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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1902. ELOQUENCE AND LOGIC OF LITTLEFIELD WIN THE PLAUDITS OF THE VOTERS OF STOCKTON Maine States-: man Given Ovation. Expounds the Principles of Party. Epecial Dispatch to The Call, TOCKTON, Oct. 8.—Congress- men Charles E. Littlefield of Maine delivered the first speech of his Pacific Coast tour in this city to-night. Lit- tlefleld is a clear and conclise speaker, his most effective oratorical equipment being his levident earnestpess, and his speech made & profound impression. upon the audience that packed Masonic Music Hall. He was repeatedly cheered to the echo. The distinguished Easterner arrived on the noon train and spent the afternoon visiting in the Maine colony. He declared California to be the Maine of the Pacific, explaining that it was the best compli. ment in his stock. He arrived at the hall this evening, escorted by a committee of Republicans. No time was lost in the preliminaries. |As soon as the band stopped playing and while the crowd was still gathering, Dr. George 8. Harkness, chairman of the county committee, introduced Judge An- sel Smith as the chairman of the even- ing. His first act was to call forty prom- inent Republicans to the platform. Judge Smith, in his remarks prefatory to Introducing the speaker of the even- ing, discussed the part Maine had played in the affairs of the nation and made ref- erence to the distinguished line of states- wmen who had belonged to the delegation that Littlefield now virtually headed. He ventured to predict that Littlefield would be the next Speaker of the House. At this seference Littlefield glanced up from.a um he had been perusing, but further interest. stepped forward he was He said memoran betraged As Litt greeted b part: OPENS WITH TRIBUTE TO THE WORTH OF JAMES C. NEEDHAM Chairman and Fellow-citizens: . Nearly | thousand miles from home, it affords me pleasure to stand before the citizens of t of ome of my distinguished col- the lower house, the Hon. Mr. 1t also affords me pleasure to be able before the people who are to be, the of a man that I believe is to be e next member from this district, the Hon. J. C. Needham. 1 understand that this sec- on has by & recent act of the Legislature de & part of his district, and it affords e great pleasure to be able here and now to gratulate the people of this city upon the fact that they will be represented in the next Congress by & man of character, ability, integ- ity and influence in the lower house, if you as I believe you will, the distinguished f the Republican party for this dis- z s prolonged applause. Mr. I am & long way from home, but I find that the guestions that concern us in Maine are in substance the same guestions that concern us iy California. The Republican gospel in Maine is the Republican gospel in California, and for that reason 1 am more than glad to be able 1o assist in some small and humble degree in the campaign in this section of our country Westward, it has been said many times in the | country from which 1 came, the course of em- pire takes its way; but the empire is here and is the empire of the great Pacific Coast— magnificent State of California, with its magnificent and stupendous possibilities, re- quiring only for its continued development the proper and necessary kind of national legisla- tio ow, the questions that concern you in this palgn are practically the questions that have concerned the people in Meine. Recently &nd not & very great while ago I read in & local Tewspaper the prognostication of the result of | the politioal campaign in California, which was that Republican Congressmen would not be re- turned because California might in this cam- paign go Democratic. The interest is largely by resson of the fact that our friends, the Democrats, prophesy theusual incredible things. ‘When Senator Carmack came down into Maine we entertained him well. He was entertained =0 well that he went home and said that there was a_probability that the Democracy might carry Maine. Well, the State of Maine gave in this Jast campaign about 25,000 majority Tor the Republican ticket, and the lowest man on the Congressional ticket had more than 5000 majority Now, where I livey when we look at Benator Carmack’s predictions, we say that. as far as his predictions are concerned, Senator Carmack had better “go way back and. sit dows I have no serious apprehension in connectios i the prophecies that are made in connecs with this campaign. You have here i this campaign your State and your national candidates. 