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The Springfield herald., 1897-01-22

The Most Unique Calendar of the Season
Has just been issued by the Lake Shore
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''They say early rising is unhealthy"
"Of course; many woman has bro
ken down her constitution getting her
husband up in time for breakfast.
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PoPULIsT BROOK FARM.

sreidcnthaI Projecting Cooperative
Settlement in Kansas.
John w. Breidenthal. chairman of the
Kansas Populist state committee; Con
gressman-elect Edward r. Ridgely of
the Third Kansas district and ex-State
Treasurer w. II. Biddle are at the head
of a movement to establish a cooper
ative company on 2,000-acre tract of
land in Crawford county, Kan, build
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To the Pacific Coast

Two through trains daily via the Union
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to principal western points. including Og-
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San Francisco. SACRAMENTO etc. Ask about
them at GAL 18th St. corner Curtis.
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''He doesn't smoke. doesn't drink and he
shaves himself" "GoOdness, He ought to
be rich" "No; he's so poor that he has to
economize In that way!'
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"Greatness is not to be measured by the
dollars man possesses. is It Dobbs?'
"wcll. that depends on the person who Is
sizing him up"
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According % the data the sign Libra,
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MOlls Sly Trick.

III lend it to you and never fear about
it,
Mr.. Leland said he'd pull through on
his five shillings, with all thanks to
his friend, but he was made very hap
py at having a gypsy offer him charity
ON the lowest race ground in England.
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Mary had n head Of hair;
Twas raven black, we're told;
But blondes became the fashion.
And now It's benutcous gold.


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HON. NELSON DINGLEY
ONE OF THE ABLEST MEN IN
THE PRESENT HOUSE.
His Name Has Been Mentioned as n
Probable Cabinet Omcer-nas Been In
Congressional Harness Since 1881
Ills Journalistic Venture.

o N G r e S S MAN
Nelson Dingley, Jr.,
who is mentioned
for the secretary
ship of the treasury
in President Nc
Kinley's cabinet,
represents the sec
ond district OF
Maine in the pres
ent congress and
has been reelected
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Restorer. Free So trial bottle and treatise.
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Case of "word Blindness"
An extraordinary case of word
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"What Is an old fashioned patriot?" "He
Is man that can cast vote without re-
membering that the country needs postmas-
ters"
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1t is stated that Baroness Hrsch will give
2,OOO.OO0 francs to build n hospital for con
sumptive children on the Riviera.
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'Barclay gets to read his newspaper Mt
night now" GLOW does he work IT." He
told his wife that her face was perfectly
beautiful when she was meditating.
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The average annual Imports OF wheat are
200, 900. 600 bushels In England, 10000, 900 In
Germany. the same In Italy, 12.OOO,0OO in
Spain and Portugal.
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I never used so quick a cure as Plso's Cure
for Consumption.-J. B. Palmer, Box HI.
Seattle Wash, Nov. %, 1895.
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f. J. CHENEY q CO., Toledo. o.
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gsts.
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21

Will men never learn that COM
petition is warfare and that the
s1aughtering of hosts of human
beings amid the carnage and
confusion of the battlefield is not
more costly nor more un-
necessary than the wastes and
destruction of competition? All
experiences teach us the value of
cooperation, and still in those
fields where cooperation would
prove most effective we most
persistently close our eyes and
refuse to acknowledge it's bene-
fits. Capital co-operates in
every department of business
and it is for that reason that it
is invincible. But the co-opera-
tion of capital is for the robbing
of the many that the few may
profit. When the day comes
that workingmen can cooperate
for their own welfare the labor
question will be put in a fair
way to final solution.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21
A Matter of Choice.

