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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

chaptauaua Circle. rather an off day
with the members of the Chautau-
qua circle. The papers read at
the meeting were interesting and
the music was refreshing and en-
livening, but the discussions were
not up to the usual standard. In
fact half dozen members had to
do the talking for all. Perhaps
this was due in measure to the
fact that visitors were present, az
shyness is characteristic of the
local Chautauquans.
Three new members were ad.
mitted, two of whom were formerly
actively interested in the circle.
The first number on the pro-
gram was an excellent humorous
sketch on "The Passing of the
Equine" This was a substitute
paper and therefore did not deal
with the studies which the circle
is pursuing. The circle approved
of the innovation and the speaker
was heartily applauded. This was
followed by roosing chorus by
the glee club.
"A Classification of Human Gull
ture" was the title of the next
number, special report. This
paper was, little more than very
condensed explanation of Mr..
Lewis Morgan's classification OF
the grades of culture through which
the human race has passed, as
elucidated by Professor Fiske and
other historians. It was followed
by short discussion and then
came another musical number, a
mandolin solo by "Clinic" whose
loss, by the way, will be severely
felt by the circle when he leaves
here next week.
A new member read his first
paper before the society as the
next number. The subject chosen
was "True Friends and the paper
was generally conceded to be a
most commendable effort. Avocal
duet by two members of the glee
club followed and received liberal
applause.
The last number of the day was
class report entitled "La Belle
France" It was interesting and
amusing but not altogether appro.
pirate. What the circle should
have in it's reports is instruction
tho ideas advanced should be in.
centive to thought.
When the report of the critic
brought the regular meeting to q
close, Mrs. Colligan announced
that Miss Tilton, one of the guests
present, would favor the members
with a little music. The announce.
ment was heartily welcomed, and
Miss Tilton played, was encored
and was then given a vote Of
thanks. -
The visitors present we're Miss
Mckinney, Miss Thompson and
several friends, Miss Tilton and
DR.. Webber.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

The shoe company will do some
of it's own printing in the future.
On Monday a small job press ar
rived and was set up in the COM
pany's Office along with a couple
of fonts of type. Tags and small
jobs will be printed on it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

Five arrivals, three discharges
and two released on parole is the
record for the week. The popula--
ton is SAC. The grade standing
is, first grade, 381; second, 1866
third, nine.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

Mr.. E. Smith of Saltwater,
formerly a member of the Thir.
teenth regiment, has been ap-
pointed a guard in this institution
and is at present stationed on the
wall.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

Guard Reed was called away
from duty Tuesday night by a
bereavement in his family. Guard
Mullin relieved him.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

The schoolbooks have all been
taken from the cells and an inven-
tory made of them. Those who
applied to the Deputy Warden
for books for summer study have
been supplied.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

Sinbad says life is salt water,
fresh water, fire water, Saltwater
and finally the river Styx.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

Guard Cover is still confined to
his house with severe attack of
sciatic rheumatism. He is i'm
proving, but will probably not be
out for several days yet.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

