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MORE TROUBLE
FOR THE TURKS
Insolence of Sultan Arouses Ire of
Uncle Sam.
BATTLESHIPS DISPATCHED
Oar European Squadron is Ordered to
Smyrna to Menace Ottoman
Government.
A Washington dispatch says: The
European squadron has been ordered
to Turkish waters.
The orders were cabled to Rear Ad
miral Jewell, commander of the squad
ron at Nice. His ships are the Olym
pia, Baltimore and Cleveland. It is
understood that he will proceed to the
eastern Mediterranean somewhere
near the Black Sea.
The destination of the fleet is Smjr
na. This place was selected because
it afforded direct cable communication
with Washington anJ is only about
300 miles distant from Constantino
ple.
The trip probably will ba made in
three days, and when he arrives there
Admiral Jewell will put himself in
communication with Minister Leish
man and also report to Washington.
Suitan Too Dilatory.
Turkey has been dilly-dallying for
about two years with the United
States. At intervals during that time
Mr. Leishman has requested tire sul
tan to grant to American citizens in
Turkey the same rights and privileges
that citizens of other nations pos
sess, to abolish dls^iminations against
American ed'»*» aJ ®nal religious insti
tutions in Turkey nnd to pay to natu
ralized American cltiz»ns indemnity
for outrages suflcied in the Ottoman
empire.
.Time after time Mr. Irishman asked
for a direct audience with the sultan
but was*put off. Finally the sultan
agreed to see him, and on July 29th
granted him an audience. From tUe
tone of the minister’s cablegram it
was inferred that he had been as
sured that his demands would meet
with favorable consideration.
Accordingly the North American
squadron, under Roar Admiral Bar
ker. which had been at Trieste, was
ordered home. It is now at Gibraltar.
Of course, the news that the Atlan
tic sqaudron has been ordered to re
turn to the United States was sent
from here to Constantinople, and the
shifty diplomats cf the Turkish gov
ernment concluded that this govern
ment had left itself unprotected. But
the Turkish government overlooked
the European squadron, also in the
Mediterranean, and its appearance off
the Turkish coast is likely to cause
consternation.
The navy department announced that
the European squadron is considered
sufficiently strong to enforce a reply
to our demands on Turkey and that
the Atlantic squadron, after assem
bling at Gibraltar, will proceed across
the ocean under the original instruc
tions, arriving off this coast about
September 1. In the Olympia, which
was Admiral Dewey’s flagship at Ma
nila, the Cleveland and Baltimore, it
is considered that the United States
has a force immeasurably superior to
anything that Turkey can muster.
PURSE IS .SHUT TO CASIRO.
Foreign Banks Close Treasuries to Erratic
Venezuelan President.
A New York dispatch says: In con
sequence of the aggressive policy dis
played by President Castro, of Ven
ezuela, against France, M. Delcasse,
the French minister of foreign af
fairs, has taken steps to prevent the
unification of the Venezuelan debt,
which had been arranged with the
Bank of Paris.
Germany and Great Britain are in
accord with the French view of the
question and have refused any finan
cial assistance. The situation is crit
ical.
FLOP TO DEMOCRATIC RANKS.
Two Prom nent West Virginia Republicans
Announce Fealty to Parker.
A dispatch from Parkersburg, W.
Va., says: Asbury Carsons, of Ripley,
republican nominee for judge of the
circuit court of the Fifth district, has
declared for Parker and Davis, and
John S. Farr, of Huntington, republi
can nominee for presidential elector,
has withdrawn from the ticket. He
gives as his reason that he cannot con
scientiously vote for the persons on
the republican ticket this year, and
that he does not agree with the prin
ciples and platform of the party in
West Virginia.
HOT SHOT FOR BISHOP.
Rev. Potter, Noted New York Divio:,
Denounce J for His Action in Dedi
eating a Barroom.
