A baseball stitchers' union n recently
rganlsed In Philsa'alphia.
There are In the United State about
8,500 female iron workers in foundries
furnace and rolling mills. '
The British admiralty ii Instituting a
fiiversal 48-hoy week for the employs
in the government dork yards.
There were 1,204 lahor unions char
tered in America last year, embracing a
total membership of 300,000.
Strikea of coal miners are on In Wales,
where 11,000 men are affected, and in
Hungary, where 7,000 are out.
In Canada a locomotive engineer sets
$2.80 for 100 miles. In the United State
ie receives $5.25 for 100 mile.
It Is estimated by competent authority
tlmt the number of child laborers in the
T'nited Stalea to-day is close to 2,500,000.
The conditions and standard of liibor
in the cotton mills in Bombay, India, are
the lowest, at leost in any Asiatic corn
try.
Chicago railroad rate clerks must make
good from their salaries all losses to the
roads occasioned by incorrectly quoting
rates.
Memphis, Tenn., will make strong
effort to get the 1007 convention of the
United Itrotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America.
The first national nnioa to be entrench
ed in the government service was recently
organised among the clerks of the Post
otliee Department of Chicago.
The fining of a contractor for working
an employe nine hour by the lower court
wns upheld by Chief Justice Gnbbart of
the State Supreme Court of Colorado.
Five thousand male wage earners are
ut of work at the present time in Mel
bourne, Australia, and 60,000 people in
Victoria are existing below poverty line.
The Department of Justice has decided
(hat railroad workers are in the unskilled
labor class and cannot be imported into
the United States nnder the alien contract
law.
Chicago switchmen are threatening
trike If recent demands are not com
plied with at the expiration of thirty
lays. Twenty-seven railroads are in
volved. All of the gold beaters in America are
now out on strike for an increase of
wages from $18 to $21 a week, to elimi
nate the outside shop system and to bring
the bosses into the onion.
As a result of being organised into a
union, the milkmen of Chlcairo in four
years have cut the hours of labor in two,
and have secured a net Increase in
-wages amounting to 25 per cent.
The Illinois free employment offices
have issued the seventh annual report of
their operations, and the record for 1905
hows an Increase in number of position
tilled of 7,874 as compared with 1901.
The average wages of American work
aiea is double that of the Englishmen
and nearly treble that of the German
workmen, according to statistics published
by the Department f Labor, covering the
year 1003.
An international exposition portraying
the life of the laborer for the past 2,0(10
years, showing conditions surrounding
him from the time of feudal slavery to the
present time, is contemplated by the
French Parliament.
ora comas irom Hawaii mat there is
a well-defined scheme on foot by the plan
tation owners to get laborers from Ku
rope. Already a thousand Portuguese
families are being imported by the Sugar
Planters' Association. -
Mayor John V. Fitzgerald of Itoston
has issued orders to all of the officials
in the various city institutions ordering
them to see to It that the eight-hour day
law In so far as It relates to stationary
engineers is enforced.
The bill in the French Chamber of
Deputies, making it compulsory for em
ployers to grant their employes one day's
rest in ueven, was passed with only one
dissenting vote. The Senate has also ap
proved of the measure.
Gov. Curtis Guild of Massachusetts, at
the close of the Labor day parade in
Boston, said that In no other country In
the world, and in all probability any other
State in the Union, could be seen such a
wonderful display of loyalty to a cause
as was presented by the paraders, who
marched past the State House that day.
This was the unanimous opinion of every
person who witnessed the great, demon
stration and will mean much to labor
unionism the coming year.
There are five miners who are candi
dates for Congress under the American
Federation of Labor plan for the entrance
of trades unionists into politics. They
sre: XV. B. Wilson, nstlonal secretary
treasurer, of BlosBburg, Pa.: John Walk
er, vlco president of the Illinois district;
T. D. Nichols, Scranton, Pa., president
of the first anthracite district; W. II.
Dettry, Ilasletan, Pa., president of the
seventh anthracite district, and John Fa
hey, president of the ninth anthracite
district.
The assessment levied sgaiust the m"v
bership of the International Typographi
cal Union for the support of tho eight
hour day strike in book snd job offices
has been reduced to 7 per oent on the
money earned. It had already been de
cided at the Colorado Springs convention
to reduce the assessment from 10 to 8 per
cent. Further reduction will be made as
the situation warrants, but a fund of
not less than $100,000 will continue to be
maintained la the International treasury
as a necessary safeguard.
