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THE PTTEBBTJIIG DISPATCH. . MONDA7, JULY It 189S.
TO HGHTPIIKERTOI
The Eadicals in Chicago Are
Forming a DefensiTe
Organization.
MM ARMED AND DEILLED
For the Wild Purpose of Bern? Sent
to Reinforce Homestead. '
CHAEACTEE OF THE EECEUITS.
The Detectives in the Fight Secured From
Lodging Houses.
THE AKRITAri OF THE BODY OF KLINE
Chicago, Julv 10. The newest Chicago
phase of the effect of the Homestead riots is
the organization of a body of union work
men who will form themselves into a patrol
or agency similar to that of the Pinkertons.
A circular has been issued from the head
quarters of the several labor organizations
at 167 "Washington street calling for volun
teers and for financial aid. An attempt has
been made to keep the matter secret for the
present, but it was learned lrom good
authority that more than 500 union me
chanics have already signed their names as
being willing to take an active part as
patrolmen and alo to give financial aid.
James O'Connell, President of the Build
in!: Trades Council, when questioned con
cerning the movement said: "I am not pre
pared to say what there is to the movement
as I don't know. Bnt I suppose if a body
of respectable, law-abiding workmen agree
to organize themselves into a protective
patrol and discipline themselves in the use
ot arms there can be no objection to it by
the authorities. There are similar organiza
tions in existence here at present, and if the
Governor of the State and the Mavor could
be convinced that the men enrolled are
quiet, law-abiding citizens, whose only de
sire is to protect life and property, I don't
see what objection there could be to such an
organization."
"Is it not a fact that the real intention of
the organization is to ofler assistance to the
strikers at Homestead?"
Would Do So If Itrqnrited.
"Ko, I cannot say that it is, as I know
very little about it, but if private citizens of
Homestead, Pa., should call on the organi
zation to come there to protect their prop
ertv I take it for granted they would go."
"Would you apply to the State for arms,
or buy your own?"
"Xow, really, you are too hard for me
there, as I avI know very little about the
matter; but I would naturally suppose they
will purchase their own arms and uniforms,
as I understand that is the custom among
similar organizations."
'What similar organizations?"
"Well, the Pinkerton Protectiv- Patrol,
for one."
"Will the new company incorporate and
ask for a charter under the State laws?"
"I cannot say, but I hardly think it will
be necessary, as similar organizations have
never done so."
Other officials in the labormovement were
equally as reticent on the subject as Mr.
O'Connell, bnt there was an unusual num
ber of them about headquarters yesterday,
and there was a great deal of, earnest, quiet
talk among the members of small gronps
gathered about the place, but this talk
would invariably cease on the approach of
reporters.
"What is all this secrecy and talk about,
anyhow? Are you men setting un a com
pany to fight the Pinkertons?" was asked
of T. J. Howard, Secretary of the carpen
ters' association.
"I don't know anything about any com
pany," replied Mrl Howard, "but I will
say that the Pinkerton men hare received a
dose of their own medicine at last, and they
may get more of it before they are through.
"We workingmen never have believed in
their right to go about destroying the lives
and property of workingmen, and there may
be, lor all I know, a movement on foot to
organize a band of workmen to protect their
fellows from these outrages."
sclillllnt; Ilenonncns tin Pinkertons.
George Schilling, who has always been a
prominent figure in the labor movement in
Chicago, said yesterday: "Well, I have al
ways made a fight against this Pinkerton
agency and I am glad to see the general
public has at last come to a true under
standing of their lawlessness. "Why, the
people of this city have never realized the
influence for evil which has been exerted by
that agencv. Its ramifications have ex
tended all through our city and county gov
ernment. Officials have been bullied and
threatened by their agents. Its influence
has e-en extended to the grand jury rooms,
where absolute fairness is always supposed
to exist, and indictments found in accord
ance with the v ishes of these so-called de
tectives." Mr. Schilling said he did not know of any
movement to organize a force among labor
organizations to oppose the Pintertons. "I
don't see why they have not a perfect right
to do so, however," he added, as he walked
awav.
"The statement made by "William Pinker
ton that he is not hiring recruits is false,"
said a member of the Architectural Iron
"Workers. "I was accosted by a man on
Fifth avenue not ten minutes ago who in
quired where the Pinkerton agency is
located. He said he was from Montana,
and had been notified a few days ago to
report there lor duty.
This statement created considerable ex
citement among those present, and there
was a more decided expression about the
necessity of workingmen doing something
to meet the detective forces with force.
Pinkertons From Xrfdclng; Honses.
Four-fifths of the 125 Pinkertons who
went from this city to Homestead were re
cruited from lower Clark street lodging
houses, and they are termed in police par.
lance, "bums." From Van Buren street
south to Polk on Clark street there are per
haps 50 of these filthy places where a night's
lodgiug can be had for 5, 10 or 15 cents.
The great majority of men who .inhabit
these foul-smelling dens are not victims of
circumstances; they are lost to all shame
and self-respect, and it is through love of
companionship more than anything else that
they flock to these places.
