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FREELAND, PA., APRIL IS, 1902. j THE PASSING OF QUAY The Power of the Boss Slipping From His Grasp to Younger Men. (A. J. PALM.) It has been evident to the careful observer for some time that Quay is no longer the absolute dictator in ; Pennsylvania politics, notwithstanding < the fact that those who look upon him i as a political demi god still insist that I ihe political situation rests entirely in I the hollow of his hand. When Dur- j ham. Stone, Elkin & Company elected ; Quay to the senate in 1901 they felt that this ought, in all decency, to be the Old Man's farewell appearance, either as a candidate or a dictator. He has been in the political swill with snout and both feet for over forty years, and these men have reason to feel that, in view of his many sins, he ought now to begin his preparation for death, and leave the political corrup tion counter to younger men. They no doubt feel that they have done his dirty bidding as long as he can rea sonably ask and that, in the language of the vernacular, he should now "go j way back and sit down." The ruling passion is, however, strong even in death and the Old Man, tottering on the verge of the tomb, still imagines that his advice and dictation are ne cessary to keep the politics of Penn sylvania pure and unspotted from the world. He was ignored in the Pittsburg deal and it is safe to say that he will be ignored from this time forward ex cept when he sees fit to go along with those who have decided that they will hereafter run the political machine in Pennsylvania. Whether he pretends to oppose Elkin simply that he may have a little more influence later on with those who are against the Indi ana man, or whether lie really is op posed to his nomination makes but little difference; for those in charge of Elkin's case propose to nominate him whether Quay sanctions or ob jects, and nominate him they will. Why should Quay oppose Elkin? Elkin has been an apt pupil in the Quay school and stands near the head of the cIaRS in the art of managing the political mill so as to get the biggest possible grist to be divided among the faithful henchmen. Elkin has never done anything to equal Quay's politi- j oal iniquitous transactions in politics • and it looks cowardly now in the Old Man to begin to hedge and doubt El kin's ability to carry the state. Elkin is smirched with Quayism and that is the reason why the people don't want him for governor. It is simply ridiculous to hear men , talking of Quay as a candidate for gov ernor in order to harmonize the party. Those who think this would be a so lution of the Republican problem must : place a very low estimate on the in- j telllgenee ol those who are opposing j the machine and its methods. The machine is what the honest voters of the state are opposing, and all ma chine men look more or less alike to the man who has become disgusted i with the high-handed outrages that have recently disgraced the common wealth. To say that any man would prefer Quay to Elkin is to say that he would prefer Beelzebub to one of his underling angels. Jhe surprising thing is not that Quay has lost his grip, but that he lias held it so long. That able men have been willing for so many years to carry out bis orders, no matter how groat the loss of self respect it im plied, is utterly incomprehensible. Quay lias been charged with all sorts of misdoings, from manipulating state funds to causing several men to com mit self murder. We do not know ihct the new boss will have any more conscience or that he will have any more regard for the welfare of the state; it is hard to believe that he ran he worse. As there has been a constant growth of sentiment against Quayism, it is to be hoped that bosses may hereafter be squelched as soon as they show their heads. The time for such a work is long past due. Ilasy Cliolce. "Which do you prefer," asked the friend, "classical music or classical plays?" "Classical music, every time," an swered Mr. Cumrox. "There's always noise enough in that to keep you a wake."— VYasliington Star. Not Used to Them. Carryp—Cholly never eats brains. Maye And why not? Carr.ve W li.v, lie is afraid they will jgo to hi* bead.