Kewanee, 111., claims to be the banner
union city in America. Every store in
the city is a union store; the policemen
carry, union cards and so do the street
cleaners. The Mayor is a uulon man
sod the sexton of the cemetery also car
ries a union card.
The industrial snd labor conditions
throughout Canada are considerably more
active than during 1005. This is Isrguly
the result of the extensive railway con
struction work in progress la Quebec, On
tario and the western provinces, which
affected the unskilled labor market over
a very wide area.
Statistics show au increase in wages
for the toilers, during tbs past twenty
years, of from 10 to 70 per cent, with
shorter working hours, better clothing,
feeding and housing for their families,
sud better education for tksir children.
Iteports of the State La Dor Bureaus
show that capital and labor in many im
portant industries ere working in closer
hnrmouy, aud the trade agreements have
iu numerous instance supplanted the
strike and lock-out methods of settling in
dustrial dispute. Some close observers,
among ahum was the late Senator IJauna,
have within a few years predicted that
' the era of strike is Bearing its end.
SWALLOW THB BAIT.
GULLIBLE PUBLIC EASY PREY
FOR SWINDLERS.
la Two Tear 45a Fra4ale4 rirsas
Have Beea Ratde4 la Ckioao
S 180,000,000 Drail Yearly- Is
Get-ltleB-Qalefc" ttrsrsiei,
CblcSfn correspondence:
HERE ars mar
"get rich quick"
concerns fn Chi
cago thna la an
other city la the
world. Depplte
the activity of tho
police department
Hint the postofflce
authorities, which
bus resulted In
the raiding and
exposure of 4.10
firms of fraudulent character during
the last two year, every office building
In the city contains companies which
nre oiwratlng In the hope that they will
lie overlooked for u few weeks or
month so that the nets that they have
nst i-nn Iks hauled In full.
A walk down the hallways of the blf
buildings, even those demanding high
rental, will reveal the presence of these)
business leeches. The offices are fur
nished in luxury mid with an eye to
dazzling th; man from the smaller town
ind the country who I lured there by
the huge promises made in the adver
tisements. There nre ninny stenogra
phers, clicking uway busily. Men are
rushing to and fro from rooms marked
"private" to the cashier's desk. The
telephones ure ringing, and an occasion
al glimpse of the "president's office"
reveals a dignified gci.tlcmnn sitting at
an exjieuslve table and surrounded by
Imposing hooks and correspondence. It
Is n setting that works like a charm.
Scarcely a day pauses that victims do
not appear lu the police courts to tell
the loss of Insurance money, etc., nt the
hands of these shrewd swindlers. The
swindlers always nre represented by
lawyers who nre famlllur with the tech
nicalities of the law, uud who, If their
clients nre charged w ith obtaining uion
ay by false pretenses, Insist that the
victim Invested money as a result of
promises or misrepresentations ns to
the future returns from the Business. If
chnrged with n confidence game, these
lawyers claim n mere business transac
tion, and that conversation merged to
a written agreement, or nt the most,
false pretenses and a misdemeanor. The
schemes nre so cunningly devised that
false representations scarcely ever can
be proved.
The tentacles of tho grenl system
which has centered In this city for so
many years have swept out 'into the
farthermost regions of the West, made
flesolate homes, scattered bard earned
savings, and dunned bright hopes. Th
method Is simple; the bait alluring.
Most of the nicn In the well organ
ized companies that prey upon the
public nre well educated. They have
the fever In their blood as thoroughly
a their victims. They hare been
known to bite on the hook cast out by
some of their disguised "pals." If i
they would turn their Intellects and
energies to legitimate business they
would make respectable fortunes and
be safe. But the lure of the game Is
as strong as that of the underworld ,
or the wanderlust Fersuash'c, clover, 1
picturesque writing forms tta main
asset of tho companies at the start
Literature Is the first necessity and
the money to buy the stamps to mall It
Then an office- with a high sounding
firm title on the door and a large bag
to hold the coin.
How the Money i Dropped.
The last year has overturned several
pinnacles of graft Here is the way the
money has been dropped In Chicago
within a year: Matrimonial bureaus,
$1,000,000; employment agencies,
$200,000; turf commissioners, $7,000.-
000; charity homos, $300,000; wildcat
Insurance $10,000,000; home building
associations, $0,000,000 ; bucketshops,
$6,000,000; wire tnpirars, $200,000;
book agencies, $1,000,000; mines and
oil wells, $8,000,000; medicine compa
nies $500,000. A well-informed official
ays the American public drops annu
ally $100,000,000 In these "gct-rlch-quick"
concerns.
