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| Mrs. Carrie Nation. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, February 19, 1901.
MRS. NATION IN JAIL.
Will Be Released If She Promises to Go Home and Do No More Smashing.
TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 19.—Mrs. Nation is now in the county jail as a result of her trial on a peace warrant before Judge Hazen yesterday. The warrant was sworn to by the Moeser Cold Storage company, whose plant Mrs. Nation entered Sunday morning.
Mrs. Nation acted as her own attorney in the trial. Judge Hazen placed her under $2,000 bond to keep the peace and ordered her to appear before him at the next term of court.
Mrs. Nation refused to give the bond and said she would go to jail. She is now detained in the hospital room of the county jail, where she will probably remain for some time.
It is not likely that Mrs. Nation will be able to give bond because she declares that she will resume her smashing crusade against the joints immediately upon her release. Her friends have been advised that Judge Hazen will make her release conditional upon the promise that she be sent to her home at Medicine Lodge. Judge Hazen also placed Cal McDonald, Mrs. Rose Christ and Miss Madeline Southard under peace bonds.
REPLY UNSATISFACTORY.
Envoys Decide to Insist on Compliance With Original Demands.
PEKIN, Feb. 19.—The foreign envoys have held a conference regarding the Chinese reply concerning the punishment of the guilty persons named by the powers. The reply was considered unsatisfactory and the envoys decided to insist upon a compliance with their original demands.
This decision and the objections urged by the envoys to the latest imperial edict were unanimous, and the doyen of the diplomatic corps will inform the Chinese plenipotentiaries that the former requirements must be strictly complied with.
Meanwhile great preparations are being made by the various commanders preparatory to the big expedition, especially in the matter of transportation.
Russia and United States Hold Aloof.
LONDON, Feb. 19.—"Count Von Waldersee has prepared his plans for the new expedition," says the Pekin correspondent of The Morning Post, wiring yesterday, "and it will start next Saturday. All the powers except Russia and the United States have agreed to allow their forces to join."
SENATOR HANNA'S WASHINGTON HOME.
Senator Hanna of Ohio has leased for his
Washington home the mansion occupied by the late Vice President Hobart. It is
not an imposing looking residence, but it is very comfortable and quite
spacious. It is admirably adapted to the purposes of entertaining. Its capacity
has already been tested by some of the brilliant functions given there. Mrs.
Hanna has announced several other dinners and receptions for the near future.
ENGLAND IS INTERESTED.
Inclined to Take the Russian Side In Tariff War With United States.
LONDON, Feb. 19.—There is considerable interest here in the outcome of the tariff difficulties between the United States and Russia. The advocates of a change in the British fiscal system hope to find in them some support of their contentions that retaliatory duties should be imposed on countries taxing British products. The St. James Gazette says: "Some Americans, including Secretary Gage, appear to think the United States have the monopoly of the protection policy, but they have been sharply reminded by Russia that two can play at the game of hostile tariffs, as the import of Russian sugar is a trifle compared with the exports to Russia. The present game of retaliation is one in which Russia holds the best cards. Therefore she will win most of the tricks."
SOLON, N. Y.
SOLON, Feb. 12.—Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Champlin of Cortland spent Saturday at Miss Hatheway's.
Dever Euson has moved into the house vacated by A. W. Moore.
Mrs. Will Byron is visiting friends in Cortland.
Charles Thornton is ill with pneumonia.
Joel Pritchard died suddenly Monday morning of pneumonia, being ill for only a couple of days. Mr. Pritchard has been a life-long resident in this vicinity and a highly respected citizen. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the lonely wife who depended so much upon his kindly assistance in her declining years.
Michael Quigley is ill and being cared for at Eugene Phelps'.
Miss Jennie Dolan of Cortland visited friends in town last week.
The Cortland Home Telephone Co. have opened an office here. W. J. Corcoran is manager.
Mrs. D. R. Thornton is ill with measles.
Ernest Edwards has rented the Grenell farm for the ensuing year.
Much sympathy is expressed for John Rice whose wife died last Saturday of neuralgia of the heart, leaving a little one scarcely four weeks old.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
A Kind of Slavery.
