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-ompers Mitchdi and aon Convicted of ConteAipt. THE JUDGE SCORES UNION MEN. Declares They Have Openly DiAe4 The oourts.-Gompers Says .J Has Only Been righting the Bat tles of the Working Man-+-Unlog Men in Several Citiss Protest. Washington, SpeciAl. - Twelve .nonths in jail for Samuel Gompers, ?resident, nine months for John ifitchell, one of the vice presidents, md six months for Frank Morrison, -ecretary, all of the American Fed iration of Labor, was the sentence mpoted by Justice Wright, o4 the supreme Court of the District of Co umbia, for contempt of Court in eiolating an order previously issued enjoining them from placing on the "4 unfair'' or "we don't patronize'' Siut the Buck: Stove and Range Co., of St. Louis, Mo. All three of the defendants were in court. Notice of an appeal to the Court of Appeals, of the District of Columbia, at once was fiiled, Gom pers being released on $5,000 bond, Mitchell on $4,000, and Morrison on $3,000. With tears coursing down his own cheeks, President Gompers heard the order of the Court which condemned him to prison for a year. Both Mitch ell and Morrison seemed stunned by appeared to be least concerned. Asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronoun ced, President Gompers declared that he had not consciously violated any law. There was much he would like to say, he said, but he could not do it at that time. He added, however, that ''this is a struggle of the work ing people of our cou-ntry, and it is a struggle of the working people for. right. It is a struggle of the ages a struggle of the men of labor to throw off some of the burdens which have been heaped upon them; to abol i-li some of the wrongs and to secure some of the rights too long denied." Mitchell and Morrison conflend themselves to an endorsement of what Mr. Gomprs had said. A Seatching Arraingumnet. The decision of Justice Wright, which consumed two hours and twen ty minutes in reading was one of the most scathing arraignments that sver came from the bench in this fity. He recited the conditions an ;eceding the injunction and referred :o the fact that for twenty-five years he Bucks plant had been oprated as ten-hour shop and always- had naintained an "'open shop.'' Tht .ourt read extracts from numberi b'f esolutions of labor organizations oaring on the Bucks case as tending o show the methods of influencing aembers of unions, ''and these iethioda ,'' the Court remarked, 'seemed to be known as persua ion.''' The customers of he Stove 'ompixny, the Court said, -had been itimidated, brow-beaten and coercede ut of their business relations with xeir customers ''by direct iterfer ice with and boycoft of their (the istomiera) trade relations with their en customers and the public gener ly. '' Following an exhaustive dis ission in restraint of trade. Justice Triht said: ''From the foregoing it ought to em apparent to thoughtful men ~at the defendants to ?he bill, each * d all of them, have combined to 'ther for the purpose of ''1. Bringing about the breach of aintiff's existing contracts with hers. ''2. Depriving plaintiff of prop ty (the v'alue of the good will of o business) without due process of ''3. Restraining trade among the w veral States. ''4. Restraining commerce among th 'several States. The ultimate purpose of the de feudants, the Court said, in this con neetion was unlawful, their concert project an offence against the 1 y and, it a.dded, they were guilty crime. Coming- to the question of viola n of the Court's injunction Jus a Wrigjat said: of the Injtinction. Th ~ n(rt~~ d others had, in ane~ of th&Wunction, determin Kto vilste -it if issued, and had in ance. of the injunction counselled Smembefs of labor unions and of 'tAmerican Federation of Labor, the public gener'ally to violate it K e ase it should be issued, appears a i the following which references n"it out also the general p lan and 1mie Intitual understanding.of, the va The Court here read a mass of ex *.ta from representaties of pro ud ixg,of Oonventidans of tht 'edera, tien, *eports of Pro ident /G grs; . -W -6.M I Adoricarationist , r,Pir4; generally in support h1d 'states 1, that there wak a P terminat to violate." The art after 6poting at grtat' length a kitude -taken by . Mr. Gompers si06 the' injunction was issued, his. wrie. lu-g, interviews ond the- public ad dresses, remarked: 'All of which was done, alf of which *as