The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 27, 1904, Page 3

WAGES AND THE COST OF LIVING, | President Roosevelt Deliberately Seeks { te Deceive the Public. { Of the many statements deliberately t “made by Mr. Xoosevelt, in his letter of acceptance, which have aroused un- favorable comment because of their in- t securacy, none is destined to cause him More trouble and to result in greater harm to his canvass than that in which he alleges that wages haye beep increased during the last few years in greater proportion than the cost, of living has increased. This state- | Ment has called forth a storm of pro- test, not only from the press, but ) among well-informed labor leaders and ‘Pdlitical economists. 4 Nearly every independent journal | has taken Mr. Roosevelt to task. One _ 0f these, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, published in the metropolis of \ the strongest protectionist State in the | Union, devotes a column and a half of ‘its space in refuting the President's statement. Mr. Roosevelt, to quote him precisely, says: “As conclusively shown by the bul- . Tetin of the Bureau of Labor, the pur- chasing power of the average wage re- \ ceived by the wage-worker has grown | faster than the cost of living.” The Philadelphia Ledger regrets that dt cannot contirm this statement. It Bays: 4 “More reliable, because more disin- terested, and more unprejudiced wit- nesses than Mr. Roosevelt's Commis- ] sioner of Labor, have time and again f declared it conspicuously inexact. Among the disinterested witnesses are { both Bradstreet’s and Dun’s carefully compiled reports, and among the un- prejudiced ones are several prominent labor leaders, who have testified to the { truth respecting the wage scale of the one part and the regular quotation of the prices of the necessities of life of the other part. And the precise testi- mony given by these trustworthy wit- nesses, is directly contrary to the Presi- dent's statement. Ee nor to your correspondent to-day deniet that any portion of the followers of William J. Bryan are at all lukewarm toward Judge Parker's candidacy Commenting on the situation as it siands to-day, Governor Hogg said: “I am heartily gratified at the general outlook. The outcome of the New York State Demiocratic Convention will do much toward stirring up our friends ‘in every debatable State. I have no sort of doubt of Judge Parker's election. Indications point to his carrying the three States ot New York, New Jersey and Connecti- cut. I am convinced that he will have Sufficient votes in the Middle West to do the rest of the work.” In order that there may be no doubt that 40,000 Independent German-Amer- jeans of New York City intend to vote for Roosevelt for the reasons above stuted, Mr. Winter wishes it known that his information is based on a personal canvass made by a corps of experts, every one- uf whom “was com- pelied to go before u ..otary public and make affidavit that his return was correct.” Comment is hardly necessary, but if any is to be made it should come from some of these 69,000 Independent German-Americaus whom the Roose- veitsLeague has belittied and insulted. FAITH VS. APPETITE, Hon. Bourke Cockran, of New York, in a speech, made recently before Tammany Hall, characterized the dif- ference between Democracy and ie- publicanism in the following terse language: “Democrats are a party of prine!nie They follow principle and value i more than profit. Republicans have differed more widely than Democrats upon every question which has beea active in our politics, They have dif- ‘fered about the Philippines, about the lanier, the gold question, about Cuba, labout every single question which has ‘come before the public, but their dif- | ferences never prevented them from coming back as one man the moment “The prices of domestic commodities there was a chance of getting posses- have had an average increase from the ,Sion of the Government, and putting lowest standard reached in 1896 of 37 | their fists into the Treasury, Demo per cent. No’ sensible and well-in- jerats, on the other side, have thrown formed man will seriously assert that @way prospects of success rather than Since 1896 the average wage rate has in- Surrender their principles to which creased to that extent—more than one- they were committed. Democracy, in third. There is no workman in the fact, is a faith, and Republicanism is land who can testify to the accuracy |an appetite.” of this, The President's contention is “A CONTRAST, ‘ that the alleged greater proportionate increase of the average wage to the increased cost of living has been due | “The President's Dream of War,” as to the beneticent protection afforaed to contrasted with “Judge Parker’s plea President's position is contested by labor itself. It is true that the wages of artisans and their unskilled helpers have been materially increased since 1896, but while there have been slight increases at various times of the wages .. Of the so-called protected workmen, ) the aggregate differences have not kept \ step with the increase of thé cost of | living. “At present the tendency all over the country is to reduce the wages of those employed in protected industries, At Fall River, Mass., 25,000 textile operators are out of work and de- prived of wages because they would q not consent to a flat wage reduction 4 of 12 per cent. In Chicago the Meat Trust has crushed to death one of the most powerful labor organizations be- cause it demanded a reasonable in- crease of wages for the under-paid lddorers. The Steel, Iron and Tin P Trusts, interests protected by the tariff, "have been largely: reducing their wage schedules, as has also the Glass Trust. al The artisans, mechanics and all sorts a of their unskilled helpers, to whom the | tariff does not even pretend to give U labor by the tariff. Here again the | will continue to receive them so long as their unions remain intact. But what single tariff-protected industry pays its workmen the same generous reward for their labor that the un- protected activities pay their em- i ployees for their labor.” It might be added that Commissioner “made public, for Secretary Shaw in a ago stated that the Commissioner of would blow the Democratic party sky- _-\ high, or words to that effect. He said, "im so many words, that this “bomb” : ! | 3 1 : i E E sEe | | Li i 8 fi bege el 4 RF j Hs for peace,” is the dotainating idea of a campaign card being distributed by ‘the National Democratic Committee. On the obverse appears the follow- ing: : PRESIDENT’S DREAM OF WAR, “If we ever grow to REGARD PEACE AS A PERMANENT CONDI- TION, and feel that we can afford to let the keen, fearless, virile qualities of heart and mind and body sink into disuse, we will prepare the way for inevitable and shameful disaster in the future."—From speech by Mr, Roosevelt, when Governor, before New York Republican Club, Feoruury 13, 1899, The military establishment of the United States, exclusive of pe.sions, will, under four years of Roosevelt, in a time of profound peace, have cost $515,000,000 more than under four years of Cleveland. This is the reverse of the document; PARKER'S PLEA FOR PEACH, “The display of great military arma- ments may please the eye, and, for the moment, excite the pride of the citizen, but it cannot bring to the coun- tre—brains, b Yl and muscle o| a single immigrant, nor reduce the in- vestment here of a dollar of capital. Of course, such armament as may be necessary for the security of the coun- try and the protection of the rights of its citizens, at home or abroad, must be maintained. I protest, how- ever, against the feeling that, by rea- son of the commanding position we have assumed in the world, we must take part in the disputes and broile of foreign countries, and that because wo have grown great we should intervene in every important question that arines in other-parts of the world.”—From Judge Parker's Speech of Acceptance, August 10, 1904. - THE PUBLIG PAYS. AS, USUAL. i more particularly of the Meat. ‘and the strike which was only ended in the packing houses, York Telegram drives the point in the following editorial ‘ come one has i i é i Hh f ; = i ; : 5 i i i ga Decrying the trusts and speaking i HHT ull GARNERED “THEM PUNKINS” ASLEEP. Caleb Dallied and Worried, Then in Somnambulistic Fervor Harvested Big Crop. Egg Harbor City, N. J., Oct. 13.— Caleb Cavaleer, down near Lower Bank,bas the finest crop of pumpkins in these parte. In fact he has so many of them that every time he looked down the field it made him shiver at the thought of harvesting them. Every time he sat down to a meal his wife, Mary, would eay: “Caleb, when’r you goivg to bring in them purkine?” Poor Caleb worrled and worried and the pum; kios got more and more yllow. It got so bad with Caleb he would turo over tn his sleep and tulked sbout pumpkins, Last night when everything was quiet Caleb got up. “What you going to do, Caleb?” asked the wile. “The horses are kicking the pun- kins” said Caleb, very drowsy like. Mary Cavaleer eaid nothing but just waited, Out of the window she saw Caleb go to the barn, get out Dobbin aud Jennie, hitch them up to the lumber wagon and start off across the field in the dark, and pretty soon, when Mary was thinking of going to look for him, along came Caleb in the wagon, and the wagon was just bursting with pumpkins. “Land sakes! Caleb must be asleep or crazy,” cried the astonished wifs. He didn’t say anything to his wife, and she didn’t disturb him, Caleb was a little late rising this morning, and when he looked out of the window and saw the pile of pumpkins he called: “Mary, Mary, come hero quick Some one’s harvested allthe punkine I been worrying about.” “Caleb, you carted in all them punkins youreelf in your sleep last night,” explained Mra. Caveleer; ‘it’s the first time you have been sleep walking in nigh ten years, but it was a mighty good thing.” Why The Geisha Girls Wish to Remain Here. St. Louls Republic, ° In his defense of the geisha girls, Attorney Harry B. Davis will bring out the following pointe: They received little or no salary while employed at the Pike conces- sion. They are Japanese artista of the highest class, and not laborers or employes. The bond for their return does not specify any time, certainly not be- fore the end of the Exposition. They do not wish to return to their native land penniless. An offer hus been made to them to tour the United States at a salary of $500 a week for forty weeks by Klaw & Erlanger of New York City. This contract has been signed by all of the seventeen girls. They have been released by the aE them 0 his country from all obligations to him, in order to permit them to tour the country, if they wish. ‘ ho brough Omaha Boys as Bandits. Omeha, Oct. 20.