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We Are Appraadiing a Grave Crisis
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America Is Lclng swept
nslJo by oilier nations
because or llio liloli
cost of iiroJucllon hero.
German laborers sicnd
slly-s! hours a week In
llio factory; ours work
but forty-four hours.
Uy JAMirs J. HILL, President of tho Orcnt Northern Railway
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DANGERS WHICH
THREATEN AMERICAN
LIBERTY
Uy CLIIIU ROOT,
JJccrciury of War
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fop&ajfflUS country is losing ground in a manufacturing way
O&iJrW'J ,,(1 will do very well ovon to hold hor own markets.
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IT JS A WRONG LAIPKKStyOtf TILAT WE
AUK SWKKI'INU MA COAIWSTLTOJtS ASIDE.
Thoy are swooping us aside, mid wliy? Because of tho
high cost of production lioro. And tho Jiigh cost of
lirodiictiou is duo to tho growth of labor iinioiiiHin find tho continuod
atrifo going on among tho unions as well as between tho men and
their employers,
Wn CAN'T MEET THE PRICES OF GERMAN AND ENGLISH
MANUFACTURERS AND PAY THE WAGES WHICH THE UNIONS
COMPEL.
Gonnany in loading tho world now and is making much' swifter
program than thin country or any other. England has dropped bo
hind. Labor unions aided in killing hor industrially. Franco is liko
ii boo always-buny, always hustling. In Franco it is father and son,
and ho on. But Germany is tho country that iB forging ahead. Her
labororrf work very cheaply; thoy spend sixly-bix hours, in tho factory
uncli wool; whom wo spend but forty-four, and HER 2A KCJ AGIO'S
AUK SITICKIOK.
Jn addition alio has facilities for transporting hor products from
and to every part of tho globe at very cheap ratoa. Boforo wo can
yet out ami comprto with hor in tho markots of tho world wo must
lower tho cost of producing manufactured articles and mu.st olovato
tho utility of our products.
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WE ARE COMING TO A GRAVE INDUSTRIAL REVERSE. IT IS
HARD TO TELL JUST WHEN IT WILL COME, OUT IT IS AP
PROACHING. IT MAY COME NEXT PRESIDENTIAL YEAR, AND
THE RESULT OF IT WILL DEPEND LARGELY UPON VHO 13 tyOM
INATED FOR PRESIDENT.
Tho fact that monoy was hard last fall was a. check on ;ho wild
upoculation in manufacturing securities and, no doubt, postponed tho
reverse which is destined to overtake us.
There scorns to mj too much confidouco in tho ability of tho coun
try to walk rJf?ht ahead of all othor countries in manufacturing. Tho
country can do it, but not without trouble and not without changing
its iiruiioiit course. JT LS JNDEKD A CRAVE CRISIS WE
'AUK Al'l'ROACIIIXG, although fow seem to npprouiuto it.
A few years may hco tho clohing of many factories and tho throw
ing out of work of hundreds of thousands of men. Wo have been
reaping tho harvest, and tho rcvorso is coming. How quickly wo
recover j'roji: it will dopcud largely on who is at tho head of tho coun
try when tho break comes. ,
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AMERICA STANDS FOR THE
ROYALTY OF MAN "
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.Ry ANDREW CARNEGIE
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.WL'KltN'AL good citiV.enship 13 tho prico of good govern
ment. 'J hero yet remain and thcro will como in tho
future in unonding succession probldms, doubts, dif
ficulties and struggles on which our safety will depend.
THERE ARE TODAY QUE8TION8 THAT HOLD
WITHIN THEM THE POSSIBILITY OF EVIL FOR
COUNTRY AND DEMANDING THE HARDEST FIBER AND THE
DEVOUT PATRIOTISM,
Ono of them is tho tendency growing, I fear to a division
between tho rich and tho poor, a division by which WEALTH
TENDS TO UDLTE CONTROL OVER LEGISLATION,' and
poverty tries to stir up a war of classes based on envy ond jealousy
of tho rich. Tho very results of our prosperity tend to incrcaso this
evil, and every good citizon should lend himself to tho task of 6ccing
to it that novor shall wo have a war of classes.