The murder of a negro in Anderson county, South Carolina, supposed to have been a convict leased to a farmer under a law of the state, has brought to light a surprising state of affairs. According to a statement to the grand jury made by Judge Bennett, who ordered an investigation of the case, nothing less than a kind of slavery exists there.
A farmer named Newell swore out a warrant for the arrest of Will Hull, charging him with violation of a contract. The magistrate granted the warrant and placed it in Newell's hands to execute it. Accompanied by a man named Dillingham, a constable, Newell went to Hull's house, arrested him, took him not to jail but to his stockade, and put him to work. It is supposed that in an attempt to escape from the bondage to which be bad been reduced, Hull was shot. "Here, gentlemen," said the judge, commenting upon these facts in an indignant way," was a poor negro taken from his wife and children under a pretext of arrest. The machinery of the law was used to seize him, take him from his home, and put him in a convict's stockade, and work him like a convict without a process of law. He was under no sentence of the court; he had not been tried. The testimony showed that he was guarded like a convict, made to labor like a convict, and treated in all respects like a convict."
The judge then gave the salient features of the remarkable form of contract for labor in vogue in the county. "I agree at all times," says one provision, to be subject to the orders and commands of said landlord or his agents; he shall have a right to use such force as he or his agents may deem necessary to require me to remain on his farm and to perform good and satisfactory services. He shall have the right to lock me up for safe keeping." Another provision is as follows: "If I should leave his farm or run away, he shall have the right to offer and pay a reward not exceeding $25 for my capture and return, together with expenses of same, which amount, so advanced, together with any indebtedness I may owe at the expiration of above time, I agree to work out under all the rules and regulations of this contract at the same wages as above." Such a contract amounts virtually to the surrender of the laborer to slavery as absolute as that extant in the South before the war. Indeed, Judge Bennett thought that it reduced him to a condition worse than slavery. "I doubt," he added, "if there was ever such a contract framed or devised or conceived before in any civilized or Christian country." Of course no court would attempt to enforce it. Obviously it is hostile to the public interests to permit men to sell their freedom to any one or to grant to any one the right to coerce them to observe tyrannical rules and regulations. A more serious feature of the disclosures is the statement that "even babes and women are imprisoned" on these contract labor farms.
Judge Bennett must be commended for his courage in exposing so barbarous a state of affairs. He ought to have the support of the whole country in his efforts to eradicate the evil.
CLEAN THE SIDEWALKS.
The City Charter and Public Safety Demand It.
Many of the sidewalks of this city are in an abominable condition at the present time. They are rounded up in the center and, as the temperature moderates and the snow packs and becomes coated with an icy covering, are positively dangerous to life and limb. One of the sections of the city charter provides that all property owners are required to keep the walks free from snow or ice—in other words, cleaned down to the walk itself. The superintendent of public works is authorized in default of this to order them so cleaned by the city employees and charge it up to the abutting property to be collected with taxes. If people neglect their walks they must not complain if their walks are cleaned for them by the city and at their own expense. Now is a time when a little industry and exertion would put the walks in perfect condition. Many people have done this; others should do it at once, or the superintendent of streets should do his duty and obey the mandates of the charter and clean these walks. There are men enough about who would be glad of a chance to work, and if the superintendent can not get help enough The STANDARD will publish an advertisement for him free of expense and promises to flood him with applicants in short order. Let the walks be cleaned. It will be cheaper than to pay for broken bones and a great deal more comfortable too.
BASEBALL FAIR CLOSED.
Public Meeting Soon to be Called to Elect Directors.
The baseball fair was brought to a very successful close last night after being in progress for eight days. The fair association has netted about $1,000 which will be turned over to the baseball association as soon as it organizes. This amount is about $300 short of the amount raised last year by the same methods, but the very inclement weather of the first few days of the fair this year easily explains this shortage.
A call for a public meeting at which to elect directors of the baseball association will soon be made and an organization completed. After this the team for next year will be signed.
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| Ferdinand E. Smith. |
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
F. D. Smith Re-elected President—Committee Appointed—New School Building.
The Cortland board of education held a meeting last night and reorganized for the coming year. F. D. Smith was re-elected president of the board. A number of bills were audited.
