f w THE SORANTON TRIBUTE -FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 18flT. 0e l&cranfon CriBime It))) end Witkly. No 8tmiJr IHItloa. i """" By The Tribune PublUhlng Company. WILLIAM CONNKLL, President. SUBSCRIPTION PRICEl Dally go cent a month Weekly Ji.oo a yeor. IMIRID AT Til rOSTOrnOS AT SCnANTOft A.. A tlCOHD-ClABS MAIL M ATTIR. SCHANTON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1807 TUB RRPUBLICAN TICKET. Stntc. Stato Treasurer J. S. Wefdmorclar.d. Auditor General LEVI of Chester. Comity. Sherlff-CLARENCE E. BEACOM, of 3. M'CAULEY, PRYOH, of DJatri" Attorney-JOHN It. JONES, of Blakcly. . . Prothonotnry-JOHN COPKLAND, of Carbondalo. Treasurer-W. S. LANUSTAFF, of S.'ran- Clork'of tho Courts-THOMAS P. DAN IHLS, of Scranton. Jtecorder CHARLES IIUESTER, of Scranton. . .. HCRistcr-WILLIAM K. HECK, of Mos cow. ..,.,, Jury Commissioner CHARLES WIG OINS, of Scrnntcn. Election day, November 2. "Hcsolveil, That the platform adopted nt the National convention of Democ racy In IMG bo endorsed fully nnd without reserve." Plunk Second In tho Platform of tho Lnckawnnna Democ racy, adopted Aug. 21, 1S9. General Reader's Retirement. The episode which culminated yester day In the publication of the announce ment of the reslcnatlon by Oencral Iteeder of tho secretaryship of the com monwealth Is. of emu so, unfortunate, but it Is probable that its Importance Is belnc Kreatly uxnKRorated. Inas much as circumstances had arisen which were calculated to occasion em barrassment to tho Kovernor were Gen eral Keeder to remain in his olnclal council, the method chosen for the avoidance of such embarrassment was the only one available. These circum stances appear to have been nn out growth of a recent clash in policy ber tween tho executive and the legislative wings of government, and tho governor is not to be blamed for desiring to have in his cabinet of advisers persons fully in accord with bis views. That the causes of separation were political rath er than personal Is shown In tho cordial language in which the proff.'r by Gen eral Reeder of his resignation and its acceptance by Governor Hastings were effected. The guild of journalism, wo may add, receives a conspicuous compliment in the nomination of Colonel James H. Lambert to 1111 the vacancy thus cre ated. This nomination indicates a dis criminating wish on the Dart of the governor to promote the one member of his cabinet who by diligent attention to duty and line executive Instinct has made perhaps tho clearest Impress upon public favor of the genUem-n now serv ing at Harrlsburg by executive appoint ment. As commissioner of insurance Colonel Lambert lias entirely vindicated the wisdom of his original selection: and as secretary of the commonwealth he will combine the highest executive qualifications with the characteristic of Implicit loyalty. Not simply tho giver and recipient of this reward for merit but also the commonwealth are entitled to congratulations. In tho meantime, Republicans throughout the state would do well to discount current rumors of a renewal of factional wnrfare. There can be no serious fight this fall, for the sufllclent reason that there is nothing to light for: nnd as for next year, sufllclent unto the day is the turmoil thereof. If this weather shall continue much longer a posse comltatus will need to be appointed to search for Hon. John Trost. And the Baron Pays the Piper. The other day tho Chicago and Alton railroad startled railway circles In Chi cago bv announcing a sudden drop In the freight rate on anthracite from Chicago to Kansas City amounting to 3.1 1-8 per cent. The rate had been 3 per ton nnd the Alton people lowered it to 52, one of them explaining that at ?2 the road could make more money hauling anthracite than It does hauling provisions at the ruling rates. This is not doubted; but it serves as an In teresting testimony that anthracite heretofore, on roads which charge a Hat freight rate, has been getting very much the worst of It. Nothing In the line of commodities Is mere easily trans ported than anthracite coal. It Is load ed Into the car automatically and the car can be shipped through to Its des tination without re-loadlntr and with little If any loss in transit. The only cost to the railway company is for the car, the superintendence of weighing, the motive power and the wear and tear. Yet here we have an authorita tive acknowledgement away out In Chi cago that the customary freight rate on this article of general necessity has been In the neighborhood of 33 1-3 per cent, higher than what other goods, more dllllcult to handle, can bo trans ported for ,at a satisfactory profit to the carrier. All this, of course, Is an old story In the nnthraclte region, but It is a con dition of affairs calculated to create