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10 THREATENS PAPERS Editions of Uiggcr Publica- tions Jlay lie Cut to Savo Smaller Ones. EXPANSION TOO BAPID Tills Have Keen Unable to Keep Puce With demand Since War. According to statements Issued yes- terday from nutliorltatlvo sources tha large nowspapors tliroughbut tho entire country soon may be obliged to reduce the number nnd size of their editions In order to save tho nmaller publication throughout tho country from a forced suspension owing to a nationwide short- age of newsprint paper. The trouble lies, according to official announcement. In the enormous Increase In the demnnd for paper since the war; In the fact that all of tho plants In thq country aro unable to meet this demand although working at maximum capar-lt- yj In enormous overseas shipments made by Canadian concerns, and In the discouraging restrictions placed by the Federal Government upon the newsprint Industry during the war. A meeting of tho American News- paper Publishers Association was calleil yesterday for Wednesday at tho Wai a, when the members will discuss relief from present conditions. The Pulp and Paper Manufacturers will meet here tho same day or the same purpose. Smaller I'niier In Danger. Haskell of tho Inter- national Paper Company, In speaking of the shortage yesterday at hip Mllces, 30 Broad street, said that there was no danger of his firm being unable to live up to Us contracts, but that It Is totally unable to furnish paper to would be new customers. It Is tho smaller pub- lishers, he said, that must needs suffer most severely under present conditions. The International Paper Company, he said, has diverted sixteen machines reg- ularly used for the production of very profitable specialties to tho manufacture of newsprint paper In order that Its customers may receive the supply con- tracted for, nnd this means a great loss 6f money. New plants, he said, cannot be erected to render Immediate aid be- cause It takes two years to build a nowsprlnt paper mill. The plants sched- uled to open next year will afford no re- lief because their total output during tho year will bo only about 3 per cent, of tha demand. Even If there were moro plants at tho present time, ho said, there would not be enough wood pulp. The cause of the present difficulty, Mr. Haskell said, lies In tho fact that the conclusion of tho European fighting was followed by an enormous boom In publishing here, and a great flood of ad- vertising which consumed enormous quantities of space and caused enlarge- ments of newspaper editions throughout the country. Increase Too Itapld. While the average annual Increaso In (the demand for newsprint paper Is about G per cent., he stated, the papers of the country are now using from 30 to 40 per cent, more than last year, and there Is no way In which the manufac- turing end of tho industry can keep pace. \Canadian concerns,\ he said, \havo been attracted. by the fancy prices of- fered In foreign markets, and are now shipping great quantities of newsprint paper overseas. We have maintained that the American publishers should have first call upon us, but many of the Canadian manufacturers do not see It this way. \Thero appears to be but one solution to the present situation,\ he said, \and that Is a cutting of the consumption The newspaper publishers will have to agree to this If serious trouble. Is to be avoided. This must necessarily be ac- complished either by tho elimination of certain editions of papers now pub- lished or by reducing the size at th' expense' of news and advertising. Such a move would reduce the demand of tho large papers sufficiently to enable th? smaller ones to get tho paper that they cannot now obtain.\ Frank P. Glass, president of tho American Newspaper Publishers Asso- ciation, said hat tho trouble might well be due to tho Federal action taken In the past against tho newsprint paper manufacturers, and restriction- placed upon the Industry tended to discourage tho Investment of capital In new plants. . These Federat activities took the shape two years ago of a prosecution of the Newsprint Manufacturers Asso elation, which directed the production and sale of three-fifth- s of all of the newsprint paper In the United States, and resulted on November 26, 1017, in tho official dissolution of that organiza- tion by Federal court order. Trice AVa Fixed. An ngrcement made at the time and approved by the court fixed the price of newsprint paper temporarily and-thre- Jt on April 1 of last year jnto the hand3 of the Federal Trado Commission, with a proviso that the maximum prices and terms of contract to be determined by that body should contlnuo for the dura- tion of the war nnd three months there- after. Dy Governmental restriction In force 'during the war the amount of news spaco In the dally parers was reduced 35 per cent, nnd the amount In Sunday papers 20 per cent The return of peace naturally found the mills of the com- pany totally Incapable of meeting the