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Show Pit talks on iiilrrl iH !lSS!!?Xj BY TIIE MAN IN A CLUB WINDOW. aai 'fW -flP A A nrrLn '" th0 Bt I'onU al ,L"-' LH (WliasT 39 Uemocmt undcrtakm to point out LH fflf'l iff'ljaj "lc "dvantag wlJrh woull bo likely rj'fl (ffiljaf 1 "ci.ruo to the nations of Cuntral and H !lJ iHrirf " Mouth America by their getting togeth LH 4 I'laFwf pr c,nr'tlnft their dlTcrente and LHi Kl 'hlaTHfl fonnlng a strong nlllanco for mutual LLW '! tlfllsji protection against the mtchlnatlina of aaWMi I i'ijilfl the power of l'uropo Ha points out SH Mf(ltHl th.it unleflt tho 1'nlto.l Statot Intervened 1 1 i 'PfUr ,1 n"""n ' lJlln-Ani.rlca ure at the LB il5' ' 111 5SI morcj of i:uroc Any one of th ise LHfw rl-lliHlll nountrlca la weak as comtnrrd nlth LH Mt 'l.Ufi'ielf even a second or third rato nuropean LH ' "1 -'lil"tl iKjwor, and It Is argued that u strong LB ') B'Ln nlllanco might bo formed with a vteti Hj I In I SiIJ nuking a fonnlJj oie opposition to bbV I ? t lltii even u atroag nation acrosa the Atlan bH ' '! n.tifcaT "'- A" uls '" Prolyl''') true ln theory, bB ' ' BUTPra ,!u' I" practice It would n"ver unrk out HH f tflf'iLiti r to an i.lroMn tnd permanent ae heme nf HH ) ' jlflj- I mutual protection In the llrat place. It faa 1 i IJhIj I It bopoleaa to cipoct 'hiso Central and 4iil ' KSi III South AmerliAii inuploa tall them Vtj VVwrlli Kattn-Aiiicrlcan or Hpanlth-Indlan. or HHli'lfifl Jt iliil! whatever they nre, to (umioae their HH IflE i trytlll dllTerenoes and put up a firm, united. adKa'IIfll action ajrilnal anyone or fur nny prac- 1 W' ai JJl ileal purpose. The) nro tixi tierce and 1,1 VDJJlrll utireaaonable, too Jealous, too llnpul- !' ) ;f Jitj'lll nlTe and pualonatt, ever to compose V Sitii-Jlj 15 an of their local truub.eH for the tom- i Slj1iH mon wenl, nnd It la not at ill likely I ii SfJU ll Uint un7 ctmfcdoratlon or alliance will ' ill wf ll ur run nTcr '"' fI,rn"''- If the people ! iufnWJ I theinnclvot were different hucIi a com , ! dl' 'IibM Wnatlnn mlglit pnutlenble but It la bH ;;) ') H'tr II nnl 'nd neur will be practicable among 'it li' S-I Irt II thn lll-iltacipllnoil racea of Iitln Vmer-i bHbI 91 Tit ?! ' la" I'noage In l lie second t lace It I bH Pi'i'I'iJR woujd not Iw n good thing fir the I Mr I Itaf I United Htatea Itself 1 e would he b.v BH' '' ' MM I l,,R lw" kU nt "Ul'1 Htatea one 111 bBbI '!' l"' mi f "K" "" "rn '""' "" n,hlr In the aiutll- . UA IS -.1 em tail uf the Moslem ll.nil ph. re bB ( I V!6 HI3 I I nllJ lf U'u Btntea of Central anl South I BHr.! 'if 1 I Aroorlon were strong enough to eui eaa BBhl1'i 3'! I ful11 oppute t Hirore.in inwer they B.fi " "'Mljlj I might some day feel their nuts suf bB virnw M,i flclently to menace t m M Ham himself BHiifl 'iaJta 8 nnt tnHt lhcy """" ",er ' aiiong BBilfi i li?, I tnough to dn him an grleioua harm BBrifl ' i ' r I nut xh"i o-1'11 I ve t ery annoyliig BB Jilt kif 1 J I 1 coraplleatton it some Jum ture wh, u hla BBiut.i Itf 1 hands hipiHiied to lie tun of other f r BBTIiIb' il I'll . elgn illiflcultle In the third place ao HHjIiiljii fiPy ' far from warning off huropean powei BBiliiPI ll 1 ,u'li an alllamw woull be much more BBfl.iit f!I likely to nt aa nn Irritant and oxaa- BBl t JjB lerate nut one but several European BBrH (1 ' ill' pnvera to nut In eomeit mum lime to BBiU V f.l tiaih tho South Aineiliana a lesson In! bBB ll' -wn ' "e vnt of anr audacious attempt a , BB ' ' "'fit ' oppresalon of European aiilijecla No 1 BB 'lit ) it I Uncle Bam has no leatre to be n mem- I bB 'iHJtllSi twr of a linn beaihu the tltlo 'United bBi 'i in 1. 