Harrison Press-Jonrnal GEO. D. CANON, Publisher. HARRISON. NEBRASKA sa at rre:"ei. sea etsbt miles from Paris, is the largest ia the world. Andrew Carnegie Intends to erect monument to James G. Blaine at Pitts burg, probably in Schenley Park, near the Carnegie Institute. A memorial of Rosa Bonbeur, pre sented by Senor Gambart, the Span ish consul at Nice, has been unveiled at Fontainebleau, near which town she dwelt for many years. The memorial consists of a bronze bull, an enlarged fac-simile of one of her sculptures; the bas-reliefs of the pedestal give her portrait and representations of three of her principal paintings. The women of the German city of Magdeburg will honor the memory of Queen Louise by the erection of a statue of the venerated queen. Jo hannes Goetz was intrusted with the task of creating in Carrara marble the figure of the beautiful queen. Tne fig ure stands on a massive cubical base, bearing on one side the inscription: "Louise, Queen of Prussia," and on the opposite side: "Dedicated by the wo men of Magdeburg." State Geologist Dumble of Texas has disclosed sources of mineral wealth that are astounding. He says that In one county alone, that of Cherokee, there are 600,000,000 tons of rich Iron ore In sight, and that in east Teias. as a whole, there are 3,000,000,000 tons. And by the side of this ore lies all the coal necessary to work the ore into shape. The geologist makes the flat statement that "no country in the world has cheaper material for smelt ing iron than east Texas." In order to appreciate the extreme ilaai..iaia of tViA Mnnl In the ROllftl- east of Europe, it may be mentioned that Mme. Karaveloff, wife of the prime minister of Bulgaria, continues to pursue her avocation as school teacher, and every morning when her husband leaves home to attend to his duties as premier she takes her de parture for the public grammar school to fulfill her duties as one of the teachers. She is a very remarkable woman, and has been imprisoned and tried on charges of treason and of lese majeste while the political foes of her husband were in office. Now that Rostand's play, "L'Aig lon," has aroused so much Interest in the melancholy story of Napoleon't eon, there will be some interest in the death of the last considerable actor In the abortive conspiracy to restore the empire with the Duke of Reichstadt in his father's place. This person was VarabowskI, a Pole, who was a lieuten ant in the grand army and fought at Waterloo. The conspirators In 1822 took pr session of several towns In the west of France in the name of Napo leon II., hut at Saumur the movement was stopped and the small force they had gathered rapidly scattered, Vara bowskI escaped and returned to Po land, where he has just died at War saw, at the age of 105 years. . The brown-tailed" caterpillar has been officially considered by the Bos ton board of health, whose members are ready to acknowledge that this pest can produce the skin irritation com plained of by some residents in the suburbs of that city. The insect is destructive of fruit trees. The hair of the worm brittle and barbed, and its action op the skin is regarded as purely mechanical, rather than poison ous. It is yet to be determined wheth er actual contact with the worm it necessary to cause the irritation, or whether this may result through the blowing about of the hair or fur by the winds. The doctors incline to the latter belief. However produced, the irritation and resultant sickness are described as being severe. King Carlos of Portugal has become passionately devoted to yacht racing, and has announced his decision to have a racing yacht built for the ex press purpose of enabling him to win back from the English Royal Yacht Squadron the Vasco de Gama Cup in the third international race, which takes place next year over a course ex tending from Southampton to Lisbon, that is across the dangerous Bay of Biscay. The king is now in consulta tion with naval architects with regard to the designs for his new racing yacht, and is disposed to have the lat ter built in the United States, rather than In England, the victories of the American defenders of the America Cud and the recent mishaps to the Shamrock Inclining him to the belief that boats built on this side of the At lantic unite a greater degree of strength, with lightness snd delicacy of lines, than those of English con struction and design. It cannot be too often repeated that the secret of German success In so many branches of human activity Is specialisation. And It may fairly ha asked whether in many cases they do Mt "say too much tor tnelr whistle." Tas days are lone gone by when Schil ler eoald venture to condemn the ex clusive pursuit of what ha called "tcaaa aad-bnttor" studies. Nowadays atarljr srsry om ia Oermany keeps liwl aad batter" steadily la view. Ti aext ftaarattoa of Qsrmaas will U avast aon tyeeisJUad than (Mr the white slaves. STRIKE AGAINST THE TOBACCO TRUST. DaO? rapars Bapprea wi l-ow Wag-e at lilrla fcinptayad im hin Kiaamiwa Factorial One of th Kviii Tbmt Cry lor VMiraack From Binghamton, N. Y., Independ ent: Last week Wednesday sixty-five girls working at the Trust Cigar fac tory struck for an increase. On Sat urday about S00 more were locked out of the same factory. It is now more than a week since the strike started and not a mention of the matter has appeared in the daily papers. Brief re ports have appeared in a few papers outside, and the silence of the home papers is causing much comment, and a great deal of adverse criticism. The American Tobacco company, commonly known as the