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HI THE' MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NIL4RT 17, '190.5:: WAR ON BROKERS; Complaint to Be Filed Against M. J. Higley. 1 D. M. Ihmagb, of the Sellwood Board .of Trade, spoke very confidently last even ing of the new mill. Mr. Clark and the parties Interested with htm have made a thorough examination of the old location at Sellwood and decided it was the beat that could be selected. There Is water power for operating the factory part of the year, and the company will use some electric power. It will be less expensive to build the plant, on this site than else where, as some of the present buildings will be pressed into use, and besides, the flume and side tracks are still oa the grounds. LICENSE OF $300 NOT PAID TO BEAUTIFY. THE FAIR. will Ticket-Scalpers Will Resist Paymeat and Test Case on Ordinance Will Be Carried to the Supreme Court. The long-expected war on the ticket brokers of the city I td be declared to-' day. so It Is announced by Deputy City Attorney Fitzgerald. The breach -which has been widening between, the license department of the city and the brokers who have been doing business here has become too extended to be bridged' by any other means '4han a suit at law. The annual license of 5300 which was to have been paid by January. 30 has not been turned into the city treas ury In a single Instance, and the city will take teps to force the observance of the ordinance. M. J. Higley to Be Arrested. Complaint will be filed against the bro kerage firm of Martin J. Higley. 1C5 North Sixth street, today, and the proprietor will be asked to show why he should not be forced to pay the license as provided by ordinance. The brokers, on the other hand, say they are not afraid of the outcomeof the case. They are willing and anxious to have it tried out on Its merits, and are confident of winning against the ordinance, which they hold to be unconstitutional and not in accord with the power granted the city by Its charter. The objection to the license will be made on the ground that it is excessive and prohibitive. Judge Pipes, the attor ney for the defendants, will take the stand that a license must be placed upon an occupation in reasonable amount, and that when It becomes so excessive as to be prohibitive it becomes illegal and con trary to the powers granted the city by its charter and the laws .of the state. The great objection which will be made to the ordinance will be that It places unreasonable and unnatural obstructions and restrictions upon the business of the ticket-brokers and places them at an un necessary and unlawful disadvantage., Provisions of the Ordinance. It is provided In the ordinance that all books of the ticket-brokerage offices shall be kept open for inspection; that a de tailed and complete report of the busi ness, of each day be made and filed with the Chief of Police; that the names of all those selling tickets to the office, as well as those who buy. be kept, together with the destination of the purchaser and his description. The numbers and descrip tions of each ticket handled in the office are to also be made a matter of record, in order that the police may be able at any time to trace any ticket from one olace to another. The brokers have purposely refuted to pay their licenses In order that the suit might be brought by the city. It was de sired by them to test the ordinance In or der that they might be abl6 to show Its alleged unfairness. Judge Martin Pipes and John F. Iogan have been re tained to represent the brokers, while the .cause of the city will be looked after by City Attorney McXary and Deputy Fitzgerald. Pending the outcome of the trial, the brokers will be allowed to continue doing business, and In the event of their defeat the back license will be charged to them, together with the costs of the trial. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court by the defendants In the event of a ver dict unfavorable to them. BOYS TORMENT CHINAMAN. Landscape-Gardening Fortune. Cost COALS AT ALASKAN PORT OLYMPJA WILL NOT SAIL DIRECT TO ORIENT. High Rate Paid fop Taking Freight to the Other Side Cargo of the Aragonla. Thirty thousand five hundred dollars Is the estimate of the cost of the landscape gardening at the grounds of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Exposition offl cTals now state that "this figure Is almost exact, and that when the work Is finished there will be little left of the sum set aside for the labor. Thirty thousand dollars is a great deal to pay for the landscape gardening of a tract of land less than 100 acres In ex tent, but the money is being well spent and excellent results will be obtained. Walking from the Agricultural Palace to The Trail, through Centennial Park, will convince anyone that days and days of careful toll have been put In on the land. Xow that the group of buildings to the West. Is almost completed the landscape gardening can go on. The boulevards and drives will be mapped out. grass will gtow where now there are unsightly bare spots covered with debris. Flowers have to be planted trees have to be trimmed, and it may be said that the busiest set of people on the grounds from now until the opening of the Fair, with the excep tion, possibly, of the committee on in stallation of exhibits, will be the land scape gardeners. The $30,200 set aside for the landscape gardening does not include the cost of the Sunken Gardens, for which a spe cial appropriation of J2750 has been set aside. The steamship Olympla. which cleared from here Saturday night for Moji. for orders, but which is supposed to bo golnc to Vladivostok. Is at As toria and will cross out today. She As In .the case of the Olympla. oats will probably make up the freight. Cargo of the Aragonla. The China Uncr Aragonla began dis charging her Inward cargo at Mont gomery dock No. 1 yesterday morning. The cargo measures 7600 tons and Ix made up of 50,407 rolls of matting. 