The Kansas City branch Of the
American Young People’s Christian
Temperance Union strongly disap
proves of the ideas of Bishop Potter,
of New York, with regard to uplifting
fho the normal normal tone tone nf of Th* the saloon. «*aioon At At a
meeting of the union the matter was
discussed and a letter was addressed
, bishop . , which will .... be -O .
to the sent
him. A copy of the letter follows: |
“\fqv J anri hi vp rr.ercv nnon vour
’
benighted idea of striking the . liquor ‘the situa- key- j
note of attack upon j
lion.’ You are rather indorsing Z a key I
that opens wide . „ the doors to hell i, for - j
the army of 100,000 souls who annual
Iv leave the King’s highway and stum- i
ble into drunkards’ graves. ;
“The present situation across the
water of flfty-Sve bishops in the i
Chnrrh Church ot nf Fnsrland England as as stockholders stoeknoiaers in in
breweries and distilleries, with this |
shameful farce of a bishop in the |
great Episcopal church in ur
land, taking a leading part in the open
ing eercises of a saloon, closing the
same , by singing . . the ., doxology, , . should . |
make every professed Christian fol
lower in this great Episcopal church ,
hang his head in very shame. tt
:
The following dispatch from New
York explains the casus belli: i
The Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter. D. D.,
LL.D., bishop of the Protestant Epis- j
copal diocese of New York, opened j
the “Subway Tavern” with prayer and
At the conclusion of the openeing exer- ;
cises the doxology was sung. j j
The Subway Tavern is a saloon,
fashioned and conducted after a new
idea, at the corner of Mulberry and
Bleecker streets, not far from the
n Bowery. The bishop made , ,
a speecu
in the barroom, standing on a beer
case, praised the new saloon and de
dared , ...... that it represented , ,
more prog
ress toward temperance than the ef
forts of temperance leaders for fifty
N ears -
The Sub wav Tavern has been fin
anced by certain members of the City
Club, who believe that, in addition to
the predicted 5 per cent dividends, the
saloon will work a reform among
drinkers. Any man or woman can buy
anything from a glass of soda water to
a a rye rvp highball hi^npaii in m thp tne nlaop place so sn lnn^ ion a as a..
he or she does not “treat.”
AN IP-TG-DATE ROBBER GAME.
Victim is Made Unconscious by Electric
Shock and Relieved of Cash.
Abraham Schlossbach, of Asbury
Park, N. J., has reported to the po
lice that a boarder in his house hase
made him unconscious by an electric
shock and while he was helpless rob
bed him in his own room, of over.
$ 1 , 000 .
The stranger represented himseif as
the discoverer of a new electric pro
cess to cure rheumatism /ad offered
Schlossbach the treatment gratis. He
attached his apparatus to Schloss
bach's wrists and the victim knew
no more for five hours.
CONSPIRACY TO WRECK BANK.
Heavy Run on Chxago Institution was
Planned riannea oy hv Schemers senemers.
Inspector Hunt, at Chicago, has evi
dence placed in his hands pointing to
n a ennsniranv conspiracy to tn wreck wreck the the nrover"’ Jroceio
Trust and Savings bank by creating a
run on the institution. The police are
working on the case with prospects
that criminal prosecution will follow.
When the doors of the bank at the
stock yards opened Saturday, about
159 persons were in line to withdraw
deposits, continuing the run begun cn
the bank Friday.
WENT TO DEATH TO SAVE SISTER.
Young Woman Loses Life in Performance
of Act of Heroism.
Miss Emma Laird, eldest daughter
of John Laird, a well known contrac
tor of Aiken, S. C., was drowned in
the surf at Sullivan’s Island Sunday
afternoon while attempting to save
her younger sister.
The younger sister was unconscious
when brought ashore, but was resusci
tated after two hours’ work.
DAGO BOMB-THROWER IN LIMBO.
Member of “Black Hand” Society At
temps to Annihilate Italian Colony.
A bomb thrown into a crowd of
Italians in East One Hundred and
Fifty-first street, New York, Saturday
night injured a score or more of per
sons and led to the arrest Sunday of
Vincenzo ’Donetto, who the police be
lieve is a member of the “Black
Hand” Society, which for some time
has terrorized residents of the Italian
districts.
