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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS

Since the elections are all over there
Is little doing in political circles ex-
cept rush for the spoils of office.
Noble Sampson is having his annual
opposition for reelection as sealer OF
weights and measures. It is reported
that several Republican members of
the city council are after his scalp
this time. AS the election will not
take place until March 14th, there Is
plenty Of time to watch developments.
City Clerk Cheadle will be reelected
this year without opposition.
The Republicans have not tipped it
off as to who will be the next presi-
dent of the council. It is said that
Alderman Wilson is quite favorite
for the position, although Alderman
Haven wouldn't be bad for another
year.
Alderman Sang's term expires as a
member Of the city council on March
LIST. Two weeks later he will be ap-
pointed as a member Of the Board of
uOAC SFOIhS. IL IL IuI1OIeu dUOut
the city hall that Morris Thomas is
to be the third member Of the board.
There are 100 applicants for the po-
sitions Of running the ferry car across
the bridge, and the Board Of Public
Works is receiving new APPLICATIONS ev-
cry day.
What is the matter with Mayor Gull
lum? Is he not one Of the best mayors
this city has ever had? Is not the
city having one Of the best business
administrations In its history? Say,
Mr.. Business Man. don't you really
think that this is just what you have
been wanting for some time?
There is a. rumor In Republican cir
cles that both aldermen in the Seventh
ward are desirable timber for the Re-
publican nomination for mayor next
year. Well. both cannot have it, and
If DR.. Cullum keeps up his present re-
cord no Republican can hold down the
mayors chair for at least three years.
Sam Kelley will in all probability
be confirmed by the new council for
building inspector in two weeks
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
CHARITY CANNOT CURE PAUPER.
ISM,

It is estimated that there are 10000
600 persons or one in every eight of
our entire population that is a pauper
or on the verge Of pauperism.
In our large cities many thousand are
shelterless, thinly clad and starving.
On the other hand we learn Of a surp-
lus fruit crop and a surplus cotton crop,
20 large that the producers arranged
to reduce the producing acreage and
by this method Of curtailing out put
maintain the market price. It is sad
commentary that while there is a
surplus of the necessities of life there
10 also a surplus Uf poverty and paup-
or1sm.
q, Governments, statesmen, economists
ana philanthropists have probed for a
remedy for this situation, but while
these destitute and starving millions,
whose only means Of supplying sub
S1stence is their labor, cannot find en-
ployment for that labor, there will be
4 surplus of products and paupers.
These situations are bound to recur
while men are forced into involuntary
idleness and not provided for during
periods when they are unable to care
for themselves because Of causes or
conditions beyond their. control.
.j, It is fundamently and radically wrong
that one element or class Of society
should be so dependent upon another
that practically the grant, denial or
control Of the sacred rights, opportun-
tiles and necessities Of the one is dict
$ated by the selfish interests Of the
other. Under existing state Of affairs
any serious conflict between business,
moneyed or powerful individual in
forests map reduce thousands of in
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
BETTER HOURS FOR SCHOOL
ELECTIONS.

The Building Trades council and the
Trades Assembly are petitioning the
State Legislature to amend the school
election law SO that the polls will re-
main open between a. IN. and D.
m, during school elections. This is a
move in the right direction and should
be encouraged by every man who be-
lieves in fair play.
If it is a good thing to have the polls
in general election open FOR 13 hours
in order that every person may have
the right to vote, it ought to be a good
thing in school elections. There is
positively no two sides to this argu-
.nent.
There is all the more reason for
lengthening the hours because Of the
fact that the elections are held on
Saturday, the busiest day in the week
for both Workingmen and merchants,
and during hours when it is most in
convenient for them to leave their
work or business.
At the last election an issue of school
bonds was authorized, and the vote was
so small that the daily papers were
ashamed to make mention of it.
The reason for the small vote is not
because of Indifference on the part of
the people, but because they are given
little opportunity to vote.
During the past few years several Is
sues have come up in which the work.
ingmen were interested, but they did
not have an opportunity to vote with
cut losing time, and the elections were
lost by default.
A number of years ago a. labor re-
preventative was elected on the Board
Of Education against the most power
full opposition, but this was during a
period of industrial depression when
most Of the workingmen were out of
work, and when they had plenty of
chance to vote.
1t is hoped that the members of the
Legislature will appreciate the true
condition of affairs, and that they will
lose no time in passing the amendment
requested by the laboring men of pu-
luth. Nothing but good can come out
Of an election where a full expression
Of the will of the people is had. For
this reason then the amendment is en-
titled to the support Of every citizen
Of Duluth.
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tom tom WAT Wal SONS
magazine

