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FREELAND, PA., MARCH 5, 102
SHORT TALKS
Brief Comment on Political and Other
Matters of Public Interest.
Ex-Postmaster Flicks, of Philadel
phia, declares that Ashbridge said to
him at the beginning of his term of
office that he proposed to get all there
was in it for Samuel H. Ashbridge.
Ashbridge denies that he ever said
anything of the kind, and the people
of Philadelphia have been by the ears
for a week or two as to which tells
the truth. It doesn't seem to make
very much difference whether Ash
bridge gave notice in advance of his
intentions. He has made his word
good, whether he ever gave it or not.
He ought not kick about anybody's
saying that he once told the truth.
The Army and Navy Register hauls
Roosevelt over the coals for his shabby
treatment of General Miles, and de
clares that it is not possible to justify
it or excuse it even on the ground
that Teddy has fallen into the habit
of losing his temper. We predict that
Roosevelt will go out of office one of
the most unpopular presidents the
country has had. When a man would
rather be called colonel than vice
president it shows an exceedingly vain
streak in his make-up. His intense
egotism and his I-am-the-whole-thing
style of dealing with men and meas
ures is not likely to last him through
his term. Of course, there are toad
ies who are willing to applaud any act
of the president, no matter what it
may be, but the sober second thought
of the people will not long tolerate a
man whose conceit is his strongest
characteristic.
General Wheaton declares that 50,-
000 soldiers will be needed in the
Philippines for at least five years yet.
As each soldier costs a thousand dol
lars a year, and the officers who have
charge of the butchering a great deal
more, the cost of the Philippines will
be $350,000,000 In addition to what
they have already cost, and to the pen
sion roll that will, in the light of past
experience, be with us for at least 75
years. There is no doubt that General
Wheaton is right. The Filipinos are
at home in the tropical sun and are
fighting for liberty and country. Our
soldiers suffer all sorts of afflictions
from the climate; those of them who
have sense enough to go in when it
rains must feel ashamed that they are
conducting a murderous crusade
against a people who are as much en
titled to their freedom as we are. It
is safe to predict that twice $350,000,-
000 will not subdue the Filipinos suffi
ciently to withdraw our soldiers and
leave them to the tender mercies of
the greedy politicians and capitalists.
General Taft, who enjoys the dis
tinction of trying to be governor of
the Philippines, like all the other
prominent men who have mixed in it,
are having a very hard time to show
just how he and God are working dili
gently for the interests of the Fili
pinos whom they love so well. He says
that they have no thought of establish
ing reconcentrado camps in the usual
sense of the term. Of course not. The
ordinary sense of the term and the
sense of every man who knows any
thing understands that such a camp is
a place where the captured women and
children of the enemy are placed to
be starved to death in order to force
their fathers, husbands and brothers
to give up their land to the invader.
This is what concentration camps
meant in Cuba, this Is what they mean
today in South Africa, and it is ex
actly what they mean in the Philip
pines, where we are doing missionary
work for the cause of the lowly Naza
rene, who never did the slightest vio
lence to man, woman or child, and
every one of whose precepts declare
against all such treatment of any of
God's creatures. No matter what Taft
may say that he and God propose to
do, the whole business is damnable
from the start and will be to the finish
unless the American people have a
much needed revival of the spirit of
freedom.
PLEASURE.
March IT.—Third annual entertain
ment ot St. Ann's Parish Band at, the
(.rand opera house. Admission, lf> and
■J3 cents.
The SPORTING WORLD 1
Polo Itivnnlon of England.
Great interest is centered in the ap
proaching meeting of American and
English polo players. A team composed
of our lending experts will appeur in
the celebrations Incident to the corona
tion of Edward VII., and the pick of
the Rritisli isles will be pitted against
them.
The international tourney Is to take
place at Hurlingham, the world's most
famous polo field, and from present In-
FOXIIALL KEKNE.
dications the first game will be started
during the last week in June. The cor
onation is set for June 25.