Donetto was himself more severely
injured by the bomb than any of the
others, one leg being badly, torn from
the hip to the ankle.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY. I
AN eloquent discourse entitled. \
CONFLICT. • i
M THE INDUSTRIAL t
I
I
The Kcv. Jolm I>. I.on? Gives Some
Wholesome Advice About l’resent- j
Day 1’robiems—The Causes of Bis- j
content and the Remedies. I
Bak\lox, L. I.—In the o.q cirs, Pres- .
“'-tenan t murth here, bunaay morning, |
the ,K?. V - J ol l n D : J? 3 * 1 .? 1 - P^acbed
on ‘The Industrial T Conflict. I he text
was from Ecclesiastes ii LoS^said: I
a man 101 ad bis laboi Mr. j
The writer of this text was a-dcing as to
rewards of life. Let us accommodate
it to the conflict now waging between cap- |
ital and labor. It is the old question of
the laborer and his hire. What are the
teachings Here, of HoIy Writ on the question’
fl ! as elsewhere, we believe that the
ospe t pp ‘ ies ’ for f s Ku * kin sug?est s ’ th «
trOgpei bears lite - at point, ,
j either good upon everything eveny good ana
s for or for
nothing.
Civilization is based upon labor—human,
bnimai, mechanical. What we call capital :
is at bottom only accumulated labor. The
flay labor. laborer lavs brick in a wall- that is 1
He eaves up a part of his wane, ■
I |, nd U by iat which , b ? c , otnes mogt capital. of the Mechanical ]d’ i,- la- is
or wor s wor
flow fhinery, done, and is human labor invested in ma
working through the same.
hot only througfi saving and invention,
but in many other tyays; yet human effort
back of it ail, and it becomes a sort of
call loan upon the bank oi labor. Was it
not E mers on who said, “He that hath a
dollar is master of ail to the extent of that
dollar? * ’
Vast fortunes have been piled up by
those who have invented machines by
which mechanism may take the place of
human lianas, thus the inventor is en
f» bled to draw the wages of thousands. We
tb K ! niK 'j i:ne ha V u *
perseaed the naked nand in the manufnc
ture of a thousand ard one articles of
dailv use. Take, ior example, pins and
n ‘ To^/'su^inanv great fortunes have
been made by other means than by ma
chinery, but in the main the wealth of
timcs is founded U P on niechanical
Before asking what the letter or spirit of
ihe ^ Bible teachc-s on the labor question, let
^ ace tbe felt nation of to-day. Organized
labor and capital are in conflict. There
ftrc stl ;kes and rumors of strikes. Each
strike is a battle in the war.
, labor / c n has , iaj ' De yet ' ved t 9 observe iraction that of organized tne total
as omy a
labor army, hut it is a fraction that is m
creasing. M by
this warfare? Because labor on the
one hand is di-satisfied witn its share of
the rewards of industry, and because, on
the other, capital constantly seeks to re
fhe demLcDlif hil,or° 1 dUCti0n by oppcs ‘ ng
Other factors, however, enter into the
situation. One arises from the develop
ment of the modern corporation. Wheth
er corporations have souls or not, they lack
in large measure the element of personality
9 nd tb e personal touch. Men who work
for 3 , 01 ’ a corporation are working in the main
an unknown eRt j tv . Now, ne remcm
her that among the old-time Romans the
word for stranger was also the word for
enemy.
in Further, there dealings. has been much dishonesty
corporate Take such things as
the corrupt purchase of public franchises
below value, the increase in cost of certain
necessities of life by reason of unjust com
binations to keep up prices. These and
other similar crimes against the commu
nity have done much to inflame not only
labor, but the general public against capi
tal.
the Also, the rising standard of life, by which
from living the.meagre wage gets further and further
fice the pittance frugal that would suf
to support Chinaman, leads
the laborer to constantly demand a more
and more generoup wage.
Still other grounds of hostility might be
referred to, such as the natural, though
sinful, envy of the rich by the poor; the
ostentatious luxury of the rich, the growth
of class^ distinctions between the poor and
the rich and the inequality of pecuniary
rewards. The men who discovered the
priceless that boon of anesthesia—who found
the surgery of might be rendered painless by
use such agents as chloroform and
ether—gained discoveries. but little money from their
traded the ^ They doubtless might have
on world’s fear of pain, and by
using the patent laws and secrecy secured
wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, but
to their honor they did not. On the other
hand, the men who introduced such im
proved and cheapened methods as the Bes
S o mer p by roceS the s hundred of producing' millions. steel gained
money So peo
pie are tempted to a k, “Have not some
men been rather selfi h, to say the least,
in the acquisition of their wealth? And
may than they not have obtained a little more
their share?”