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First number Of Tom Watson's Maya
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Order for Hearing Proof Of VIII.

srArD OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
st. Louis, SO: In Probate Court, Sps-
In the Matter Of the Estate Of Jere-
miah Triggs, Deceased:
Whereas, an instrument in writing,
purporting to be the Last Will and
Testament of jeremiah H. Triggs, de-
ceased, late Of said County, has been
delivered to this Court;
filed thereTith petition, representing,
on the 9Th day Of january. 1865 ' te:-
tate, and that said petitioner is the
Dxecutrix named in said Last Will and
Testament, and praying that the said
bate. and that letters testamentary be
issued thereon to Martha A. TrigGS:
It 10 ordered, that the proofs of
said instrument, and said petition, be
heard before this Court, at the Probate
ONCE in the City of Duluth. in said
March. A. b. 1906. at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, when all persons interest
ed may appear for or contest the pro-
bate Of said instrument;
And 1t is further ordered, that notice
Of the time and place Of said hearing
be given to all persons interested, By
for three successive weeks prior to said
day Of hearing. in the Labor World, .
weekly newspaper printed and publish.
Cd at Duluth, In said County.
Dated at Duluth, Mimi, this 18th day
OF February. A. D. 1906.
By th !. Court e dt1DDd,DeorF.
(esal Probate Court. 81. Louis ca.
E nl0O.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

