The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 10, 1912, Image 5
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LIME FOR SOILS
Crop Growth Indicative of Condition
of the Soil?Lime is Important for
Growing Leguminous Crops?Manure
Spreader May Be Used for Applying
Lims
Mr. O. C. Rotiel, Marble, Washington,
writes as CdIIows: "Please let
me know If our mountains of lime
rock here In Stevons county could be
utilized Cor commercial fertilizer by
grinding it fine without first burning." j
Unburned but finely ground limestone
is best for correcting soil acidity.
Tho use of lime 011 soils is beneficial
In places where is deficient.
Some crops roc*, dr. : , r calcium than
others. Thi:, in em y tnio of
clovers, alfalfa, ,u;d other leguminous
crops.
Whether the p*ol 1 re aires calcium
depends upon its condition, and this
can be determined by one of two J
methods ? either by a close examina-!
tion of the plant growth or by the use
of litmus paper. If you find horso
sorrel present in largo quantities It i
indicates that your soil requires
calcium; also. If clovers do no? grow
well that is an indication that calcium
is lacking.
Hy the use of litmus pacers, which
may ho purchased at almost anv drug
store, you will be able to determine
whether your soil is acid. Take a
small quantity of moist soil and press
it around the paper for ten or fifteen
minutes. If the hlue paper Is turned
*to a pinkish or reddish color, it will
indicate that your se ll is acid and an
application of lime will be beneficial.
There arose*, eral (at least ten) forms
of commercial lime on tho market.
The best form to use is finely ground
limestone: Find: because it is cheapest,
and, second: the effect on tho
humus 1s not so s< idons us with other
forms of lime?especially cam tic or
quick limo. The action of finely j
ground limestone in its attack r ?i the*
vegetable matter is loss noli.- able
than wilh other forms of brno. The
amounts to apply depend on how badly
your soil requires calcium, and also
I upon the availal le supply of lime
stone. We have known of Instances
I where ,'ts high as eight tons have been
! applied to the acre with good results,
I and as low as a tc.n or a ton and a half
I nag noon uscn very naiihihcioi iiv. i
The usual amount varies from threei
j to six tons to tho acre. Tills materia!
: should 1)0 supplied to tho surface after
I the sood tied is prepared, and harrowed
in by the use of a peg-tooth or dial:
harrow. ft may bo scattered by the
use of rw,ruire spreader; in fact, thir1s
tlio rn" 1 machine for applying
finely pround limestone.
k DESTROYING GRASSHOPPERS
4
n<*ply to Jacob Mathlason, Walnut
drove, Minn. "l'le.ase send me by
7nnil directions for killing grasshop
pors."
He fore attempting to give a remedy
for the grasshopper plague, a few
words In regard to its early stages of
growtli will not be out of place. Tn
order for the grasshopper to multiply
to any extent, the soil In which th?
eggs are laid must be undisturbed and
there must be an abundance of fond
available. The most favorable conditjon
for grasshopper development
seems to be found in the alfalfa sections
of tho west. Where It is possible,
one. of the best preventive measures I?
to cultivate the ground. Tho soil need
not be disturbed below tho first two
inches of surface, for most of the
eggs are deposited very shallow. We
fully realize that in many eases this
1 ...v ..A 1.^ /I /-? n/\ n n f s\ oom 1 > 1 n f r* 1 v
j UitllPUl IM1 uuin: (in tu viuiii|'iv iv i.i
. rl oh troy the grasshopper, but wboro it
! is possible to plow and cultivate in tlx?
fall, tbo number can bo greatly do
creased.
There are two ways of destroying
the adult or grown grasshopper. One
is by tbo use of the hopper dozer.
I Various forms are in use, but one that
j has given very good satisfaction can
| bo built of sheet iron, ten or twelve
feet long, and about twenty-six inches
wide, with a board across the bach,
against which the grasshoppers will
fly and then fall into tlie bottom of the
hopper dozer. The bottom of the hop.
per dozer should bo made water tight,
so that a ouantity of water may be
poured Into it, also a small quantity o'
kerosene. The hopper d< zor should br
mounted on'low skids or small wheels
a.id drawn by one or more horses
The grasshoppers will be collected in |
the hopper dozer and killed by cominr '
in contact with the kerosene. This J
wholo structure is rather inexpensive J
and 1ms proved a very good method of
destroying the grasshopper.
