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LABOR ANI) INDUSTRY SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO UNION WORKMEN. Oetrolt to Buy Street Hallway* — Co s" operation at Practiced by a Large Manufacturing Concern —Some Keen Crltlcltm from Olaliu. VFb. A Springtime. One knows the spring Is coming; There are birds: the fields are green; There is balm In the sunlight and moon light, A dew In the twilights between. But ever there Is a silence. A rapture great and dumb. That day when the doubt is ended, And at last the spring is coma. Behold the wonder, O slleneet Strange as If wrought In a night— The wafted and lingering glory. The world-old, fresh delight! O blossoms that hang like winter. Drifted upon the trees, O birds that sing in the blossoms, O blossom-haunting bees— O green, green leaves on the branches, O shadowy dark below, C) cool of the aisles of orchards. Woods that the wild flowers know— G air of gold and perfume, Wind, breathing sweet and sun, O sky of perfect azure— Day, Heaven und Earth In one! Bet me draw near thy secret. And in thy deep heart see Dow fared, In doubt and dreaming. The spring that Is come In me. t For my soul Is held In silence, A rapture great and dumb — Tor the mystery that lingered. The glory that la come! —William Dean Howells. Municipal OwnciKhtp. Labor believes In municipal owner rshlp. it is fighting that battle to victory, Just as the shorter day move ment is succeeding. After a long and bitter strife, the Michigan legisla ture passed a bill authdrlzing De troit “to construct, acquire, maintain and operate street railways, and to construct extensions thereof.” Qov. IPlngree approved the measure March 24, and Saturday, April 1, the council of the city of Detroit passed a resolu tion appointing Gov. Pingree and Messrs. G. Stevenson and Carl E. Schmidt us the Detroit street railway commission, for terms of six, four and two years respectively. Under the law this commission has the right to seize the street railways, turn them over to the city for operation, and ob ligate the city for payment of the price fixed by the commission or by operation of law. The commission, however, proposes to consult the coun cil before closing the deal. Detroit’s street railways are worth millions,and there Is no reason why the municipal ity cannot run them. Michigan Is a progressive Btate, largely because It has one man—Hazeu S. Pingree—ln tensely Interested in progress along popular lines. Mr. Pingree believes that the ipeople come first. He com pelled Michigan railroads to reduce fares. They said they would ‘‘be ruined and be damned” if they did. He stuck to it; fares went down; the roads were not ruined, hut Pingree was damned right heartily by them. The time to advance argument in fa vor of municipal ownership has, in my opinion passed. There is no ne cessity for more argument. It re mains simply to take back for the peo ple things they should never have parted with, and to fix the bill for damages. Detroit’s success in secur ing street railways cannot fail to be come an object lesson of greatest value for all communities paying heavy trib ute to water, light, and traffic corpor ations. The Co-operative Brotherhood. At Olalla, Wash., Is published the Co-operator, a neat weekly newspaper devoted to advancing the Interests of the Brotherhood colony there estab lished. The colony Is prospering. A short editorial in a late Issue of that paper makes a strong point In favor of the substitution of governmental or co-operative—conduct of some af fairs, in place of the prevailing pri vate ownership principle. Here It is: “Four hundred and fifty-nine orders in a single day, amounting to nearly $32,000, shows an activity unprece dented In postal matter in Seattle.-- Seattle Times. When It Is considered that this postoffice does a business ev ry day greater than any bank iu the city at a cost of only $3,000 (the low est salary of the bank president in Seattle being $6,000), the advantage and economy of government over pri vate hanking Is clearly apparent.” The Co-operator’s comment on a proposed educational measure is also keen: “Standard Oil Harper, president of Chicago university, has prepared for Mayor Harrison of that city a bill to be Introduced Into the legislature pro viding that during the first five years of a child's school life It shall not be bothered with arithmetic. This is the most insidious and cunning blow against popular education yet devised, and it will be seen in Its entirety whou It is considered that the children of the masses do not have over five years of schooling on an average, before they are obliged to go to wors. The future American voter is not to know anything about arithmetic, else he might figure out how much Rockefel- I ler is robbing him. For Mephistophe ! lian subtlety this is something sur passing reward.” Co-operation. I am in receipt of a copy of a hand some publication issued by the Na tional Cash Register company of Day ton, Ohio, containing an account of the last semi-annual distribution of cash awards made by the company to employes. The prizes ranged from $5 to SSO, and aggregated $Ol5, mak ing the annual disbursement on this score exceed $1,200. The distribution took place In the opera Ifouse, before a large audience, in which