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THE WANDERLUST
Thirty-five laborers from Anchorage en route to Cor
dova to work in the copper mines, passed through on the
Marisposa last evening.
There is just as great demand for labor at Anchorage
or here as at Kennecott but the “wanderlust” keeps men on
the move.
As an example there were nearly one hundred other
laborers on the Mariposa going outside to work in ship
yards, while every north-bound steamer brings still other
laborers to work on the railroad, and the final clincher on
this “wanderlust” stuff lies in the fact that laborers have
come here and to Anchorage this summer from the copper
mines back of Cordova to work on the railroad.
HOME-GROWN BARBARISM
Denial by Samuel Gompers, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, that trade unions had had any
share in the East St. Louis riots, which was met by a ve
heinnt denunciation bv Theodore Roosevelt of the murder
of helpless negroes, precipitated a tumultuous demonstra
tion at a mass meeting held in Carnegie hall in New York
recently in honor of the Russian mission to the United
States.
It was at the close of an address by Mr. Gompers that
pel's declared that many laboring men are in much the
same position as Russians under the old regime, and read a
the colonel was recognized by Mayor iMtchell. Mr. Gom
telgram he said he had received tonight from the president
of the Federation of Labor of Illinois. This message pur
ported to explain the origin of the East St. Louis riots. It
asserted that instead of labor unions being responsible for
them, they resulted from employers enticing negroes from
the South to the city “to break the back of labor.”
“There should be no apology for the infamous brutal
ities committed on the colored people of East St. Louis,”
declared Mr. Rooseevlt, in beginning his vigorous denun
ciation of the riots. “Justice is not a mere phrase. It has
to be translated into action. How can we praise Russia for
freeing her people when we must apologize for doing mur
der to the helpless?
“In the past we have listened to the same excuse from
those in authority in Old Russia for the fearful pogroms
on the Jews. I will do anything for the laboring men ex
cept that which is wrong and that I won’t do for him or for
any one else. I care not a snap of my finger for a telegram
from the head of the labor unions of Illinois. Let there be
the fullest investigation into these murders.”
Mr. Roosevelt was interrupted by Mr. Gompers, who
rose from his seat and approached the former president.
“Why don’t you accuse after an investigation?” the la
bor leader demanded.
With these words he returned to his seat. Roosevelt
strode over to his chair and exclaimed: “Mr. Gompers,
why don’t I accuse afterwards? I’ll answer now, when
murder is to be answered.”
With that the colonel brought down on Mr. Gomper’s
shouder his open left hand, which he had raised above his
head.
At this juncture many of the men on the platform
leaped to their feet and there was a storm of hisses,
cheers and “boos” from all parts of the house.
When Mr. Roosevelt could make himself heard above
the din he went on:
“I will go to any extreme to bring justice to the labor
ing man, but when there is murder I will put him down.”
“HEY, GEN’RAL, SEND SOME CHOCOLATES TO THE FRONT!”
—RoHse in New York World.
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THE RUMBLE OF BATTLE
“The terrible grumble, and rumble and roar, telling
the battle was once more, and Sheridan twenty miles
away,” show that the noise of conflict during the days of
the Civil war could be heard at least three leagues—and
no doubt at any time, although only about half a century
ago, the cannonading seemed exceptionally loud.
Just how far, in the present war, the sound of battle
can be detected by the muman ear, probably will not be ex
actly known until after peace comes, but a dispatch from
London, teling of the gigantic British attack on the Bel
gian front recently, shows that the range is at least 140
nliles—as far, say, as Bellingham to Tacoma. It sounds al
most incredible, but the present war has shattered so many
precdents and set up so many new standards that It may
be accepted as authentic.—Ex.
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