1 have & few words that I oot to say with reference to those questions that mean so much to us all. I am only here for R SRS S Protection the Safeguard of fornia’s Interests. Cali- us from a national standpoint. I know moth- ing about your local controversies, and if I did it would be somewhat out of the way to interfere in your local affairs. But you have nominated in this campaign your candidate for Governor, your candidates for the Legislature— for the House of Representatives and the Sen- ate of the State—and you also have your can- didates for members of Congress. It is ‘very easy to understand the interest that I have, or that the people in the State of Maine have, or that the people of the country have, in the nominees on the Republicfn or Democratic ticket for Congress, because upon the political complexion of the next House depends the fls- cal policy upon which the continued welfare of the country depends. The election of a Representative to Congress in the State of Call- fornia is of precigely the same Interest to me, and to the people where I live, as is a Repre- sentative in the State of Maine. Your candidates for the Legislature, the nom- inees for the State Senate and the House of Representatives, we also bave an equal con- cern in, because the next Legislature that is elected in the State of California will return to the Senate of the United States & Senator, and we want to see—in_ the country where I live—we want to see California well repre- sented by a Republican Senator. We believe that the policies of the Republican party not only: concern the Republicans in this country, but the welfare of the people of the country— the men, women and children of the country— they concern the welfare and their continuance is essential to prosperity. Now in order to produce that result the peo- ple of Califorpia, if they believe in this policy, must elect & Republican Legislaturé. It would hardly do for me, perhaps, to intimate or sug- e purpose of discussing questions that affect Continued From Page 3, Column 8. - in the suggestion of Mr. Baer which can.be pursued in case of failure to agree with our employes, but in many years of such.dealing it has never yet been requisite to call in ‘as. sistance to fairly and satisfactorily deal -with our own men. MARKLE SCORES MINERS. John Markle's statement was as “fol- lows 1 have listened with deep interest to“the re- miarks you made before us & few minutes after 11 ¢'clock this morning and do thoroughly :ap- Ppreciate the seriousness of the situation in the anthracite coal field of Pennsylvania. -As you disclaim any right or duty to interveme in our official capacity, but are using your per- £omal influence, and as you admit, this ‘matter beyond the merits of the issue between sthe ! presidents and operators on one sige: and the miners on the other, and you express th: fact that the “situation has become literally intolerable,” and, as you further state, *‘the evil possibilities are so far-reaching, so appall- ing, that it seems to me that you are not only justified in sinking, but required to sink T the time being any tenacity as to your re- | pective claims as to the matter at fssue between you. In my judgment the situation | opparently requires that you meet upon the | mmon claim of the necessities of the public. | th wll the earnestness in me 1 ask that there be an immediate resumption of opera- tions of the coal mines in some such way which will without a day’s unnecessary de- lay meet the crying needs of the public,’” 1 fully indorse the remarks from vyoll, and as @n American citizen and a citizen of the commonwealth of Perneylvania, I mow ask you to perform the duties vested in you as the President of these United States, to at once squelch the anarchistic condition of af- fairs existing in the anthracite coal regions by the strong arm of the military at your command. A record of twenty-one murders, Jong list of brutal assaults, houses and bridges dynamited, acts of violence now “taking place #nd several washeries burned down, are actual «vidences of this condition of lawlessness ex- ting there. Are you asking us to deal with @ =et of outlaws? I can hardly conceive of such & thought. The respectable citizens of these United States will insist upon the offi- ceeitn sewm Eiving to the citizens of Peyn. eyivania law and order end ¢ t 31 they so desire. P nrry Mr. President, I represent the individual coal operators and in addition thereto we represent, gest who the candidate might be, although I can safely say that your present member of the far better tkan Mr. Mitchell does, a majority of fhe antbracite coal workers, including some 17,000 men who are now working, endeavoring jgainst great 0dds to relieve the public of the possibilities of & coal famine in making this appeal to you. Mr. Mitchell's organization is « small minority of the workers in the anthra- cite coal . fields and he iz holding a large ma- jority by intimidation, coercion and attempts at bodil; arm. If you desire anthracite coal to be pidced in the market quickly, take the necessary. steps at once and pui the Federal troops in ghe fleld and give to those desiring 1o “work proper protection. By proper protec- tion is meant that the men desiring to work shall not: only be allowed to do so, but hall be protected while doing s0; at their homes, while going to and from their work and at the operations where they are em- ployéd; apd~in addition to this while the men are_absent. from their homes at work their Lamilfes in their homes must also_be protected. You