400 tubs of camphor, 77 cases of brushes, 144 of porcelain, 27G cases of curious, 268 cases of tea. 121 cases of strawbrald, 500 bags of peanuts, 3520 packages of Chinese merchandise, two cases of smoking ware. 1261 bags of rice. 50 bags of coffee, 100 bales of kopok. 1050 bales of Jute, and 12 pack ages of rattan chairs. Patched Up With Schwerin. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 16. The will sail first to Comax. where she ; threatened rate war among the steamers plying oeiwcen mis pon mm Portland has been avoided. A commit tee of the Steam Schooner Managers Association conferred with R. P. where she will complete .her cargo and sail for San Francisco this even ing. The senooners Andy Mahony, with 700,000. feet and Irene, with 900.000 feet of lumber, have cleared for San Francisco. The bar dredge Chinook, which will be repaired by the Kisdon Iron Works, of San Francisco, will start down the river at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Tho Marthe Koux will start dis charging the last of her coal at the sas dock today, after which she will take ballast for her trip to Australia. ''The steamer Bailey Gatzert will be moved down to the Willamette Boiler Works In a day or two. where her smokestack will be removed with the shear, after which her old boiler will he taken out and the new one In stalled. loa'ds 503 tons of bunker coal and will thei proceed to Bristol Bay. Alaska, where she will fill her bunkers to their capacity. 900 tons. From that point she will proceed direct to her destination. Were Moji the port she Is bound for, it is not considered likely she would coal at Bristol Bay. The Olympla and the Tacoma, an other steamer of the same company that sailed recently from Seattle with beef, ostensibly for Shanghai, are un derstood to have received a freight rate of $15 x ton for carrying supplies to the other side. As the regular liners transport tnese commodities at not to exceed JG.r.O per ton, it seems wise to take with a grain of salt the asser tions of their charterer that they are being operated In the regular commer cial way arid are actually going to the ports for which they cleared. The old- ; established Oriental companies were offered this freight, but their under Schwerin. the manager of the line of Portland packets, and as a result of the conference an amicable agreement was reached. The steam schooner men will not cut the passenger rates, and the present schedule of fares will be maintained. Ohio Off for a Cruise. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 16. The bat tleship Ohio has gone on a cruise that will probably keep her at sea for about two weeks, and in thai time she will be put through a number" of tests and will experiment with the wireless telegraph systrnn that has been established on the Farallone Islands. Ashore, but Is Soon Floated. ALEXANDRIA. Egypt. Jan. 16. The king to deliver it at Chinese ports North German Lloyd steamer Hohen- was unsatisfactory to the Russian zollern. from Nanles. ran ashore at the Yee Hong Is Assailed With Shower of Loaded Snowballs. Pelting an unoffenslve Chinaman with stones concealed In snowballs, resulted last night in the arrest of Morris Reynolds on u charge of as sault and battery. He Is alleged to have broken Yee Hong's nosu during the bcut. Yee Hong is a young Chinaman, who peddle vegetaules Tor a livelihood. He was walking along Third street, near Jefferson yesterday afternoon when he encountered a gang of young sters. Seeing him. they at once began a furious attack with stones, wrapped In snow. One of the missiles struck him square on the nose. In great pain, he hurried to police headquarters nnd caused the arrest of Morris Reynolds. When the case comes up in court to day, an effort will be made to ascer tain from the defendant the names of other boys, and further arrests are ex pected. Since the recent fall of snow, the police nave been- called out many times to protect Chinamen, but In all but this case could not reach the scene of battle quickly enough to make any arrests. Flagrant cases of cruelty have been numerous, and Chinese res idents have been living in fear, many of them preferring to remain In their homes than to venture out and risk being hurt. DEDICATING THE JOSS. Chinatown the Scene of Peculiar Re llgious Ceremonies. Dedication ceremonies of Ga Guln. the new joss of Chinatown, continued yes terday and last night, and the celebra tion may now be said to be well under way. Yesterday morning at 4 o'clock the day's exercises opened with an explosion of firecrackers that made noise enough to awaken