were repre sentatives of many great manufac turing and business concerns desir ous to gain knowledge of the “N. C. R. system,” as it is styled. In his address of welcome President F. J. Patterson stated the fundamental point of the system. It is co-opera tion. Every employe of the several thousand is invited to make sugges tions as to how cash registers may he j improved. Any suggestion found 1 meritorious and applicable places the suggester on the prize list. The last six months over 1,200 suggestions were made, and many accepted. But the prize feature is simply a part of the system. Its strength lies in the rec ognition of the fact that stockholders, mechanics, traveling men, are all joint promoters of one common enterprise; that their just ambition lies in devel oping It, and themselves with It; that according to the comparative value of their respective contributions in capi tal or labor, or both, they divide among themselves the proceeds of the business. In other words, It elimin ates the Idea of ‘‘master and servant,” and substitutes for It that of “co workers.” Just how far the latter principle is carried out in the every day conduct of the Dayton factory I do not know, but that it is recognized in theory, and at least partially estab lished in practice, is a great advance. It is in line with the best modern thought in matters industrial, and in accord with the ideas of leading la bor leaders and 1 other authorities in economics. Orfsnhe! A letter recently written by Mr. Charles Beadle of Buffalo, N. Y., is so full of good, sound acßvice that I repro duce it in full. It needs no comment. Read it, ponder it, and act acording to It: “Much has been written and many articles published relating to• hard times and the remedy for the same. In my opinion none of the writers have given the correct remedy or laid out a course for the working men or laboring class to follow in order that they may assert their rights and re sist oppression and Injustice. Some' say abolish the trusts; others say re sort to the ballot box. But I say and 1 contend that tho proper way for the laboring class to do is not to. waste their years in fighting the trusts or placing their confidence ia political thieves. But organize! organize! Let every trade and calling institute and organize unions and protective asso ciations; let each trade have a eertaln scale of wages, and no member be allowed to work for less. Shorten the hours of labor, and thus give more men employment. Let every man and woman who Is obliged to work for a living become members of a consoli dated body, and there Is no question but that they can control the situa tion, assert their rights, resist oppres sion and injustice and proclaim their rights. Whose fault Is It If anew slavery is enthralling the working class? Why Is it that a stalwart workman, in full vigor of splendid manhood, the protector of a fair wife and the father of happy children, hugs to his breast the delusion of liberty, and yet tamely submits to the lash? Fellow-workmsn, arise! Get out of the rut? Organize, consolidate, combine, be ever jealous of your rights; watch with vigilance any encroachment upon your liberties. Be ready at all times to take up arms In defense of your home, your country and your rights! Be independent, fearless, and you will then be a free-born American citizen and not a slave.” Dnu't Bea Bog. There is lots of the strongest kind of logic in the following note from the American Federationist: “We J strongly advise against the practice which now exists In some industries ! of working overtime beyond the estab- I lished hours of labor, particularly in these times, when so many unem ployed are struggling for an oppor -1 tunity to work. It is an instigator of ! basest selfishness, a radical violation of union principles, and whether on | piece or day work, it tends to set | back the general movement for the j eight-hour day.” Value of rourWtii to Italy. Italy’s income from foreign visitors Is estimated at $40,000,000 a year. In Rome there are three times as many hotels and boarding houses for tourists | as there were twenty years ago. A man has no opposition when he | begins to make love to himself. GOVERNMENT BANKS. A PROPOSED METHOD FOR ABOLISHING TAXES. ' 4 The Old Farmer'! Alltanc* aad Populist Demand Again Makes Its Appearance and In a Significant Ouarter —There Will He no Trimming In 1900. The Mississippi Valley Democrat and Journal of Agriculture justly lays claim to being the Democratic organ of the central west. It is edited by W. S. Bryan, said to be closely re lated to William J. Bryan, and its business manager is George W. Jones, brother of Col. Charles H. Jones, the author of the Chicago platform. And the Democrat and Journal presents its readers every week a choice selection of pure Populist arguments, a recent issue containing the following edi torial; “One qf the prominent issues of the near future will be government postal savings banks. Only those who are in close touch with the people can form any idea of the almost universal de mand that exists for institutions of this character. They are bound to come. When the people need and de mand a thing they generally take the necessary steps to get it. “Postal savings banks can be man aged and utilized very closely