They do little or no work getting enough
to pay for their lodging and food, such as it
is,irom people who drop them a few pennies
rather than be followed half a block. Any
night in the week scores of these fellows
can be seen begging in the district bounded
by Madison, Van Buren, State and Frank
lin streets.
These were the men, to a large extent,
that went down to Homestead for the
Pinkerton agency.
.ot of a nigh Class.
A former employe of the Pinkertons, who
for obvious reasons refuses to allow his
name to be used, said last night that many
of the men who went to Pennsylvania from
this city were of the lowest type of "barrel
house bums." "They were picked np," he
said, "from the cheap lodging houses and
saloons on Clark street, and a tougher-looking
set of men never left Chicago on a sim
ilar mission. I was talking with two or
three of them the night before they
left for Pennsylvania, and they told me
that they did not know exactly what they
were to do when they arrived at Home
stead. They were all hired as watchmen at
$2 50 a day and good fare guaranteed. None
ot them bad the remotest idea that he would
be compelled to force his way into Carne
gie's mills with a "Winchester. If they had
been told this before they left many of them
would have refused to go, while with others
in the party it would have made no differ-
ence. In that crowd of trams' that went
out of Clark street there were men who
had not earned an honest dollar in years.
A great many of them looked upon the trip
as a summer outing and f 2 50 a day for do
ing nothing. Some of the recruits were
from Tommy Major's lodging house, the
'Atlas,' on Fourth avenue, and more of
them were from the basement lodging
houses between Van Buren and Polk
streets, on Clark.
Reg-alar Men Refused to Go.
"A man who is at present in the employ
of the Pinkertons told me to-day that some
of the regular specials who refused to go to
Homestead we're suspended for three or
four days. Trouble was expected at Car
negie's mills, and for that reason he and
several others declined to go. The regular
specials knew that preparations were being
made for a bloody not, for the Winchesters
were shipped to Pittsburg ten days before
the men went. Misleading advertisements
were put in the papers for watchmen, and
some of the recruits were gained in that
manner. Every applicant was asked the
question: 'Are you a member of anv labor
organization, or are yon in sympathy with
union labor men.' If the applicant
failed to answer satisfactorily he
was told to come again, but that was onlv
a polite way of telllnsr him that he would
not do for a Pinkerton watchman. The
Pinkertons did not want any men at Home
stead whose svmpathies were with organi
zed labor. Kline, the Pinkerton man who was
killed, knew what would be expected of
him at Homestead, for he had been in sev
eral strikes before this one. There were
about 25 others in the Chicago gang who
understood that firearms were to be used in
case the strikers offered resistance. I heard
from a reliable source to-day that Pinkerton
was going to recruit 400 more men as soon
as possible and send them to Homestead.
He gets $8 a day for every man on duty
there and that leaves him a good profit."
Arrlvnl of Kline's Body.
When the Pennsylvania fast train that
left PittBburg arrived in Chicago the pas
sengers saw the familiar black-covered un
dertaker's wagon standing near the runway
at ine union aepot. xne wagon had been
standing there for ten minutes surrounded
by a small crowd of railway men and po
licemen. Passengers waiting for their
trains were pressed against the iron gates.
"Word had passed that the Chicago men
among the Pinkerton guards who had fought
at Homestead were returning on this train,
bringing their dead with them. "When the
train halted the ctoud that had fathered
under the shed dashed along the tracks and
scanned the passengers for the belabored,
blood-stained victims of the gauntlet-running
in Pennsylvania. They were disap
pointed, for only the ordinary railway
travelers bustled from the coaches and
streamed out through the big gates.
"When the crowd rushed ud the tracks a
man with crape on his hat who was driving
the black van chirruped to his horse and
backed down toward the train. The side
door of the baggage car was flung open and
a pine box was shoved out, laid on a truck
and wheeled to the dead wagon. The man
with the crape on his hat helped the baggage
man to lift in the box. Then he slammed
thedoor of the van, chirruped to his horse
again and went spinning up Canal street be-
lore the crowd realized that one of the
Homestead victims was in the pine box.
The dead man was J. W. Kline, the first
Pinkerton man killed in the fight. His
faoe was familiar to many in Chicago a
elean-ent face, with a firm mouth shaded br
a brownish-red mustache, and a square
chin that marked the fighter. The Ijody
was in good condition, but in the right
temple was a hole that a man might have
placed his thumb in. The sing of lead that
hit Kline must have been from the cart
ridge of a good-sized rifle, and the wound
looked as if the ball had been fired from
abore. The body was decently clad in new
black clothes and rested in a fine metallic
casket, which was lined with much lace
and satin. It was guarded from Pittsburg
by two Pinkerton men named Judson and
Smith. Later the body was taken to "Wa
bash, Ind., Kline's former home, for inter
ment. A WOUNDED PINKERTON
Now at nts Homo In Brooklyn Not Anx
ious to Talk Very Freely About tbe Bat
tle Under an .Assumed Name,
BitooKivmr, July 10. Among the
wounded Brooklyn Pinkerton men van
quished by the Homestead strikers who ar
rived home yesterday was Patrick McKen
na, of 107 Columbia street He marched,
through Jersey City with the others in the
gray ot the morning suffering from a gun
shot wound in the thigh and was conveyed
to his home by his wife, who immediately
summoned a physician and had her unfort-'
unate husband properly cared for. She
keeps a small drygoods store at the above
address, and, fearing that her business
might be injured if it was known that her
husband was a member of Pinkerton's force,
the neighbors say, she insisted on him giv
ing another name when he left for the scene
of the trouble in Pennsylvania.