Suo uIAl ~ OOIuuUld, y. W, LAS
q capital of two million dollars. In
half dozen other cities there are
mills with capital of q million or
more. These mills all have "Com-
pany Department Stores" where
the employees trade. A certain
credit is given, and the employee
who has dollar coming to him in
cold cash is very, very rare. The
cashier of one mill told me that
nineteen families out of twenty
never see any cash, and probably
never will. The account is kept
with the head of the house.
Against him are charged house,
rent, insurance, fuel-three things
the man never thought of. Next,
the orders drawn on the Company
must be met. Then come grocer
les, clothing and gew-gaws that
the young women are tempted into
buying, providing the account is
not too much overdrawn. Some
times it happens that the &C,
count is 80 much overdrawn by
the last of the month that the
storekeeper will dole out only
corn-meal and bacon-just these
two things to prevent starvation
and keep the family at work.
The genial cashier who made
this explanation to me, did it to
reveal the pitiable ignorance Of
the poor whites, the cracker
cannot figure his account-it is all
matter of faith with him.
I know the sweat shops of Hes
ter Street, New York; I am familiar
n...,. . c..., with the vice..
Il II he wofId. depravity and,
degradation
of the Whitechapel District; L
have visited the Ghetto of Venice:
I know the lot of the coal miners
of Pennsylvania; and I know some.
what of Siberian atrocities; but
for misery, woe and hopeless suf-
fering, have never seen anything
to equal the cotton mill slavery of
South Carolina this in my own
America the Land of the Free
and the Home of the Brave!
For the adult who accepts the
life of the mills, I have not word
to say-it is his own business.
My plea is in defense of the in
nocent-I voice the cry of the
child whose sob is drowned in the
thunder of whirring wheels.
The iniquity of this New Slav-
cry in the New South has grown
up out of conditions for which no
one man, or class of men, it seems
is amenable. The interests Of the
cracker, the preacher, the over
seer, the superintendent, the pres
ident, and the stockholders, are so
involved that they cannot see the
truth-their feet are ensnared, and
they sink into the quicksands Of
hypocrisy, deceiving themselves
with specious reasons. They must
be educated, and the people must
be educated.
So it remains for that small, yet
valiant band of men and women
..z...,. in the South,
' siSbt. ;" who are fighting
|~~~~~~~~~~0 this iniquity, to
hold,fast and not leave off in their
work until the little captives are
made free. Right will surely win.
And to these earnest men and
women who are Drawing ostracism,
and who are often scorned in their
own homes, who have nothing to.
gain but the consciousness of hav-
ing done right, we reach friendly
hands across the miles, and out of
the silence we send them blessings
and bid them be strong and Of
good cheer. Seemingly they fight.
alone. hnt they are not alone. for,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Guard Newman is away on his
furlough.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

liza al ny EXT to Massachusetts,
en- MS South Carolina man.
lEE ufactures more cotton
MH cloth than any other state
llEE in the Union. The cotton
en- mills of South Carolina are
@M mostly owned and operated
by New England capital.
In many instances the machin-
cry of the cotton mills has been,
moved entire from Massachusetts,
to South Carolina. The move was
made for the ostensible purpose of
being near the raw product; but
the actual reason is, that in South
Carolina there is no law regulating
child labor. Heartless cupidity
has joined hands with brutal ig-
norance, and the result is child.
labor of SO terrible a type that
African slavery was a paradise
compared with it.
Many of the black slaves lived
to a good old age, and they got a
hearty enjoyment from life.
The infant factory slaves Of
South Carolina can never develop
into men and women. There are
no mortality statistics; the mill
owners battle all attempts of the
outside public to get at the facts,
but my opinion is, that in many
mills death sets the little prisoner
free inside of four years. Beyond
that he cannot hope to live, and
this opinion is derived from care
full observations, and interviews
with several skilled and expert
enced physicians who practice in
the vicinity of the mills.
Boys and girls from the age of
six years and upwards are en-
u,o,. x,om ployed. They
Dark ts s' Dark. usually work
|~~~~lf from six o'clock
in the morning until seven at
night. For four months Of the
year, they go to work before day.
light and they work until after
dark.
At noon I saw them squat on
the floor and devour their food,
which consisted mostly of corn
bread and bacon. These weakened
pigmies munched in silence, and
then toppled over in sleep on the
floor in all the abandon of baby
hood. Very few wore shoes and
stockings; dozens of little girls of,
say, seven years of age wore only
one garment. linsey- woolsey
dress. When it came time to go
to work the foreman marched
through the groups, shaking the
sleepers, shouting in their ears,
lifting them to their feet and in a
few instances kicking the delin-
quents into wakefulness.
The long afternoon had begun
from quarter to one until seven
o'clock they worked without res
pite or rest.
! These toddlers, I saw, for the
most part did but one thing-they
| watched the
ba0e' must y s'ana flying spin
CHER work. dies on a
-~~~~~~~~~co frame twenty
feet long, and tied the broken
threads. They could not sit at
their tasks; back and forward they
paced, watching with inanimate,
dull look, the flying spindles. The
roar of the machinery drowned
every other sound-back and forth
paced the baby toilers in their
bare feet, and mended the broken
threads. Two, three or four threads
would break before they could
patrol the twenty feet-the threads
we're always breaking!
i I thought to lift one of the little
toilers to ascertain his weight.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22
WHITE SLAVERY|::::::::::::.-s !.
+.:::::::::::3IN THE SOUTH.