false Impressions elsewhere. If as a result of this reduction of $t per ton in the freight rate on anthracite the retail price of that fuel should drop Jl per ton in Kansas City, tho credit would promptly bo given to tho rail roads and the Kansas City press would resound with tributes to their gener osity. Hut If, at a later time, the old freight rate should bo restored, those same papers, we may be sure, would blame tho ensuing advance in tho re tail price upon the "robber barona" of tho soulless "coal trust" and would niako the heavens re-echo with frenzied shrieks against their "insensate gam cling with human necessity," Yet all this time tho poor "baron" would be receiving for his coal at the mouth of tho mine ono unchanged price and neither ho nor his employes would get ono farthing of boneflt from th'o fluctu atlons In the retail price at Kansas City, If the prejudice which h'aa In lata years teen created Iji tho public- mind against the producers of nnthraclte could In every Instance b traced to Its rtourco and brought fnco to face vlth tho exact facts, much If not all of It would dlsnppenr for very hhame. Dr. Andrews' Insistence upon the acceptance of his resignation wns the only alternative open to him In consid eration of the evident fact that many tf tin trustors of Urown secretly hato him for tho friends ho has made. They bort to the storm In asking him to rc conpldrr; but had ho taken them nt their word, the knife of adroit back stabbing would soon have penetrated to his vitals. It Is an unfortunnto cpl slde throughout: and tho only consola tion derivable from It Is In tho rellec tlon that tho bigots who have hounded Dr. Andrews represent only their own Binall number, and by no means stand for the American people as a whole. The White Fla$r. A member of tho Virginia Republi can committee addresses to the Roches ter Post-Express a long and wrathy letter repelling the Insinuation that be cause tho Republicans of that state have decided not to nominate a guber natorial ticket this year they aro guilty of cowardice. The burden of his com munication, apart from its heat, Is to tho effect that Inasmuch as tho ma chinery of elections Is wholly in the control of an unscrupulous enemy nnd an honest count out of the question, the Republicans of Virginia are Justified in saving their ammunition until a more propitious season. Rut when Is such a season likely to nppear If tho Republicans themselves lift no hand to beckon It forward? How can nn effective party organization be kept up If it is not occasionally afford ed nn opportunity to test Its strength? Providence, It is recorded In tho adage, helps those who help themselves. Very rarely, even in that capricious and un certain pastime called politics, docs Providence come along and carry on to victory a candidate or a party that makes on his own account no positive, nllirmatlve effort. From tho excited tone of this Vir ginian's letter, a letter keyed to nn un natural pitch, It seems fair to infer that all is not as it should be among the Republican committeemen of Vir ginia. There have been times and places when members of the state com mittee of one party have acted on a secret understanding with the opposi tion. We have no knowledge that such a condition has ever prevailed In Vir ginia; but the Republicans of the north would have greater confldenco In their political brethren In the land of Wash ington If the latter would give fewer of these periodical exhibitions of a tired feeling. The time is opportune for a stiffening of backbones In tho vicinity of the Merrlmac and the James. Wo tako leave to say that tho circula tion of the Truth is greater than that of all tho other Scranton dallies combined nnd they needn't get angry about it, either. Scranton Truth. Get angry at such a humorous claim? Wo should say not. It only makes thOi?e who know smile. The American Railway League. There has been formed In Chicago nn organization which it It reallz:s tho expectations of Its promoter's, will ono day be able to turn tho scale In n na tional election. It Is called the Ameri can Railway League, and whllo In de tail Its purposes are vet to some extent a secret, In a general sense Its endeavor will, It Is said, be to bring to bear on legislatures, municipal, state and fed eral, tho concentrated influence of workers and capitalists engaged In railroading for honest, Intelligent nnd considerate legislation affecting the traffic in transportation. The League, as one of Its exploiters puts it, does not plan to have anything to do with the problems that arise be tween employers and employed, for It wishes to bring both classes toseth'er to work for objects of benefit to both. In so far as It does enter this field it will oppose Itself sharply to all violence In the