The Cortland Democrat, Friday, September 28, 1900.
TROOPS COMPEL QUIET.
Miners Cowed by Presence of State Soldiers.
AN AUDACIOUS CHINESE EDICT.
Says Boxers and Christians Are Equally Entitled to Protection. Which is Equal to Approval of Boxers Acts—Club Composed of Divorced Husbands Organized in Cleveland.
Three regiments of infantry with detachments of cavalry and artillery are in camp at Shenandoah, Pa., where the rioting of the coal mine strikers occurred last Friday. No further violence of serious importance has occurred. The collieries in the Shenandoah region shut down, but will probably start up again soon. The authorities say that every man who desires to work shall be protected in that desire at no matter what cost.
The Reading railroad shipped 800 cars of coal to tidewater the day after the riot. Its sidings are bare now, but it expects to send its usual complement down after one day's work by the miners who will return to the collieries.
The striking miners, numbering about one-half the force at the West End colliery, the only one besides the plant of the Markle Brothers at work in the northern coal region, had a conference with the manager of the company and returned to work. Only 30 men remain out.
"Mother Jones" and a mob of 300 men, boys and women, attempted to make a raid on the Colarine colliery of A. S. Van Wiehle near Hazleton Saturday. They did not succeed because of the presence of Sheriff Breslin and his armed guards.
The sheriffs of Luzerne and Carbon counties have issued proclamations demanding order and citing the riot act.
There was a parade of 3,000 breaker boys in Scranton. It was expected that there would be 10,000 in line.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad is preparing to start up a colliery in the Scranton region by concentrating all its energies in that direction and by protecting the men who desire to work.
There are in all 2,200 militia now at Shenandoah. The troops comprise the Eighth, the Twelfth and the Fourth regiment of infantry, the governor's guard of cavalry and Battery C from Phoenixville of artillery. The Ninth regiment in Wilkes-Barre and the Thirteenth in Scranton have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice.
It is evidently the intentions of the authorities of the state to imitate the tactics last spring of General Roe at Croton. These tactics are constantly referred to as an admirable example. General Roe at the very outbreak of trouble threw an overwhelming force into the disturbed region and awed the lawless by weight of numbers. The same policy will be pursued here.
It is the intention of the state government to protect every man who wants to work. Brigadier General Gobin, who is in command at Shenandoah, met a number of mine officials and had a conference with them. He has stationed his force in three camps, which command the Shenandoah valley, the road to Mahanoy City and all approaches to the collieries. The camps are within easy supporting distances of one another, and have the entire field of possible riotous disturbances in a firm grip. In addition to this the mine officials asked the general to patrol the streets of the city to prevent the individual assaults which have been continuous and of great brutality. General Gobin took this matter under consideration and would not give any definite answer. All he would say was that if anybody wanted to work he would be protected, not only in Shenandoah, but all over the anthracite region if it took all the soldiers in Pennsylvania to do it.
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| Prince Tuan (Xai Yi). |
The Emperor of China and the empress dowager refuse to denounce Prince Tuan and other members of the imperial clan who sympathize with the Boxers, and it is evident that that crowd is on top again. The worst edict that has been issued by the throne since the flight of the court from Pekin was received here from Taivuen Fu. After the arrival of the allies at Pekin three edicts were issued and each of them bitterly denounced the Boxers. The edict which was received here bears date of Sept. 17, and reads as follows:
"Boxers and Christians do not appreciate the fact that both the Boxers and Christian communities are our people and are regarded by us in the same light. If the Christians go about their usual business we will protect them, and they will have no occasion for fear. The viceroys and governors of all provinces must instruct their subordinates to deal justly with these people and to endeavor earnestly to teach them the imperial purpose. If the Christians understood our beneficent purposes they would abandon their distrust and resume their usual duties.
