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LAW VIOLATED
IN BOYCOTTS
Is Decision Handed Down by United
States Supreme Court.
LABOR UNIONS ARE HIT
Third Important Decision Within a Month
Adverse to Orgaaizations-Hat
Company Wins Case.
Monday, for the third time within
a month, the supreme court of the
United States promulgated an opinion
construing laws adversely to the con
tentions of organized labor.
The 'first of the decisions was ren
dered on January 6, in the case of
some railway employees who sought to
secure damages under wnat is known
as the “employers’ liability law,” mak
ing railroads responsible for injuries
resulting from the negligence of fellow
servants, which law the court held to
be unconstitutional. The second im
portant finding in this line was an
nounced on the 23rd of January, when
the Erdman arbitration act, forbidding
the discharge of employees because
they are members of labor unions, was
also declared to be invalid.
The verdict rendered Monday was
in the case of Lawlor vs. Loewe, the
former a member of the Hatters’ Un
ion, and the latter a hat manufac
turer of Danbury, Conn. The case in
volved the applicability of the seventh
section of the Sherman anti-trust law
to conspiracies by labor unions to boy
cott articles entering into interstate
trade. Under the terms of that pro
vision the complaining party may col
lect three times the amount of his
loss if the charge is sustained. The
union fought the case on the ground
that the law was inapplicable to such
organization, but the court, whose
opinion was announced by Chief Jus
tice Fuller, failed to accept tills view,
and, in effect, held that the unions
could not be permitted to interfere
by boycott with the free exchange
of commerce between the states. There
was no dissenting opinion.
The suit was instituted by Loewe &
Co. in the United States circuit court
for the district of Connecticut. The
company alleging damages by boycott
against their factory to the extent 'of
SBO,OOO asked for a judgment of $240,-
000 in accordance with the terms of
the Sherman act:
Not only the members of the Hatters’
Union, but the American Federation
of Labor, were included in the bill. In
the complaint it was alleged that the
labor organization had undertaken to
compel the manufacturers to unionize
their fatcory, and it was asserted
when they failed in this effort the un
ion hatters withdrew and induced other
employees to do so. This act was fol
lowed by the declaration of a boycott,
which extended to many states and
which, in the language of the bill,
•constituted a combination to limit and
restrain interstate commerce.
The case arose over a strike in
Loewe’s hat factory in Danbury, Conn.,
in 1901, and the inauguration of a
boycott by the United Hatters of North
America, in which the American Fed
eration of Labor joined by putting
Loewe on the “unfair list.” Loewe &
Co. brought suit under the anti-trust
law against 200 members of the Hat
ters’ Union living- in Danbury, claim
ing SBO,OOO damages to their business
through the boycott, which they charg
ed constituted a conspiracy in restraint
of trade. The unions advertised their
boycott against this firm in labor or
gans in different parts of the country,
and in consequence the firm claimed
that its business fell off outside the
state. Actions were brought at differ
ent places, notably at San Francisco.
TWO PRISONERS BREAK JAIL.
Murderer and Safe Cracker Escape From
Tower in Atlanta.
The first important jail delivery from
the tower in Atlanta since it was com
pleted in 1896 occurred early Monday
morning, when two white prisoners,
John Harper, charged with murdering
Sheriff Keith of Murray county and
Ceorge Barton, who was held for safe
blowing in Taliaferro county, in some
mysterious manner escaped from their
•cells, then from the strongly locked
cage, and lastly sawed their way to
liberty through an outside window.
The men were confined on the third
floor, and let themselves to the ground
iby means of four blankets tied to
gether.
( IHE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. T. H. WHITE.
Subject: Preparing to Receive Bless*
ing.
London.—A very practical address
was given at the opening of Keswick
Convention. The sermon preached
by Dr. T. j-L White befitted so pre
paratory a gathering. Attention was
directed to Luke 22:11: “The Mas
ter saith, Where is the guest cham
ber, that I may eat the passover with
My disciples?” and with this passage
was coupled Rev. 3:20: “Behold, I
stand at the door and knock. If any
man hear My voice and open the
door, I will come in and sup w r ith
him, and he with Me.”
Our Lord was looking for the
guest chamber, and is seeking for it.
Will He find it in each of our hearts?
