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The Commoner.
JUNE 18, ltOt
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FJIANCIS WAYLAND GLEN of Brooklyn, N.
Y., writes to the Hew York World to say:
"Justice John M.. J&arlaa has never rendered a
decision since he became, a. member of the su
preme court of this republic unjust to tho
masses. ..He,,has .been a member of that court
since 1877. . Ho therefore ,has seryed human
liberty for .thirty-one, years as a member of tho;
highest judicial cpurt in tho world. He has
been wejghedjn.thp balance.and not found want
ing. He has never betrayed his. trust as a
justice of the people for all of the people. Ho
will fill the office of president of this republic
with dignity, sincerity and rare ability. He will
unite as a, candidate, the Lincoln, Seward, Sum
mer, Greeley republicans and the Dix Stanton,
Randall,'.,Daa, democjrats. As' these form the
vast majority of the electorate, his election, if
nominated, will be a foregone conclusion."
THE GREENWICH (Conn.) correspondent for
the New York World tells this interesting
story: "Two starving chickens, hatched only
a few days ago, 'were found today by James J.
Nedley, of Byram Shore, when he drove a moth
ering pigeon off the nest. She still takes care
of her foster children, as far as warmth goes,
but has not acquired' a hen's knack of feeding
them. Nedley is a 'heh arid pigeon breeder on
a small scale. Both species are kept in the
same house., A hen recently showed o, great
Ipvo for flying' and its -wings were clipped. It
must have been this hen which flew to the nest
higher up and laid two eggs. How could a
dove, proverbially gentle, refuse to accept tho
burden thus placed on it by a giddy, fly-away
mother? Accepting the setting, a dove kept at
its task until tw6
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hard 'work to 'drive her, off said Mr. Ned-
v- 'TalK about, your "angry lions! Well. now.
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THE NATIONAL association for the Btudy
and prevention of . tuberculosis has issued
an interesting bulletin from which the follow
ing extracts are( tajken: "Consumption among
Japanese laborers' Js increasing to such a degree
that the figures jare becoming a, source of anx
iety to Japanese merchants and officials. A
largo percentage of laborers who var,e sent back
to Japan' by tli,e .Japanese charity associations,
are consumptives'. ( , It is claimed by, the Japa
nese newspapers, 'commenting on this matter,
that through the )apk of hospital accommoda
tions in the Japanese labor cajmps tuberculosis
increases at an alarming rate. They suggest
that a new system be employed in dealing with
the sick in these camps, as the Japanese are
quite ignorant of "even the most simple health
safeguards. There are in the United States 298
sanatoria, 222 dispensaries and. 290 associations
for the treatment or prevention of tuberculosis,
while there are 6,00,000 cases of this, disease in
the country. It is estimated by the United
States conservation, commission that this coun
try loses annually. $1,000,000,000 from pre
ventable tuberculosis. For the past three years
a persistent crusade has been waged against
consumption amongst postoffice employes in
France. Under these efforts, the number of
cases has diminished 50 per cent, having been
in 1906, 1,048 cases; in 1907, 808 cases, and
last year the number fell to 605 Tho munici
pal authorities of Berlin have decided to intro
duce another feature in the municipal adminis
tration of tuberculosis. Heretofore municipal
effort has been confined to the maintenance of
one or two homes for curable consumptives, but
it is recognized that, as useful as this is, it alone
can not cope with this disease. They have re
solved, therefore,, to devote more attention to
preventive measures. In England, in addition
to other efforts to combat tuberculosis, a unique
project is being placed on foot, to put into com
mission a sailing '.ship sanatorium' for persons
Buffering wltii tuberculosis. Germany has
eighty-two sanatoria - for tuberculosis, which
hold over 20,000 poor consumptives; the cost
of eacli sanatorium. about $100,00.0. Through
organized effective methods, Germany has re
duced the death rate from consumption by one
half throughout the nation. In the German
army, tuberculosis has diminished 42 per cent
during the past twenty years (from 3.3 per cent
per thousand to 1.9 per cent per thousand of
tho effective force)."
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON has drawn upon
himself considerable criticism because of
a speech in which ho lauded Jack Johnson, tho
negro prize fighter. Speaking before tho Negro
Business League of New York City Washington
referred to the "proper pride and self nsser
tiveness of the colored champion of our race."
Referring to Washington's speech the Now York
World says: "Although tho name of tho prize
fighter was not mentioned from tho pulpit, the
pointed reference to him was greeted with wild
applause and cries of 'Oh you, Jack,' inters
persed with moans for 'poor Mistah Jeffries.'
Mr. Washington was dwelling upon tho neces
sity of the negroes respecting themselves if they
ever expected to get others to respect them.
'The value of this solf-respect,' said the edu
cator, 'was shown in a little job which a mem
ber of our family did a short while ago down
in Australia. Ho held his head up. Ho as
serted his worth and when his friends tried to
warn him that he could never get fair play in a
white man's country, that the 'color lino' would
bo drawn on him, he said, 'To with tho
color line; bet every dollar you can lay your
hands on that I will turn the trick.' The result
was that by holding up his head and demanding
the respect that was his duo, he won a magnifi
cent victory. If he had gone to Australia and
cringed and whimpered about not getting fair
play, do you suppose for a minute that he would
have got it? Not a bit of it.' A few minutes
later, in speaking of a great reputation which
he said he had acquired as . "fighter in his boy-
hood days, Mr.' Washington said It was because
ho never fought with any boy who was not
smaller than himself and whom ho was not
sure ho could 'lick 'I measured them up
first,' ho said, au 1 was always mighty care
ful not to fight with boys bigger than I was.