The bureau of entomology of the
. United States Department of Agri
culture has recommended a poisoned
box u'liloh is known as the "erlddl.
mixture," and lias given very good
results In some sections. The mix
ture is made as follows:
One-half barrel fresh horse drop
J pings, in which is mixed one pound
each of salt and parts green. If the j
droppings are not fresh, tho salt Is j
dissolved in water and mixed with thr .
manure and poison.
Then this mixture is scattered freely \
about, where the grasshoppers arc j
abundant. Dr. Fletcher, entomologist f
for tho Dominion of Canada, cites an .
instance where this poison mixture j
was scattered around a portion of thi j
field, with the result that this portion *
stayed green while tho grasshoppers |
seriously injured other parts of the '
same field. The criddle mixture has /
been preferred to other brands of poi- j
son because its effect on other forms <
of animal life is not so serious. ,
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Before the frost is tho timo to pre- ,
pare for next year's crop by selecting
seed corn in the field.
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MEAN WILSON TO
, SWEEP COUNTRY
Democratic Gains in Vermont
and Maine Impressive.
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OTHER PARTIES' PLIGHT
Third Termers to Poll Their Entlr?
Strength From the Rapidly
Thinning Republican
Ranks.
That thn result of the state elections
in Vermont and Maine mean a
trenn ndous Democratic victory in Novoinbor,
is freely admitted by all except
the bitterest partisans. l'oliIleal
experts have done some analyzing,
and some claim to have reached novel
conclusions. Rut those facts utund j
out:
On Monday, September 9, 1912, the j
Itepubiican and Third Term parties
combined elected William T. Haines
governor of Maine, over Frederick W. i
L'luisted, the present Democratic in- !
cluinbcnt, by 2,922 plurality; in 1908,!
a presidential year, a Republican vraa
elected governor by 7,052 plurality; in
J 901, tiio plurality was 25,800, and in i
l'JUO it was 2i,122. In other words, in I
12 years the Democrats have cut j
down thn Republican plurality in state .
elections by 21,109.
In this period tho Democratic vote
has increased from 29,000 to 08,000
whereas the itepubiican vote lias do- i
created from 74,000 to 71,000. The (
Domocrutic vote of this year exceeds '
that of September, 1008, by 1,000, but '
the Republican vote is about 2,000 loss '
than that party cast four years ago.
The split in the Republican ranks,
following the election of William T.
Haines, is pronounced. If tiio division
in Maine in November is as it I
was in the recent Vermont election, I
six-tenths of the Republican vote will i
go for Tuft, three-tenths for Roosu- I
\clt, and one-ientli lor tiio lX'ino-J
urate. It Is significant that the latter ;
party has to date suffered no losses, i
I
as compared with the vote in previous :
years, from the Third Term movement.
On the contrary, it has gakned.
The result In Maine may be expected
to be something like this: Wilson,
74,0(JU; Taft, 42,600; Roosevelt. 21,300.
The returns from tiio recent Vermont
election show, In round ilgures,
that the joint Republican and third j
party vote was eight per cent, short i
of the Republican vote four years ago, I
while the Democratic vote in that
stale shows a gain of twenty-fivo per
cent, over that of 1008. It is of special
interest to speculate what will
happen next November throughout
the nation if the Republican and
Democratic vote for t a national
tickets happen to be affected as
me gubernatorial veto this month
in Vermont has been affected. Tho
New York livening Post has done
some interesting figuring along this
lino and as a net result it is shown
that, under the contingencies mentioned,
President Taft would carry only
two states in November, Rhode Island
and Vermont, all the others going for
Gov. Wilson. The conclusions reached
by tho Post-follow:,
"To comnuto this result wo should
have to deduct 8 pfcr cent, from the
vote cast for Taft four years ago and
apportion the remaining voto in the
ratio of G2 to 38 between Taft and
Roosevelt, and wo should have to add
36 per cent, to Iiryan's vote In 1908,
and give the 'demnition total.' to
Wood row Wilson. In other words, glvo
Taft 67 per cent, and Roosevelt 36
per cent, of Tuft's voto four j^ears
ago, and give Wilson 125 per cent, of
Uryan's voto four years ago.