the neighborhood. At 9 o'clock there were ceremonies In the Joss house, and at 4 o'clock In the afternoon additional ceremonies were .held, and a prorcesslon marched from one Joss house to the other headed by the priests in their robes. Last night there was a pri vate feast, at which the priests presided. The spectacular part of the ceremonies will not occur until the opening day of the Chinese New Year's celebration, when the streets in Chinatown will be red with Are. a great amount of cooked food will be seen on the sidewalks, hundreds of candles will burn, peculiar Chinese music will fill the air and the Jubilee will be great. WILL 'BUILD WOOLEN MILL. Company Organizes to Put in Plant at Sellwood. It Is practically settled that Sellwood will have another woollen mill, located on the site of the former plant of the Port land Woolen Mills Company, at Wllls burg. on Johnson Creek, where it was de stroyed by fire, about a year ago. Arti cles of Incorporation arc filed for the T. W. Clark Woolen Mills Company. J60.C0D capital stock, most of which has been taken, and will be wholly disposed of to day. A three-set woolen mill, which, op erated by two shifts will equal a six-set mill, will be built. The names of the men Interested ar not made public at present, but assur ances are given that there Is large capi tal back of the new enterprise. President BUREAU DOES GOOD WORK. Exposition Visitors Will Have Apart ments Engaged Before They Arrive. The Lewis and Clark accommodation bureau has now come to be recognized as one of the essential side Issues of the Fair. Directors are not slow In admit ting that through this bureau the great work of caring for the thousanas oi vis itors Is greatly eliminated. The bureau has now on Its lists thou sand of rooms throughout the city, a list of the hotels, their class and their rates. The great work of classifying these nu merous places of accommodation has been completed and the bureau can. with a minute's notice, reply to any questioner telling him or her exactly what can be furnished. Such a bureau was operated In St. Louis during the Louisiana Purchase Exposi tion, and its success, aside from a finan cial point of view, was appreciated by the Exposition officials there. The Portland bureau Is already receiving hundreds of applications dally, and It appears that the greater part of the visitors to the Exposition will come with all arrange ments completed and will be able to go at once to their quarters and enjoy them selves from the start without a day or two of preliminary skirmishing for suit able apartments. State Expended $49,000. At the offices of the State Iewls and Clark Commission yesterday vouchers were signed by President Jefferson My ers, clearing up the final payments of the state expenditure at the St. Louis Ex position. Partial payments were also made on the machinery and mining build ings and vouchers signed for insurance. Calculations disclose that the total ex penditure of the state at St. Louis was In round numbers $49,000. Final pay ment .of the men employed by the State Commission was made. Cars of Exhibits Arrive. One car of the Oregon exhibit at the St Louis Exposition arrived In Portland yes terday, and such of the exhibits as are desirable will be preserved for the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The returning Oregon exhibit will fill 14 cars. Another car of the Massachusetts exhibit also ar rived yesterday, and the contents will be Immediately unloaded and stored In the Liberal Arts building. Excursion to Exposition. From Echo comes news that an excur sion from that place and vicinity is being nrrnnsed to visit the exposition. . winia nnhllshpr of the Echo News. Is in live the excursion in the name of his nubllcatlon. The excursion is arranged to leave Echo May 31 and arrives in Port land In time for the opening exercises of tne Exposition. Arrangements con cerning hotel accommodations and admls slon fees will be perfected la advance. Exposition Notes. Simerlntendent R. F. Robinson, of the educational department. Is receiving com munlcntlons from Instructors throughout the state which show that great Interest is being taken In the work of preparing thf educational exhibits. Methodist ministers of the State of Washington have passed resolutions re questing the Lewis and Clark corporation to keeD the Exposition closed on Sundays. President Myers, of the State Commis sion, received a copy of the resolutions and replied to the clergymen that he would properly refer the matter to ihe board of directors. Malheur County named committees Sat urdav to arrange for the county's exhibit t tho Lewis and Clark Exposition. The committees named are to go to work Inv mediately. The County Court has appro priated $1000 for a representation, and In dividuals will douDie ipat sum. MISSING GIRL POUND. Miss Clara Cleiland Runs Away to Escape Domestic Work. While walking rapidly along Sixth street near Stark. Miss Clara Cleiland, missing for two days, was taken Into custodv last night by Acting Detec tives Hellyer and Vaughn. She was escorted to police headquarters, where after a consultation with Chief Hunt she was placed In charge of her par ents. The girl is aged 16 years. At 5 o'clock Sunday night, she left her home In University Park, saying to