—Five boys under age, except one, have confessed that they intended to imitate the Chicago carbarn bandits, and blow up the Harney street barn, secure whatloot they could and embark on a career as train robbers. a The five had a rendezvous near the river. The place was filled with dynamite cans and the records of boys have confessed to many daring holdups and burglaries during the last few months. desperate criminals andarms. The) +,. DR. H. M. CANNON, Dentist, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. Will be in Adrian every Tues- day and Friday prepared to do all kinds of deotal work. has OOOH MOOOS Killing The Spaniard. Those who feel disposed to defend President Roosevelt from the charge of boasting of killing a fleeing Spaniard will cease to defend when they read the deliberate report of the transaction published by the president in his book, entitled “The Rough Riders” (page 138). “Lieu- tenant Davis’ first sergeant, Clarence Gould, killed a Spanish soldier with his revolver, just as the Spaniard was aiming at one of my Rough Riders. At about the same time I aleoshot one I was with Henry Bardchar, running up at the double, and two Spaniards leaped from the trenches and fired at us, not ten yards away. As they turned to run I closed in and fived twice, missing the first and killing the second. At the time I did not know of Gould's exploit und supposed my feat to be unique” Yes, it is a unique feat to kill a fleeing soldier, and more unique still to speak of it with levity and boast- ing. The taking of human life is an awful responsibility and however the customs of war may justify it when necessary, who but a military enthusiast would epeak of it as the president does?—The Commoner, SCASTORIA. Bears the Tho Kind You Have Always Bought of Sf, "4 Lenn No Intervention, Said Cassini. Washington; Oct. 17.—Count Cassini the Russian ambassador, in a conversation with a correspondent of the Associated Press reiterated with the grent emphasis to-night what he has already had occasion to say several times regarding inter- vention by the powers to conclude the war. “There is,” he said, ‘absolutely no opportunity for intervention to stop the war. Russia proposes to prose cute the war to the end and all offers of peace at this time must be rejected.” ; SCASTORIA. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of Drinks Killed a Bell Boy. Sedalia, Mo., Oct. 17.—Houston Burris, 16 years old, who was a bell boy ina local hotel, died suddenly this morning after taking several drinks of liquor. He was invited to drink in the barroom of the hotel by two traveling men who arrived here on an early train. Suddenly he dropped to the floor unconscious. Burris was placed in acarriage and taken to his bis home, where he died inashort time. The coroner, Dr. Cowan, has been asked to hold an inquest. HERE’S A BABY Ite Mother is Well. pe hp dg oy period of gestation its mother popular and purely vegetable liniment, Mother's F riend for our book * free TOR CO., ATLANTA, @A, ‘ were filed with the secretary of state today providing for the carrying out of the plan of merger of the American Tobacco company, the Consolidated Tobacco Co., and the Continental Tobacco Co. be known as the American Tobacco Co., with the authorized capitaliza- tion of 180,000,000. . The Marlin Fire Arms Company United States to Keep Out. St. Petersburg, Oct. 20.—The Rus- Supreme Court Adjourns. | Jefferson City, Mo , Oct. 24.—Both divisions of the supreme court com- | sian authorities have been unofficial- pleted their Octoberca!! of the docket to day and stand adjourned as fol lowe: Division 2to November 22 and | ing its good offices in the interests of division 1 to November 23. expected that opinions in the more important criminal cases before divi- sion 2 will be delivered on Nov. 22. ly assured that the repert that. the | United States contemplated tender- It is| the restoration of peace in the far east is untrue. The assurance was received with satisfaction, although the report had not been given cre- dence in government circles. Senator Vest Left $150,000. Marshal!, No., Oct. 24.—The will of ex-Senator Vest was filed for pro- bate here today by his son in law, George P. B. Jackson. The bond of the executors or trustees, Geo. P. B. Jackson and Jobn 8. Sullivan, was fixed at $150,000. 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