do_this (the citizens of the United States wtom I Tepresent seem to feel that they have %@ tight to-ask this of you) and I will assure ‘you that anthracite coal will be ripidly placed n the market to relieve the seriousness of the situation. Please remember, Mr. President, that there is a large idle class of men now in the anthracite fields doing every kind of unlawful acts to prevent those who desire to wcrk to relleve the situation in the anthracite coal market. Please remember that in the fleld row are only 3000 National Guards; please remember that the total National Guard of the State of Pennsylvania is only about 10,000, Mr. President, a - condition -exists, not a theory, in the anthracite coal flelds, between & set of professional agitators and thelr co- ‘wofkers on;the one side -(anarthistic in their acts), and the operators and a majority of the workingmen on the other, who ars en- deavoring to relieve the seriousness of the anthracite coal situation. You, Mr. President, 1 believe, can relieve the situation at once. Wil you'do it? TRUESDALE WANTS TROOPS. President W. H. Truesdale made the following argument: - Mr."President: Representing the interests of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- road Company, its board of directors and its stockholders, permit me to say. that, realizing Tully the gravity-of:the situation as stated by you, and appreciating the burden of respons| bility which this situation imposes upon u: we feel that our duty at time, having in mind all existing conditions, is so plain and straightforward that we cannot possibly mis- Lt United States Senate is a_valuable and useful member in that place—the Hon. George C. Peckins—and 1 do not know that it detraci from his character and his fitness for this pos! tion when I have the pleasure of remember- ing that George C. Perkins is also a native of the.State of Malne. HOPES THAT PARDEE WILL BE GOVERNOR OF GOLDEN STATE Now these are the reasons why I have an Interest in the' election of your members of “ongress and of your Legislature. You have pending in this campaign the question of the election of a Governor. The Republican and Democratic parties have both nominated, as I understand since I have arrived in this State, men of character, integrity and ablility, either one of whom could well be voted for by any man who entertained political views for which either stood, and I congratulate the parties upon their having two men of such character, integrity and ability. We have an interest even outside of the State of California in the question as. to who is to be the next Governor of. the State of California. ,The history of this country de- clares the fact that it is by no means an infrequent case for the position of a Senator of the United States to be vacant, and if such vacancy in Congress occur then it be- comes the ‘duty and the responsibility of the Governor of the State to fll that high office by appointment, If this State is Republican and by: reason of any personal preference a Democrat should happen to fill that office and a vacancy should cccur in the Senate this State would be mis- i represented upon the floor of that great body take it. As citizens of this country, as trus- tees of vast‘and important interests committed to our care by the thousands and tens of thou- sands of securlty holders whose savings or le; cies are invested in these properties; as fen. who have committed to them the interests of thousands of as loyal, true, faithful citizens and employes as ever marched to victory in support of right and freedom under the flag of this or any other country. but who, with ineir families are to-day outcasts, hunted, hounded and driven almost to despalr and desperation, simply because they seek to exercise their plain, simple right’ and duty of working at their chosen avocation, or, as in many cases, of protecting and’ saving from destruction by fire, flood or dynamite the properties of other citizens, their employers, who are only endeav- oring lawtully and peacefully to maintain pos- session of, protect and operate their properties. This duty is €0 unmistakably plain that' he who runs may read. It is first and foremost our duty, and we take this occasion to state it and press it.upon your -consideration, and through you upon the authorities ‘of the State of Pennsylvania, to insist upon it that the ex- | isting conditions of anarchy and lawlessness, of riot ‘and rapine, a condition which has- been raging with more or less violence throughout the anthracite --glons during the past five months, be immedliately and permanently sup- pressed. To this end we ask that the entire authority and power of the State of Pennsylvan! and military. and if needs be that United States Governmient as well be exercised forthwith. Second, we ask that the civil branch of the United States Government, taking, cognizance of and Tollowing the decisions of its court: rendered in litigation growing out of previor similar conditions, at once institute proceedi: against the lllegal organization known as the United Mine