Detective Sergeant Clifton R. Wool
drldge says:
"Wero the census euumeratore of
the United States to compile a list of
the 'sucker' public the gullible oues
would aggregate tons of millions.
There is not a township la this great
nation that does not contain Its por
tion of contldlii persons who are
roady to believe anything from the
' rankest catch jieuuy advertisement to
u fallacy In theological dogma. My
Investigations for years past Into the
Innermost secrets of swindlers Impel
the belief that their faith passes Into
the domain of Imbecility. Thousands
of men are willing to throw money to
the man who proclaims that for a few
peunies he will Impart the secret of
raising the dead, or how to nuke one
dollar make u million, or bow to but-
tie the snvunts of science after a day's
research. Every mall cur out of Chi
cago groan under n .burden of 'get-rich-quick'
mail to be scatteted In ev-
j ery direction. The oiwratlves of these
schemes nre the most dangerous of
criminals. They are received with
open arms in social and business cir
cles. They contribute to the churches
and their wives and daughters visit tu
automobiles and dntzle at social func
tions by their silks and diamonds.
"Every time a 'get-rleb-qulck' bub
ble bursts there follows a long, dreary
atory of misplaced confidence. But as
soon as active publicity eoajos the
dearly bought lessou is forgotten and
the 'sucker' is ready to ayrlng to the
next tempting be.lt. Tho victim are
numbered among all class, from the
laundress) to the lawyer, the merchant
to the clergyman."
Buildlag epsretien U Washington, D.
C, and vicinity ars threatened with an
early tieup. Unless tawrs Is a auk-k set
tlement f the ladcoat af the slumbers,
was hare aeea out for vasty waeks, the
Allied Building Trades wiU be farced tu
ssspead eperslioss. Tsej- will ktve no
. choice la the smtter.
SOCIAL
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KiNANCIAL
No striking develop
Chicago.
ments dominate Ittjsrnoss
alTnlrs, hut there Is a sus
tained tone of strength drawn from the
assurance of great harvests mid the
enormous nggregiite of forward work
In manufacturing. Much attention at
tache nt this time to the distribution
of staple merchandise, and It is grutl
.'ylng that lower iciiiNrutiire lias suc
ceeded the recent warm weather mid
gives n more seasonable stimulus to re
tall dealings In heavy-weight apparel,
footwear and household needs.
Another influx of visiting buyer
nihls to tlie activity in Jobbing brunch
es, ami further heavy sales HpKar In j
the leading staples, much being marked :
for prompt shipment to many Interior I
points. The record breaking sales of
dry goods, boots a nil shoes, clothing
and furniture are fully maintained,
making It mure evident that the prom- i
Ise of the largest fall trade ever known
here Is being realized.
While farm proJncts brought larger
financial returns lust year, one of the
salient features of current operations is
the libera expenditures of the agricul
tural classes for necessaries and Im
provements. Factory conditions exhibit
no diminution In the aggregate output,
and, though commitments for furnace
product and rails reach only moderate
proportions, the new demands make a
satisfactory tonnage In seini-llnishod
steel and raw materials. There is also
n. steady absorption of structural
shapes, plates and merchant Iron, while
the capacity of wire mills Is engaged
.event I months ahead. Demands In
volve day nnd night operation of forges,
foundry work Is more plentiful, nnd
gains are being made In deliveries of
heavy machinery, hardware, farm Im
plements, electric and brass goods. Not
withstanding dear money, there is
much use of funds for Industrial pur
poppn. Other encouraging Indications
are ease In mercantile collections and
mod'Tnto trading defaults, the latter
for this month being conspicuously low.
Ft (lures reported in Chicago district
number 10. against 22 last week and
32 a year ago. Dun's Uevlew of Trade.
Distributive trade Is
still of n very lartre vol
ume, but there is enough
New York.
Irregularity to prevent broad geuernll- I
station. The close of September liuds
the usual evidences of subsidence lu
wholesale trade, but retail trade Is Ix-t- j
ter on more seasonable weather, ex- i
cept ut the South, where severe storms '
have stopped cotton picking, checked
movement, and retarded collections.