Discussing the conditions of
the coal miners, one of them
said to reporter:
"We can starve to death as
well without work as with it,
and the dying is easier"
This suggests the marrow of
the whole industrial problem.
If all our energies are taken up
in getting the barest kind of a
living a living on level no
higher than that of the beast
a living, meagre as it is, to be
won only by such toll and pri-
vation that there is left to us
no energy to put into the devel-
opment of the humane and
artistic elements Of life, then
life is not worth living. And
if these conditions are, as we
are told, inevitable and perma-
nent, then is suicide justifi-
able for the individual and ex-
termination merciful for the
race.
"Give me liberty, or give me
death!" cried Patrick Henry,
and all the nation for 120 years
has applauded. Let us make
the sentiment more expansive;
"Better an un1nhab1ted
wilderness than a nation Of
slaves.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21

uCAdy duu dlICA W1duSAluS OVSi
the necessity of having the truss
completed bv September Is, be-
cause Davis couldn't promise the
work to be done before October 9
the contract finally went to King
& Steele, to be finished on the
earlier date, the dissenters to
this action being Richardson,
Rowley, Stevens and Trevi1lion.
Alderman Simpson closed the
truss incident with a motion
that the council extend a vote OF
thanks to Mr.. Horton for his in
terest in the matter. Some OF
the gentlemen present expressed
considerable surprise at the mo-
tion and insinuated that it was
"done sarcastic" Mr.. Simpson
explained however, that Mr..
Horizons appeal to the council
was all that saved the city from
indulging in a wooden truss,
which would not only in the end
have proven more costly, but
would also have been a con-
stant menace to the city's water
supply. "
Among the minor affairs con-
sidered were the acceptance of
Charles Gulberg's proposition to
settle his claim for damages for
$50; the allowance of the usual
batch of bills and estimates; the
turning down of Macey's claim
tor rent of the ground on which
the city pound is located; the
passage ola resolution author
ling the publication of the an
nual report of the board Of pub
lie works at an expenditure Of
not to exceed $1O0.
A proposition to open and ex-
tend 5Oth avenue west to the
end of Grassy Point, also an in
tersecting street on Grassy Point,
IA. Murray, D.. A. Blanchards
and J. K. Dougherty, being
named as appraisers, was de.
ferred for a week. Il
City Engineer McGilvray re-
ported that the estimate on the
cost of extending the water plant
had not been made because the
engineers office was crowded
with business, but that it would
be attended to as soon as posi-
Bile. :.
The fire commissioners report
ed that the expenses for the de-
partment for the pastsix months
had been as follows: March,
$7374.35; April, $7,053. AZ; May
$7,S03.68; June, 81, ,355.92, July,
$7,614.27.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21

rhe farmers must have sold
or contracted the bulk of their
wheat crop already. The specu-
lators and rniddlemen, who
have hitherto been giving out
bear statements, are all sprout-
ing horns.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21

