The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-11
Snap Shots.
BY S. Goodwin.

never bribed or caused to ne pfloeo'
an Ohio legislator But this is only the
opinion of the senate committee.
Here is a pretty kettle Of ''embalmed'
discipline for a relish after the en-
balmed beef. President Mckinley asked
Mr. Secretary Alger to resign, in order
to hush I'D the scandal, and Mr.. Secre-
tary Alger tells the president-nit, not
on Your liver pad. And then he says
all the incompetents that he appointed
during the war were ON Ine recommended
ton Of the president Alger thus acknow-
lodges that incompetents were appointed
by him, but that they were appointed
to pay Markies' political debts-yet there
are those who still say that this is gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people! If so, who are the
people?
So It appears that it will cost the
United States more to keep standing
army of 10000 men than it costs Russia
to keep 49,, 900. But then Russia don't
feed her soldiers on embalmed beef.
After all the soldering that has been
done over Hobson and the foul breaths
dio
had to, or at least did go up against
it appears now that his "he-row-ic' act
was not done to stop up the entrance
tc Santiago harbor-but the real reason
the rotten old Merrimac was sunk was
to cover I'D the stealing made in the pur-
chase of the worthless tub, in which
| Uncle Sam was flinn-fa mined out OF
about one hundred and forty-nine thou
sand plunks, and Their is no doubt THIS
was why she was scuttled-and the cause
OF Hobson's becoming she-hero.
There be those folk, and they are also
sincere in their condemnation of the
present state of national affairs, but they
are altogether to timid and wlshy-Washy
| in their expressions-thi us what IS ana
has been the trouble for many years,
Too much timidity, to lamNlke, TOO
| afraid to telling the bald-headed truth.
1t is now time to bury such sentiment
tality and to begin dealing sledge ham,
mer blows if we wish to break the chalns
of bondage. No words can be too scathnS
| for the people to use in their struggle
| for freedom from the rule of the blood
thirsty, unscrupulous and un-Amerlcan
| crew now steering the ship of state
against the breakers ahead.
/ Senator Hawkins has introduced bill
| in the legislature proposing an amend
ment to the laws SO as to prevent the
| heir or heirs of parents who engage IN
| a common law marriage, so-cal!ed from
claiming any of the property OF their
parents save such as may be Wllled to
them.
The parents are responsible, equally
| for every child born into thss Woru.
Each child has a just and natural claim
upon those accountable for its being;
man-made laws to the contrary, notwi1h-
|
be thrown around those who come into
the world under the ban of certain So
cial laws, instead of taking it away.
Senator Hawkins brain is about as
large as pea.
| ballot box that cannot be stuffed is
! the latest invention Of Kansas man.
| However,, what is really needed is a
voter who cannot, be- stuffed by false
promises, bad whiskey, political enthus-
iasm and partisan hydrophobia. The
stuffed ballot box is menace to popular
government, but the stuffed voter is
| greater menace.
! From the standpoint of disinterested
spectator, it looks as though ''comprom-
isc' will be the watchword Of democ-
| racy in the next convention, ana Wnlle
Silver will have a seat on the platform,
it will not be allowed to play the I'M
portant part it did in the last campaign.
Imperialism will be pushed to the front
as far as possible in the hope of attract
| ing support in the east, and silver will
be worked for all 1t is worth in the south
and the west. And then the great game
of battledore and shuttlecock will begin.
and it won't make a cents worth OF dill
| ference to anyone who wins or who loses.
|
| Historians say that when ancient Baby
Ion went down, per cent OF her popuia-
| tion owned all her wealth; when Egypt
! tottered 10 her ruin, 2 per cent of her
population owned 81 per cent of her
wealth: when Hungary was blotted from
( the map of nations a few grandees owned
the whole empire: and when imperial
| Rome was shattered 1880 owned the
world. In 1890 per cent of the popula'
ton owned Il per cent Of the wealth OF
the United States and the coming census
will show a wonderful change in these
figures. How long do you think it Will
| take for this nation to totter TO her rum:
| For my own companions give me the
people who have seen (and fclO some OF
the dark as we'll as the bright phases OF
life Those who never know what 1t Is
to feel for themselves are surely incap-
able of feeling for others. To them the
| whole world revolves about their own
| little selfish axis. Such people can star
Il friend to the heart with nonchalance'
and smile while their victim wrfthes
Give me the heart thrt is capable OF