Cereal crop reports are rather better,
thrashing having been resumed lu the
Northwest, where quality lias been In
jured. Corn has definitely passed out
of the range of frost damage, nnd cut
ting of a record crop of tine quality is
now general.
Industry generally was never so act
ive, und there Is much complaint of
backward deliveries, particularly of
Iron nnd steel and dry goods ordered
for fall ana winter delivery.
Car and engine shortages are a
source of annoyance nnd tend to be
come moro ncute us the movement of
the later crops Is ndded to the already
heavy volume of general tralllo offering.
-Ilrndstreet's Commercial lleiort.
Chicago Cattle, coiiunon to primr
$-1.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.(H)
to $lI.S5; sheep, fair to -choice, $:i.(Kl
to $5.2"; wheat. No. 2, 71c to 72c; corn,
No. 2, 45c to 4(Jc; oats, standard, .'51V to
:Uc; rye. No. 2, Olo to ."c; hay, tiaio
Ihy, $10.00 to $15.50; prairie, $0.00 to
$H.00; butter, choice creamery, ISc to
25c i eggs, fresh, 22c to 25c; pot h toes,
:U!o to 42c.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $.'1.00
to $0.50; hogs, choice heavy, $1.00 to
$7.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to
$5.00; wheat, No. 2, 71e to 73c; corn.
No. 2 while, 4Sc to 4!)c; oats, No. 2
white, 3.'lc to 35c.
St. Louis Cuttle, $1.50 to $0.50;
hogs, $1.00 to $0.75; sheep, $1.00 to
$5.50; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 77c; corn,
No. 2, 41c to 45c; onts. No. 2, :!2c to
8 to; rye, No. 2, 5!e to 00c.
Cincinnati Cattle, $1.00 to $5.40;
hogs, $1.00 to $0.00; sheep, $2.00 to
$4.75; wheat. No. 2, 75c t; 7tic; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 47c to 4Sc; outs. No. 2
mixed, 34c to ;tdo; rye. No. 2. 05c to
7c.
Detroit Cuttle, $1.00 to $5.00; hogs, '
$1.00 to $0.50; sheep, $2.5o to $5.00;
vlicrt. No. 2, 7.1c to 75c; corn. No. 3
yellow, 40c to 50e; oats, No. 3 white,
tiic to :U5c; rye, No. 2, 05c to 07c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
7k to 71V; corn. No. 3, 45c to 40c;
oats, standard, 33c to 35c ; rye, No. 1.
(12c to 04c; hurley, standard, 5,'le to Mo;
lork, mess, $i.ms).
Biiffulo Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$1.00 to $0.25; hog, fair to choice, $1.00
to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed,'
$1.00 to $5."5; lambs, fnir to choice,
$5.00 to $7.DO.
New York Cattle, $1.00 to $5.'.K);
hogs. $4.00 to $7.00; aheep. $3.00 to
$5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 77o to 7Sc;
corn. No. 2, 53c to 5lc; oats, natural
white, 3Ho to 40c ; butter, creamery, lSo
to 25e; eggs, western, 20e to 2.'tc.
Toledo Wheal. No. 2 mixed, 73c to
75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4.V to 41K-;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 31c to 3ttc; rye, No.
2, 02c to 03ei clover seed, prime, $S.OO.
As the result of a collision at Sua
Fruncisco b'tween two heavily loaded
cliM trlc curs, Willium I'iersun aud John
(jelp were killed, aud more than a score
Injured.
The International Suit Company raided
its prices on all grades of salt approxi
mately 00 cents a ton. This Is said tij
be the third raise within s period of three
mouths.
, The seventh iiiiiiiUeiiiilul iuternutio..nl
homeopathic congress adjourned nt At
luntic City after the most sinvessful meet
ing in Us history. The conjriVM will meet
In Knglund in 1011.
SEE FINISn OF ZION.
TOO MANY PROPHETS DESTROY
ING DOVVIE'8 CITY.
WKk Rellsrloa and ladastrlee Shat
tered, the Oace Tfcrlrla Com ra u
ally Mar Oa Cader the Hammer
Maar Calta aad Creeds.
Zlon City seems to be on the verge
of another upheaval, says a Chicago
correspondent Wilbur Ulenn Vollva,
newly acclaimed at the polls snd rec
ognised by the United States Court as
the head of the rellglo Industrial com
munity founded snd lost by John Alex
ander Dowle, Is angry nnd disgusted
over recent developments nnd Is said
to be on the point of abandoning the
JaV
JOHN ALEXANDKB DOWIC
strenuous battle be has made for the
perpetuation of Zlon.