we dig by the heap,' and in
vestigation proves this to be
true, and it is a very big heap
for small pay at that. Instead
of weighing his coal as it comes
out from the tipple, it is meas
ured by the car. For instance,
at the Monagh mines in West
Virginia, the miner loads car
for two tons; the car must be
heaped ten inches above the bed
and in coming out on to the
tipple it passes under wire,
which is strung just ten inches
above the car; connected with
this wire is a bell and if the car
is not heaped ten inches above
the top so that it rubs the wire
and causes the bell to ring the
miner is docked one-half ton.
These cars were measured by the
representative of the New York
World and each one found to
contain two and three-quarter
tons, showing that the miner is
robbed OF that amount of coal
on every car load that he sends
out. To show to what extent
the miner is robbed in the
weights of coal, I have the
figures of one mine known as the
Hutchins Mine. The figures
were given me by a doctor who
secured them from an officer of
the company. On July 18th the
run of the mine showed that the
miners received pay upon 64612
tons ofcoal, but the weight of
the coal upon the railroad cars
as shipped by the company
showed that there were $50
tons, besides the amount that
went through the screens and
was dumped into the coke ovens
of which no one could get any
account and which I imagine
would amount to a great deal
as the screens are very large,
reminding you somewhat of the
old time cattle guard at the rail
road crossing.
Thus the readers of The Toledo
Union can see why the misery
and degradation exists among
the miners and why the fhine
workers of America are engaged
in the present struggle, nor does
this battle alone concern the
mine workers. I, for one, feel
that it interests every one who
labors, not alone the 1aboring
man but the business man as
well. If the miner loses in this
contest and their organization
becomes demoralized they must
return to work as individual
1t threatens every department
labor and business in .Americ
and we cannot afford to ALLOW
it to be lost; we should rally
The miner is degraded, starved
and debased; he is unable to
assert his rights, but the strong
arm of American labor should
assert it for him. We should
arise in our might, crush this
demon of greed and avarice
which threatens not only the
coal miners OF America but
threatens civilization itself.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21
AMERICAN SIBERIA
Pres. MahOn of Street Railway
Employees Tells the Story in
the Toledo Union,
Miners Paid Only From AZ to n
Cents Per Day and Robbed
of Half of That.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. II, '97
w. D. Mahon in Toledo Union.
That 1 should receive a request
from the readers of The Toledo
Union for a statement regarding
the miners conditions is not
surprising. For the last three
weeks I have been busy on the
platform and in private, ex-
planning to the people the condi-
tions of the dow11-trodden miner
and the reasons why he has laid
down his tools and demanded
an adjustment of his conditions
before he again takes them up.
But to draw a pen picture for
your readers is more than I
have the ability to do. Nor do
I believe that we have a writer
living today able to portray the
exact condition of the American
miner In my past work for
and with labor I have had an
opportunity to see the dark side
of American life from coast to
coast. I have seen the slums of
New York with all their horrors;
I have seen the pest holes of
Philadelphia; the poverty strick-
en- districts of Chicago, but none
of them compare with the
poverty, misery and degradation
that I have found among the
American coal miners. Wherever
you go you are met by grimy
men; pale, haggard women;
stunted and demoralized child
hood. Enter their miserable
abodes, in some cases unfit for
human habitation, you find no
ray of hope. Bare and carpet
less floors, pictureless walls;
furniture, none to speak of; ev-
erywhere the picture of despair
is plainly visible. What has
been the wages in the past that
has produced these conditions?
This is hard TO figure. In some
portions of the country the
average has been as low as ~
cents per day and from that to
70 cents; scarcely higher in any
community. Nor is this all.
! This little pittance he is COM
PEELED to spend in the company's
store, where he pays from Is to
20 per cent higher than he
would have to were he allowed
the freedom to deal where he
pleased. Here are a few Fl cures
from thecompanystor through
the New River and Kanawah
! districts ofWest Virginia. Com
mon white beans are sold by the
company stores to the miners,
three pounds tor rs cents, and
the same, 1 find, can be pur-
chased from independent stores,
fifteen pounds for rs cents; dry
salt meats that sell on the out.
side tor 6 cents are sold to the
miner in the company store for
1212 cents; his powder that he
could buy on the ontside for
81. .35 per keg, he is forced to pay
So so to the company store; the
lard oil which he uses in his
lamp to mine by, he pays the
company 80 cents per gallon
and the same can be bought for
20 cents on the outside; flour
that he could buy for $4to $3.50
per barrel, he is charged $3.50 to
SO for, and so it runs all through
the whole category. Nor is this
the only outrage that is prac-
ticed upon the poor miner. He
is again robbed in weights. The
impression prevails that the
miner digs coal by the ton. This
is not true, at least in West
Virginia. One old miner put it
to me in this way: ''No," lie
said, 1--WE don't dig by the ton,
. =
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21
LABOR DAY PARADE
Trades Assembly Draws for Places
in Grand
McEWen Grand Marshal.
Timers Have a Grievance Against
GlockI Iy-Plans for Econo-
mic Discussion.