dealings between the two nrd will discountenance strikes, Debslsm nnd anarchy of all kinds. Neither does tho league propose to be a substitute for the brotherhoods that nlready exist among the different classes of railroad men. It will leave tho brotherhoods of engineers, of firemen, of conductors, of brakemen and of telegraphers to carry on their own work, nnd will take to It self Instead a special sphere of activity, In which all are equally Interested. This Is, of course, the political activity which the league will make especially Its own In all phases, from tho technical legisla tion needed from councils and state leg islatures to the great questions ot pub lic Interest which are decided by tho people of the wholo country In their fed eral elections. The prerldent of tho league, R. S. Kayler, of Columbus, O., gives these additional particulars: . The American Railway league was formed bocauso the railway men of tho country needed an organization through which they could give better effect to tho political power they possess. It will bo primarily a political organization, working in a broad-minded way for the welfaro of all railway men. Tho rlrst task we havo before us is work at the polls. We wish to seo fair men elected to ottlce, men who can bo trusted to work for tho Interests of their constituents and not merely for tho welfare of their own pockets. We shall be strictly non-partisan In this and aim always for t'ho (suc cess of tho beet man. Tho next set of ob jects we havo is to secure necessary legis lation in ratlroarl matters. Wo wish, for Instance, to mako It compulsory for tho railroads to uso tho Improved coupler sys tem on occount of tho greater safety It gives. Then we shall work for a law making tho interlocking system ot cross ings compulsory. Important as this sys tem Is for the safety of trains thero Is not a slnglo state In the union which re quires It. Another good law would be ona abolishing grade crossings wherever that la practicable. We arc against tho ot tempts that aro mado from tlmo to tlmo to securo a 2-ccnt a mile fare, and wo shall do our best to defeat Buch measures whorover they aro brought forward. Wo recognize that anything that cuts down tho receipt of the rollroad companies In that way would react on us and cause tho reduction of wages. Wo aro further against tho freo pass system for reasons of railway economy, as well as on ac count of tho amount of Influence that Is exorcised directly or indirectly on rail road companies by means of it. Our plans do not contemplate at present any direct activity In national political af fairs, but when an emergency arises I think we shall undoubtedly do our share to bring about Intelligent views. It Is evident that such an organiza tion must be Judged less by Its promises than by Its results but If the alms out lined abovo are steadfastly kept In view and the tendency resisted to transform the leaguo Into a tender to the per sonal ambitions of Its organizers and lenders, much good can undoubtedly be accomplished. This is a day of com bination and co-opcrntlon. Labor has an (rood a right as has capital to culti vate mutuality of interests nnd conser vation of energies. m i A man would bo considered a. fool" who when a burglar wan breaking Into his house, &hou1d hesitate about using his shotgun until ho had found out what wero the views of tho intrudor on tho monetory question. Philadelphia Record. Let tho Record man, when really beset by burglars, blaze away: but don't encourage him In disturbing tho peace by a nervous peppering at phan toms. The report that a bolt from tho Re publican state ticket Is being organ ized in Allegheny county, coupled with other stranco developments and prog nostications, Indicates at least a relief from dulness In the politics of tho near future. Tho United States senate, In Mark Hanua's opinion, Is "the greatest and best legislative body In the world." Mark should spare the feelings of tho Mugwumps. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "R" Court Houso pquaro was once tho homo of wild cats. Tho last ono wo bc llcvo was killed by Rltner Qrlflln. "Mary" Tho earth contains 1,500,000,000 Inhabitants. Wllkes-Barro claims tho greater portion. "George" Tho answer to your question will bo found In the Times' "Forum of tho people," published during the silver craze. "X. T." No; Mr. Finn and George Washington wero not born on the cimo day of the month. "Inquirer" Tho moon is IBS.SoO miles from tho earth; this doubtlcs3 accounts for -Mr. Roche's falluro to make the Dem ocratic party bollcvo that It Is mado of green cheese. "Anxious" Yes; Colonel Fltzsimmons Is undoubtedly tho boy orator of tho loial Democracy. "Voter" Wo are irnnblo to answer tho question, as Unclo Joo appears to bo on tho fenco at