It Is conceded that if he takes this
tep, the last vestige of hope for real
ization of the drenm that Dowie and
his followers shared will have been
shattered and the property of the once
thriving community will go under the
iharamer, leaving nothing to those who
enthusiastically joined the enterprise.
Tho greatest usset that Zlon City
could boast the unity of tho people
V t ,
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ZIOX CITY
lis being disrupted by schism, Jealousy
land factionalism, and it Is this condi
tion that has made Vollva waver In his
,fforts to restore the peace and pros
perity broken by Dowle's ruthless mls
Imanagement. Overseer Vollva has given a tentative
Ultimatum to the officers of the church.
He demands the undivided loyalty and
jaupport of officers and people -alike, and
4f he Is to continue the fight, those who
'are now chnrged with responsibility for
Jthe present crisis must surrender com
pletely or there must come a wholesale
ousting of officers and members.
: The trouble may be summed up In
one sentence : Zlon City Is prophet-ridden.
From within the church Itself
and from far and near outside have np-
WIIJIUH GUN VOUVA.
poured proselytes who are scrambling
for the fragments that remain from the
explosion which ended Dowle's regime
and placed Vollva lu power. A variety
iof cults and creeds are represented aud
'Meetings ure held nightly by Bel f -proclaimed
prophets und messengers.
Some of these proselyters have suo
ceedd In galulug recognition und sup
port even among Vollva's officers, and
there Is no lack of disaffected ones who
!uro willing to listen to almost any call
that promises the Ideal religious emo
tion for which they crave. The chief
(complaint made against Vollva by the
disaffected is lack of spirituality. The
paradoxical situation Is presented of
some of tho very people who joyously
hulled Vollva as their divinely chosen
lender when his business and lighting
nbllity was uecded, now profess to ex
Iperieniv a luck of the spiritual bless
ings promised In conjunction with tem
jxiral advancement.
Hut that spiritual desires are uot
alone rcsixmslble for the birth and
growth of the schism In Zlon Is evi
dent from n dose survey of the prose
lyters und their supporters, snd It even
its asserted In some quarters that some
of the outside exhorters have been
. hired to Invade Zlon by former lieuten
ants of Dowle, xvho either went down
with lit in or xvcre decapitated by Vollva
In li'.s crusade for retrenchment and reform.
HOTAHLE SPEED HSCGRDS.
Time for Taaderbtlt ens rsee, IPOfl. J7.l
BiIIm Xtmct fstr), 4 hoars SO salautas
10 S- mroA; taade by I .suit WSgher. Av
ers speed, 81.43 allies an hour.
Tim for Vaaderbllt eup rare, 1008, 283
allies (trark fast), 4 hours SO minutes
seconds, madt by llcmery. Avenge speed,
i n -nllen an hour.
Rsllioad train, North Matte to Omsbs.
91)1 miles- made In 4 :3, an average of
63 40 miles an boor, August, 1807.
Kallroad record for short distance Frf
Harbor to RrlRsntlne Junction, N. J., 4.8
miles In 2:30. st a rate of 110.2 miles aa
boar. Julr, 104.
Fastest hundred mites by man, running
13 hours 20 minutes 80 seconds (profession
al). Amateur record, 17:80:14.
Fastest time for short distance One hundred-yard
dssli, Arthur V. Uuffey, 0:01) 3 5
New York, May 81, 11102.
Fastest mile by a horse, running Snlva
tor, carrying- 110 pounds, at Monmouth Park
Utrsirht course), Aug. 28, 1890 time,
1 :S5.
Fastest mile by horse, trotting Lon Dil
lon, against time, Memphis, Oct. 24, 11103
time, i -S,HV,.
Fastest mile by horse, pselng Dsn Patch,
against time, Ilamilne, Minn., Sept. 7, 11)04
time, 1 :8B.
Fastest 100 miles on bicycle, motor-paced,
In competition, made by II. Caldwell, Re
vere. Mass., Sept. N, 1004 time, 2:48:-
11 4 5. Fastest mile In competition, Hugh
MrLesn, Charles Klver I'srk track, Boston,
Aug 27. 1003 time. 1 :0!l 15. Fsstest mile
sgalnst tlm. pscrd, Itohert A. Wslthour,
Chs-les Hirer lark, May 81, 1004 time,
1 :0 I B.