4 good citizen even though his chance
to secure an education was very slim.
She remembered how he stood by her
bedside, in illness, or worked his hands
sore to pay the doctors bill, doing all
with spirit that made him doubly
dear.
In the same issue Of Success Maya
zine, DR.. Orison SWEET Marden, the
editor, devotes his editorial to explod-
Ing the excuse that there are no such
opportunities in our land to-day as
there were years ago. The title editor
1al Is mo Chancel" but Governor
johnson ds the subject. DR.. Marden
writes:- ''
American Boys Chance.
There were probably thousands of
boys and girls in Minnesota complain
ing that they had no chance to get a
liberal education or start In the
world when the boy. Johnson, was
struggling to carry the burden which
his ne'er-do-well father had dropped
upon the shoulders Of his mother and
himself,-the support Of the entire
family. How the lad of eight or nine
helped his mother, who took in wash
ing, and, later. at the mature age of
thirteen. proudly insisted upon her
giving up working for strangers, while
he toilsd in the village store during
the day an in the evening in the local
printers office, carrying mail or par
cells to outlying housekeeping him
self, and making great sacrifices in
order that his mothers burden might
be lightened. his five younger brothers
and sisters be fed, clothed, and edu-
cated,-all this is told elsewhere in de-
tail.
In spite Of his desperate struggle
with want this boy never lost courage
or self-reliance. He saw in the midst
of it all a chance for a noble career.
Where others saw only mediocrity or
humdrum lives, he saw opportunity
for great things What did he care for
obstacles? He felt that he was greater
than anything which could get in his
path. Not even when shivering In the
cold Of northern winter, for lack of
clothing, and the family burden press
ed more and more heavily upon his
shoulders, did he waver. He pushed
ahead and tried to make good" No
responsibility frightened him. A chance
was all he wanted. He did not wait
for It: he made It.
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lister when he came to the Vine street
church-one of that army Of theological
graduates who are so apt to be pa
ganistic Christians and to become per-
functory preachers. If he differed from
others, 1t was in his exceptional pulpit
powers and his still more exceptional
lack of ambition for mere professional
success.
Born at Elkhart, January 4, 1870. his
preliminary education was acquired in
the public schools of that Indiana
town. His college course began at
Oberlin and was completed at the
Western Reserve in Cleveland. His
theological studies were pursued at
Lane Theological seminary, Of which
he is graduate.
Soon after graduating from Lane,
street church. Early In his pastorate
there, some impulse moving him to be-
come resident of the 'slums," he
went with his young wife, Margaret
N. Doane, a Cleveland girl. into the
tenement district to live. They didn't
play at living there; they lived there.
Not only did they make themselves
neighbors Of the "slum" people, they
accepted the slum people as their
neighbors.
Life in tho SIums Started Him.
This experience opened Mr.. Bigelow's
eyes. He began to appreciate the in
justice of economic conditions, as the
founders of his church had appreciated
the less subtle but essentially identical
injustice of chattel slavery. He awoke
to the fact that infldelity was again
masquerading in religious garb, as in
the days of his earlier predecessors.
A bright light shone before him. A
cross appeared in his sky. Under
these spiritual influences his perfume
tory piety evaporated, and he began
to get religion.
True to the anti-slavery tradi-
tons Of his church, as he got re-
ligion he preached it. Then it was
that the pharisee came Also" and
trouble for Mr.. Bigelow began. He
soon learned that the cross he had
seen was no phantom cross, no illu-
sion. It became an agonizing reality.
The rich men Of the "old Vine street
church turned against him. Its anti
slavery traditions were not tenacious
enough to save him from persecution
even for admitting Negro to member
ship; and their influence was still fur
Their weakened as the paganized con-
science Of influential parishioners de-
tected in his preaching a note Of ap-
peal to the biblical command that the
-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
BIENNIAL ELECTIONS AND RE.
CALL SYSTEM,

The City council at it's last meeting
adopted a resolution in favor Of bien-
NAL elections, and the Charter Comis-
sion was asked to draft an amendment
same, together with a clause lengthen-
ing the terms Of city officers from two
to four years.
The proposition brought out some
able discussion for and against the
plan. The main argument in the af-
firmative was gi1en on the grounds Of
economy, and the fact that but. little
interest is manifested in city elections
because of their frequency
Whether this last reason is true or
not is yet to be seen. 1t seems to be
the tendency of present day society
to be apathetic on most public ques-
tons. In Washington, at the seat of
our Government, the president is ask
ing for remedial railroad rate legisla-
ton. Congress has practically ignored
his request by postponing action.
Public sentiment is overwhelmingly in
favor of the position taken by the
President, and yet the people are sitting
supinely by and are permitting their
interests to be trifled with by sub
servient legislators without uttering
ar effective protest
In our late city election the vote on
the charter acknowledgements Of
them meritorious-was so light that
they failed of passing because of an in
sufficient public interest.
The trouble is not, we rather believe,
in the fact that we have TOO many elec-
tons, but because Of the poor method
in vogue for enlightening the people on
public measures. The daily press, the
only means Of giving the people actual
knowledge on these matters, is too
often partial and subsidized. A re-
turn to the old system OF public meet
1ngs where both sides can be heard at
once, and where honest opinions can
be reached would be Of Unreasonable
benefit at this time.
The one redeeming feature In the re-
solution passed last Monday evening is
the amendment Of Alderman McEwen
providing for the Recall System" This
has been adopted with marked success
in several American cities. Only once
has it been used, in Los Angeles where
ain Alderman had taken a prominent
part in public plumber. He was Pc
tltioned to stand for reelection, and
according to the Recall System" was
obliged to do so, with the result that
he was overwhelmingly defeated at the
POLLS.
While some very good citizens would
protest against the adoption of any
such system in Duluth, yet it can be
ypiainly seen that such a law will al
= ways keep public representative
within reach of the people, with the
result that better and more careful
government will always follow.
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back in higher wages, shorter hours
and better conditions, to say nothing
Of the increase in his self-respect.