The w T ord translated “guest cham
ber” also occurs in the story of
the nativity, Luke 2:7: “And she
brought forth her first born son, and
wrapped Him in swaddling clothes,
and laid Him in a manger, for there
was no room for Him in the inn.” If
your heart is only as an. inn, Christ
is seeking to make it a guest cham
ber, where 1-Ie will be the Guest. He
will only make your heart and mind
the guest chamber on one condition
—He must be the only Guest, and
must have the preparation of the
chamber in His own hands.
A remarkable word appears in
Prov. 4:23: “Keep thy heart with
all diligence, for out of it are the is
sues of life.” The heart of man is
mentioned nearly nine hundred times
in God’s Book, and chiefly in three
connections.
First we have Gen. 6:5: "God
saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and ihat every
imagination of the thought of his
heart was only evil continually.” In
the New Testament the same thought
occurs: “Mary kept all these things
and pondered them in her heart.”
(Luke 2:19.) In both these passages
we have one f?.ct emphasized—the
heart in connection w'ith the intellect
of man.
Turn to Deut. 6:5: "Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thine
heart, with all thy soul, and with all
thy might;” and to 1 Pet. 1:22:
"Love one another with a pure heart
fervently”—the heart in connection
with the affections. Look at Dan. 1:
8: "But Daniel purposed in his
heart that he would not defile him
self with the king’s meat;” also Acts
11:23: “That with purpose of heart
they would cleave unto the Lord” —
the heart in connection with the will.
It is plain, therefore, that by "the
heart of man” w r e mean the place
where his intellect, affections and
will are focused; the centre of the
intellectual, loving, purposeful self
in every one. If we want a picture
of what we are naturally, we have
it here: “The heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately
wicked;” and “out of the heart pro
ceed evil thoughts,” etc. Yet what
ever the condition of every heart,
Christ is seeking to make it His guest
chamber.
Are we willing to allow Him to do
this? Have we responded to the in
vitation: “My son, give Me thine
heart” —the heart looked at from
the three standpoints we have no
ticed? Have we surrendered our
thinking, loving and purposing pow
ers to Him?
It may be that some one has come
to Keswick with the desire to know
what is taught here, because you
have an idea that it does not fit in
with your theological position. God
wants your intellect. Are you willing
to give Him your speculations, your
criticisms of His word and His mes
sengers? Are you willing to make
the confession of the Psalmist your
own: “Lord, my heart is not lifted
up, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I
exercise myself in great matters or
in things too high for me?”
Shall we not begin this convention
right with God by yielding our hearts
that He may, cleanse the chamber
and make it fit for Him to dwell in?
Our intellects, affections and wills
given to Him, the lower we get be
fore Him the deeper will be our
union and communion with Him.
Are we willing to do His will? If
not are we willing to be made will
ing?
Running through the life of every
child of God are two great forces—
Divine will and human will. So long
as they are side by side, all is well;
but ofttimes your will and the will of
the Master cross, and then there is a
stop, and this is where you find it
necessary to die to self. The Chris
tian life means the intellect, affec
tions and will made over absolutely
to the Master, that He may do what
seemeth Him good.
And what will He do? He will
take full possession of the guest
chamber, turning the searchlight of
His Holy Spirit into every corner.
But He does this, not all at once, but
gradually, as we are able to bear the
light revealing the sinful thing, need
ing the Blood that it may be removed.
Then He takes His own wondrous
Word and enlightens it by His Spirit;
and we come to know what is His
will for us, and that the enlightened
Word will fashion our lives. There
is no pattern in the Word of God for
the child of God but the Son of God.
What times we are living in! In
our morning papers the first thing
one notices seems some indication of
the coming of the Lord. And if He
is coming soon, what does He want
from you and me? You recall His
last recorded words: “Ye shall re
ceive power after that the Holy Ghost
has come upon you, and ye shall be
My witnesses.” Never since that day
has there been more need of wit
nesses to Him than at the present
time. He may have called you to
Keswick to teach you ho" to be a
witness to Him. We shall be wit
nesses unto Him exactly in propor
tion as our hearts are the Master’s
guest chambers, for only as He lives
in us can He work through us His
wondrous, gracious, loving purpose.
