som, a CII REFUTATION »Op THE ARGUMENTS AMERICAN LABOR IN PERIL OF A MODERN MALTHUS, KNIGHTS OF LABOR SECRETARY LITCHMAN FOR PROTECTION, : Facts Ahout Trees. The leaves of the trees are bw. ning to change their color, and it will Shot For Interfering WiLKkBspArRE, September 28, Dene | nis Gallagher, a constable of this city y H | ’ vy not be long vow uniil intend of the |, og0) 4 young man for disorderly bright green the trees will delight the | 000g night and after locking him eye With all the varied hues of the | up hie was beset by friends of the prison- Hinbow. | Speaking ol 106 ebange of er, who followed him for some distance. tific gentleman sais Probably not | 1Le drew his revolver and flourished it one on na thousand Roe why | 10 keep the crowd at bay. Policeman leaves change their color in the fall { Broadhead attempted to arrest the con- In Almost Every Country There ix ¥uod ‘10 Spare«Wh ; Malthas' Doctrine is no Longer PlausiblesThe Earth's Food Producing Capabilities, The Republican Party the Troe Friend of the Workingman — Democraey's False Promises of Low Prices and Good Wages—A Worker for Farrison. The current number of The Forum cone tains a sprightly article by ‘Thomas W. Knox, entitled “Standing Room Only.” It shows that several countries in the world contain so Charles H. Litchman, general secretary The common old-fashioned ide is tat | Stable for flourishing the weapon, bat all the red and golden glory we will soon see is caused by frosts Such reasoning is a case of post hoe propter hoe A true and scientific explana tion of the causes of the coloring of leaves would necessitate a long and intricate discussion. Siated bricfly and in popular language, those causes | are thes : The green matter in the tis- | sue of a loai is composed of twocolors, red and blue. When the sap to fl yw in the autumn, and the natur- al growth of the tree ceases, oxidation of the tissues takes place. Under certain conaitions, the green of the leaf changes to red: under different conditions, it takes on a yellow or brown tint. This difference 10 color is due to the diffrence in the combina- tion of the original constituents of the great tissues and to the varying con ditions of climate, exposure and soil, A dry, ¢ild climate produces more brilliant folisge than ove that is damp and warm. this is the reason that our American aulumns are 8 much more gorgeous th n those of England, There are several things about leaves that even science cannot explain. For instance, why one of ) Ceases i he resisted, Thomas Ryan, of Syracuse, N. Y., a hystander, stepped up and grasped the excited man by the arms, but he broke away and turned and shot him in the neck, Gallagher then sub. mitted to arvest without further trouble. Ryan died to-night in the city hospital. —— ay — Robert Garret's Condition, Bavriore, September 23—. An in- Robert Garrett, who has just returned from a visit to the in. valid's New Jersey home, savs that Mr. {timate friend of Garrett's condition is alarmingand that he would not be surprised to hear of his death at any time, ks the $ Jost Hesh rapid » M : . ’ : Fhose who remember his round and ruddy face would searcely recognize the His beard sunken, emaciated features, Serves to some extent to conceal | alarm nfined since hi » : two trees growing side by side, of the | same age and having the same exp s- ure, should take on a brilliavt red in the fall ana the other should turns yel low, or, why coe branch «f a tree should be highly colored and the rest of the tres have only a yellow or brown tint, are questi ns that are as Impossible to answer as why one mem- ber of a family should be perfectly healthy and auvother sickly, The ma ples and oaks generally have the brightest colors.” : — A — Larned’'s Hallucinations, Larned, of Ne y #0 insane wel Amos E who was comited t last wWeCK, 14 ana Ol newspaper man, and bas been a con- spicuous figure ia joursalisiic circles for many years, For a loog time he bad charge of the New England branch of the As sociated Press, and he was considered at one time a very bright member of the New York Press Club. At time he was quite promineat in pols itical circles, and was quite prood of that he was on intimate personal re lation with the late Roscoe Conklin and m nof that stamp. Mr. Larned v a5 one of the famus “306” who stood out so valiantly for the nomination of Geaeral Graot for a third term. After the death of General Garfield Presi- dent Arthur offered Mr. Larned the st of Consul Geperal at Sydoey, New South Wales, which he declined with thanks For the past four years Mr. Larned as been acting very strangely, and recently the conviction was forced pon his wifeand family that his mind bad becowe impaired, which led to he action taken last week. Accord- pg to the stoteddents of the twi esses Mr. Larned seems possessed of he idea that Le veay wealthy, hen in fact, he has nothing beyond hat he earns with his pen. Dr Shaw ys that he imagineshe is the invent. br of a gas machine for heating hous #, lightumg cities and