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THE HTTSBUKG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, APKIL 8, 189a
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SECOND PART.
PAGES 9 TO 24.
THE SHIBBOLETH
OF Djocucr.
Grover Cleveland Rings
the Changes on Tariff
Reform As
THE KEYNOTE OF '92.
His Party Will Not Wander Off to
Silver Doubt and Danger.
ONE SUBJECT AT A TIME ENOUGH.
Reciprocity Lamely Linps in the Direc
tion He Thinks Right
If Hypocrisy Is the Homage Vice Pays
to Virtue, Beciprocity Is the Homage
Prohibitory Protection Pays to Tariff
Reform His Talk on Corruption and
Bribery Tells How Brave He Was In
Issuing His Free Trade Message De
clared Principles on Which the Demo
cratic Platform Eests Prejudices in
a Campaign The Ex-President's First
Speech in Ehode Island.
Peotidexce, It. I., April 2. The fol
lowing is the address of ex-President Cleve
land delivered here this evening in the in
terest of the Democratic ticket of Ehode
Island:
Mr Fellow Citizens I have found it
impossible to decline the invitation you
sent me to meet here 10-day the Democracy
of Ehode Island. I have come to look in
the faces of the men who have been given
the place of honor in the advance of the vast
army which moves toward the decisive
battle field of next November. I have cot
come to point the way to consolation in case
of your defeat, but I have come to share the
enthusiasm which presages victory. I have
not come to condole with you upon the diffi
culties which confront you, but to suggest
that they will only add to the glory of your
triumph. I have come to remind you that
the intrenchments of spoils and patronage
cannot avail against the valor and de
termination of right; that
Corruption and Bribery
eannot smother and destroy the aroused
conscience of our countrymen, and that
splendid achievements await those who
bravely, honestly and stubbornly fight in
the people's cause. Let us not for a mo
ment miss the inspiration of those words,
The People's Cause." They signify the
defense of every man, rich or poor, in every
corner of onr land, who by virtue of simple
American manhood lays claim to the prom
ises -of our lree Government, and they
mean the promotion of the welfare and hap
piness of the humblest American citizen
who confidingly invokes the protection of
just and equal laws.
The covenant ol our democratic faith, as
I understand it, exacts constant effort in
this cause, and its betrayal I conceive to be
a crime against the creed of true democracy.
The struggle in which you are engaged ar
rests the attention of your party brethren in
eery State, and they pause in their pre
paration for the general engagement near
at hand, in which all will be in the field
and look toward Ehode Island with hope
and trust. They read the legends on your
banners and they hear your rallying cries,
and know that your fight is in the people's
caue. If you should be defeated there will
be no discouragement in this vast waiting
army; but you will earn their plaudits and
cover yourselves with glory by winning
success.
The Shibboleth of True Democracy.
Large and bright upon your banners are
blazoned the words "tariff reform" the
shibboleth of true Democracy, and the test
of loyalty to the people's caue. Those
who oppose tariff reform delude themse Ives
if they suppose it rests wholly upon appeals
10 selfish considerations and the promise of
advantage, right or wrong, or that our only
hope of winning depends upon arousing
animosity between different interests amone
our people. While we do not propose that
those whose welfare we champion shall be
blind to the advantages accruing to them
from our plan of tariff reform, and while we
are determined that these advantages shall
not be surrendered to the blandishments of
greed and avarice we will claim nothing
that has not underlying it moral sentiment
and considerations of equity and good con
science. Eecause our case rests upon such founda
tions, sordidness and selfishness cannot de
stroy it. The fight for justice and right is a
clean and comforting one, and because the
American people love justice and right,
ours must be a winning fight.
"The Government of the Union is a Gov
ernment of the people; it emanates from
them; its powers are granted by them, and
arc to be exercised directly on them and for
their benefit."
Violating: tlio Governmental Compact.
This is not the language of a political
platform. It is a declaration of the highest
court in tne land, whose mandates all must
obey, and whose definitions all partisans
must accept. Iu the light of this exposition
of the duty the Government owes the peo
ple, the Democratic party claims that when,
through federal taxation, burdens are laid
upon the daily life of the people not neces
sary for the Government's economical ad-'
ministration, and intended, whatever he the
pretext, to enrich a few at the expense of
the many, the Governmental compact is vi
olated.