Another danger fraught "with most serious consequences is tho
tondenoy to check individual enterprise, opportunity and develop
ment. Tho chanco that every poor boy has to riso ns high as men
can go is tho very foundation of American liberty. Yet labor
organizations of this country aro including in their rulc3 provisions
prohibiting tho better man from earning better wages than tho man
who is less capable, subordinating ambition and seeking to keep all
down to tho level of sloth and stupidity. '
Don't think I opposo labor unions. I boliovo in them. Tho
laborer is bound to organize. HE IS ENTITLED TO OR
GANIZE, and I am glad to sec him got his own. But let us set our
faeos ogaiiwt anybody saying to any American boy, "You shan't
do tho host you can." " . ,
THE HUMILITY OF ABILITY
Ry Justice ERNEST HALL, of the New Vert-. Supreme Court
ULTLITY is, to other people, one of tho most charming
characteristics n man can possess, but it is not ono that
will aid him in his battle with tho world. The man of
humility 13 seldom a leader his very nature makes it
impossible for him to tako tho initiative. Yet tho great
est men in tho world's history, tho most liyirncd and those who havo
dono most for their follow raon were modest in demeanor, simplo in
habits and humblo in spirit.
At first glanco this statement may appear paradoxical, but it is
MKRTCA linn boon first in electricity, although wo bo
not. STUDENTS BECOLE MOKE AND MORE HUMBLE
AS THEY ACQUIRE WISDOM, for thoy become moro and" inorf
olivo to their own limitations and moro and moro sensiblqto tho
insignificanco of their knowledgo as compared with tho wealth of
wisdom there is in tho world and tho versatility of othor ncn.--
TO BE TRULY 'GREAT AND YET BE HUMBLE REQUIRES
QUALITIES OF MIND WHICH FEW MEN POSSESS.
Thoso who havo won famo havo dono so because they struggled
toward a definito end, and it is but natural to tako pride in tho achieve
ment whon tho battlo has been fought and tho victory won.
Abraham Lincoln was ono of tho' greatest men that ovor presided
over tho destinies of a great nation, but no other ruler woro his honors
with greator humility. '
Tolstoi has given his lifo 'to tho scrvico of tho downtrodden of his
raco and country, but ho could novor havo conceived tho keen interest
J in his poor wpro not ho tho very personification of humility.
Somo men romain humblo because thoy realize how very littlo is
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gan late. But tho man who wins is tho man who saysj their own greatness, and otliors becauso thoy aro nover abk f
to fortuno and tho gods thomsclvos, "I don't boliovo como tho rotiring naturo which was theirs by birth.
iL" It taken tho electrical atmosphoro of Amoricaj TO re "proud as lucifer" is a common failing; TO
to produce thoso great men. Graham Bell was a' "MEEK AS MOSES" is A rare virtue.
half of a littlo island in tho North sou which isn't to bo loft out in ! "
i AMERICANS A JUDICIAL MINDED PEOPLE
THR AMERICAN, IN ,MY
EXPERIENCE AND I HAVE KNOWN
DOTH LANDS WELLIS THE MOST CO-OPERATIVE MAN THAT
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Thoro ia thin about an 'American of nil mon lio'fl.fair.mindcd, ho
(loosn't, want to ovorreaclt hiinsolf, ho'a not implacablo I think ho'a
plaoflblcho dooun't want to make onomics.
Tho tiMt ol popularity isn't tho judonoss of a man. It's what his
follpwu think of him. That is wanting in i nation that doesn't know
how to iiHsimilalo in its social activity. Wiion the man at tho boneh
bocornoa your best friend, tho outcrpriso on which your onorgioa hnvo
been bout has behind it a forco that is irresistible
. Thoro is something boyond. this individual quality. Our repub
lican institutions aro Iq bo credited with much c iui ability and suc
cess .vith which wo urooing forward lovm;d tho material supremacy
o( tho oarth. Thoro isn't ono right onjoyod by any ono that is denied
to, another. Wo aro not asking who your for&fathora wore. iWo'ro
nbking what you do. !