running engines nd that he bas scld 5,000,000 of these | machines to the Long Island oad and 25 000 000 to the Central. fe expects toget thousands of dol- ars daily for royal:ies, and he owns a ir of fice horses hands igh. Dr. Shaw savs that with careful reatment Mr. Larned may recover. r.Madden adds that Mr, Larned pld him the Federal authorities owed | im $1,000,000 for gas machinery and | ¢ could get whenever he went to] fashington for it. He also says Mr, arned has written many pages of brose and verse lately without point | meaning, and displays the sym. toms of advanced mental decay, | le leaves money and packages in | ts wherever he may be, aod his | ife and daughters have to watch m carefully for fear he may do him- | if or them some harm. Me. Larned is in his fifty-eighth | ar. When his mind hegan to fail | p left the Associated Press and went | hb the Evening Post as one of its ed- | pre. He left there afer a short sta bas since been doingspecial work | various newspapers. His wifeand | mily live st Prospect Place, Brook- We { and known one 18 eighted n SW A———_ Beat Her Own Record, Ew Yonx, September 24.—-When pf Cunarll steamship Etruria reached h Sandy Hook Behitahip at 10.90 yester- Vv morning her 507 passengers had the petion of having made the quickest age from Queenstown to the light. ever recorded, The Etruria had sored the distance between the two its dn six days, two hours and fifty httes, beating by five sainutes her i record of last June, which was the 0 ever made. Had it not been for a ov of half an hour in taking on a and a heavy swell through which steamer ran several days after she od the time would doubtless have puch better. The greatest dis. re gh any one day on this w Rail- | 1 A Farmer Brutally Murdered INDINAPOLY September On | it William Magill, a Ne was in Indinapol fair, when found hursday nigl ¢ farmer, wh nding th Ww is CONSCIOUS 64 | several inrge est St. Ther should is the clam ¢ men are hs ers and the publi any others to bring Louis “Mining Promoters,” be got an £0 disrepute. These ar worthloss which vests have resulted rs were handled and boomed | men. To the mine ow: both his nd the § er 1 &re per sharks, and rob Their mode mine ov wa A them wilh a request we property 8 i V This the ro pt, but says that if the owner will represent his property as being of he Che moter) will a sale, giving the | A rreateor valos tiate of Lis original walugation, and excess himself neg unt retaining the | Thus a mine, which would | pay well npon the price at which % yield an ad i the inflated value due Ow the an the owner alis to junte I £0 the ma lations of the promoter, and miners and | : are brought os, and r the nefit of the broker the All honest miners are most anxious to get rid of this old man of the sea, who has fixed him self upon the mining trade, and 1 isto be | hoped that the public will soon learn to treat these men with the neglect they deserve — Globe Democrat Interview, Civil Courts on the Continent, I was very much interested in the mode of | procedure in civil trials in courts on the con- tinent on the occasion of my visit to Europe In England & trial is conducted very much | lke it is in America-the attorneys examine, cross examine and reexamine witnesses at length, and the judge has very little to say, On the Continent the witness is examined by the judge, who asks all the questions and the | lawyers bave nothing to say. Especially fs | this true in Germany, France and Austria. 1 | was much interested in a trial that I witnessed | at Paris, There were thro judges on the | bench, and one of them, as if endeavoring to bring out all the facts, interrogated & witness in a very searching manner, It looked odd to seo Lhe lawyers in the case sitting opposite tho judges but saying nothing; T don't think the average American lawyer could have stood it. At the conclusion of the evidence the lawyers can address the court, and when the verdict is retur: can appeal to & higher court if they wanf@o «Globe Demnoat, A Generous Colleotor, Thomas Collier, the New London pust, has & passion for collecting. His book of auto graphs of poets and literary people from all parts of the world fs very complete and be takes much pride in exhibiting it to sallers, Ab one timo he was Interested In collecting coina. He had a valuable series near com. pletion wheu he learned that a friend bad a similar series even nesrer the full ndmber than his own, and, further, that the coins missing from his friend's collection wore all in his own, Without hesitation he : During the past six | the « the origing ! tee i produce { enous a | line that divides many people that they can scarcely walk about without jostling each other. For example, the statement is made that Java has 508 foe habitants to the square mile, Japan 234, Italy 240, Belgium 491, and the Netherlands 512 country whose with wonderful if not with alarming rapidity, This increase of population is largely due the absence of wars and better sanitary cou ditions, g Mr, Knox thinks that