There was an informal discussion in regard to the advisability of building an addition to the Central school. There are now 522 pupils in the ten rooms of the Central school, an average of fifty-two pupils to each room, and it is thoroughly understood by all who are acquainted with educational matters that the best results can never be attained if more than forty pupils are brought together in one room under a single teacher. Two of these ten rooms are in the third story of the building.
While it is true that the city has not grown so rapidly of late, it is also a fact that the school attendance is constantly increasing. The burden of the increase is in the upper grades. The explanation of this is that the compulsory education law which is now in force with a truant officer looking after the delinquents has the effect of sending to school many children who once remained out to go to work in the factories. The advantage of securing education for these children is approved by every one. There are this year over 100 more pupils registered than last year, and the number is steadily increasing. It is now impossible to accommodate all the children even when the rooms are crowded to their fullest capacity. As it is, pupils are going from the East side of the city over to the Schermerhorn-st. school to get in, as the schools in their own vicinity are too crowded to admit of receiving them.
The fact was recalled that the city would need to purchase no additional land to build an addition to the Central school. The lot is plenty large enough. When that building was put up the board of education looked forward to the time when an addition should be needed, and so arranged it that an addition could be built at the rear of the present building, separated from it far enough so as not to interfere with the light in either part, and yet be connected with it by extending the corridors. As there will be no need to build an ornamental front to this building and as it will be all straight and plain work, the expense will not be very great. People are always willing to stretch a point too in the way of expense when it means better education and better school facilities.
The committee on buildings and grounds was directed to look over the matter thoroughly between now and the next meeting and see what the expense of an addition would amount to approximately, and report to the full board.
The following committees of the board have been appointed by President F. D. Smith:
Teachers' Committee—G. J. Mager, C. L. Kinney, F. B. Hakes.
Buildings and Grounds—A. W. Edgcomb, E. Keator, W. J. Greenman, A. F. Stllson.
Text Books, Library and Printing—E. Keator, W. H. Newton, F. B. Hakes.
Supplies—F. B. Hakes, A. F. Stilson, A. W. Edgcomb.
Rules and Regulations—W. J. Greenman, G. J. Mager, W. H. Newton.
Compulsory Education and Janitors—A. F. Stilson, E. Keator, C. L. Kinney.
Fuel—W. H. Newton, F. B. Hakes. W. J. Greenman.
Insurance—C. L. Kinney, E. Keator, A. F. Stilson.
School Visitation—G. J. Mager, A. W. Edgcomb, C. L. Kinney.
BREVITIES.
—Messrs. J. M. and, D. E. Smith shipped 140 veal calves to New York yesterday.
—To-day is the thirty-eighth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Taylor of Clinton-ave.
—New display advertisements to-day are—City Steam laundry, Laundry work, page 6; E. M. Mansur, Groceries, page 2; Warren, Tanner & Co., Drygoods, page 2.
—The Macabees will hold a progressive euchre party and give a musical entertainment at their rooms to-night. All Sir Knights of the Macabees are urged to be present.
—There will be a meeting of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Homer-ave. church, to-morrow at 2:30 at the home of Mrs. Hallock, 40 Homer-ave.
—The Odd Fellows' Male quartet, made up of Messrs. George W. Long, C. R. Doollttle, E. N. Sherwood and A. W. McNett, assisted by the Misses Rynders, will give a concert at South Otselic next Friday night.
—The Home Telephone company has begun the stringing of wires on the Syracuse exchange both at this end of the line and also at Syracuse working this way. The line is expected to be completed about the first of March.
—Commissioner of Public Works E. L. Becker la doing well to keep the streets of the city in as good condition as they are. The snow is very mealy and a large pitch hole is scooped out in a very short length of time. The uneven condition of Main-st. has been materially improved by a gang of men who are engaged in filling up the large pitch holes.
—A huge load of coke was upset in front of the Fair store yesterday, a part of it going on the sidewalk. The load was going to Wickwires' wire mills. This gives a little idea of the drifts in the main street of our city. There is so much snow and so much need of work in every direction at the same time that it takes a little time to get the streets in passable condition.
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