her mother that she was going to call on friends In the city. .Inquiry later proved she had not done so. and Cap tain of Police Moore was notified to look out for her. A desire to. get away from domestic work was the only ex cuse given the police by the girl. She was Just going to dinner when the of ficers found her. Nixon to Build Ships for Russia. NAPLES, Italy. Jan. 16. Lewis Nix on arrived here yesterday on board .the Hamburg-American liner Deutschland, from New York. His name Is not on the passenger list. Mr. Nixon is pro ceeding overland to Paris, where it is reported he will hold a conference with a Russian agent regarding tor pedoboats. BUSINESS ITEMS. If Baby XaC8ttir Teeth. Be rare and ussv that old and well -Wed remedy, lira. WmiUoav's Soothing Srrup. for children teethlntr. It aoothtatbe child. aften live puma, allays all pais. curs wind oollc and diarrhoea agents, the complaint being that the Chinese ports are too closely watched by Japanese cruisers and great diffi culty would be experienced in getting blockade runners away from there. The fact that the Olympla. as well as the Tacoma. will take the northern route In crossing the Pacific Is not in itself suspicious, as that Is the path of most of the Oriental steamers, but by stopping on the route to coal at Alaska the Olympla lays herself open to the suspicion that she Is bound for a Siberian port It Is believed she will not be the only vessel to engage In this business from Portland, but that two and possibly .hree more cargoes of a similar r.ature will be dispatched. mouth of this harbor this morning. Later in the day the Hohensallorn was floated and is now safe in the harbor. Marine Notes. The schooner Eldorado will finish loading lumber for Shanghai this morning. The steamer Aurelia will sail for San Francisco today with 530.000 feet of lumber. The steamer Whlttler sailed from San Francittoo yesterday with bulk oil for the Union Oil Company, of this city. The steamship Roanokr arrived up last night and docked at Greenwich, Domestic and Foreign Ports. ASTORIA. Or.. Jan. 10. Arrived down at i . "Kni-a"am" uon,p.a. " i city Attorney Fitzgerald. There A. M.-Schooner Americana, for San . .tr.W flv worrn oh Pedro. Arrived down at 7sk A. M. Steamer Aberdeen. Arrived at 8:15 and left up at 10:20 A. M. Steamer Roanoke, from Seattle. Arrived at 8:25 and left up at 10 A. M. Steamer Northland, from San Francisco. Out ride at 5 P. M. A four-masted schooner. Con. dltlon of tbe bar at 5 P. Ml, smooth; wind southern; weather cloudy. San Francisco, Jan. 1C Arrived Steamer Axizonlan. from New Tork, via San Diego; barkentlne T. P. Emlgb, from Newcastle, Australia; steamer Czarina, from Coos Bay; steamer Queen, from Victoria; steamer W. H. Knitter, from Gray's Harbor. Sailed Steamer Whlttler. for Portland; V. S. S. Ohio, crulae. Hamburg. Jan. IB. Sailed January lSIta cura. for San Francisco. Liverpool. Jan". 10. Sailed January 14 Steamer Ping Suey. for Seattle. Yokohama, Jan. 16. Arrived Mongolia, from San Francisco, via Honolulu, for Hiogo, Na gasaki and Hong Kong. EXIT THE BAEMAIDS. Ordinance Discovered Which Will Put Ban on Variety Halls. During the hearing in the Municipal Court yesterday morning Judge Hogue came upon a forgotten section of a city ordinance which. If enforced, and the Judge says It will be, will have the ef fect of driving the variety theaters in the North End out of business. The section mentioned sets forth the law that no woman shall be engaged as waitress or barmaid, nor shall sin?, dance or take part in any theatrical or vaudeville perormance In any saloon. barroom or drink shop,or in any room i or building connected by door, window, opening or Mother means of egress and ingress to any saloon, barroom or drink, shop. "Tths law is a gobd one and will have to be enforced." said Judge Hogue. "It will have the effect of breaking; up no torious dives and will do a great deal toward eliminating- a part of the vice In the city." Under this ordinance the resorts con ducted by Blalzer, Fritz and Erickson on Burnside street cannot exist Other resorts to come under the disapproval of this section are the Orpheum The ater. Blaster's on First street, the Wig wam, the Banquet HalL Nearly every saloon In the North End and the South End has women in rear rooms directly connected with the barroom, and these women sing and commit other acts con trary to the ordinance in the case. As soon as he made the discovery Judge Hogue sent word to Chief of Po lice Hunt, calling his attention to the law, and also consulted with Deputy were J in court yesterday five women charged with vagrancy, who came under the section mentioned, but Judge Hogue let them all off with small fines. Now that the fact concerning the section of the ordinance is made public, the Judge will give the limit of the law to all resorts disobeying the ordinance. "The law should be enforced,' said Attorney Fitzgerald, "and I will will ingly prosecute cases where this ordi nance has been disobeyed. Judge Hogue was also notified yester day morning that there were perform ing on the stage of the Orpheum The ater several girls under age, some as youngr as 14 years. He called the atten tion of Detective Hawley, who takes care of the work of the Boys and Girls Aid Society, to the fact and requested