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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-07-08
c. A. WILEY,
Father OF the Injured Boy.

yerv Remarkable Cure of Diarrhoea.
s.About six years ago for the first time
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Ter. of Morgan, Texas. Il got temporary
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and for six long years have suffered
more misery and agony than can tell.
1t was worse than death. My husband
spent hundreds of dollars for physicians
prescriptions and treatment, without
avail. Finally we moved to Bosque
county, our present home, and one day
/ happened 10 see an advertisement OF
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoca Remedy with a testimonial Of n
man wIoh ad been cured by it. The case
was so similar to my own that ! conclud-
ed to try the remedy. The result was
!, wonderful. could hardly realize that
was wen again, or believe it could be
SO after having suffered 50 long, but that
one bottle of medicine, costing but
few cents, cured me-" For sale by Geo
G. Stone.
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This line.
r. a. ROBINSON & SON.
s22 Street.
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q. q. Stone WIN RnY e BaelE.

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-BuRTHL or fFlFANI.

Rev s X Arbuthnot conducted the
funeral services over the remains Of
the infant baby Of MIR. and Mrs. J: +.
Steele at the residence on Hornor ave-
nue. wednesday morning ct 10 o'clock.
Inter1nent was made in the I. o. o. F.
cemetery The Palace Furniture COM
pany had charge Of the remains.
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Mr. and Mrs. CHARLES b. Alexander
will leave Friday for Charles Town.
Ernest Duncan viii leaye Thursday for
Atlantic City, where he win sojourn for
two weeks.
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DR.. w. NJ. Late. Of bridgeport, spent
a few hours here this morning looking
after business matters.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
The Struggle Between Labor and CaptaI--The Trades
Unions a Member o tn e Conference Committee

unions For many years, stretching back
through the centuries, these agencies have
been at work combating the greed and
rapacity Of organized capital, all the time
struggling for a betterment of the wage
workers condition. The results attained
have been great, immensely so when COM
pared with the conditions that prevailed
at the beginning, and which even now pre-
vail in those unhappy regions where labor
has no voice in its disposition. And these
results have been attained only by an i'm
mense expenditure of effort and money, by
personal endeavor and by such sacrifice as
only those who have gone through with the
struggle, for 1t has been one long continued
struggle, can have any conception OF.
In all essential respects the trades union
is partnership. a corporation in which
its members are the shareholders, and its
stock Is Its position in regard to its re-
spective trade. Let us suppose that some
one of the Omaha business men who has
commenced with little and built up his
business to point of profitable prosperity
should be approached by a man with the
statement: II admire your line of busi-
ness, sir, and have decided to enter into
partnership with you. 1 congratulate you
on the success you have made of it, and
intend in the future to share that success
with you. But do not intend to put into
1t any capital, nor will 1 partake to any
degree in its expenses; I merely intend to
draw my share of its profits" It will not
require much thinking to determine the
answer to such proposition. But that is
merely what the nonunion man says to the
union man. He says: 'I am willing to
enjoy all the advantages that accrue from
the existence of a union, but am opposed
to paying any of the cost of maintaining
that union"
1t may be objected by some that there
are certain rules and regulations laid down
by the union that the nonunion man can
not with due regard to his independence
of manhood subscribe to. 1 assert here
and will cheerfuly undertake to maintain
that there are not now and cannot, in the
very nature of things. be any such rules
No union in any way undertakes to control
the conscience of its members nor to in
any way interfere with their social re-
lgious or political freedom. In joining a
union man is asked merely to subscribe
his willingness to be bound by certain regu-
lations referring solely to the conditions Of
his employment, the result of the expert
ence and wisdom of years concerning his
craft, and not to sell his labor for less
than certain wage. No union ever fixed
% AloNNiiiuih Wage sCdle' minimum sum
is all that is insisted. upon. No union ever
made rule or regulation for the conduct
of its members that operated to prevent
any of them from rising in the world The
fact that union men have risen to high
positions, and may today be found occupy
ing high positions of trust and response
bility, both in public and private capacity,
in Omaha and elsewhere, is a sufficient
answer to this. No man is degraded in any
sense by submitting himself to conditions
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