along the line of our ‘no tax’ proposition. That is to say, the banks will lend money to the people direct, on good security and at a low rate of interest; and thi interest, instead of concen trating in the hands of a few million aires and being used for the further oppressment of the people, as under our existing system, will be disbursed as soon as collected In the payment of government expenses. This will not only lessen the burden of taxation, but it will keep the people’s money in ac tive circulation, and stimulate com merce and industry beyond anything ever experienced in onsr previous his tory. Then when a citizen pays his interest for She use of the money he has borrowed' from the- public, he will have the satisfaction, of knowing that he is reducing hia own taxes as well a those of bis neigkbcffl*, and at the same time carrying forward enter prises that wiil furnish employment and comforts for his fellasw men. “Why should, not the government is sue treasury certificate*, or greenback demand notes, a It did ift 1561-’62, pay oil the Interest bearing national debt, and lend the notes to the- people? Why should the people pay interest to the national banka for the t*s© of a cur rency by no- means a& good as gov ernment money woud be; when the lat ter can be had! without east to the pub lic? Both systems rest on the same foundation. National bank notes are secured by government bonds, which in turn are secured fey the public faith. This is adding a fifth wheel to the wagon merely to accommodate the banks. Government hills stand direct ly on the public faith, without the in tervention of the hanks or their Shy lock interest. Greenbacks are as good as government bonds; the security in either ease being precisely the same, and greenbacks cost the public noth ing—bence the anxiety of the “sound money” party to “impound” and de stroy the people’s money and replace It with shin-plaster bank bills that will cost more than 10 per cent. Some day that portion of the people that you can’t fo6l all the time will take this matter in their own hands, establish postal savings banks, and pay off the bonds with greenbacks. And why not? It would only give us about $l6 per capita in paper money, and we would certainly sustain the par value of tht#s as easily as w r e can maintain an equal amount of interest bearing bonds. Tbits question is too plain and too vigorous with practical common sense for the people who think, to allow it to re main much longer in its present anom alous condition. Distribute the debt among the people and stop the Inter est.” The bugles are calling the Populist voters into line for next year's great battle against special privilege, and Populist music is also sounding loud and clear in the ranks of the Bryan Democracy. It seems that the irre sistible current of events will draw the line sharply between plutocracy and popular government, and there should be no question as to which will win. AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. A correspondent of the New York Times thus calls attention to the beam in America’s own eye: “In your congratulatory editorial on the tone of the address of the Philip pine commission this morning, you seem to tak it for granted that our civilization is so important a thing that it ought to be given to the na tives of the Philippines in the interest of their progress? Are you quite sure that you are right? Is our civiliza tion worth so much that we should even strain in the slightest the prin ciples of justice to secure its adoption by peoples to whom it is as yet an un known quantity in their intellectual and national advancement? What do you think of a civilization like that in New York, where there has to be an investigation every so many years to make living at alt tol erable? Is human life less safe in the Philippines than In American cities? Take the police out of New York city, or any other large city of any so-called Christian nation, and how much se curity would there be for life and property? In other words, is our so called civilization based upon Chris tian character or upon the clifbs and revolver* of our police? What can be said of a national character as the product of Christian teaching when in the largest and most representative of American cities we have a standing ar my every day numbering thousands, armed with clubs and firearms, whom we call police, but who are simply sol diers under another name, employed for the protection of life and property, and without' wham life would be as in secure as it would be among the lions and wolves of a wilderness? Is there anything in th* administra tion of Philippine cities under insur gent rule more corrupt than the ad ministration of: Chicago, Philadelphia and New York? 1 Has the Filipino government national legislators who are under indietmtmt for robbery and accused by their own state of bribery? Considering that'the murders in this country exceed the 1 homicides of the whole of Europe, don't you think that we had better attend to our purifica tion first? Are there any more little children toiling at hard labor in the Philippines than are* working here, un der the beautiful banner of the free? Are there more women toilers in the Philippines than there are here, ruin ing their constitutions by