.Members of the Lukewood (N. J.)
team, winners last season of the cham
pionship of America, are to compose
the aggregation which Is to go abroad.
Foxhall Keene, the best all around po
loist In this country, will be captain,
and under his able direction the best
results are hoped for. Keene lias had
considerable experience in transatlan
tic playing, having competed at Hur
linghani and elsewhere several times.
The tournament is for the possession
of the Westchester Country club chal
lenge cup, now held ill England. Tills
cup was offered fifteen years ago by
the Newport (R. I.) organization to the
winners of a series of matches be
tween England and America. The Hur
lingham club defeated our men and
carried away the trophy, valued at
$1,500. Keene is of course very anx
ious to bring home the cup.
Polo players from India are general
ly conceded to be the finest in the
world, as the Indians take to the game
as naturally as a duck takes to water.
They have an additional advantage of
being the best mounted riders seen
anywhere.
American Onrnmen Abroad.
It has been learned in Philadelphia
from reliable sources thut ut the next
meeting of the Hudson river regatta
stewards a motion would be placed be
fore them advocutiug sending the win
ners of this year's contest to tin? great
international race to be held in Ireland
for Lord O'Brien's magnificent trophy.
Two of Pennsylvania's most prominent
alumni favor this idea, and if Thomas
Heath, the bead of Pennsylvania's row
ing committee, will not lay the motion
before the meeting it will be done
through another channel.
So far us Pennsylvania is concerned,
she will not send an undergraduate
crew abroad this season unless Cornell
also will do the same. Both these col
leges are too anxious to put forth their
very strongest crews at Poughkeepsle
to think of sending an eight over the
water. But if the Hudson river regat
ta stewards should decide to send the
winners of the regatta to the Irish race
every crew in the regatta would have
a double incentive to win out.
The idea is very feasible, as it would
be a simple matter to raise the money
for such a trip from the students and I
alumni of the colleges which take part
in the regatta. The finuueial end of the
trip would cause no trouble, and all
that would be necessary to carry out
the plan would be to shift the date of
the regatta forward u week or ten days.
The Gouldtt Like Dons.
Edwin Gould has Just purchased, a
champion prize winning bulldog and
proposes to exhibit him at all the
bench shows. The animal Is a thor
oughbred and has won many prizes
both in this country and abroad. Frank
J. Gould lias presented his sister, Miss
Helen Miller Gould, with one of bis
twenty-five hundred dollar champion
St. Bernard pups. Another Gould dog
was given to Miss Wheeler, daughter
of General Joe Wheeler.
Creioeus' Get la Kentucky.
Two colts by the champion trotter,
Cresceus, will be trained in the blue
grass this year. One of them is win
tering at Walnut Hill stock fnrm and
is owned by It. 11. Plant of Macon, Ga.
The other colt is at the Lexington
track and in a trial last fall trotted a
quarter in better than thirty-six sec
onds. lie Is in W. 11. Freeman's stable.
Doralma'M Rivals.
Borulina divides honors for the rec
ord for four-year-old trotting geldings
with John Nolan at 2:08 and for five
year-old geldings with Lord Derby at
2:07.
Tenncy an a Coach.
Fred Tenney, the crack Boston play
er, has been selected as coach for the
Tufts college baseball team next sea
sou.
THE ACTUAL FACTS.
THE DISPUTE OVER COMPULSORY
ARBITRATION IN NEW ZEALAND.
Rdward Treear, Secretary For La
bor of the Colony, AiiNwern the
False Statements Made by J. Grat
tan Grey, a Former Resident.
Edward Tregear, secretary for labor
of New Zealand, writes as follows to
the New York Fost:
My attentiou has heeu drawn to an
article in your issue of Oct. 3, 1001,
headed "A Country Without Strikes."
I write a few lines of comment with, 1
trust, an impartial pen, since I have no
personal reason for wishing to influ
ence the ideas of citizens of the United
States in one direction or another. I
have, however, some interest in en
deavoring to prevent the circulation of
errors concerning New Zealand, and 1
venture to criticise the value of the
alleged fuets on which your leader was
based.