"The result in round numbers would
bo as follows, so far as regards Taft
and Wilson.
States. Taft. Wilson.
Alabama 11,000 93,000
Arkansas 32,000 109,000 j
Call fornla 122,000 100,000 j
Colorado 71,000 159,000 |
Connecticut G5.000 86,000 !
Delaware 14,000 28,000
Florida 0,000 39,000 .
Georgia 21,000 90,000
Idaho 30,000 46.000
Illinois 360,000 603,000:
Indiana 199,OoO 423,000
Iowa 157,000 226,000
Kansas 113,000 201,000
Kentucky 136,000 305,OUO
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Louisiana ?l?wu
Muino 38.000 44,000
Maryland 66,000 145,000
Massachusetts 152,000 104,000
Michigan 102,000 210,000
Minnesota 1*2,000 136,000
Mississippi 3,000 76,000
Missouri 100.000 448,000
Montana 18,000 33,000 i
Nebraska 73.000 164,000
Scvada G'??? 14'u(,?
Sew Hampshire 30,000 42,000
Sew Jersey 161,000 208,000
Sew York 407,000 834,000
Sorth Carolina .... 66,000 171,000
Sorth Dakota 33,000 41,000
)hlo ..327,000 528,000
Oklahoma 63,000 163,000 j
Oregon 30,000 48,000 j
Pennsylvania 420,000 561,000
rthode Island 36,000 31,000
South Carolina .... 2,000 78,0)0
South Dakota 39,000 50,000
Tennessee 68,000 170,000
Texas 37,000 271,000
Jtali 35<000 63,000
Vermont 23,000 14,000
/lrginia 30,000 103,000
Washington 61,000 73,000
West Virginia 79,000 139,000
Wisconsin 142,000 208,000
Wyoming 12,000 18,000
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FEEDING CORN FODDER
Experiments Show that Corn Stover
> la Valuable In Beef Production?
Corn Stover Is One of the Many
By-Producta of the Farm.
(By J. K. Waggoner of the I II C Service
Bureau)
Profit Is a stimulus which causes
men to engage in some one or more of
the many phases of business. It may
be commerce, the industries, banking,
farming or some other activity, yet
when all is said, the profit from that
particular line of work is usually the
attractive feature. Competition has
become so strong that profit In many
undertakings is made only by practising
the strictest principles of economy
and exercising unusual care in looking
ufter the small things and what might
be termed "by-products." For instance,
one of the sources of the banker's
income is the small increase in
the rate of interest on money loaned
over what it cost him. The same is,
true of the farmer. The increase in j
the value of land has necessitated i
putting farming on more of u business!
basis ii. order to realize a proiit on the'
Investment.
Much has boon said nnd written re-(
Rai ding sa\ing and utilizing the waste.
products of the farm, and it is en-|
couraging to note that more farmers}
arc making better use of all the prod-1
uclu of their farms than ever before. I
One of the most serious wastes has j
been the neglect to save and utilize}
the entire corn crop. The principal
market demand has been for the
grain. This, combined with an abundance
of hay, has not boon conducive,
to tho use of corn fodder as a rough}
forage. Conditions have changed the!
past few years; among other things,!
hay has advanced in price to such an '
extent that it is only good business
practice for a farmer to supply his
rough forage in the form of corn fodder
and put his hay on the market.
Every grower of an acre of corn
should know the feeding value of the
entire crop. It is quite generally;
known what rcturriR can be expected J
from the grain, but few farmers know}
it a- ?if 1 _ c 11 ^
ifi?* ueuuif; vaiue ui 1110 i:uni biuvui ,
(stalks without the ears). Reports j
from the Nebraska Experiment Sta tion
on experiments made comparing!
combinations of shelled corn, snapped
corn, alfalfa and corn stover show j
that when stover is used as half
of the roughage it reduces the cost of.
pains on two-year-old steers from 40
to 48 cents per hundred. The stover
was found to be actually worth
per ton as compared with alfalfa fod
alone at $0.0X1 per ton. The farm value
of alfalfa and other hay crops reached
a mark of more than twice tills amount
the past year, thus increasing the
value of corn stover from $S.OO to
$12.00 per ton.
