The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1909, Page 6

Member of the Uni daily by 7 tne Co. “Two WAYS OF BEING BULLISH | Let's all be * for awhile Reports from nearly the great cx of the inception of a marked revival in the business world uncertainties due to tariff revision are pa impetus of a progressing country seen along the line. Government esti oats. Wheat, hay breaker. Same as to crops are a bit that of crops this year is to exceed Shipments of coal and ote, mainly on tl surpassed anything before heard of during July last means extraordinary and continued { e Wes Our at least brethren of tl their peculiar products According to the Manufacturers’ Record, the total wealth | and girls under 16 yoars of age of the country last year was $120,000,000,000, and at the present} rate of growth it will be twice that 10 years from now Bully conditions and figures, aren't they? any nation fee! “bullish.” But the bigger we are ce DIVISION ACCORDING TO EFFORT. What matters it if the farmer raises three billion bushels of corn, if he is skinned as to everything he How does it augment our national 12,398,550 net tons of freig the millions toiling in mines, ships and factories, and the de pendents of these millions, are underpaid, clothed? PROGRESS IN WEALTH IS A GREAT THING. PROGRESS IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IS A FAR GREATER. Let's be bullish for prosperity’s sake. that sort of prosperity of which everyone gets his f according to his just desert. Isn't It about time for the Chinese | te come forward with the statement that they discovered the drew ciphers, or at least very small North Pole 3,000 years ago? , decimals. ‘The Peary-Cook controversy | promises to reach the Pinchot-Ral|sume that the sheriff knows as Nnger intensity about tomorrow afternoon. | Nothing should binder Mr. Boull-| Jon from letting Nght in om the happy electric lamp graft. "THE MINSTREL MIDGETS “Rastus, what am de diffrence atween de little street marchants an’ de poppin’ ob a champagne c¢ ork?” “Doan mak me mouf watah, Eph. eyah, eyah.” “De nex’ song will be: ‘Eliza Crossed de Ice, but Ice Wu den. mmercial centers tell 18 to be lifting things all sates on the corn crop indicate a record barley and some other off,” but prices are higher, and the value of all 1908 by activity he South are to receive lectively and the more we have in bulk, THE GREATER THE NECESSITY OF A FAIR greatne t on the Great Lakes in one month, if Several real estate unit holders | Schooleraft Sherman, vice president usual today are of the opinion that they | Of the United States, and enables After all, it is reasonable to pre- | fords. eh about the jail aa the next) ghorman isn't breaking the law; Anyhow, Ole Hanson has faculty of saying what a ‘whole lot of other people think, What am de diffrence?” “Why, one am news boys, an’ de odder am booze noise, cyah, THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1909, ‘THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE‘, The sing. ‘The natural Vice President of U. s.| Gets His Money by! Working Little Children in His Factories. approximately . secretary of the | National Consumers’ league, who, | during a recent visit to Seattle, made many friends and aroused tn terest In her work among the local labor organteations by extending to I this city her campaign against the Jemployment of cbildr has charged James 8. Sherman, vice] | president of the United States, with Jemploying in his canneries boys) Florence ¢ Great Lakes, far This throughout the fair prices for Soon after this accusation Igiven to the public, W. G lherd, special representatt | Kast for The Star, cond Jeret Investigation In the factories | controlled by the vice president, He }has just reported that the charge made by Florence Kelly is true and that the New Hartford Canning company, op d by Vico Proat dent Sherman and his brother, Stanton Sherman, does allow chib , dren to work in it factories, Here is the story Shepherd tells it te a Hard Life. Children under the age of 16 toll during the schoo! vacation months, when peas, beans, tomatoes and corn are ripe Their tiny fingers, soaked in the juices of raw vegetables and bitten with their acids, ply like lightning Their chtidiah faces are tense with labor and the straining rush of} : _ [piece work, Their handiwork goes | cons But let's make it|into the big factory and from the| why the vic ‘all