"Many Boxers have become seditious and we cannot but distinguish between the good and the bad. High officials should also instruct their subordinates to command the Boxers to disperse and return to their farms. If they dare to refuse and continue to collect and will not listen to instructions we shall use all the military of the empire against them. Those who refuse to pay attention and show no sign of repentance will be regarded as outside the pale of the instructions in the general edict issued in regard to this matter."
The memorial of Li Hung Chang, Liu Yi and Chang Tung, three of the peace commissioners, denouncing Prince Tuan and other anti-foreign officials, and asking for the punishment of these persons and the Boxer leaders, reached the throne on Sept. 15, and this edict seems to be the reply of the emperor and empress dowager to the pro-foreign viceroys. Worse still, the taotai of Shanghai has been made provincial judge for Kwangsi. This is really degradation for this official. He has taken positive action in the past in helping to keep the peace in the southern and central provinces and has been friendly to foreigners. The imperial clan dared not punish him there, but he will probably be beheaded when he reaches his new post. This is the first sign of the vengeance which Prince Tuan's party proposes to wreak on the officials of the southern provinces who have been friendly to the foreigners.
The taotai's successor is Cheng, who has held a similar position in Wuchang. He has had no experience in foreign affairs and has the reputation of being an oppressor.
The most unique club probably in the United States has been organized at Cleveland by a number of West Side business and professional men. Dr. H. B. Wildeman, 61 West Pearl street, is the founder of the club.
This new organization, which is known as "The Concatenated Order of Has-Beens and Will-Bes," is to be composed of men who have been divorced and those who have divorces pending, the latter being honorary members until they are legally freed from the ties that bind. The initiation fee will be $2 and the dues $1 per month. Seventy-five per cent of the money so raised will be used to help the "Will-Bes" pay the attorneys' fees and costs in getting their divorces. The remaining 25 per cent will be used to purchase a handsome diamond and gold medal, which will be presented to the Common Pleas Judge who grants the most divorces in a year.
One of the features of the proposed club rooms will be a scrap book in which the reports of divorce cases will be kept. Once a month there will be a lecture by some attorney well up in divorce laws.
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| Wickwire Works, Cortland, N. Y. |
IMMENSE MASONRY CONSTRUCTION.
The New Chimney and Rod Mill Foundation at Wickwire's.
As work progresses on the rod mill at the plant of Wickwire Bros, its magnitude becomes more apparent. The new chimney which is up now about eighty feet, will go nearly as high again, to one hundred forty or possibly one hundred fifty feet. In its construction over two hundred thousand brick [sic, epochal usage] will be used. It is built double, or really one chimney inside another with an eight-inch air chamber between which allows for expansion from the heat inside and prevents the cold outer air from striking the inner heated portion.
At the bottom, the outer section is twenty-four courses of brick thick and the inner section twenty courses. Both are gradually tapered and one course dropped every fifteen or twenty feet. The work from its present height up has no small element of peril for the masons, for the scaffolding has to be raised every five feet and this with a high wind blowing is a big job. The work lies in a valley which is noted for its high winds and a man needs to keep his wits about him every minute.
The foundation for the rod mill is another large piece of mason work. An excavation was first made the full size of the mill, which includes the 1,000 horse power engine, and this is being filled with solid concrete. In the making of this latter, eight hundred loads of sand are used beside the gravel and cement. From the bottom of the concrete, and running through it, are the immense bolts, ten or twelve feet long, to which the mill and engine foundations will be screwed.
The boilers, which are being set, are of a type entirely new in this vicinity and are of immense power. A visit to the works where the construction is in progress is well worth the time and effort.