ever growing demand for Increased output. Mr. Glass expressed the opinion that the shipments of paper out of this coun- try havo little or no effect upon the market. Although shipments are bclnf. I M 1 fll A It ' I Adorned AUR Veritably linen, CIS Spanis' :: IV. 3ii Madison Ave. bet. .w. gvvrrrrrt'yrvvi-t-rrrt'- t mado to Australia at the present time, ha said, they amount to but a very small percentage, and could not relieve conditions here even If stopped by o. Ho thought, like Mr. Haskell, that It was simply a question of getting tho newspaper publishers together In on agreement for the reduction of con- sumption. \It might be possible,\ he said, 'for our largo concerns to go on Indefinitely, out a continuation of the present short- age would soon force wholesale shut- down of smaller publications.\ PULP AND LUMBER MEN MEET TUESDAY Forest Policy Will Be Dis- cussed in Syracuse. Stracusk, Nov. 8. Representatives of nlno organizations Interested in lumber, paper pulp, conservation nnd, reafforesta- tion will contcr hero next Tuesday with Col. H. S. Graves, chief ol the United Slntes Forest Service, with a view to aiding In the determination of a naUonal forest policy. Col. Graves, as a disciple of Itoose-vet- t, Is said to favor the mandatory re- placement by lumbermen with new plantings for every tree cut, a plan said to be opposed In New York State not only by the lumber Interests but tho foresters. Around the Graves proposal the flfiht.of the conference will centre. The meeting, caljed by the New York State Forestry. Association, will be at- tended by representatives of the State Conservation Commission, In charge of the 2,000,000 aero Adirondack reserve; the Emniro State Forest Products Asso elation, composed of lumber and paper manufacturers ana umoer iana owners Via VnHhAm KVw York Ttavelnoment League, which plans municipal forest in eight counties of the state in iszu nlmllar to what has been done in Europe American Pulp and Paper Association, National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association, State Retnil Lumber Deal- ers Association, New York State Cham- ber of Commerce and the Society for the Protection of the Adlrondacks. mong the speakers besides Col. Graves will bo Herbert S. Carpenter, Oeorge D. Pratt, George D. Ostrander, T. F, Bennett, Frank L. Moore and Dr. Hugh P. Baker. In Otsego county. It Is slid, a project Is Under way for the oitabllshment of twenty-fou- r \township forests\ of 100 acres each, the first planting for which will be made next ipring. RETURNS INDICATE DRY VICTORY IN OHIO Federal Prohibition Amend- ment Ratified by About 381 Majority. CQUJMnna, Ohio, Nov. 8. Ohio voted last Tuesday to sustain the action of Its Legislature In ratifying the Federal pro hibition amendment by a majority of. 1,480, according to complete returns from all but two precincts in tho State, and official returns from seventy-nin- e of tha eighty-eig- counties received and tabu- lated In the offlco of the Sec retary of State. The vote stood: For ratification, 499,776 against, 498,236. Although returns on the other prohi- bition questions voted upon 'had not been tabulated officially, they Indicate 1 that tho repeal of Statewide prohibition was defeated by 30,000 or more ma jority, that the 2.75 per cent, beer pro- posal was defeated by a majority of 15,000 or more, and that the wets de- feated the C.rabbo prohibition enforce ment act by a majority of 25,000 or more. Included In the nine counties from which tho official vote has not been re- ceived upon the ratification referendum are Cuyahoga (Cleveland) and Hamil- ton (Cincinnati), both of which re turned large wet majorities. According to announcement made to night by the Cuyahoga county (Cleve land) election board the official vote In that county gives the wets a gain of 1,099 on the Federal prohibition amend- ment over the unofficial figures reported to the Secretary of State. This would reduce the dry majority for the amend ment to 381. As the situation stood the drys conceded the defeat of the Crobbe enforcement act, while the wets conceded the defeat of tho prohibition 'repeal nnd 2.75 per cent, beer proposals. Both wets and drys, however, con- tinued to make claims of victory on the ratification referendum. Each side con- tended that the official count would show It victorious. KENTUCKY DEYS JUBILANT. Claim Victory by 10,000 When Complete Retarna Are In. Louisville, Ky Nov. 8. With a dry majority of 7,797 showing on tha face of complete unofllclnl returns from ninety-nin- e of the 120 counties of the State, prohibitionists In Kentucky, chiefly the Anti-Salo- League, were Jubilant y over their apparent vic tory. They asserted that when the remain- ing twenty-on- e counties are heard from the dry majority would go beyond 10,- - 000. \Wet\ organizations did not deny this assertion, some conceding defeat of the amendment. Farmer Call Lnbor Parley. Washington, Nov. 8. A call was Is sued to-d- by the Farmers' National Council for a conference