share | boppers ts turned into cans that are | United States allows later covered with brilliant labels. work for him. Enrich Mr. Sherman. “About Their product enriches was Shep in the ted a ne Enough to make to handle underfed, under law doesn't permit “Florence Kelly is ithe rest of the refo Mr. Sherman James labor him to keep pace with his select | fons in Washington. In fact, | it first enabled him to get into such company as Uncle Joe Cannon af torney general that under 16 work It will not do you any good to get mad about Sherman child labor. In sheds, for goodness, nol But he's coming as near it he can. Corporations have a way, sometimes, of doing many evil things within the law, That's why they even make some of the laws themselves. A “shed” ten't a “factory.” That's why Sherman can hire children Sherman president of the United States, bas taken advan-| In the to use in play. sheds they attorney general that pleased the great, heartless, pros perous canning companies of New | Schoolcraft 8 rman, years ago. more money Into his Stay Within the Law. | brothers. “Why, we stay within the law! when we hire children between 14) tn and 16 years old.” Stanton Sher-| tint man sald. after | had presented to him the charge of Miss Kelly, backed by what I myself knew “But Miss Kelly says the factory ance, In the case ting beside “Sheds” her ANOTHER SPEED RECORD “Pants 45c cents a leg; free.’ This sign in front of a Pike st. tailoring shop has led to many con |or make any protestations of sor- A | Juice-soaked. jectures as to just what it means. | row. Some think it means that if you| buy your trousers there you can have ‘em reseated free Others venture that perhaps a man | with one leg would only have to pay 45 cents for trousers, and that they would be free to a man with both legs gone. The one best bet, however, seems to be that he won't give you the seats ull you buy the lega. After all, everything depends on the point of view. For instan She had reached the age of 24 without ever having tried her cul- inary skill in the making of the great American pie. Last week, | Installments seats (the bottom crust was soggy and | She saw and understood she didn't shed any tears of regret) Instead, she laughed. “Rather poor attempt, ian't it? But, then, really, it might be worse, | T'll wager there aren't many cooks of cost iin Cleveland of my age who never when you have sat ‘em through. | had but one failure in pie making!” “I guess I'm a ne'er-do-well,” said & young fellow down draws a pretty good salary matter how much I get I always manage to spend my entire income. | “The only way I can get anything | qid not differ, doubtless this would | abead at all is to go in debt for| something and pay for tt in monthly | |I don't really need just so I'l) al- excess in my living expenses. way I can save anything “What some bank But | First Bird They nt leave room for a bird to fy. md Bird—-Yes, and only a short while ago they They must propagate very faat = = == = ad oo town who “No BY | ORMAN, NEW YORK, Sept. &.—If opinions | said that the chiming How Vas about all the must be a most tiresome world I buy lots of things | Widely and how interestingly they | their lives, from may difter in shown by almont every | week's end, and they ways have a place for that slight | matter of public interest that comes for It income over actual | up. That's the only| Tho politan to great chimes tn the Metro- or, more than 600 feet highest in the world. bella weigh 14,500 pov JAS. & SHERMAN, work in factoriva,” | suggested. Now listen to the self-eatiatying, nee-soothing explanation of | sod the others of her kind. president of “What hope have we of a good ght years ago, - plained Stanton Sherman, “a commissioner name of Tecumeeh Sherman, who was no relative of mine, obtained a ruling from the at in sheds where there was mo machinery, they might be granted employment, because sheds aren't factories.” ii the law says) | against it, children may bend their | it etrain the | ver tage Snllaten begaeh pet | work in the cotton mills there of their tiny faces In the raw for | #bouts; a few of them work in the | blood-won pennies; may spend in grinding labor the hours which the school board has set aside for vaca- | ton and which God intended them Toll in Sheds. She was breaking off the ends of | string beans, when | saw her, squat-| pay bim to do #0, he hired children, | mother in re