When I fought a boy and saw that he was
afraid of me I know that I could best him.
Tho only ones-1 was ever afraid of were the
T)oys who stood up with square shoulders and
looked me straight in the eye.' "
JOHN NORRIS, representing tho American
Newspaper Publishers Association, sent to
'Senator Root a letter relating to paper and pulp
tariff. In this letter Mr. Norris urges that the
newspaper and periodical publishing constitu
ency In New York employs 30,927 people and
spends $27,679,000 a year in wages and salaries
while the paper making business in New York
employs only 6,976 people and expends only
$3,600,000 in wages and salaries; the average
compensation in the paper making business be
ing $1.65 and in the publishing business $2.87
per day. Insisting that the cost per ton of
producing print paper is higher in the Canadian
mills than in the United States, Mr. Norris
presents statistics from a wide range of sources,
official and unofficial, representing examinations
of books, government inquiries in this and other
countries, statements of manufacturers, etc.
These show the United States price to range
(exclusive of interest and depreciation) from
$23 to $30.50t while tho Canadian mills are
credited with costs of $34.41 at the Booth,
$32.65 at the Canada Paper company, and
$31.08 at the Belgo-Canadian mills. Finally,
as to Sweden, the one European competitor to
be considered, the Swedish government report
shows a cost of $37.52 per ton. The Baltic
paper, Mr. Norris urges, is silvery and of In
ferior quality because not made of so good
wood as American paper. The $2 tariff pro
vided in the house bill, plus the advantage in
favor of American makers In freight rates and
the removal of the Canadian stumpage tax,
which the house bill contemplates, it is found
that the Canadians have a total handicap of
$3.10, aside from the fact that their production
is more expensive. The labor cost of producing
a ton of paper Is given for three Canadian
mills as $9.05, $8.62 and $8.72 respectively;
for, four American mills, as $8.33, $6.89, $8.52
and $8.43, and for Sweden as $8.22. Mr. Nor
ris points out tho grave danger of embroiling
Canada and tho United States in commercial
warfaro unlpss reasonablo consideration bo given
to Canadian sensibilities in this tariff adjust
ment. "Aro wo to start upon a retaliatory and
lndustria warfare," ho demands, "to insure
another lease of opportunity for theso groups
or law-breakers who have done ..violence to
every sound principle of trade In their offorts
to crush competition, to restrict production, and
to Impose upon tho people a monopoly of an
article that is cssontlal to tho dissemination of
knowledge? ' Mr. Norris makes a bitter at
tack upon the International Paper company, de
claring that it brought together a lot of an
tiquated mills and immensely overcapitalized
them, and now begs that there bo no reduction
of the tariff lest it wreck tho company. "An
appeal to sentiment Is mado," ho says, "by tho
statement that some of tho stock of tho In
ternational is owned by womon and that thoy
would bo injured by interference with the tariff
on paper. The International was organized to
unload a :lot of old mills on Investors. Mr.
Uiisnolm and tho other capitalists who financed
that proposition and made it possible to soil
worthless securities to gulJiblo womon, should
bo. made, to bear the burden of liability not
newspaper, publishers."
THE CONFEDERATE reunion was held at
Memphis, Tennessee Gonoral George W.
Gordon in his address of welcome to the con
federate veterans said: "Comrades and Coun
trymen: A king, much less my humble self,
might well bo proud to stand, uncovered, be
fore tho venerable fragments of as bravo and
heroic armies as ever stormed a citadol, fought
a battle or won a victory. Representatives from
every battlofidld from tho Potomac id Wo Mo
Grande are here. The followers of Leo and
Jackson, Longstreet, Hill and Gordon, of Stew
art and Hampton, aro hero. Soldiers who fol
lowed the two Johnstons, Bragg, Beauregard',
Hood, Polk, Hardee, S. D. Leo, Buckner, Cheat
ham, Hindman, Walthill, Cleburne and Grand
berry, Forrest, Wheeler, Morgan and VanDorn
are here. Heroes that carried the flags of Klrby
Smith and Price, McCullough, Cabell and Mar-'
maduke, are here, aB also perhaps seamen who
were with 'Sommes, Maffett, Buchanan and other
naval celebrities. I welcome and bow to the
revered and honored remnants of armies that
fought battles and won victories when barefoot
ed, ragge'd and hungry, and wo would marvel
that men of such mold could never have been
vanquished if we did not know that thoy were
finally overpowered more by the vast prepon
derance of numbers and resources than by gen
eralship, courage and prowess more by famine
than by fighting. When the disparity in men
and means, in war facilities, appliances and
resources of all kinds aro considered, it must
be admitted that the south mado a gallant fight
in defense of her right to independence. And
I congratulate the survivors of her passing
armies, not only upon the gallant fight they
made, but upon the justice of their cause. I
have the fullest faith that posterity will honor
and perpetuate the story of your just and heroic
struggle; and though our hearts are beating
Blower than they did In tho wild, stirring days
of other years, every throb is a conscious mem
ory of a right and an honorable cause. No right
cause can ever die."
JFOES -
Senator Borah, in defending the lumber tax,
declared that "the greatest foes to the protec
tive policy are found in tho ranks of protec
tionists who would always make exceptions."
And the advocates of free lumber might have
retorted that tho hardest load the protective
policy has to carry is tho well-grounded accusa
tion, that high tariff bills are mado by a few
privileged individuals who levy a tribute on
tho rest of tho country. By the way, does the
record show any acquaintance between Senator
Borah and the lumber barons?
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