Be that as it may, McKenna was known
as Daniel Mangan, and under that name
was reported as among the injured. The
real Daniel Mangan, whose name he as
sumed, is a hardworking shoemaker, who
lives at 137 Columbia street, and he thus
explains the matter: "During the pool
room war at the Brooklyn Jockey Club I
secured McKenna employment as a member
of Pinkerton's force through a letter of in
troduction from Alderman Moses "Wafer.
He gave his name as Daniel Mangan, and
after the trouble was over he worked for a
time as a track walker on the elevated road
in Hew York. "When Pinkerton was en
listing men for his raid on Homestead he
sent for McKenna, who, still using my
name, participated in the disastrous enter
prise and wis seriously wounded bv the
strikers. He was reported as Daniel Man
gan, and I seriously object to his masquer
ading any longer under my name."
A friend of McKenna's excuses his use of
Mr. Mangan's name by saying that during
the pool war at the Brooklyn track Mangan
secured an appointment for himself as a
detective by means of a letter of introduction
from Alderman Moses "Wafer to Bobert
Pinkerton, and that, reconsidering his
resolution to accept employment from
Pinkerton, he sent McKenna as a substitute,
giving him the letter of introduction. This
McKenna presented and he has since been
carried on the rolls of the Pinkerton office
as Daniel Mangan.
Mrs. McKenna would not say this morning
how seriously her husband was injured, and
she refused to permit a reporter to see or
talk with him.
A COMBINE OF HARVESTERS,
Bat, as Usual, ths Ortnnlxera Deny That It
Is a Trust.
SPMNGFIELD, O., July 10. Special.
The organization of American Corn Har-'
vester Association, to embrace all the lead
ing manufacturers of corn harvesters in the
country, was completed in this city this
morning. The association embraces tbe
McDonald Manufacturing Company, of
Bellefontaine, the "William 2T. "Wnitely
Company, the Foos Manufacturing Com
pany and the A. V. Butt Company, of this
city. The officers are: President, H. M.
McDonald, of Bellefontaine; Vice Presi
dent, G. S. Poos; Secretary and Treasurer,
a. A. xsraaiey.
The association has purchased the Fear
son patents, on which all such machines are
based. Its objects is to insure better goods
to the farmer, more uniform prices to deal
ers and to protect all from infringement
suits. The members declare that the or
ganization is not a trust.
The Skill and Knowledge
Essential to the production of the most per
fect and popular laxative remedy known,
ha-e enabled the California Fig syrup Co.
to achieve a great success in the reputation
of Its remedy. Syrup of Figs, as it is con
ceded to be the univers.il laxative. For sale
by all druggists.
If. Gkbiiaiid. of Detroit, Mich., Is here with
a carload of trotters and carriage horses to
be sold on Thm sday at Arnheim's sale.
D Witt's Mule Early Blsers. Ao griping
no pain, no nausea: easy pUl to take.
BEN BUTLER'S VIEWS
On the Legal Aspect of the Home-
stead Trouble Given in Fall.
PINKERTONS NOT IN THE EIGHT
In Making an Armed Invasion of the State
of Pennsylvania.
THE DUTY. OF GOVERNOR PATTTSON
Boston, July 10. Extracts from General
Benjamin F. Bntler's statement on the
trouble at Homestead, at the complete in
terview, are now given for the first time, as
follows:
The reporter General Butler, have you
any objection to stating your views of the
occurrences that have taken place at Home
stead, Pa., which resulted in a riot?
General Butler I ought not to have any
objections, because I have very pronounced
views on the matter, which are the result
of very considerable thought.
Let me premise: Mr. Carnegie, as every
body else, has the right to protect his prop
erty from violence or destruction. The
working men have the right to refuse to
work for him except upon terms to which
they agree. Neither ought to pursue these
rights except by due process ot law.
I have a right to defend my property, but
in doing so I have no right to incite or com
mit breaches of the public peace.
I mav be wrong in my facts, because
nothing can be known fully about them
without an official investigation, which
should be condncted under the law with
full powers to reach the bottom of the
affair.
As I learn the Carnegie Company has
been preparing for armed resistance to any
action against them. The company erected
a defense work around its mill, with port
holes and other means of offensive and de
fensive warfare.
The company had submitted a schedule
of wages for the acceptance of their work
men, aud gave them three days in which to
come to a determination to accept or reject
it. On tbe first day, however, some ill
advised persons hanged Mr. Frick, the man
ager of the company, in effigy. That was
no breach of the peace.