published, all of which was circulated in wil ful- disobedience and deliberate vio lation of the injunction', lind for the pirpose of Iitiing and- Weeomplits .ng the violation generally and in pursuance of the original common design of himself and confederates, to bring about the breach of plain tiff's existing contracts with others; deprive plaintiff of property (the good will of its business) without due process of law; restrain trilde among. the several States; restrain commereca,mong the several States." As to Secretary Frank Morrison Court declared 'that he had full knowledge of all that was being dont, vok part in the preparation and publication of the American Federationist of April, 1908, with complete knowledge of its contents. Concerning Kitchell the Court. pointed to various acts which, he said. placed him within the pale of the law. Vital Questions Involved. Continuing as to all three of the defendants the Court said: "In defence of the charges now at Bar neither apology nor extenuation is deemed fit to be embraced; no claim of unmeant contumacy is heard; persisting in contemptuous violation of the order, no defence is offered save these: "That the injunction (1) infring ed the coustituional guaranty of freedom of the press and (2) in fringed the constitutional guaranty of freedom of speech." In connection with the considera tion of the contention that the in junction invaded the right of free spece and of the press the Court held in part: "The position of the respondents involves questions vital to the preser vation of scoial order, questions which smite the foundations of civil goveynment, and upon which the su pemacy of the law over anarchy Aaa riot verily depend." In the opinion of. the .Court even where a tribnnal had fallen int. er r6r in the determination of a z"-w e which was invested with jurisdi& tion to "hear .and determine," the duty and neessity of obedience re mained nevertheless the same. The Law Rendered Null. "Before the injunction was grant ed these men announced that. neither they nor the American Federation of Labor would obey it'; since issued they have ref 'sed to obey it;.id' through...Ihe' Ainerican Federation of' Labor disoledenee has been success fully' achieved, and the law has been. made to fail; not only ha's the law failed in is efforts to arrest a wide spread wrong, but . the injury has grown more destructive since the in junction than it was before. There is a studied, determined defiant con flict precipitated in the light of open day between the decrees of a tribu nal ordained by the Government of th'e Federal Union and the tribunals of another Federation grown up in the law, one or the other must suc cumb, for those who would unlaw the law are public enemies." In passing sentence on the defend ants the Court said: ''It would seem not inappropriate for such a penalty as will serve to de ter others from following after such outlawed examples, will serve to viai dicate the orderly power of judicial tribunals, and establish over this liti gation the snpremacy of law.'' History of the Gase. The Bucks Company prosecution of the officeials of the Federation be gan in August, 1907. The original action was a test ease wherein it was sought to enjoin the labor unions from using the ''unfair'' and ''we don't patronie'' lists in their fight against firms and individuals. Jus tice Gould of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, issued an injundtion which was later made per mnanent forbidding the publication of the company's name in these lists. President .Gompers in an editorial in ''The Federr.'ionist'' of last Janu ary, made known his intention not to obey the Court's order, contending that the in.junction issued was in derogation of the rights of labor and an abuse of the injunctive power of the Courts. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison .subsequently were cited for con tempt, and this phase of the case has been before , the Court for many months, the proceedings taking the form of a hearing of testimony be fore an examiner and many argu mente. R,oosevlet Asked to Interfere. Whether President Roosevelt will take any action, ais he has beeu uregd to do in telegrams reeted from different labor organiations throughout the country, in condeo $ion wit Judge Wright's decisI,p has npt been decided. - Appeals - Labor Leade0fe Ou tinues T e'Beforo "etg6rw andthe HasNowerto Assist Washingtoi! .1eial.