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Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16

Charles H. Won Mansfelde was numbered
among the most esteemed of Omaha 8
young attorneys. For the last three years
ne has practiced his profession in this city,
having an office with Kennedy & Learned
In The Bee building. Last Saturday he
left Omaha to spend his annual vacation
of two weeks with his own people at Ash
land, where his father, DR.. A. S. Won
Mansfelde, has lived many years.
He graduated from the collegiate course
at the University of Nebraska in 1899, after
which he went through the law school OF
the same institution. He lived in WILDER,
Neb.. a short while before establishing him
self in Omaha.
He was a member of the local Phi Delta
Theta and Phi Delta Phi Greek letter So
cieties and devoted much of his spare time
to outdoor sports, becoming particularly
adept at tennis. All who knew him here
speak of him as having been most es-
timable young man. He was 26 years OF
age two weeks ago and the only son OF
the family.
Mr.. Won Mansfelde resided at 265s Doug
las street He has two sisters, who teach
in the Omaha public schools.
The news OF his sudden death came as a
genuine shock yesterday afternoon to a
large circle OF friends and associates OF
the dead young lawyer.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16
FRTTITs

Apples and pears, about the only kind OF
fruit yet 70 be gathered, will not make a
good crop in any part OF the Nebraska dis
trict.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16
OMAHA ATTORNEY Is DROWNED
Charles II. Won MansfeIde Loses LIZ
in Platte River.

ASHLAND. Neb., Aug. 15.-(special)--
Charles H. Won Mansfelde, an Omaha at
torney, was drowned in the Platte river
today. Won Mansfelde, in company with
his sister and party of friends, was camp
ing on the banks of the river three and a
half mile from town.
Won Mansfelde had gone up the river in
bathe, when he was taken with cramps
and went down before any one could
reach him. The body has not yet been
recovered
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16
OIL Inspector Reportr.

State Oil Inspector Ed A. Church today
made the following report for the month
Of July: Paid treasurer s53O.SS; expenses.
tSs475; gross receipts, 1.rb1O.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16

ABOVE average IN yield and quality
throughout Nebraska district.
PASTURES AND MEADOWS
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16
Reports from Stations at : p. NJ

u Indicates trace OF preClDltaIlOn.
l.. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16
WHEAT

Lincoln Division - ThTeshing progressed
well during the week; yield about as pre-
viOusly reported. An average OF three sta
Wymore Division-GoOd progress made
with threshing; yield as previously re-
ported.
McCook DiVlsion-Less threshing done
than on the two eastern divisions; yield
generally heavy.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16

WAS DEAF IS YEARS
MR, C. n. GARRISON, Reynolds, Neb.
A prominent business man who has been
deaf for twenty-five years, writes:
Il have regained my hearing. l can
hear all ordinary conversation perfectly.
/ have been deaf for twenty-five years,
My ear drums were totally destroyed. All
specialists told me l could not be cured,
My ears seemed stopped up. Your treat
ment has opened my ears, stopped all
noises and l hear hne. Your treatment Is
surely cure for deafness. / think II Is
remarkable tnat you should cure me and
never see me-"
ASTHMA CURED.
Eight years ago / began 10 have short
ness OF breath and choking, constant
wheeling and rattling In my chest and
coughing / would raise tough phlegm.
Finally I got so bad I could not work.
Doctors told me asthma could not be cured.
] had TO sit up al night; the only relief I
got was from smoking an asthma powder,
which only gave temporary relief. lost
man a physical wreck, and in a few weeks
was new man. ] can now breathe free
and easy, / sleep like child all night I
do not cough or have any more rattllng or
wheeEing. This New Cure Is sure specific
for Asthma, and 1 recommend II to all my
friends, as no one could be any worse than
I was.
PETER PIEoUERER,
SS1b V Street. South Omaha.
Home TreatmesAI Elective a.
once Treatment. Write for Home
Treatment symptom Blanks and Book
NJ
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16