A distinguished Justice of the Supreme
Court, with no Democratic affiliations, but
loved and respected, when living, by every
American, and since his death universally
lamented, has characterized such a proceed
ing as "none the less a robbery because it is
done under the forms of law and is called
taxation."
Let us then appreciate ihe fact that we
not only stand upon sure and safe ground
when we appeal to honesty and morality in
our championship of the interests ot the
masses of our people, as they are related to
tariff taxation, but that our mission is in
vested with tbe highest patriotism when we
attempt to preserve from perversion, dis
tortion and decay the justice, equality and
moral integrity which are the constitu ent
elements of our scheme of popular govern
ment Sincerity or His Free Trado Message.
Those who believe in tariff reform for the
substantial good it will bring to the multi
tude, who are neglected when selfish greed
is in the ascendancy; those who believe that
the legitimate motive of our Government is
to do equal and exact justice to all our peo
ple and grant especial privileges to none;
those who believe that n nation boasting
that its foundation is in honesty and con
science cannot afford to discard moral senti
ment, and those who would save our institu
tions from the undermining decay of sordid
ness and selfishness, can hardly excuse them
selves if they fail to join us in the crusade
we have undertaken.
Certainly our sincerity cannot be ques
tioned. In the beginning of the struggle
we were not only bitterly opposed by a
great party of avowed enemies, but were
embarrassed by those in our own ranks, who
had become infected with the unwhole
some atmosphere our enemies had created.
We hesitated not a moment boldly to en
counter both. We unified our party, not
by any surrender to the half-hearted among
our members, but by an honest appeal to
Democratic sentiment and conscience. We
have never lowered our standard.
Neither Policy Ifor Expediency.
It surely was not the policy nor the expe
diency that induced us defiantly to cai?y
the banner of tariff reform as we went forth
to meet a well-organized and desperately
determined army in the disastrous field of
1888. A time-serving or expediency-hunting
party would hardly have been found'
the day after such a crushing defeat, undis
mayed, defiant and determined, still shout
ing tbe old warcry, and anxious to encoun
ter again, in the people's cause, our exult
ant enemy. We had not long to wait. At
the Waterloo of 1890 tariff reform had iu
vindication, and principle and steadfast de
votion to American fairness and good faith
gloriously triumphed over plausible shifti
ness and attempted popular deception.
The Democratic party still champions the
cause which defeat could not induce it to
surrender, which no success short of com
plete accomplishment can tempt it to neg
lect. Its position has been from the first
frankly and fairly stated, aad no one can
honestly be misled concerning it We in
vite the strictest scrutiny of our conduct in
dealing with this subject and we insist that
our cause has been open, fair and consist
ent. I believe this is not now soberly denied
iu any quarter.
The fiecord of the Opposition.
Our opponents, too, have a record on this
question. Those who still adhere to the
doctrine that an important function of the
Government is especially to aid them in
their business, those who only see in the
consumers of our land forced contributors to
artificial benefits permitted by Govermental
favoritism, those who see in our working
men only the tools with which their shops
and manufactories are to he supplied at the
cheapest possible cost, and those who believe
there is no moral question involved in the
tariff taxation of the people, are probably
familiar with this record, and abundantly
satisfied with it.
It may,howcver, be profitably reviewed by
those who believe that integrity and good
faith have to do with Governmental opera
tions and who honestly confess that present
tarifi burdens are not justly and fairly
distributed. Such a review may also be
of interest to those who believe that our
consumers are entitled to be treated justly
and honestly by the Government and that
the workingman should be allowed to leel
in his humble home, as he supplies his
family's daily needs, that his earnings are
not unjustly extorted from him for the ben
efit of the favored beneficiaries of rnfair
tariff laws. ,
Methods of the Republican Party.
This, then, is the record: When we began
the contest for tarifi reform it was said by
our Eepublican opponents, in the face of
our avowals and acts, that we were deter
mined on free trade. A long advance was
made in their insincerity and impudence
when they accused us of" acting in the in
terests of foreigners, and when they more
than hinted that we had been bought with
British gold. Those who trusted the eflect
iveness of these senseless appeals insulted
the intelligence of our people by claiming
that an increase in the cost of articles to the
consumer caused by the tarifi was not a tax
paid by him, but that it was paid by
foreigners who sent their goods to our mar
kets. Sectional prejudice was invoked in
the most outrageous manner, and the people
ot the North were asked to condemn the
measure of tarifi reform proposed by us be
cause members of Congress from the South
bad supported it.