that the majority Of men engaged in his
calling have found tolerable
Another aspect of the nonunion man is
worthy of some attention. He is the read
lest weapon with which the employer can
fight the empoye 1 use the word advis-
edly. Fight is the correct term. All the
soft words in the dictionary will not change
this aspect of the situation. Experience has
proven that a great many men do not pre-
tend to affiliate with the union of their
craft for the reason that they are by pro-
fession strikebreakers; that is to say, in
stead of steady and honorable employment,
they prefer to exc out uncertain exist
ence during times Of peace in order to be
able to enjoy the premium that is always
offered by the employer at such times as a
strike has been precipitated. Such condi-
ton prevails in Omaha today. Employers
who have locked out men they have known
and learned to trust are paying to
strangers a premium above the wages
asked by the union men, and doing this in
an endeavor to break down the unions and
force their old employees to return to work
on such terms as the employer sees fit to
grant. 1 think in this paragraph will be
found the real reason for the sudden solicit
tude of the Omaha Business Mems asso-
citation for the nonJnion man. They are
fully aware that the strikebreaker is a bird
of passage. and that when the premium he
is offered stops his services, stop. Without
him, they are weaponless in event of a
lockout such as exists in Omaha today.
Before leave this phase Of the topic, 1
wish to advert to one more OF the alleged
causes of complaint against the labor
unions on part of the business men. They
have most vociferously insisted that the
labor union deprives the employer of his
right to hire or discharge HIS men at his
option. I have explained already tho ex-
tent to which the union interferes. I want
now to quote from the report of the great
Anthracite Coal Strike commission, which
the Omaha Business Mems association has
adopted as it's bill of rights and fundamental
law combined. On page 4SS Of that report,
beginning with the last paragraph on the
page, and continuing on page 4S9, find this
language, no part Of which has been as yet
published by the Omaha Business Mems
association in its reference to the con-
clusions of the committee. 1t most ad-
mirably fits the present case:
In the days when the employer had but
few employees, personal acquaintance and
direct contact of employer and employe re-
suited IN mutual knowledge Of the sur
rounding conditions and the desires OF each.
The development of the employers into
large corporations has rendered such per-
sonal contact between the responsible en-
ployer and the individual employe no longer
possible In the old sense. The tendency
toward peace and good fellowship which
grows out of personal acquaintance or di-
rect contact should not, however, be lost
through this evolution TO greater combina-
tons. There seems to be no medium
through which to preserve It so natural
and efficient as that of an organization of
employees governed by rules which repre-
sent the Will of properly constituted ma
1ority OF its members and off1cered by MEM
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

gees fit to admit him, In order to get work.
He must place himself at the disposal of
the walking delegate. II he is a machinist
he must quit work II ordered to do SO be-
cause machinists in New York or San
Francisco have some real or fancied griev-
ance against their employer. II he is a
mason or bricklayer he must lay of in
definitely because the hodcarriers, the car
penters, the teamsters, etc, cannot obtain
all OF the concessions they may see fit to
demand from their employers.
1t is a question whether the general labor
situation is improved by union domination.
There is an element of supply and demand
that cannot be ignored. Where some may
gain others must suffer. There is no limit
to the birth rate, yet there is a limit placed
upon the number who may annually enter
the ranks of skilled labor. Every branch Of
industry is becoming unionized. There is a
strict limit placed upon the number of ap-
prentices who would learn a given trade or
vocation. Only union men may work. There
is not room for all. The others may "go
hang"
It is no mans fault that he has been born
into this world. 1t is not always his fault
that he is unable to rise above the most
common labor, so low quality of labor, so
numerous and rapidly becoming more so
that there is little hope or danger that
unionism can either increase the remunera-
ton or decrease the output.
The union has its rights; the employer has
his rights and the workman who affiliates
with no union has equally his rights. The
union of worSingmen, working for a COM
mon interest is unquestionably Of benefit
II administered with due regard to the
rights OF others, but any organization of
men has its limitations beyond which 1t
cannot go with safety.
It is sincerely to be hoped that the con-
servative element in both labor unions and
employers associations may predomlnate.
Each is dependent upon the other. Each
should be amenable to reason, and, above
all. each should view the situation from the
other fellows standpoint, asking nothing
which he would not be willing TO grant II
he were on the other side.
A BUSINESS MAN.
published by request OF and indorsed by
Business Mems association).
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