-In an 'offl Cial statement 1isued at the White House Saturday -in regard to presi dential intetfono# in the cases of Prqsident Qg4'j..Vice President Mitchell and,. f*rqtary Morrison, of the --American-4deration of Labor, now under sentence for contempt of court, Attenfion ib, oolled to t.he fact that the 1eages at Atll before the courts and thlit no matter what the President's opinion may be as to the the justness of the. sentenco imposed he cannot take any action looking- to pardon or express any opinion is to the merits of the cases. The text of the statement follows: "Various appe s have been made to the President tb, interfere by par (Ions in the case of Mi-. Gompers and his associates. Those. making the appeals are unaware of the fact that the matter is still'before the courts. It is a civil suit between private par ties and there has been no way by which the government could have in terefred even if it had desired to do so.. Whether the President does or does not think the sentence of Mr. Gompers and his associates excessive is not at present of sonsequence be cause he cannot take any action or exercise any opinions while the case is pending before the courts. When the decision is made then the P.resi dent can promptly consider whether the terms of imprisonment are ex cessive or improper. "The President has already in structed the Department of Justice to keep him fully informed as to the progress of the case so that in the event of its becoming proper for him to act he may have 'at his disposal all of the facts which will enable him to decide whether there was -justifleation for some punishment, whether the sentence is 'or is 'not altogether too severe. But at the presetit the Pres ident has no more to do with the case (than with the case of the $29, 000.000 fine imposed by Judee Landis on the Standard Oil Company, which is also on appeal and concerning which the President. has. also been repeatedly asked to interfe-e by well meaning persons who did not know that he could not interfere while the matter was still before the courts on appeal. The Evacuation of Cuba. Havana, By - Cable.-New Year's deay will witness the beginning of the evacuatiop of Cuba by the army of pacification, which has been in possession of the island since the be ginning of the provisional govern. ment. October, 1906.' The first pro visional regiment of marines, num bering about 900, will be among the first twoops to leave. About half this regiment will sail from Havana on January 1st on the cruiser Prairie, which will return about the middle of the month and embark .the re mainder. Headquarters and Companies A,. B, C and D, twenty-eighth Infantry will embark on the United States transport 'Sumner at Matanas, on December 31st. From there the transport will proceed to Havana and embark Companies F, G and H, stationed at Guanajay, and Company E, stationed at Guines. From that time on, the transports Sumner and McClellan will be em ployed in the embarkation at inter vals of the remainder of the year. Battery B, Third Artillery, and the Fifteenth Calvary, will sail on Feb ruary 2d. The headquarters and Eleventh Cavalry, the mountain ar tillery and Fifth Infantry; the: Elev enth Infantry, and the Seventeenth Infantry will leave Havana about February 27th tor Newport News. It is the intention to have all of these sapear in the inaugural parade at Washington. This leaves only two companies of engineers and two battallions of the Seventeenth Infantry. These troops will embark April 1st, which will complete the evacuation. The embarkation of thg troops will be effected with as little ceremony as possible. The purpose in deferring the departure of a portion of thie Sev enteenth Infantry until April 1st has been the subject of cpnsiderable spec ulation, but It is, believed that this will be. agreed upon at a conference between Governor Magoon and presi Clent-elect Gomies. It probably is for, the purpose of keeping the barracks and quarters in good order untM" is possible to turn over to the Cuban authorities a model- eamy.' Cubans, wih the exception of a, few who profess to few, that disorder will follow the evaeuatin of the Is. land, are greatly p at the de-' Perturq. of the AmI~.forces as marki,g the come 0stablishnet of lndenan4ta ML*i thektid tt BelitViWAereINaA Acomlhed t AR$lIIP 'D LIEVER OPTl i TU All 'That .. LAhm Needs 19 the Whorowt,an ta Can fford to Spend $1,000 to $5,-. 