between farmers and wage earners at Chicago on November 21 and 22 to adopt n Joint legislative plan of farmers' and labor organizations to be used as a basis for Joint legislative reconstruction pro- - grammq.. WONDROUS 4 BABY BIB icilh Genuine Filet Tire Porto Rican needlefolk have produced something so very quaintl a bib for the grand occaiiom softest rounded, all white, edged with(narrow lace; adorned with a tauare. animil motif o' filet tire io amusing done in the prim medieval mannerl A delightful gift for hit baby-shi- p. Priced for times very specially at onfy $3.50. Other Exquisite Raly Linens In Filet TirePoslticelyExe'.uslce Touels.Fact Ckths, Sheets. Pllhus. Caps, Lately Gijt Thlnss. Surprising Modest Prices. THE PORTO RICO STORE Apprnral Shipments. Makers and Importers Smd for Cauikvue. I .1 at 5liact i ; ; F II: ,' s 2'i i't vt TA xtlots. New York City Li . j -- t..i 'LIPTON TO LIFT CUP THIS TIME, HE SAYS Yachtsman, Moro Confident Than Eve, Arrives to Arrange Race. WANTS CONTEST IN JUNE Tells How London Uses Girls' Glances for Swcotoning in Sugar Shortage. Sir Thomas LIpton, tho Indefatigable, with his yachting cap at as rakish an anglo as ever, arrived In New York yesterday on the Carmanla to make ar- rangements for lifting The America's Cup next year, \If It takes my last sMUIn' to do It\ ,The perpetual challenger, who Is sixty-nin- e years old and has been attempting to bring the cup home for the last twenty, said that he felt more confident than ever before that he will take the trophy back to Ireland with him next year, lie Is here to look over the Sham-toc- lc IV., which, since 1914, has rested at Shewan's yard In South Brooklyn, and to make arrangements to have It transported to Jacob's yard. City Island, whero tho flno work of refitting It will be undertaken. Incidentally Sir Thomas, who Is as keen a business mini as yrchtsman, will take a look at his new twelve story warehouse In Hobokcn, but this will tako place after his visit to South Brooklyn, which he has named for early morning. At his suite at the Commodore, whither h\b went Immediately after leav- ing tho Carmanla, Sir Thomus seemed qultu as young and brisk as ever. His face la as ruddy as It was twenty years ago, his hair and mustache a bit whiter but still conspicuously present, nnd he still towers Imposingly over men of ord--lia- height. Cold, Fogtfj- - Pannage. \'Twas a cold, foggy passage,\ Sir Chomas said, \I contracted a wee bit of i cold In the four days wo spent at null fax watching tho orange groves tprout oranges nnd tho monkeys climb up cocoanut trees. That's a fine town, that. Havo you seen It? The people wear helmets there.\ Although willing to chat of many other things Sir Thomas obviously en- joyed himself most In discussing yacht- ing. Out of a memory which must havo been well Jammed with other things he dug up the names of old 'associates and sporting writers and Inquired concerning their health. \It would bo a wonderful thing for yachting If I did lift the cup, do you know ft he said. \Interest would be awakened In the sport You've had the cup over here much too long. I would not mind If I had It over there but a month, so long as I brought It after all. these twenty years. My designer has seen the Shamrock IV., and he told me ,lf the man who kept it had been a Brit- isher and the yacht his own he could not have ketft It better. It was housed In a steel shed and In splendid condition.\ Sir Thomas said that he was going to send over In April the twenty-thre- e meter Shamrock, a yacht which has won more cups than any other around the coast of Britain. Ho will use this boat as a trial horse for tho .Shamrock IV. In the trials before the International races, which he put as likely to take place In June. Pinna Date tot Itace. Sir Thomus paid he had asked that the first race be sallied on Thursday Juno 20, off Sandy Hook. He said he preferred tho Sandy Hook course decid- edly to the Newport course, which had been mentioned as a possibility. He did not doubt the races would be held, as tho postponement by the New York Yacht Club last year was really an ac- ceptance On other subjects, save only politics, which he nover discusses. Sir Thomas also talked freely. The food shortage In England Is still making Itself felt In the tea rooms In London they hire pretty young girls to look Into the cups of young bachelors to sweeten them, \they're that short of sugar,\ he said with a twlnklo. Concerning the general situation, he talked more seriously, saying as an \old hand In the provision trade\ he believed that conditions would Improve moro rapidly If t!v3 merchants were left to themselves. Ho pointed out that when provisioned bought for themselves they took great care thnt what they pur- chased was what they knew would sell best ; while when the Government bought food blacksmiths or drapers might do the purchasing without knowledge of what the people wanted and needed. Sir Thomis's visit here will be of two weeks' duration. Flrat