present. "Constant Reader" Tho bencho on Court Houso squaro aro not for ladles. They aro for tho convenience ot loaters by day and hoodlums at night. "Sarah" Havo patience. You doubtless know more than pa and ma at present; but in a few years you will experienco many surprises concerning yourself . "Taxpayer" Tho plan of imposing fines for felony teems to exist only In Scranton. "Clarabcll" Sir. iSdhajlfa1 emp, of course, Is harvested In winter. Tho ex pression that ho "cuts no Ice" In the pres ent campaign Is merely figurative. The Toiler's Lot Years Ago and Nou) i "Penn," in Philadelphia Bulletin. Ono featuro of the celebration of Labor Day Is tho disposition of the orators to tell tho worklngmen that ho has never been moro oppressed than he Is now, and that his lot ought to have been ca3t upon earlier and better day. The faet is and thero Is not the slightest ditllculty In of fering tho proof of It to any Intelligent dnd thoughtful worklngman that thero has been no tlmo In tho history of tho country when, taken altogether, he has had as largo a sharo of tho comtorts of llfo as ho has In this decade; when ho has had moro opportunity for rational pleas ure, and moro facilities for giving his children a. better start in llfo than he himself had. As a rule, tho worklngman who spends less than ho earns, who pays his debts, who keeps out of bad company and who docs his own thinking, is in clined to admit this. Ot course tf he wero not discontented and did not want to havo his boys mako further improvement, ho would stand still, but he does not al low his discontent to become unreason able or to destroy his. own peace of.rnlnd. And desplto all the croaking which ho hears about him concerning monopoly and wealth, ho knows that ho has as much of an opportunity as any of tho men who from country lads have devel oped Into tho Wanamakers and Dolans, provided ho has the tamo sharo of brains that nature gave them, o The poor or tho worklngmen of Phila delphia aro better fed, better clothed, bet ter housed, better Informed, better be haved and better treated than In any gen eration that preceded tnem. In tho thou rands of two-story houses Inhabited by tho mill hands of Kensington or tho la borers of tho "Neck" may be found com forts which millionaires like Robert Mcr- rls or William Bingham would havo tnen unablo to purchase. Tho most crowded of tho fetld-looklng- streets In the Rus sian or Italian quarters of tho down town wards Is cleaner, moro wholesome and less disease-Infected than tho best streets which a humble ramlly could af ford to live In early In tho century. Men then had to labor from sunset to 3unrIso with hardly any other relaxation than they could llnd In tho coarse comforts of a sanded-lloor tavern In their neighbor hood. A worklngman who owned his own home was looked upon as a favorite of fortune, but today ho Is numbered by tho tens of thousands. The lato Judge Kelley used to say that when ho was a boy with an ambition to read books and with llt the tlmo to do it until after nightfall, the house ho lived In was so poorly lighted that In the summer time ho would some times go up to the roof and feel glad of tho privilege of poring over them in tho moonlight! The small-pox, the yellow fever and tho cholera wero long terrors to tho poor, carrying oft thousands in their annual swoops, but the small-pox Is no longer feared, thero has been no chol era since 1SW, and no yellow fever since US3. Tho worklngman's wife can spread a moro varied table, cun wear more and prettier gowns and can send her young sters gratis to schools such as wero not even dreamed of hardly moro than sixty years ago. If they aro old enough and tho family poor enough to Justify putting them to work, they can acqulro knowl edge from such Institutes as the bonell cucq ot Drexcl and Williamson has estab lished, whllo many of our churches onco almost abhorrent to tho worklngmen in their stiff and dry service and patroniz ing methods glvo him now a social and Intellectual stimulus to manners and eelf lmprovement, and not Infrequently tho ra tional comforts of a club houso. Thero was a tlmo when rum and tobacco wero tho chief, If not only, luxuries that a poor man had or could expect: but there are tens of thousands of worklngmen today who are habitually temperate, whllo It Is the Judgment of most sociological observ ers that in sexual morals tho plain peo plo of the United States wero never more wholesome than they are now. A Free Lovo convention of women such as startled tho country beforo tho war would bo ridiculed, and prostitution in Philadel phia is not so prevalent or so offensive, proportionate to tho population, as It was when tho Magdajene Home was founded. o Let mo turn to Horace Greeley's "Ro:ol lections of a. Busy Life" for ono