Tobacco trust, after having secured a practical mon opoly of the chewing and smoking tobacco business, has now turned its attention to the cigar making branch, and an attempt is being made to con trol this also. As Binghamton Is next to New York as a cigar center the trust decided to open a factory here. Barlow, Rogers & Co., sold out their large factory to the Trust about two months ago. When the change was made Mr. Barlow assured the em ployes that no change would be made in wages and that it would be a good thing for the men and women work ing. A superintendent from Kingston, where the trust has a large factory, was put in charge, and several foremen from the same place installed. Very soon a change was made in the system. Girls were paid the amount they had averaged under the old system while they were learning the new and then their pay was by the hundred. Rolling machines were part of the new method. What are known as bunch makers were paid seven and one-half cents a hundred, the same price that was paid by Barlow. But while before they could make from 1,000 to 1,200 bunches a day, under the trust system they could make but 700 or 800. Rollers were paid twenty-seven and one-half cents per hundred, or the same as before, but Instead of being able to make 700 or 800 a day they could make only 300 or 400. The effect of the change was to re duce wages nearly one-half, and in stead of making from $1.75 to 12.25 a day, the girls could make only seventy-five cents to $1.25. After working from two to five weeks under the new system the girls were convinced that they could not make enough to sup port themselves decently, and when their request for a higher price was refused, they struck. About 300 em ployes were still working on the old work, but as they understood that it was but a question of a few weeks when they would have to do the work under the new system they agreed to help the strikers. In addition to the increased amount of work they are compelled to do, the strikers complain about the way they are given tobacco. Out of each pad they are required to get 100 cigars. They say that the pads have been made so small that they can get but about eighty, and as they are docked for all they use over at the rate of 30 cents a pad, this still further reduces their wages. Another thing they com plain of is the practice of taking out of each hundred from 3 to 17 cigars as defective, for which they get no pay. These cigars they say are put up in hundred packages and sent to the packing room. The work that the trust wants is practically hand made cigars. At the prices paid the clgarmakers would get $4.50 per thousand for doing the work. The same work at the union scale would come to $16.50 a thousand. The trust claims that the same work is be ing done at Kingston for less than the price offered here, and that the girls are making big wages. Those who know the conditions at Kingston know that the wages there are very low, and that the girls make barely enough to pay expenses. A few speedy operators may by working long hours get what would seem to them to be fair pay, but on the average the pay is not what girls should have in or der to live respectably. A DANGEROUS DECISION. Some years ago a Chicago woman was engaged in a labor strike. She was no worse than all the others par ticipating In the same strike. After the strike was over and peace was declared she attempted to get work, but could not do so'. She applied to Ann after firm and always met the same answer. Nobody would give her employment. She could beg, steal or starve, but she couldn't work. There was no way by which she could make an honest living. She had been black listed. The decree had gone forth that no employer should give that woman a Job. A brand had been set on her brow. She was a paralah among the people helpless and homeless. She wss like Csin, a fugitive and a vaga bond on the face of the earth. In her dire extremity she was in duced to sue the cowardly scoundrels who blacklisted her. She proved her case all right There was no question about the facts. Everything was es tablished as above set forth. But the court decided that employers bsd a right to blacklist employes and pre vent them from getting work else where. It practically decided that slavery still exists la America. Not the mild kind of slavery that existed In the south before the war, but a condition a tbomnd times nwn ter rible. Black slaves were sure of a comtortabW support-they were usu ally well treated they were not over workedthey had their holidays and their simple pleasures. The slavery established by this corrupt court has none of these ingredients. This poor wage slae is entirely helpless she can find no work she can earn no wages she can only starve, live on charity or do worse. This ia all ac complished by ti-e order of a tyrant, backed up by the decree of s court. What hope is there for a laboring man or woman who Is blacklisted when the law sustains that form of slavery? He or she had better get out of the world or else procure a gun and learn how to use it No intelligent man believed that any court would ever make such an out rageous decision, but It is made and it will be sustained by the higher au thorltlea. Our judges are daily advancing In infamy. They are making decisions now for which they would have been impeached twenty years ago and If any judge had made a decision so dls reputable a generation ago he would not have had the privilege of an im peachment, for the people would have hung him up on the nearest lamp post. Central Farmer. THE TRUSTS MUST BE PRO