Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1900 Page: 4 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY
Thursday, July 14, 1900.
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
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of the health and life of their work-
people, and dangerous industries and
trades are subjected to special police
control. The public generally are also
thought of, for it is forbidden to es-
tablish any new business concerns
which are noisy, which pollute either
air, earth or water, or which perturb
the ground, in inhabited localities, save
in such as are set apart for this pur
pose; while existing works are requir-
ed to adopt all possible precautionary
methods and measures with the object
~ of restricting the disadvantages spoken
of, and where this can not be effected
by artificial means the local authorities
are authorized to require the discon-
tinuance or removal of the work, with
due regard to the satisfaction of vest
ed interests.
SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS.
Industrial work of all kinds is for-
bidden on Sundays, New Year's Day,
Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascen-
sion day, Whit Monday and Christmas
day and the day following, and shops
are subjected to the same restriction;
but exceptions may be used in extra-
ordinary cases—where from the nature
of an industry uninterrupted work is
necessary, and in the case of trades
concerned with the food supply. As re-
gards the last and shops generally the
local authorities determine whether the
restrictions shall be imposed or not.
yet not before the views of the employ
ers concerned have been heard and
considered. In any event the hours of
work on Sundays and festivals must be
so arranged that public worship shall
not be interfered with, and the entire
afternoons shall be free. Yet here
again the hours may be Increased on
the four Sundays preceding Christmas
day, with the reservation that all as-
sistants, workpeople and apprentices
shall have the third Sunday quite free.
Special hours are fixed for the lir.v-
dressing business.
DURATION OF WORK, ETC.
The duration of work, following the
factory act, is fixed at 64 fours a
week, and the provisions of that act as
to night work are also applied. All
overtime and night and Sunday work
must at least be reckoned twenty-live
per cent higher; wages must be paid
at no longer interval than a fortnight,
and the truck system is prohibited. De-
ductions for the rent, cleaning, heating
and lighting of the workshops and for
the use of tools are prohibited; and
raw material and material neligently
spoiled must be charged for at cost
price. An employer is empowered to
retain six days' wages in hand, but no
more. On leaving service an employe
or workman may require a written cer-
tificate of the character and duration
of his work. When an employe is
killed or seriously injured at his work
the employer must immediately notify
the fact to the local police authorities,
whose duty it is to institute an inquiry
Into the whole circumstances and to re-
port to the governor, who completes
the investigation. Workshop regula-
tions must be approved by the govern-
ment, and the workpeople concerned
must be given an opportunity of stat-
ing their views regarding them. No
fines can be Imposed which are not au-
thorized by such regulations; they can
not in any one case exceed one-half of
a day's wages; and the proceeds must
be employed in the interest of the work
people.
The provisions dealing especially
with employes in offices prohibit work
on Sundays and festivals, emergencies
excepted, and fix the weekly worktlme
at 54 hours, though periodical exten-
sions are permissible, with the sanction
of the local government body if for a
period not exceeding two weeks, and of
the government if for longer. Salaries
must be paid at least monthly, one the
last day of the month.
Other provisions deal with the train-
ing of apprentices, and the provision of
industrial and mercantile continuation
schools, which latter may be either car-
ried on by the state or by local gov-
ernment bodies, trade societies, or pri-
vate persons with the help of the state.
Comment.—Note the ease with which
the details are regulated, and not only
are the interests of employed and em-
ploye looked after, but also those of the
public. What would our go-as-you
please people think of prohibiting fac.
tories which are noisy or "which pol-
lute either air, earth or water," or
which "perturb he ground"?
Generally the employers are able to
get such legistatkn as they want- oc-
casionally there is something done for
the employes if they howl loud enough,
but the dear public is never thought
of. Under direct legislation it gets at-
tention, because it votes on every one
of these laws. When, oh! when shall
we get it here?
ILLS PECULIAR TO WOMEN.
•«
A SCATHING REPROOF FOR PO-
LITICAL SCABS.
Mai Anna Cars ton, Clayton, 111., says:
Yonr medicine did me so much food.
I believe I Hhould have been dead by this
time had I not used It. I am feeling so
well now. I have not taken any medicine
for four or live months. If I am ever trou-
bled with anything of the klud again I shall
take nothing but Peruna, and I can cheer,
fully rocommend it to my friends.
A vast multitude of women have found Pe-
runa an indlspenslble remedy. It meets all
tbelr Irregularities, critical periods, and peculiar
weaknesses.
Peruna is appliable to catarrb of any mu-
cous surface of tbe body in all stages. From
tbe slightest catarrhal attack or cold to the moBt
chronlo or pronounced case of hyper tropic form
Peruna is a specific.
Men and women are subject to catarrh. Wo-
men are even more subject to catcrrh than men.
This is due to mvny causes. The chief oause is
i
the dolicacy of her organism as compared to man- , —
The extreme sensitiveness of the mucous lining- &:.
of every organ of a woman's body is well
hnown to physloians. This explains why, in
part at least, so few women are entirely free
from catarrh.
Ml oh 8 tulle Martinet, the prominent
yoang actress, writes to Dr, Hartman in
regard to Peruna, as follows: "It gives me
great pleasure to recommend Peruna to
members of my profession. I have found It
most helpful. I consider Peruna of especial
benefit to women and particularly recom-
mend it to them. My dressing table is never
without it."