Fastest 100 miles In automobile, heavy,
weight ear, on regular track, made liy Clem
ens st Iniianniiolls, Nov. 4. 1005 time,
1 :IS3 :2t 4-f. Straightaway record, mn''e by
Fletrher at Ormond, Fla., Jan. 30, UK)."..
COST OF AUTO CUP.
Death Deallnar Contest for Aander
bllt Speed Tropby.
With more than a quarter of n mil
lion spectators to cheer his skill nnd
daring, Ixmls Wagner, driving a 100
horse power Dnrrncq. Saturday won
the third contest for the Vanderbllt
cup over the Ijong Island course by 3
minutes 18 2-5 seconds. France has
now won the three contests. The win
ner traversed the 297.1 miles, teu cir
cuits of tho course, lu 4:50:10 2 5. His
average speed nn hour wos 00.2 miles
a little faster thnn a mile a minute.
It wns slower than last year, when
Ilemery took the prize for the second
time to France, but under the circum
stances, weather, track and crowd con
sidered, It was equal to last year In
point of merit.
Second place went to Italy, with
Lancia and his 120 horse power Flat,
while France was third with Duray's
.120 horse power De Dietrich, and
fourth with Clement's 120 horse power
Clement-Bayard, and Germany took
fifth with Jenatzy nnd his 120 horse
power Mercedes. Not one of the Amer-
TABEUXACLE.
lean drivers was within hailing dis
tance of the first flight. Lancla's time
was 4:53:28 4-5, with Duray 10 sec
onds behind him. Clement covered the
circuits In 5:01:50 and Jenatzy In
5 :04 .38.
There may never be auother race for
the Vanderbllt cup in this country,
particularly on Long Island or any
other place so near to New York City.
The very popularity of the event may
prove to be its undoing, for the great
army which went to the course so over
run the circuit, so disregarded all
rules nnd precautions that every driver
was badly hnndlcnpped and the for
eigners particularly have declared they
never will return until they nre guar
anteed u clear course and better regu
lations. Their argument was drlveu home by
tragedy. One man kllled.struckthrough
his own fault by Elliott F. Shepard at
Krug's Corner; two boys in hospitals,
one hit by Welsehott and the other by
Tracy in his ninety horse power Loco
mobile, with several other minor Inju
ries, is the price paid. Once early In
the day W. K. Vanderbllt, Jr., donor
of the cup and referee of the race, bad
threatened to call the whole affair oft I
if the spectators did not move back,
but this threat had only a temporary
effect. They were back again In an
other minute, pushing and crowding.
After the contest the racing board
of the American Automobile Associa
tion held u meeting at Garden City,
L. I, and decided that no more races
should be held under the auspices of
the association over the course.
Leisure for Kactorr Women.
Simon M. Patten, professor of political
economy in the university of Pennsyl
vania, writes to the Independent of the
new industrial adjustments for women,
namely, the Inevitable trend of the wives
and mothers among the masses of society
to enter Into active Industrial life. He
points out that this Is the inevitable con
sequence of our present system of dele
gating the care of the children largely
trfc Ki'hnfila anil linhlte Instihirinn, mnA .n
the specializing of home Industries on a
largo scale. In the sweat shops and the 1
factory the women are able to render a
slight return for these services, however
much they ore exploited in the one and
overworked, but Prof. Patten insists that
home labor is itself sweat-shop labor, and
that It is a form,' however, which the
higher standard of living cannot be at
attained. What he does demand, how
ever, U that the factory of the future shall
be "regarded as a public utility and regu
lated for the general welfare aa the city
streets are cleaned for the city's health
fulness." He thinks it the immediate and
praeticable duty of social morality to
supervise the areas of production and
to federalize them if need be. To this
end he would extend the right to leisure,
especially to the married women, by pro
cesses of exclusion like those which sur
round the school child, insisting that her
home periods be as long a those of her
children and longer than those of tier
husband. Her presence in the factory will I
nasten ttie rigtit to nx the hours of factory
work by law.
Hatch Kill 4 OO Malar.
Another baftle in the endless campaign
of the Dutch to conquer the natives of the
Malay arcliipelago lias been reported at
Tho Hague. In the capture of Patpar,
the capital of Jtadong, 400 natives were
slain. The Dutch loss was four killed i
aud teu wounded. j
AFFAIRS IN CUBA.
UNCLE SAM'S PROTECTORATE IS
TO BE ONLY TEMPORARY.