Workers' Association, its well- known officers, agents and members, to enjoln and restrain permanently it and them. from continuing this organization, requiring them to desist immediately from conspiring a¢ or abet- ting the outlawry and intolerable conditions in the anthracite regions for which they, and they alone, are responsible. We are advised by our counsel that such civil ‘action will lie upon the part of the United States Government, as it is well known that United. States statutes are being openly ‘and grossly violated; that previous decisions of the courts justify fully ch action being taken at this time and that ample remedy can be given immediately and effectively for existing conditions. We feel it our duty, Mr. President, to at thig time urge ited that the protection of the laws of the * employes as suggested above. Can it be ex- pected that those who are now daily flagrant s DISTINGUISHED MAINE STATESMAN ADDRESSING AN IMMENSH GATHERING OF STOCKTON RESIDENTS ON CAMPAIGN AND THEIR BEARING UPON FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA. Littlefield was given a re ISSUES OF PRESENT State Cannot Afford to Trade Pros- * and that might be a matter of great public and national concern. Therefore I hope to see Hon. George C. Pardee ‘elected Governor of_the State of California. When 1 reached this State I received the declaration of principles of the Democratic party of California and I read them with some degree of interest. There are ome or two of the national questions to which that platform refers to which 1 propose to call aitention. One {g the question that has separated and divided the Republican and Democratic parties for several decades—the tariff. The Republican party contends that the pro- tective tariff s essential to the welfare and the prosperity of the republic. Our Demo- cratic friends belleve—they think they believe —that a tariff for revenue only—or as they cometimes say, free trade—is essential. Now in this campalgn our friends start out with a platform. The first proposition is that ‘‘we denounce the present protective tariff imposed upon the people by the Republican party and demand such revision of the tariff as will remove all unjust burdens and put the neces- saries of life upon the free list.”” Now do You suppose that our friends mean what they say? What is the great necessary of life? Perhaps it is sugar, and we have a tariff upon sugar that amounts to nearly 1% cents per pound—say 1.685, to put it accurate- ly. Now if our Democratic friends in Cali- fornla mean what they say they want sugar to be put upon the free list. 3 After sugar is put upon the free list what becomes of the beet sugar manufacturer in California? Everybody knows that the repeal of the tariff upon sugar would simply destroy the beet sugar Industry in the United States. When the sugar tarifft was threatened in Loulsiana the big cane sugar industry was shut down and a_plant costing nearly $500,000 was perity for Adversity. sold for $47,000. It was sald to have been sold for the purpose of manufacturing sugar in_Cuba. haps the Democrats don’t know just ex- — actly. what they do believe upon these ques- tlons. Taking it as it reads their platform is simply a declaration to the people of the State of California, to the farmers of Cali- fornia, that. they are prepared to have sugar 80_upon the free list. I belleve your newspapers all indorse the opposition to reciprocity, as involving & re- duction of the tariff on sugar. I was the only man east,of the Ohlo River who stood by the Representatives from California upon this proposition. I have no apologies to make, because I took that stand after mature and dye deliberation, and I took it because I be- lieved it to be right; but I want this fact clearly impressed upon the people of this State, that if our Demoeratic friends mean what they say they propose mot 20 per cent, not. 50 per cent, not 80 per cent, not 100 per cent of the tariff that to-day is developing Cal- ifornia, but its abolition! DEMOCRATS TAKING BOTH SIDES OF THE PROTECTION ISSUE We hLave, as representing the Democratic party, contingent of energetic, bold, con- sclentious and consistent and sincere statesy men in Washington. Upon the floor of the lower house and about three or four weeks before the last session adjourned this distin- gulshed body of statesmen gathered themselves together for the purpose of formulating the concentrative Democratic Wisdom upon this same proposition that was later discussed and proclaimed with reference thereto in the plat- form of California. And this is what our friends gald: ‘‘Resolved, That we condemn the Repub- lican majority In Congress for their endeavor to pasé a measure providing for reciprocity with Cuba. I have just read to you now the gospel ac- cording to the Democratic representatives in Washington. A few moments ago I read to violators of the laws, State and national, who have no respect for the rights of persons, prop- erty or good morals, will be bound by the de- cislon of any commission or body of men which has no power or authority