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Show I EXAMINER: MORNING THU 12 OQIES. UTAH. SUNDAY, MARCH THE SOCIALIST DEPARTMENT OP THE MORNING EXAMINER Conducted by the Socialist Party of Ogden Any quertien concerning cam HilbaiA tract. municat.em to K. U7 0. Twanty-aavwitf- e and a an If we muat bat e hero wherein to make them, there la no war car kq brilliant a. the war with Wrong; no hero no fit to be uug a he who ha gained the and Merry. tit Lay ol Truth Bl'EHNELL. The following ataiement was made Stephen Adama Immediately upon release from priaon where he had been confined in defiance of nil law and order: hy hi Case Continued.) wood ( Mover-Ha-y tu think with me now whether wa have auch a government a that and what the meaning of thla I want you and never ceaalng wlde-aprea- d EOitonal Social-la- .naatrai- - Addrere all indus- trial conflict Is -- what It mean. It eeenin difficult for some people to understand why there mre o many atrtkea, so much biiternerr of feeling between the capitalist class and lbs working elans. And perhaps there are as many people who see no relation between that fact and tha character and acts of our government. I propose to name a few faets which mar throw some light on these question. In the first place. It la comparatively easy to account for the discontent of the working claim Long yean before it had dawued upon tha mind of President cmaevolt that there are "fortunes swollen beyond all reason and safety," and that an inheritanre las. and even an Income tnn. seem called for to bring these fortune to a Cailtt: HILLIARD KATE E. A OATTELL ana y. MORAN 129 IO 2.768. A more conclusive demonstration of the fact that the Uves of working men are made and consequence than regarded aa of profits on capital, could not be made. Here, again, may he one of the resume why there is discontent among the members of the working class. Consider, now, (be attitude of legislature toward tits working class. In 1901 eongresa detested the only bill labor was laterasted In the eight-hou- r and priaon labor bills, and mutilated the Chinese bill. A convention of the National Association ud allway Commissioners petitioned eongresa la June, 191. to enact a number of measures regulating railway traffic, but no attention was paid to the petition. The legislature of Pennsylvania did pass n law prohibiting n longer work day than twelve hours for women and children in bakeries. But in aliteen states, three territories and the District of Columbia there Is absolutely no limitations for persons of any age, or either beg, or lx was none In 1992. Legislation far the Working Clans Ignored. Kxamlne the decisions of the courts and you will find a remarkable sameness la tha kind of lawa that are de- clared unconstitutional. They are always those laws which presume the existence of rights on the part of labor. Take far rxxmple, the action healthy bala, tha working class had brought by Injured employes for damdiscovered by aa experience Which the ages. President never had A chance to have, Bays Mr. Geo. W. Alger: "The perthat the share of labor In what labor centage of reversals on appeal In mashad produced was pitifully small. Vr ter and servant rases of this kind, mot than a general Ion before Judge when the verdict of the lower court Peter Groaacup of Chicago bad made has been In the plaintiff's favor, Is the discovery that, aa he aaya, "while perhaps larger, than In any other class the labor aud skill out of which the of litigation. He cites from the court greater corporation grow and pros- of appeals report In New York state per are the contribution of ten of written opinions in 37 mace. In three thousand of A meric n rltlxene, ihese case the lower court had derided contribution do not become part own- agalm--l the plaintiff, and these decisers, but remain, aa they began, labor- ions were promptly afflrmcj by the er for hire; that they share prosper court of apiieals. , tty aometlmed, In an Increase of wages la the 3U cases the Juries and the bill prosperity meant to them, no per- lower courts had found for the plainmanent stake In the country's pros- tiffs with substantial damages, but 28 perity: and that so It has come about of the 30 were reversed by the higher that In a republican form of govern- court. Over and over again It la statment, founded on the guarantee that ed In legal decision against the trf some law, the said property, like life and