Before we go further let us ask what is
to be the probable outcome of the war be
tween labor and capital? Is it an irrepres
sible co flict, or can the opposing interests
be reconciled? The answer’ is already be
ing given, lake such a situation as may
now be seen in the coal trade oi Chi eago. i
Alter bitter fighting , . the dealers and the
tcam-ters have conic together to monopo
lize the coal trade of the city and keen out
all competition. Wages and profits have
, -
been put up at the expense ot the o_________ de
public. This is like.y to go on more and
more.
Tbe ultimate outcome, unless the tend
ency is the checked, line will be organization ail
mong until we have collectivism- -a
organized machine, ..
\a»i in whicn men will
be c-ogs and individual initiative and per
sorahty will be restricted to an extent that
wid .aigcly arrest the progress of civiliza
tion.
w.b’jR Lib.e. let Gnat UB take the a breath teachings and turn to (he
regard labor are of the Bible bid
in Testament to ami wealth? The
is p* a inly anti-capitalistic. In
proOi of this you have but to read the laws
—.aws regarding that, capital it enforced, in thc Book of Leviticus
plain living surely would compel
as as the iron coin of
fiparta. Hear what was laid down there.
Land was allotted m small parcels to the
families of the tribes, and could not be
alienated except for the term of fifty years.
And ye shall hallow this fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the
V nto ad fbe inhabitants thereof; it
shall ii be a jubilee unto and shall
return his you; ye
every man unto possession, and
ye shall return every man unto his family. y)
(Leviticus xxv: 10).
Interest could not be charged on loans.
it And if thy brother be
iailen decay with thee; waxen poor, and
reliei in then thou shalt
e him; yea, that though lie be a stranger
a ournei fi he may live with
tlice. Thou shalt not lend him thy money
upon usury, nor lend him thv victuals for
increase.” (Leviticus xxv:35-6).
Finally, there was the statute of limita-
lease. ESTkES*" the
And this the manner of re- j
lc everv ere< or that lendeth augnt
U his n wr Fall release it.” (Deu
t The utitnde V 1 - 2 ). of the 0!<i Testament 1
to
ward ealth i> Agur—“Give perhaps best reflected neither in |
the ver oi me j !
poverty nor lies * lest I be full,
and deny Thee, and sav, Who is the Lord?
cr lest I be poor, and steal, and take the
^ am r ' ni " Cod in vain. (Proverbs
^ g- |
j nee j ij ar( j!y remind you that the great
character dominating every page of the
New Testament was a poor man, without
house or home. His attitude toward labor
oa thc one hand and capital ° n the other
may be imagined. It is well put by Ln. \
Henry J. A an Dyice:
“Never in a costly 7 palace did I rest on j
Never golden hermit’s bed, have I eaten
in a cavern
idle bread. I
Born within a lowly stable, where the cat- j
a f lound M * st ? od ;- I
- Trained . a carpenter in .Nazareth, .. T I have k
toiled and found it good. !
They who tread the path of labor follow j
wfliere My feet have trod;
They who work without complaining «»•>
the holy will ot God.
V here the many toil together, there am I
among Mv own; i
^ _ here the tired workman s.eepetn, , t’lere
am I with him a.one j
L the peace that passeth knowledge, dwen ; |
amid the daily atrue.
I, the bread of heaven, life. am broken in the
sacrament of i
While there is never any bitterness in ;
the Master’s utterance regarding wealth,
His views may be readily gathered from
such parables as that ot Dives and Lazarus
(Luke xvi:19). •
Again, we have the same attitude in the ]
passage on the camel and thg needle’s eye !