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Dy LESLIE M. SHAW, 'Secretary 'of the Treasury
F I woro asked to designato tho peculiar characteristics
of tho American1 pooplo, I would answer ''judicial
miiidcdncss." By that. I mean both an aptitude to
mako and a rcadinoss to respect, observe and onforco
law.
Neither tho forms .of law in tho abstract nor tho execution of laws
in tho concreto is a comploto guarantco of Q.xact justico, but justico
according to law as it ousts is THE COMPLETE SAFEGltARD
OF ' A REPUBLIC Occasionally wo hear of tho commission of a
crimo whoro it would seem that tho penalty provided by statuto is
insufficient, and wo read horo and thoro in nearly overy stato in tho
Union of tho pooplo, rising up and administering summary justice- All
talk about summary justico is un-American.
JUSTICE, ACCORDING TO LAW, MUST BE THE WATCHWORD
AS IT IS THE BULWARK OF OUR INSTITUTIONS.
RESPECT FOR LAW AND FOR THE FORMS OF LAW IS OUR ONLY
NATION HAS THE TREMENDOUS ADVANTAGE THAT" It. PROTECTION FROM REVOLUTION AS THE RESULT OF EVERY FfREST
'FOR THE RpYAL'tY.OF THIS FAMILY,1 OR THAT, OUT IDENTIAL, GUBERNATORIAL AND SENATORIAL ELECTION., PARTI-
ROYALTY OF-MAM. AMERICA J3, AHEAD BECAUSE ANY 8AN3HIP RI3ES; TO 7EV.ER HEATr'.BUT THECWPJCIAL MINDED-
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THE GENUINENESS OF LINCOLN'S FAME
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By Ex-Governor TRANK S. BLACK of New York
INCOLN'S namo and his performances in
which ho pursued havo been cut into tho rock of ,Amor
ican history with tho deepest chisel yet inado uso of
on this continent. But it is not by tho grandour off
his powers that ho has most appealed to me but rather
by thoso softer, homelior traits that bripg him dowrn
to n closer and moro offcclionato view. 'And Lincoln was never moro
imposing than when tho mildor attributes of his nature' woro exposed.
HE WAS GENUINE, HE WAS AFFECTIONATE, AND, AFTER ALL"
IS SAID AND THE END IS REACHED, WHAT IS THERE WITHOUT
THESE TWO? ' ,r-.?
You may mcasuro tho heights and sound tho 'depth's; you may,,
gain tho great rowards of power and renown ; you may quiver undoi4
tho electric current of applause tho timo will como when theso will'
fall from you liko tho rags that cover your 'body.
THE ROBES OF POWER AND THE HU8K8 OF PRETENSE WILL
ALIKE BE STRIPPED AWAY, AND YOU MUST STAND AT THE
END A8 YOU STOOD AT THE BEGINNINQ, REVEALED. v
Nono had lc3s to fear from such a test than 'Abraham Lincoln,
and his strength in" that regard arose, it seems to mo, from tho pres
ervation through all his lifo of that fondness for his early homo, o
tho tender recollections of his family and their struggles, which kept
his sympathy always warm and young. HE WAS NEVER SO"
GREAT BUT THAT THE TIES OF HIS YOUTH STLLIJ"
BOUND HIM. Ho was never tfo far away but that die could strll
hear the noto of tho evening bird in tho groves of his nativity: ty
WAR WITH GERMANY WOULD BE IDIOTIC
By CARL SCUURZ, Ex-Sccrctary of the Interior
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WAR between tho "Unitdd States antf 'Germany; would
be so awful, so incalculable, n calamity that only tho
most absolute and evident necessity could serve as an
excuse for it '
NOT EVEN THE WILDEST JINGO ON EITHER SIDE
WILL PRETEND THAT SUCH A NECESSITY EXISTS OR JS IN
PROSPECT. IN FACT, THERE IS NO REA.L QUESTION OF DIF
FERENCE WHATEVER BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES IMPOR-
TANT ENOUGH "TO, DISTURB THEIR ANCIENT FRIENDSHIP.