by a touch, and offered him a
silver dime. He looked at me
dumbly, from a face that might
have belonged to man of sixty,
30 furrowed, tightly drawn and full
of pain it was. He did not reach
for the money-he did not know
what it was. I tried to stroke his
head and caress his cheek. NY
smile Of friendship meant nothing
to him-he shrank from my touch,
as tho he expected punishment. A
caress was unknown to this child,
sympathy had never been his por-
ton, and the love of mother who
only short time before held him
in her arms, had all been forgotten
in the whir of wheels and the
awful silence of din that knows
no respite.
There were dozens of just such
children n.this particular mill. A
physician who was with me said
that they would all be dead, prob
ably in two years, and their places
filled with others-there were
Dlentv more. Pneumonia carries
off most of them. Their systems
are ripe for disease, and when it
comes, there is no rebound-no
response. Medicine simply does
not act-nature is whipped, beat
en-, discouraged, and the child
sinks into stupor, and dies.
South Carolina cannot abolish
child-labor because the mill own
ers, who live
1 Isl On GbiIiS. in New Eng
Tabor. land, oppose
IT,. In0y nave
invested their millions in South
Carolina, with the tacit under
standing with Legislature and
Governor that there shall be no
State inspection of mills, nor
interference in any way with their
management of employees. Each
succeeding election the candidates
for the Legislature secretly make
promises that they will not pass
a law forbidding child-labor. They
cannot hope for election otherwise
the capitalists combine with the
Crackers and any man who fav-
ors the restriction of child-labor
is marked.
The cracker, the capitalist, and
the preacher live on child labor,
and the person who lifts his voice
in behalf Of the children is de-
nounced as a sickly sentimentalist,
endeavoring to discourage the best
interests of the state. The cracker
does not reason quite thus far
with him it is a question of
rights, sah," and he is the head
of his family and you must not
meddle,-his honor is at stake.
So at every election he jealousy
guards his rights he has nothing
else to do-he has lost everything
else but "honor." If women
could vote in South Carolina they
would wipe child-labor out with a
sweep, but alas! woman in South
Carolina does not own even her
own body. South Carolina is the
only state in the Union that has
no divorce law. In South Caro-
lima the gracious, gentle woman
married to a rogue has him for
life, and he has her. The State
objects to their getting apart. The
letters forged in South Carolina
never break lin South Carolina),
and the key is lost.
I learned from reliable source
that q cotton mill having pay
-. c..,....,.. roll of six
OF II. thousand dol
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~o lars a week in
New England, can be run in the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22
CHURCH NOTICE.

CHURCH NOTICE.
Services In the Prison Chapel at $500 O'Clock
every Sunday morning. Protestant and
Catholic services every alternate Sunday.
Rev. 8. j. Kennedy. and Rev. FIR. Corcoran
chaplains.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22
Ertracts From the Muy Phizistsne.

| M EXT to Massachusetts,
MS South Carolina man.
ufactures more cotton
cloth than any other state
in the Union. The cotton
mills of South Carolina are
mostly owned and operated
bv New England capital.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

PRISON OFFICIALS.
BOARD OF CONTROL. q
s. W. LEAvETT, Chairman Litchfeld
w. e. LEE, Long Prairie
o. B. GOULD, Winona
II. W. WRIGHT, Secretary
RESIDENT OFFICIALS.
HENRY wOLFER, warden
j. 8. GLENNON. Deputy Warden
M. @. COLLIGAN, Asst Deputy Warden
HORACE w. DAVIS, Clerk
F. II. BORDWELL - :, Steward
B. j. MERRILL, - Physician
MISS MARY MCKINNEY, = - Marion
8. j. KENNEDY, Protestant Chaplain
CHARLES CORCORAN, Catholic Chaplain
PRISON AGENT.
fla. WHITTIER, st. Paul.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-22