Three appeals from ruling OF the
CoprtY Board, of Equalization were filed
this. Cfternoon in the district court. They
were those in which the three packing com
ranies, Cudahy Swift and Armour, protest
against their assessment OF $1,000 each as
franchise value. They assert that they de-
rive their corporate rights from the laws
OF Illinois and nothing Of the kind from
Nebraska.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

to make something out OF nothing l con-
slider one of the dangers OF our present
commercial life l believe with Mr. Mil
ler that what Lincoln most needs is COM
panies like this one, and factories like the
one we are in now. Lincoln not de
pend OH the farmers who come here to
, send their children to school We wouldn't =,
to do without them, it is true, but .
there are other things needed as we'll
Governor Mickey means well, and it is his
earnest intention to do and say the right thing.
But he makes a mistake that is altogether too
common when he says that labor not exist
without capital, and capital can not exist with
out labor. Labor exist without capital,
and did so exist for hundreds of years. Give
the people access to the soil and they can snap
their fingers in the face of capital And the
coal barons who control the output Of coal can
close down their mines indefinitely and while
jeering at labor can live i'll luxury and id1eness.
The man who endeavors to make something
out of nothing is OF course to be reprohatetl.
But what about the sniveling hypocrits. the
cantng phariSees, who seek to make great
gain o,,t OF the blood and tears and sweat OF
illy-requted toll? What shall it avail
to stand before great assemblies and lift his
praverfu voice in sonorous tones to Him ,.silo
heeleth the sparrows fall, and len turns
around and preys upon the necessities OF The
poor by forcing them to work at starvation
wage in order to make sure his fat sal
airy.
President John Z. Miller of the Commercial
club who is deeply interested in Lncoins flu
ture prosperity and who has built tip splen-
did business on fair principles, said i'll s1b
stance:
Il believe that if the campaign just started
ly the Commercial club is supp orted as 1t
.boud be, Lincoln will see a period OF such inn
provement and prosperity as has never been
perienced here before. 1t is of great :mpor-
tance to the city that such enterprises this
one should be pushed and given the support
of the people of Lincoln. If are to hold
our relative position among the cities of the
west, we must rouse ourselves Immediately.
Now is the crucial time"
Mr. Mier's employees do not average as
many hours work day the employees of
Lincoln Overall and Shirt Co. The work of
his employees is not nearly SO hard. And The
Wageworker ventures to say that the average
wage of the employees in the big store of Mil
Ter & Paine is more than double the average
claimed by IA 1nager Jones of the Lincoln
Overall 1pd Shirt Co. The Mageworser fur
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
FAY ROLL ACCOUNT.

tinguish the city from the country town.
Among them might mention red light dis
tricts, open gambling halls, bucket shops, poi
icy shops, pool rooms, beer gardens, Sunday
theatres, sweat shops, grating political rings,
and general misery and despair All these
things mark the modern metropolis, but they
are absent from the typical American village
or country town. Mayor Brown also said:
Il don't care how small the wages of la
borer may be, you may rest assured that they
will be spent in the city. But a retired farmer
sends ont to the farm for his butter and eggs;
he has for the butcher because he has
his meat growing on the farm. What makes a
town is not the farmers who come to 1t to make
their homes, but the people whose livelihood
lies in the city. That is why believe that
such a factory be made to pay well, and
become an important factor in the industrial
lie OF Lincoln. You have the market for the
goods that are manufactured in this house inn
mcdiately at hand; in this line l do not
why Lincoln should not become important
a point as Chicago, or St. Louis or Kansas
City.
Mayor Brown did not mean the opening
sentence of the quotation just as it sounds.
OF course he does care whether laborers
wage is small He pays fair wages himself,
and he would like to ali wage earners
well paid. His intent was to say that the
city needed wage earners. And that is true
but the kind of wage earners Lincoln needs
aiS hos eHooN WIZ dlS Peil Std Nsttioil wages,
who work long hours and who have nothing to
look forward to but long lives of lilly requited
toll. The Wageworker charges that the Lin
coin Overall and Shirt Co pays ridiculousiy
low wages, that it is detrinent instead OF
blessing to the city, and that factories of its
class instead of benefting the city will in
the long run be detriment A city filled
with poorly paid working and women
can not, in the nature of things, progress
ally, socially financially. We need but to
call attention to the mining towns of Penn
sylvania and the Virgnas and to the mill town
OF Massachusetts and Connecticut, to empha-
size this fact. Mayor Brown further said
II believe that such factory can be made
to pay we'll, and become an important factor
i'll the industrial life of Lincoln"
The Wageworker unhestatingly admits that
such factory can be made to pay we'll There
are already two three of them in Lincoln
that paying wel-paying the stockhold-
ers we'll But what about the pay of the
women and girls who run the machines? The
remuneration of Manage. Jones Of the Lincoln
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