(Matthew ' |
Not xix:’23).
only was the Lord poor, but His
apostles were all poor men, ivho placed no I ,
value on wealth. Paul, the greatest of
manual apostolic labor, preachers, supported iumseix will by j
and taught “They that i
be rich tall into temptation and a snare,
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts,
which drown raen in destruction and per
dition. For the love of money is the root
of all evil (I. Timothy vi:9-10). On the
whole, the attitude of the New Testament
is one of warning against the seductions of
wealth.
Word T2ie of evangelical Scripture, churches and stand sympathy upon the
so in
with labor. In fact, of some 7,000,000 of j
of male members in the less evangelical than churches
our land, not manual labore 6,000,000 are
Wage earners or So that
the claim that the modern church lias de
parted from the position well occupied by the
apostolic church is not letter founded.
What, then, from the and spirit of
the Bible in connection with the teachings
of experience L to be suggested as a means
of curing the quarrel between labor and
capital ? be closer
First, let there personal rela
tions between the rich and the poor. Let
God’s them meet house together the in the fellowship of
and Divine Fatherhood.
Out of mutual acquaintance will come mu
tual respect, and a recognition of a com
mon Y r humanity. remember Emerson’s of
ou may story
the quarrel between the mountain and the
squirrel, where he says:
iSdVquarrel, And the 11 ^ called ^ !
former the latter ‘Little
Bun replied, Prig-’ i
’You are doubtless very big,
But all sorts of things and weather
Must he taken in together
To make up a year
And a sphere
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I’m not as large as you,
You are not so small as 1;
And not half so spry.
I’ll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track.
Talents differ, all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my ba
Neither can you crack a nut.
Then there should be a deeper interest
taken by capital in the financial well-being
of labor. Such devices as profit sharing,
old age pensions and the like will give the
workman a sense of greater security and
of partnership with capital. j
Interest taken in the proper housing of j
labor, although not always appreciated, 1.5 ,
in the right line. So, too, the introduction
of the social secretary as an intermediary
between the corporation and the employe.
Another thing needed, not so much in
the interests of labor or capital, but in the
interests of the innocent non-combatant
is compulsory arbitration, applied at lea ' t
where the public suffers into.erable incon
venience, graph as in the case of a reiboad, te c
or coal strike. Compulsory arbitra
tion may not. always be satisfactory to the
combatants, and comfort but those it is essential to the peace
of not involved in the
controversy. This remedy, or military con
Holland trol, as in the recent railway strikes in
and Austria, should he used to
protect the public.
The sovereign remedy, however, must be
not by recourse to legal means, but by ihe
application of the royal law. James (ii.S;, the
after speaking of the relations between
rich and the poor, says: “If ye fulfill the j
royal law according to the Scripture, thou
shalt love coy neighbor as thj ii, ye j
well.” This is the aqua regia, tne royal
solvent, in which we may solve all the hard
asperities of conflicting interests.
Christ, Only as men come to know God through
whom lie has sent, and so come to
love their fellow men, will it be possible to
solve these questions of controversy in a
way that will insure the permanent pro
gress of our civilization.
What we need, after all, is not measures,
but men.
“The world wants men—large hearted,
Men manly men;
who shall join in chorus and prolong
The psalm of labor and of love.
The age wants heroes—heroes who shall
dare
To struggle in the solid ranks of truth;
To clutch the monster, e:ror, by the
To bear throat;
To blot opinion to a loftier soat;
the error of oppression out,
And lead a universal freedom in.”
RUSSIANS UNAFFECTED BY WAR.
Notwithstanding Bad Reports Erom the
Front They Engage in Festivities.
Thursday being the saint day of the
dowager empress, a general holiday
was observed throughout Russia.
St. Petersburg was gaily decorated.
The streets were filled with holiday
crowds intent upon pleasure, and the
tragic events reported from the seat
of war seemed temporarily to be for
gotten.
NEWS TO FAIRBANKS!
Senator is Officially Told of His Ncn
inaticn for Vice President by
Republicans.
At Indianapolis, Wednesday, Ch 3r i,.