it is time to study the philosophy of Malthus, who held that population, unchecked, increased in geome rical ratio, while food can only be made to crease in arithmetical ratio. He also argues that chocks on population are absolutely necessary, and clams advantages for war, pestilence, famine and wost Vices, of the destructive Ho states that few of the countri which there Is “standing room only PrOe foo for tants, and shows by official census tables that ths ber of rapidly, added to the list of overpopulated countries in no very distant future. At present fow of od fond he JrO- Cun na enough the inhabi nue these countries is increasing very hai it fiw Lats ii © not for the people fi staaitly woving farther we duce food enough that do is con NO CAUSE FUR ALARM modern Malthus has i" my Lhiose This no | complain « i sold for a penny a pound, ms . | ow 1it as a con i plgn. Fr mutton prodod { doubled, even if wifiad to (lod that the wi Chip In almost every igh and to spare. In producers are discourag: At one prioms, but or sonid rake but iit time far with edd Now thes ping vices, and fin It be #O uch | that there | f A i the country when a ds i ] i chase so much food During last dm nl f ings sold in Lond: ny each, and the | and ment or fo I herri 1 markets foral oorest labor hires . } v read, ora Lananas months sn randed LArIners : i rin and was oh per in The price of {4 1 § low io Great Britain that verpood than m products is the in a] LH] owners of ates declare that they can reo alize more from them ae gaine preserves than as cultivated farms The truth fe, the doctrine of Malthus is an exploded humbug. It was a plansible theory at the time be wrote, but the introduction of machinery on farms, the us of steam in agrl enlture, the improvement in brosds of ant mals, the utilisation of pre formerly wasted, the new methods of preserving fruits, vegetables, meal and fal most the increased speed of mw fates for carrying all kinds led for food prexiuced a rev is «rr yadd the phi Tt 1] i the pessimint of the aCe “, and last, but vosseis and the } 4 inten have n and and nes wate I famine» ties of the earth rvs that y eaough t cad. A TOnl Was w terdor of Asin many fa # N food 3 1 of Afrdcs exe : bas been Io an sig ort th ™" ight und nificant part of 2 devoted to the production ih Ansrica, in the opinio bolkdt, is the grand division : f1 tng the most | large po on of is remains unex) atx no good farming fs done in the parts tha out settled, It could ot y the granary but the stock sa * wi 1 wit i : i are almost ere as rabbits are ip Australia. an 5 of them are $0 every year for their hides and tal wep «1 wl + Midas 5 red have been long yard for ” cattle ew 8 n ke] Ww : WW i¥ Any care, ae turned into the forests become fat on nuts and wild fruit No believer in Malthn isitex] Bowth America By selecting breeds of animals thas an po oROphY ever mainre { early, and cgstantly supplying them with i suitable food, steers are made to weigh as i much when they are thirty months old as they formerly did at twice that age eral tion of By the gen introda the silo the beef y tore land was devoted to raising fodder crops, Our eountryman, Seth { Green, originated the expression “water fara ing,” and demonstrated that an acre of water | was capable of producing as much food as an acre of land, Experimnents show that Gorman carp can be radsed at aboot hall the price of tho cheapest meat, and the prospect is thas | most of our small lakes and artificial ponds will soon be utilized for the production of food the same us they are in China and Japan. Food producers everywhere are crying for more mouths to feed, so that they can get a better price for what they raises. But the prospect is that the cost of nearly every kind | of food will continne to decline, even if the population of the earth is doubled. Chicago Times The Leow In Michigan. Advance agents of theatrical companies have to be cantions bow they bill Michigan i owns. The law of the state is very particuise as to the kind of pletures displayed, snd roads: gnder peanity of fine or lmprisoument” Even tio picture of Vieginias bn ** 400 * A Shekel of Christ's Time. A young woman of Boston was recently presanted with a very valuable coin, a shokel of the time of Curist, Flo took it to a jews sor to have ib motnted with pearls ne a breastpin: and when she want for it was hor had sasared off : of and tp shone ns bright 14 a mow ni ~ Tevhas all right to forg? your ebembes, but oan Mok ‘em Seat ts omen anton. un) the sacred accor. | views onthe political contest in progress The nuthor then states that there i= hardly 8 population Is diminishing, | while that of most countries is increasing | | needs of those who toil | tive participation in politics | what organized labor demands must be | { will In | | begun He predicts that our own will be | | political organizations i Dex | him whe for | eotntry in the world | nearly | a | ners | nine | tho declaration Tot 4 | inbor than | Des grain | | better to level up than to level d {| cheaper