-Judge. , WHAT THEY SAY Extracts From Various Sources Indi cating Democratic Opinion Con cerning Questions of the Day. The Republicans who are so wise in the condemnation of free silver at the present time forget that the Re- J publican state platform of 1892 com mended the silver purchase act as a "long yet prudent step toward the free ! coinage of silver." What was meant by that if it did not mean that the Republicans of Indiana were in favor of free silver? —Michigan City (Ind.) Dispatch. The charge that Senator McLaurin i was bribed to vote for the ratification ; of the treaty of Paris, and the counter i charge that Senator Tillman in making it has slandered his colleague, stand | undisposed of by the senate. Both are of the highest importance and dwarf into comparative insignificance the matter of fisticuffs, gross and unseem- j ly as that was, to which the senate has addressed itself. —Washington Star. The logic of the imperialistic or gans is something wonderful to be- i : hold. They tell us that the natives of ; ! the Philippines are savages, barbarians, j ! heathens and blood thirsty head-hunt- ! | ers, and in the same breath boast that j ! we are violating the articles of civiliz- I j ed warfare by enlisting the aid of . these same barbarians. The logic of I the imperialistic organs may be de i pended upon to answer itself. —Com- moner. | At any rate it might be well to ar- I range a few large Boer demonstrations j on coronation day so that the true ; j sentiment of the people may be made ' known to offset the demoralizing in- ; : fluence of the president's act. When j the real feeling of the people is ex pressed the president may regret the concession he has made to the mon archal and aristocratic ideas which have developed with the progress of imperialism.—Muncy (Pa.) Democrat. The United States senate is the busi est body of men one most ever heard of. From the days of the great San hedrim to this good hour no set of legislators ever had so much to do. And what are they doing? They are sweating over subsidy schemes and canal projects and high tariffs and im perialism and the reception of princes and the subjugation of far-off islanders and a whole lot of other things which will result in no good to the toiling and struggling masses whom they mis represent.—Lexington (N. C.) Dis patch. It is neither fair nor just that' the enormous newspaper interests of the country—interests in which the gen eral public is deeply concerned, to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands employed by the newspapers —should be bled for the benefit of the wood pulp trust. Among the lattest utter ances of President McKinley was one in favor "of remitting those taxes which experience has shown to be most burdensome to the industries of the people." And to no-thing more burden some than the tariff duty on wood-pulp could his words he applied.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (Rep.). The sentiment in favor of tariff re vision is gaining in spite of the hercu lean efforts of a few party leaders in the Republican camp to keep it in the background. The pernicious system of protecting the giant monopolies with their accumulated millions, is so gross i ly wrong that a revolution must short ly set in that will demand a revision of the whole protective system. The principle of the protective system is grossly misrepresented under our pres ent tariff laws, and instead of affording protection to our industries, permits and encourages a "community of in terests" for the restraint of legitimate trade. —St. Mary's (W. Va.) Oracle. The testimony given by soldiers at the trial of Major Waller, on the j charge of killing natives of Samar without trial should be interesting to Secretary Root, who declares officially that it is not true that there has been "marked severity" in the conduct of warfare by the American troops. The execution of 12 unarmed natives with out trial may strike the secretary as an instance of "marked humanity and magnanimity," but some persons are likely to regard the evidence in the Waller case as justification of General Mileß' very fnoderate condemnation of military methods employed to assimi late the Filipinos.—North American, Philadelphia. Senator Hoar, in a recent speech in the senate, referred to the fact that an order had been issued by the Philip pine commission prohibiting the read ing >t the Declaration of Independence in the Philippine islands. The sena tor further pointed out that by the law promulgated by that commission it was a penitentiary offense to read the Declaration of Independence. The I declaration is said to be barred from the Philippines on the ground that it is an incendiary document. Is this not a curious charge to make against, that document? It sets forth certain self-evident truths and discusses the inalienable rights of man. Are we as | a nation in a position to punish peo ple for believing in that declaration or in reading it aloud to others? Imper ialism has certainly brought us into a strange situation, and one is forcibly reminded of the time when a christian monarch felt it necessary to suppress a publication which contained extracts from the Bible condemning monarchy. If we are going to have imperialism we will find Jt embarrassing to preach free government here while we practice im perialism elsewhere.