Evening star., 1942-02-15
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Futy years ago speculation was rife on
the presidential election schedule for
November. Prominent in
Presidential the news were the names
prosn.rts of Blaine. Cleveland and
the incumbent, President
Harrison, who, in the end, lost out to
Cleveland. with Blaine dropping out of
the race. The Star Of February l3,
1892. in q dispatch from Chicago, car
ried the item: "A combination is said
to have been engendered during the past
10 days to throw the votes of five North
west States solidly to Cleveland at the
Democratic convention. The States
mentioned as being included in the
combination are Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa and the Dakotas" And again, in
the same issue in a dispatch from At
lanta: The Atlanta Journal prints q
poll Of the State of Georgia on the
presidential preference this afternoon.
The result shows an overwhelming
majority for Cleveland"
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In these days Of Federal regulation of
labor conditions it seems strange that
there was time when the
Sweotshop National Government not
Ioho, only kept hands of the
matter, but was, in the
opinion Of many, actually restrained by
the Constitution from taking any steps
whatever in this field. The Star of Feb
ruary IS, 1892 in an article headed
Sweating System" printed in part:
"On motion Of Mr.. Hoar CMassachu-
setts) a resolution was taken up direct
ing the Committee on Manufactures Gin
the House, to investigate the so-called
sweating system of tenement labor. .
Mr. Oates (Alabama) opposed the reso-
luton. Investigations were frequently
gotten up for the purpose of gaining a
little cheap claptrap notoriety. 1t was
in that way that the Jurisdiction Of Con-
gress had been extended to investigate
all kinds Of subjects-subject with
which Congress had nothing to do-sub-
jects which under the Constitution Con-
gress had no right and power to legis-
late upon"
Alarm was felt over the possibility of
a typhus epidemic ravaging the Nation,
brought in from Europe.
Typhus Said The Star Of February II,
Alarm 1892: New York.-Ten more
cases of typhus fever were
discovered this morning among the
Russian Hebrew immigrants who landed
here from the steamer Massila on Janu-
ary 80 last The total number of per-
sons known to be suffering from the
plague at 10 o'clock today was 81. DR..
Edison of the Health Board predicts that
this number will be largely increased"
Prompt quarantine, however, proved
effective in checking the spread.
The military note appeared In The
Star of February IS, 1892, with pro-
posal novel at the time
lndions IN the use of Indians in the
the Army Army instead of against it
as had been the case not
so very long before in the Indian wars.
Capt. w. L. Pitcher, stationed at Fort
Washaki, Wyo., when asked what he
thought of Senator Proctor's scheme Of
making the Indians into United States
soldiers, grew enthusiastic. I think he
said, that the scheme Is . grand one
and the only solution of the Indian
question. I am pretty well qualified to
Judge of the workings Of the scheme, as
the first regular company Of Indians was
established in my regiment. The COM
pany consists Of 90 Shoshone and
Arapahoe braves. OF course, I cannot
tell how they would perform In actual
service, but in everything else they make
splendid soldiers"
The question Of how they would per-
form in actual service was clearly an
swered 26 years later Among the dead
lest troops of the A. e. r. in France in
1918 were regiments Of Indians.