Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 18, 1900, Page 7

| I | * (Benne-Leaves), Ylow to Avoid Library Fines. Ida—Do you read many new novels these days? May—No, indeed, dear. You see, when I get a new novel I can’t refrain from glancing over the last pages, and after I see how the story ends, what is the use of my going through the gest of the pages? hicago News. Passing of the Horse. So soon as nature sees an improve- ment there ts a change. The candle fave way to electricity and the horse to the automobile. The fact that Hos- tetter’s Stomach Bitters has been sold for half a century, proves its value. There is nothing to equal it for stom- ach or liver trouble. Be sure to give it @ trial. Making It All Right. Mrs. Young Wife—You are sure there are five pounds of sugar in this pack- age? It seems very light. Gre hat, madam, is because it ely free from sand.—Boston ‘anscript. is 7. Best for the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 to start getting your health back, ARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it Be ware of imitations. The Onion’s Humor. “Your odor is so extremely strong,” onion to the Limburg § that it quite takes away my perfume. At the same time it s you my debtor.” “And may I ask what I owe you?” inquired the Limburger, in a supercili- ous tone. “You cwe me an old-fashioned scent,” replied the onion.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. s Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars—1861-1865. djutant General Lambert of Min- ota explains how copies of the above history may be obtained. He tes that, under the law, each surviving soldier of any organization of Minnesota troops from the Civil v or upon his death, if he has not received it, the surviving widow, fath- er, mother, oldest son or daughter, brother or sister of the deceased, in the order named, is entitled to a copy of the volume upon proper identifica- tion to the satisfaction of the adjutant general. Since the appropriation for the ribution of the volume placed at the disposal of the adjutant general by the legislature is wholly inadequate to send the book by mail or express, he has decided to accumulate applica- tions from each county until a suffi- cient number are on hand to warrant a shipment by freight to the county auditor, notice of the shipment being sent to each applicant For shipments by il or express and for all ship- ments out 40 cents must accompany the applica- tion. The necessary blanks for appli- ion may be obtained by addressing dier General George C. Lambert, Capitol, Paul, Minn. 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Bowler, in the Dairy and Food Department. Hataathig fund LIND'S ADMINISTRATION What the Governor’s Depart- ments Are Doing in Dis- charge of Duty. Good Work Done by Major Bowler in the Dairy and Food Department. Review of Labor Commissioner’s Department Before McHale Assumed Charge. Major J. M. Bowler, state dairy and food commissioner, books for the fiscal year, writes the St. Paul Globe, Aug. 4, and has tabu- lated a statement for his annual report of the number of convictions secured by the department for violation of pure food laws and the amount in fines collected. The pure food laws of Minnesota, un- der which the state department oper- ates, prohibit the sale of adulterated food products of nearly every descrip- tion, and the department through its seven inspectors has prosecuted nearly 200 cases, that have for the most part resulted in convictions. The depart- ment during the fiscal year just closed has secured more convictions than ever before in the history of the commis- sion. Prosecutions are usually instituted in the municipal courts and upon the presentation of the analysis of the state chemist the minimum fine of $25 is as a rule imposed. In but few instances have larger fines been imposed. The law seeks rather to improve the quality of manufactured food products placed on the Minnesota market than to im- pose hardship ‘on small dealers. In all through convictions secured the department collected in fines $5,088, scattered all over the state and repre- senting a large variety of offenses. Convictions were secured by the de- partment during the year as follows: Serving oleomargarine without prop- er sign 7 Selling baking powder not properly labeled Vending watered milk . Selling low wine vinegar as pure.. 16 Cream adulterated with preserva- HAWES Uses 's wie lal Heese eros 2 Imitation honey, adulterated with glucose ae re Renovated and process butter. 14 Adulterated lard . 19 Skim milk 8 Yeast powde’ t properly labeled. 1 Adulterated milk 4 Adulterated cloves and spices...... 4 Mixed paint, adulterated and labele: MEITICHIP BUBB? cisco s caine spinticiess v White lead adulterated, sold as pure 3 Selling milk without a license.... 1 Adulterated jelly ........ 1 Butter made with unclean mi 1 Total 180 Very few cases brought by the state failed, and less than a dozen dismissals are recorded on ‘the records of the state dairy commissioner’s office. Butter finds a greater amount of sub- stitute than perhaps any other food product that the housewife buys. One incentive for the purchase of oleomar- garine is the difference in cost, particu- larly in winter. But five farmers were accused of sell- ing watered milk and all of these paid the minimum fine of $25: Consider- ing the large number of dairymen in the state this is a most satisfactory showing, as the department keeps very careful check upon the dairymen, especially in the large cities, where they are required to’take out a state license. But firms are accused of put- ting preservatives in their cream, and they each paid a fine of $25. The nine- teen cases of adulterated lard enriched the state’s exchequer to the extent of $375. Owing to the question as to the legality of the new baking powder law