These are fair samples of the arguments
submitted to the American people in the
Presidental campaign of 1888.
It will be observed that the purpose of
these amazing deliverances was to defeat
entirely any reform in the tarifi though it
had been enacted at a time when the ex
pense of a tremendous war justified the ex
action of tribute from the people which in
time of peace became a grievous burden,
though it had
Congested the Federal Treasury
with a worse than useless surplus, inviting
reckless public waste and extravagance, and
though in many of its features the only pur
pose of its continuation was the bargaining
it permitted for party support There were
those, however, in the ranks of our oppo
nents who recognized the fact that we had
so aroused popular attention to the evils
and injustice of such a tarifi that it
might not bo safe to rely for
success upon a bald opposition to its
reform. There were the grave and
sedate Eepublican statesmen who declared
tnat tney never, never, could consent to
subserve the interests of England at the
expense of their own country, as the
wicked Democrats proposed to do, and that
they felt constrained to insist upon a tariff,
protective to the point of prohibition, be
cause they devotedly loved our working
men and were determined that their em
ployment should be constant and that their
wages should never sink to the disgusting
level of the pauper labor of Europe, but
that, in view of the fact that the war in
which the tariff then existing originated,
had been closed for more than 20 years, and
in view of the further fact that the publio
treasury was over-burdened, they were will
ing to readjust the tariff, if It could only
be done by its friends Instead of "Eebel
Brigadiers."
Why the Country Went Democratic
I will not refer to all the means by which
our opponents succeeded in that contest
Suffice it to say they gained complete pos
session of the Government in every branch,
and the tariff was reformed by its alleged
friends. All must admit, however, that
either this was not done by the people's
friends or that the efforts In their behalf
were sadly miscarried or ungratefully re
membered; for a few weeks" thereafter a
relegation to private life among those oc
cupying scats in Congress who had been
active in reforming the tarifi occurred
which amounted to a political revolution.
These victims claimed that our voters
failed to indorse their reform of the tariff
because they did not understand it It is
quite "probable, however, that if thty did
not understand it they felt it, and that, be
cause it made them uncomfortable, they
emphatically said such a reform was not
what they wanted.
At any rate, the consumer has found life
harder since this refold than before, and if
there is a workingman anywhere who has
had his wages increased by virtue of its
operation he has not yet" made himself
known. Plenty of mills and factories have
been closed, thousands of men tens lost em
ployment, and we daily hear of reduced
wages; but the benefits promised from this
reform, and its advantage to people who
really need relief are not apparent.
Beclprodty Limps in the Right Direction.
The provision it contains permitting
reciprocity of trade In certain cases,depend
icg on the action of the President, is an ad
mission, as far as it goes, against the theory
upon which this reform is predicated, and
it lamely limps in the direction of freer
commercial exchanges. If "hypocrisy is
the homage vice pays to virtue," reci
procity may be called the homage prohibi
tory protection pays to genuine tarifi re
farm. The demand in your platform for
free raw, materials ought, it seems to
me; to be warmly seconded by the
citizens of your State. The advantages
to the people of Ehode Island of such a
policy do not seem to be questionable, and
I am not here to discuss them in detail; but
all I have said touching the conduct and
record of the Democratic party and its
opponents in regard to tariff legislation is
in support of the proposition that all who,
uesirc lue epcci&i reuei reierreu iu in your
platform, or any other improvement in our
tariff laws in the general Interest of the peo
ple must look to the Democratic party for
it The manufacturer who sees in free raw
materials a reduced cost ot his products re
sulting in an increased consumption and an
extension of his markets, and a constant ac
tivity and return for his invested capital,
can hardly trust the party which first re
sisted anyreform in the tariff, then juggled
with it, and at last flatly refused him the
relief he still needs.
The Manufacturer and the laborer.
The workingman who has been deceived
by the promise of higher wages and better
employment, ana who now constantly tears
the closing of manufactories and the loss of
work, ought certainly to be no longer cajoled
by a party whose performance has so clearly
given the lie to its profession. The con
sumer, who has trusted to a reformation of
the tariff by its friends, now that he feels
the increased burden of taxation in his
home, ought to look in another direction for
relief.