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A war between them would, therefore, not only bo criminal, bnt
idiotic an absui'd atrocity, a murderous nonsense Even to suggest
tho posbibility.of such a war under such circumstances and to agitato
the public mind by such suggestions is a pieco of mi3chiovoua reck
lessness. ' -- -r
THE NECESSITY OF ORGANIZATION "'-
By DAVID M. PARRY, President
of the National Association
of Manufacturers
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sUirts us a disguise found tlii'in a lu
elded handicap when ht tried to cs
tap?, which proves that tho male gar
tieats nre much hotter adapted to tho
commission of crime thuu thoso of tho
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NESS OF, OUR PEOPLE USUALLY 8AVE8 FROM 'DISASTER.
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It Is assorted that tho struct railroad
nuthoilUasn Now Yorlc havo io right
to extort 'farea from pas'soaers for
whom seats cannot ho supplied. This
Boeins to. bo u sluadlng J0U0 fovall con-
ecraed. .
Tljd strlUo .'hearing 1 having beer
vbrought to a close, tho season 'for pub
lic listening fob tho verdict Is open.
hU ojuiroio,iWUQ nns uoi iwirucu
hy'OippHetictf to glvo tho prickly pear
bBhea.jiVwId berth. "Iloajo LUo oh
HE27 capital is thoroughly organized, then will como
tho almost complete, disappearance of tho striko and
tho boycott, for thoy aro but systematic manifestationa
of social disease growing out of imperfect organiza-
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WHEN ORGANIZED EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES CAN Sit
DOWN TOGETHER, THEN MAY BE TAKEN UP TRADE DISPUTES
AND OTHER MATTERS AFFECTING THEIR MUTUAL INTERESTS,
AND THESE MAY BE DISPOSED OF IN AN INTELLIGENT, OR
DERLY AND SCIENTIFIC MANNER.
'As thcro is no national federation of employers at present neces
sity demands tho immediato creation of ono. Thoro can bo no in
dustrial peaco in tho United States until a national organization Li
perfected, for, while labor is partially organized, capital ia not or
ganized at all. . . , .y$&
THE PRESERVATION OF THE- HOME
By JACOB A. RIIS, Author of " How the Other Half Lives"
iPOiN" tho preservation of tho homo doponds tho existence
of tho country, for tho homo makes tho man. Tho t
thought ofton expressed that mon aro unablo to govern
themselves is tho direct result of tho inhuman condition s
of tho toncraent houses.
A MAN CANNOT LIVE LIKE A PIG AND VOTE LIKE A MAN.
BUT THERE MAY BE PIGS IN PARLORS, TOO, .AS WELLAS IN
HOVELS. STILL THE HOME IS THE MAINSTAY. WIPE OUT THE
HOME, AND THE WHOLE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT FALLS.
IT JS A CHILD'S RIGHT TO HAVE A HOME.
.What need makes mothers lcavo their homes for factories, lock-1
ing up thoir children? This should not be. This is no homo. Ifc is .
only a placo to cat and sleep. Why should tho childron work ? Child
labor touds downward. INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY: BOUGHT
BY CHILD LABOR IS A LOST CAUSE. :, ,.. .hmahl.
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Mischievous though the prickly pear
Is, It Is not without ItH good qualities.
Its Juicy fruit, though rather dellcleut
la flavor, la delightfully cool and re
freshing In tho dry heat of tho Hum
mer, and a kind of trenclo 1h uuulo of It.
Great caution, la needed la peeling
tho prickly pear, tho proper way being
to lmpalo tlm fruit on a fork or stlclr
whllp you cut ft opon and remove tho
skin", and woo botMe tho linger; of thu
unwary "new chum" who plucks the
trolcheroii8 fruit.
In dry -weather at tho capo theso
spiteful little otlngs do not oven wulti
for tho ueWy arrived victim, but fly
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