—Commoner. NEW SHORT STORIES Gallant S|opolip. Americans have not the reputation of | Europeans for gallant speeches, yet I there are many occasions when they | earn envy of the people who are more given to saying pretty tilings. At a re- ' cent private dinner at which Seth Low and his wife were guests one of the diners said to the new mayor: "You must be proud to be the bus band of the first lady in New York." "I am proud," said the mayor gal- , lantly as he glanced tenderly at Ids wife, "to be the husband of Mrs. Low." 011 a similar occasion recently the 1 American embassador to the court of St. James paid a graceful compliment j to his wife. It was at an informal dinner, at j which the guests were intimate friends. 1 Some one proposed that each in turn should answer the question: "If you were dead and could come j back to tills world in another body, who would you prefer to come as?" When it came to Mr. Choate's turn, he said, "I would prefer to come as Mrs. Choate's second husband."—New York Times. A Trifle EmbarraNNliiK. Senator Dolliver came away from home the other morning without any money in his pocket. lie hopped gayly on a street ear and started for the cap ital. The conductor came around. The senator searched ids pockets, but he couldn't find a cent or a car ticket. There wasn't a soul on the car he knew. Much chagrined, he hopped off the ear again and stood on the corner of Fourteenth and F streets, wondering where he could borrow a nickel. Through the window of the next car that came along he saw ltepresenta "l CAN'T HEAII A WORD." live Ketehain of New York. lie got aboard and sat down next to Ketcham. | When the conductor came around, Sen ator Dolliver leaned over to Ketcham and said confidentially: "I wish you would pay my fare." Ketcham is deaf. "What's that?" he asked. "I say I wish you would pay my fare." "I can't hear a word." protested Ketcham. "Speak louder." By this time everybody in the car was looking at the senator, lie blush ed rosy red and shouted: "1 wish you would pay my fare!" "Oh," replied Ketehain, "certainly. The house is always glad to come to the assistance of the senate."—Wash ington I'ost. Tip* on the Market. Berry Wall and James (J. Blaine had both been very fortunate in speculation in Wall street, and both looked like winners, to use a racing parlance, as they sauntered up the avenue. "Oh, well," observed a friend to Mr. I Wall in the Waldorf, "you have so j many friends who can give you tips." | "Never made a cent 011 a tip in my life. In fact, quite the reverse. I went broke once on points from good friends who were anxious to make my fortune for uie." "Well, you have good inside informa tion." "No; I simply studied the situation and bought 011 a rising market and sold as soon as there was a decline." Mr. Blaine, who had been listening to the conversation, chimed in at this point by observing: "My father's friends have been most kind to me and have given me points on which I have made money, but this waiting for tips is like waiting for dead men's shoes. I follow the market, and when there is nothing doing I do nothing. It is better to do nothing than to be active and lose money. I am con tented with the nimble shilling."—New York Letter. Tough on the Tuba. This is the season of the year when each congressman receives from the agricultural department several thou sand packages of garden seeds. When a congressman's district consists of nothing but houses and where there arc not even back yards for a bunch of radishes to grow, like Representative Ruppert's bailiwick, t lie seeds are trad ed off for public documents. Mr. Uup pert, however, concluded that he would send a few packages to his New York city constituents as an experiment. Some of the seeds went to people living in a model tenement. A few days ago Mr. Uupport received a letter from the owner of the tenement. "Please do not send any more seeds," he wrote. "The people in my building have converted ail their bathtubs iuto gardens. The scheme is all right so far as irrigation is concerned,but it is tough 011 the tubs."—Washington Letter. BOYCOTT UPHELD. Drcialon of .Mi**ourl Supreme Court In Good Newii For Labor. Labor men in Chicago have a pe culiar interest in the decision given by the supreme court of Missouri, sitting In banc at Jefferson City, upholding the* right of the labor unions to levy a boycott, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Judge Kohlsuat of this city has the distinction of being the only judge in the country to issue an injunction re straining a labor union from notifying its members, 'either by moans of tele phone, telegraph or any other way, that a certain firm did not employ un ion labor. This temporary order was issued sev eral months ago by Judge Kohlsaat against the Custom Clothing Makers' union on the petition of the Globe Tailoring company of Cincinnati. The injunction was not made permanent, as the firm made peace with