With these figures bofore us, it la
plain to see that the corn bolt farmer
is neglecting one of his important
sources of income by letting his cornstalks
stand in the field. Considering
the small yield of only one ton o?
stover to the acre, the returns of the!
American farmer would have been j
increased millions of dollars last year;
If this what might be called by-product
had been saved. Coming back to the
individual farmer, he would have
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reitn/.eu uis pr opuiuuu ui mis pruiu.
During this summor is the time to
plan on cutting the corn for fodder
this full and utilizing to the host advantage
the entire corn crop. We find
that the Nebraska bulletin No. 100
says: "By feeding corn fodder, we
utilize the stalk and yet are put to no
extra labor husking it. Tn fact, corn
can be cut with a harvester and put in
the shock cheaper than it can be
picked and cribbed, inasmuch as throe
men with a team and harvester can
cut and shock seven acres per day.
Records from the farm department
of this experiment station show that
It costs $1.18 per acre to cut and
shock corn, which figure does not
allow for the wear and tear on the!
machine. Three cents per bushel j
should cover the cost of harvesting
corn with a machine and putting it
in the shocks."
Tho logical way of saving the corn
crop Is to shred tho fodder. Extensive
experiments at the Wisconsin Experiment
station show that about V.\ per!
cent of tho feeding value of fodder is
lost if loft exposed to the elements.
By shredding and storing, this loss will,
be prevented. The fodder Is also in a
much more convenient form for handling,
and is relished more by the stock.
Shredded fodder does not occupy as
much room for storing as the unshredded,
and the stable manure is
much easier handled.
In summing up the results of vari
ouf feeding experiments with corn in
all forms it is found that the best
way to utilize the corn crop is to save
the stalks either In the form of ensilage
or shredded fodder. Tho records;
of the Nebraska Experiment Station
dispel any doubt as to the economy of
harvesting corn by the use of tho corn
binder as compared witn husking the
standing corn In tho field. Under the .
latter condition the stalks would be
lost. The value of the stalks as a
much feed, considering hav at the '
present price, Is at least $S.OO per ton.
An ordinary yield of corn will produce 1
two or threo tons of stover to the
acre. Compare this value with the
price of fifty cents per acre, which is
usually paid for stalks standing in the '
field. Whjen corn is fed as shredded 1
fodder, the loss of stock duo to corn- {
stalk diseaso is entirely prevented. <
Every farmer that has stock to feed i
should plan to supply the most of his
roughage in the form of shredded corn
fodder, thus utilizing in the best possible
way his entire corn crop. *
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Forty per cent of the feeding value 1
of the corn crop is found In the stalk, ]
REPUBLICANS' 1
EXTRAVAGANCE
Government Cost More Than
Doubled Under Roosevelt.
DEMOCRATS' GREAT RECORD
Startling Figures Which Show That :
the Cost of Our National Existence !
and the High Cost of Living Must
LJ c nc^uuuuui
Under a proper downward revision |
of tho Republican tariff schedules the !
people of the United States would save
$2,000,000,000 each year, or over $100
per family on manufactured goods !
alone.
President Taft's vetoes of tho wool i
tariff bill and tho steel tariff measure '
passed by a Democratic house COST
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED !
STATES AIJOUT $050,000,000 PER !
ANNUM. j
The cost of conducting tho federal :
government MORE THAN DOUBLED 1
between tho close of President Clove- j
land's second administration (Demo- !
cratic) and the beginning of President
Roosevelt's second administration (Republican).
As tho DIRECT RESULT OF IIIGH j
REPUBLICAN TARIFF SCHEDULES
tho people of the United States j
pay a tax rnu.vi iniiniu iu HhJViurMTY-EIGHT
PER CENT 011 food and I
ordinary household articles used in the 1
home by every family, rich and poor.
Tho total cost of running the federal
government in 18G0 was $55,000,000.
The amount appropriated at a single J
session of the Sixty-first congress for i
the fiscal year 1911?$1,027,133,416.44?
was more than doublo tho amount?