V. Wabiiinotoj, Nov. 8. The first com- mercial transaction between the Gov- ernments of the United States and Ger- many since April 6, 1917. was made a few days ago when a bill for $64,000 covering cost of transporting prisoners of war to Germany, was presented In Berlin through diplomatic channels. AT THE SUN, ARE IN \ivor's Committoo Mediates .Dispossess Cases Affecting 594 Families. MUNICIPAL JUSTICES HELP Armories Designated on East and West Sides for Home- less Folk. In addition to Its regular work of Ironing out difficulties between tenants and their landlords by meins of hear- ings in the municipal buildings and else- where, the Mayor's Commltteo on Rent Profiteering, with tho cooperation of Justices of tho Municipal Courts, was Instrumental In the last week In' effect- ing settlements In 2,920 cases in which dispossess actions were pending. An announcement to this effect was made last night by Nathan Hlrsch, chairman of tho committee. The settlements brought about by ttio committee's arbitrators outside the courts involved 111 families In Manhat- tan, 337 In The Bronx and 146 In Brook- lyn and Queens, or a total of 694 fam- ilies. Tho grand total of all adjust- ments was 3,614. Allowing live Peon to a family, Mr. Hlrsch figures, 17,670 persons obtained relief from housing difficulties during the week by reason of the activities of tho committee. Capt. Charles A. Goldsmith, examiner for the committee, and membors of the law committee, of which Justice Robert L. Luce of the Supreme Court Is chair- man, handled the committee's business for tenants In the Municipal courts. Practically all tho Municipal Court Jus- tices are deeply sympathetic with the alms of the commltteo in preventing In- justices from being done, and many a landlord, looking for unusual profits, was steered Judicially along comman sense paths which led to concessions, the dropping of prosecutions and rcllel for distracted tenants. Among the Jus- tices conspicuous for their efforts to smooth out tho wrinkles between ten- ants and landlords were Peter A. Shlels, Harry Robltxek. Michael J. Scanlon, Philip D. Meagher of Brooklyn nnd Jacob A. Strahl, nccordlng to the committee's representatives. Thus far between 200 and 300 evicted families have been temporarily shel- tered In armories until the committee, or other organizations Interested In wel- fare work1, obtained permanent quarters for them. It was said at the committees head- quarters yesterday that hereafter home- less East Side families will be cared for at the Sixty-nint- h Regiment Armory, Lexington avenue and Twenty-fift- h street, and homeless West Side families at the Twelfth Regiment Armory, Co- lumbus avenuo and Sixty-secon- d street. HOTEL MEN GATHER HERE. Exposition Will He Held Here November 10-1- Prohibition, tho sugar shortage and the high cost of living are fhe principal topics of conversation of little groups of men who began to make their ap- pearance yesterday In lobbies nnd cor- ridors of uptown hotels. These con- stitute the advance guard of the 10,000 visitors who are expected to attend the Fourth Nalonal Hotel Men's Exposl-Ho- which will be held In Grand Cen- tral Palace, November 10 to 16. Three floors of Graad Central Palaco were found necessary this year to house adequately the large number of dis- plays for which space was sought There will be more than 300 booths dis- playing articles and Ideas applicable to every department of hotel management Early arrivals are unanimously of tho opinion that summer resorts In the northern States and In Canada must be Improved to approach the standards of winter resorts In Florida and California If the American tourist is to De Kepi in this country when prewar r.uruireii la nniialhlA- - The exposition will be opened at 3 oclock wun an auaress uj- - r?.l...n.l . T .... Tl.rnpv. , In Chnrfffl Of the uvi I 1. 1- .- exposition, and a formal welcome to delegates rrom omccra oi me ie mm State Hotel Association and the Hotel Association of New York City. George C. Brown will entertain visitors at luncheon at the Park Avenue Hotel. 'EXTRA' FREIGHT PLANES NOW Increased Service Occasions No Comment In Britain, Special Corrctpondence to The 8m, London, Oct. 24. The nlrplane as a commercial passenger and freight vehi- cle Is being accepted hero a9 a matter of course. On some occasions two aero- planes besides the regular machine leav- ing London for Paris at 12.30 P. M. are required. All tho machines carry pas- sengers and freight. The a dirigible, the \last word\ In British airship construction, will be delivered by tho makers to the Govern- ment before Christmasi This huge dlrl-glbl- o was started during the ar. It was abandoned at the armistice, but is now being completed. The purpose In completing It Is moro experimental than anything clso. It Is 635 feet long, 70 feet wide, nnd 85 feet high. The lifting power Is thirty-eig- tons. .50 49th Chauffeurs' Outfits Special at '89 Suit, Overcoat and Cap to Match With good fabrics (career than ever, there is