Spring will soon be here, and with
it will come housekeeping and paper
on the wallpaper. It's a guarantee that
it was made under fair conditions.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
Passenger Rates Reduced.

March / to May Is, inclusive, the
Great Northern railway will sell one
way tickets to Montana, Idaho, Wash.
ington, Oregon, California. Utah, Colo
RADIO, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mex.
leo points. Full information may be
obtained at the city ticket office, No
432 West Superior street, or by CON-
municating with A. Brostedt, Northern
Passenger Agent, Duluth, MINI.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

Workingmen, will please sit up and
take note that the latest health ukase
issued by the latest health oracle Is to
the effect that you must consume at
least thirty minutes in chewing your
food at mealtimes, and rest one hour
before and one hour after each meal.
Now, will you be good when the IL
o'clock whistle blows?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

Our mind is almost dazed as we con-
template with what rapid whirl the
clergy, the newspapers, and many pub
lie men have been carried over to dis
cuss the once secuted labor question.
No longer can they ignore It. That day
has ceased. The forces behind it are
growing irresistibly stronger and more
influential.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

A workingman loses his Independence
in joining the union in about the same
way he courts death by taking out q,
life insurance policy. It is surprising
how many ignorant and superstitious
people are victims Of both these fall
lacies.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

Put your money in bank, and If
the bank doesn't break, you will get
your money back. Invest money in life
insurance it will come back when you
are dead. But the man who invests
his money I'm his trade union gets 1t
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
SEX AND IMMIGRATION.

In glancing over an Immigration table
which gives tho totals for tho last
eleven years and also separate figures
for tho sexes, one 10 struck by the rel
atively larger increase Of the men. A
computation shows that whereas the
women constituted about 40 per cent
Of the arrivals for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1894. they furnished but
% per cent Of those who came during
the fiscal year ending Jrns 50. 1907. &
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

To fall down has been many a mans
he turns misfortune into disgrace.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

Every time you smoke a non union
cigar you put your stamp of approval
on child labor and starvation wages,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

A Washington barkeeper has invent
ed a new drink called the Bishop Pot
ter cocktail" that makes every patron
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

The labor market" is the place
where so-called free mechanics sell
brain and body for food.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

In this world you must learn to give
and take, and that you must expect
to get In return few of the raps that
you give to others.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

The Standard Oil company has at
last come to grief. It has been indicted
in Galatin county, Kentucky, for ped
lling without a license.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

g. L Levin's xxx Columbian 1892
rye Is known by many of Duluth's
best citizens to be high in quality. and
the vehy best for family use. Try it.
Sold ut sol West Superior street.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

The emigrant question VIII sooner or
Later require as much attention as the
beef trust and railroad freight rates.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

Mighty few union men get cross
eyed from reading their labor paper.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

The union label on a pair of shoes
is sure preventive of corns.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25

Does your new suit bear the union
label? If not, why not?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-02-25
CHARACTER SKETCH OF
REV. II. S. BIGELOW

Continued from page one.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-09-21