or two ex amples of th betterment of tho working man's condition. The first Job of work ho had as a Journeyman printer In New York paid him 'id a week, although he would stick type for fourteen nours a day. Yet ordinarily decent board cost as much, and coal was JIG a ton, and tho average earnings of mechanics did not exceed JS a week. It was at that tlmo that Jack son's tight against Nick Riddle and tho United States bank In this city caused a scries of political campaigns in which the rich wero howled at as much as they have been by either Mr, Bryan or ox-Uovernor A'.tgeiu, Then camo the awful panic of 1837 the most disastrous ot all American panics. In its social and physical effects the panlcof 1893 has been a mild ono com pared with that. Greeley tells us, for ex ample, that ho was a member of a poor committee, and that tho tilth, squalor, want, ragr, vlco and suffering he encoun- tered were appalling. He sw famlHea burrowing la collars undor stables- three widows all sunEortlna their children on $3 a week they earned' among tihcm: men who, after managing to horn tneir fami lies together on a week, would cheer fully gtvo something to help tho many who wero poorer, and who would cry out: "Wo do not went alms; wo are not beg gars; wo hato to sit hero day by day Idia and useless; help us to work wo want no other (help; why Is It that we can havo nothing to dot" They would first run into debt until they could get no mora credit; thcro was nothing for them to do but to solicit help or starve, and young Greeley himself was so poor tnai no ten heels over head In debt. Tho rccolloctlon of It lev! him, when an old man, to de clare, as nearly as I can recall the words: "Nover run Into debtl Avoid pccuunlary obligations as you would disease or fam ine. If you havo fifty cents, and can't get any maro for a week, buy a peck or corn, and then go and parch it and feed on It rather than owe anybody a dolttr. ' o Now, It has been this kind of experi enco that thousands of worthy men havo been undergoing In eomo degroe at times In tho past three or four years, and many of them yet. Hut they aro told by eomo orators that such things never happened in tho pnet, or In tho "good old times." This Is the kind of Labor Day nonsenso that I tako exception to, because It Is not only untrue, but mischievous, Tho army of laborers that pour their millions Into tho old Philadelphia, tho Western and tho Beneficial Savings funds and Into bulMtngs- associations, even In hard times, and who today own moro houses than the wholo city contained boforo consolidation. Is alono proof of the steady, continuous advance of tho worklngmen and their families In Philadelphia. Again, tho pres ent mayor of Philadelphia eprnng from tho loins of humble parentage, and fought his way to education and atlluonce at tho bar, and his sterling predecessor llko wlso came from tho ranks of honest and self-respecting poverty, beginning life as an errand boy, with a corteo can unaor nis arm as he trudged along overy morning to open shop. And whai) la thus true of tho highest offlco of the city Is true of a thousand other posts conspicuous In politics, In tho professions, In trade, In finance, which havo been climbed into by Philadelphia worklngmen or their boys moving along tho lines of frugality and thrift. These would be a few of tho things I would like to say if I wero a la bor orator today tho truth that encour ages, and not tho sophistries that delude, dishearten or puzzle many an honest hearted fellow In his temporary troubles. POVERTY NOT INCREASING. From tho Providence Journal. No form of pessimism seems moro firm ly lodged in tho minds of certain classes of people than that which holds that under tho operation of modern civiliza tion, with Its Industrial system, poverty Is ever Increasing in extent and in depth. Thcro aro of courso many avallablo facts to refute such belief; some of them that havo Just been grouped together by Col onel Carroll D. Wright were tho other day considered In theso columns. But none of these facts seem to mako much Impression on some people; with utter indifference to tho evidence presented to them, they go right on believing that tho poor aro constantly growing In numbers and sinking farther In misery. Nor Is tho belief altogether confined to ignorant people or voiced wholly by political and social agitators. o Here, for example. Is a Mr. Woolworth of Omaha, enough of lawyer to have se cured an opportunity to deliver an ad dress beforo the American Bar associa tion, who seems to bo about as thorough going a pessimist on this subject as ono could hope to find. In tho courso of his address ho made this sweeping state ment: "It cannot bo denied that great accumulations of wealth in tho hands of a fow go along with tho process by