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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02
ORGANIZE. ~ ~

pns or the most important duties
In connection with campaign Is that
OF thorough and eific.ent. .orsanization.
Speakers may awaken enthusiasm,
assolon To principles may inspire de-
sife Tor success and wrongs. !. - long
Dofne W people. may incite disfrust
VI aao resentment against the party
IN power. but these things all 20 for
hauGht IN a campaign unless they find
expression In compact Organization
whica Is designed To bring OUT the en-
tire vote OF the party ON election day.
such work cannot be begun too
cary or be prosecuted with too much
Ngor. The expectation that every
man VIII come out and vote is often
Disappointing, and nothing is more
common than for party managers TO
md the vote falling on on election
day and be wholly unable to account
Tor the slump The effective remedy
against such condition 10 srganiza-
tion-an organization that, will i'm
press upon every Democrat the fact
that his vote Is necessary TO success.
- -~e "os ~ uO lHlb lS 10 mold pre-
cinct meetings from time to time. en-
courage the voters to attend them and
aiiot TO each some particular part In
the work OF the campaign. Votes. are
made among the thinking, discriminat.
ing class. not ON election day, but dur
Ing the earlier stages OF the campaign.
and II Is In heartto-heart talks. such
as would come from neighborhood
meetings. that Democrats could be
most sensibly impressed with the
necessity for each to bear some part
In the work OF the campaign.
The State Central Committee ex.
poets to supply speakers for ali. local..
lies and there will be a liberal dis
lriDution of literature bearing upon the
issues. but outside OF these and more
enective than these. will be the organ
zations which can be perfected I'm pre-
,incts or neighborhoods III active Dem
'crats will take hold OF the work. Let
he effort be made now in every pre-
'inct In this county. The party is
inited. the Republicans are on the de-
ensive. and organizations n--systematic.
earnest. erective--is only wanting to
Issure success.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02
A PARKER CONSTITUTION CLUB
Republican Disregard OF constitutIon
leads TO Formation Of q Not
able Club.

One OF the most important clubs Of
!, the campaign has been formed I'm New
YORK II is projected by men who are
; devoted to principles and who have
: determined TO do all they can to stay
. the aggressions OF the Republican par
. ~ upon the constitution. both AT homo
and abroad
III there is one thing more than an.
other which has caused thinking men
TO turn 10 the Democratic nominee for
the presidency IL is the disregard of
president Roosevelt and his advisers
for the restraints that the constitu-
lon imposes, II has been overridden
time and again by the administration
al washington. and there is a whole
some fear throughout the country tba,
the precedents set by Mr.. Roosevelt
Will lead to even worse conditions
should he be elected.
Out OF this fear has come the Parker
Constitution Club. an independent or.
sanization formed in New York ana
whose object is To provide the Demo.
cratic campaign mana gers with an.
thentic Information hearing upon the
disregard Of precedents and legal linn.
itations OF authority OF which Presi.
dent Roosevelt and the Republican
leaders have been guilty. A perma.
nent organization has been formed
with the following officers:
President--James c. Carter
Vice Wheeler H Peck.
ham. John r. Parsons Joseph La.
ROGUE. John G.. Carlisle.
Secretary-William C., Osborn
Treasurer-William z. Curtis
Executive Committee William n
Hornblower. Francis l.. stetson. John
Q. Milburn. Howard Taylor. James w.
Gerard. Jr.
The declaration OF principles ar
raigns the present administration for
disregard OF the constitution. refers to
he policy OF the chief executive. and
says:
This venerable and benefcent pof.
cy President Roosevelt has under
AIKEN TO reverse. and In it's place To
'et up a policy OF autocratic. force
fe has shown that a president who
las the Will TO usurp legislative func-
ions, TO exat the power OF the erecu-
I've above the constitution and TO com.
nit our nation to violations of inter.
ationai Justice. easily finds a way.
lis course. while flling the vacancy
iade by the death OF President Nc.
'iniey. can only be taken as an earn.
st OF what he willdo ~ the American
eople. by electing him president. shall
pprove his tendencies and. methods
Here Is the issue which every cftf-
IN must now decide. The. statesman
no until recently was chief Justice
the highest court OF New York In
'e leader Of those WHO stand for CON.
itutionai government OF this eoun-
y. strong andsendur.ny IN the union
liberty and law"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02