not small. The knights of Midas ball
was not. IT should be said. a cheap affair.
buzz OF talk hoated over the hall. The
5and was silent while its leader peered
turned suddenly and the trumpets broke
torth into the notes of a dignifed march.
where the knights in their robes. preceded
by the grand senechal bearing his stan OF
ofice, were emerging slowly from the outer
door into the aisle. When the stage was
lines, facing inward on the steps, making
path through which the governors, who
were distinguished by scarlet robes. came
AN hail the king" A crowd of knights
In evening dress, who were honorary mem
bers Of the organization and had no parts
In costume, sent up the shout.
The king had seated himself, and expec-
fancy again possessed the hall The band
struck up ANOTHER air, and line of girls
In hlmy, trailing gowns, was filing in
All Hail the Queen.
The queen, following her ladies in waiting.
had appeared at the door. There was a
OF applause as those who were In the
secret Identified the queen, and those who
were not learned Il as Evelyns name
was OF absurdity in the scene was dis
PEELED by Evelyn's loveliness and dignity
Her white gown intensified her fairness.
and her long court train added an Illusion
q serene air that was habitual The charm
that set her apart from other girls was
IN no wise lost In the mock splendor OF this
The grand chamberlain now stepped for
ward and read the proclamation OF the
Knights OF Midas, announcing that the
king had reached their city, and urging
upon all subjects the duty OF showing strict
obedience. He read a formula to which
Evelyn and Wheaton made responses A
page stood beside the queen holding a
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

authority to administer the rules and af-
fairs of the union and its members is
vested.
After discussing the tendency of men en-
gagged in a certain line of work or branch
of industry to form themselves into unions.
and plainly setting forth the unwisdom Of
the employer who undertakes to ignore or
deny this right, or to nullify the effect of
Its exercise by undertaking to ignore the
union after 1t is formed, the report goes on
concluding paragraph of page 4S9):
Trades unionism is rapidly becoming a
matter of business, and that employer who
Ialls TO give the same careful attention to
the question of his relation to his labor or
to his employees which he gives TO other
factors which enter into the conduct of his
business, makes a mistake, which sooner
or later he will be Obliged to correct In
this, as in other things, Il is much better
to start right than to make mistakes in
starting which necesSitate returning to cor
rect them. Experience shows that the more
full the recognition given to a trades union
the more businesslike and responsible It
becomes. Through dealing with business
men in business matters its most intelli-
gent, conservative and responsible members
and direction of its affairs. If the energy
OF the employer is directed to DISCOURAGE
ment and repression of the union, he need
not be surprised IL the more radically in
clined members are the ones most fire.
quently heard.
feel assured that the business men who
have with such Jealous persistency pointed
out other features of this report, insisting
on its inerrancy, will not undertake to dis
pute the correctness of the excerpts make
from the same inspired authority. Now let
1t be understood, once and for all, that
Just as this government could not endure,
half free and half slave" so no condition
of employment can endure, half union and
half nonunion. AS to the nonunion man,
a In hat a. -
elects; in a great many instances he must,
for no self-respecting union man will take
the application for reinstatement of the
renegade before his union, much less vote
for It II it should be presented. ''He who
is not for me is against me-" is just as
true today as 1t ever was, and It applies
exactly and with all its force to the posi-
ton OF the union toward the nonunion
man.
Let me now refer to the other points
made by the business men in their state
ment-the sympathy strike and the boy
cott Neither OF these is a cardinal prin-
cipal of trades unionism. This may seem
strange to some people, but IL is true. They
are merely weapons with which the trades
union fights. Even the most biased of en-
ployers will admit that they are vastly
TO be preferred to the weapons used in the
earlier days of the combat between or
ganized labor and organized capital. Such
stories as Put Yourself in His Place" or
'Haworth's" could not be written today.
Not that the antagonism between employer
and employe has lessened since the time
those stories were told, but because of the
advance in methods. Trades unions are not
particularly proud of either and will quite
willingly abandon one or both when better
means can be devised for offense and de-
fense. 1t may be that the employers have
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
cARTooNIST is VERY ANGRY
PbiIadeIphia Artist Threatens Cow
ernOr PennypacIer with
Suit for Libel.