but one road to econ- omy in Motoi Apparel, and that u Quality In this Outfit, of fine dark gray whipcord, we offer, considering con- ditions, an outfit which Is remarkable for both qual- ity and value complete, at $89.50 or Suit $36.50 Coat $50JOO Cap $3.00 BROADWAY SUNDAY, 17,570 RENT VICTIMS SAVED WEEK STREET NOVEMBER 9, 1919: ADVERTISEMENT, APYJPtTlBroiENT. . ADVERTISEMENT. u r Smashina Victories Won by an early election extra Tuesday night, when the first was just coming in, the Evening Telegram made the following statement in two-colu- type at the head of its main article on its first page : \Tho Hearst issue was made most prominent during the closing hours of the campaign, and the appeal appear to hare been answered. Tho Democrats assert that the defeat of Jus- tice Joseph E. Newburger spells the political end of Mr. Hearst. Tammany entered the campaign absolutely certain that Mr. Hearst would oppose the ticket and that the ticket would be the target for his attack, but made no attempt to placate him. Tho leaders who havo heretofore fought against having any- thing to do with Mr. Hearst say that tho stand taken by Tarn-man- y now will mean a more harmonious party in tho future. this opinion of the Telegram, based upon incomplete returns, is the conclusion which the Tele- gram and every other newspaper in New York would have drawn if the Tammany ticket had been elected and the candidates which the Hearst papers were had been defeated. But, now, what is the proper conclusion for these papers to draw when the candidates which the Hearst papers favored have all been elected, and when practically the whole Tammany ticket has been defeated, except the one man James A. Foley, who was commended in the Hearst papers on October 27? We will leave to the public the obvious answer to this question, for we are sure that none of the newspapers of New York will answer it frankly and fairly. We are going to ddd something, however, in explana- tion of why the Hearst papers win tremendous 'political victories, the fact that all the other newspapers in New York promptly align themselves in opposition to whatever candidates or policies the Hearst papers support. Of course, the Hearst, papers have very large circula- tions about equal to the circulations of all the rest of the newspapers of New York combined but NOT GREATER than the combined circulations of all the rest of the newspapers. So that the result is not merely a question of cir- culation, of the number of readers. It is a question of the that the read- ers have in the Hearst It is a question of the Hearst papers picking out the RIGHT candidates and the RIGHT policies, and leaving the other papers stupidly to oppose the right candidates and the right policies. It is a matter of the Hearst readers knowing that the Hearst papers are not governed by petty jealousies, nor animated' by small nor governed by selfish interests, nor controlled by powerful predatory influences. The Hearst papers have no object in any political campaign except to see measures adopted and candidates elected that will prove to be for the greatest good of the greatest number. The Hearst papers have no private ends to serve; they have only the public welfare to consider. And when the Tammany leaders say they \resent the dictation\ of the Hearst papers, what they mean is that they resent being compelled to do right and to be honest with the public. The Hearst papers won a great victory in New York Tuesday, not for themselves but for the people of New York. They marshalled their millions of readers in support Df the best candidates regardless of party and those :andidates won. . And if Tammany was defeated it was own fault, because it did not nominate the best candi- dates, whb'm the Hearst, papers, in faithfulness to their public trust, could support. But the victory in New York Was not the only victory won by the Hearst papers in Tuesday's election. In Illinois the Hearst papers in Chicago took up the fight for the Initiative and Referendum and Public Ownership of Public Utilities. , The great public service and the pow- erful predatory financial interests actually tried to keep the initiative and referendum OFF THE BALLOT and sued out an injunction to prevent the people of Illinois from even having a chance to vote on the question of whether or not they wanted the initiative and referendum embodied in their constitution. The Hearst papers first caused the initiative and referendum to be put upon the ballot, and then made the fight against the temporary injunction which had been 'granted against their remaining on the ballot. The Hearst papers won that fight, dismissed the and retained these issues on the ballot, only a few days before the election, and thus gave the people the right to exercise their franchise and \to vote upon these vital questions. Every paper in Chicago, except the Hearst papers, and nearly every paper in the State of Illinois fought against the initiative and ridiculed them as absurd