Overall and Shirt Co. is contingent upon the
net earnings of the company. The Wagework-
er asks its readers to ponder on that statement
for few moments, and realize if possible what
it means. When he was endeavoring to raise
stock subscriptions to start the factory
of his arguments was that he would act as
manager. and unless the company paid
tain dividends and above the operating
expenses he would receive no salary. If eN-
penses are so high that his own salary is in
danger. where we ask, would he naturally
make the first cut in operating expenses? Only
fool would guess wrongl He would reduce
expenses by reducing wages without reducing
output
In all good faith we would ask Mayor Brown
if in his Judgment it will benefit Lincoln to
fill it up with sweat shop workers whose wage
keeps them continually lowering on the ragged
edge of hunger. We would ask him in all
fairness if he thinks factory which asks wom-
Ell and girls to work 50 hours week for
average wage Of So week, will do much to-
wards keeping Lincoln UP to the high standard
it occupies city of homes, of culture
and of high morals
Governor Mickey spoke at some length. We
quote from the report made by the Morn
ing Journal:
Governor Mickey made the closing ad-
dress of the exercises. Some people think
that labor is dishonorable, declared the
governor. Il believe that labor is just the
contrary of dishonorable l think that
these ladies who operating these ma
chimes are estimable than anyone
else in this room. But the man or the
men who responsible for furnishing
the opportunity for conducting this enter
prise should also be considered Labor
cannot exist without capital; neither can
capital exist without labor. But it is the
solid reliable concerns which should be
supported. The disposition of some men
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

On Monday, November ,, 1905, the new fac
tory building of the Lincoln Overall and Shirt
Go. was formally opened with prayer by Rev.
d. J.. Thomas. pastor OF Grace M. T.. church.
Mayor Brown, President John E. Miller of
the Commercial club, Governor John III. Mick
ey. President Snei of the company and others
made short addresses. Then Governor Mick
ev threw the electric switch, the sewing ma
chimes began humming, and work in the new
factory building began. The occasion was
made quite gala affair.
ON January 25, 1905. the old factory OF the
Lincoln Overall and Shirt Co, then located
in the Halter block. destroyed by fire.
In the papers next day appeared an article in
spired by Manager l.. O. Jones, Of the COM
pany telling what a vast benefit the factory
was to Lincoln, and conveying the notice that
unless the citizens of Lincoln came to the ront
and furnished the company with new build
ing the factory would be located elsewhere.
As inducement for subscriptions it was
stated that the factory employed an average
OF seventy-fivc people, and that the average
paw roll amounted to $500 week a little
sum in long division will reveal the fact that
the average wage is a fraction over $500 a
week. The rule is piece work and the hours
are from a. M until p. in. or ten hours a
day. The factory turns out ovcralls and work
shirts
The Wagcworkcr has, several occasions,
referred to this factory and passed criticisms
upon IT, 1t desires to make few more,
and to form basis for its criticisms will quote
literally from the addresses made by Mayor
Brown President Miller of the Commercial
club and Governor John II. Mickey. Mayor
Brown said:
1T is the presence of such houses as this
that distinguish the city from the coun-
rf town
There can be no dispute upon that point
There are other things however, that dis
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
"FA1TH WITHOUT WORKS"