JAt Most It Was a Xilbel Only,
and a firm-minded, well-disposed gentleman
should have taken not the slightest notice
of it But the company immediately shut
down its mills and locked out the workmen.
Such a performance would ot course breed
very bad blood. That was accompanied
with tbe fortification of their premises,
which was.likely to provoke a riot
But who p'repared the first riot? Assum
ing that the Pinkerton men were acting for
the .Carnegie Company, that company pre
pared for a bloody riot simply; nothing that
they did being under the .sanction of the
law. Tber built at great exDense. it seems.
barges to contain a large force known as
the Pinkerton detectives, which barges
being very heavily built and lined with
steel plates, thoroughly supplied with arms
aud ammunition, with bunks for a large
number of men and prepared for warfare,
were to be used to make a landing in the
borough of Homfstead of an armed force.
Now, who are the Pinkerton detectives?
They are and have been for several years
an organization of armed, irresponsible" men
ready to commence warfare whenever or
dered by their offioers a conspiracy of men
more harmful to the public peace than any
other ever in this country, and more danger
ous to the liberty and welfare of our citi
zens than can otherwise be conceived.
"What was done? An armed water expe
dition was prepared and 250 men, -more or
less, were brought from New York, Brook
lyn and Chicago, supplied with murderous
weapons which they were to use and did use
to effect a landing.
There has been some talk in the news
papers as to who fired the first shot I,
think that was entirely useless in consider--ing
the situation, because whoever organ
ized this mercenary and murderous force
got ready a riot .on their part, and up to the
time of their attempting to land, T hear of
no riot at Homestead nothing approach
ing an outbreak, but only preparations to
meet this incursion. No property had been
destroyed, and nobody had been interfered
with by the laboring men, so far Us I have
learned.
The Action of Any Snch Force
was a riot of itself. No armed expedition
for the purpose of violence in a State can be
permitted to go from one State to another
without the assent of the public authorities,
and, so far as I know, no such assent was
given.
The company had called for deputies of
the sheriff to protect their property, and he
came on to the ground at the outset He
was met .in a peaceable and orderly manner
and invited to the rooms of the Advisory
Committee of the Amalgamated workmen,
which I understand to be an organization of
all the iron workmen in the country. That
committee informed him that in their opin
ion there would be no breach of the public
peace in the borough, that they would do
all they could to prevent it, ' and
they desired him to give them the
legal right to do what they could
by appointing them his deputies, which
he refused to do. They offered to give him
bonds in large sums for the performance of
their duty as such officers, but hedeclincd.
After consultation they then informed him
mat as their organization would Have no I
power to interfere with anything that might'
.. . ... ... . . .
happen they had determined to disband tae
j organization, and they asked him to attend
at their rooms wnen a tormai disbandment
of the organization was made, their records
burned and their badges of office discardedr
From their action they seem to have been
a very clear-headed, and properly, well dis
posed body of men.
The Sheriff then sent down ten of his dep
uties to keep the peace in so great an emer
gency. "When those deputies came there
and got information of the state of affairs
they declined to do anything, and went
home, and the Sheriff went to bed, having
informed the people that he would be at his
office at 8 o'clock the nejtt morning.
All this performanceon the part of the
Sheriff and the company seems to have been
simply a "blind," and my reasons for so
believing are these:
If there was any danger ten deputy sher
iffs from another part of the county were
known to be utterly ineffectual tor any
good, and that wai, known by the company,
because they hadllongjbefore prepared this
armed and fortified
Expedition of Pinkerton Men,
which they were to have landed at their
works at 3 o'clock the next morning; and,
so far as appears, they had not informed
the Sheriff of that determination. If they
had done so, then the Sheriff's action was
part ot a conspiracy, instead of timid inac
tion.
The preparath n of this expedition was
evidently knowi to 'the workingmen, be
cause such armed) and fortified barges could
not be prepared without the knowledge of
the steel workmen, because some of them
must have helped line them with the steel
plates. .
Now, np to thatltime there could not be
any assemblage of the workingmen. cer
tainly no outbreak, on their part but I
agree that preparations were doubtless
made to meet the merderont invaders.
I have no words oft justification ot the ac
tions of the mob when the invasion took
place, but I may be permitted to remark
when I see so many assertions that the Car
negie. company had the right to protect its
property, that perhaps the workingmen
knowing that they were bringing that irre
sponsible, illegal and murderous organiza
tion to shoot them down, might well have
believed that they had some right to.organ
ize to protect their lives And drive oft the
invaders who were acting without right and,
against law. ,
That question will bear argument.
Deserted by the State authorities, the
higher law of self-preservation might be in-
yoked, not in legal justification for what
they did, but certainly in palliation.
It is published, I know not with what
truth, that this water expedition coming up
the river fired upon one of the workmen in
a skiff whom they supposed had gone down
to watch and report their approach; and
that would be the first shot if there was
anything in that Then came that most ter
rible battle, the like of which never before
disgraced our country.