1 1 SI Uts Nurth and South of Imitator BV WI'II II Nnl hra No Hilatlunn," with an BB WPrrl II Implied promise to IV hi the battle nf BB iW"iti I th' wkr partneiH vry time ttiej IbB I lli S X ) 1 1 choose to engage In a iiutrixl with Hn Bk 11' li If rois BB 1 1' Will !h C KVKNT( -NINB leare aan Preel- BVi 31 1 i ft( J'n, Mnnro' rr.mulatd the fa- BJj !'d, IflM) nioua doctrine which bear hla name BB!1'jl jilt and la now exerilatng the raiuda of bbBIij J l' V atatenmen nnl dlplnmnta In two heiul- !ll ff'lfmi Iti sphere. Tlic pronouncement which la I Ai jjiOljO world-fa moiis. has been called a ' doo- ' ') T' Wm trin" ' h"M,l"a " ," "ometlilng which la ,Ji ' f i' Ifflf taught ex pur to. It U held and be- liHl . lleied hj nil Hue Americans, but has not been formillj nccepte I or agreed to by other nations. Hence It It not a treaty nor a part of International law, nor eien u dot trine ln the exact Tath-ollo Tath-ollo aense of haling been held at all limes. In all place and b all people It la a real dm trine, howeier and u very Btrong nnl attractive one, too although al-though In tho nature of things aubject to llexlble (Oiittructlon ond vaiylng ap-plltntlnn ap-plltntlnn A Herman military writer, who rejoin a In the formllable, nniiu of ion Haguslawskl Indornea the frank criticism of Prince lllsmarck when he c ille-il the iloctilno ' a great piece of lm pud. ni ' and lie goes on to elaborate what tho great Prussian statesman had In mill 1, by saying that the United Blntea s only one mining many countries coun-tries In tho Western Hemisphere, mirkol bj nun) virUtles of nice and language, nnd asks hon onu Statu, n he milt us, can assert that It Ins the right of Interference and protection oier nil the others Well It h) a lirgo quettlon. tnvolilng nice points of International Inter-national Jurisprudence but It ma be aald briefly that the Unfed State la not poetntr primarily at protector of other Stitrt to the South We are not apertilly lnterontel In amoothlng down the Internecine strife nnd Ileal wars whlih continually r-irk then unfortunate unfortu-nate countries, nor can we leny that theJf"nph merican people woull be probably is well off under the co'-ern-inent of ruropenn powers as unler the mlsminage muddling systems which they dlgnlfv by the name of republics The fact Is Gen m Hogusliwakl nnl other wrtter of the fit '-brant claaa ire way oft when they aajme that th Unlteil Htntea Is In the business for the sole purpose of Interfering an I pro. teetlng" In behalf of tho Central mid Snith merfcan stales Whit the Uiilte.1 states Is nlminp at la to keip linn It off In ev -y portion of this heml-apbere heml-apbere aa a i itter of !f protection. It being exprenaly ntateil thit we ahoull conalder nnv attempt on their iFuropsmn,!) part to extn 1 their as-I as-I tern to nns portion of this heniltnhere aa dangerous to our pence and rafety." It Is well to note that President Monroe doubtless used the last six words of the f iregolng sentence mlMaedl) KTOW that the llfflctlltlea between ' Veneiuela, and Oreat Hrltaln nnd ierman are to bo settleil bj arbitration arbitra-tion theie Is no great dinger that an triuhle will arise over the construction which la at preaeut placed upon the Mi nro do trine Whethei or not Prra-llmt Prra-llmt Monroe dictum vn meant to Hll to sueh a nae as has arts n now maj be open t" llscusnlnn He dlt. tlnctly ataten that u could net ilotv an Intel poaltlon for the purpose of op-pi op-pi easing them (1 c OViiernineiita which hue iteelired their Indeiendinco and maintains 1 It) or controlling In anj other nnnner thlr dnatlny, by anj Ku-topean Ku-topean power In anj other llJht than aa the manifestation of an unfrlenlly dls-poattlon dls-poattlon toward the United Mates" Whether or not this mi) be tnl en to bur an uttemi t on the part of Kuro-w Kuro-w nn natlnna to collect Just dehta