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| Grover Cleveland. |
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| James Biddle Eustis. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, January 23, 1899.
ANTI-IMPERIALISTS.
An Enthusiastic Meeting Held at Academy of Music, New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—A mass meeting of citizens was held in the Academy of Music under the auspices of the Continental league for the purpose of "protesting against the policy of imperialism and entangling alliances with European powers." The meeting was attended by a great crowd.
The meeting was called to order by chairman of the arrangements committee W. T. Emmet, and Austin G. Fox was introduced as the permanent chairman.
Communications were read from ex-President Cleveland and William J. Bryan, regretting their inability to be present. Mr. Cleveland in his letter said:
"I am so opposed to the expansion craze and afflicting our body politic that any organization formed in opposition to it has my hearty sympathy and approval."
Mr. Bryan said that he was fully in sympathy with every effort put forth to save the nation from the dangers of imperialism.
The first speaker of the evening was Hon. James B. Eustis, former United States ambassador to France. Mr. Eustis said in part:
"The sentiment of the American people is against the rash idea of expansion; for to fight the Filipinos would mean loss of life to American soldiers in the future in a sickly climate if this wild theory is carried out. The president of the United States," continued the speaker, "will on March 4 next adjourn congress which will not meet until December, during which time he will become military dictator of more than twelve and a half millions of people in these conquered islands. Yes, our constitutional president is going to govern them by his personal will and will you not tell me that the act will not afford him a swelled head?"
Mr. Eustis referred to the late war with Spain and contended that the signing of the peace protocol after the suing for peace by Spain was in itself sufficient to decide the question involved.
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was the next speaker. He said that it is not at all improbable that the Filipinos will yet become part of the standing army of the United States and might yet be called upon to shoot down American wage earners.
Hon. W. Bourke Cockran, the next speaker, said: "This heresy of imperialism is sweeping over the country, and is threatening the stability of our institutions and our measures of free government. It is a policy of infamy. This country of ours, the home of alien races, are now raising aloft their heads in protest against a policy which if successful, will obscure the horizon of the whole human race."
STATE'S PROSPERITY.
It Is Shown by Factory Inspector O'Leary's Report.
GREAT INCREASE OF BUSINESS.
Over Two Thousand New Firms Started In Business and Nearly as Many Old Firms Resumed Business During the Past Year—Factory Inspection Law Well Enforced.
ALBANY, Jan. 23.—An indication that the prosperity of the nation the past year has been shared by the state is found in the statement made by State Factory Inspector O'Leary in his annual report for 1898. He says:
"In the line of special information the inspectors sent into the department reports: New firms starting in business, 2,078; old firms resuming business, 1,694; increase in number of employes, 63,380; number of firms working overtime, 428; number of extra hours of labor so worked, 54,268.
Regarding the enforcement of the factory inspection law, he says that it is being well enforced and cheerfully obeyed. He, however, points to the fact that there are more children of school age employed in mercantile establishments, Italian barber shops and offices, than there are in all the manufacturing establishments in the state combined. The mercantile law is a dead letter, and it is made so through local influences. If the young children employed in all these places outside of the factory and workshop are in the future to walk in the path of respectability and good citizenship, they must be forced by legal enactment to attend school rather than the places of employment outside of it. It is just as necessary that these children should receive an education as it is for those who are forbidden by law to be employed in manufactories, bakeshops, etc.
The operations of the provisions of the child labor law are very satisfactory in all respects and in all parts of the state.
The amended mining law of this state has proved to be of great benefit to all persons employed in the very hazardous work of mining, in the protection which its enforcement has brought to them. Nor are the employes alone the beneficiaries of this humane law—the owners of mining property have derived much practical benefits in applying the reasonable and sensible suggestions offered them by the department. No part of the work of the department speaks so highly, nor affords a better illustration of the benefits and advantages of state supervision and inspection than does that part of it which relates to the inspection of mines.
A marked improvement is constantly going on in bakeshops situated in all parts of the state. It has been a laborious task teaching the occupants of bakeries the public necessity of neatness and cleanliness in connection with their business, but we are pleased to be able to report much satisfactory progress in this line of our work.
The present tenement house inspection law, while forceful is not entirely satisfactory for the reason that it does not fully meet the requirements of the worst conditions in this class of work with which the inspector is often called upon to deal. The present law does not give the department that complete control of the subject which it should.
He thinks it would be a very just and wise precaution if the factory laws were amended so as to compel engineers and firemen in charge of engines and boilers in connection with factories, to show a practical knowledge of their particular duties by having on file in the place of employment a license or other valid evidence of their fitness to have charge of and manage engines and boilers in such places. The risk of life is too great to allow, for a single hour, an ignorant or incompetent person to have charge of an engine or boiler connected with a manufacturing establishment.
There was a marked decline in both the number and extent of injury of the accidents reported to the department. In a total employment of 700,415 persons there were 34 fatal accidents; 133 accidents were of a serious character and 943 were slight, making a total of 1,110 reported in manufactories; 998 of the persons injured were males and 112 females; 143 persons were below the age of 18 years; 422 accidents were reported as not occurring on any kind of a machine and 596 occurred on machines that were guarded; 92 occurred on machines which were not guarded or on which it was impossible to place a guard.