working in factory, sweatshop and mill, and un fitting themselves for the hardens, ob ligations, and, aye, the glories of moth erhood? Is life so awful in the Philippines that there are suicidfes thxers' by the hundreds of men wihlo are glad to es cape the struggle forrexisten.te, as hap pens here, till we have ceassd to won der? Isn’t it a general rulle of a na tion, as of an individual, that when it goes about calling attention' to> its su perior virtues it is usually this biggest kind of a hypocrite?' Bid! not Christ have in mind just such assumption of virtue as is manifested! mow by the United States when Hfe oond'emned the Pharisees for theirr self-announced righteousness? Will somß' of our min isters kindly give us a'sermon on the difference between the Phariseeism ot Christ’s day and that-of 13899)? THE PEOPLE SHOULD WRITE. The accumulated wealth of the Unit ed States by the close of the century will, in spite of our severe attack oi hard times* in all probability reach the enormous sum of ninety-seven to one hundred billions jf dollars. Since there is enough for all, why is it we Lave a standing army oi from two to five million idle men longing for a chan-re to work and tc add to the nation?!* wealth, while pro viding, for their destitute families? Why iis it that tftje land is filled with tramps and lafeae- is everywhere dis contented? The answer ifs plain. The wealth is unequally and' unjustly distributed ’Fie larger part; of it is under the con trol of a comparatively small part cij cbe nation. ?he nation’s business ig run in the interest of a few lndlvidi uals —not fop- the greatest good of. thd greatest number. These individuals unite their wealth and turn themselves, into corporations which throttle com merce and nearly choke the liife out of industry. They treacherously destroy the business of less wealthy competi tors, and limit production ito increase prices. This causes widespread dis tress i* the ranks of labor, which can not fi’ed employment, besides depriving the great masses of the nation of com forts and luxuries to which they are entitled. In these days we pay trib ute to the money kings who are no less despotic and cruel in their rule than the old-fashioned monarch. If the people would save themselves from industrial slavery they must act at once. There is no time to lose, for there is a long battle to be fought. They must provide themselves with weapons—not swords or bullets —but the weapons of peace, the initiative and the referendum. Once safely placed in the hands of the people these weapons are powerful enough to pro tect their rights. They may be ob tained by proper use of the weapons of which the people are already In pos t session—the ballot! Use the ballot to obtain the initiative and referendum; then use the Initiative and referendum to obtain laws really are for the greatest good of the greatest number; laws which will protect the rights of the weak, and which will limit the privileges of concentrated wealth. HARRIET E, cmCUTT, The Largest Trees ia ths The largest Iree- la the world is ? ■ ■een at Mascalf, bear the foot of u Etna, and is called “The Chestnut of a Hundred i ts namp , re? from the report tfeat Queen Jan/*! Aragon, with her principal nobiiit! took refuge from a violent storm , der Its branches. T&e trunk u / hundred and four fee? in circun/° ence. The largest tree- in the Unltwi States, it is said, stands near Be Creek, on the north fork of the t/ River, in California. It Measures on hundred and fcrty feet iff cireumf ' enee. The glanl redwood tree in / vada is one hunched and nineteen fl in circumference.-“Ladies’ Home j ou . aaL _ ; * Antipathies ot Celebrated msh Antipathy, like fear, is something nn . reasonable; it is an instinct, and tlier*. fore absolutely unconquerable. Great men isave suffered from strange- anti patliies. King Henry HI. could m re. main, alone in a room a cat. jv Duko- 9( Epernon fainted at the sight of a leveret. Tycho Brahe was all j 0 a tremor at the sight of< a leveret or i fox. Thie Marshal of A!%et was mad 111 if a young wild boar' or a sucking pig waff served at the table where a? sat. Tite- famous scholar, Sealiger, shook aIS over at the sight of water cress. Lord B’acon swooned away at' aa eclipse of the moon. Bayle went into convulsions, at the sound of water run. ning out: of a faucet. Lamotfte le Vay. er had nervous convulsions at hearing any musical instrument. But the most extratwdlnary of all was King Ladislaw o 6 Poland, who fled 'precipe tately at tile- sight of an apple. Had he only been fin the place of Adam the temptation* o$ Eve would have been of no avail. Romance oi a Russian Counter A Russian; Countess, Wyanoff by. name, and.ooraspicuous at court by rea son of her woatlth, has run off with her footman. lift is a touching romance. The footman; imver told his love except by daily placing on the Countess* toilet tableeailovely bouquet. His secret did not come- ut, however, untll hls mistress entered her apartment one day to find him; in the act of kissing her portrait. Am elopement and wedding soon followed, and the Countess pat the finishing, toadies to the romance by buying a Bulgarian estate with which goes the title of Count. AboiliU. Ae Death Penalty. 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