requiring that the ingredients of the package be plainly printed on the out- side, but fourteen cases were prose- cuted by Major Bowler, and these for the most part in the cities. However, |\n the future the law will be dispensed Nithout fear or favor, and the manu- has closed his; 9} agined themselves encumbered facturers of any powder not complying with the law will find their customers in hot water. Eight convictions not included in the table above of milk- men whose cow product did not come up to the prescribed standard in butter fats were of dairymen in the Twin Cities. THE BUREAU OF LABOR. The Minnesota Bureau of Labor was created by an act of legislature in 1887 in response to urgent demands by the organized labor of the state. For four years it was conducted in the interest of the working people so far as its then limited means rendered possible. At the end of that time it was more liberally endowed and converted into jan auxiliary of the dominant Repub- lican machine and placed in charge of a preacher-politician named L. G. Powers, whose skill in the use of sophistry and display of figures made him as desirable to his masters, the Republican ringleaders, as his self- seeking proclivities and impudent per- version of public means to selfish ends irendered him odious to the general ! public. From April, 1891, to January, 1899, seven years and nine months, the state department of labor remained in charge of this servile tool of the cor- rupt political element in power in the state. The main object of his first ‘term, as is shown by his report for 1891-2 was to meet the then prevail- ing outery against the plundering methods of the “wheat ring” and “milling ring,” which “rings,” together with their servants, at that time con- stituted the state administration. His task consisted in proving by expert juggling with figures that, although it only cost 19 cents per barrel to manu- facture flour, the millers were justified in appropriating, as they did, one-third | of the grain as their part for grinding the other two-thirds. He did it by figuring out how much more flour a uay’s wages would bring in Minnesota in 1891 than it did in New England a hundred years before. | During the following term, or the years 1893 and 1894, the efforts of the} Labor Bureau were directed towards quieting the unrest of the farmers of the state, who were being ground down by mortgage holders and money sharks, as the natural result of Republican misrule. In this case it was demon- strated by an enormous amount of figuring that the farmers merely im- with mortgages. That the mortgages that seemed to oppress them so seriously were more than offset _by the large number of mortgage redemptions re- corded in the state for the ten years preceding. The third term, 1895-6, was devoted exclusively to securing material with which to combat the silver question, | the issue on which was fought the presidential campaign of 1896. By a most formidable array of figures it was demonstrated that a single gold brick, to which some Shylock had a | string, was far more safe as a basis for a national financial structure than a double standard foundation built of sixteen of silver 'to each one of gold. It was a difficult task, and required the united efforts of seven men and numerous specials all of two years to accomplish, besides a mint of the peo- ple’s money. : The fourth and last report, that for the years 1897-8, of this accomplished sophist and juggler with figures is de- voted to a’ review of the remarkable feats accomplished by the Labor Bureau during its clerico-politico ad- ministration by L. G. Powers. His masters, however, seeing that no bene- fit was to be derived by them from this report, refused to appropriate the money for its publication. Hence that document exists in manuscript only and so far as the labor interests of the state are concerned, the Labor Bureau of Minnesota has published nothing concerning the subject since 1894, notwithstanding the thousands of dollars annually paid by the people for the purpose. Such in brief is the history and career of the Minnesota Bureau of La- bor under Republican political manipu- lation for eight years previous to Jan- uary, 1899, when a new order of things was inaugurated in the department of labor, as well as in various other state departments, by the reform governor, John Lind. This governor, instead of following the example of his Repub- lican predecessors by appointing as chief of the bureau some political mountebank, whose qualifications jcourts in cases of wilful would subserve some partisan or per- sonal end, placed in charge a man chosen from the ranks of labor by the laboring classes themselves, and sur- rounded him with assistants competent and anxious to do their duty in carry- ing on the functions of the Labor Bureau as originally contemplated by those who were instrumental in its creation, All mere theory exploitation was abandoned, and the work of the department systematized and directed along practical lines. A system of keeping a continuous record of the work of the department was intro- duced. Special efforts were directed towards making a thorough inspection of the factories, workshops, mills and mines of the state, ordering and com- pelling to be made such changes and improvements as circumstances called for, securing from each establishment reports concerning the sanitary condi- tion, safety in case of fire, means of protection against accidents, besides statements concerning the number of employes, length of working day, how many weeks operated during the year, rate of wages, how often paid, etc. And the fact that during the first eighteen months of the present administration 6,150 such reports were secured, re- corded and placed on file for tabu- lating purposes, indicates that the work was zealously prosecuted. These