In that, two remarkable things appeared.
First, that the infuriated mob did not in
tend any harm to the property of the Car
negie Company, because they bad full pos
session of it for 24 hoars.
They 'saw acquaintances and friends
wounded and murdered by this armed in
vasion, but so far as I have seen they de
stroyed nothing. It is wonderful to 'me
that they were under such co'htrol and not
disposed to be destructive; that they
Did Not Destroy the Buildings
with those dynamite bombs "which they
threw at the invaders.
Second, that the lives of the Pinkerton
men were saved only, and those that were
left of them guarded to a place of safety by
the individuals of that organization which
had offered the Sheriff the assistance of so
keeping the peace.
I have been careful to give the facts as I
understand them, to which I wish to add a
lew thoughts that bear upon tbe occur
rences: If the facts are as I have stated them, and
I do not well see how I can be mistaken,
such occurrences onght never to happen
again in this country, and the most strin
gent laws, as well ot the United States as
of the States, should be passed to pre
vent it Pinkerton'B bodv of cut-throats
should be disbanded by law if the
lesson the got at Homestead will not"dis
band them. No railroads under an act
which inter-State commerce rights will pro
tect, should be allowed to bring them from
one State to another under tbe severest
penalties. The existence of such an organi
zation under any form or pretext should be
made felonies in whomsoever taking part in
it I further, as a lawyer, believe fully
that those having charge of the Carnegie
Company and organizing this riotous In
vasion oould be indicted and punished with
great severity under the present law for a
conspiracy to break tbe peace and commit
murder, and I hope they may be if there is
anylaw or justice'in the State of Pennsyl
vania not overshadowed and controlled bv
miserable political considerations.
But the question may be put to me: "You
say the Carnegie company have a right to
protect their property; h'ow should they do
it?" It is easy to reply to that question by
stating how they should not do it Not by
organizing murderous bands to shoot their
workmen and fellow-citizens indiscrimin
ately; not by inciting their workmen and
fellow-citizens to commit breaches of the
peace; not by fortifying their works to
makethem a scene of battle and slaughter.
I see it stated in some newspapers that the
port holes they put in their fences, and the
preparations that were made were to
Throw Hot Water on the Workmen,
I think I may be permitted to advise them
to use cold water.
But the answer to that branch of the
question: If the Carnegie Company had
any such fears of an outbreak of their
workingmen, and time to make such ex
tensive preparations and build vessels so
fortified for the purpose of warfare, they
could have gone to Governor Pattison anil
informed him of that condition of things,
and it would have been his duty to put
troops enough there, acting under the laws
of the State, with proper officers, to pre
vent any possible outbreak of the sort that
has happened, or of any other sort
Governments of law "do not prepare secret
expeditions for a fight with their citizens.
Their, duty is, by the exercise of their
powers, to prevent all possible needs of con
flict From the reports they had evidently
deceived the Governor, because he thought
there was nothing there that could not be
controlled by the deputies or the Sheriff, or
else he was evidently remiss in not having
his troops on the ground to prevent the
wholesale slaughter. There was time
enough in which to have done it
I speak advisedly because I carried to
Washington two regiments in about the
same time at the outbreak of the war.
If the Governor knew that these Pinker
ton ruffians were to be brought there thus
armed for murder he ought to have sent his
troops and captured them and punished
them fully for such an illegal expedition
into the territory of the State. It cannot
be possible that he would have permitted
such a body of hoodlums from New York,
Brooklyn and Chicago to have come into
the State with an armed expedition for any
purpose. If he would have done so he
would pay a poor compliment to the ability
of the State of Pennsylvania, under his ad
ministration, to protect tbe property of its
citizens and the lives of its people.
,J)IFFEBEHCES OVER CANAL TOLLS
Should
Bi Settled at. Once, Says Lord
Stanley, Emphatically.
Ottawa, Out., July 10. Special
Lord Stanley, in closing Parliament to-day,
referred briefly to the negotiations which
were in progress between Canada and the
United 'States regarding canal discrimina
tion, in the following language:.
A representation Is mado by the adminis
tration of the United States that tbe sche
dule of tolls which has been In force upon
the Canadian canals for some years past
operates to the disadvantage of the ship
ping and products of United States citizens
on the Gifixi" Lakes. This complaint has
been amlned nnd discusse'd with the au
thorities of tho United State vind a proposal
Hi" j been submitted on behalf of my Gov
ernment that the United States would re
ratnre the concessions made on the nart nf
that conntrv by the treaty of Washington.
as an equivalent for concessions on the part
of Canada as to the cannls, bnt which wits
withdrawn by the United States without
cause so far as Canada Is concerned. This
proposal has not yet beon replied to, but It
is hoped that, the fairness of the position
taken by my Government will be Unly ap
preciated by the Government of the United
.States, so that all further misunderstanding
on this question may be avoided.
FOUND A MASIODOB'S EONS.
Iowa Laborers Dig Up a Portion of a Pre
historic monster.