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| Li Hung Chang. |
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| William McKinley. |
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, Sept. 24.—Whether Mr. McKinley's partnership with Li Hung Chang is to be permanent or is merely to be used to try to postpone the action of the powers, until after the election, is a question of much interest just now. It is significant that just before the administration decided to practically sever its connection with the allied powers in China, Mr. McKinley had a long private conference with Ex-secretary of state John Foster, who was Li Hung Chang's attorney and adviser when that shifty and crafty chap was negotiating for peace with Japan and who is believed to be acting in the same capacity now. Mr. McKinley's decision that the American troops should, with the exception of a heavy legation guard, be at once withdrawn from China, had a double purpose. It was a concession to that portion of public opinion which has been taken and all American citizens were out of danger, and it at the same time gave the administration about 4,000 soldiers who can be sent to the Philippines, where the war is again raging, notwithstanding administration assertions that it was over many months ago. The partnership with Li Hung Chang crops out in that portion of the diplomatic note to the powers which informs them that the United States minister to China has been instructed to arrange the preliminaries for opening negotiations with Li.
The extent of Mr. McKinley's control of Mr. Hanna will be shown by Hanna's future conduct. Mr. McKinley left Washington last week, fully determined to stop Hanna's speech-making, having been convinced that it was making Bryan votes by the thousand all over the country. Since then, Mr. Hanna has spent a day with Mr. McKinley at Canton. If Hanna makes no more speeches, it will show that Mr. McKinley retains some say in the conduct of the Republican campaign; if Hanna continues to make speeches, it will show that he is the supreme boss of the whole Republican outfit, including Mr. McKinley.
Representative Babcock, Chairman of the Republican Congressional campaign committee, stopped in Washington long enough on his way from New York to Chicago, to throw a fresh scare into the Republicans by telling them that unless something could be done to head off the rapid growth of anti-Republican sentiment, the next house was bound to be Democratic. The information in possession of the Democratic committee shows that Mr. Babcock's scare is the real thing.
POLITICAL NOTES.
Mr. Stanchfield will grow in the estimation of the people of the State daily as they become better acquainted with the character and ability of the man, and compare those qualities with the character and ability of the Republican nominee.—Buffalo Times.
Mr. Stanchfield was one of the prominent men of a time when the legislature at Albany was a galaxy of brains and energy. In the days when he was in the legislature there were more and bigger men there than since, and he was among the foremost. He is a man of good sense and good judgment, and he would make a good Governor.—Rome Sentinel.
We should, in our capacity as a sincere friend, implore the Republican national committee to call Roosevelt in and muzzle him forever more. It is universally understood, however, that Roosevelt cannot be muzzled without fatal results, and, that being the case, it is better to let him bray to the cow punchers of the frontier than bring him back to horrify intelligent people with his crazy antics.—Washington Post.
Mr. Bryan is certain to carry all of the Southern States. It is undoubtedly true that in the cities there are Democrats who are against Mr. Bryan, because they favor the gold standard, but they were against him in 1896. The fact that they were against him then did not prevent him from getting the electoral votes of the Southern States—not counting Maryland and Kentucky as Southern States. The fact that they are against him now will not prevent him getting the support of the solid South.—Savannah News.
Mr. Schurz said that if the gold standard was not fixed, the fault lay with the Republicans who, if they be sincere, could fix it before going out. In other words, the Republicans are chargeable with having purposely left a gap down, with using this neglect of their own to frighten the country and, still further, with threatening to leave the gap down unless entrusted with a continuance. First, they betray their duty to the country. Next, they use their betrayal to blackmail it. Finally, they are shameless enough to admit the disgraceful transaction.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Republican state leaders are manifesting keen regret that the name of John B. Stanchfield is on the Democratic ticket, and they are suggesting the employment of an eraser. In vain—alas!—in vain. His name is indelibly writ there.—Binghamton Leader.
A man who will vote for the re-election of McKinley simply because he belonged to the Republican party four years ago would rather continue to support a christian church after it had abolished the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount and denied the divinity of the Saviour.—Watchman.
Corrupted by the Trusts.