TECTED. Wilbur F. Wakeman is secretary of the American Protective League, and as such is of course opposed to the entry of any foreign goods into this country that would compete with our trust made products. He also, by the grace of the President and the Repub lican majority of the Senate, holds the important office of appraiser of merchandise of the port of New York. This occupation of these two offices by the same person accounts for the universal ruling of the appraiser against the importers of foreign goods and the stretching of the tariff law, al most to the breaking point, to make such goods subject to the highest duty that can be assessed against taem. That Mr. Wakeman is most active In this matter and more Intent on lobby ing to prevent a revision of the tariff and to protect the trusts from com petition than he Is in fairly carrying out the law, will be seen from the fol lowing Interview: Speaking of the threat of certain Republicans to sup port the Babcock movement to place trust made articles on the free list. Mr. Wakeman says, the league will make a strong fight against any emas culation of the protective tariff sys tem. "We do not propose," said hs, "to allow the system to be used as a stalking horse for the purpose of doing work which should be done by state legislatures. These bodies have the power to deal with trusts doing busi ness within the borders of their states. Let them apply the remedy." That's it No national legislation against the trusts, tbey are, to quote Hanna, good things and must not be disturbed. HE WOULD NOT. Suppose one monopolist owned the whole country, would he let things go on as they are at present? Would he spend millions every month for advertising? Would he pay rent and clerk hire for one thousand stores In one city when six would do? Would he keep 50,000 drummers traveling about? Would he give away franchises and land to irresponsible corporations? Would he let individuals run his railroads, and refuse to carry blm If be could not pay his fare? Would he let them own his wheat fields, and refuse him bread if he lacked a nickel for a loaf? Would he let them manage his fac tories, and refuse him clothes unless ho would pay them their own pries for the suit? Would he let them take his own house and turn him out on the street because be couldn't pay the rent? No, he would not allow any such ab surd things. Yet this is just what the people have permitted and voted for. Herbert N. Casson, WAGES FALLING IN ENCLAND. Last year It was quite the usual thing In England to see each month that numbers of workers varying from 100,000 to 300,000 had obtained sub stantlal increases of pay, whilst those who had sustained s'tght reductions to talled np to only a few hundreds In November, however, the figures t3 gan to tell a different tale. The num ber of those who had received addition to their wages were, It is true, still at many as 137, but the reductions had risen to 11,038. In December the In crease had diminished to 18,353, and the reductions were 8,216. But it I January that shows whither we are drifting. During last month only 3,061 workers received Increases of pay, whilst, on the other hand, the decreas es had risen to the large total of 51,631. Justice, I,ondon, England. Cuba Is spoil that can be handled at leisure. Just now the administra tion Is Making the refractory child understand that the velvet glove cov ers the hand of steel. Poor deluded Cuba roust first swallow the Piatt amendment in order to prove that It baa acquired a sufficiently meek and contrite spirit to fit it for dealing with the United States; then other things will happen to It not Independence, by a long way, either. San Francisco Star. If endowing one man with unre strained power over the lives, liber ties and property of 10,000,009 people lacks a single faatnra of aa ideally perfect despotism, then oaa never ag isted oa m rth. Con gressmsa McCsJI. AGAINST THE PEOPLE REPUBLICAN PARTY HOPELESS LY FOR TARIFF LOOT. lldae That Toay laUad to rrotekt tfca Trots s3 Tcrpctaste T-'" Making tb luna tot tfcva IKaxt Campaign. That the Republican party does not Intend to legislate against the trusts, however much individual members may proclaim that it Is necessary. Is shown by the evidence of Hon. Robert Taylor, member of congress from the 18th Ohio district, given before the Industrial commission. In his opening remarks he declared that any attempt to take the tariff off even trust made goods would be bad in its effects. The tariff principle, he said, should not be abandoned. As a general proposition, Mr. Tay lor announced himself as opposed to trusts. "I am one of those," he said, "who have not been able to bring themselves in harmony with the idea that the trusts are good things." "The trusts," he declared, "put too much power In the hands of a few men." Speaking of dealing with trusts, he said he knew of no remedy for that evil, if it is an evil. Publicity might be a good thing, but it would be a mere scratch on the surface. He knew that a trust has power to re duce the price of an article, but he did not think the public would get much benefit from that. In order to pay dividends on securities of the United States Steel Company that company would have to extract a great deal from the public. The witness said that apart from any other question he thought that it would be exceedingly unfortunate to introduce any elements of unrest In the country by discussing the tariff In congress or opening up the tariff for any revising. . Now, Taylor, is chairman of Election Committee No. 1, and was selected as such