Among the visitors TO Esopus during
the week was George Foster Pc body.
treasurer OF the Democratic National
Committee. He said incidentally. that
the first campaign contribution he re-
ceived as treasurer was from an Epis-
copal clergyman over eighty years old.
The clergyman wrote that. While he
did not know whether he wo'll live
to vote lor Parker and Davis. he want
ed 10 send a dollar bill. all h could
AFFORD. with the hope that ths cam
paign fund would he made ur II the
dollars OF million voters. raths sr than
the larger gifts of rich men.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02

Among the salient features Of the
campaign. as II is seen today. is the
action Of the Parker Constitut on club
OF New FORK. organized under very
high auspices. many Of whose members
were supporters Of Mckinley. but are
now accentuating the demand .or
"Constitutionalism versus Imper l.
ism" This is but one OF many si.- :
of a rising tide Of popular enthusirecl
for a return 10 the historic prime .
and traditions which lie deeply imbed.
ded in the ..earts ol the American peo-
pie.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02
sef-oOvernment for riII,,,o.

/ In letter 10 Hon. John G. Milbur,
regarding the use OF the term self
government" in his response TO IN,
notincation speech. Judge Parke,
makes himself plain in respect 20 the
policy he would pursue toward the FIJI
ipinos IL elected president. Here Is
his letter:
"Esopus. n. Y. Aug. %. 1904.
My Dear Milburn-You are entirely
right In assuming that as I employed
the phrase self-government' II was
Intended to be identical with independ.
ence. political and territorial. After
noting the criticism referred IN INV
you am still unable 10 understand
how Il can be said that a people en-.
JOY self-goyernment while another na.
ton may In any degree whatever con.
troll their action. but TO take away all
possible opportunity for conjecture
you shall be made clear in the letter
OF acceptance that I am in hearty nc.
cord with that plank I'm the Democratic
platform which advocates treating the
f1lipinos precisely as we did the On.
bans; and also favor making the
promise to them now 10 take such &C.
ion as soon as II can be prudently
lone
Thanking you for your letter. and
With best wishes for you always. I am.
Very sincerely yours.
ALTON p. PARKER
John G. Milburn. Esq"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02

With our own vast continent to be
developed; with political and business
corruption gnawing at our national
life; with the gravest social and polit-
ical internal problems pressing for so
luton: with the foundations OF the con-
stitution undermined by lawless unions
on one side and lawless combines on
the other: with law and order and pros
perity threatened by labor wars: with
the yeast OF socialism and anarchy fer
menting in the public mind: with
100000 negroes TO be educat d and
fitted into some sort OF toleratle liv-
ing relations with their white neigh.
bors. yoI propose to divert the nations
thought and energy from the duties
that crowd upon il at home 10 4 career
OF rowdy adventure abroad.-Fron n Pull
itzer's letter 10 President Roosevelt
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02

Alva Green. editor OF the Otwell
star. The orly reruhlican paper in
Dubois cr'-f~ hrs -euuinced the Re.
publican party and will support the
Democratic tickets. He says that he
IS still a Republican. but President
Roosevelt, is too cratic to be intrusted
with power. and the best interests OF
tin country demand his defeat.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02

Judge Parker had eigh, years yet TO
serve on s17.oo0 year job. but he
resigned Senator Failbanks has only
two years TO serve on a $4,000 lob. but
he Is hanging o. Ike grim death. The
judge feels certain OF his election.
while the ssnasor feels equally certain
OF defeat Ir F"'rbanks is losing
heart'earl~ IN The game Winchester
Democrat
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-02
FEB. u. isss-E
LIVERY AND SALE STABLE.
FERD. VOLLMER,

always have the best turnouts, of any
variety for customers; particularly com
nercia travellers. Courteous and care
idl drivers to all parts OF Dubois and adj
io.ning counties. Horses boarded and
sold on cheap terms.
oct 10. lsgs.-l ly
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
STRONG HELP THE WEAK.
The Duty Which Trade UniOnists
Owe to Fellow LabQrers.