under 16 years of age ‘These airships are #0 numerous as to be nutsances. IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK \ 5% And #0 wrote others week's The Metropolitan chimes are the | ur Her tiny her work The camer her, The naw shed. befor There ten" Austin. But law of God about hia ne the sea than one of thead children to! payroll stead of a & crank like | i, rmers,” said Schoolcraft make in Wa the children to! eniid Iabor the United by the if children trict He Ie lowe. the spirit of | totl, Lipa gtore, four canning factories. tage of a ruling of the New York | tight alongside the canning ry But he's within the law, because greatly | And the energy given them to use im play ts being used by James “a shed tan’t vice prest | sue, now, an sork when it was rendered eight | dent of the United States, In getting | working im bis factories, even if} | they do have legal permits; even if| ‘The law can't reach the Sherman | they do toil only {n own pockets of Alice Aus | cined for it politically the | who factory the camera and entered 1 saw him hurry the pay for what I do “1 don't know why he told me to go away news In the face of Il-yearold Alice will help Alte him that a millstone were hanged Can" Alice's name isn't on the factory She works in a n't protect her. Not one of the laws that James) | Kelly, “when the vice president of children to work in bis factories?” Miss Kelly 1s wrong. They don't work tn bie “factories.” They work in his “sheds At? Hartford, where the main Sherman company factory ts situ | ated, there are 395 school children. | Within the past year permits to! | labor were granted to over 10 per | cont of these children, between the ages 0: 14 and 16, | Clark, health commissioner of the) Bome of FLORENCE KELLY, WELL KNOWN IN SEATTLE, MA CHARGES AGAI S$ SERIOUS T SHERMAN 4 man nuparinte away and give orders to the foreman, John | Kennett In & moment Kennett went to where Alice and her mother were | working Helps Her Mamma. “Stop working,” he said to the girth ‘Go on out She loot up at him, puzzled, but finally unwound herself, shook # cramp out of her lege and went away “He doesn't pay me,” sald Alice afterward. “But I go-there every day and help mamma. She gets He never did that t any vacation bright there is no iaw that except It be this “it were better for wt into ck and he be o that he should offend | little ones.” 't Protect Her. “shed” In ‘tactory,” The police Sherman haa helped shington can ald Alice law,” asks Florence States himself allows by Dr. A. P. _ _ [ BAIDLARGEON’S | ~—esmes — | Underwear for Children Advanced Styles in Fal] | for Early Fall Wear and Winter Coats | | Pants or | Boys’ or Girls’ Gray Fleece-Lined Cotton | We rm Shirts, Drawers; ages 2 to 16 ye years; priced ac ] to f : bat plete ling of outer garments, in all the Prevailing | Weaves afr el A v4 ordir SIZE sees i¢, BO¢ and 25¢ Boys’ or Girls’ Light-Gray, Fine-Ribbed, | ‘he doubts | Part-Wool Shirts and Pants; ages 3 to 16; faced Zihe that are to be used thai i] «= beautiful, soft, nonshrinking garment eason f t and © Coats ang A | priced according to size apes are the s¢ and tight rs |] * 504, Sh¢, B0¢, O5¢ and 70¢ ats. 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According to size— robe for these cool nights; a soft, fine, non-irritating knitted garment; non- shrinkable; according to size .. 50¢ to $1.00 25¢, » B5¢ Black Mid-Heavy Strong School Ste per pair * soon sunihebe' erga Children’s Cotton Hose, black, triple double soles, heels and toes; all sizes. “USS SSSES EF S3sa5s esses | Four patterns. vx | patterne | 12 Domestic Kash- Curtains, $46.00 mere Rugs, this | $650 qualities, a week, 810.45. | week, 00, F these children canning mills, Within the Law. James Schoolcraft Sherman ten't jin savor of more strict chiidtabor if he wore he would practice stricter laws in his a factory.” Of course Sherman ts going to is- order against children sheds.” It would cost too much But don't forget that when tt DID legally, of course. Ob, yes, legally. | Jom | breakfast. —I } The baby ree years ‘Our baby that were no tow. | | Cleve | Win your tide. Pope. The pride « vanity oful. |horn of pi people who | cake of those bells} jc that Sh téted | end were grateful Young. Kasy. W The. four ands, and cost | before” ”—C) nty } Kyerybody tO | the finest mind he ever ran act get much @ ropu nt, he says, ‘By y ‘didn't f eve STAR DUST ih Wine Sayer mar- cheese A clean fast is better then a dirty rah Chinese ruler is but! oid.” ee a than land Plain Dealer way by ylelding to the of man just about equals of w r an.