to compel compliance therewith? We know they will not be. Third, then, Mr. President, there is a great, a pressing duty imposed upon us at this time to the thousands of true, loyal citizens of Pennsylvania, who have been lawfully pursu- ing their various avocations or professions un- der great difficulties, and who with great sac- rifice have been abused, vilified, boycotted and in many cases almost ruined because they had the manhood to ralse their voices against the illegal acts and violences of this illegal or- sanization and its officcrs and agents. No steps can. be taken by us, Mr. President, which can possibly result in placing these good citizens of Pennsylvania at the further mercy.of this ill organization, its officers and membe: Think of it, Mr. President, physicians have been threatened and boycotted because they saw fit to minister to the dying child of some poor worker because he was exepcising his God-given right to labor for his family and to provRie for the wants of his dying child. Mem- bers of the clergy have been threaténed like- wise for performing the offices of the dead to the members of ‘a family of a non-unjon worker. The conditions there are simply in- describable, and it is hard to belleve that they can possibly exist to the extent that they have anywhere in this free country. Fourth, another duty, Mr, President, and we regard it as the most supreme. One-sixth of the membership of this illegal organization is composed of young men and hoys between ths ages of 14 and 20, the future citizens and law- makers of the great State of Pennsylvania. ‘These young men and boys during, the past two years have had their youns, immature minds. poisoned Wwith the most dangerous, an- archistic, distorted, wicked views and errors concernifg the rights of citizenship and prop- erty that any ope can possibly conceive of, &ll through the teachings and practice of the of- ficers, organizers and apostles of the United Mine-workers' Assocfation. Mr. President, no adjustment of this matter can be thought of which by any possibility can result in fyrther strengthening and fixing in the minds this mlm.l‘ element in the anthracite coal fields bellef that the teachings of this. organiza- ‘tion and its officers, with their acts and do- ings in support thereof, constitute the ethics and objects of American citizenship frequently referred to during tbe past weeks in procla- ‘mations ed In behalf of this fllegal or- ion. consequences that result ! generation in ' the ‘e issul tion. The it mmmummtu%mflm there are fraught with the gra: dangers to the stabllity and prosperity of this country and its_institutiofs, Fifth and finally, Mr. President, as a plain citizen of these United States, looking at the Wwhole question broadly and with reference to its possible effect on our future welfare and prosperity, I think it my bounden duty to re- sist and combat with every power and faculty, both physical and mental, the avowed and evi- dent object and purpose of the United Mine- workers' Assoclation, as exemplified In the anthracite district of Pennsylvania and de- fended by its officers and other exponents of its well-known and so-called purposes and principles. Mr. President, we firmly believe that any such adjustment of this matter as has been suggested here to-day will only result In perpetuating conditions that are utterly ab- horrent to any good American eitizen ani most_intolerable and damaging to the Interests Wwhich I represent. We cannot, therefore, con- cur therefn. VIEWS OF WILCOX, David Wilcox, vice-president and gen- eral counsel of the Delaware and Hud- son, offered the following: The United Mine Workers is the most exten- sive combination and monoply which the coun- try has ever known. It habitually enforces its or::r;m::nd piroctions by whatever means may effectual, Inciuding strikes, boy- cotts, ?lcklllnt. besetting and the like, not con- fined o its own members alone, but in which ur compelled to joln as far as possible all ofher g:nou similarly employed. "Its violent m:th have already recef the eonl:nun— tion of the Circuit Court of the United States, The mine workers' assooiation is not with- Einizations: "On the contrams” the" asngt it e col 0 assoclation and all of its members constitute a combina-~ tion or conspiracy not but also in restraint of trade and commercs among the States, and also an attempt monopolize the labor necessary in supplying only at common law, cgal found in one State to the markets of of States, and to monopglize thumun of the commerce among the several States. action had by said United Mine Workers Ereatly injured the interstate business al ting in the anthracite coal flelds. The have already many times held that such &) combination is unlawful vithin the act of Chngress July for the T~ Dise of preventing restraint of interstats come ak o *the" cin Cour:not;.