Oskaioosa, Ia., July 10. "Workmen
engaged in digging a well for the water
works at Skunk River, four miles north of
this city, yesterday struck an obstruction,
which on being examined proved to be a
huge bone, the form of a mastodon. It is
31 inches long and weighs 32 pounds, and is
remarkably "well preserved. The work
men in continuing the digging have struck
another obstruction, much larger than the
first. It is believed this is another bone of
tbe same monster. The workmen believe
they will find the complete skeleton of the
prehistoric mastodon. The well was at a
depth of about SO feet when the bones
were found.
WOMAN'S HEIGN AT AN END.
Male Superintendent of Bloomlngton's
Public Schools Chosen.
Bloominotox, Ilt, July 10. By the
celebrated school board election in this city
last April, when 1,900 women voted, it was
decided by a large majority that woman's
reign over the pjiblic schools of Blooming
ton should end' with the expiration of the
current shool ycaV. To-night the City
Board of Education held a meeting for the
election of a superintendent. Miss Sarah
E. Baymond, who has been superintendent
for 18 consecutive years, was nominated and
elected, but immediately resigned. Prof.
E. K. Brown, of Allegan, Mich., was then
elected at a salary of $1,090, the same paid
Miss Baymond, except that Miss Baymond
was also paid $300 per annum for services
as secretary of the board, whioh position is
now filled by a member of the board.
Excursion Tin the Plot nresqan 'B. Sc O. K.K.
To Atlantic City, via Washington, Baltimore
and Philadelphia, on Thursday, July U, 1892.
Kate, (10 the round trip; tickets good for 12
days from day or sale, and good to stop off at
Washington City returning. Trains with
Pullman parlor and sleeping cars will leave
B. A O. depot, Pittsburg, at 8 x. u. and 9:20
r. x. o
BACKSET TO CAPITAL
Caused by the Liability of Misun
derstandings About Wages.
MATTHEW MARSHALL'S IDEA OP IT.'
He Admits That the Money Invested Can't'
JJe Driven Away, bnt
THINKS ENTERPRISE IS DISCOURAGED
rsrscuL teleoram to the dispatch.")
New York, July 10 Mattnew Mar
shall's letter for to-morrow's Sun treats
partly of the Homestead trouble and its
effect on business. It is as follows:
The stock market exhibited again last
week the same firmness under depressing
influences to which 1 called attention four
weeks ago. . Shipments of gold abroad,
though reduced in amount, were continued,
the Senate all ver bill was unuor considera
tion by the Bouse of Representatives, tbe
option bill against the speculative buying
and selling of agricultural staples was re
ported to tbo Senate and the struggle be
tween the employers and workmen in West
ern Pennsylvania culminated in bloodshed.
Yet notwithstanding all this, prices yielded
very little and nothing approaching a panic
manifested itself. The worst feature of tbe
market has been dullness, growing partly
out of the usual summer absence of large
operators, but more out of their unwilling
ness to act so long as the future financial
polloy of Congress remains uncertain.
If I bad not lived so'long as I have, and
had so much experience of the inconsisten
cies of human nature, I should be astonished
at the way in which men in high as well as
in low positions, professing to seek the
material prosperity of the oountry, take the
most efficacious means for Impairing, If not
destroying It They complain that business is
prostrated, that labor is unemployed, and
that enterprise Is dead, nnd yet by the very
remedies which they propose for the evil
they prolong and increase it
Necessary for Business Prosperity.
Nothing is mot e essential to business pros
perity than a confidence that existing con
ditions will remain unchangod. When men
can see just what ri3ks they are running they
can take the necessary precautions against
them, but when tbe dangers they have to
encounter are unknown and uncertain they
hesitate and act timidly. There are chances
and changes in business under the most
favorable circumstances, bat familiarity
witu tnem roDS tnem or tneir terrors.
It is the novel and the untried that most
powerfully affect the Imagination and pro
duce the most deterrent effect, and of these
elements of mischief tho most fruitful
souice is legislation. We can reckon upon
the weather, the crops and even upon the
capi lees of fashion, with a tolerable assur
anoo of safety, but tho hazards of legisla
tive aotlon bafllo calculation. A lawyer who
was very ceieDratea in my younger aays,
Mr. George Wood, used to say to those who
consulted htm: "I can tell von what the law
Is to-day, but I cannot tell you what those
He referred
to the Court of Errors, tor which our Court
of Appeals has been substituted, and for
whose decisions he had n great contempt, as
it was partly composed of men who were
either not lawyers at all or else lawyers of
little ability.
Little Regard for tha Country's Needs.
Most of our legislators, unfortunately, are
equally nndeservlng of respeot as regatds
financial and business questions. Even
those who are really well Informed and com
petent are too much given to considering
the unenlightened prejudices of their im
mediate constituents upon whom they de
pend for their place, and are too little re
gardful of the need of the country as a
whole.