policies of the Hearst papers; tried to support the injunction which would have denied the people of Illinois even the right to express their opinion in regard to these measures; and made a campaign against the rights and liberties of the public toa free ballot that was as foolish as it was futile. The people, in spite of all this opposition of the predatory financial interests and the newspapers that they control, finally were allowed to express their opinion at the polls and finally adopted the Initiative and Refer- endum and Public Ownership by an on Tuesday last, and directed these measures to be made a part of their constitution and of the political policy and machinery of their State. The Hearst papers, however, are not always on the side of radicalism. They are sometimes on the side of but that is when conservatism is RIGHT and radicalism is WRONG. Recently in as the whole people of the United States know, the police force of the city of Boston went on strike and deserted their posts and allowed the criminal element to run riot in Boston, to the injury and outrage of all respectable citizens. On September 18, the Hearst papers in Boston printed the following signed editorial: \The people of the United Statei have been shocked at the action of the Boston police in deserting their potts and, leaving their city exposed to rioters and plunderers. \The question involved is not the right of organized labor to sxke. Every thinking human being admit tho right of 1 .. i AnVEUTISEMENT. Hearst nrl tn ntiit work when condi. Newspapers Because, of Their Fidelity to the Public Interest IN conspicupusly Undoubtedly supporting triumphantly disastrously Surrogate-ele- ct notwithstanding CONFIDENCE publications. antagonisms, Tammany's corporations injunction, referendum; fundamental OVERWHELMING MAJORITY conservatism, Massachusetts, - - - ordinary empwyo tion aro unsatisfactory and to bo taken back when conditions are amended. \Butjjolicemen are not ordinary employes. They are the trusted guardian of tho peace and safety, of the public. They owe tho State the heroic service of tho soldier and they can no more, while remaining in the service, shirk their responsibilities and desert their dutre than the soldier can. \It is an utterly intolerable thing that uch trusted public servant hould not acknowledge, their, first duty to the State, but should ek to render an allegiance to ome class organiza. tion uporior to that which they render to the whole public. \It i a fundamentally demoralizing thing that the instituted forces of law and order should desert their responsible posts and so abet the rioting forces of lawlessness and disorder. . \Governor Coolidge and tho Police Commissioner are en. tirely in line with public sentiment everywhere when they de. claro that public servants who' havo demonstrated their dis. loyalty to the public interests they are upposed to serve shall not bo returned to posts for which thoy have proven their con. spicuous unfitness. ''And Mr. Gomper is in no way wise when he attempts to ally his army of reputable labor union men with abettors of anarchy and fomenters of disorder. \\Whether Mr. Gompers appreciates it or not, he is inviting on hi honest follower the hostility which all impartial Amer- icans must feel to those who would assail the people s govern, ment by force or undermine it with treachery. \Thi government of ours is not an irresponsible autocracy in which the people have no voice and where force must be employed to compel a recognition of popular rights. It is a democracy 'deriving its powers from the consent of the governed.' It is a free republic, in which tho popular ballot changes in laws, modifications in constitution and of public officials. It is a government 'of the peo-pi- by the people, and for the people,' and not a government by any-clas- s nor for any class. \The people a a whole would resent a government by the labor Jinion class quite as much as they would resent a govern-men- t by the capitalistic class. Most of all would they resent a government by the lawless and disorderly class which has sought to secure control in Boston, and with which Mr. Gom- pers, with amazing folly, has endeavored to unite his honorable following. \Mr. Gompers, do not deprive your followers of the sym- pathy and, indeed, of the support of the plain, citizens. That sympathy and that support have been among the most potent factor in winning for labor the better condition and the increase in wage it hat so generally of late succeeded in securing. \The whole fair-minde- d American public has realized that tho, cost of living has doubled, and that, if we are to maintain for our American masses' the high standard of living which it our boast and which it has been one of the main object of our free government and our liberal social system to provide, we must allow the worker to lecure a largely increased compensa- tion for that efficient productive labor which is at the basis of all our prosperity. \Realizing