And what is that purpose? "Whom
He did foreknow', He also did pre
destinate to be conformed to the
image of His Son, that He might be
the first born among many breth
ren.” As He dwells in you He will
shine forth, and be through you a
witness to Himself. So, being
cleansed, sanctified, and indwelt *iy
the Master, we shall be what He de
sires we should be, witnesses unto
Him.
- God’s Love Illustrated.
By the Rev. Adam Reoch.
It is astonishing how long it takes
us to grasp and believe in some of the
oft-repeated statements in God’s
word. We may pride ourselves on
the power of our intellect and the
thoroughness of our training, and
with it all we may. for a score of
years, blunder past the most comfort
ing truth.
Take, for example, the text, "If ye,
then being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children, now'
much more shall your heavenly Fath
er give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask Him?” The truth and blessed
ness of that text came home to me in
a most forcible way quite lately. Dur
ing weeks of trouble and darkness
faith had stumbled along, seeing not
a ray of light. The awful words of
Christ, “My God, My God, why hast
Thou forsaken Me?” seemed the only
words in Scripture that suited my
case. It was not the experience of a
moment, but of weeks, and long con
tinued, growing out of the severest
loss one can be called upon to un
dergo.
The light came in this way: My
little boy had become much inter
ested in the nrevailing fad, the usu
of roller skates. He had come to mo
repeatedly, just for money for a new
pair, and then for more to repair and
improve, until it seemed tljat I could
give him no more. One afternoon ho
showed me the skates and pointed
out that the rear wheels were well
worn down. He did not ask me for
any money; perhaps he did not ex
pect any, but he said in a soliloquiz
ing way, “I can get a new pair of
wheels for fifteen cents.” I saw the
heart laid bare, the longing, the tim
idity—my heart said, “Go ahead and
get them.” I could not possibly keep
from finishing out his happiness, and
it seemed a privilege to do it. Then
it seemed as if a voice of reproof
came through my heart, as if the
very w'ords of the text were uttered
—“lf ye then bring evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your chil
dren,” etc.
Oh, how it humbled me! I had actu
ally thought God to be less concerned
for me and my happiness than I was
for that of my own boy. In the light
of the warmth in my own heart for
my own boy, I saw the faint reflec
tion of that mighty love of God for
me, His child, and I realized as never
before that He will not withhold any
gift that is good, that He will not do
aught save what is for our very best.
But how long it takes us to see it!
May He forgive us for our conceit,
our distrusts and our repining.—■
From Sabbath Reading.
Dr. Frank Crane’s Epigrams.
The end of true culture is peace
tvith one’s self; to have established
a modus vivendi; not to be blown
about between good and bad, but to
have a practicable path' through the
mystery of things.
We begin life as little animals;
we should end as great souls.
All inward unhappiness can be
definitely traced to selfishness; no
unselfish person can be thoroughly
unhappy.
The selfish man is pitted against
a selfish world, infinitely stronger
than he, and against which he has
no hope of success.
When a selfish man succeeds in
becoming happy, it is only at the
price of the unhappiness of others.
Life is too short and the prizes of
selfishness too close and too alluring;
you canuot hope to attain nobility
without belief in heaven and God.
There is no happiness so long as
we are impatient.
There is an element of vulgarity
in any jewelry.
The savage Indian in his tent of
skins, and the multi-millionaire in
his mess of bric-a-brac, are equally
removed from true culture. Nobility
lies in the difficult middle way.
To read books that require no
mental effort is time lost.
The careful and thorough reading
of newspapers is the surest way to
vulgarize the mind.
Any sort of self-assertion by voice,
dress, manner or any other way, is
vulgar.
Nothing is so vulgar as idleness.
The idle rich in every age of the
world have become cold-hearted and
cruel. And to envy or to rail at the
idle rich shows a vulgar mind.
The inan who works Sundays does
nothing of any consequence other
days.
Our attitude to money is a sure
test of culture; we should neither
love it nor hate It, horde it nor
waste it, worship it nor despise it;
we should appreciate it for what it
can do and realize what it cannot do.
We speak of elevating the lower
classes; my experience is that it is
the upper classes that need elevating.
There is no culture possible with
out conversion, because culture is es
sentially unselfishness, and that is
born in none, or few. —From sermon
preached by Dr. Frank Crane, Union
Church, Worcester, Mass.
Probably nothing makes a girl so
angry as the failure of some other
girl to notice the new engagement ring.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 0.