If the Democratic party does not give to
the state of Ehode Island during the present
session of Congress the free raw materials
she needs, it will be because a Eepublican
Senate or Executive thwarts its designs. At
any rate nothing shall divert us from our
purpose to reform the tariff in this regard.
ap well as many others, be the time of its
accomplishment near or remote. It doubt
less would please our adversaries if we
could be allured from our watch and guard
over the cause of tariff reform to certain
other objects, thus forfeiting the people's
trust and confidence. The National Demo
cracy will hardly gratify this wish and turn
its back upon the people's cause to wander
after false and unsteady lights in the wilder
ness of doubt and danger.
The Silver Question Isn't In It
Our opponents must, in the coming na
tional canvass, settle accounts with us on
the issue of tarifi reform. It will not do for
them to say to us that it is an old and de
termined contention. The ten command
ments are thousands of years old, but they
and the doctrine of tariff reform will be
taught and preached until mankind and the
Eepublican party shall heed the injunction,
"Thou shalt not steal"
As I leave you, let me say to yon that
your- cause deserves success, and let me ex
press the hope that the close of your can
vass will bring you no regrets on account of
activity relaxed or opportunities lost De
monstrate to your people the merits of your
cause, and trust them. Above all things,
banish every personal feeling of discontent,
and let every personal consideration be
merged in a determination, pervading your
ranks everywhere, to win a victory. With
a cause so just, and with activity, vigilance,
harmony and determination on the part of
Ehode Island's stanch Democracy, I believe
you will not fail.
LADY GYMNASTICS.
Swell New York Females Astonish Hale
Friends A Clever Muscular Matinee
They Fly Throcgli the Alp With the
Greatest of Eblo and Are Perfectly Able
to Do as They Please"
Ne-W York, April 2. Special. The
Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Club at their
third annual opening yesterday, astonished
their friends with their exhibition of mus
cular prowess. The pupils wore gymna
sium suits which consisted of a dark blue
blouse braided, military fashion, with gold
braid, very full Turkisk trousers, reaching
just below the knee, with the same mate
rial and color as the blouse. Black hose,
and low black, rubber-soled shoes com
pleted the costume.
It was quite a lesson in metamorphosis to
recognize a Bwell girl whom you had seen
on the avenue an hour before now hanging
head downward from tbe horizontol bar; or
to see tne aaugnter ot a leading divine tak
ing a little excursion up and down the
room on the "traveling rings;" or another
meek-tongued maiden transformed into the
woman with the iron jaw.
Two young ladies whirled round and'
round the horizontal bar with a rapidity
that would make ou dizzy, while the.
others were performing on trapeze rings in
a way to substantiate the Darwinian theory.
The high jumping was excellent
Mme. Beserer, with three of her pupils,
gave a brief exhibition of a fencing lesson.
Last in order were the fanoy steps. The
girls formed in two platoons. At each suc
cessive descent of the hall was added an
extra hop, or kick, or pirouette until there
was scarcely a motion left untried. There
were 72 pupils, the youngest under 7 years,
and not a few gray haired. The figures were
well developed, and they were by no means
like the inmates of Mrs. Squeers' school,
where "the general run of limbs was
crooked."
MAY GET SUNDAY BEER.
A Jersey Millionaire Has a Scheme How
He Proposes to Plant on His Soil a Ger
man Idea Powerful Enough to Chance
the Lam to Salt Himself.
New York, April 2. Special Gott
fried Krueger, the millionaire brewer of
Newark, has views in connection with the
improvement of the Newark and South
Orange Eailroad, which he and other capi
talists have just purchased, and his
views are xtremely broad. He owns
the shooting park just outside of
cal garden to excel all others in this country,
the city line on South Orange avenue, and
hitherto it has been a most unprofitable
venture. With the eleotrio equipments of
the street railway, Mr. Krueger will make
great changes in the park, and chief among
these will be the establishment of a zoologi-
xt is jur. jirueger s intention to buy
$200,000 worth of animals, and spend a
liberal sum In providing quarters for them.
It will not be a free garden, but the admis
sion fee will be as low as It can be made
consistent with the expenses. Of course, it
is intended to make it a Sunday garden,
with music the feature and unlimited beer,
but the present laws will have to be changed
to make this possible.
Mr. Krueger is a shrewd business man, a
Democrat, and a party leader, as well as a
lay Judge of the Court of Errors and An.
peals. His great wealth gives him great
power and influence, and it is not impossible
that within a year public gardens may be
allowed to keep open on Sunday after-
Dors' stylish suits
That Will Take the Easter Prizes P. C. C. C.