$954,496,055.13?appropriated for the
fiscal years 1897 and 1898 at both sessions
of the Fifty-fourth congress, the
laRt congress of the second Cleveland
administration.
Only eight years elapsed between the.
close of the second administration of
President Cleveland nnd the beginning j
of tho second administration of Prcsi-!
dent Roosevelt and yot the amount an- i
propriated during the four years of the
latter ? $3,842,203,577.15?was more
than doublo that appropriated in the j
four years Mr. Cleveland wa3 at the !
helm?viz, $1,871,59,857.47.
For 1910, tho last fiscal year provid-j
ed for in congress under President:
Roosevelt, the higliwater mark In ap- j
propriations? $1,044,401,857.12 ? was I
reached.
Prosldont Taft's estlmato to tho last!
session of congress for government
support for the fiscal year was $1,040,648,026.55.
In other words, governmental expenses
for the FOUR YEARS of Pros!dent
Cleveland's administration (Democratic)
were only $830,861,551.92 more
than President Taft's (Republican) estimate
of the amount necessary to cover
tho expenses of ONE YEAR of
President Taft's administration.
Congressman John J. Fitzgerald of I
New York, a Democrat and chairman
of the committee on appropriations, in
addressing the house Aug. 26, 1912, on
tho subject ofl appropriations said,
"Thoughtful men havo watched with
alarm the rapid increase in the cost of
government in tho United States." lie
further said that two causes seem responsible
for many present evils:
"One, tho UNFAIR AND UNJUST
SYSTEM OF TAXATION by which
nn undue share of income by those
whose circumstances in life are not
considered more than reasonably comfortable
Is taken through our customs
laws for tho support of our govern- I
ment; the other, the difficulty or inability
to readjust our system of taxation
and to remove many taxes from tho !
necessaries of life, so long as tho GOV-}
ERNMENT IS EXTRAVAGANTLY
CONDUCTED, or the instrumentalities
provided for the conduct of the
public service are either inefficient cqr
are not utilized so as to render tho
most effective and comprehensive results."
Mr. Fitzgerald then called attention
to tho fact that tho Democratic party
pledged itaolf if intrusted with power
to do two things?REDUCE TARIFF
dttttes and % retrench public
expenditures by eliminating
waste In administration and the abolition
of useless. Inexcusable offices.
Tho Republicans talk about tariff' 1
revision, and yet when a Democratic
house In fulfilling Democratic promises j .
to tho people reduced the tariff, a Republican
president vetoed tho measure.
"By their works shall yo know them." j
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Democrats in every stato of tho i
Union should organize and prepare
for polling a record breaking vote Nov.1
5. Be it remembered that no matter , 1
h/vnr In irl et Av?ir oaa va n aitakaam n.
ulkj y\ \A'i una i ivyi?wi j ocuiiiD, u v v;i \.a;iuideuce
13 always dangerous.
t
Is there any reason why the Demo*
crntlc party should go out of existence
simply because Mr. Roosevelt has taken
up the Progressive moasurcs adopted
by the Democrats eighteen years 1
Eigo??W. J. Bryan.
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Mr. Roosevelt stood as a guarantor 1
tor Mr. Taft. Mr. Bryan says, "Now, <
when Roosevelt has failed so utterly (
in his judgement of men, i ank can ho j
pass corroct judgment on himself?** ; ?
FARMER GETS LESS, BUT?
He Hat^to Pay More for What He
Doesn't Raise.
Tho U. S. Department of Agrieultuhe
has just announced that notwithstanding
the increased cost of living among
tlie people as a whole there was a
greater decline in the prices-paid to
farmers from Aug. 1 to S pt. 1 this
year than there was last year,
j The average farm prices of the important
crops (corn, wheal oats, bar- '
ley, rye, flaxseed, potatoes, tobacco. [
cotton and hay, which represent 1
about three-fourths of the value of all
tho country's crops) declined 7 per |
cent, during the month, while in that j
time last year they dcclliu d in price
only l.i per cent., and during the last i
four years the decline in price averaged
3.8 per cent. The average of
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I ill ill IJI ICi'S (111 CH'I'l.. 1 Willi ~.o I?WI j
cent, lower than on that da to last i
year.