W. Fairbanks, senior United Sta
senator from Indiana, was formally
r
tified of his nomination for vs vice pre-j.
dent of the United States h • * be re
Publican ... convention. . _ th 2 no ific
address was made by Eiihu R 00 ti ex
ecre , ary Q f war ’ w jj 0 w „ ‘ . P°ran
“
chairman , . ot , the
comen.ion. The cx
ercises were held on the wide veranda
Q f senator to.nator Fairbanks’ rairoanks hpanti*.,i oeautnul .
a t sixteenth anu Meridian streets, in
the pre3enCe of members of the uotiS
P «tinn rnmrnihpp * ’ t'np nor and
other , state officers & of Indiana,
the re
publican congressional delegation, j n
.
diana delegates and alternates to
-
natinnot nation.*, rnnvpnt-’nn con, e, .Don .he state
committee and the republican
ria j association.
On the lawn surrounding three sides
of the residence C- e/Uruling far on
all sides beneath the gre .t forest trees
were several thousand friends, neigh
bors and political supportrs of the s je
nior senator. The house was elabc
rately decorated and cn one side o;;
the lawn two large tents were tonned pe(t
‘
. , . , b..nner3. t,, The
n wav ng day , was
one of the most beautiful of tire year.
The especially invited gue=ts w
ser\ed , witn ... , luncheon , . , large
in tents on
the lawn, the general public being s err
ed with light refreshments in the LUC
, bouse. Senator „ , „ Fairbanks . ,
and Mrs.
Fairbanks received the committee and
especially invited guests, I and with lit.
tie ,, delay . , _ Mr. r _ Root and , „ Senator Fair
banks led the way to the veranda,
where seats were arranged for all. En
thusiastic greeting was accorded tU
two speakers as they appeared on
the veranda, t
Mr. Root, without preliminary, ad
dressed himself to the formal notifica
tion.
Senator Fairbanks was given an
ovation as he- arose to accept the uon
ination.
POLICE CLC3 FIFTY RIOTERS.
Striker? ;n Chicago Get Sore Heads From
Contact With Clubs of Two Officers.
In a fight which broke out at thl
yards in Chicago Wednesday two jxh
licemen were injured and twenty-eight]
rioters were arrested after having
been beaten into subjugation. Thf
trouble started when five strike-break
ers from one of the machine shops i
one of the packing plants were leaving
the yards and tried to board a streed
car to go to their homes. The policed
men, who were guarding the entranced
w 7 ent to the assistance of the non-union
men, but the rioters by this time hal
grown in numbers so rapidly that trying] fnlljj
a thousand angry men were
to get at the strike breakers, Tin
crowd was armed with bricks anil
stones, and when the policemen, ad
sisted by reinforcements, started forj
ward every man who could find room
enough threw a brick. Two bricks
struck tw'o policemen, who dropped ini
their tracks. It was found that oiflj
of the men. Patrick Ryan, was suffer
ing j from a fractured skull. The othei
policeman was not seriously hurt. The
police made another charge and Dill
fifty of the rioters were beaten to thf
pavement by the use of clubs Before
they showed any signs of scattering
They then turned their attention tc
thoso who were lying on the groum
and succeeded in arresting twenty
eight.
BASEBALL BARS LEGISLATION.
Georgia Solons Attend Game and Breal
Quorum in thc House.
A member of the Georgia dur,ng house (N oj
representatives suggested i
afternoon session Wednesday that
would be necessary to go to the bn*
ball park to find a quorum.
One of the representatives sej
made a count said there were only
enty-two present, It was manif^ 1 !
impossible to transact business of ?- n
consequence with so small an atteffi
ance, of the and boll as a result bill, the which consider.ibOj is cf 1 J
weevil
greatest importance postponed to the farme' after 5 “j j
the state, had to be
little brief discussion.
PRISONER RELFASED BY SPEER.
Another Macon Chaingang Case is * cte
Upon by Judge of Federal Court.
A Macon, Ga., dispatch says: issu^-* Aij®
with a writ of habeas corpus
Judge Speer at Mount Airy,
Marshal Thomas journeyed to th fi
county chaingang Friday afternou
and returned to Macon with Lou'
Pennington negro sent up froi
,a month*
the recorder's court for six oa*
It was another Henry Jemison
the petit P 1
and it was alleged in
sented to Judge Speer that Penn- r0( ', e 1 -- ~M ^
was convicted without due P
I law amendment and in violation of the federal of the const! foul^ u