Boys with their parents are now trooping
Into our store to be fitted with new spring
suits. , An elegant present for every boy that
will make him happy, free. The new penny
suvings bank, shaped like a bucket, holds
i00 pennies and registers eaoh time, or a
regulation League Dat and ball. free.
Boys' double breasted suits, fine cassi
mere or cheviot, size 4 to 15, stylish
end tasty, real value $8 SO; our speoial
price 4i go
At $2 40 a special line of boys' silk mix
tures and checked nnlts nleAteri np
plain: regular $4 0 goods, we sell for.. $3 (0
A big llne.of boys' confirmation suits
and Sunday suits; plain cloths and tne
newest that's out, at $2 73 and 13 75
Come and see us Monday. P. C. C. C., Cloth
iers, corner Grant and Diamond streets.
'TWIXT HAY MP CORN
Is About tbe Time That the Tories
. Would Like the Election.
MOELEY ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Durham Miners Begin to Bee That They
Can't Win Their Strike.
oACKYlLLE WEST IN HOT WATER AGAIN
rBT CABLX TO THI DISPi.TCH.1
London, April 2. Copyright. Yester
day Mr. Labouchere made another attempt
to extract from the Government some defi
nite declaration as to the date of the general
election, and Mr. Balfour made a very care
ful reply, which seemed to afford little in
formation, but it evidently conveyed some
thing satisfactory to Mr. Gladstone, for that
wily old strategist spoke honeyed words to
Mr. Balfour and advised Mr. Labouchere
not to press the Government further for the
present It has since become known that
Mr. Gladstone is of the opinion that Mr.
Balfour's statement contained a virtual
promise to dissolve Parliament before
August, probably early in tbe summer.
Mr. Gladstone 8 belief may be due to in
formation which reached him from the Tory
camp, quite as much as to the substance of
Mr. Balfour's guarded statement in Parlia
ment A large number of Tory members have
recently caused to be conveyed to the Min
isters, through the party whips, their deep
concern at learning that there are members
of the Cabinet who desire to postpone the
general election until autumn. The memor
ialists point out that such a course would
deprive them of their customary holiday
after an exhausting session, and would con
stitute such a strain that many of them
would be compelled to refrain from seeking
re-election.
A Campaign Between the Harvests.
They suggest that the dissolution should
not be delayed beyond the beginning of
July, and that the best time for the elec
tions they cannot take place immediately
after Easter, would be between "the hay
and the corn harvests" that Is to say, at
the end of July. The probabilities at pres
ent are that an authoritative announcement
will be made by Mr. Balfour on the 25th of
May, when he will address, in St James'
Hall, the annual meeting of the National
Union of Conservative Associations.
The Government continues to muddle
business and waste time in the House of
Commons and accuse the Liberals of ob
struction, while diligently assisting the
latter in the work of cloggipgthe legislative
wheels. The Easter recess is to be un
usually long, probably from the 12th to the
25th inst, which affords fresh proof that the
Government is in no hurry.to push forward
the Irish local government bill, the rook
upon which the ministry will break up.
Merely an Unconsidered Trifle.
John Morley, in a speech at Manchester
on Thursday, put this matter very clearly.
That bill, he said, contains 78 clauses and 4
rather elaborate schedules, and occupied
nearly oo pages ot print. He douDted very
much whether the ministers would be able
to find it convenient to bring their men all
through the long summer afternoons and
nights to discuss a bill "which its own
author, by the way in which he introduced
it to the House of Commons, showed that
he regarded it as a mere unconsidered trifle
of legislation."
Next week John Eedmond, in the House
of Commons, will ask Home Secretary Mat
thews another question with regard to ex
Detective Superintendent James Black, of
Birmingham, who is now known to have
long practiced blackmail, and whose where
abouts are unknown. Eedmond will bring
before Parliament the information about
Black that was obtained by The Dispatch
reporter in Birmingham, and published in
last Tuesday's Dispatch, and it will be
impossible for the Home Secretary to re
fuse an investigation into the career of. the
ex-detective, upon whose testimony Daly
and Egan were convioted ot treason and
felony, and are now undergoing life sen
tence in Portland prison. That such an in
vestigation will result in the liberation of
the two men there is little doubt
CHEAPEE BIDES IN FBAKCE.
The Railroads All Beduce Their Bates 10
to 30 Per Cent.