The Duty Which Trade Unionists
Owe to Fellow LabSrers.
The most effective work the trade
unions can do is in the direction of rails
ing the condition of those workers. Or
ganized or unorganized. whose condi-
tons are lowest The poverty of the
sweatshop workers and mill town hands
compels them to send their children TO
work when they ought to be in school
The employment of children, in turn.
displaces adult workers and sends them
to compete for new jobs. This swelling
Of the army of the unemployed and in
tensitication of wages in trades for
merly more prosperous threaten even
the best paid mechanics.
We have to remember that in these
days more of what are called skilled
trades are much easier to learn than
they We're in the days of our fathers
And even though the common laborer
or factory hand might find it difficult
to enter Il skilled trade, yet these labor
erS and operatives have sons with life
before them, and, If the conditions of
those industries i'll which their fathers
have been employed are growing hard
cT, even STe:tteF grows IuC StlUluluS 1Or
them to press into the more skilled and
paid trades.
So, even in simple self defense. the
printers and steelworkers and carpen-
ters and other skilled mechanics.
though they need not fear the direct
introduction of child competition into
their special trades, ought yet to dread
the indirect influence of child labor and
to use their great power to check or
abolish it.
So. too. since the shortening of the
labor day gives an opportunity for
more men TO work. and since the exist
ence of Il body Of unemployed men is
Il constant danger to such as are EN-
ployed, it behooves the unions to work
with special vigOr for the reduction of
hours in each and every trade.
And since the men of the skilled
trades have generally Il more solid or
ganization, since they have more
money and more leisure since they
have greater power and influence. it
devolves especially upon them to take
the lead in preventing child labor and
in reducing hours, not in their own
trades only. but particularly in trades
which are worse off.-Carpcnters' Jour
nal.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
Labor and Capital In Japan.

The relations of capital and labor
are very cordial, says Worlds Work.
They are like the relation of fathers
and sons. The wages are in general
low rs compared with those of the
United States and the European coun-
tries, but after the war there was a
remarkable general rise in wages. This
should not be taken as the result of
strikes. 1t is the outcome of mutual
good will between employers and
workmen Although there are local
trade unions-without national organi-
Zations-these are in close harmony
with the capitalists, for the capitalists
themselves help the unions to grow.
Among others. the late Il. SalSuma,
formerly the head of a large printing
Office in Tokyo, has done much to fos-
ter the unions.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
LABOR NOTES.

The garment workers label is used
in more countries than the label of any
Othor craft. In addition to the one
in America. the English tailors have
adopted one. and a union label has
been Introduced by the Vienna (Aus
tria) Tailors' union TO be used for union
made clothing. This is the first at
tempt to introduce Il union label i'll
Austria.
The Boston Globe says that the label
committee of Cigarmakers' union 81
decided to distribute 10000 blue label
souvenirs during the G. \. Il. encamp-
ment week in that city. The souvenirs
will be in the form of Il red. white and
blue badge.
Several postal clerks unions have
been chartered by the A. L. of L.. and
now ii is proposed to form a national
union.
The latest report of the British Anal
gamated Society of Painters shows an
aggregate expenditure Of $11,0OOOOO
and only one-eighth of this amount for
strikes.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
ORGANIZED LABOR.
The wOrkingman Can Walk; He
Will No Longer Crawl.