‘ln bvrin umm%‘m%mumu r- upon h. 25 that this iden- ism with convincing logic, EFORE an audience that packed Masonic Music Hall, Stockton, Representative Charles E. Lit?lefield of Maine delivered the initial speech of his Pacific Coast tour last night. The eloquent New England statesman, exp®unding the doctrines of R'epubh upon the great gathering of voters. His audience was wrought to a high pitch of enthusiasm, an. . rec 0 s have received in the metropolis of San Joaquin County. The Congressman stanchly sup?orted the policy of the present. adrr_nmstra'txon, 'rcwewed what had been accomplished under the regimes of Roosevelt and his predecessor, the martyred McKinley, and urged the voters of California to give tLeir support to the eco- nomic principles that had brought the country to its present state of prosperity. ! made a tréemendous impression ception such as few public men - But One Issue at Stake. you the gospel according to our Democratic {riends in Californis. They are not exactiy n_line, ‘What do our Democratic friends say about tariff reform and revision? - They say the believe in the repeal of ‘‘unjust discrimina- tions"”; that they believe in the repeal of the tariff upon trust-made goods and the tariff on the necessaries of life; but when they come back and realize the fact that in Cali- fornia- there is an interest that canmot live without the protective tariff what then hap- pens? Why, instead of being free-traders they are high protectionists. They are protecting us at home, but they are free-traders abroad. I suppose they are willing that the industries long as the industries of California have the benefits of the protective tariff. Now I want publican party has no gospel or principle that does not apply in every part of the Union. It apphies in California” as well as in Maine. Now in Maine we are not protectionists for Maine and free-traders for California. - We are protectionists for our State and not free- traders for the Middle West. There never has been since 1860 such a con- dition of magnificent prosperity—agricuiturally, great republic. Everywhere it prevails. is employed throughout the length and breadth of this great republic, from the poles of the north to the glowing south, and from the stormy_Atlantic to the calmer waters of the great Pacific. Everywhere labor has an op- portunity for employment. palgning four weeks in my own State and I have been campaigning on my way out hers to California. Bince arriving in California I have observed thaf there is no town, and there is no place where the man that wants to work for a falr wage cannot get an opportunity to work. It was mot always s, Laber is profitably employed. The countr; is prospering. The record of the tonnage shipped on_ the great Atlantic for the first seven months ending In June, 1902, was 25 - 000,000 tons; for the seven miofiths of the same period_in 1901, 16,000,000 tons, nearly doubling in 1902 the shipments of 1901, I came through the State of illinols and ’uund éha lIllll’lhols Central Railroad had made n profits in the year of 1902 $2,000, than in 1901, N 9. Meige It well becomes us, my friends, no matter whether we are Republicans or Democrats, no matter what our political views may be, to stop and reflect. When the question arises as to whether or not there should be a change in politics, or when it is suggested that evils aftect this republic, it well becomes us to pause and reflect and consider whether or not the changes suggested will or will not arrest this magnificent prosperity. If the remedy suggested is to arrest it and give us ad- that no matter what our political may be we cannot desire to have ¢ made. We know this: legislation has solely produced this result there is danger in any change. ? Another consideration 1 want to call your attention to. Notwithstanding the fact that we have combinations that are selling their prod- ucts abroad, as is alleged, cheaper than they are selling them at home—notwithstanding all these things, notwithstanding all these condi- tions—all of them combined have not as ye: succeeded in arresting in the slightest degree, materially or otherwise, the prosperity that to. day blesses this republic. That is a considera- tion that should be borne in mind when we think about the xreat Jduestion of the trusts an he effect o he tari upon thy greal combinations. VIR . T want to urge the discussion of the reme- dies that our friends propese in this campaign in connection with the trust question. First, we ought to bear in mind this question: To what extent do trusts and industrial combina- tions to-day affect or interfere with the busi- ness of this great republic? We hear i* on every hand, discussed by every Democratic orator; it apvears in the columns of every Democratic newspdper. What are the facts in connection with the trusts and industries? 