BT CABLE TO THE DISrATCn.5
London, April 2. Americans who pro
pose traveling in France will be glad to
know that the reduction of railway fares to
the rates charged before the Government
tax in consequence of the Franco-Prussian
war was put upon the companies
came into effect yesterday. The reductions
made in the fares for passengers on all the
French railways are 30 per cent on the
previous third-class fares, 20 per cent, on
second-class fares and 10 per cent on first
class fares. The knowledge that these
reduced fares were to be applied on
the 1st of April had the efieot
of reducing the number of passengers very
considerably during the last few days, bnt
from an early hour yesterday morning every
train which left Paris was besieged by
passengers who had postponed their jour
neys in order to profit by the reduction.
The arriving trains also steamed into the
stations, yesterday and to-day, with almost
every seat occupied.
The loss entailed by these large reduc
tions is of course very great, but the rail-
Si'
A SHADOW ON TEE MAP OF EUROPE.
way companies look forward to a great and
rapid growth of passenger traffic, and are
already making preparations for it The
Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway
Company is building over 500 new carriages
and 100 new engines. The Northern, East
ern, Western and Orleans railways are also
largely increasing their rolling stock.
B0BLS FAMILIES'' QTJAEBEL8.
A Couple of Them Interesting the British
Public Just Now.
BY OABLB TO TUB DISPATCH.
London, April 2. The Marquis of Staf
ford haying gained a partial victory over
bis father, the Duke of Sutherland, in the
matter of cutting down timber at Trentham,
recently referred to in The Dispatch, is
now opposing the Duke's proposal to dis
entail a considerable portion of his Suther
landshire estates.
Members of another noble family are
quarreling about money matters . Lady
Jane Lindsay is accusing her sister, Lady
Theodore, of coercing her aged mother, th'e
late,Marchloness of Westminster, into mak
ing a will in her favor. The old lady, who
died in February, was left nearly a million
sterling by her husband 23 years ago.
Carpet Salel Carpet Salet
This weeki 23o ingrain carpet at lbo; heavy
two-ply 40o camet at 29c: GOo brussels at 42c;
$1 brussels at 80c: 05C oilcloth at 17c; 33c oil
cloth, 25c; best So and 10c stair oilcloth at
Sc. Cut this item out.
J. II. KtraKEL & Bro.,
1347-1349 Penn avenue, corner fourteenth
and Penn avenuo.
A BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE DISPOSES
OF HJS TOWN HOUSE.
He Thereby Bakes in a Cool Three-Quarters
of a Million The John Barns'
Wages Committee's Treasury Almost
Bankrupt A Striking Contrast
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. J
London, April 2. Copyright! It i
stated that the Duke of Devonshire has de
cided to sell his town house in Piccadilly
with tbe land around it, nearly four acres in
extent The" purchase money js 5750,000,
with which the Duke will be able to buy
another first-rate house and then put $500,
000 in bank. It is expected that the pur
chasers will cover the ground witn a big
hotel and aristocratic flats, which is the
only method by which they can hope to
make a large profit
Cheet by jowl with the announcement of
this big deal by which the Duke pockets
$750,000 solely because he is the son of his
father,' the moralist may read an appeal
from the John Burns Wages Committee for
funds to help pay the famous labor leader
the modest salary of JE2a week. When Burns
was elected three years ago to a seat in the
London County Council he was earning 3
a week at his bench as a fitter. He stipu
lated that as he would have to give np all
his time to municipal affairs the working
men of London should enable him to live
by raising that sum per week by voluntary
subscription. Consequently, the John
Burns Wages Committee was formed, and
Burns has since received his modest stipend
as a member of London's municipal parlia
ment. He has rendered incalculable service to
the cause of labor, but labor has not shown
much gratitude to its champion. The com
mittee has raised the necessary money from
week to week with great difficulty, and sev
eral times, as at the present moment, the
treasury has been almost- empty. The fact
is that the older and richer trade unions ob
ject to Burns because he is a Socialist, and
only the Dockers Union, which he estab
lished, has contributed to the fund.
OPENED A BOMB WITH AN AX
A Texas Boy's Successful Experiment With
a Bayou Find.
HOUSTON, Tex, April 2. Special
During the war a large amount of bomss
and other ammunition was thrown into
Buffalo bayou to avoid capture. To-day a
boy, Charlie Harris, got one of tbe bombs
out of the bayou, took it home and pro
ceeded to open it with an ax.
He succeeded. One foot was blown off;
he has a sing in bis groin, and another in
his head. The stable where he was experi
menting was blown to atoms.
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