Officer Hawley to communicate with the Chief of Police and see that something was done about the matter. Detective Hawley Informed the Judge that the matter was called to the attention of the police a short time ago. that he was ordered to report It to Superintendent Gardner, of the Boys' and Girls Aid Society, that he did so and for some reason the matter was dropped. Judge Hogue will see that a full investigation is made. EAST, WEST AND SOUTH United in One Respect. There may be differences of opinion re gardlngssomc subjects In sections of the country remote from each other, but there Is none respecting the best remedy for piles, as witness the letters-below1. "I have been feeling so good I could hardly believe it after" suffering with piles for a year, to find that I am once more feeling like myself, I wish you could have seen me before I started using Pyramid Pile Cure, and look at me now, and you would say I am not the samo roan. I 'have gained 0 pounds, and all on account of Pyramid Pile Cure." Wal ter Sharkley. 56 Park street, Springfield. Mass. "I bought a SO-ccnt box of Pyramid Pile Cure and used as directed with the most unexpected results, a complete cure. I have been troubled with plies for 30 years, and .was In much distress and passed much blood, but at present am free from any kind or piles." F. McKay, "Weavervllle, Cal. "Pyramid Pile Cure has been worth thousands of dollars to me; It cured me after using numbers of other remedies and taking medicines from doctors. It also cured my son. although he could hardly -walk, eat or sleep; he is now all right" B. Strlngfellow, Postmaster, Elko. S C One thousand dollars Is offered by the Pyramid Drug Co., Marshall. Mich., to any one who will show the above testf monlals to be not genuine. Pyramid Pile Cure Is sold by druggists for 50 cents a package, and every suf ferer should buy a package and try it to night, being careful to accept no substi tutes, and bearing in mind the fact that there Is nothing else "Just as good." C. GEE WO The Great Chinese Docto7 la called great, secauas hia wonderful curea ara so welt Itnowa throughout ths United, (state and becaua so many people are' thank ful to him for saving their lives from Mandolin Course at University. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene. Jan. 16. (Special.) Definite arrangements have been perfected for the establishment of a mandolin course of study la the Uni versity musical department. Floy Bell man, of t'als city, who directed, the Man dolin Club during the tour through East ern Oregon, will have charge of the work. Result of Boycott The only place In the United States that guarantees freedom from strikes. lockouts and labor warfare is Battle Creek. Mich. The story? The work people, mer chants, lawyers, doctors and other citi zens became aroused and Indignant at the efforts of the labor unions through out the country to destroy the business of one of our largest industries the Postum Cereal Co., Lfd., and at the open threats in the official union papers that the entire power of the National and State Federations of Labor was being brought to bear to "punish" the indus tries of Battle Creek, and particularly the Postum Co. This sprung from the refusal of C. W. Post to obey the o-di-s" of the unions to take the Postum advertising away from various papers that refused to pur chase labor of the labor trust the unions. Mr. Post was ordered to Join the unions In their conspiracy to "ruin" and "put out of business" these publishers who had worked faithfully for him for years, and helped build up his business. They had done no wrong! but had found It in convenient and against their best judg ment to buy labor of the labor trust It seems a rule of the unions to conspire to ruin anyone who does not purchase from them upon their own terms. An lnkmaker r papermaker who failed to sell Ink or paper would have the same reason to order Post to help ruin these publishers. So the peddler In the street might stone you If you refused to buy his apples; the cabman to run over you If you refused to ride with him: the grocer order the manufacturer to discharge cer tain people because they did not patron ize him. and so on to the ridiculous and villainous limit of all this boycott non sense. In trying to force people to buy what they do not want If a man has labor to sell let him sell It at the best price he can get Just as he would sell wheat, but he has no right to even Intimate that he will obstruct the business, or attempt Its ruin because the owner will not purchase of him. The unions have become so tyrannous and arrogant with their despotism that a common citizen who has some time to spare and Innocently thinks he has a right to put a little paint on his own house finds he must have that paint taken off and put on again by "the union" or all sorts of dire things happen to him. his employer Is ordered to dls charge him. his grocer Is boycotted if he furnishes him supplies, his family fol lowed and Insulted and his life made more miserable than that of a black slave before the war. If he drives a nail to repair the house or barn the carpenters' "union" hounds him. He takes a pipe wrench to stop a leaking pipe and pre vent damage to his property and the plumbers "union" does things to him. He