this, the whole public has hot only sympathized with tho legitimate demands of labor, but has very considerably in obtaining them. \But thi tame fair-minde- d public will not sympathize with any alliance on the part of labor leader with ditloyal or disorderly element in the community, nor will the public tol- erate any attempt of any clats to obtain by force power out of proportion to its voting numbers, whether the intent be to use that power arbitrarily for its own selfish interest or not. \Indeed through the exercise of such violent methods, labor would find that it had not only lost the sympathy but had aroused the active antagonism of that great judicious body of the citizenship without the support of which no cause can prosper or should prosper in this free Republic. \On the other hand, and in full fairness, there is, how- ever, a word to be said not by any means to excuse the meth- ods employed by the police of Boston, but to concentrate atten- tion upon unfair conditions which tend to arouse intense dis- content, not only among underpaid public servant but among employe who are underpaid anywhere. \Every informed individual know that the dollar at pres- ent has only a fraction of its former purchasing power, and in order that a man and his family may live as well as they did before the war it is necessary for them to have many more dol- lars than they had then. \If a man, therefore, has only the same wage that he had before the war he can only live about half as well as he lived then, and that half as well may come dangerously near to the point of absolute penury. \We all know, to our shame, that policemen and public employes as a rule have received but little increase in wage, notwithstanding the tremendous increase in the cost of living. \A policeman is a public servant pledged to protept our. social and political systems and to maintain the established order. But what must he come to think of an established order which by its neglect and indifference and parsimony brings an honest man holding a responsible public position to the verge of destitution? \Does he need much argument from. anarchistic inciter! to convince him of the unfairnett of tocial and political tyttemt which have already impretted their injustice upon him and the family he loves? \Liberal minded, generous hearted, public spirited citizens of the United States, we should not aid the apostles of discon- tent to make converts to their anarchistic cause. We should not furnish the proof of the inequality and injustice, the neglect and indifference which the evangels of anarchy assert and which we blandly and oftentime blindly deny. This country it rich enough and it should be wise enough to pay its servants well and, indeed, to give all its workers their due share of the pros- perity they so largely help to create. \Anarchy is the misshapen child of injustice. \In this liberal land of ours all injustice mutt be cor- rected. Only so can our people remain free and equal. \WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.\ In the recent political campaign in Massachusetts Richard H. Long, a very good-hearte- d man, but a very unwise one, advocated the restoration of these mutinous policemen to their posts, and made this a dominant issue in his campaign. The Hearst papers were unable to support Mr. Lonjr. the Democratic candidate for Governor, on any such policy of extreme and unusual radicalism, notwithstand- ing the fact that the Democratic platform as a whole in this Massachusetts election was a sound, progressive pro- gramme and would, under any other circumstances, have had the whole-hearte- d support of the Hearst newspapers. It was impossible, however, for the Hearst papers to ally themselves with the forces of lawlessness and dis- order, to condone the act of policemen who had betrayed their trust and deserted their posts when the test came of fidelity to their duty and to the public. It was impossible for the Hearst papers to concede that public servants like the police should owe a frst allegiance to any class or any clique or to any organiza- tion or to any element other than the whole people. And so the Hearst papers firmly opposed the restora- tion of the mutinous police, denied their support to Mr. Long, and Mr. Long went down to overwhelming defeit, carrying with him the party and the platform which, under other circumstances, would have deserved a better fate. It is not Democratic partisanship or Republican par- tisanship that animates the Hearst papers. It is not radicalism or conservatism which controls them. It is Democracy or Republicanism, Conservatism or Radicalism, according to what seems to be for the b' interests of the whole people. And the people seem generously to realize this ;n(' give us who labor upon these papers their confidence .. ' 1 support. For that confidence we thank them most deepK \ifl solemnly vow never to be faithless to the t list tu.1 impone in us. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. V