to the consumer in certain be made | | strengthened and | on of this country could be | | organizations are founded | organized labor that believes in organiza. | that applies to all labor the same principle | of protection from unfair competitio | is proved by the declaration recently made “Xo sign, piceare, painting, or other | 1° trade more thoroughly organised or representation of murder, assassination, stabs | bing, fighting, or any personal violence, or of | i the commisdon of any erime, shall bo posted, | the offierrs ropreseuting | Agninat free t { 50a yid be heeded of the Knights of Labor, expresses his as follows, in a letter to Senator Quay, chairman of the Republican national com- mittee My connection with the labor movement for the past fourteen years has made it necessary for me to be a close student of causes of labor depression, and of the \i hile As a body a labor organization may refrain from ac , 80 much of obtained through legislation that the in dividual member of the labor organization must act politically as In his judgment best ald the ad objects ex pressed in the principles of the organiza tion he represents and whose success he desires In the RINSE wm to aid or } i ver : the fenarato and How advorates of batants in the polit sincere may be ti ImmeRsurg 10 sect ire which 0 armed whatever strenptl ! at the didate Wi can % Of i r the Republi iq i ihe TRL : De ‘ ] ’ . bf | z 1 Gent of the United Stats herefore to | { his country and at heart the ne. i these | en | by the welfare ple E 1 | PF LOW hich of nl shail be giv or directly, “party ire, 1 be- iq adopt ystem | ion to the | ros nearer § josires of organized { iis, she | offers | 8 Or I party Evste 3 ANE de WY ade opponet rate fl y the Amer by the Bepusiican | ter and entourage nd retain | of our us Can party, | mrriers of me mar tories ir | wer level I wages Knig Labor and kin. tions shall have obtained in lnnds the same commanding posi. ved in the United | wages will dis- by leveling our wages down | it is far | wn, as | the larger the income the larger the power i to consume i Wi FFT nfinence but eve by leveling thelr wages up fer free trade goods may be lines, lines must i : 1 the labor made idle in those 1s of ioyment and I Gm a ower mite those already employed | 1 to other meat emt er of & workingman upon what he receives for his Cnemnloved } y CONINUMe ” fas % the lines affected * Le J ’ 5 a lines of plot bY Lhe su titution f the free trade for the prota id it id tive sve y be far wiser statesman and home { tem retain our b 3 al protects Ameri ean labor than 10 command & market In | foreign lands secured by the wholesale | T on and pau wi of our own ul marsel Hy a slam degradat all pecs Every. dol a ar's worth of labor imported is oy 80 much a reduction of home labor er's wag his fom not offset by goods The po rather by such agpecions presenta tion of the matter, because the question is then instantly forced upon every intel ligent man, How can American labor earn | dollars if the thdustry in which he is ex. | perienced is transferred to foreign lands? | The theory of protection advocated by the Republican party is the same as the underlying principle upon which all labor | A friend to | the declaration that there are more in the import lollar's wih sition of protectionist wi he in i tion as a means to enhanced and maintain | wages cannot consistently oppose a party : 0 that the individual trade organization gives to the single trade. Trade organ: izations to aid in advancing wages in | their respective trades and the protee- | tive system demanded by the Republi | can party will secure for all the tollers in the for a similar fostering care. : That this is clearly understoed by most | of the thinking leaders of organized labor in favor of the American system and a home market by the presiding officers of the organization representing the iron and the glass Industries of the United States. There is no better organization of any one {rade than the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron and Steel Workers, There is better disciplined than that of the Win. dow Glass Workers, nor one in which higher wages are paid. Tho warnings of those trades 0 are very signillosst aud A careful consideration of all {hese facts convinces me that the present is o grave erigis in the politionl afairs of our coun. try, and that 1 have no right te remain silent, My position as general kecrelary of the Knights of Labor has given me an intimate knowl of the varous hases THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT! a rf ONE YEAR, [ he Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper in the County. The Democrat is bound to be abreat of the times and willconstantly and con=- sistently advocate what believes to be in the inter= ests of the people. =) 7175 un oe - 2 + QQ ENF * few 3 No man can afford to be with= out a county paper and at ONE DOLLOR The Democrat is plac=- ed in reach of all. SUBSCRIBE AT ONCH!
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