Subject: Jesus and the Woman of
Samaria, John 4:1-42 —Golden
Text, John 7:37—Commit Verses
23, 24 —Commentary.
TIME. December, A. D. 27.
PLACE.—Sychar.
EXPOSITION.—I. Jesus reveals
Himself ns the Messiah to the woman
of Samaria, 19-20. The woman of
Samaria had said to Jesus, “Give me
this water, i. e., the living water (v.
15; cf. vs. 10, 13 and 14). Jesus will
answer this prayer, but first the wom
an must bo brought to realize that
she is a sinner. Conviction of sin
usually precedes the reception of the
Holy Spirit. So Jesus aimed a sharp
thrust at her conscience, "Go call thy
husband” (v. 16). It was effective.
Heart and life were laid bare. She
briefly answered, “I have no hus
band.” But little did she know how
.Tesus would drive the answer home to
her own conscience (vs. 16-18). The
woman tried to parry the thrust by
engaging Jesus in a theological dis
cussion. This is a common method
used by men when we try to drive
home to them a conviction of tlieir
own sin. They seek to ease their
conscience by drawing us into a dis
cussion on some side theological is
sue. The woman failed in her at
tempt. .Tesus’ ansvfer to her question
went even more deeply to the need
of her soul. It was beginning to
dawn upon the woman that Jesus was
a prophet indeed. He had read her
heart. Jesus showed her the utter
formality and worthlessness of all her
worship of which she had made her
boast. The standing controversy be
tween the Jews and the Samaritans
was whether they should worship at
Mt. Zion or Mt. Gerizim (v. 20).
Jesus shows to the woman that this
is not the real question at issue. The
question is not where we shall wor
ship, but how we shall worship.
These are strong words with which
Jesus exposed the hollowness of the
worship of this woman and her fellow
Samaritans, “Ye worship ye know
not what,” but the words are equally
true of much modern co-called Chris
tian worship. “Salvation is from the
Jews.” To them were committed the
oracles of God (Rom. 3:2). Of them
the Christ, the Saviour of the world,
is born according to the flesh (Rom.
1:3). The Jews were the first her
alds of a crucified and risen Saviour,
in whom salvation is offered to all
men. The world owes to the Jews a
debt that it can never repay. But
while salvation is from the Jews, the
Jews as a people have rejected it.
The Heavenly Father is seeking wor
shipers (v. 23, R. V.) God is seeking
not only those who will serve Him
and obey Him, but those who will
worship Him. He does not find many
worshipers, though He is seeking
them. Prayer is not worship. Thanks
giving is not worship. Worship is
bowing before God in adoring con
templation of Himself. “In our pray
ers we are taken up with our needs;
in our thanksgiving we are taken up
with our blessings; in our worship we
are taken up with Himself,” and He
is seeking worshipers. Does He find
one in you? And God is seeking only
one kind of worshipers, those who
worship in spirit, that is, in the Holy
Spirit, and in truth, that is, in reality,
not in mere pretense (cf. Phil. 3:3, It.
V.). The flesh seeks to intrude into
every sphere and even into the sphere
of worship. But the worship which
the flesh prompts is not acceptable to
God. We are absolutely dependent
upon the Holy Spirit to teach us how
to worship and to lead us into accept
able worship. God is a spirit, not a
mere outward form. Though God is
spirit in His essential essence, He
does manifest Himself in visible form
(Ex. 24:9, 10; 33:18, 23), and the
glad day is coming when the pure in
heart shall see Him (Matt. 5:8; 1
John 3:2). The woman knew (hat
the Messiah was coming and was
waiting until He came to tell her all
things. He, indeed, is the one
who does tell us all things, but He
•was already there. Jesus makes one
of the clearest and most unmistaka
ble declarations that He is the Mes
siah to this outcast Samaritan wom
an, “I that speak unto thee am He.”
11, The Sanjaritan woman ligcQmes
a witness for her new-found Saviour,
27, 29. The disciples were greatly
surprised that He talked with a wom
an. Women are of no more account
in the eyes of some men to-day than
they were in the eyes of the disciples.