The Republican party has been delivered by false leaders into the hands of the trusts. When trusts are on trial it sits as a corrupt judge and, at the same time, acts as counsel for the defense. In the magnitude of their capitalization, the trusts organized during McKinley's administration exceed all others that have been formed since the foundation of the government. The million contributed toward McKinley's election in 1896 proved a good investment for the trusts. Certain of his support for every scheme their avarice could devise and their astute lawyers formulate, with a congress quick to record their will, they have only to seek new worlds to conquer. The boldest stroke they have yet made is their proposition for an amendment to the constitution to subject all corporations and trusts to the federal control —congress to control trusts, with trusts to control congress in the control of trusts. Nothing could be more simple. When the president undertook to set up for himself for a few days, and antagonized the idea of treating Porto Rico as a foreign country by imposing customs duties on Porto Rican ports in their commerce with all other ports of the United States and, when Congress was about to enact the president's view into law, Mr. Oxnard, the overseer of the Sugar Trust, with one crack of his plantation whip, brought the president, the secretary of war, and the House committee on ways and means trembling to his feet. The President and Congress immediately reversed their position, declared the people of Porto Rico to be out of the United States and enacted a tariff law in violation of what the President had said was "a plain duty" and what the secretary of war had said was demanded by "justice and good faith." With equal alacrity the Armor plate trust dictated to Congress legislation to take off all limits on the price to be paid for armor plate for our new war vessels and compelled that body to delegate to the secretary of the navy the legislative power of determining what price should be deemed reasonable.
Trusts vs. Labor.
One hundred and twenty-five thousand half-starved miners and laborers in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions have laid down their tools in despair.
One hundred and fifty thousand women and children must starve with them unless public conscience is speedily awakened to a true sense of the infamous conditions which prevail under the rule of the coal trust, the railroad trust and all other trusts that have combined to coin dollars out of human blood and accumulate wealth through the distillation of human tears.
Empty stomachs and paupers' graves give answer to the Republican cry of the full dinner-pail and prosperity.
The anthracite coal barons forced down the price of labor and forced up the price of every thing the miner had to buy. There could be but one result. The end has come. The greatest labor crisis of the century has been precipitated by the coal and railroad trusts.
In the meantime the trust has jumped the price of coal into the realms of wholesale larceny. Every consumer in the land is a victim of the robbery—a robbery more infamous because it steals first from the starving miner and then from the consumer.
On Monday Mark Hanna made a speech in Chicago in which he defiantly declared that there was no trusts.
The issue is before the American people—whether Hanna is right or whether more than a quarter of a million ragged and starving human beings in Pennsylvania are right.
PAGE FOUR—SHORT EDITORIALS.
Four big rolling mills have been shut down in Pennsylvania because of a cut of 25 per cent in wages, which the men refused to accept. McKinley prosperity is a great thing.
Dickinson with a caucus odor behind him which three years has not deodorized—Kinyon with a past without flaw, and years as a supervisor. There can be but one choice.
Francis M. Hazard has something to recommend him to the voters of the county beside a term as highway commissioner. His services as a deputy have fitted him for the sheriff's chair.
For neatness and dispatch in the district attorney's office, the people recommend Edwin Duffey. Compare his record of the past two years with that of his opponent. This alone will elect Duffey.
The administration announces that it will ask the next Congress for authorization to raise the strength of the regular army to 100,000 men. The excuse given is that the present work in the Philippines demands it. Who said Imperialism?
We have yet to find the Republican who was at all enthusiastic over the Republican rally last Friday. With a railroad rate of only a trifle over half fare, it was expected that immense crowds would visit Cortland on that day. Tim's plea that every body was too busy was too transparent.
Well. "Tiny Tim" has been here with his rich assortment of waistcoats, and his pitiful poverty of political wisdom. Could he but have traded waistcoats for wisdom, truth and eloquence, his efforts at the Republican rally would not have received the wealth of sympathy that they had from our citizens generally.
The Democrat would like to know how many Republicans were proud of Mr. Barrett's utterances at the Republican rally, when he tried to drag religion into the political mire. The Democrat would also like to know if Mr. Barrett places the people of Cortland county on so low an intellectual plane that he thought he could get them to believe that he was other than he is, viz: a low political demagogue who would try and stir up religious prejudice by his flagrant misstatements and vicious perverting of the truth for political purposes.