PHILADELPHIA, May ls.-Charles Nelan
cartoonist, has addressed a long letter to
Governor Pennypacker. in which he COM
plains Of the use Of the word "outcast" In
the governors letter on the libel bill, as
applied to the maker Of one Of Mr.. Nelan's
drawings. Mr.. Nelan demands a prompt
apology falling 10 receive which he gives
notice he will bring suit against the gov
ernor for libel. He says in the letter:
II beg TO say TO you, sir. that when you
applied this epithet to me you uttered an
unquaiified falsehood. / am not an out
cast and 1 am not a 'vagabond.' IL you
will not retract, but will agree not to plead
the privileges Of your position as a defense
TO the wrong you have done me, will in
stitute proceedings against you within fve
days and will hurry the case 10 trial with
the utmost expedition, so the jury in the
courts and the larger jury Of the people
may know whether / am the 'outcast you
have stigmatized me OF whether you are
a slanderer and nbeler Of the honor of Q
citizen"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

sary 10 entertain the masses; and this
was done by providing what the commit
tee on publicity and promotion proclaimed
The spectacle was not tawdry nor ugly,
lt did not lack touches of real beauty
Inc gaily decked floats, borne over the
street car tracks by trolleys, were like
IN the long ago, impelled by mysterious
1orces. From many floats fireworks sum
moned the heavens to behold the splendor
sion was led by the knights Of Midas
arrayed In yellow robes and wearing he'll
NETS which shone with all the effuIgence
OF bright TIN There were a series of
transportation and manufacturing were
embodied and deified in the persons OF
sundry young women posed in appropriate
attitudes and lifted high on uncertain
pedestals for the admiration of the multi
tude. On other cars men followed siren
pously their eallings; coopers hammered
with an infant forge at his command. made
the sparks ny from his anvil as his float
rumbled by. An enormous steer was held
In check by ropes and surrounded by muir
derous giants from the abattoirs. Gam
brinus smiled down from a proud height
of kegs on men that bottled beer below
Many brass bands. including famous
cowboy band from Lone Prairie and an
Indian boy band from a Wyoming reser-
walton, played the newest and most dash
ing marches OF the day. Thus were the
thrift. the enterprise, the audacity and the
generosity Of the people OF Clarkson ex-
emplihed.
such was the first nights entertainment.
The crowd which was brought TO town 70
spend its money certainly was not de-
frauded. The second night IL was treated
TO band concerts. a horse show and other
entertainments, while the Knights OF Midas
closed the door OF their wooden temple
upon all but their chosen guests These
were, Of course, expected to pay a certain
sum for their tickets and the sum was
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

