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...regard to checking graft than the United States and France. What has been done in Berlin certainly ought to be done in San Francisco, and there is absolutely no reason why it cannot be done. The trouble in this country is that there is a general fight against the labor problem instead of a desire to solve it. If America would become less pugilistic and more analytic there is no doubt but that the great problem of labor would become insignificantly simple. Then with labor simplified, graft and corruption would practically cease. All that labor is waiting...
...this country and the continent, and his stand on social and political questions has won for him the title of "anarchist." He is a prominent newspaper and magazine writer, and was sent to Los Angeles to report the McNamara case for the New York Globe. As a partisan of labor, he was largely instrumental in getting the confession of the dynamiters. He became the object of attack of both capital and labor, and though denounced by both, he has been travelling about the country all winter explaining capital to labor and labor to capital. His address this evening, in which...
...best, verse translation is an exquisite art: at its worst it is padded prose. Neither "The Swashbuckler's Song" from the Greek nor "Reverie" from Victor Hugo's French seems in its present form songful enough to justify the labor of the translator...
...discovered at Peoria. This was convincing evidence that all the operations were being directed by the same hand. Mr. Burns could have placed his hands on the actual perpetrators of the crime, then and there, but it was his purpose to get the "big men" behind all the labor outrages...
...known, however, through the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case. He was employed by the Manufacturers' Association to investigate this and the other recent out-rages which have occurred throughout the country. He has secured the confessions and conviction of the McNamara brothers, and within this month a score of labor leaders have been indicted on information which he has obtained...