and Indeinnltle. or to ptoteet their own subjeils without first obtaining the permission of the United B tut en, la tho qucstlon now under consideration of conseriat.ie slntcsuun In both I-urope nnd thlt uuntry It Is hardlj cnucetia bio tl it President Monroe had any sueh ntriow Idea In hi mind when he pi nned hi fnniout message, but In any case It must be remembered thnt seventy-nine J ears ago the condition ot the public mind and the relations between the United Unites and the countrle ot l.uiope, rnglund especially, were crj dlfterent from what thej am now. in those seientj-nlno jeam the United Stnte has grown lo bo n lorltablc giant In slzo and strength, and the ery tict that It la a amply able to protect pro-tect Itself against Luropcan aggression Is the very bett warrant thit auch at-giesslou at-giesslou will not soon be offered. 'T'HK man who understands how to J- manipulate the balance of power la the virtual ruler In thlt country He may be a man of small nbllltj, compared com-pared with tho glanta who lead the great political parties and his follower follow-er iray bo poor both In numbers and Influence Hcuttcred and ubtorbcil In tho rank and tile of the Republican and Democratic budha, they would le of llttlo or no weight, standing uloof in some small political sect, they are, to an uln ot equal extent, wanting In In. Ilucnce upon the affair of the nation Let thun. however elect to throw In their lot with one of the great parties, and all at onco they may sprlnr into a jioslUon of imwtr which Is a surprise to oieij one, themselves included The small, Inslgnlllcont faction may hold Iho balance of jiowor nnd, by skilful handling, be In a position to swing an Important election, rluprone all people or any one natlnnilltj, or any one religious re-ligious denomination, or any ono trade, should conihlre und agree to sink party differenced for the Occasion, and vote solidly on soino Issue of great moment to themtelte a an Independent body If. ror Instance all the Irish or Swedes ot Germans were to unite for soino purpose, regardless of the fact of their being IKpubllcHns tr Democntai or nupjiose all the rnllrond employeea or nil the trades unions should combine all oier the luuntn who can tell what pnver they might not exert In turning the fortune of war In a Prenl lentlal uiirpalgn" With a lei ler who kept well potted ind knew how to make hla tomblnatlona nt the right moment, auch ll Ued action would neier be Inslnlfl-innt, Inslnlfl-innt, and might often be productlie of startling "suits . fuslnn of prohibitionist prohibi-tionist or labor unions or rpworth lenruers or Christian Hndeai orera, formed on n gigantic scale w Ith one of the great parties on the eie of an election might hat e the ffect of chang. Irg tho course of history To ure n pinnae often emplojed at present the fusion would haie to be npning ot the exact "psychological mom nt ' In order to bo efte. tle but with skilful lender-I lender-I ship and adroit manipulation the effect could be calculate I with startling precision. pre-cision. ONH man who know well how to work the balance of powei in I'u I rope Is the Suit m of Tuikej It la this fucult)' nnd nathlnr else which haa sived the SulUn from seeing hla em-llro em-llro caned up halt a dozen time and himself drlien from ths throne Into binlshmrnt Ills atrocious inlsgovsrn-ment, inlsgovsrn-ment, his shameful brri.ches of fnlth unl the barbarous cruelties permitted under his Mlo lolgn woull soon bn swept away, were It not for his nctitn knowledge nf (he International Jealous, tie which rack the crowned henda of Iruropo, anl Ills cjeat skill In turning those Jealousies to nrcount Iho great isnvert have, one and all, been aroused at one time ot another Into