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FHDIORAI, LICIONSIOS IN DHV TISItlUTOKY
Dolow will bo found a bill recently Introduced
In the Iioiiho by Congressman Oldflcld of
ArkiinsaH. Road It and seo If you can find any
fault wilb It. It is Intended to prevent tho issue
of fodoral Hconsos in dry torrltory, except on
conditions that will givo local authorities
notice of the applicant's intention to violate tho
law, Jt ought to have tho support of all bo
liovors in law and ordor. No ono can well
opposo II unions ho favors putting (or keeping)
tho government in league with law breakers:
"II. It. J 7(J7:i. A bill regulating the issuance
of federal llconse for sale of intoxicating liquors
In communities where state or local laws pro
hibit tho salo thereof.
"Do It onacled by tho senate and house of
representatives of tho United States of America
In congress assembled, that all applications for
federal liconso for tho salo of intoxicating
liquors shall bo accompanied by a duly certified
copy of tho llconse Issued to tho applicant for
fodoral llcenso by tho proper authority of tho
city, town, or community of the locality at
which tho salo of tho said Intoxicating liquors
is to bo conducted.
"Sec. 2. That all applications for federal
liconso for tho salo of Intoxicating liquors in
communities whero local llcenso is not issuod
by roquiromont of law shall bo accompanied by
logal proof that notice of such application for
fodoral liconso for tho salo of intoxicating
liquors in such community has been published
in n local newspaper, published in said com
munity, having a circulation therein among bona
fldo subscribers, If thoro bo such paper so pub
lished, and, if not, legal proof of the publica
tion of such notice of application shall be filed
with tho application showing that due notice of
samo was published in somo newspaper having a
circulation among bona fide subscribers living
within tho community to bo affected by tho
Jiconso appliod for. Said notice of application
shall bo published for a period of thirty days
prior to tho day of application for license, which
day of application for license shall bo specified
in said published notice; and all applications
under section two hereof, in addition, shall bo
accompanied by logal proof that notice of said
application for liconso for salo of intoxicating
liquors in such community has been legally
served on tho executive authority of the said
community at loast fifteen days before tho pub
lished day of application, citing iho fact of the
publication of tho said notice of application for
liconso for the salo of intoxicating liquors, giv
ing the name and location of tho newspaper
containing such published noUco of applica
tion, and designating by sufficient description
tho oxact location In tho locality affected where
tho said salo of said intoxicating liquors is to
bo conducted under the license applied for
"Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of tho
commissioner of internal revenue to have a cony
of every federal llcenso issued for tho sale of
intoxicating liquors in communities where local
or state laws forbid the sale thereof posted in
conspicuous place in tho post office at the lo-
KS KUfT0 sivos fGdclal
THE CHILD'S BUREAU
natality has never thrown up a more mi
Substantial bulwark than it has wh it a I
SPtS?itS f leU1 itSolf behind 1 retensetha
tho establishment of a national child's bureau
would violate tho rights oj tho states NothhX
5 wr ,llKely t0 arouse Prejudice against tho
rights of tho states than the attomn ? l
vent the investigation by ae federal' goverT
ment of the industrial conditions whl!ha?
working an injustice to womon and children
in H, Tft ?ro coining the Mood of children
Into dividends ought to bo driven from 22
and compelled to defend their inhSSarnrac
tices before tho bar of public morals if 1? nS
most sacred and invaluable rlBhta ?! th
ro nr o tho putt ' "
in the afternoon roC h d, ven" ST mtlnS
.? VtZflM Glared that
jb - """ every otlier civi-
The Commoner.
Hzed nation in the caro of its children. Andrew
J Peters, a member of congress from Massachu
setts, who introduced tho bill in tho house for
a children's bureau, said that tho country should
bo willing to spend one-eighth as much for a
study of child life as it does annually for a
study of bugs.
Ho said the bureau of animal industry cost
tho country $1,654,750 a year, and the bureau
or plant industry costs $2,051,686, and all that
is asked for the children's bureau is $29,440.
John P. Frey of Cincinnati stirred the audi
ence by declaring that civilized man in Christian
countries was tho only animal which exploits
its young.
"In the' brute creation," he said, "we find
no animal which exploits its young or seeks to
live off the fruits of their work.
"It has been left to civilizad men in Christian
nations to exploit their young for private profit.
"Wo are pleading today, not alone for the
little children, but for the women and men
toilers in our country."
Representative Andrews said that the 1910
census taken in states which keep mortality
records showed that the average mortality of
children was 27 in every 100 deaths. In Cali
fornia the child death rate is 16, and in
Pennsylvania 34 in each 100. The accidents to
children, he said, were 400 per cent greater
than to adults, showing the child labor should
be stopped altogether, or laws enacted compell
ing the safeguarding of machinery.
At the close of the mass meeting resolutions
were adopted indorsing the bill for the chil
dren's bureau, which comes to a vote in tho
senate Tuesday and in the house within the next
two weeks.