That bright pictures have been drawn
by visitors (alluded to as "birds of
passage") in their representations of
tbe effect of our labor laws and other
progressive legislation is undeniable.
Whether such pictures, produced by in
telligent observers from abroud, are to
be preferred before the more gloomy
illustrations of Mr. J. Grattan Grey is
n moot question. A niun like Mr. Grey
may have lived for forty years in a
colony, and at the end of that time bis
opinions or reflections are not necessa
rily either profound or valuable. Our
politics, politicians, morals, society peo
ple, economic conditions, industrial po
sition, etc., may be all that Mr. Grey
represents; but, on the other band, they
may not. I respectfully suggest that
Americans should very carefully ab
stain from regarding such pictures as
photographs, but should rather accept
them as amateur sketches, tinted by
the natiouality, prejudice and infirmi
ties of the painter. Such a remark, of
course, applies equally to the views
presented by tbe "birds of passage,"
but in a less degree, since their private
relations to the colony are unlikely to
be overstrained.
Leaving, however, tbe personal ques
tion as to your informant, allow me to
touch upon some of the industrial and
economic matters involved in your ar
ticle. The assertions, generally, are:
First.—That compulsory arbitration
has "turned out a disastrous failure."
Second.—That the general economic
outlook of the colony is far from being
"roseate In tint."
Third.—That "self seeking men" in
parliament have "seriously strained the
relation between employer and em
ployee."
Fourth.—That the farmers are "de
manding repeal of the laws from which
they are suffering."
To answer even these few points
with anything like the fullness they
properly require would take up more
space than I dare to petition the editor
for. I may say in reference to them:
First.—"Compulsory arbitration" (as
It has been nicknamed) is so far from
being a disastrous failure that it is
here considered a pronounced success.
Only a revolution could displace it.
Lust session an amending act was
passed whereby the boards of concilia
tion (which have no power of enforc
ing their recommendations) were prac
tically set aside in favor of the court
of arbitration that can enforce its
awards with all the powers of the su
preme court—nay, with even higher
powers, since against the dictum of
the president of the arbitration court
there is no appeal. Here, then, as an
swer to calumnies set abroad I) 3' inter
ested persons we have the spectacle of
the people of a colony, after seven
years' experience of compulsory arbi
tration. approving and reapproving its
principle. Our nearest colonial neigh
bor, New South Wales, sent one of its
lending judges across to us to investi
gate the working of our act on the
spot. As a result, that colony has just
passed a compulsory arbitration act of
a more drastic character than ours, for
there are no boards of conciliation pro
vided for New South Wales. South
Australia and Western Australia have
similar legislation on our model.
Strange that, as we have failed, our
near neighbors are so blind as to follow
us Into the pit into which we flounder
ed in 1804!
Second.—The general economic out
look of the colony. Wc were told
years ago that the effect of labor legis
lation would be to "drive capital out of
the colony," yet after ten years of la
bor legislation capital has not yet
spread its wings for flight. Indeed cap
ital has extended its operations so
much that our factories, which in 1894
employed 115,831 hands, now employ
over 53,000—that is, the work has more
than doubled. The total trade of New
Zealand advanced from $04,000,000 iu
188G to $117,000,000 in 1900. Statistics
show that the private property in the
colony was in 1891 of the value of
$728,000,000; in 1900 it had grown to
the value of $1,114,000,000. To the
latter add $220,000,000 value of public
property, and the assets are worth
consideration. The revenue of the col
ony in 1901 was $29,500,000 and show
ed an increase of $1,301,000 over the
return of the preceding year. I do not
wish to weary the reader with figures,
but I cannot see in what way the col
ony is decadent.
Third.—ln regard to the relations be
tween employer and employee being
strained, may I nsk whether good feel
ing is promoted by strikes, lockouts,
picketing, Pinkerton's detectives, etc.?