Everywhere the people, especially the wo-
men, are praising Peruna as a remedy for alj
forms of catarrhal difficulties. Send for free
cararrh book. Address Dr. Hartmm, Columbus,
Ohio.
We are told that at a celebration of
the relief of Mafeking at McDonough,
Ga„ on Saturday night, the following
resolutions were offered and carried
"with deafening applause and withoul
a dissenting voice:"
Be it resolved. That as an expression
of our undying gratitude as American
citizens in return for the great assist-
ance rendered our army and navy, and
the sincere friendship and watchful
care administered in our behalf dur-
ing the darkhours of our war with
Spain, by our mother country, we
do hereby extend to Great Britain our
sincere congratulations and our thanks
unto Almighty God as a just arbiter of
the war as it is now progressing lu
South Africa.
"Resolved, That with American pride
and appreciation we recall the many
instances in which the great American
heart was thrilled with emotional
gladness by the assurance that John
Bull was at our* backs giving the
warning signal to all other nations to
'hands off.' And we do hereby de-
plore the degenerate action of political
tricksters in and out of congress, who
took part In the celebration of the
queen's birthday at Port Tampa in
1898, and today are engaged in offering
pro-Boer resolutions for cheap notori-
ety's sake."
Though this may be a trifle oveiv
done, it has an unquestionable ring of
sincerity. Three things are evident
from these resolutions—first, that the
people of McDonough are not in poli-
tics, second, that the sentiment of grat-
itude is decidedly less evanescent with
them than with some other folk, and
third, that, in spite of the chatter
about "sister" republics, they know a
corrupt oligarchy when they see one.—
Macon Telegraph.
Another thing is very evident from
these resolutions, that those who adopt
ed them are traitors to their country,
and with the exception of such among
them as may be subjects of the queen,
are truckling Anglomaniacs not worthy
to bear the name of Americans. They
are worse than the old tories of the
revolutionary war, for the colonies
then being English colonies in revolt
fighting for liberty and independence
the question whether it was right was
debatable and the tories had the un-
questionable right to prefer being
English subjects to being free American
citizens. England had her tory friends'
having been whipped and the
jurisdiction of the new nation would
be an English tory without making,
himself a traitor to his country.
The disgusting servility of those
McDonough resolutions in alluding to
England as "our mother country" and
the celebration of the queen's birthday
at Tampa by a lot of misnamed Ameri
cans who have probably never cele-
brated Washington's birthday and
never felt a glow of conscious pride in
assisting at a Fourth of July celebra-
tion, arouses a feeling of pity for those
poor, blind fellows. In kindness to
them our government should bundle
them up and with other creatures of
their kind send them eo England,
where they could spend the rest of their
days in adoring the old lady who /s
queen by the grace of God and by vir-
tue of being a grand daughter of that
crazy George III. who sought to do
our country as the queen, nominally,
is now trying to do the African repub-
lics.
Our mother country indeed! The
mother country of all the tories dur-
ing the revolutionary war! Not the
mother country of the Dutch who set
tied New York, nor of the Germans who
settled a large part of Pennsylvania,
nor of the Scotch who settled in North
Carolina, nor of the Huguenots who
settled in South Carolina, nor the
Moravians who settled in Georgia, nor
the Irish who were scattered among
them all. It was the descendants of
Anglo Saxons alone who composed the
American tories during the war for in-
dependence while to the honor ot
Americans descended from all other
nationalities be it said that not one of
them was known to be a tory when
England tried to crush the American
republics .as she is now trying to
crush the African republics.
True Americanism today is the same
it was a century and a quarter ago, and
toryism seems to be the same too.
Shame on an American citizen who
loves England and English institutions
more than he does his own glorious
country, and yet has not the manliness
to follow the example of Astor.—Geor-
gia Tribune.
STOOD THE TRIAL.
After the second practical demon-
stration of the value of the voting
machine given in the town eiection of
Irvington recently it is difficult to see
why the icity council should longer
hesitate to adopt machines for use in
Marion county in time for the Novem-
ber election.
At Irvington the result of the elec-
tion was known in half a minute after
the polls had closed. The machine
recorded and counted the votes cor-
rectly; there was no opportunity for
votes to be lost through mistakes:
there was no chance for fraud, either In
the voting or in the count, that the
work of voting was so expeditious that
it is evident that the machine will ad-
mit'of precincts two or three times as
large as those in vogue at present.
And this will mean such a reduction
in the expense of elections that the
machine will prove an excellent invest-
ment for the county and city.
With the voting machine the only
possible method of corrupting voters
will be by hiring them to stay away
from the polls—a thing that can be
done under any possible scheme of
voting. There can be no doubt that it
will prove as great an advance over the
Australian method as was that over
the old plan.—Indianapolis Press.
The conduct of the Republicans to-
ward the trust evil is finely exhibited
in the following:
Saunting Sim—Wot do you t'ink of
dis "Man Wit' de Hoe?"
Tired Treadwell—I t'ink he's all
right. I seen a picture of him wusnt
and all he done was lean ag'inst it."—
Chicago Times-Herald.
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