Mebels hmrtmm Dons Their A rasa
aad Peaee Belaar ltaatora t'afcaa
Kleetloaa Ara till a Loif Way
Off Wlatarop Goreraer.
In spite of ber shortcomings and of
the revolutionary methods which have
produced anarchy on the Island, Cuba
Is to be saved from herself. An Amer
ican provisional government has been
proclaimed by Secretary Taft to take
the place of that which ceased to exist
when the Cuban Congress failed to
choose successors to President Pnlniu
nnd tho Vice President, Mendez Capote,
both of whose reslgnatitis were tender
ed to the Congress. Previously the resignation.-
of the members of the cabi
net had been accepted by President
raltna, so that Cuba found herself with
out a government.
Secretary Tuft thus became by proc
lamation the temporary provisional
head of the Cuban government. The
unique feature of the temporary change
of government Is that so far as possi
ble all public olfidsli tre retained, the
Cuban Aug is kept Hying over public
buildings and the goverunicnt Is being
administered In accordance with the
Cuban constitution. Formerly, Inter
vention and protectorates meant the
substitution of tho flag and laws of the
Intervening power; but In this case
there Is no such substitution an object
lesson to tho world of tho disinterest d
oess of the United States government
Cnhana Well Disposed.
The action of Secretary Taft, repre
senting the United States government,
has been received admirably by the Cu
ban people, with rare exceptions, and
now the work of administering the gov-
TROOPS LEAVING FORT
eminent, of disarming those who bad
taken the field In opposition to Presi
dent Palma and of restoring order and
confidence Is being carried on smooth
ly. A commission ou disarmament, at
the head of which is Brig. Gen. Funs
ton, was appointed to co-operate with
a similar commission appointed by the
Insurgents. This mixed commission Is
visiting the military camps, receiving
the surrender of the arms of the in
surgents and sending the latter to their
homes.
Meantime American marines, who
are being strengthened by the addition
of 6,000 troops ordered to Cuba by
President Roosevelt, are maintaining
order on the Island.
Secretaries Taft and Bacon are now
working energetically to effect internal
reforms. They hope to have things In
such condition ns to ee able to leave
Cuba soon, feeling satisfied that after
the arrival of Gov. Beekman Wlnthrop
of Porto Rico the new provisional head
of Cuba, their services will no longer
be required. The first and most press
ing reform will be the revision of the
election laws. When the new elections
will be held has not been determined.
The Cuban constitution calls for the
election of half the members of Con
gress a year from next December, but
the last election, whereby the other half
was seated, having been declard Illegal,
and there being no President or Vice
President In office, the election of those
officials and that half of Congress
whose title was questioned will be held
as soou as the island Is thoroughly
pacified.
An Important movement In connec
tion with the Cuban elections, no mat
ter when they may be held, has started
among the foreign residents who have
considerable property Interests on the
Island. They all want annexation or
permanent American occupation In the
form of a protectorate, and they be
lieve one proposition or the other can
secure votes of enough Cubans of prop
erty to enable them to carry out their
punse If they can get It to a vote.
A league Is forming to urge the pro
visional government to allow the sub
mission to the people at the next elec
tion of these three propositions ; Shall
Cuba remain a purely native govern
ment; shall It be annexed to the Unit
ed States, or shall It have a government
under the protection of the United
States?
It Is said that all persons with prop
erty Interests will vote for one of the
two last propositions and that they will
be able to Influence so many native
votes that one of them will be carried.
This, of com-ric, means that all foreign
residents shall be allowed to vote en
the propositions, which they are now
prevented from doing by law.
Of course In this particular the pro
visional government will be guided by
the attitude of Washington and this at
titude Is still unknown. Judging by the
time that must elapse before the Cuban
elections are held, the American mili
tary occupation of the Island will be
lonj continued, for of course the mili
tary power of the United States must
be maintained until Cuba Is again able
to look after her own affairs. The 0,000
troops ordered to Cuba will, it Is ex
pected, be able to deal with the situa
tion, but If necessary, additional troops
will be sent. The maintenance of peace
and order Is the flrrft consideration.
DECRCA8E IN PENSION BILL
Loeatfc Talae Raaks Clell War Ta-
. e ranelit re real !- Flare.