which tho poor are crowded down In deeper depths of poverty and more and moro the multitude on the brink Is precipitated Into tho abyss of hopeless misery, whllo their places aro In turn filled by tho In dustrious who beg for work and not for bread." This Is a serious charge Indeed against our boasted modern civilization. If It wero true It would mean nothing less than tho ultimate, and perhaps not remote, undermining and collapse, of tho wholo social struggle that has been built up through many centuries of labor and experiment. Rut of course It Is not true; and hero aro a couple of new facts that, so far as our country Is concerned, go very far toward disproving It. They aro brought to notice by Mr. William C. Hunt in tho July Bullotln of the Department of La bor, under tho head of "Workers nt Gainful Occupations." llo shows us that tho number of children employed for wages decreased nearly one-half during tho period covcrod by tho last Federal census. Tho number of children In gain ful occupations In 1S70 was 739,104, In 1690 it was l,118,3oi and in 1890 It was only 0)3,013. In part, no doubt, this change. Is due to legislation restricting child em ployment and to tho discovery by em ployers that after all child labor is not really cheap. But In so largo a de crease In tho number of working children nt tho samo tlmo that tho population has been rapidly increasing we have pretty good evidence that tho condition of tho poorer classes Is at least growing no worse, that tho struggle for subsistence is not growing moro sevcro, that tho ne cessity of putting every possible working member of tho family at work Is not be coming greater. o Bearing on this samo point, Mr. Hunt also Invites attention to the census fig ures which show tho number of each of four general classes out of overy hun dred engaged In gainful occupations at different census periods. From theso It appears that tho number of professional men, capitalists, business men and farm ers working for themselves Increased from 33.50 In each hunldred workers In 1S70 to 33.74 in 1SS0 and to 33.51 in 1890; that the proportion of clerks, salesmen, agents, etc., Increased from 2.91 in 1870 to 3.87 in 1SS0 and to CM In 1890: that tho proportion of moro or less skilled la borers Increased from 17.41 in 1S70 to 18.13 in 1SS0 and to 21.67 In 1890; whllo tho pro portion of unskilled labor, farm labor, etc., decreased from 40.15 In 1870 to 41.26 In 18S0 and to 30.29 In 1S90. As will bo seen wo have hero an Increase in tho proportion of men engaged In tho better paid occupations and a decrcaso In tho proportion of thoso working at more poorly paid tasks. And surely when a larger proportion of us work for higher pay than used to bo tho fact it cannot bo said that poverty Is Increasing in cither extent or intensity. THE COUNTY TICKET. From tho Carbondalo Leader, Tho Hepublican county ticket may not plcaso every member of tho party, but oven thoao who desired tho nomination of other men must concede that it Is a good ticket; that Is, It Is composed of re spectable men, loyal to tho porty, and well qualified for tho various positions. Besides, It was fairly nominated after a nam struggle. It must be taken as an honest expression of tho wishes of the lto publican voters. The Itepubllcans of this city feel that they havo received duo recognition in tho selection of ono of their respected citi zens for ono of tho most important of fices, and will show that feeling by giving him a cordial support. That the ticket will be triumphantly elected in November does not admit of a doubt. A Model of Acumen. From the Carbondalo Herald. Tho ticket nominated toy the Itepubll cans at their counts convention Tuesday seems to be a model of political acumen. Thero Is no doubt but tho Ilopubltcan con vention named tho very strongest ticket possible. Tho personnel is ot a high or der. The candidates as Individuals com mand tho highest respeqt, and oven In some coses are calculated to arouse tho enthusiasm of their party followers, in coming to Carbondalo for a candidate the convention showed good sense, and It again displayed excellent Judgment In selecting Mr. Copctand. It Is doubtful If It could have done 'better. GOLDSMITH the ME So long looked for, so earnestly Loped for, has reached us at last. Times are bet ter. Reports from all over the country tell us of work being resumed. The farmer will get good prices for his produce, everybody is hopetul and confident of the fu ture. All this means more dry goods money to spend. How to spend it and where to spend it to the best advantage, are questions that we shall answer iu these col umns and over our counters to your entire satisfaction. YOUR Is strongly appealed to in the following lots. 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