In several of the places up the state there was found a great inclination on the part of small cigar manufacturers to violate the anti-tenement house law. In the city of Buffalo the inspector was obliged on different occasions to use cogent means in order to compel proprietors to observe the rules of common decency and to keep within the scope of the provisions of the tenement house law. As a rule the larger shops are well kept, clean and wholesome. Rules governing the sanitary conduct of employes are laid down and strict discipline maintained.
In the last report he called attention to the employment of children under 16 years of age on or about dangerous machinery. This can be stopped by legal enactment without injury to any interests and with great benefit to the child. The place for the boy or girl under 16 years of age is in school; but, if circumstances are so cruel as to force the child into the shop or factory, then the state is fully justified in legally guarding the child from the risk of being made a cripple for life, by forbidding its employment on any kind of dangerous machinery.
The working hours of all women employed at factory work should be restricted to 10 hours per day or 60 hours per week. The older woman is not always the best able to bear the burden of long hours of toll.
In the clothing industry the sweat shop has practically been abolished.
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| Arthur Pue Gorman. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Obstructing Ratification.
The peace treaty will have the votes of more than two-thirds of the members of the present senate, if it can be brought to a vote. This is not seriously questioned by senators in opposition. That a vote can be prevented is also unquestionable. The senate is as helpless in executive as in open session against filibustering tactics.
The opponents of ratification are led by Senator Gorman, whom a Republican has been elected to succeed in the next congress. Mr. Gorman is said to oppose ratification because Colonel Bryan favors it. The latter would ratify first, and consider our Philippine relations afterward. Gorman would amend the treaty by a declaration providing that the United States will not interfere with the government of the Philippines, or by joint resolution of congress make a non-interference pledge, before ratifying. Mr. Gorman's attitude is attributed to his desire to discredit Bryan as leader of the Democratic party. To that end the great question of national duty has no weight with him. He would defeat a peace treaty to snub Bryan.
The friends of the treaty firmly refuse to amend it in any particular. Neither will they consent to any declaration of national purpose in advance of ratification. They will not tie the hands of the government by declaring what it does or what it does not intend to do. The antis may prevent the vote being taken at this session, thus delaying the formal declaration of peace, encouraging insurrection in the Philippines and compelling the executive to call an extra session of the new senate. They must assume full responsibility for whatever evils may result from such a course.
Opposition to ratification of the treaty is indefensible on any tenable grounds. The treaty formally ends war and establishes peace. It cedes to the United States the fruits of victory—retirement of Spain from the western hemisphere, independence of Cuba, cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines to the United States. It does not bind the United States to any course of action in treating its new possessions. That is for congress to fix upon later. The majority must be free to determine what it shall be. It can not, and should not, be hampered by a declaration extorted at this time by holding up tactics as the price for peace.
The senators who stand in the way of this peace treaty disregard the will of the American people. The declaration of the Maine legislature is to the point. Similar action has been taken by the New Hampshire legislature, by those of California and Washington and other states. The popular and righteous will of the American people will prevail. The treaty will be ratified by this senate or its successor; and those who vainly seek to defeat it from selfish motives will be remembered with the contempt they will have earned.
JUDGMENT SET ASIDE.
Opinion in the Case of Santee vs. the Syracuse Standard.
Announcement was made a few days ago of the fact that a telegram had been received in Cortland stating that the judgment in favor of the plaintiff had been set aside by the appellate division of the supreme court in the case of Ellis M. Santee vs. the Standard Publishing Co. (the Syracuse Standard); that a new trial had been ordered and that the costs would abide the result of the new trial. The ground of this action was not stated in the telegram, but the formal opinion has since been received in Cortland by Dr. Santee's attorneys, Messrs. Branson & Davis. The opinion is written by Judge Herrick, all the others concurring.
It appears that in the empanelling of a jury prior to the trial of the case the entire panel of jurors was exhausted when only eleven jurors had been secured. One jury was then out deliberating on another case. It became necessary for the sheriff to summon talesmen. One of the talesmen thus summoned was W. W. Hout of Cortland. After examination Mr. Hout was accepted by both sides, and court adjourned till the following morning. In the morning before the trial of the case began the jury which had been out came in, rendered its verdict and was discharged. The plaintiff then objected to Mr. Hout serving on the ground that he was a business partner of J. Hub Wallace, and that Mr. Wallace was a very warm personal friend of John Courtney, Jr., who was one of the counsel for the defendant, and preferred in place of Mr. Hout to draw from the regular list of jurors who were now available. The judge decided to excuse Mr. Hout, saying that "if a verdict should be for the defendant, the plaintiff and his attorney would always believe that this had something to do with it, and justice would thereby be discredited.'' The defendant took an exception to the ruling of the judge in excusing Mr. Hout after he had been accepted, and the trial of the case proceeded.