cannot put a little mortar to a loose brick on his chimney or the bricklayers, plasterers or hodcarries' "union" 1s up in arms and If he carelessly cats a loaf of bread that has no "union" label on It the bakers "union" proceeds to make life miserable for him. So the white slave is tied hand and foot, unable to lift a hand to better him self or do the needful things, without first obtaining permission from some haughty. Ignorant and abusive tyrant of some labor union. It would all seem rather like a comic opera. If It did not rob people of their freedom: that kind of work will not be permitted longln America. Some smooth managers have built up the labor trust in the last few years to bring themselves money and power and by managing workmen, have succeeded in making It possible for them to lay down the law in some cities and force workmen and citizens to "obey" Implicit ly, stripping them right and left of their liberties. They have used boycotting, picketing, assaults, dynamiting of property and murder to enforce their orders and rule the people. They have gone far enough to order the President to remove certain citizens from office because the "unions" weren't pleased. That means they propose to malce the law of the unions replace the law of this Government and the union leaders dom inate even the chief executive. This is a Government of and for the people and no organization or trust shall displace It But the unions try it every now and then, led by desperate men as shown In their defiance of law and sup port at law breakers. The "union" record of assaults, crip pling 3f men and even women and chil dren, destruction of property and murder of American citizens during the past two years Is perhaps ten times the volume of crime and abuse perpetrated by slave owners during any two years previous to the Civil War. We are In a horrible pe lod of lethargy, which permits us to stand Idly by "while our American citizens are abused, crippled and murdered In dozens and hundreds by an organization or trust, having for Its purpose, thrusting what It has to sell (labor) upon us whether or no. SunDOse an American in a foreign city should be chased by a mob. caught and beaten unconscious, then his mouth pried open and carbolic acid poured down his throat, then his ribs kicked. In and his face well stamped with iron nailed shoes. and prosperity In Battle Creek can be maintained, and the destructive work of outside Interference avoided under the combined effort and action of all our peo ple by the formation of a Citizens' As sociation. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE L NAME. ARTICLE 2. OBJECTS. First To Insure, so far as possible, a permanent condition of peace, prosperity and steady employment to the people of Battle Creek. Second To energetically assist in main taining law and. order at all times and under all conditions. Third To protect Its members In their rlchts to manatre their DroDertv and to murdered because he tried to earn bread L-dlspose of their labor In a legal, lawful for hG children. By the Eternal, sir, a fleet of AcTtrlcan men-of-war would as semble there, clear for action nnd blow something off the face of the earth. It reparation were not made for the blood of one of our citizens. And what answer do we make to the appeals of the hundreds of widows and or phans of those Americans murdered by labor unions? How do we try to protect the thousands of intelligent citizens who. with reason, prefer not to join any labor union and be subject to the tyranny of the heavily-paid "rulers of the labor trusts? Upon a firm refusal by Mr. Post to join this criminal conspiracy a general boycott was ordered on Grape-Nuts and Postum all over the country, which set the good red blood of our ancestors in motion, bringing forth the reply that has now passed Into history: "We refuse to Join any conspiracy of organized labor to ruin publishers, nor will we discharge any of our trusted employes upon the orders of any labor union. If they can make their boycott effective and sink our ship, we will go down with the captain on the bridge and In command." This set the writers In labor papere crazy and they redoubled their abuse. Finally one of their official organs came out with a large double-column denuncia tion of Battle Creek, calling It "a run ning sore on the face of Michigan." be cause It would not become "organized" and pay In dues to their labor leaders. The usual coarse, villainous epithets com mon to labor union writers were in dulged In. The result was to weld public senti ment In Battle Creek for protection. A citizens association was started and mass meetings held. Good tltlzens who hap pened to be members of local unions. In some cases quit the unions entirely for there Is small need of them there. The working people of Battle Creek are of the highest order of American mechanics. The majority are not union members, for practically all of the manu facturers have for years declined to em ploy union men because of disturbances about 11 years ago, and the union men now In the city are among the best citizens. No city In the State of Michigan pays as high average wages as Battle Creek, no city of its. size Is as prosperous, and no city has so large a proportion of the best grade of mechanics who own