REASONABLE BURGLARY
Mr. President: Wo, the burglars of the
United States, beg to call your attention to a
grievance. For years we have suffered injus
tice at the hands of the courts. There is a law
which, by its terms, prohibits EVERY COMBI
NATION FOR THE COMMISSION OF BURG
LARY. We most respectfully ask that "the
rule of reason" be applied. We submit that the
law should be construed to prohibit only UN
REASONABLE BURGLARY. To this end we
ask for the appointment, as justice of the su
premo court, of a criminal lawyer with a record
which will assure us that he will sympathize
with our efforts to rob the public to a reason
able extent. We need not, present our argu
ment in favor of our business it is a natural
miT6?1 f Ur civilizati0. H we have not
established as many colleges and libraries as
the trust magnates it is because we have been
hampered by a construction of the law urged
upon the court by demagogues and disturbers
of the peace who have appealed to the passions
of the mob and arrayed the people against us
Knowing of your sense of fairness and app?t
c atmg what you have done for the trusts we
cherish the hope that, while we do not collect
as much as the trusts, you will put us on the
highway to the prosperity which they now enjoy
Respectfully, etc., THE BURGLARS
MAKING A BEGINNING
The democratic caucus has acted wisely in
?? h! ?SaVG fr ther purD0Ses e money
shins V gHTantGd t0 Use on new at?S
snips. It is time for some nation to call a halt
or'wlrs'that'ou816 f mny in Patton
JwT i ? V ught never t0 come and no othor
nation is in so good a position as ours to S
?l exa?p1?- The democrat! party ?s makine
a good beginning in a great cause when ft ?
fuses to be stamped by the ship builders atfci
the supersensitive gentlemen who are alwv
seeing war clouds. always
MR. METCALFE'S PLATFORM.
uponwHSch MrPTLWM ,,?,md the nlatfo
ofPTh?c5Simorne?: feeKath6 S
cratic nomination for wmTof NrtSSki6111?;
SrSertgivTSe Tp
HERE'S A PLAN
Congressman Cullop's bupoprb i , r
publicity rider on a JndlSS wn pultin6 a
propriety of puUing a pnbllcUv P8,"1ggests J
Post office appropriation Mil wiiv no't lrtho
second-class privilege to , confine
Publishing the 2o?wnSSu?hT,nB
vwynwoold be an enormoTsoteK
VOLUME 13, NUMBER
HOW THE BEEF TRUST OPERATES
An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago
says: A code telegram showing the average
Belling prices and margins for Armour & Co.
the National Packing company, Morris & Co. and
Swift & Co., for sales of dressed beef in BoBton
for tho week ending July 16, 1910, which was
received at the Chicago offices of the National
Packing company, was introduced in evidenco
at the packers' trial. The message, which was
received in the due course of business, was ad
dressed to Vice President Patterson, head of tho
dressed beef department; Assistant Manager
Munnsike and President Edward Tilden of tho
National Packing company.
It was the first time in the trial that Edward
Tilden, president of the National Packing com
pany and one of the defendants, had been men
tioned as having received the prices and mar
gins of competing companies. The telegram was
sent to Chicago over the company's private wire
by Manager Perkins, in charge of the National
Packing company's branch house in Boston.
After some hesitation Joseph J. Riesch, for
merly head of the shipping department of the
National Packing company, identified the tele
gram, but said he was not certain that tho
figures were the same as on the paper he pro
duced before the federal grand jury, which re
turned indictments against the packers.
Assistant District Attorney Godman made a
statement in court to the effect that the tele
gram was the same as the witness had produced
before the grand jury and it was admitted in
evidence. The telegram says:
"Boston, July 1G, 1910. Patterson, Munn
sike, Tilden: 11:52 minus 29. 11.27 minus 30.
11.11 minus 40. 10.77 minus 13.
"PERKINS."
Riesch interpreted the message to the jury
and said that tho first row of figures was the
grand average selling price and the second row
was the minus margin, which indicated that tho
beef had been sold that week below the test cost.
He said the first price" was for the sales of
Armour & Co., the second for the National Pack
ing company, the third for Morris & Co., and
the last for Swift & Co. At the top of the mes
sage was an inscription in pencil by the tele
graph operator showing it was received at the
Rookery office of the company in Chicago at
2:13 p. m., July 16, 1910.
Riesch testified that all the time he was con
nected with the beef department of the company
similar telegrams from Boston and New York,
giving the selling prices and margins of tho
packers "big four" were received at the ofllces
of the National Packing company in Chicago
each week.
Details of the methods of distribution in tho
dressed beof business were explained to the jury
in the packers' trial by John G. Wheeler, super
intendent of branch houses for the National
lacking company. Monthly reports, he said,
Aeie made by each branch house manager,
hi?im? he n,umber of pounds of dressed beef
iniii. ' ,together witn the margin and averago
te n5 price Prom these figures a trial balance
wat, prepared each month showing the net profits
at oanh branch house.
Rmnr2nwh0U?Vnanagers were Paid a fixed
? 2 Dut.eacn house was allowed for expenses
Rnuiland,red Pounds on all dressed beef
sold, Mr. Wheeler said
itomlff mmlssin is expected to cover every
oneraHon 2?T' von bad debts' included in tho
opeiation of the house, according to the witness.
A WALL STREET VIEW
natch m P?rS0 wI11 be founl a special dis
?esnonrS "? V8 Post's Washington cor
what ab?, ;fi Jf l8 interesting because it shows
wl on a n S68 must answer 'or arguments
IntOToJte Ttaften!pt8.t0 chamPion the predatory
belnJ 'fn'ro I8 alB? intoresting to hear of men
of their cnLu yoe for Publicity out of fear
Post do J nnfiiUents' U ls a Pity the Houston
of the nlnin ' W ?0Dle resPect fQr the opinions
themselveL w?"?7 people who being honest
wh favor S? ,honesty in government and
honestv wSb iCity as a means of securing
on the auISLd0e,B nltlle Post Pn its reader3
niendation nn f sucn Pretty as to recom
mendations as provided in the Cullop amend-
A GOOD IDEA
ducedngaSSbTian.S10n of Miissippi has intro
weanons n, PHttinB a tax uPn concealed
mill ions a "nnr 1" natea tnat lt .M add two
dea' two" mmi th? nation's revenue. A good
of life nnrimi 11S taken from the necessaries
Hno with dfimiV thG luxurles uld be to
""t- witn democratic promises.
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