The disciples ought not to have been
surprised that Jesus talked with a
woman, a Samaritan and a sinner, if
they had only stopped to think that
He had condescended to talk with
them. The woman, however, does
not wait. She hurries into the city to
tell others the good news. In her
eagerness she even forgets to take
her waterpot with her. She came out.
to get a waterpot full of water and
she went back with a whole well in
her heart (cf. v. 14). When one real
ly finds Jesus he is willing to leave
all that he may go and tell others
about Jesus. Her message to the men
of the city was the old gospel mes
sage, “Come.” And what were they
to come and do? “See a man.” That
is what we most need —to see Jesus
(cf. 1:29). She sums up what Jesus
had done in a short sentence, “Ho
told me all things that ever I did.”
And then asks the question, “Is not
this the Christ?” Could there be any
better proof that He was the Christ?
She brought the whole town to the
Saviour (vs. 40-42).
LEADING QUESTIONS. What
does this lesson teach us as to how to
deal with souls? What does it teach
us about Jesus? What doe 3it teach
about God? What does it teach about
worship? What does it teach about
testimony?
ACTION URGED
BY ROOSEVELT
Oil Some Important Lcgisation
Which He Pais Up to Congress.
A SPECIAL MESSAGE
President Surprises Lawmakers and the
Country in Strong Recommendations
of Remarkable Document.
President Roosevelt sent to congress
a special message Friday which is, In
reality an uncomprosmislng and
categorical review of his administra
tive policies, an analysis of their
meaning and the necessity for their
existence and a vigorous attack upon
crlticls who have sought to discredit
the administration campaign against
commercial corruption, or to hold it
responsible for the recent panic. He
omits no single phase of the war
against “predatory wealth,’’ points out
the interest of every citizen in decent
government, dwells on the prime ne
cessity of railroad and corporation reg
ulation, touches on federal and state
functions in this direction and on the
question of jailing or fining malefac
tors of “great wealth.” He calls cor
porations and individuals by name
with unerring fluency.
The president calls for the immedi
ate re-enactment of the employers’
liability law, which has been declar
ed unconstitutional, in such form as
will meet the requirements of the su
mtune court. He depends upon the
respective states to do tlieir part to
ward fulfilling the duties of which
the .federal government is deprived.
He also urges that an act be passed
compensating government employees
injured in public service.
“It is all wrong.” says Mr. Roose
velt, ‘to use the injunction to prevent
the entirely proper and legitimate ac
tions of labor organizations in their
struggle fur industrial betterment, or
under the guise of protecting property
rights unwarrantably to invade the
fundamental rights of the individual.”
He promises to send a special mes
sage to congress on the case of Adair
vs. the United States, the effect of
which is far-reaching, but which of
ficers of tho government have not yet
had the opportunity to study in all
its bearings.
The president would give the inter
state commerce commission the right
to pass on any rate or practice of the
railroads on its own initiative. He
would al3o give the government super
vision over the financial affairs of in
terstate railroads, to the end that over
capitalization might be avoided, specu
lation eliminated and bond proceeds
devoted only to legitimate purposes.
He declares that overcapitalization al
ready of fixed value must be recognized
as affecting thousands of innocent
shareholders. Many rates, he contends,
are already too low, and it is better
in the interest of imperative improve
ments that earnings should be too
liberal rather than insufficient. The
Sherman anti-trust law, he says, calls
for immediate amendment. In Its
-
present shape it is entirely unfitted to
meet the conditions cf today, often
tending to produce the very evils it
aims to suppress. The president speci
fies certain combinations which are
lawful and expedient for the railroads.
The president attacks stock and mar
ket gambling in strong terms.
The message created a great deal
of comment among the nation’s law
makers. The president’s friends com
mend it enthusiastically. Some of the
talks in the cloak room and corri
dors turned upon a third term for
Roosevelt and discussed this action as
a bid for support from those who be
lieve President Roosevelt is the only
man with the determination, grit and
perseverance to fight through congress
the aggressive policies outlined in the
special message.
It came as a surprise that the presi
dent should send another message to
congress calling for further corporate
regulations; particularly since he reifr
erated his old recommendations in his
December message. In the senate the
message was heard in decorous si
lence. In the house it was continuously
applauded, particularly the reference to
punishment of wrongdoers and his de
fense of federal judges.
“A splendid democratic doctrine,”
said Senator Jeff Davis. “A bid for a
third term,” said Representative Clay
ton of Alabama. Senator Davis mov
ed that 10,000 copies of the message
be printed and the motion wa a
adopted.
