TH« CENTKE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 19. 1903, 3 —— STIRKE HEARING CLOSED Commission Will Meet in Wash- ington to Consider Its Award, MR. DARROW'S CLOSING SPEECH Strikers’ Attorney Touched Upon Al most Every Phase of Conflict, and | When He Closed Was Greeted With Long Applause. Philadelphia, Feb. 14.—The anthra- cite coal strike commission, after be- ing in public session for more than three months, closed its open hearings yesterday with an all-day argument by Clarence 8. Darrow, in behalf of the miners. The commission will meet in gecret in Washington next Thursday and begin the consideration of its award. It is expected that by the end ready to make thelr announcement If an increase in wages is determined upon, the increase is to date from the | 1st of last November, the commission having decided upon that date on October 31. After the session day the commission held a short con ference with the lawyers for the sev eral and a to hold themselves in read they are called upon by the commis The crowd that heard Mr. Darrow speak vesterday was fully as great as that which list Mr. Baer and Mr. Darrow 0 jay. He up the entire tim { both sessions five and a almost when he « long appl did not Was In vester 3 hem sides ked them case jiness in on ened to took He touche every of the strike, an was gre Chairm “and ==N 15 to after ti cruelly 1 men, that among this duced to s vation eigners sald were a sympathetic with warm-hearted religious poor grace, he that the labor the operato comes operators to Slave taken lish. and ble party with a contract. He spoke of the strict ¢ herence of the letter of the law, and the moral law « and remarked that if Say whose for years, could are not 1) To they not speal therefore & rest whom roul 1 operators to the nanity autains ol | and of | to satisfy | ean of this month the arbitrators will be | RN spect thelr fellow man, the bitter war just ended would not have occurred, and those who lost their lives in that strugele would be alive today.” Conflicts between capital and labor will continue, he sald, until these cap tains of industry respect their fellow men. [It is idle, futile and useless to talk of curing it in any other way, he sald Mr. Darrow then took up the 13 evie- tions on the Markle property, and with language that was extremely strong he pletured the eviction of a sick wife a blind woman 100 years old ‘You may roll together all the cruelty and violence committed fn the anthra- cite region,” he exclaimed, “and cannot equal the flendish cruelty John Markle when he turned helpl« 8 people into the stro his hellish hate Turning to the hoveott sald there was one {llustrio at least, In the United Stat of the boycott, and that the Ameri Revolution. "There is not one spe cific act the mine workers was charg ed to the 1 you of these t simply Mr. Darrow example, was in that is charged to but what ts whom we teach « and mer always that f never They starvatl the common cause, and as a rule scab is a man has no abiding place on the face of the earth. He is a wandering tramp. ready to be used by anybody who will pay the price to and when the strike operators let him walk home again, union send him home. And ot he but that he will be de spised, mistrusted, hated and reviled by all men who liberty and who love their fell men and who have the point of of the organized la boring mar Regarding the who is ovar ove demand for eight hours a day, Mr. Darrow said: “This is not a demand to shirk work, as Is often ¢laimed to be the case, It Is a demand for the right ef the Individual to have a better life, a fuller life, a completer life; and this, like everything else, de- pends upon your point of view, There is only one standpoint from which you have a right to approach this question | that is the best the be pation and what will make man up a more strik Other gentlemen dollars and cents where will more violence may ) JUre it I shall not | | After making a plea for the weighing | of con! wherever it is possible Mr. Dar- row discussed the merits of am not will- moment the said: “1 for a single labor ing unions, he to admit gained for manhoo for the me petty the into a Why, we nt that the anything ean be for righteousne by going Into ms and ask to and 1 legislature merge individual blood of man corp state state of New d a law to compel wrporate. New » tus charters t over the which have AWAITING THE VERDICT Coal Strike Commission to Make Award Within the Month, Ph : phia. Feb. 1 Several car } ypewrit t American citizen, to build | he no | in | the union. | On the question of the incorporation of | t | good of all | flesh | ration | are told | foremost figures in labor's greatest struggle, left the city Saturday night, and the two-score non-resident lawyers who participated In glante have returned The ists have after the ever xed each back and clerks, moved having greatest SUCCOs contract uted In the ter of 2 000.000 words times The report of two the include will and ate brief the aw he a vard, the detalied discuss propositio : nal) sched Al i view dence the to one to country, a commis publications The summary second lon battle of their homes, big force of stenographers, copy expert, | Washington, | afully completed | an for mat duplicated fon first of the case elabor of the whole is of all the of all the evi it is belles an rk as u for $2.45 a day shorthand | 100 | will | PROTOCOLS SIGNED Negotiators Reach Agreement in Venezuelan Dispute, BLOCKADETO BE RAISED AT ONCE Fina! Formalities Took Place at Brit ish Embassy~All Venezuelan Ves sels Captured By the Alllee Are to Be Returned. Herbert W. resentative in hington, Feb. 14 Venezuela's reg Wa Bowen, the peace negotiations at Washington last night signed with each of allies’ representatives here a providing ! 1¢ immediate ral of the Venezuelan blockad g ¥ my the proto €¢ Ana the reference raingt Venez ential treatment of i Maly nents THE BLOCKADE RAISED Allies’ Warships Sa ezuelan Venez | Away From Ven Ports. nein, Fel been of British cruiser warship here, sent an officer a yesterday morning with the announcement that the Tribune would leave for Trinidad, The populace is wild with joy. The governn WHA 11 o'clock, whe raca : Tribune had notified } authorities at La Gualra that the ble ad J raised. At 3 o Tribur The Venez Hig galled ment news raise« commander of the Tribune, the only hore puzzled until reached Ca that the 2 CONFER DEGREES ounces Names brn red, AA NN AA NN NAAN AAA PP THE RACKET. Room No. 7==The China Store. Room No. 9--Dress Goods, Notions, Shoes, &c. : Room No. 11 and Annex--Domestics, Underwear, Kitchen Dep't, 5 & 10c. Goods, &c. This Grea Special Sale Begins SATURDAY, FEB. 21 and Gloses SATURDAY | NIGHT, MARGH 7th, 1903. RED TAG SALE 3 GOMBINED STORES 05. 7.9 & II GFidr's Exchange. Bellefonte. w&>REMEMBER THE DATES, OR CUT OUT THIS AD. AND PUT IT UP WHERE U WILL SEE IT, AS IT WILL APPEAR WATCH FOR THE RED TAGS. Extraordinary occasion requires extraordinary efforts. The Price Reductions will be general in all parts of the three stores ; a few excep- tions to this rule only—being “bound goods,” such as Butterick Patterns, Her Majesty Corsets and a few other like items on which the mann- facturers set the retail price. We mention this so that there may be no misunderstanding. Everything else in the three combined stores at a ONLY ONCE. cut price. NINN ANN ANNAN ROOM NO. 7. ROOM NO 9. CRIDER'S EXHANGE, BELLEFONTE, U will notice that we seldom advertise thus (different from some stores U kno of), but when we do it means business. If U do any buying in Bellefonte this is U'r chance for genuine bargains. THE RACKET, ROOM NO. 11. PENNA.
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