Prices paid to farmers on Sept. 1 j
this year, with comparison of prices j
paid on tho same date last year, fol- 1
low*
Articles. 1912. 1911. i
Corp $0.77(5 $0,059
Wheat 838 .8 IN
Oats 850 .4'?i
Parley 535 .770
Ityo 70S .709
Puck wheat 7(56 .740
Flaxseed 1.(520 2.03(5
Potatoes 050 1.137
Hay 12.110 14.010
Cotton 113 .lis
Putter 212 .231
Chickens 113 .ill
Eggs 191 .174
Put the prices on tariff nurtured
articles of manufacture which the
farmer has to buy continue to soar.
TRUTH ABOUT THE TRUST
"Expected Economies from Combination"
Do Not Materialise.
(IiOuis D. Hraudels in Collier's.)
Leaders of the new (Third Term)
party argue that industrial monopo
Ilea Glioma be legalized, loot we lose
tho efficiency of largo-scale production
and distribution. No argument could
be more misleading. * * *
It may be safely asserted that In
America there is no line of business
in which all or most concerns or
plants must be concentrated in order
to attain the size of greatest eilicicncy.
For while a business may be
too small to bo efficient, elliciency does
not grow indefinitely with increasing
size. What tho most ellicient size lvs
can be learned definitely only by experience.
The unit of greatest elliciency
is reached when the disadvantages
of size counterbalance the ad
vantages. Tho unit of greatest elliciency
is exceeded when tho disadvantages
of size outweigh the advantages.
The history of American trusts
makes this clear. That history shows:
First?No conspicuous American
trust owes its existence to tho desire
for increased elliciency. "Expected
economies from combination" figure
largely in promoters' prospectuses;
but they have never been a compelling
motive in tho formation of any
trust. On the contrary, tho purpose of
combining lias often been to curb elliciency
or even to preserve inefficiency,
thus frustrating tho natural
law of the survival of the fittest.
Second?No conspicuously profitable
trust owes Its profits largely to
superior efficiency. Some trusts have
been very efficient, as hnvo some independent
concerns; but conspicuous
proms navo oeen sccurca mainly
through control of the market?
through the power of monopoly to tlx
prices?through this exerclso of the
taxing power.
Third?No conspicuous trust has
been efficient enough to maintain long
as against the Independents its proportion
of the business of the country
without continuing to buy up, from
time to time, its successful competl- J
tors.
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There la plenty of peace about, the <
Tal't candidacy, but nobody claims "It 1
passeth understanding." I
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Wood row Wilson says to tlio long- (
suffering farmer who buya In a tr^pr- ,
controlled, highly protected market j
and sells his wares in a freo market: (
"Walk into your own houso and take
possession." f
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How many of those who arc strug- j
gling with the "High Cost of Hiving" !
believe there is to bo any relief if the I ^
Hepubllcan party, which brought it
about, remains in power?
Tho Bull Moose ran things with a j
big stick at Washington for seven and j
\ half years and didn't by act or word v
smite the bosses he now rails against 0
or promote the causes ho now "ero<- c
bodies." Being "a practical man," ho j
isles a third, etc., term, i v
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By applying tho common sense test *
o Keo .e\ eUia.i romance Governor '
iVilatr. b " tho country 1
joth a' :l' thou Jhtful, e
What d a *v v.. v: v. o ? A Thlrd Torm ^
^eekuboo! *
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Gov. Wilson said tx> tho newspaper is
i\en. at tho NTcw York Pross Club t<
Muiquct: "StippoBO you had a House*
>!* lie present alives mixed like the presnt
Senato. I think wo could all go
shins the next two years." Hut (
ui'fr at the helm and there won't be . jj
iay mixing. Democrats?that's alL 1
a
m+ Jm *? ?.. h..^. - v. ? i ? am .
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THIRD TERMER'S 1
JOKE ON LIBOR
Brandcis Shows Right to Organize
Is Not Recognized.
THE PLATFORM IS SILENT
Noted Lawyer Exposes the Fllmslneso
of Promises Made to Worklngmen by
PcrUns and His Candidate, Who
trcaeas xor prsvaie monopoly.