1t s essential to the discussion of any ques- tion like t an intellizent basis. How much and in what progoftion is the business of this great coun- try owned or controlled by industrial com- binations? “Fortunately for us we have a cen. sus which Wes taken in the year of 1900, and that census dicloses this fact—and I'must say that 1 was personally somewhat surprised at the result, because the proportion controlled atfiliations he changes Debs case. That was an effort to organize a universal: constitution of railway employes covering the whole country for the purpose of controlling interstate commerce. T%: Govern- ment instituted suit by injunction and when the injunction was disobeyed enforced the same by the use of the United States army. This quickly disposed of the matter and the action of the National Government is, therefore, to proceed in accordance with the precedent in the Debs case. These considerations were called to the attention of the President and the Attorney General last June. The anthracite coal companies are making every. effort to mine coal as rapidly as possi- ble. They are obstructed by the fallure of the State authorities to fully protect those who desire to work for them, and by the fallure of the National Government enforce the statute under which the miud workers' asso- clation has been already held to be illegal. As soon as action of that sort is effectively taken there can be no doubt that the supply of coal will be ample. The question at present i8 merely whether an unlawful association shall be permitted in this country, by means which are illegal, to decide who shall be al- lowed to work, what shall be his hours of work and what he shall be paid. This is con- trary to the spirit and letter of our laws. It they are enforced such an effort will cease at once. : Grave as are the matters mentioned in the President’s memorandum, the questions funda- mentally involved are even more serious. They are whether freedom of life and property are to continue in this country or are to exist mere- ly in accordance with the will of combinations and conspiracies which are prohibited by the constitution and the statutes and the common law, and whether this m)‘u!" faithful em- playes are to be delivered to the destruction which surely awaits them in case of the tri- amph of the mine workers® assosiation. This comy respectfully and earnestly urges upon the Fresident the use of his lawrul powers n the premises, which were used in the Debs ase by one of his_ predecessors and which action was sustained by all the courts. 1 the rlkm“hwmmml would now enforce the law eq promptness the sty ‘would end next week. 73 Thomas Fowler, president of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, made a statement as subjoined: ] To the: President: T beg loa: I fully concur in the statements submicied ot Have IVIed tobe’ Dresent. ot g tom, ou ve , be present . ““cm I, Mmldlv ...Ilkhhlfim h',o v 1t :'r' lews more - o ", and o have in ydur hands early next week a state- of New England should have free trade so | to say to you In this connection that the Re- | industrially, commercially—as now blesses this | Labor | 1 have been cam- | there | is no_village, there is no hamlet, throughout | the State where labor is not well employed | versity in the place of prosperity I take !l‘ Whether Republican | to start in the beginning upon | —_— Democracy’s Arguments Refuted. Tariff Bene= ficial to Labor. was very much smaller than I had belleved was possible. ‘We found that only about one-eighth of the | business of this great country is controlled by trusts and industrial combinations; com- Dbinations have been formed more or less since 1900 and with some degres of rapidity, but the greatest combination is the United States Steel Trust. Now, 1 take issue with my friends. 1 say that the tariff is not the mother of trusts, and I say that to repeal the tariff would not pro- duce the results that we desire. I do not pro~ | pose to leave that simply upon my assertion. | I do not think it is right to leave any of these | Propositions simply upon assertions. I have ) | made this statement a great many times. We have here in_California & very intel. an | tigent and able press upon both sides, | the people of Callfornis are to be congratu- lated, hecause the press is the great educator of the people upon all of these questions. Now, 1 want to maks this statement here: I say that o Democrat yet, either on the floor of the House, as spellbinder upon the platform, or { as an editorial writer, has ever given one reason why the tariff is the mou‘r of the trusts. Dcwn in the little town where I live, cailed | St. George, lived a man by the name of Levl | Saunders, and there was a little incident In connection with his family. Levi Saunders was a man with a wife and a small family He was a sea captain by profession. He wag the last of the sixth gemeration of Saund The record of the births of all of the Saunde: had been entered upon the records of the town of St. George. There was a perfect genealogy of the Saunders for at six generati (and that is true of every family In George) and Captain Levi Saunders was proud of the fact. Well, it hapoened that Levi and | his wife before the birth of their first child ! went on a voyage to sea. Three months be- fore thelr return the child was born. Levi was anxious to have the Town Clerk of St. George record the birth of his son as having taken place in that town. This record was finally made: “John Saunders, born to Levi