inspections also involved the issuing of, and compelling compliance with, over 500 orders for the improvement of conditions surrounding — laboring people, including, among other things, the erection of at least twenty fire escapes on factory and workshop buildings, in many of which working people had for years been huddled to- gether without means of escape in case of fire. The manner in which the laws regu- lating the employment of children had been enforced was shown by the fact that, with one solitary exception, every child employing establishment in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth was found upon inspection to be violating every provision of said law, and, in the majority of cases, to be wholly ignorant of the existence of any law at all on the subject. In the above named cities alone about 300 children were found to be thus illegally em- ployed. In view of such a state of af- fairs it was deemed necessary first to instruct the parties concerned as to the requirements of the law and _ insist upon compliance therewith, and then on subsequent inspections resort to the violations. The result has been a marked improve- ment, though it necessarily required several arrests and convictions to con- vince the employers of children that the department was in earnest in this matter. The collection of material for statis- tics has progressed simultaneously with factory inspection and law en- forcement. The field or organized labor has been fully canvassed with a view to ascertain the number, strength and general status of labor unions in the state. Particular attention has been given to the wage question, to mining statistics, and to data concerning the mining, logging and lumber industries important and interesting subjects which have heretofore been ignored by the manipulators of the Labor Bureau. ; Why these subjects, relating to the greatest industrial interests of the state, should have been totally ignored by the Labor Bureau during the eight years it was in charge of the Repub- lican ringleaders’ preacher-politican, is not difficult to explain when it is considered that it was more import- ant for party success to devote the efforts of the bureau to furnishing eastern and foreign money lenders with statistics eoncerning Minnesota mortgages and redemptions, than to | show the industrial development of the state; more conducive to personal and partisan gain to confuse the people with bombastic discourses and distract- ing tables on the purchasing power of gold in all lands and ages than to en- lighten them on the condition of labor in the state of Minnesota. These sub- jects were ignored because it would have been contrary to Republican policy to have shown, as investigations now show, that Minnesota has an or- ganized body of skilled laborers num- bering 18,000 to 20,000 men to hold or- ganized -greed within certain bounds; and it would have been contrary to said policy to have gone into mining statistics sufficiently to have shown that while the laborers who do the mining receive from 10 to 15 per cent. of ‘the results, transportation com- panies receive from 50 to 60 per cent., thereby effectually monopolizing the mining business in the hands of those who own or control the transportation facilities in conjunction with the mines. It might also have been unwise, from a Republican standpoint, to have showa, as will now be shown, that an army of from 15,000 to 20,000 men are Occupied every winter in chopping down the pine forests of Minnesota, ‘removing from one to one and a half billion feet of logs every season; it might have raised the question as to whose pine it is that the lumber barons have for a generation or more been removing, and it might have suggested a desire in the public mind to institute a eomparison between the cost of the raw material, the cost of labor and the selling prices of lumber. And it cer- tainly would have been disastrous to the Republican party to have gone into the wage question sufficiently to have shown, as do the statistics now in hand, that the weekly wages of nearly one-half of the employes in the vari- ous industries of the state are less than $10, and that only about 15 per cent. of the whole number employed receive over $15 per week, whilé more than 15 per cent. receive less than $7.00 per week. John E. Kennedy of Oshawa called at this office yesterday and made the statement that he bought. prison twine last February and. at 10 cts. per pound and was very well pleased with it, in fact the. best he had ever used, and did not break or miss a bundle. He also said-that at the time he placed his order, a local agent was present and wanted 12% cts. per pound. . Another centenarian who made the retreat from Moscow with Napoleon has died in Chicago. But what's the use of ing of the Moscow affair, when in the spring we shall have the McKinley move out from the White House! PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Richards S. Cuddihy, St. Paul, Minn., cinder-proof cap or cover; James E. Davidson, Butte, Mont., electric arc lamp; Herman Grams, Dexter, Minn., traction engine; Stephen A. Huntley, Elk Point, S. D., firearm; John J. Ober, Kibbey, Mont., gate hinge; Michael J. Sasgen, St. Matthias, Minn., wagon box and hay rack lifter. Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attor- neys, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Bidg., St. Paul. 2 to Z to 2:02. “How long does the train stop here?” the old lady asked the brakeman. “Stop here?” answered that function- ary. Four minutes. From 2 to 2 to 2:02.” “I wonder,” mused the old lady, “if that man thinks he’s a whistle?’—In- diarapclis Press.. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward forany case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. 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