a stuto nf righteous wrath uguln the cruel and falno Moslen but their Ingralnid fmr of luch other" Interference has heretofore hereto-fore Interiosed aa a barrier to protect the luik from the tunlshment due for hi rranj outrngeous crimen und dishonest dis-honest subterfuges In our own day an countr wo hao the case of Dovle, with his rellrlnua pretensions clnlmlng not onli the right but the lower to turn the balance of power In the municipal atrulrs of Chlcngo and the self-stjled ' Hlljah" threatens to exerclso that power io us to oust Mujor Harrison from the executive chair Whether or no this Is an Idle threat remain to bo eeti The fact thut sueh a threat Is made with deliberate de-liberate purpose Is of Itself algnlllr-unt ot the tendency of the time That It la an unstatesmanllke and un-American procevdlng only series to 1 rovo what a class uf virtually dlslojnl, or at bett half-hearted, cltlztns are being nurtured nur-tured under our free Institution Tho attempt to right personul wrong and cxleianccs, either real or Imaginary, or to exploit some favorite piece of legislation, legis-lation, at the expense nf great national Issues and by monopolizing tho tollt-lc'al tollt-lc'al platform with questions of local anl class Imjiortance Is not In nc-cord nc-cord with genuine patriotism or a self, forgetful regard for the bett Interest of tho country and tho rights nf others It la luiely selfish, und In the end la pretty 1 1 1 tain to recoil upon tho head of those making tin. attempt. A N unusual number of burning question have be n under ills, cutslon the pust j ear, to wit water, light, telephones, street rullwnya police, quarantine, liquor aelllng illsordetlj bounce, etc, nnd most It not nil of lliein haie been taken up by tho Com merclul club Here Is another topic which Is respectfully submitted to tin club It Is the serinnt girl problem, which ha been allowed lo remain In nbejame, not because of lit unlmiorl-ance unlmiorl-ance but owing to tho pressure of other urgent innttera The scarcity of good help still continue and tin- scale of comietency seems tu descend is the i rate of wage ascends It I ii sort of Iniersn ratio lime wns when some I kind of a eermnt girl could lw had I for, say, (2 60 or 13 per week She wiib I not alwnja eien moderately eftlrlent, i ln fact she was generallj Incupahlo nnd often hopelcsslj Imbecile but she could at least start a lire with tho aid of a llberil ultowance ot kindling wood and keioaene mid she could boll a potato po-tato nnd even make n bed or sweep a room after a fashion Once In I a whllo a paragon turned up who could do "plain cooking ' thlt Is rodu e a steak to a cinder an I manufacture adobe bricks out nf flour and water which she dignified h the name of bread" Such oxperta were rare however, how-ever, ord seldom remained long In ner-ilce, ner-ilce, but were qul'lly In demand to grnce n homo of their own NOW that wages have doubled Rnd even tripled It does not seem aa though tho oerilce rendered Mere nil bittrr. Tho rlrla nro more saucj If that be possible, anl the work I dene with less w Hungriest., but ths ' coolclnu' and the "waiting' nnl general bouts. work ure not pm formed with any morn on lemons nblllty than under a, iheui er reglinii, Dim i minimally heari nf ladlea offering aa high ua 13 and evru 1 u week, und then being unublo in secure the needed nrtlcle Now $3 or even $3 Is not bad pay for a place In I a comfortable house, when It Is remembered remem-bered that board, room and other ud-vantnge ud-vantnge are Included It Is much more than many joung ladles of good edu-cation edu-cation In thla ilty are able to obtain In store offices nnd factories Theio are many girls earning only J3 a week who have to live at homo and ' llnd ' themselves, with no rrlillege or ler-qulsltcs ler-qulsltcs thrown In. It la tnio the hours of domestic service nre nominally longer, but It I only nominal when tho matter Is lookel Into Tho girl docs not have tu rise earlier or retire later than lf she were engaged In other work. She maj be expected to be In attend, ante mora constantly, but as a gerrral thing tlm dots not work bo steudllv, there being frequent breathing spells und Intermissions Tho day' work Is usually out of tho way it nn early hour In tho evening, und when the hunday and Thuradnj afternoons are deducted the actual hour etrplojcl ln labor are not more than they would be ln many n place of business In fact. It ma-be ma-be taken for granted that the hou are. If unj thing, shorter In dome service than In a Htore or facte while, lf tho girl would only bring i. the pcrfirtrnncu of her duties In a home the same skill that I required 'In u place of buslnena, she would llnd that the work would bo really less Irksome than anj' other The reason m many fall to give satisfaction, and so nre dissatisfied with their position, Is because they are not trained in the duties, don't know how to perform thein either skilfully or quleklj, nnd so utu conscious alt tho time of their own In-competence In-competence In this regard domestic service la no different from any other ten Ice. AOItEVT deal of nnntense has hern talked about social Incqunlltj, but la tho Inequnllty really much i,roater or would It be If the girls made a olnt of endeavoring to excel In their calling, were nlwaya reHpectful and dig-nllled dig-nllled an 1 did not mnkt auch a point of being recognized'' In other words, suppose that girls of refinement an lei-utntlon lei-utntlon took up the occupation of do-ireslk do-ireslk help, ins le thi mselve nilstressea of their art III nil Its branches, so that they were conscious of their own an perlorlty In that art for art It would be If they were ambitious enoui.li to make It so how long woull It tike for such n girl skilled lndustrlojs, refined good teniperel and will mannered, to in-ke her Irfluenco felt In nny famllj whi-re alio mlcht rant her lot? Would It be potklble for anj employee to snub or sllLht nn assistant, nnd would not such a domestic helper be In s great demand by tho best families (beat In I he hlghint sense of tho word) that a girl of the kind deicilbcd woull alwaja be sure of a comfortable home, where shs would be certuln of receiving kindly kind-ly and respectful treatment Let the whole q loatlon of domestic service bo elevated to a hlghir plain, and an und lie made to slllj dlhcujslnns concerning the Jicls.1 status if girls doing house-wirk house-wirk There Is nothing Ignominious in housework no lady who does the nork heielf because aha eonnot afford or ear.not find ft suitable helpor, tonsldera tho work dorng Unry to her dignity, und none of her friends or aoclal set think any tho less of her on that account Tho trouble I. In the girls thenwelvc with their false notions of dignity and foolish lequlreminta na to pomonal lib-ert) lib-ert) Let thn right kind of girls offer their services, nnd trcj can command l,ood waRes good rooms and good trtat- ment If they don't get their Just dues In ono place there will be pl"nty of i places open to them where they can and villi THE question of wages Is very difficult, dif-ficult, not King one capable of easy adjustment nceordlng to any ordl-narj ordl-narj laws of suiply and demind Condition Con-dition vary as to slzo of houto, number num-ber In family, ages ot children, distance dis-tance out, and what nirnngcmenla aro made with regaid to 1 lundrj nnd division divi-sion of work Still It should be possible possi-ble to i,et something llko a reasonublo