Saunders on of July, 1804, in the town of St, George, during the temporary absence Jf his paren If the theory of our friends is correct & great many of these trusts have come into ex- istence during the temporary absence of their parents. { ‘the 14th day | It the tariff is the mother of the trusts what happ: to trusts and industrial com- binations with reference to their creation prior to the existence of the tariff >—prior to the e istence of the Republican party? Our friends | say that tl tariff gives especial privileges t. trusts or strial combina S, It does not do that. What does it do? The tariff simply protects people who a {and in the manufacture competition. advantage, engaged In production against or of products It does not give amy benefit In 1891 there was a distinguished Repubi can statesman who at one time was called t ‘advance agent of prosperity.” William M Kinley said that we could produce in this | country tin. He said there were millions of | dollars in ¢ ountry th: employed | in" that industry. He said t were thou= | sands of men that needed empicyment at good wages. William McKinley said that with the proper degree of care in connmeggion With the manu- facture of tin we could Wevelop that industry upon these shores, although the raw matertal | existed mainly in England from which the tia | cauld be manufactured. Hence, & provision of the tariff bill of 1891. And what has been ti result of it? To-day we have a genmeral i Custry with $27,000,000 of capital invested, wita 15,060 men employed, with yearly wages | paid of $10,000,000. Ygt it is a tariff produc | ing these resuits that'our Democratic friends would destroy because they choose to dub it | the “‘mother of trusts.” DEMOCRATS WOULD DESTROY THE MANY | TO CURB THE FEW | The tariff shines like the sun and falls like the rain on the just and unjust exactly alike | It cannot be made to apply to one and not | to apply to the other. Our Democratic friends propose to_destroy business in order to destroy the tariff. One- eighth of the business is conducted by indus- trial combinations. They would destroy seven- eighths to get at the one-eighth. What I would ask them is to explain the need of a change in conditions—happy conditions that now bless our country. I do not go so far as to say it Is all because of the Republican party, but I do say that these results have been accomplished by the Republican party. There are three propositions for which tha Republican party stands: First, the policy of the Republican party fosters, develops and en- courages the industries of this republic and gives to labor a fair rate of reward. The | people of this blic—the Republicans, tha Democrats, men and women—have confidence in the character, the integrity and the abliity of the Republican party. Do we desire the | republic to stand as she stands t dustrially, commercially and financially, not only the admiration, but the envy of avery other land that the sun shines on? Let us then make no mistake in this campaign. Let no personal feelings for any candidate, as dis- tinguished between one individually and an- other, divert any Republican or any man who Qesires a continuance of these conditions from registering his verdict on the 4th day of No- vember in favor of the policles that have c tributed to happy resulis. Act politicalfy as you would In your own business and as if your own money and your own happiness and your own prosperity and success and the happi- ness of your wife and your children were at stake. ment presenting in some detall the situation and conditions prevailing throughout the ane thracite coal regions at the present time. The conference broke up at 4:45 o’clock. —_— The Kodak Machine. A free demonstration of the Kodak De- veloping Machine, the greatest advance in photography for five years, will be given at the Kodak store of Kirk, Geary &Co., 12 Geary street, Saturday afterncon from 2to 5. : —————————— EXASPERATED VILLAGERS MAY AID THE REBELS Turkish Action in Macedonia Said to Have Caused Very Alarm- ing Discontent. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 3~The in- surrectionary movement in Macedonia does. not appear to have spread to any serlous extent, although it is feared in some quarters that the Turkish meas- ures for its suppression may anger the villagers and cause neutrals to join the revolutionists. B The Macedonian committee’s efforts to support the plane of its president, Gen- eral Tzoltcheft, fof a general revoit, are handicapped by the hestility of the ad- herents of Sarafoff, the former president, who refuse all assistance to the new leader. According to news from Bulga- rian sources upwards of 500 Bulgariang were recently imprisomed in the Mone astir district. Numerous arrests of Al- banians were made at Constaatinople as a precaution during the visit of Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia —_—— Social Usage Prescribes correct forms of stationery. ‘We have the r’ght papers for polite cor- yespondence, and also ids for ing visit’zk ‘cards and w 4 me :::_:'t Sanborn, Vail & Co., 11 m.