The net decrease in the pension KeH of
tfce United States for the fiscal year end
ing June 30 last amounted to $I24,470V
the largest decrease in the history of the
country. These facts sre brought eat
In the annnal report of Commissioner of
Pensions Warner, which has Just been
completed. In the report the commis
sioner expresses the opinion that there
will be a still more marked decrease dur
ing the present year.
During the year, there were added to
the roll 33,500 new pensioners end 1.405
restorations snd renewals, making a total
addition of .14,974. The total number of
pensioners on the roll during the year
wns 1,033,415. The nnmlier of pension
er dropped frosi the roll during the year
was 47.444. leaving the number of pen
sioners June 30, 1!MI0. at US-".I7 1.
The maximum number of pensioner
in the history of the bureau was reached;
Jnn. 31. I0O5, when it wns 1,004.r.Hv
since which dale there has been a steads
decrease, aggregating to June 30, WH's
1S.225.
Death was the principal cause of the
decrease of the last year, tho number of
names dropped on tlmt account ls ins
43,300. Of these 20,208 were thoe ol
survivors of the Civil War, leaving t'.Oti.
453 survivors of that war slill cn the
roll. There sre still four pensioners or
account cf tho Revolutionary War, on
a widow and three daughters; 0t0, nil
widows, on account of the war with
Spain, and 11,472 on account of the Mex
ican War.
The commissioner calls attention to the
fact that, while there has been a mate
rial decrease in the number of pensioner,
the annual value of the roll is nearly as
large as it was last year, arising from
the fact that the ratings of many invalid
pensions are constantly Increasing.
Pennsylvania has the largest number
of pensioners 08,820. Ohio follows with
98,504 ; New York, 89,240.
More than 5,000 pensions nre paid to
persons residing abroad. Of these 3,507
are in Canada, COS in Germany, and 405
in Ireland, the others being scattered.
During the year 23,028 claims were al-
SHERIDAN FOR CUBA.
lowed under Order No. 78 allowing old
age pensions.
Since the beginning of the Civil War
there have been granted by special acts
of Congress 17,215 pensions, and an In
crease of pensions of which 10.41T are
now on the rolls, with an annual value
of $2,037,020. During the last session of
Congress 3,507 special acts were passed.
The report shows that in the entire
history of the country the total expendi
ture on account of pensions has been
$3,450,800,311. of which only $90,445,444
had been pnid prior to the beginning of
the Civil War. Of the total $3,259,195,
300 was on account of the Civil War.
The total payment of pensions on ac
count of the Spanish war reaches $15,
438.555 up to date.
The disbursements for navy pensions
during the year were $4,204,004 and the
income from the navy pension fond avail
able for the paymeut of pensions was
$363,618, or less than 9 per oent of the
amount reqnircd for the payment of navy
pensions. Since JS70 this fund has been
inadequate to pay navy pensions, and the
deficiency has been provided for out of
the pnblic funds by congressional appro
priations. -0 MX. tv.i.ar. V
The Democratic primaries in Massachu
setts resulted in a majority favorable to
the nomination of District Attorney John
B. Moran of Boston,
The result of the primary elections in
New Jersey was a complete triumph of
the regular Republican organization over
the reform or new faction.
The Democrats of Hawaii have nom
inated for congressional delegate E. B.
Lanahan of Honolulu. He is the first
white man to be named for office in the
history of the island.
Thomas Bentbam, a member of the
miners' union and an influential leader
of organized lahor in Ohio, was named by
the Democrats at Cincinnati to oppose
Nicholas Longworth, the son-in-law of
the President, for Congress.
The city of Philadelphia has hud the
remarkable experience of a reform Mayor
suddenly turning upon the reform organi
sation known as the city parry, because
of its failure to nominate for district at
torney the man whom he favored.
An indication of tlie importance wiih
which Socialism is regarded in Colorado
during the present campaign is tho ac
ceptance of United States Senator
Thomas M. Patterson of the challenge to
meet Walter T. Mills in debate. The
Socialists are making a most determined
effort to enlist the entire forces of or
ganised labor in favor of their candidate.
In many counties of Texas Democrats
have circulated petitions for conventions
to instruct legislators against the re-election
of United States Senator Bailey, be
cause of the disclosures in the Missouri
ouster proceedings concerning his alleged
connection with the Standard Oil Com
pany. Senator Bailey has given out a
statement in his own defeuse. Iu this he
says the same kind of tight was made
on him six years ago. He declares that
if a man in public ollico has no right to
pursue his private business such a doc
trine "would confine the public life of this
country to only rich men or rascals."
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