New England, can be run in the
South for four thousand dollars a
week. This means a saving of
just one hundred thousand dollars
a year: and the mill having q
capital of one million dollars thus
gets q clear gain of ten per cent
per annum. s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-09-20

from home, just telegraph the B.
F. Goodrich company" II"
1t was a fine thing to do. 1t
was a bit of unasked apprecia-
ton that must have it's effect
upon the other toilers in the
Goodrich concern.
1t is going to be interesting to
see what happens to Foreman
Metzler. The chances are that
some day he will be founda at the
door of the shop saying: "Put me
to work."
1t is in the blood.
Americans are built that way,
and the fact that ambition does
not cease when the limbs grow
weary, and the thatch gray, in no
manner lessons the kindly trib.
ute that B. F. Goodrich & Co.
paid to the old foreman.
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NO BADGE OF SERVITUDE.

John Stone Pardee, who al.
ways has something real good to
say puts the following tribute
to labor in the Red Wing Argus
"One feature Of the recent la.
Dor day parades deserves re,
mark. The blacksmiths turned
out in new leather aprons, the
machinists in jumpers and work
ing blo,-3es, and SO in the other
trades, the men wearing proud
ly the uniform Of their craft.
Our industrial army is not
ashamed of it's. uniform. There
was a time when brass buttons
and floating plumes and rib
boned regalia were the only dec
grafton man would wear.
The man who marches. down
the street with a leather apron
and a hammer over his shoulder
there is the coming conqueror,
the soldier of the mightier army,
the knight of the future victory.
The cheap glory of tinsel and
gold braid may as we'll 60 to the
dust heap.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY
of St. LOUIS ss:-In Probate Court
Special Term. September End; 1902.
In the Matter of the Estate Of Bene-
%her rssnke Ser RdGea wFtngs purport
ing to be duly authenticated copies Of
the Last Will and Testament Of Bene-
dict Frenkel. late of Cincinnati, Ohio.
deceased, and the probate thereof in
Hamilton County. Ohio, have been de-
And Whereas. Abraham B. Frenkel
and Jonas B. Frenkel has filed there
with their petition, representing among
other things that said Benedict Fren-
KEEL lately died in said County Of Ham
estate. situated in said County Of ST..
Louis and that said petitioners are the
Executors named in the will Of said
deceased. and praying that the said in
strument may be admitted to probate.
and that letters testamentary be to
It is Ordered. That the proofs of said
instrument, and the said petition, be
heard before this Court at the Probate
Office in said County. on the 18th day
Of September, A. D. 1902. at 10 O'clock
ested may appear for or contest the
probate of said instrument;
And It is further ordered, That no.
tice of the time and place of said hear
ing be; given to, all persons interested.
by publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks prior
to said day of hearing, in the Labor
World, a weekly newspaper printed and
published at Duluth, In said County.
Dated at Duluth this End day Of Sep
TENDER. A. .. 1902.
BY the Court,
w. G. BONHAM,
Judge Of probate.
(Seal Probate Court. st. Louis Co..
Mimi
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-09-20
FULL PAY AND A HOLIDAY,

After working steadily for
twenty-five years for the B. F.
Goodrich company. Christopher
Metzler, foreman, took his first
vacation.
When he ended his vacation
and started for the shop he dis.
covered that his job had van
ished. He also learned that cor
porations are not, soulless, for he
was told that he had worked SO
we'll and faithfully, had done his
full duty SO patiently, that the
concern had retired him on
FULL PAY for. the rest of his
life, be it a year or forty years.
Not a pensioned poverty, which
is just as hard fol. an old man to
bear as young one, but FULL
PAY, and the firm wrote to
Chris EGO where yon please, and
it. you eyer get~stranded away
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STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY

STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY
of st. Louis. IS In Probate Court,
Special Term. Sept. 18th. 1902. :,
In the matter Of the estate of Charles
Johnson. Deceased.
On receiving and filing the petition of
Lizzie johnson of the County: Of Carl
ton, State of Minnesota. representing,
among other things, that Charles
johnson. late Of the County Of St.
Louis in the State Of Minnesota. on or
about A. D. 1890. at the County of St.
Louis died intestate. and being an in.
ha bitant Of this County at the time Of
estate within this County Of st. Louis,
and that the said petitioner is surviv-
ing widow of said deceased, and pray
ing that administration of said estate
be to her said Lizzie Johnson granted :
It is ordered. that said petition be
heard before said Court. on the 9Th
day Of October A. D. 1902. at ten o'clock
A. M, at the Probate office. in the
Court House in the City of Duluth. in
said County.
Ordered further. that notice thereof
be given to the heirs Of said deceased
and to all persons interested, by pub
fishing this order once In each week
for three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing, in the Labor World,
a weekly newspaper printed and pub
lished at Duluth in said County.
Dated at Duluth. Minnesota, the 18th
day of September A. .. 1902.
BY the Court. o>,.
(seal Probate Court.
Labor b. 1 Wor,d. d. Sept il. 20. u. 1902.
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and allowance. or be forever barred.
& 1t is further ordered That 1.-The ard
day Of March, 1903. at 10 o'clock A. NJ,
at a term of said Probate Court to be
held at the Probate Office in the Court
House in the City Of Duluth. in said
County, be and the same hereby, is APP
pointed as the time and place when and
where the said Probate Court will ex-
anime and adjust said claims and de-
mands. ~ -. {
And it is further ordered. That notice
OF such hearing be given>to all creditors
and persons interested in said estate by
forthwith publishing this order once
IN each week for three successive weeks
In the Labor World, q weekly news
paper printed and published at Du-
luth, in said County,
Dated at Duluth, Mimi. this 2nd day
Of September, A. d. 1902 =
BY the Court,
w. G.. BONHAM,
Judge Of Probate.
@s M;nn Probate Court, st. Louis Co..
Labor World Sept. $500,
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{E-
able to monopolize the anthra:
cite coal supply, sand the. ,coun:
try has no power" to, control
them! We can not believe that
the community will long suffer
such, conditions to continue.
Heretofore public opinion has
been able to control. But the
anthracite barons appear to be
impervious to the effect of pub.
lie opinion. There has been no
time since the strike was de.
clared that it could not have been
settled, had these highland
mighty men been: willing to sub
nit the questions in dispute to
impartial arbitration.
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SAFETY IN THE LAW.

There is a mighty good text
for a powerful sermon in a para
graph from a recent speech of
President Roosevelt. He was
talking about trusts, and said
"When a great corporation is
sued for violating the antitrust
law, it is not move against
property, it is move in favor
of property, because when you
can make it evident that all men,
big and small alike, have to obey
the law, you are putting the safe
guard around all men,"
The logic is Irresistible. The
thing that makes;property valu'
able is the law.
1t stands first. 1t is more than
location or environment. The ST.
lent authority that forces men to
respect the rights of other men
is the foundation of property.
On it skyscrapers are built. 1t is
the roadbed of railroads, the key.
stone of bridges 81.
There can be. no permanent
prosperity in lawbreaking. The
men who rear fortunes on acts
known to be illegal and unconsti-
tutional cannot ask or expect to
keep it up. Surely they are not
wise.
Think of the burden that a
trust, or corporation, or an in
dividual must carry when doing
business outside the law.
Attack must he expected at
any and all times. On the bench
there must be dishonest judges,
and when their terms expire
more immoral men must replace
them. Councils and officials must
be bribed or influenced, and a
constant warfare is waged
against that overwhelming pub.
lie sentiment which is always in
favor of the RIGHT and opposed
to the WRONG.
Making dishonesty a part of
business and by more dishonesty
postponing the day of reckoning
must fail some day.
A wise Providence has so fixed
things that a lie can never per-
manently take the place of the
truth, whether it helps the Stan
dard Oil company to declare an
extra 20 per cent dividend or
deals with the petty official who
steals fees and thinks he has
covered his tracks.
When all men are forced to
obey the law the theory of hui.
man equality will become a liv-
ing fact and opportunity will re-
turn to the people.