"The now party pledges itself to social
and industrial justice and specifically
to 'work unceasingly for effective
legislation looking to the prevention of
occupational uiAensi a, overwork, involuntary
unemployment and other injurious
efftcts incident to modern industry,'
* * but nowhere in that
long and comprehensive platform
* * * can there be found cno word
approving the fundamental right of
labor to organize cr even recognizing
this right without which all other
grants and cor.ccrsions for improvement
of the condition of the workingmen
are futile. The platform promises
social and industrial justice, but docs
not promise industrial democracy. The
justice which it oilers is that which
the benevolent ami wise corporation
is prone to administer through its welfare
department. There Is no promise!
of that Justice which free American)
workingmon are striving to secure fo *
im .i.M'i 11 ,i iiiruuga indeed,
the industrial . iicy advocated
by the new early wcuhi result in the
denial of labor's right to organize.
"The new party stands for the por-j
petuation and extension of private
monopoly from which the few have
ever profited at the expense of the
many and l'or the di thronemcnt ofj
which the people have, in the past,
fought so many valiant battles. That
cursed product of despot ban, lite new
party, proposes to doinoe.ieale in our
republic, proclaiming, 'We do not tear
commercial power.' Certainly organized
labor has had experience with the
great trusts which should teach all
men that commercial power may be so
great that it is the part of wisdom to
fear it."
The above, declaration was made by
Louis D. Brandeis before the convention
of the American Federation of
Labor, Massachusetts state branch, at
Fitch burg, Sept. 18.
Of Supreme Importance.
Ho urges a careful study of the now
party platform, particularly its effect
upon labor, noting not only WHAT IT
CONTAINS, but WHAT IT OMITS,
adding, "When you make that examination
you will find that there is a
significant omission and that this skillfully
doviserl platform TAKES FROM
LABOR MORE THAN IT GIVES."
Labor Record of Trusts.
Mr. I3randeis then lays bare the la*
bor record of the trusts, declaring that
"great trusts?the steel trust, the sugar
trust, the beef trust, the tobacco
trust, the smelter trust and a whole
troop of lesser trusts?have made the
extermination of organized labor from
their factories (he very foundation
etono of their labor policy. The ability
to defeat labor's right to combine
seems to have been regarded by tho
trust magnates as a proper test of tho
efllclency of their capitalistic combination."
Mr. Brandeis sliows that in 1S99,
during the Colorado smelters' strike,
the American Smelting and Refining
company closed its mills where tho
strikers had been employed and transferred
tho work to other mills, thus
breaking tho strike. The United States
Steel corporation had similar success
In 1901 with the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers.
Had tho association been dealing with
competing employers tho result would
tiave been different. The United States
Ucel trust was prompt in introducing
this plan. Juno 17, 1901, tlx weeks
iftor it bogon it3 operations, its exocuivo
conr i.rc passed this veto, which
ivas offered u. Charles Steele, a partner
of Geco .7. Perkins in tho fh'.i
)f J. P. Morgr.Ti A Co.:
"That weai< .. dterably opposed lo
my extension union labor and addso
subsidiary companies to take firm
position when these questions come up
ind say tiiat they are not going to rcc- r
>gnizo it?that is, any extension of unon
in mills where they do not now
jxist."
Union Pvlen Not Wanted.
Tho result was that the hulk of
American union laboring men in the
ron and steel industry were made to
mdcrstand that they were not wanted!
it tho works of the United States Steel
lorporation. Places r ace filled byj
American laborers loyar to their union
rero given to others, and, as the Staney
committoo found, "Hordes of la>orers
from southern Europe poured
nto tho United States."
lence about SO per cent, of tho unbilled
laborers In the Iron and steel
msiness are foreigners of these class's.
the profits going to tho steel corporition.
Mr. Urandois declared that MtM
tnmediate and continuing result W
he steol trust's triumph over orgal
ted labor has been an extensive syA
qui of espionage and repression." \
There has been no disturbance of I
uslness interests during this presldon J
lal campaign. Why? Confidence in I
ho integrity of tho Democratic uonii- I
ees and right purposes of tho party. I