The recent passage by so wise a body as
tbe United States Senate of tho free silver
bill would bo unaccountable except upon
the theory thut the Senators voted not ac
cording to their convictions, but according
to what they believed to be the require
ments of personal interest. As to tho num
erous wild measures introduced into tbe
House of Representatives, they are notor
iously presented and supported on political
grounds, without reference to their conse
quences if they should be enacted Into laws.
This, it Is true. Is only a roundabout way of
saying that the people themselves are at the
bottom of tbo cause of this meddling and tin
kering legislation, nnd that the only perma
nent core for it Ix popular instruction and
enlightenment. Yet, wnen I see bow long the
world has gone oil abandoning one 'error,
after it has been proved to be un error by
outer experience, oniy to nnunaer into an
other error not yet exposed, I have no hope
that in my time, at least, this slow and pain
ful process of education will accomplish Its
flnal result.
Continuous Disregard ot Warnings.
As children disregard the warnings of
their parents and want to see
for themselves the folly of each 'par
ticular piece of foolishness, so evrry genera
tion, I presume, will Insist on trying over
under a new lorm, to oe sure, experiments
which have already been tried by Its prede
cessors and found to fail.
Tracing the origin of tbe mischief still fur
ther back we find that it lies m the discon
tent of of the great mass of mankind with
their lot In life and in their Irritation against
those who are apparently better situated.
From the day on which Cam slew Ills
brother Abel because Abel tound more
fuvor with the Almizhty than he did. down
to the present moment prosperous and suc
cessful men have always had to incur the
secret, ir not the open, resentment of those
less fortunate. Tholr success from want of
practical familiarity with Its basis is at
tributed to oppression or dishonesty, and
even where it U plainly due to personal
skill, enterprise and industry it provokes a
desne to limit it and check it as If it were
detrlmentyl to lhe nation at large. Thus,
only a week ago the Omaha convention
solemnly declared that "thp fruits of the
toil or millions are boldly stolen to build up
colossal fortunes for a few, that the supply
of currency Is purposely abridged to latten
usuiers, bankrnpt enterprise and enslave
Industry," and it demanded the taking of
measures to remedy "the grievous wrongs
of the snfferlng poor."
New Expression of Old Sentiment.
This Is only a frosh expression of a senti
ment which has long been at work pro
ducing measures like the granger legislation
in the Western States and tbe acts of Con
gress' against the aggregations of capital
known as trusts. The mere fact that any
man or set of men have acquired large
wealth and use It skillfully to gain more
wealth is accepted as conclusive proof that
such wealth is the fruit of injustice and Its
acquisition a crime.
The troubles at Homestead, Pa., have
given occasion lor the expression, from
various quarters. and In various forms, of
this sentiment of hostility to accumulations
of wealth. Tbe conduct of the Carnegie
Steel Company in seeking to regain tho pos
session of Its works from a body of men who
were obstructing access to them has been
widely condemned, and the determination
of the unlawful occupants neither to work
for their former employers upon the terms
offered to them nor to permit others to take
tholr places has been as widely approved.
Senator Palmer, of Illinois, went so fur on
Thursday as to advance, in a formal speech
npou the Senate floor, the doctrine that
large amounts of capital onco Invested in
manufacturing pl.int and made to lurnlsh
employment to nnmerons workmen, become
In a manner publio property and cense to
belong to their owners in such a manner as
to give them the right to manage them as
they think best.
Palmer's Tlews May Be Tested.
Tbe Senator asserted that when a man
has once secured employment from a large
mahulacturing concern he has a right to In
sist on being employed for life or dnring
good behavior, liken nubile official, nnd is
justified In resisting dismissal by toice if
need be. In hls'oplnion tho discharged
workmen of the Carnegie Steel Company
were entirely right in occupying its works
and in opposing the admission to them of
new employes.
It is qulto possible that Senator Palmer's
views will yet have to be adopted and acted
upon as the only effectual means of prevent
ing In future the great contests between em
ployes and employers which have so often
heretofore paialyzod industry and resnltod
In great losses of property and life. With
the dominant public sentiment which I
have mentioned favoring the earners of
wages against the paye's ot wages. It may
well be that the'managementormanufactur
ing enterprises on a large scale by private
citizens will be impossible, and that ir they
are to be established and maintained at nil
it must be under the protection and nnder
tho supervision of the Government. T his is
what tbe Socialists have been always de
manding, and to tno recent spread of their
opinions, as shown in legislation against
corporations and against trusts, I have fre
quently called attention.
Capital Can't Leave tha Country. '
No one can surely forecast the future, and
I don't pretend to say how soon and how far
the- views of whioh Senator Palmer la the
TTNE
LAIRD!S Shoe Stores show the Largest
and Most Complete Line. of Ladies', Misses'
and Children's Cloth Top Shoes. They are
Most Seasonable, Tasty and Comfortable.
Fine Cloth Top, Spring Heels,
Misses' and Children's,
99c, $1.25, $i.5i ? $2.50.
LAIRD'S Stores show an immense assortment of Low-Cut Shoes, Ox
fords, Sandals anH Summer Ties. Every size, every width and every
length.
Lace Oxfords, tipped orplain,.