liberty, shall he Inviolate, there la flowing Increas- law Interfcrs with the freedom of tha ingly In the public mind, day after individual to make any sort of contract dar, the belief that the mitat rapidly tt chooses. growing field of the count ry'a prosBut on the bitter hand an act reperity, unlike life and liberty, is not quiring payment, of wages in lawful I uiy. more than a genera for ail" money was declared invalid anJ the tion before Judge Oroeacup bad mads Jiberty of the employer to pay In brass this Interesting discovery, the working checks or store orders was affirmed people of the nation made It with a by the Kansas supreme court. The and a g:at deal more. vengeance supreme court of New York enjoined Tha Working Claaa Had Base Made, the striking employes of the New in the very nature of things, to tell York Sun from the exercise of the that Its Intereata of every kind are of right to give the public their side of dlHtlnctl secondary Importance, that the nmtmvrrsy, The I. 8. circuit those Interest a are the first ones to be court of West Virginia sentenced cerlie If la ta sserlflced tain men to thirty day imprisonment any aarriflpe made. This class baa found Itself for "contempt of corporation, their aa a offense being not contempt of court, treated every where. Inevitably, commodity with a price In the market but only strong language respecting the same aa hogs or beef or natls or employe of a railroad corporation. lumlier. And the miners of the same state The working class has discovered were enjoined from holding a meetthat the powers that be, the dominant ing on their own grounds. 8urely, It forcea of the world with which It must Is something mrtre than coincidence are so frequently prodeal, have no regard for the bodies or that judge souls of Its wives or children. For moted to attorneyship of corporations trample, that power which Is superior and that corporation attorneys are uch prewiring material for caldnet io government or court dictates that over a million women In 1100 must positions and as the makers and inwork In the factories of this country, terpreters of law. You may remember that It was statand the number la rapidly Increasing. These women are not the wires ami ed by some prominent men during the daughters or sisters of the capitalist coal strike In 1902 that there was a state of war in the anthracite coal class they are the wlrea and daughdistrict. On the contrary, It was a ters or alters of the working class. truce. Instead of war. that existed at Nearly 200.000 children were employed at that time In manufacturing In- that time. dustrie. During the continuance of that trike between seven and twenty men Against an Increaae In manufacturing pursuit a of men or 22 per cent were killed, and from twenty to forty there has been a 28 per cent Increase were Injnrrd. But at the lowest estiof women and a 20 tier cent Increase mate, had there been no strike, the of children. same period would have shown a recIn 1oo. 37.762 women were engaged ord of at kaxt 200 killed and 1.600 inIn the business of making cigars and jured In the mines of that single state. cigarettes, a gain of 66 per cent, Tht war 1 on now and has been In against a gain of but 4 per cent of progress for years without note or un-comment from the thousands of clerla that occu)iatiun. gymen and moralists all over the There Art 60,000 Children world. under sixteen In the cotton mills of the And the facts abundantly prove that south alone or were In 1900. More legislntldu resumes as Its fundaof the operatives of all than mental thesis that property la parathose mills are children. mount and human life secondary. As That la only one of hundreds of a consequence, law are mainly the what showing capitalism of the will of the properthinks of the children of the working expression tied class, and not of the interests f claM. That la one rause of dlaeontent. propertyles. Consider for a moment the riska to theNow. whit must, any intelligent man life and limb Involver In the Ufa of Is the of these fact and say tho working chins. In the anthracite other likeniemlng them which might easily cs1 mines of Pennsylvania in 191 be adduced? Dl: miners lost their lives. And the We can see that the past ten yearn list of killed in the bituminous mines of that state and you have a total of have been marked hy an almost comthat year of Ml. One out of every plete Integration of capital a natural