because he could be relied on to do the bidding of those who rule con gress and being a friend and follower of the administration, his evidence makes It certain that there is "no rem edy for the evil" as far as the Republi cans Intend to discover one and that even to discuss the revising of the tar iff "is to Introduce elements of unrest in the country." If Mr. Tsylor represents the Repub lican policy on the trusts and the tariff, nothing will be done to abate the evils. He admits there Is robbery being committed when he says the steel trust will "have to extract a great deal from the public," but be and the large majority of protection Republicans In tend to sit still and see the steel trust and the other combines "extract a great deal from the public." A very cool proceeding on the part of those who have been selected as the ser vants of the people to protect their In terests. The Democratic position Is entirely the reverse of this. They believe that there is a remedy to prevent the trust from carrying out their plan of robbing the people and that Is to revise the tariff by placing trust pro ductions on the free list except what duties may be necessary for raising revenue for the support of the govern ment a tariff for revenue. This will not kill the trusts but It will allow the world to compete with them by withdrawing the protection that now gives them a monopoly. A ROBBER TRUST. The law under which corporations are organized in the state of New Jer sey cerUi&iy ought to be amended or repealed. Minority stockholders have no protection and from appearances the law was created especially to swindle them. Public Policy says: By Its charter the United States steel corporation may deal in Its own se curities, which has not usually been regarded as a proper function of corpo rations. It may or may not pay any dividends on the common stock, no matter what the profits may be, and the recalcitrant stockholders will get ao consideration; he can see the books as much as the statute, the board of directors or the whole body of stock holders permit Now Is not that a nice corporation to own stock In? If any one buys any of It and knows of these restrictions and loses his money he has only him self to blame, except that rascally leg islature that passed a law that allows such a trust to be organized. There are millions of stock on thu market and the trust Is trying to push It off on the public and doubtless many an Innocent purchaser will buy it, not knowing the way the steel trust may rob him. And yet the Republicans say the trusts are all right RECIPROCITY AND TARIFF RE FORM. The attempt of President McKinley to - reform the tariff by reciprocity treaties was stopped by the United Btates senate refusing to ratify them and yet there Is strong evidence that the president will persist In that line Of action. Reciprocity Is a back-handed way of revising the Dlngley tariff that can os better accomplished by straightforward methods. We cannot make a reciprocity treaty with one country that does not virtually make It apply to nearly all the others. This la brought about by the clause which allows the same rights aad rates as the most favored nation Is given. If a treaty to Bade with Ftsaoe that allows certain of her productions to be im ported Into the United States at a less duty than the rate provided In the Dlngley tariff, Germany, who pro duces the seme articles, under the most favored nation clause must be granted the game rate. There Is also another obstacle to these reciprocity treaties, a constitu tional objection, that has not been ad judicated, but is believed by most of the constitutional lawyers to be a bar to such legislation. Congress cannot delegate its power to raise revenue, which is a constitutional province of Congress alone and such revenue bills must orginate In the House of Repre sentatves, thus keeping the taxing power in the hands of the direct repre sentatives of the people. To revise the tariff law by making reciprocity treaties ia a makeshift that does not touch the protection granted the trusts and monopolies and those who advocate It are attempting to still protect these giant corporations. As the trusts are selling their produc tions In Europe for less than they are obtaining from our own people, they no longer need protection and their products should be put upon a tariff for revenue basis or even placed on the free list that competition may benefit all alike. TARIFF LEGISLATION AND THE TRUSTS. The Democratic tariff doctrine has always been "tariff for revenue." Sometimes it has swerved further to ward free trade by saying "tariff for revenue only" and then once the pen dulum swung backwards and Inciden tal protection was added. This was before the era of the trusts and com bines. The last Democratic platform de clared the following doctrine: "Tariff laws should be amended by putting the products of trusts upon the free list, to prevent monopoly under the plea of protection." As soon as the 57th congress meets, therefore, a bill must be Introduced lines; that is, by placing articles on the lines, that Is, by placing articles on the free list that are monopolized by the trusts and reforming other schedules to a tariff for revenue basis in a way that will be acceptable to the legiti mate business Interests. Such a bill should receive support from those Republicans who really In tend to curb the trusts and are not merely Intent on making political cap ital by pretending to legislate against tbem. POLITICAL COMMENT. A Canadian newspaper tells us that the French statesman, M. Jules Sieg