Their Admiration Purely Protested.
Boston, Sept 20. Because OF their
protested admiration for the naval rec
ord of Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles,
Q. S. n, retired, robbers have returned
to the admiral property they had taken
from his house in this city. But the
admiration was a joke. The property
returned was of no use to any one but
Admiral Bowles. The thugs kept a
gold chain they had taken.
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THURSDAY, SEPT. q.
LOCAL ITEMS.
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J. C. Kelly, of Chicago, was in Ke-
aosha Sunday.
Joseph Funck spent Sunday with
Chicago friends.
George Gordon, of Chicago, spent
Sunday in Kenosha.
Walter Hanson, Of Evanston, spent
ahe day in Kenosha.
Mrs. William Smith visited Milwau-
kee friends Sunday.
Conrad Shearer spent Sunday with
friends in Milwaukee.
r. ]. Gottfredsen spent Sunday
with friends in Chicago.
Frank Schmitt and Ed Sullivan
spent Sunday in Chicago.
Tom O'Donnell left for Arizona on
Sunday to spend the winter.
J. w. Page, of E1khorn, spent Sat
arday evening in Kenosha.
Miss Harriet Harff spent Sunday
with friends in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Fred Barry, of Louisville, Ky,
isvisiting Mrs. Fred Reino1d.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. B. Mayer spent
Sunday with friends in Racine.
Tom Graves was home from Chicago
10 spend Sunday with his parents.
Miss Bertha Moore, of Baraboo, is
spending few days in Kenosha.
Ezra Turner, of Galena, ILL.,, is the
guest of his cousin, P. c. Torrey.
Tom Temple and friends FROM Rip
DID, Wis, spent Sunday in Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. o. Logan have re-
turned from two weeks trip to Den
yer
Frank Goodman and little daughter
spent Sunday with friends in Chi
cage.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Miller, of Evans
son, spent Sunday with relatives in
this city.
MIR. and Mrs. Edward Rowland, of
Chicago, spent Sunday afternoon in
Kenosha.
MIR. and Mrs. c. H. Fredson, Of
Sonth Milwaukee, spent Sunday in
Kenosha.
Mrs. Emma l. Robinson, Of st. Joe,
No., is the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. P.
e Torrey.
Miss Marie Fredericks, Of Chicago,
is visiting Miss Alice O'Hare on Pom
sroy street,
Miss Mayme Clarke is spending a
week in Chicago with her friend Miss
L4eta Shields.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Bohmrich, of
Milwaukee, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
william Fisher.
Matt Adams and Miss Sadie Nc
Cam, of Waukegan, visited friends
here over Sunday.
Mrs. L. H. Gibson and daughter
Margaret are here from Ravenswood
For few days visit.
The attendance record of the coun-
Try schools is reported to be larger
this year than usual
g. r. Ellison and wife have returned
home after spending the past two
months in Alabama.
Quite a number of Kenosha people
went to Antioch Sunday to attend the
annual clam bake given there.
Assistant City Engineer Louis
Ferry has returned to his work at the
city hail after a short vacation.
Mrs. Frances Raber has returned to
Ter home in Joliet after a few weeks
gisit with her father, Frank Sands.
Miss Mable Jacobs has returned to-
aer home in Chicago after an extended
visit with Kenosha friends and re1a-
lives,
Miss Jennie O'Neill and Frank
G('Nei11 are here from Toledo, Ohio,
TOR a visit with Mr.. and Mrs. o. M.
Calkins.
The best prescription for 1anguid
appetite is savory dish of Sealshipt
oysters, full Of the delicious tang of
blle sea. Let Scho1er & Funck send
you some.
A meeting of the executive com
mittee IN charge of the entertainment
Of the Wisconsin Federation of
Woman S clubs was held on Tuesday.
No business of Importance was trans
acted.
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Gen. Thurston Is President,

Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 2O.-Gen-
eral Gales P. Thurston, of Nashville,
was unanimously elected president of
the Army of the Cumberland in annual
reunion here.
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Barge Burns to the Waters Edge,

Detroit, Sept. 90 The barge George
W. Robey, of Cleveland, which had
been aground since Sunday at the
Lime Kiln crossing near the mouth Of
the Detroit river caught fire forward,
and burned to the waters edge with
her cargo of soft coal. Loss, S64, 900.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-09-21
Big Count Agrees to a Cent.

Washington, Sept 20.-The count of
the cash, notes, bonds, and other Sc
curities in the treasury of the United
States incident to the transfer Of the
Office of United States treasurer from
Roberts to Treat, has been completed
and found to exactly agree with the
treasury books. The total Of July l,
1905, was found to be $1,259,598,-
278.582-3.