seal of wugit for tho aniiio kind of work under slmllir condition a named. If women v ho employ help would conduct this part of their houst-keeplng houst-keeplng on the suiiio business principles princi-ples as men do who have the hiring of clerks, mechnnlcs nnd lnborera, It Is rrobablo that tho dltllculty might bo met Hut there Is no such thing a uniformity of scale tu thu matter ot housework, whethei it bo time, wage r labor requlit.il, und It generally urn out thnt n woman who uant a servant badlj and la able to pay any demand whether rcasonnblo or not, will not hesitate to secure the Url, even if by so doing she acts a precedent for unfairly high wagea, and nn worka Injustice In-justice to other less wealthy emplojers The whole question It well worthy the attention of the economlo thinker of tho Commercial club "P III. shortage In the aupplj- of an- thraclto coal In the Enat doea not, perhaps, concern Western people icry deeplj, except In so far as It affocta tho cost of manufactured nrtlclea and' influences in-fluences the monej market. Everything Every-thing that dlsturl trade In one section of the countiy haa un Indirect bearing upon cverj other section, and o, whllo It lo true that out here In Utah and tho other lnler-mountnln States wo are not much Interested directly In the Eastern anthraclto troubles. It would be rather "" t assert that wo havo no Interest at all. It will be n good thing for tho whole country when normal conditions are onco mure restori I It was rumored ru-mored some three week ago that the famine wn not altogether unavoidable, but Ihat If tho operators and railway companies exerted themselves properlj the scarcity might bo remedied, at all events to the extent ot obviating dan. gi r to life nnd health A commented on..!,n,,hl',"e cnlu'nns at the time, any artificial fnmlno produced by tho collu-sion collu-sion of mine owner nnl railway com-tanlet, com-tanlet, whether for tho purposo of keeping keep-ing up tho prlco or nt a retaliatory measure would be almost too mallcloua nnd devilish to contemplate. At tho same tlmo the rumor still preialls, and certainly the stringency haa not been removed The mine owners throw tho bittm upon tho mlnero, saying that, I.F '"""I U'O swcotB of Idleness and lived on thn contributions of olh-"";,, olh-"";,, thy Brf, "i no hurry lo rcaumo .w. V V.?',l'ly ,h('r8 ,s nm1 ""in I" this, but It la not probable that thero Is anj thing like n uulvernnl disposition on the. part of the workera to glva up work for the nako of aubslstlng on con-trlbutlons con-trlbutlons whlih were limited enough during the strike, und will now be Burn todwlndlo rapidly to tho vanishing eyrirVT the trouble Is not nil con-I con-I lined to the nnthraclte operators and mlnera Is ahown by similar rumorB of underhanded notion In tho bltumi-nous bltumi-nous coal region In Illinois An Investigation Inves-tigation has Juet bean begun by tho At- I Inrney-General and an AW Committee In Chicago, to cetera cause of tho shortage la ill luteal, lu-teal, hard nnd soft, In that cltr Ing alleged among other th nn u railway companies have thoiui tons on hand, while the ciaert llo I suffering If true such a s things ns nn artificial famine In the essentials of life createl fo rclfleh purpose whatever, It ipJ: ture and public policy alike u not bo nlloucd to continue. If the object of the lnieitl(itlnr tee to dlscoier the cauitiofthe ago and tlcv Ise n remedy, and It not to be n matter of much ill to accomplish the double run the coal Is being selfishly ul net withheld while tho people ire n there must be law enough to mal holders loosen their clutchti en I If not, the highest sovereign Ur well ordain that the people Item should take action for their n lief. |