The result was a verdict for the plaintiff of $500 damages and $100 smart money. The defendant appealed to the appellate division and the case was there argued. In the opinion only one ground is stated for the setting aside of the judgment and that is the excusing of Mr. Hout.
Judge Herrick, however, makes a passing reference to the question of smart money in his opinion as follows: "There is no evidence of express malice, and it is at least doubtful whether there was any evidence justifying a verdict for punitive damages or smart money."
BASKET BALL.
Elmira Meets Its First Defeat in a Game with Cortland.
On Saturday evening the Cortland Y. M. C. A. basket ball team clearly showed their friends that they had lost none of their former skill by defeating the Elmira association in a very exciting game at the Normal [School] gymnasium. Elmira was supposed to have the stronger team and may possibly have thought that she did not need to exert her utmost strength or skill. Cortland won by a score of 17 to 15, but the victory was uncertain until the last moment. Elmira played a rough game and fouled repeatedly.
The matter of umpiring a game is always a difficult one, but the instructors of the two associations performed this task well. Elmira had been allowed to play a long, high pass and gave evidence of but little head work. Two of their goals were simple "stabs," a run of good luck. Elmira missed her regular centre and the encouraging support always given the home team. Yet she finished the first half three points ahead of Cortland.
The second half was nearly over when superb work on the part of the entire Cortland team made victory sure for the wearers of the blue. Reynolds threw six out of seven baskets on free throws, and handled his team in fine style. Hotchkiss and Mills did some fast dodging, while Richards and Smith would roll the ball out of the goal they defended into Elmira's territory, there to be caged by either "Johnnie" or "Boogie."
It was the universal verdict that Cortland won the game by finer team work and gave a first-class exhibition of clean, scientific basket ball. The team showed lack of practice and while their form was excusable for a first appearance, yet solid hard work must be done in order to win on their trip South or to defeat Cornell here on Feb. 10.
The three young men from the Normal had to hustle to win from the nine young ladies [halftime entertainment—CC ed.] and did so simply because they excelled in size and physical endurance.
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
New Term to Begin Soon—New Instructor Engaged—Other Notes.
The first term of the conservatory year closes Saturday, Jan. 28, and the second term begins the following Monday. All students must register at the beginning of the term and new students will be accepted at that time.
The Choral society will meet for rehearsal Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Rehearsals will be commenced upon the music to be sung at the next concert which will probably be given in Easter week. The principal work to be studied will [be] Gaul's "Ruth." A limited number of new members will be taken into the club for the next concert. Those desiring to join will apply at the rehearsal on Wednesday evening.
Rehearsal of the orchestra on Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Schubert's unfinished symphony is the work to be studied.
A very important change has been made in the banjo, mandolin and guitar department. Mr. T. H. Nichols has been engaged to take the department in place of Mrs. Weeks who has been unable to give the work the proper time and attention. Mr. Nichols comes from Syracuse, where he has a very large class of pupils upon the instruments used in this department. Besides his class of over 100 pupils in Syracuse he is at the head of that department of music at St. John's Military academy of Manlius. With his clubs, of which he has several, Mr. Nichols' time is nearly filled and it is only after a great deal of persuasion and expense that he has been secured, and the management feel that they have made a wise change, for this department will now more than ever be in the hands of a capable and experienced instructor. Club work will be made a feature of the department, and any one outside of the conservatory pupils may join the club by paying a small tuition. Any one interested may receive further information by calling at the conservatory office.
The monthly public students' recital will be held Monday evening, Feb. 6, in the Y. M. C. A. room.
Died in Solon.
Mrs. Katherine Ryan died at her home in Solon, Sunday, Jan. 22, of bronchial pneumonia, aged 72 years. The deceased was the mother of Mr. W. E. Ryan and Mrs. Mary Mead of Cortland, Mrs. Anna Ayers of McGrawville, and Mrs. Johanna Cahill of Binghamton. Funeral services will be held at her late home in Solon, Wednesday morning a 9:30 and at the Solon Catholic church at 11 o'clock.
The Rob Roy Dancing Club.
The Rob Roy Dancing club will meet to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock in Empire hall.
Smith Premier Typewriter for Sale.
A No. 2 Smith Premier typewriter in perfect order and good as new. Inquire at STANDARD office.
BREVITIES.
—Peck Bros. have begun moving part of the goods from their storehouse in the rear of their store on Main-st. to the armory.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Bingham Bros. & Miller, Unequalled Values, page 8; A. S. Burgess, Take Your Choice, page 7.
—The meeting of the University Center at the Normal building at 8 o'clock this evening will be addressed by Miss M. F. Hendrick. Her subject will be "Oliver Cromwell.''
—The Normal reference library will be closed this week for an inventory of books. All books from the science and reference libraries must be returned before 4 P. M., Tuesday, Jan. 24.
—Mrs. Jane Hulslander died at 6 o'clock this morning at the home of her daughter Mrs. E. P. Hulslander, 80 Fitz-ave., after a brief illness. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 o'clock at the house.
—A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 2:45 P. M. Consecration service will be led by Mrs. E. P. Jepson, which will be followed by a short business meeting and an interesting program.
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