Over 150 styles,
99c, S1.25, $1.50, $2, $3.
LAIRD'S Kangaroo Shoes and
are warranted to be the-best for the
Stock very large.
tSS-M-iMlirill Mil I mi
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Finest Calf or Kangaroo, V w"' "'cm JGAUl uf.
Lace, Congress, Tip or Plain, . Kf Saro Bluch
t2.iS, $2.50, $2., 3.9o. 72'9' 3. S, 6.
VACATION SHOES ALL COLORS.
W. M. LAIRD,
Wholesale o.na. Rotcxll.
433-435W000 STREET AND 4QB-408-410 MARKET STREET.
spokesman will become embodied in law
Nor do I say that their supremacy will cause
tho ruin of tho country. But I have no doubt
that the favor with which they are received
and the consequences to which have al
ready let? are extremely disconrarfng to en
terprises which .would assist in developing
the resonrces of tho country and In pro
moting that business prosperity the decay
of which is so greatlv deplored.
Capital already Invested in snch enter
prises cannot, of course, leave the country,
but with tbe prospect that future invest
ments of It are to be controlled not by its
owners, but by tbose whose interests are
adverse to theirs, we must expect them to
cease to be made here. They will be made
in other places, where they will be free from
such burdensome conditions.
NOT IN LINE THIS YEAR.
General Warner Doesn't Ilke tho Free
Trade Flank In the .Democratic Party
Alliance People Tbraw Away Their
Best Opportunity to Make a Kecoru.
General A." J. "Warner, of Marietta, was
at the depot last evening, bound for "Wash
ington. He went to Omaha as the repre
sentative of the National Silver Associa
tion to reason with the third party dele
gates, but he returned home disgusted. It
was reported at tbe time that the General
was after the Presidental nomination, but
he denies it.
"I was at Omaha," he said last evening,
"bnt I was not a candidate, and never had
any such idea in my head. It is a mistake.
The People's party had the greatest oppor
tunity since the war to inaugurate
a political movement on a grand
scale, but the leaders threw away
their chances. The platform is loaded
down with all kinds ot crazy ideas that
would kill any party. The Southern fel
lows insisted-on putting In the sub-treasury
scheme and the plan of loaning money on
land at 2 per cent interest. .Thojpomination
of Weaver was a blunder also. He is a
smart man, but he has no influence in the
country. I was surprised to see so many of
the old Greenbackers present in the conven
tion. The silver plank is all right and sat
isfactory to us, but that is not enough.
"I sm opposed to the free trade, gold
standard and the resuscitation'of wildcat
banks in the Democratic platform. The
latter idea is as wild aS the wildest
plank in the third party's collection
of principles. Free trade is not
Democratic. It does not represent tbe
views ot Jefferson and Jackson. Calhoun
introduced the tariff for revenue only idea.
I don't believe in the McKinley excluston
ef trade, but I think a law is needed to
regulate business differences. I am a Dem
ocrat, but I amjittending strictly to busi
ness this year. ""There is a great deal of
apathy in both parties, and it is hard to say
who will be elected."
The General is sensible enough, though a
Democrat, to state that politics has noth
ing to do with the Homestead trouble.
TO BE HELD AT HAEB1SBTJBG.
Tbe
Emerald Beneficial Association
Will
Conveno Thero.Tneftday.
- Text Tuesday morning the seventh bien
nial convention of the International Grand
Branch of the Emerald Beneficial Associa
tion of North Ameriea will assemble in the
PrcbCathedral School Hall, at Harrisburg.
The proceedings will open with a grand
high mass in St Patrick's Pro-Cathedral,
."West State street, by Iter. John Shanahan,
after which President Gilson, of this city,
will call the convention to order.
"Western Pennsylvania will be well repre
sented. Among the representatives from
this district will be Alderman Donovan,
M. J. McMahon, John S. Boyle, J. J.
Scnlly. Hugh Boyle, W. B. Conway,
Greensburg; frank P. Martin, Johnstown;
P. J. Kelly and E. T. O'Friel, Altoona.
The Ohio delegation, including ex-Treasurer
Henry "Waldeck. ot Warren, will ioin the
I Pitfsbnrgers here to-morrow.
Speoial rates have been secured over the
Pennsylvania Bailroad. State Secretary
Treasurer J. B. McMahon, now special mili
tary clerk to Adjutant General Greenland,
and a resident of Harri3burg, will have
charge of the reception and entertainment
of the visitors. He has prepared a lawn
fete at Bishop McGovern's Sylvan Heights
residence on Tuesday evening and a banquet
on "Wednesday evening.
Ir your dealer does not keep Klein's Silver
Age ana Dnquesne ryes go to .Max Klein, 82
Federal street, Allegheny, Fa., where you
art) rare of the eemtlno. Complete oata
logue maliod upon application. ' mr
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Gents' Summer Ties, Kangaroo,
Patent Leather, Dongola,
$2.90, $3.90, $5.
Patent (Leather Shoes for Gentlemen
money ever offered. Prices very low.
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