The Bees original request for a more
comprehensive statement of its position
would be complied with for q future issue:
In the present controversy between en-
ployers and union labor there is a factor
which, while bone of contention between
the two opposing parties, is little under
stood. I refer to the nonunion artisans,
mechanics and laboring men.
The mechanic or laborer may prefer to
be unidentified with any secret, oath-bound
organization for many reasons, and It is
his right to remain so unidentified IL he SO
prefers. There are advantages and dis
advantages connected with such member
ship, all OF which must be carefully
weighed and decided by each individual for
and by himself alone.
In the ranks of nonunion labor correctly
belong the thousands who are united with
various organizations by reason of coercion.
AS the unions become strong they become
intolerant and arbitrary. This is by no
means peculiar to labor organizations. 1t
is the same with all, whether religious or
social. When weak, they proselyte or re-
cruit by plausible argument. When strong,
they increase their ranks by force, not al
ways by force of arms but force Of cir
The labor organizations are today indig-
nant at the presumption of employers and
business men in banding together for self
protection. They have never before been
opposed except by individuals, and they
cannot conceive of any other reason for an
employers association than war Of ex-
termination of the unions.
The basic principle of the Business Mems
association and the star of hope for the
artisan, mechanic or laborer who prefers
for whatever reason to handle his own
affairs is the unalienable right of the
employed to labor for whom he pleases.
when he pleases and on what terms he
pleases." Reversing this, the same right
must be conceded to the employer in the
selection or continuance OF his workmen.
The unions having become so strong
numerically and so intolerant of opposition
other workingmen are forced to enter the
ranks by fear of bodily injury, social
ostracism, or by the enforced demand that
employers buy none but union labor. The
mechanic must Join the union, II the union
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

crown, which glittered with false brilliants
upon a richly embroidered pillow, and when
the king knelt before her she placed II upon
his head. At this there was more cheering
and handclapping.
On the point whether the criticisms are
well taken the author and some of his
readers may disagree. but they will all en-
dorse the final verdict, which he puts into
the mouth OF the heroines father and
clinches with the approval Of his hero,
We've got as good a town as there is
anywhere west of Chicago"
The publishers. the Bobbs-Merrill COM
pany. Indianapolis say that advance orders
for Mr.. Nicholsons novel had already ex-
hausted three large editions before the an
nounced publication day, and a lot more
will undoubtedly have to be printed to
satisfy the demand right here in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

studying my very acquilins nose as in
tently as ever Darwin studied a new toad.
He was manifestly wrestling with a prob
lem.
As soon as my eyes opened he broke out F;
Uncle VIII, did you ever have an ac-
cident on your nose?"
AS is my custom I replied to him in the
stately phrase OF story-book heroes: No,
Robin; realize that my nose is not all that
one could wish as an ornament But I was
born that way, and It has always been a
good nose to me. Hence, I am satisfied
with IT,"
We'll" he sighed, rather hopelSssly,
though trying to put the best face on a
very bad matter. Il suppose It is good
enough to smell with"
Then laughed.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
HOWARD AS PEACEMAKER
Prominent General IL Riding Through
Kentucky with View of
Ending Feuds.

MIDDLEsBORO. Ky, May 1s.-General
o. o. Howard. founder OF the Lincoln
Memorial school at Cumberland Gap. and
other institutions, is riding alone through
the mountains Of eastern Kentucky TO in
vestigate conditions. with a view TO ending
feuds.
General Howard, who goes on horseback
will ride through Brethitt, Letcher and
Harlan counties, ending his trip at Grant
Lee hall, Cumberland Gap.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

Acceptance OF the conditions prescribed
by the Business Mems association was
Immediately signihed and the time ex-
tended another day, but yesterday after
noon notification was given The Bee that
the promised article could not be furnished
at the present time. The press committee
has, however, given out the following I'M
signed communication, covering one OF the
points at issue, with the assurance that
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17
Her FFOEen Face.

gazed on her face In my sad despair;
Twas a cruel and bitter blow.
My companion watched me sitting there,
But tried no emotion TO show
Again / lifted my downcast eyes
From that cold, unfeeling face;
For ] knew that the queen had lost me
the prize
When counted on drawing an ace.
-. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-17

Lawyers LAttle Girl-We've got a new
baby at our house. Papa bought It from
DIR. Blank.
Pastors Little Girl-When we get a new
baby we'n have to buy It at the depart
ment store. because they give a discount TO
ministers there.