The workfnxman Can walk; EIe
Will No Longer Crawl.
There will be recessions and pro
gressions of the trade union move
ment, like the ebb and flow of the tide.
writes John Mitchell in his book on
Organized Labor The movement
will be helped on in days of prosper
ity and retarded, or apparently re-
tarded, in the days of adversely. al
though the moral Christening and the
hard lessons learned in the period OF
adversely constitute, perhaps. the
greater and truer and surer progress
of the two. There can be no doubt.
however. that the movement is onward
and upward. The workingman who
once crawled upon his knees is now
upon his feet. and, though he may suf-
fer buffets in the future or may be
temporarily cast down, he has at lcsst
learned to walk and will no longer
crawl. 1t takes generations to i'm
plant dignity in the human breast. but
once implanted it is ineradicable.
The movement called the trade union
movement is not thing by itself. with
its own beginning and its own end. but
a step in long development. which
began many thousands of years ago
and which will not have ended many
thousands OF years hence. 1t is 4 single
act in !, drama as long as the history
of humanity itself-a single act in the
uplifting of the human race. We are
told that man rose from lower scale
of eXistence-that at a certain time he
was tapped upon the forehead and it
was said. Let there be light" There
was Il gradual rise of man from the
savage to the barbarian. from the bar
barian to the semiciviized. from the
semiciviliZed to the civilized man. Even
this civilized man is himself merely
link in a gradual evolution. The evolu-
tionary and educa tiohal forces which
have been ut work for thousands of
years have not spent themselves, but
will continue. so that the least civilized
man of Il future age may be higher in
the scale than the nOblest. purest and
best man that lives today. There may
come Il time when the generations for.
whom we are struggling will look up
on us rs barbarianS, but little removed
from the cave dweller or the prehistoric
savageS who ranged the dense forests.
There may come time when labor
will no longer be degrading. when
the last vcstige of slavery Of any sort
will have disappeared. when work will
be pleasure and an honor and an am
bition. When that time comes. when
men shall have advanced from and
evolved cut of the present degrading
conditions. the genera tons to come will
look back with gratitude and approval
upon the institution of trade union
ISM which has contributed and will
have contributed so much to the ulti-
mate goal of society, the ascent Of mar.
'"This." said the great humane philos-
ophcr. Thomas Carlyle-''tllis that they
call the orga IMITATION of labor is the uni
versal vital problem of the world'
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
A Campaign Of Education.

The Chicago Federation Of Labor Is
to inaugurate a campaign to educate
the public on the aims and objects OF
organized labor At the next meeting
Of the federation plan along this line
will be offered. 1t is proposed to select
4 number of the best orators to. appear
before the students Of the different uni
versities. women's clubs and all other
organizations that gain their knowl-
edge of the labor movement from the
newspapers or magazines and explain
the hopes and aspirations OF organized
labor. The leaders i'll the movement
state that the same efforts are being
made now by the opponents of labor to
misrepresent trade unions that We're
followed before the big lockout in the
building trades in 1900.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
THE EIGHT HOUR DAY.
Progress Made In Various Sections
Toward Lessening Hours of Toll.

A recent bulletin of the Massachu-
sets bureau of statistics of labor gives
in Il discussion of the eight hour day Z
digest of the enactments of the various
states, a summary of legal decisions
upon these and related statutes, and an
account of the experience of some Mas
sachusetts cities and towns that have
accepted the eight hour day on public
works. There are found twenty seven
states and territories. besides the Unit
ed States, having an eight hour day.
Six states prescribe eight hours as
the limit of Il days work unless speci-
fed to the contrary-YZ, Connecticut.
Illinois. Indiana. Missouri New York
and Pennsylvania. ! Neyada and the
United States prescribe an eight hour
day upon irrigation works, and New
prescribes this limit for manufacturing
and mechanical establishment unless
otherwise agreed upon: Missouri New
Mexico and Tennessee for laborers on
public works; Arizona. Colorado. Mis-
souri,, Montana, Nevada, Utah and
Wyoming in mines and smelling estab-
lishments; California, Colorado, Dis
trict of Columbia, Hawaii. Idaho. Kan
sas, Maryland baltimore, Minnesota
Montana, Nevada. Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Porto Rico, Utah, Washington, West
Virginia and Wyoming as maximum
day on public works; the United States
upon government wOrk.-Boston Her
aid
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29

Peaceful means of settling labor
differences are gaining over the more
warlikc strike" said President Com
pers in Chicago the other day.
This is shown by the financial re-
ports of the unions" he said. These
statements indicate Il great falling off
in the amount of money paid for strike
benefits and corresponding increase
in the sum paid for sick and death
claims. Employer and employee are
both learning to understand each other
better, to appreciate each others
strength and to realize that warfare
does not pay. Conference and concil.
iation are taking the place of strikes"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
ROSS p. CURTICE CO,
Lincoln. Ne'o.

There are pianos and pianos.
We sell pianos. And the pianos
we sell are always just What
we say they are. We nave
builded success on the founca-
ton of square dealing.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
LABOR IN ENGLAND.