000 Can rave a 3chine' - to go Touing Throiugh the Ether-ays the WriAhts Rave Solved t%eerob lem of 'Aertal Navigaion. New York, Special.-Asserting that the problem of aerial naviga tion has been mastered and that with in a few years airships wil rival auto mobiles, Frank S. Lahm, one of the first of aeroplanists and the father of Lieut. Lahm, in command of the ariny's aeronautic experimental sta. tion, began his campaign to interest capital in the Wright aeroplane. Mr. Lahm, though for thirty'years a resident of Paris, is still a loyal Am erican and believes and hopes that the Wright method will be adopted by the nations. He said that it was fitted for both commerce and war. Mr. Lahm believes that the world will speedily recognize the fact that the age of aerial navigation -has come. In speaking of his' experiences with Wilbur Wright in France, Mr. Lahm said: ''I once went 100 feet above the ground with Mr. Wright. It was his first trip so high in the air, and did. much toward converting many scof fers. . "The sounds of our whirring wings and the buzzing of the engine fright ened many of the horses below us. It was a natural flight and we rose unaided by weight or monorail. I had the greatest pleasure of my life. "'It was as if we were in a steam, ship driving through a calm sea against a stiff wind, or as if we were sitting in a rocking chair and letting a gale spurt by us. When we came down at the rate of nearly a mile a minute I might have been di6turbed if I had not seen Mr. Wright make so many landings without iceident that it seemed prepostgrous that We should- not land easily. L.feared foi a*second 'that we *might come dows with a- shock, but just. as we got close to -the ground-we had been rushing down spirally as if on a twisted toboggan slide-Mr. Wright so manipulated the machine that she landed easily. "I'have seen Mr. Wright go aloft without the aid of any propulsive weight. I have seen him parallel the earth no higher than a man's shoulder for miles. I have seen him take up a man weighing -208 pounds. ' I am confident that the Wright machine has solved the proglem of aerial nay. igetion. He can even with his present machine do whatever he wishes with in the limits of the fuel, he is able to carry. ''I expect to see a Wright ma chine make a flight across the. English Channel and back before the end of spring. I believe that even in France, which is five years ahead of America in aviation, it will be difficult for the most optimistic to realize the pos sibilities in s.toje for the aeroplane commercially and from the viewpoint of war.'" Nfr. -Bishop said that the Wrights had taken France by storm. He understood that Orville Wright, now recovered from 'his accident, would sail from here next week. He will .establish a schiool of aviation at Pau. The brothers swill manufacture aero. planes in France on a large scale. The best machines will cost $5,000 and the ismallest abot- $1,000. Three Dead in Street Fight. Ocilla, Ga., Special.--Within a stone's throw of each: other, their life blood making crimson the shaded streets of this quiet town, three men were instantly killed Tuesday- night and an officer of the law received mortal wound. The dead are: Char lie Moore, Virgil Moore1 Leonard Smith. Fatallyv injured: Policeman Cain Walters. WD1l Try Yankee Again. Washington, Special. - C.ertainty that the cruiser Yankee, which suink a second time off the Massachu setts coast after having been raised ad wase bqing towed to New Bed ford, Mass.,, ean be again floated and delivered sdfely at the New York navy yards according to contract, is expressed by John .Arbuckle, Ivho successfully. floated her,:. thb . first time a the offieers o)f th navy Fbad gv 'p the v'esel. '. A ~r buckl - telg ped ec'tagy Ne sthe *Wotaqarfer of NTERNATiONAL LESON COxv RENTS FOR JANUASY 3. *bject: The Ascension of Our Lord Act 1: 1-14--Goldeli Text, Lu4 26:1...ComitVerees - A .Aposition of the LeAton. 8U"..19mP ! hursday, May 18, A. D. ON..-Jerusalem and Olivet. .- 1. The Risen t 4"Tbe former treatise" I .the gOs of* LUke (Luke 1:1-4). The subject of the gospel was what Jesus "began" to dq and teach. The subject Of 'the 16ok of 'Acts is what Jesus continued--to do and teach (af ter His ascension), Just before His ascension He had given the disciples commandments (Of. Matt. 28:19, 20; Mk. 16:15-19; Luke 24:45-49; ch. 10:40-42). He had given these com. mAndments, after His resurrection, in the power of the Holy Spirit. What an honor this puts upon the Holy Spirit, and how it emphasizes the im portance of His work (cf. 1 Cor. 2:4; 1 Thess. 