their own homes. So the work people massed together ! with the other citizens in the organization of the Citizens' Association, with the following preamble and constitution: Whereas. From 1E31 to 1834 the strikes Instigated by Labor Unions In Battle Creek resulted In the destruction of prop erty nnd loss of large sums of money jn wages that would have been ex pended -here; and. Whereas. These acts caused serious damage to the city and In a marked way delayed Its progress at that time: and. Whereas. Since the year 1S34 the citizens have been enabled, by public sentiment, to prevent the recurrence of strikes and Labor Union disturbances which have been prevalent elsewhere: and. Whereas. The employers of this city have steadfastly refused to place the man agement of their business under the con trol of Labor Unions, but have, main tained the highest standard of wages paid under like conditions anywhere In the United States, and hereby unani mously declared their Intent to continue such policy: and the employes of this city, a large percentage of whom own homes and have families reared and edu cated under conditions of peace and the well-earned prosperity of steady employ ment, have steadfastly maintained their right as free American citizens to work without the dictation and tyranny of Labor Union leaders, the bitter experi ence of the past offering sufficient reason for a determined stand for freedom; and. Whereas, The attitude of the citizens on this subject has been the means of pre serving peaceful conditions and continu ous prosperity In marked contract to the conditions existing In other cities suffer ing from the dictation of Trades Union ism; it Is, therefore. Resolved, That the continuance of peace "peace, freedom and the pursuit of happiness." Other cities will be driven, to protect their work people, merchants and citi zens, as well as their industries, from the blight of strikes, violence and the losses brought on by labor unionism run amuck, by adopting the "Battle Creek plan," but this city offers industrial peace, now with cheap coal and good water, first-class railroad facllltles-and the best grade of fair, capable and peaceable me chanics known. Details given upon Inquiry of the "Secy, of the Citizens' Ass'n." OPfcRATiONS xi e treala any uxi! disease wltn powerful chlnum hero. rooU. suds, bark and vegeta bles, that ar eniUre'y unknown to medico science In this country. rTT "TTua. ot these nannies- rm. Sl "rlSf tooHoctor know, th. action of fully ued la dlSerenl . trotlhIe, ,hu- to cur. catarrh, ""h liver, kidneys. taatlam. EetT !T . rrlvato diseases. KUa- b; m Tii. "-" -., crjvate diseases, nun lemal trouble and jaoderata. CaU dreds ot testimonials. nr and m hlra. CONSULTATION FREB Patients out ot the city write for blani an circular. Inclose- stamp- Address THE C GEE WO CHINESE MEDICINE CO. 253 Alder Street Henuon this paper. Portland. Or. Stairway ot 2314 Alder leading to my office. manner without restraint or Interference, Fourth To insure and permanently maintain fair. Just treatment one with another In all the relations of life. Fifth To preserve the existing right of any capable person to obtain employ ment and sell his labor, without being obliged to Join any particular church, secret society, labor union or any other organization, and to support all such persons In their efforts to resist compul sory methods on the part of any organ ized body whatsoever. Sixth To promote among employers a spirit of fairness, friendship and desire for the best Interests of their employes, and tb promote among workmen the spirit of 'Industry, thrift, faithfulness to their employers and good citizenship. Seventh To so amalgamate the public sentiment of all of the best citizens of Battle Creek, that a guarantee can be given to the world of a continuance of peaceful conditions, and that under such guarantee and protection manufacturers and capitalists can be Induced to locate their business enterprises In Battle Creek. Then follows articles relating to mem bership, officers, duties, etc, etc. etc This constitution has been signed by the great majority of representative citi zens Including our workpeople. A number of manufacturers from other cities, where they have been suffering all sorts of Indignities, inconvenience and losses from the general hell of labor union strikes, picketing, assaults and other Interference, proposed to move, providing they could be guaranteed pro tection. The subject grew In importance until It has reached a place where absolute protection can be guaranteed by the citi zens of Battle Creek" on the following broad and evenly-balanced terms which guarantees to the workman and to the manufacturer fairness. Justice, steady work and regularity of output The new-coming manufacturer agrees to maintain the standard rate of wage paid elsewhere for like service, under similar conditions, the rate to be deter mined from time to time from well au thenticated reports from competing cities. The tabulated wage reports issued by the Government Department of Commerce and Labor can also be used to show the standard rate, and It Is expected later on that this Government bureau will furnish weekly reports of the labor market from different centers, so that the workman when he Is ready to sell his