Statistics Compiled by the London
Board of Trade.
Statistics compiled by the London
board of trade for 1903 show a contin-
uance of the wage reductions of the
years Immediately preceding.
The fall in wages in 1901 and 1902
was mainly confined to the coal min
ing. iron and steel and shipbuilding
trades. In 1908 wages continued to
fall IT. these industries, and the down
ward tendency spread to other trades,
such as the engineering, glass and
clothing trades. In all 1872 900 employ
ees were affected by changes in wages
reported during 1908 as. compared with
$4,000 in 1902 and $4,000 in 1901.
The estimated weekly decrease in
wages in 1908 was 939,4O only, about
1892 900, as compared with i72,7 100 in
1902 and Ell, 800 in 1901
There were fewer strikes in 1903 and
not so many disputes threatening
strikes In the year there We're 800
disputes. affecting 1883 employees
and losing 2,316,792 working days.
Questions Of remuneration were the
cause, of 214 disputes. Refusals to
work with nonunionists and other ques-
tons affecting trade unions were re-
sponsible for %. directly involving IT,
COZ persons, while "a disputes, involv-
ing 13,471 work people, arose out OF
working arrangements.
Eightythree disputes. affecting 49,
241 persons. terminated in favor of the
men; 1856. involving $500 persons, in
favor of the employers, while 90. af-
fecting 1880 persons, were compro-
missed.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
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UNHEALTHY TRADES.
Sanitary Workrooms Good Invest-
ment For EuapIoyers.


ment For Employers.
For centuries the tailor has been the
subject of jesting pity because his
trade was supposed to make him phys
ically weak, while the stonecuttcr has
been usually represented as the image
of strength. So sailors and miners are
supposed to follow dangerous trades, as
indeed they do if the chances of exter
nal injury alone be considered, while
bookkeepers and statesmen are sup
posed to be in little danger from their
occupations.
Disease, however, kills scores where
accidents kill one, and of all diseases
consumption kills the most adults, and
with regard to deaths from conSump-
ton life insurance expert has recent
ly prepared chart from Omciaf NOR
tality returns which upsets many pop
ular notions as to the relative health
fulness or unhealthfulness Of various
trades. 1t covers thirty leading trades
and shows the percentages of deaths
from consumption to deaths from all
causes of workers in each.
In the middle stand the painters and
grocers. with percentages Of 23.4 and
24.2. From grocers the figures rise
through liquor dealers, molders, long
shoremen. potters, cigarmakers. silk
workers. hatters. statesmen. plumbers,
bookkeepers. brassworkers, glasswork-
ers. printers and stonewOrkers, of
whom Al per cent die of consump-
ton.
From painters the figures go down
through brewers, bakers, policemen.
weavers, iron and steel workers, ma
sons. butchers. carpenters. tailors.
blacksmiths. merchants, sailors. brake
men and miners, of whom only GA per
cent die Of consumption.
1t is certainly something Of sur
prise to learn that the most widely ia
tai of maladies is less likely to kill the
provcrbially weak tailor than the pro-
verbally strong butcher and that sail
Ors. who must endure the most sudden
and violent changes of temperature,
are less subject to consumption than
printers. who can hardly work at all
except in a reasonably even tempera-
ture.
In this connection it Is interesting to
iioee Ihitl idiSc cHpioJciS VI ioUoi al Z
being convinced with increasing ease
and rapidity that provision Of clean,
well ventilated and properly heated
and lighted shops is an Investment that
pays good dividends by increasing the
contentment and preserving the health
of their employees and that in this
manner the mortality of even the I'M
healthiest trades may be sensibly di-
minished. Record Herald.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29

The London Society of Compostors,
with 1920 members. has reserve
fund of 1891 900. Nearly $4,000 was
paid to the unemployed last year The
society maintains $50 supernatural ted
members. who received for the year
$4,000 from the general treasury The
funeral benefits for the twelve months
totaled $11,T40
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
PIANO
BARGAINS

We have in stock two frs
class piaucs that have been
rented. These pianos are Just
as good as new in every respect
elegant finish. sweet toned.
uninjured by the little use they
have had, and good enough for
any. home. They are instrr-
ments to be proud of-but they
have been rented. The regular
price OF these pianos is S215.
They are worth that price But
wen sell them for :
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1904-04-29
Night work In Bake shops.

The ACCESSIBILITY of inaugurating n
general movement for the purpose Of
abolishing night work in all tie bake
shops throughout the country is being
discussed by the members of the Bak
cry and Confectionery Workers In
ternational Union Of America.