-Mlorida y)~-Then take the Baltimore Amerioan never was indebted to a Ile ways that faht and sag How aid Jones hae hene that's think ‘of that eveland Leader, SHAKING A LEG, THIS) ay wite is nappy now. She has however, she decided to add this in this town| above the ground, are now ringing. | $260,000. Their notes carry 20| last touch to her household accom t= do en — credits on the | There is the single chime for the | miles in every direction, and on a| : , aa sta t plan. If a bank would er past, the double for the| clear night are in carshot of 5,000 plishments. So she made a ple—a ‘N#tallment p in wld quarter past, the doub lor ar night are in 000, sedelalias 7 ' cherry pie. jadvertise, say, a $100 deposit for | half, the triple for the three-quar- | 000 people, They wil! doubtless con WEST ROXBURY, Maas., Sept. 8. | It really looked ike a success, | $190, $5 down and $5 a week until ter, the complete four parts for the | tinue to ring — Luigi Darm was some ‘The crust was nicely browned and | Pa!4, I'd take tt up quick as a flash.| hour, followed by the booming of — > re hd gy sel pn roa looked crisp and flaky. Just poe Ley rye — a er that Its | the deep notes that tell the time of Wall Paper—Latest Style. co pote rr | hay eh ewune enough of the juice had bolled out |!8tallment depositor couldn't get | gay | ft r @ was an epic poem on the top in a rich-looking, waxy |@¢k anywhere near what his pay-| As soon as the chimes began to oe weeoeeres Bak ae. Bee 2) eaen stamped his foot ther red to suggest the lusciousness of the contents beneath. When George took the first bite he tried to look pleasant and smile Instead, he gave a Nttle involuntary shiver. The acid of the ple had| given him that sharp, eutting pain | through the jaws that ompanies an unexpected taste of sour give the paying it's ag Maud—Do Dr FRED SCHAEFER. erp.” “Bo? Do you unterstant carpentry?” ments amounted to until the whole thing was paid up inducement to Come to think that over, vat 8c “For vot did you went fishing yesterday, Adolf? ring, would | to the keep on ple began to write letters newspapers. First a volley of protests from folks who said that the bells were a nuisance. One Man's Wail. fr husband ever One said he was well aware time ur cooking not] was passing, and he was growing ther died of dya.| Older, without being reminded of It Transcript jevery 15 minutes, day and night = | Another said he was a poet, and he couldn't possibly frame up |i el and sonnets and things That ing room would, but he kept ome.” and going out of tow the edges. self. But not in a wa Far from it with bells ringing in his ears every fow minutes and distracting his attention all On the heels of these letters came others defending and praising the the comic spare time smearing and night,” wrote one citizen, “we ought indeed to be thanwful for these beautiful bells, giving us melodygharmony and sweetness as a reliefifrom the that aw sail our'ears,” the dining room, He of dove protty nearly “The landlord may that dining room for but I'l bet he will | tenant.” horrors ° small flat up town asked his land- lord last spring to re-paper the din The landlord said he! putting It off, ting {t, and the cracks In the paper | cialo, kept getting more fr the landlord the least bit of good Scream in Yellow. The vengeful journalist collected papers he could get, and put in his chimes. With all the horrible, ances of the Katzen, sereeching, roaring, honking, toot- | and Buster Brown, and Little Nemo, ing, »wiing and blasting noises and all the rest of the that greet our outraged ears day (day atrocities all over the for it n, and forget yed got| his derby on a handkerch y that will do| a dray horse. Luigi was cent plenic crumpled up sections of Sunday |celll. Also, He had brok the perform-| Since then jammer Kids, | cal dances, tribe of Sun walls of has his labor EXCUR fintshed now WASHINGTON, hever paper| Steamer Fortuna leaves Lescht me," he says, | park for around Mercer tsland, five for the noxt|times daily, This was well laurels at a plente danc without around! hard to a measure The tenant finally pretty sore, and a month or 80 ago he began to paper the room him-|collar, and be In shirt sleeves, this Is overlooked if he stamps like! nerve and