labor and the employer when he is ready to buy. may each have reliable Information as to the market or ruling price. The new-coming manufacturer also agrees to maintain the sanitary and hy gienic conditions provided for by the state laws and to refrain from any lock outs to reduce wages below the standard; reserving to himself- the right to dis charge any employe for cause. The Citizens Association on Its part agrees to furnish. In such numbers as It Is possible to obtain, first-class workmen who will contract to sell their labor at the standard price for such period as may be fixed upon, agreeing not to strike, picket assault other workmen, destroy property, or do any of the criminal acts common to labor unionism. Each work man reserving to himself the right to quit work for cause, and the Citizens' Asso ciation furthere pledges Its members to use Hb associated power to enforce the contracts between employer and employe and to act en masse to uphold the law at all times. The new Industries locating in Battle Creek will not start under any sort of labor union domination whatsoever, but will make individual contracts with each employe, those contracts being fair and equitable and guaranteed on both sides. Thus from the abuses of labor unions and their insane efforts to ruin everyone who does not "obey" has evolved this plan which replaces the old conditions of Injustice, lockouts, strikes, violence, loss of money and property, and general In dustrial warfare, and Inaugurates an era of perfect balance and fairness between employer and employe, a steady contin uance of Industry and consequent pros perity The entire community pledged by public sentiment and private act to re store to each man his ancient right to Identification. The public should remember that there are a few Labor Unions conducted on peaceful lines and In proportion as they are worthy, they have won esteem, for we. as a people, are strongly In sympathy with any right act that has for Its pur pose better conditions for wage workers. But we do not forget that we seek the good of all and not those alone who be long to some organization, whereas even the law abiding unions show undeniable evidences of tyranny and oppression when they are stong enough, while many of the unions harbor and encourage crimi nals in their efforts to force a yoke of slavery upon the American people. As a public speaker lately said: "The arro gance of the English King that roused the fiery eloquence of Otis, that Inspired the immortal declaration of Jefferson, that left Warren dying on the slopes of Bunker Hill, was not more outrageous than the conditions that a closed shop would force upon the community. These men burst Into rebellion 'when the King did but touch their pockets.' Imagine, if you can, their Indignant protest had he sought to prohibit or restrict their occu pation or determine the conditions under which they should earn their liveli hood," and to assault, beat and murder them, blow up their houses and poison their food if they did not submit The public should also remember that good, true American citizens can be found In the unions and that they deprecate the criminal acts of their fellow members but they are often In bad company. Salt only hurts sore spots. So. tho honest, lawablding union man Is not hurt. when the criminals are denounced, but when you hear a union man "holler" be cause the facts are made public, he has branded himself as either one of the law breakers or a sympathizer, and therefore with the mind of the lawbreakere. and likely to become one when opportunity offers. That is one reason employers de cllne to hire such men. A short time ago inquiry came from the union forces to know If Mr. Post would "keep still" If they would call off the boycott on Postum and Grape-Nuts. This Is the reply: "The labor trust has seen fit to try to ruin our business be cause we would not join Its' criminal conspiracy. We are plain American citi zens and differ from the labor union plan In that we do not force people to strike, picket, boycott, assault, blow up property or commltt murder. We do not pay thugs J20 to break in the ribs of any man who tries to support his family nor JC0 for an eye knocked out We try to show our plain, honest re gard for sturdy and independent work mene by paying the highest wages In the state. We have a steady, unvarying respect ior tne law aoiding. peaceable union man and a most earnest desler to see him gain power enough tot purge the unions of their criminal practices that have brought down upon them the righteous denunciation of a long-suffering and out raged public, but we will not fawn. truckle, bend the knee, wear the hated collar of white slavery, the union label, nor prostitute our American citizenship under "orders of any labor trust Tou offer to remove the restriction on our business and with "union" gold choke the throat and still the voice raised In stern denunciation of the despotism which tramples beneath an iron-shod heel the freedom of our brothers. You would gag us with a silver bar and muffle the appeal to the American people to harken to the cries for bread of the little children whose faithful fathers were beaten to death while striving to earn food for them. 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