men that go down Into the earth and Inevitable result of the world's This Integrato mine coal loses his life. One out of economic tion of capital has produced a small It life. for maimed is ei-r- j thjee clas of men possessing such power roots more for coal than any one uf over the moral, social. Industrial and us ever piiya. workers political life of the world a no anOf the Znn.niM railroad or - aristocracy ever classed as trainmen thniuahnut the cient nobility dreamed of The power of p isxesslng. In one every log whs country in 190H, l ltd vptatn of Industry is killed and one in every ten wa In- thr well nigh supreme. j Directly or jured. In 19oi one In every I'd! was they nut only determine the killed and one n every 12 injured. material condition of the million, hut The Investigation of New York commission of labor lit itie spring of 199 they as Infallibly dictate the educational. moral, ethical, political and allowed a yearly average of 14.576 ac- even the religions ideas of the state. cidents for factory workers alone In In the estimation of our Captain one state. of Industry nnlilng in ail the range The number of railway employes of human Ilf.. is So important as comhilled in the yegr ending .liine 30. 1S9.1, merce. The Ran of business stands was greater than the I'nlnn death roll st the apex of human achievement. In every battle of the civil war exThose qiiuli'ioK of character upon wn1 within of "tl cept Gettysburg. which is placed the highest honor arc that record. the In the santn year the number of In- a ones which make for success from financial point of view. th-times ax jured was note than S'lcrcKK i everything, the method great as the number i f I'nlon wound-e- l ef its attainment hardly figures at all. at An'lliam or (TinncellorvIMe. more vrdbl. nrorally colorless code of than double that of lint shunt. And That hies Is supreme In this nation. It seven g.iv,- the yet enngvi-sis tho code wMeh the very nature of t 1 r years in whii-ply wl'h the the struggle for exlstenrc under the provisions of i lie appliance act all of IV; In those seven years 13.906 presentmenregime Imposes upon deml young women. It a loss exceed, young employes we-- o kilh-termines the policies of our lug the i nter dejth roll of Gettyseducational and permeates burg Spottey Iv.iuia. the Wilderness. much of the a'ieged preaching of our Anttiam. Chaiiceiiorvtnc and Chlrk-imuipulpits. And that rode is not comrilne.l and approximately in sthoiMic, but r. rp L,,ii.ni"i I more than injured its wt.inli sutrit end effect. ib" of nnniVr tines In ion wounded On every ride the sanction of iu ii e ix Thai a large part philosophy and religion is being of this casualty lerord wax avoidable elaim"d in support of the system of is proved by l he report of he inier-s'.it- o nf a large "The comne-e- e cmmlti.uir which huines." said Mr. growth Rockefe:i,.r. (n shows IV ntiwVr of employes killed "P.e of h Sunday echo adVe'es. In couniing accidents in the is merely a survival of the fltiegt." year end-ii-.lime :m. Usui declined from !? The American c,m lie Beamy Hor-to fiv. an i the number of injured from ill The eplepdnr end u 3, 190T. ranee which brag cheer to the beholder, ouly by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around It. This Is not an evil tendency in buunes. It is merely the working out of a law uf nature and a law of God." And n very large proportion of the clergy, h la to be feared, say "Amen! Another member of the plutocracy has claimed mure than this, saying that "the property interests of the country have been entrusted by the Almighty to the Christ ian men who are now administering them." And yet. we wonder that the working class does not attend chuieh. By WM. TH CROTON BROWN. (T be ounuuuoJ next Sunday.) mt Bril If. The Wreck buck ns tbe time of Henry L there were royal grants of "the islands and their wrecks," aud .frequent wa the phrase In centu-lefollowing. With royal encouragement, why should they not he wreckers? One Sunday, long ago, In Scllly, service wa In progre when there ram tha cry of "Wreck!" The men etartod from their seats. Ia a moment there would have been a stampede, but they cowered back as tbe minister sternly thundered a warning. He strods to the door. Again bis vole arose. "Let's all start fair!" he shouted, throwing off impeding cassock aa he ran, while his congregation labored at bis heels. Most curiou of all wracks waa that of a bark, with