the union before a hearing could be had, but the temporary restraining order was wide ly commented on throughout the coun try. The decision cf the Missouri supreme court was given on a petition of the Max & Haas Jeans Clothing company of St. Louis to restrain the unions from issuing circulars calculated to in jure its business. The injunction had been refused in the circuit court and an appeal taken to the higher authori ty. The bill was dismissed, the court holding that it had 110 power to abridge the right of free speech or free publi cation, the person making such speech or issuing such publication being re sponsible. The decision said the fact that such persons in this case were : tinancially irresponsible did not en | largo the power of the court. In the opinion Justice Sherwood said: "If these defendants are not permit ted to tell the story of their wrongs, or, if you please, their supposed wrongs, by word of mouth or with pen and print and to endeavor to prevail on others to aid tliem by all peaceable means in securing redress of such wrongs, what becomes of free speech and of personal liberty?" The decision is regarded by labor men in Chicago as the most important given in years, as there are certain in dustries where the boycott is the only available weapon, and the labor union must guard it as carefully as it would the right to strike where the conditions of employment become irksome to its members. AGE LIMIT OF WORK. The Folly of Trying to Entabli*li It at the Curly Aj;e of Forty-live. In taking up the question of an "age limit" and opposing the practice which tends to disqualify men over forty-five years of age as too old for useful labor the Chicago Federation of Labor is fighting against a cruel and senseless discrimination. At forty-live men still have twenty-five years to live before their allotted span is run. The majority of them have from fifteen to twenty years of very useful activity before them. Frequently men attain their fullest and best powers at fifty, when any loss of mere manual dexterity is more than compensated for by experi ence and ripened judgment. Indeed it may be set down as a general truth that among men who have lived sober and careful lives the years immediately following forty-five are among the best. It is a trite declaration that the pres ent age is the young man's age. but the men who are young today will them selves be forty-five tomorrow. Neither they nor their elders can afford to em brace the false hypothesis that the la bor market with propriety can he reg ulated by an arbitrary adjustment of age limits. The labor supply is regu lated by the number of sound and ca pable men who can work, be their age twenty-six or sixty. It. would be an absurd economic doctrine under the present condition which held that the activities of the world were to lie car ried 011 by men between certain ages and that all others must consent to be shelved as unfit for further service. It is worthy of note that employers (if labor who rule out men of forty-five or over are toiling effectively to make operative the dreams of those who ad vocate socialistic ddbtrlnes of govern ment control of industries. Such in dustries they would have carried on by young men, while those of innturcr years were supported free of work on the bounty of the commonwealth. Thus the socialist and the foolish employer box tlie compass between them by go ing in opposite directions. Chicago News. Labor Troubles In Italy. During the debate in the chamber of deputies on the policy of the govern j ment and replying to criticisms Signor I Giolitti, the minister of the interior. | made a strong speech, in which he in sisted that many of the recent strikes wore part of a great social movement of all classes of the proletariat to se cure bettor conditions of life. This was a justifiable aspiration, said the speak er. and since the demands were not po litical the movement could only become dangerous if the government tried to suppress it by force. The duty of the government was to be impartial and to respect the right of strike propngan disin so long as there was 110 incite j ment to violence. State KiiipiToynicnt Ilureann. The state employment bureau plan has met with great success in Seattle, Wash., according to the report of the operations of the bureau of 1001. The Seattle bureau was established in 1804 and ill the first year found places for 2,823 persons and last year for 20,500. Free employment otfiees are now es tablished in New York, Vermont, Con necticut, Massachusetts. Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, and in many instances I the law was enacted through the ef ' forts of organized labor. LAXAKOLA does it NO ONE BUT A MOTHER uleep gifei to an ailing, teething, fcrerish, colicky, fretty infant. 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