HERE AND THERE.
Rev. O. M. Owen has organized a Bible class in the Sunday school of the Free Methodist church.
The hearing of evidence in the Bolles will case was resumed before the surrogate court yesterday.
Lost, Wednesday, a large yellow and white St. Bernard dog, 4 years old. Return to R. W. Mitchell, 102 Main-st., Cortland.
The Loyal Circle of Kings Daughters will meet with Mrs. Ida E. Dunsmoor, 11 Arthur-ave., this afternoon at 1 o'clock.
Miss Jessamine Ellsworth, who taught the past year in Lisle academy, has accepted a position in the Schermerhorn-st. school, Cortland.
The quarterly conference of the First M. E. church, held Monday evening, passed a resolution asking that Rev. O. A. Houghton be returned as pastor another year.
The annual meeting of the Cortland Hospital association, at which a board of directors and an advisory board will be elected, will be held next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Deloss Bauder has leased the vacant store in the Cortland House block, formerly occupied by Mr. Rockerfeller, to M. R. Smith of DeRuyter who will open it October 1 with a stock of oysters and cigars.
J. H. Jacobs will preach at Babcock Hollow Sunday, Oct. 7, at 11 o'clock. Subject, "Will the death of Christ benefit and save all that he died for?" Mr. Jacobs urges all to come from valley and hill.
The Baraca class of the Memorial Baptist church is now officered as follows: Teacher, Rev. G. E. T. Stevenson; president, Charles Thompson; treasurer, Clarence E. Klotten; secretary, Glenn Squires.
The third quarterly meeting of Cortland County Pomona grange will be held in Good Templar hall, in this city, next Tuesday at 10 o'clock a. m. All members are urged to attend, as a large gathering is desired.
The Normal football team went to Syracuse last Saturday and were [sic, usage] defeated by the University team by the score of 35 to 0. Our boys played a good game just the same, notwithstanding the one-sided score.
After the extreme hot weather of Wednesday the air was heavily charged with electricity for two or three hours after 11 o'clock. Not a cloud was to be seen, yet continual flashes of vivid lightning made a brilliant illumination.
While practicing at a game of football on Athletic field Monday afternoon Grover Hart of Dryden collided with another player and received a serious wound in the head. Playing football is something like going to war, only more so.
The Marathon Independent says there is not a pound of coal at that place for sale. "Agent Burgess had an order in for several car loads, some time before the strike, but it was not delivered, and the strike caught him with only a little coal on hand, and that is now gone."
The 32nd annual reunion of the 76th Reg. N. Y. Veteran association will be held at Ithaca on Thursday, October 4. Headquarters will be at the Clinton House. The business meeting will be held at 10:30 a. m., and the public meeting at 2 p. m. Many Cortland veterans are members of this association, Lucius Davis being the secretary.
County Clerk Bushnell has computed the size of the official ballots to be used at the election in November, and his figures are as follows: Length of ballot outside city, 26 1/2 inches; length with city nominations, 30 1/2 inches; width for eight nominations, 21 5/8 inches; width for nine nominations, 24 inches. The total number to be printed is 14,500, with 3,600 sample ballots.
Miss Dorothy Randall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Randall, 20 1/2 North Main-st.. gave a delightful birthday party last Saturday afternoon from 2 until 7 o'clock, to nineteen of her young friends. The affair was an extremely pleasant and joyous one for all, Miss Dorothy making a charming hostess. Supper was served and games and other innocent amusements indulged in.
D. K. Cutler of Scott recently lost two valuable heifers, and he would much like to know what has become of them. They were in pasture on a farm owned by him west of Glen Haven with other stock, and were seen by him not long ago. On Monday, Sept. 17, he was there again and was unable to find the two heifers, which were red and white in color, and in excellent condition for beef. Diligent search on the farm and on all roads leading from that vicinity has been made, but no trace of them can be found. Beef is too high to lose in that way, though it is possible their absence may be due to that very cause.
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