vim absent from the lo- was a dent left in the floor to show | |rebullt from a barbed wire fence | No gent can win the third) |annual hop of ee Cotnstouse Se traded a cottage organ for tt with has stood the test of time and made coming down reali the cotta thrown in, We are + . He may wear) paying the remainder by install: | store the most popular outfitting head the back of his he: let his | but | stutfed under making good at a re when all at once he| like a shred of vermi he remarked “ouch.” en bis | there been a lot of SIONS ON LAKE Two hours’ ride, 26, It will | | net pay him to allow them to work! What could a policeman do, for| for him, now that he is being critt- | j it is @ fireless hot air BEET, have the plano moved in. I can have it moved out ing {f I miss « payment om: | However, I believe 1d mise a payment, I wo e .. | BER OE rai . vu “~~ | miss the plano. WANT ANYTNING (IKE nn | fl 4 Twar— (7 WOULD MAKE 0 iat SNT/RELY TOO a none MOOS OD HULYS oon if 90 0 (earring Gav! a¢@ U 7 TTA “The ne plus ultra of hua genuity, James, will be my hum"——— Maj. Byers paused ¢ just his slightly sofled but fectly good vest into a sition against the yellow p | ter in Jim's lunch wagon. ‘What's it now?” drawing the major’s coffee hand and the major’s rolls other. “A non-refillable capsule?” “No, James,” replied _| ers with some severity. USED BY OUR BEST. lemon.” Shakespeare's heating dwellings in the Forget it—cast it away Haw Labor Lost season, Think of it! No thorne’s “Marble Faun.” t in and win Thackeray's dust, no ashes. No stoking. She was @ respectable old guy.” | “Vanity Fair. home warm as toast withoull Thackeray's “Vanity Fair Gone to the wall."—Bunyan’s! or expense or worry It's a sure thing.”—Goldemith’s | “Pilgrim's Progress.” practical, indispensable. She Stoops to Conquer.” | “Nothing dotng.”"—Addison's “Let-| dealer does not carry them, “Tale | ters. Make good.” Deuteronomy whieh is a book in the Bible. —Puck, Twenty -three."-—Dickens of Two Citle “Gave Hect his name and 4 cents in get a handsom phow 16x22, entitled, ‘Papa, Move: rther Away From the “I don't quite get it,” | “Anything like a fireless “Precisely,” nodded the “Do you know the the fireless cooker?” q busy boniface. ] of butter to find out what it was. “Not perfectly as yet,” | And even then we had to stand a | Major Byers. “But wi principle, if it serves for oom it must serve for a furnace” ge a gift—a gilt nut jot of criticism because it wasn't be same make as any of them had. We refrained from telling them | “Well, those freless o | that was the main reason we had’ worked with a piece of |selected it. We flatter ourselves Stone,” said Jim. “How j that fs at least one point in its fa vor Instead, we bragged on its bril lance of tone. "Twas a good thing its tone was brillant, so something dispelled the gloom when my wife played. other thing get the soapstone for your fi heated without having fire for it?” This might have stumped but Major Byers. “Heat the soapstone S89 neighbor's furnace, of ackled he of the wondel Tt cost me $5 to Closed Sept. 6th—Seattle Day at A.-Y. | TODAY'S STYLES TODAY | a0 ee wanes, What Could Be Easier? an air of prosperity if we had @| N° REASON in the world why Fins sesh who bond a (ies ciao oa should not buy that Fall Outfit those rebuilt ones. I think ft was| eral Credit Plan makes buying very no matter how short of cash you happen to be. This is the credit plan t and a mahog We secur ny coffin. | 1 it at a bargain—! ments. 1 It is a baby grand, but it will] probably be grown up by the time | it Is all paid for When we got ft, it had been only slightly used. If you'd ever hear it, | you'd know why | They say this piano took 17| world’s prizes. If they're that easy | to get, I'm surprised that it stopped | at 17 | However, we are content, for somebody might have gotten it who loves music, But there was one dis: &ppointment--the men brought it with a horse blanket belted round it, and the neighbors couldn't tell whether we were getting a kitchen cabinet or a folding bed. All of| them had to come over to borrow quarters in the city. New Fall Lines Now Ready Women’s and Misses’ Tailored § Coats, Costumes and Millinery- Bradbury System Suits and Overcoat Boys’ Guaranteed Clothing. Prices ° No charge for credit. EASTERN OUTFITTING CO. 1332-34 Second Ave. 209 Us “Seattle's Reliable Credit Hoi \ f~ TTT TTT met \\\ oe an egg or a cake of yeast or a cup