fried, says not long ago when he was at the White House, President Mc Kinley admitted that he was no longer an ultra protectionist, "the time for heavy protection has passed," are his quoted words. The president evidently sees that the tariff must be revised, but how to do It, that Is the question. What a row it will raise. The Ameri can Protective League and the Home Market club will be on the warpath and the protected trusts. Well, we shall see. And now comes Senator Chauncey M. Depew and joins In the third term chorus, he says McKinley Is the only man against whom there is no opposi tion. There is no doubt some truth in this, the trusts, combines, corpora tions, especially the railroads, want McKinley as long as he is so complai sant to their Interests. A strong gov ernment that will put down strikes under the name of a republic but really an empire, Just suits them. Tbey are under the present adminis tration the oligarchy that controls the United States and the senator Is their mouthpiece. The Cubans do not take kindly to the dictation of Secretary Root, but a little more "Influence" brought to bear on some of them by a careful distri bution of the secret service fund will probably round up a majority for all that Is wanted . Perhaps it would be advisable for the American Protective Tariff League to keep an eye on Brother McKinley unless they rely on Hanna to keep him In the straight and narrow protection path. The Home Market club Is in a bad way, being an annex of the Protective Tariff League, they have always cried "give us the home market and we care nothing for the world." But now the Republican newspapers and spell binders, even McKinley himself Is shouting for the world's markets and even the protected Infants are boasting of their competition with foreigners and the trusts are shouting with glee of their conquest of the markets of the world. The logic of the situation would seem to demand a revision of the tariff to meet the new conditions but this does not suit the protection ists. Here Is another traitor to the pro tective tariff, Hon. W. P. Hepburn of Iowa, who at a dinner in London giv en to the visiting members of the New York Chamber of Commerce, said: "The chairman of the Republican cam paign committee has announced that the tariff will be taken from all so called trust commodities, and our abil ity to produce has so largely outgrown our capacity to consume that the 'open door la rapidly becoming the shlbbo leth of America." This Is brave talk but It will take more backbone than moat Republican members have shown la the past to refuse to obey the cau cus dictation that Hanna and the trust! will bring to bear on them Artlatla Tlaaraaapar. Phil May. the London artist, tells how at the age of 12 he became a timekeeper In a large Iron foi'ndrj. Says he: "I was delighted wi-titha office, but Hie foundry masterl"rasjs not quite so satisfied. At first they were surprised at the great punctuality of the entire saff of workmen; later . zxsrvclcd it? continu ance, and' finally they discovered that I kept the tlinebook on a system of my own." gT. MARY'S ACADEMY, JHotra Dame, lodlaaa. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of St. Mary's Academy, which appears In another column of this paper. We do not need to expatiate upon the scholastic advan tages of St. Mary's, for the catalogue cf the school shows tb" grope of work included in its curriculum, which Is of the ime high standurd as that of Vaasar end Bryn Mawr, and is carried out faithfully in the class rooms. We simply emphasize the spirit of earnest devotion which makes every teacher of St. Mary's loyally strive to develop each young girl attendant there Into the truest noblest, and most Intelligent womanhood. Every advantage or equipment in the class rooms, labora tories and study rooms, every care In the matter of food and clothing, and exceptional excellence of climatic con ditionsall these features are found at EL Mary's, In the perfection of develop ment only to be obtained by the con secration of devoted lives to educa tional Christian work in a spot fa vored br the Lord. You can rely on a man keeping bis word when it is to his advantage to do so. Ask your grocer for IjEFIANCE. STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. ArcDiad of Too Much Zaa I. It Is charged by the opopsltlon InAI toona, Ia., that the anti-satoon ioague has employed minora to solicit drink at bars, misrepresenting their ages, and that the theological students have been Imported to work up evidence against gamblers. One of the stu dents is said to have been so well up in the game of poker that he took all the money in a big game played at one of the political clubs. Tho cru saders, of course, deny all these stories. GREATI V RKDICED KATES via TV A BAKU K. B. 113 OA-Buffalo and return $13.00. :si00 New York and return 131.00 The Wabaah from Chicago will sell tickets at the above rates dally. Aside from these rates, the Wabash run through trains over Its own rails from Kansas City, Ht. Louis and Chicago and offer many special rates during the summer months, allowing stopovers at .Mugara rans am nuuaio. Ask your nearet Ticket Agent or ad dress Harry IC. Moore, General Agent. 1'uss. Dept., Omaha, Ntb., or C 8. Crane, G. P. & T. A., 6t. Jxuis, Mo. China has a coast line of over 2,500 miles. EDUCATIONAL THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA. Oatriri, Lett era, ecotmalc aad History, Journatttat, Art, Mtm, Pharancy, Law. Cvll, rirchantcal awl Electrical a, teetering. Arch It ret iir. 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