Compulsory arbitration .certainly has
not strained this feeling. Last session
of parliament the Right Hon. Mr. Sed
don, who is minister for labor as well
as premier, declared to the bouse of
representatives, "There has never been
a better feeliug between employers
find employed than nt the present mo
ment." Surely the premier, addressing
the people's representatives, would
know as well what was the condition
of the citizens as Mr. J. Grattan Grey,
then in Europe. So far as my power
of observation goes, class bitterness
is almost unknown in New Zealand,
and most kindly feelings exist between
employer and employed. There are no
beggars in the colony, and poverty of
the kind common in the big cities of
Europe and America is almost un
known. Nowhere in the world can so
many well clad, rosy faced people be
seen together as in a New Zealand
crowd. If they are dissatisfied and
fretting against their working condi
tions, they must have the art of con- j
cealment in high degree.
Fourth.—That "the farmers are de- '
manding repeal of the laws from which
they are suffering" Is probable, if allu
sion to the "laws of nature" is meant.
They suffer from thunderstorms, cater
pillars, sparrows, etc., as farmers do
elsewhere, and they are about as eas
ily satisfied as farmers elsewhere, but
if by "laws" is meant the legislation
of late years the statement is contrary
to fact. No government ever did so
much for farmers as that of New Zea
land. The crown has bought up large
private estates and cut them up into
farms for the farmers' sons. It has
borrowed millions In Europe at low in
terest to lend to farmers in order to
clear off mortgages at heavy interest.
The crown lands have been thrown
open for selection among those who
could only pay as rent the interest on
the capital value and not pay down the
capital itself, any money in hand being
thus available for stock, fencing, etc.
Village settlements, homestead settle
ments, co-operative roads and railway,
works all have helped struggling set
tlers. The agricultural department has
been instituted, has examined blights,
distributed seeds and roots, graded but
ter and cheese for export, arranged
markets abroad and otherwise protect
ed farming interests. Large sums
which would have helped swell the
revenue have been remitted by the gov
ernment railways, fares lowered,
freights lowered (freights free in some
cases, such as lime for manuring land)
and considerable local concessions
made. I cannot understand under
what laws the farmers suffer. Not
under the ordinary labor laws, which
generally affect only manufactories,
shops, offices, etc. Can it be an allu
sion to compulsory arbitration? In the
last session of parliament member aft
er member representing country dis
tricts spoke against an amendment to
the arbitration bill, in which it was
proposed to exempt the agricultural
and pastoral occupations from its op
erations. "Why," they indignantly
asked, "why should the benefits be
stowed on the manufacturing Indus
tries by compulsory arbitration be de
nied to settlers in the country dis
tricts?" Almost unanimously they
passed the new stringent and compul
sory clauses of that arbitration bill.
| No stronger answer could be made by
the farmers than was made by them
on that occasion, and if such a law
causes them suffering their heroic self
martyrdom is beyond praise.
I thank you, sir, beforehand for the
opportunity of being allowed to pre
sent an accurate view of the state of
this colony, as I see it. If we have had
tlie misfortune to lose Mr. J. Grattan
Grey, we must comfort ourselves by
the thought that our loss is Ireland's
gain. Nevertheless the colony still
floats.
Tlie Burden We Got Prom Furope.
"The Spiritual Life of the Poor" was
the subject of Professor Felix Adler's
address before the Society of Ethical
Culture at the Carnegie Lyceum, New
York, the other day. He said in part:
"The major portion of the poor in our
city are from the lower strata of Eu
rope's population people who have
been oppressed by the classes of Rus
sia, Hungary, Germany, Italy and oth
er countries for centuries. We in
America must pay the penalty for
crimes of oppression committed in Eu
rope centuries ago. We are saddled
with a problem and its solution due to
causes that we never originated. These
poor people are suffering from ineffi
ciency, an inefficiency in nowise due to
their own efforts. The classes made
them what they are and for hundreds
of years hindered their development.
Normal circumstances probably would
have made them the equals of us, but
they have been borne down with the
oppression and sheer misfortune."