a car go of bead, that went ashore 200 year ago. So generous has been the ocean with tbia treasure that throughout there two centuries It hu Intermittent ly been tossing beads ashore; yet ac frugally that the supply Is not yet exhausted, for In a few minutes search I found that some had been thrown there since the last search of the la Is inters. Robert Eharkleton in liar pecs. As far As Old Meat gllL The state historian of New York In compiling some record brought to light some nmendinents to law confirmed al "ye General Court of assises held In New Yorke, beginning on ye 6th A ending on ye 8th day of October, 1070." The following catches the eye: "Whereas, divers Complaints have been made of tbe great abuse of bringing dead bogg A rork Into thla city A It not being discernible bow long they hare been Kill'd by reason they are too often brought frown, eo not capable of being preserved hy Salt which tends much to ye disreputxcou of that Commodity when aent abroad, and yn Merchant who Export It Into Warmer Climate, for ye reason aforesaid It Is Ordered, That henceforth no bogg or hoggs rhall be brought dead to this place either for aakt or payment of debts, exiept tt shall be In cask well Salted A rackt according to ye Law, otherwise sinoak't or dryad of which all person are to take Notice, as they will answer ye contrary at their Fee rills." . Mater r u Watrh Fse. work of tbe Belgian astronomer Ilouaeau was an article In which, while arguing In favor of a decimal division of time, hs pointed out tho origin of the double set of twelve hours represented on eur watch aud clock faces. The indent Inhabitants of Mesopotamia chose tbe number 12 an an arithmetical base because It ban four divisors vis. 2. 9. 4 and 8, while 10 has only two divisors vlx, 2 and 6 They counted twelve hours ta the day and twelve ta tbe night, measuring the day by the progress of the suu and tbe night hy the progress of tbe atari across the sky. This system, prevailing over all others, has come down to ua, and eo onr watches bear on their face a souvenir of those ancient days when the nun served for a clock hand half of tbe time and the stars tbe other Almotit the last halt. kite aid Ms Kite. Animal trainers of tho old days led adventurous lives. Is WOO all London was talk!: of a man named Banket, servant to the Earl of Essex, who had taught hla hone to count and perform a number of feata, Including mounting to the top of St. raid's cathedral, while "a ntimlter of asses," as the historian puts It, "brayed below.' Sir Walter Raleigh In hla history sly of Bankee that he "would have shamed all the enchanters of the world, for whatsoever was most famoni among them could never master or Instruct any beast as hs did hla hone." When Bankes took his hone to Rome both were burned for witch era ft one-fouri- devel-ipment- . inili-m-ri- er rvi'-oa- ds sy-te- m sm-enr- r. tii.i-io- expl-iiatlo- . e frj PMlbl Exeeptlaa. schooheecher was examining the physiology claw. How many riba hare you, Charles?" be asked. Why er 1 don't know," said diaries. Didn't the text books stater be then queried somewhat sharply. "Yes oli, yea of course, but; you see. I'm long welded."' A A high rs tier Urtort. An okl lawyer hi speaking about General Ben Butler said: "Ben Butler was a terror and a torment to tbe Judges. On one occasion Judge Sanger, having lieen bullied and badgered out of all patience, petnlantly asked, Wbat does tbe counsel suppose J ahi on tbla bench for? Scratching hi bead a minute, Butler replied. Well. I confess your honors got me tliere.' " Eur Answer. paper tells the pathetic story of one A., who Is compelled to grow a beard to ward off pneumonia and other 111. The woman with whom he has fallen In lore, however, declines to many him unless lie will shave. What." asks our eontemiiorary, should A. dor The answer seem easy: Keep the beard and ent the A Liverpool woman. PrinMl There is a certain development of love In which the covetous longing of two people for one another has yielded to a higher mutual thirst tar an Ideal above them both. But who has found such love, who has experienced It? Its true name Is frtebdsMp. O it Sate file, Rctroeder tin btl neighbor, a widower! Why did you send your housekeeper away, since she wsa such a good conk? The Widower She made such splendid puddings I was afraid I should marry her- .- Fllrgende Blatter. A cubic fx of distilled water wgb very pearlt I.IW ounce. |