as passed, levies a 10 per cent.