For National Labor Law.
The committee on federal relations
of the Massachusetts legislature has
reported favorably to the house on the
resolution in favor of an amendment
to the United States constitution which
would permit congress to regulate the
hours of labor in the several states.
This resolution has been presented to
previous legislatures. This year at the
committee bearing it was supported by
the counsel of the Arkwright club,
which is the organization of the facto
ry owners of the state and has usually
opposed any legislation desired by the
employees. Many cotton manufactur
ers desire a law which would equalize
the hours of labor in New England and
the southern states.
A I'i'oifrt'SHlvc I'nion.
Tbe Brotherhood of Tailors has in
creased Its dues and established siek
and death beneflts. This indication of
stability and permanence, it is expect
-d, will attract to the brotherhood a
membership surpassing nil past rec
>rds.
Vnion(.(n of Great Britain,
The year 1001 added 100,000 to the
number of trades unionists in Great
Britain. In round numbers this vast
army of organized workers now reach
es 2,000,000, of which 122,000 arc fe
' males.
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LEHIGH VALLEY KAILROAD.
June 2, 1901.
ARRANGEMENT or I'ABBKKGEK TRAINS.
LEAVE FUBKLANJ).
6 12 a in l'or Weutherly, Mauch Chunk
Alleutown, Bethlehem, Huston, Phila
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7 34 a in for SANDY RUM, White Huron,
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Muliunoy City, Shenandoah .and .Mt.
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Scran ton and tin l West.
4 44 pin for Weatlierly, Mauch Chunk, Al
lentown, Bethlelicin. Huston, Philadel
phia, New York, Huzleton, Delano,
Muiutnoy City, Siienutidouh, Mt. Curmel
and Pottsvllle.
8 35 P m for Sandy Run, White Hareii,
Wilkes-Uarre, Scranton and all points
West.
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White Haven.
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andoah, Mahunoy City, Deluno and
Iluzleton.
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Huston, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch
Chunk and Weutherly.
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White Haven.
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Huston, Bethlehem Allentown, Mauch
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CHAS. S. LEE, General Pasaenjrer A iront,
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Q. J. GILD ROY, Division Superintendent,
Huzleton, Pa.
THE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND
SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect Murch 10,1901.
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hnzle
lirook. Stockton, Beaver Meadow Road, Roan
and Huzleton Junction at 600 a m, daily
except Sunday: end 7 07 a ra, 2 38 p ni, Sunday.
Trains leave Drilton for Hai wood. Cranberry,
lomhicken and Derlnirer at 600 am, daily
except Sunday; and 7 07 a in, 2 8b p m. Sun
lav.
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'larwood Rood, Humboldt Road, Oneida and
heppton at 600 am, daily except Sun
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■ "ranberry, Tombicken and Derinper at 086 a
u, daily except Sunday; and 8 68 a m, 4 22 p m,
unday.
Trains lenvo Hazlctnn Junction for Oneida
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road,
Oneida and Sheppton at 6 82.11 10 am,441 pm,
daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 311 pm,
Sunday.
Trains leave Derinper for Tomhieken, Cran
berry, Hai wood, Huzleton Junction and Roan
at 500 p in, daily except Sunday; ana ?37
\ 10, 6 07 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida. Humboldt
Koad, Harwood Road, Oneida Junction, Hazlo
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p m, daily except Sunday; and 8 11 a m, 344
p in, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Bearer Meadow
Road. Stockton, Hazle Brook, Ecklov, Jeddo
and Drifton at 5 26 p m, daily, except Sunday;
and 8 11 a m, 3 44 p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazloton Junction for Beaver
Meadow Road, Stockton. Hnzle Brook, Eckley,
leddo and Drifton at 649 p m, daily,
"Trent Sunday: and 10 10 a ra, 5 40 p m, Sunday.
All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with
dectric cars for Hazleton, Jeanesville, Auden
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Train learinar Drifton at 600 a ra makes
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