1:5). Jesus was taki up "into heaven" (Luke 24:51; cf. 1 Pe ter 3:22). The all-sufBcient proof that -Jesus rose was that He was seen through forty days after His suffer ing' and death.' He showed Himself alive by many proofs. "Forty days" is the period of thorough testing (Deut. 9:9, 18; 1 ]K. 19:8; Matt. 4:2). During the forty days there was one subject of conversation, "the things concerning the kingdom of God." As the days of communion with the risen Christ drew to a close Jesus laid a solemn charge updh'.them not to take up - the commission of world-wide evangelization that He had laid upon them until, they hpd received the all-essentiial fitting fbr the work, "the promise of the Fath er," the baptism with the Holy'Spirit (vs. 4, 6; cf. Luke 24:49).' They were tonstay right there in Jeisalem and wait until "endued with power from on high..' IT. The Ascending Christ, &-9 (Luke 24:50, 51). The mention of "the promise of the Father" seems to have suggested to the disciples the Irestoration of Israel, so they ask Jesus if He is about to restore the kingdom to Israel. His answer im plies that the kingdom is some time to be restored to Israel (of. Is.' 1:2 5. 27; 9:7;,,Jer.A#3:5, 6 164:E 36-23-28; 37:24-28; Hog. 3:4; 5; Joel 3:16-21; Am. 9:11-15). But in the most emphatic way He tells them that God has reserved' the knowledge of times and seasons to Himself f-'#. Matt. 24.:36; Mk. 13:32. How w and presumptuous then for- any on to try to figure out the.:time ' eur Lord's return (Deut. 29:29). .1, turns their attention front the i aii attqmpto discover. times and s,aion* to thiiV own present duty of witness ing for Him. When they should re ceive the kingdom He does not dis close; when they should receive pdw. 9r He does disclose (v. 8). This pow er would be theIrs When the Holy; G4ost had come upon them (R. V,). They would not have power until then. How foolish then for us to try to work for Christ until we have sought and obtained the baptism with the Holy Ghost. . The power of the Holy Ghost was not 'merely for the purpose of making them happy, 'iut for,the purpose of making them "wit.. nesses" (cf. 2:4; 4:8-12,- 31, 33; 5:' & 32; 9:17, 20). They were to beg!i their witnessing right where they were when the Holy G)host was re ceived-in Jerusalem. They were to go next 'to the immediately surround ing territory; then to the nearest neighbors, the despised Samaritan., and then on and on "unto the utter most part of the earth." A true re ception of the Holy Spih'it by the church means world-wide missions. Immediately after speaking these words, while they were looking, I)s feet began, to leave the earth. This was His parting message to us. How we ought to ponder it. He had lifted His hands -to bless them as He finished the miessage (Luke 24:50, 51). He went up with His hands stretched out in benediction, and He fias been bless ing hIe ever since. They knew He ;s cended, for t-hey saw Him clearly, They saw Him until the cloud, the Shekinah glory, took Him out of their sight (of. Ex. 19:9; 34:6; Is. 19:1.; Ps. 104:3). We will be received up into that cloud some day (1 Thess. 4:17). He ascended to appear in the presence of God in our behalf, to pre pare a place for us (Heb. 9:24; J'o 14:2). His presence there makes u eternally secure (Ro. 8:34; Heb. 1:' 25) and IIis presence there now guar antees our presence there-hereafter (Jno. 12:26; Rev. 2:21). III. The Rteturnifig Christ, 10, $1. - They strained their eyes to get anoth er glimpse of Him and then stood there gazing. Two men in whjte (of. Mk. 16:5; Luke 24:4, 23; Jgo. 20:12; Acts 10:3, 30) stood by themi These angels were practical, "Why stand ye looking into heaven?" they ask. There are times When it is right to look up steadfastly into heaven (oh. 7:55), but there are times when duty calls to an earthward look. The right thing for the disciples to do just now was to do Just what Jesus had bidden them (vs. 4, 12). The tWo in white gave a glorious promise to cheer the disciples and make it easy for them to leave that spot; Jesu was coming back again. Not another Jesus, but "this Jesus" which was taken up from them. He was to come Just as Al. went, perfonally and visi bly (the Greek is very emphatie and cannot be honestly reasoned away) (of. Rev. 1:7; Luke 21;7; 1 Thess. )41'; Phil. 3:0.1 b.9:8 Jno.