The trades assembly drew its
usually crowded house Friday
evening. The following dele
gates were obligated: Painters
John E. Johnson; pressfeeders,
Jacob Poleaski; printers, H.
Dworshak; musicians, Henry
Bourgealt; shoemakers, William
Medd. The roll call was dis
pensed with and after the ap-
proval of the minutes of the last
regular and special meetings
the assembly buckled right
down to business.
The committee on the Short
Line Park bridge was dis
charged and the matter handed
over to the executive commit
tee. The label league delega-
ton made a model report, the
committee on the violation of
the United States statutes in
connection with work on the
dredges was continued and
then labor day matters were
given the floor.
President McEwen made the
report for the committee. In
addition to the matters already
recounted in these columns, he
explained the advantages of
the Driving park, told of the
attractions promised by the as
sociation and; stated that very
satisfactory results were being
obtained in the canvas for the
program. The report was ac-
cepted and 500 ordered trans
ferred to the credit of the com
mittee to defray necessary ex-
penses in making preparations.
The committee on economic
discussions presented a scheme
Of procedure. It provides for:
the appointment of a commit
tee to select subjects and lead
ers; also for joint debates upon
notice given previously by any
one desiring to take issue with
the declared opinions of the
leader; one hour is to be devoted
to such discussions and the
rules regulate the time at the
disposal of the various speak
ers. The report was accepted,
but owing to the pressure of
labor day affairs the appoint
ment of the committee provided
therein was deferred.
The committee to visit drug
stores in the interest of Duluth
made blue label cigars made a
very encouraging report so far
as Delegates Wilcoxan Pierce
for West and Central Duluth
were concerned. The" uptown
end of the committee flunked.
One member of the committee
said that a dealer told him that
he had fifteen customers, men,
hers of the street railway en-
ployes union, who always asked
"or non-union cigars. The
street car boys may, like other
1nions, have an occasional
lack sheep among them, but
t is safe to say that there was
lot a delegate in the hall but
What believed the dealer was
:elling an unmitigated fairy
tale. The street car men are
not made of that kind of stuff.
Under the head of communi-
cations request was received
from the Chicago Federation of
Labor asking the endorsement
Of postal savings banks, which
was given. The building trades
,sked to be permitted to form a
parate division in the labor
parade. The request came
ter and resulted in much
~ and numerous motions,
Yas finally granted, the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1897-08-21
LESTER RIVER TRUSS
The City Council Juggles with Con-
tract for Force Main Truss
Over Lester River.
Expense of Fire Department for
Past Five Months-MCGregOr
Impeachment Fizzles.

! The city council Monday night
did not hold a very long session.
and what there was of it was
not overly productive of results.
The main features were the rag
chewing match over the contract
for the force main truss across
Lester river and the attempt to
impeach Fire Commissioner Nc
Gregor.
The charges against Mr.. Nc
Gregor were turned in by Alder
man Duren. They allege NAL
feasance, maladministration, etc.
The accusation charges that Pre-
! sident McGregor was interested
in the erection of the engines and
boilers for the new pumphouse,
having accepted a sub-contract
from the D. Clint Prescott COM
pany. It was also charged that
Mr.. McGregor furnished mater
ia1s to the fire department and
did work that could not be done
by the department itself, audit
ing and approving his own bills.
In addition to these charges it is
alleged that in letting contracts,
namely for coal and hay and.
feed, he did not give the work to
the lowest bidder, but showed
favoritism.
After the reading of the resolu-
ton, Alderman Duren moved
that it be adopted, but the mo-.
tion was amended by Alderman
Stevens who moved that it be
laid on the table. This amend
ment passed by a vote of 10 to 5,
Aldermen Dahl, Duren, Simpson,
Sang and Fischer voting no.
The truss contract took more.
time to dispose of. The matter
came up on a motion to confirm
the board ofpublic works action
in awarding the contract to Fred
Davis, whose bid is some $500
or 5000 higher than the lowest
bidder. Simpson moved as an
amendment that the contract be
awarded to G. M. Horton. Sang
said five engineers had con-
demned Horton's bridge.
Mr.. Horton was given the
floor. He said that the load
placed on his structure in the
West Duluth shops was very
much greater than that required
by the specifications in this con-
tract, and that while the load
put on the bridge had made it
give it had demonstrated that
his bridge would do all that was
claimed for it. 1t was not true
that the bridge settled in the
middle or the steel frame gave
way.
Mr.. c. 0. Baldwin appeared in
behalf of Mr.. Davis. A repre-
sentative for King & Steele was
also present. The motion to
award to Mr.. Horton was lost
by a vote of 6 to 9, the yea votes
being cast by Dahl, Duren, Har-
ker, Simpson, Stevens and Ire
villion.
The discussion then turned on
the bond. Mr.. Smith said that
nothing but a surety company
bond would go with the board
of public works. A motion by
Alderman Hale that the bond be
submitted to the city council
failed by a vote of 8 to Z, as it
did not receive the votes of a
majority OF the members OF the
council. The original motion to
award the contract to Mr.. Davis
carried by vote of IL to 8, but
that didn't settle it.
Somebody had forgotten some
thing and on Crassweller's mo-
ton the action was reconsidered.