The prominent business man who takes
active part i'll the deliberations of the Lincoln
Commercial club had just finished an eloquent
Grafton before the club on the subject of The
Greater Lincoln, Patronize Home Indus
tries"
Wiping the perspiraton from his heate.l
brow. and bowing to the enthusiastic applause
of his fellow men, he stepped over to the cigar
case and said
Gimme one of those Robert Burns cigars"
The chances are that this enthusiastic pro-
ponent OF home industries never smoked a Lin
coin made cigar in his life. The chances are
that every sack of flour that has gone into his
kitchen bore Minneapolis label And the
chances are that he patronizes the Chicago
mail order houses whenever he wants any
thing in the line of furniture or carpets
The Wageworker believes in patronizing
home industry. 1t not only believes it. but
practices it An1itt desires at this time to
call the attention of the home industry boom
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

and girls who are compelled to toll ten hours a
day over sewing machines?
Keep your eye the squirrel!''
r The Wageworker is as much interested in
making Lincoln a manufacturing center as
any other newspaper or business institution
be. 1t strives to represent in the best manner
possible the interests of those who work for
wages Its prosperity depends wholly upon
the prosperity of the laboring classes. But
sweat shops never have and never will make
any city prosperous lily paid workingmen
and women can never make city good place
i'll which to live. If Lincoln future rests upon
filling the city with factories that pay women
2.42 for a weeks work. then would it be bet
ter to turn the streets into COW pastures and
leave public institutions to the bats and
rats.
Keep your eye the SQUIRREL"
Ihe way to make Lincoln a big and pros
porous city is to keep in mind the great fact
that men and women must be paid a fair wage
for their labor; must be paid wage that will
enable them to live properly, educate their
children and build happy homes. Factories
that filled with women who receive an
average wage" of $500 week, and issue
checks for $s.42 to pay woman, for weeks
work, will be fatal to Lincoln and undo in a
short time what it has taken thirty-ive years
to build up,
The Wageworker invites the attention of
Thoughtful men and women to the fac simile
check which appears herewith. That check is
the squirrel i'll the present controversy.
Keep your eye on the squirrel =
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

ers OF the Commercial club to just one home in
dustry-cigars.
There some ten twelve cigar factories
in Lincoln, employing about fifty men These
men make about ~ 900 cigars day Not more
than one-third Of them smoked in Lincoln
1t is safe to say that two-thr1s OF Lincoln's
male population who are above 20 years Of age
smokers. To be conservative let us esti-
mate that there are 10000 users Of tobacco in
Lincoln, and that the average is three cigars
day. We will leave it to any smoker if the
average is too high. That would mean 80 600
cigars day for Lincoln, an increase of at
least $4,000 cigars day manufactured here
If every smoker called for Lincoln made cigars
That would mean an addition of not less than
100 cigarmakers to the factories Of the city
and c1gaTnakers average considerably more
than $500 week It would mean an addition
al 81, 400 or 81 500 week to the city wage roll.
and just that much more to the volume Of bust
in the city.
Isn't this worth thinking about? We submit
the question to the members of the CONNER
cial club.
While the Commercial club is prosecuting its
home industry" campaign let it practice what
it breaches. 1t keeps cigars on sale in the club
rooms How many brands in that cigar case
made in Lincoln. What proportion of CT
gars consumed by the clubs members are man
ufactured in Lincoln? How many Commercial
club members make it point to call for Lin
coin made cigars when they want to smoke?
The Commercial club would go long ways
and make great effort to secure factory that
would employ hundred or a hundred and fifty
men with pay roll averaging 81 400 or 81 800
a week. Why overlook factories that are al
ready here? Why not get behind them anil
push them along? Two dozen cigar factories
employing an average Of ten each and
paying average wage of $15 week are OF
vastly more benefit to the city than a sweat
shop overall factory employing 200 women and
girls and paying an average wage Of $500
week.
Get right, gentlemen Of tfae Commercial eisss
Practice what you preach. Don't approach the
workingff1en of Lincoln and puff the. smoke
foreign made 'scab" cigars in their faces while
preaching to them the doctrine Of 'patronize
home industries.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
WINNING THE FIGHT.

The printers winning in their fight for
the eight-hour day. The Typotheta in order
to win its ends has resorted to the Injunction
and in order to secure njunctions has resorted
to what ought to be called perjury. The infa-
nous injunction issued by Judge Holdam of
Chicago was issued on the sworn statement OF
employing printers that the strikers had re-
sorted to violence. They knew this to be a lie,
and in their correspondence with rat print
ers admitted that there was no violence, The
daily newspapers of Chicago are almost a unit
in denouncing Judge Hodams Injunction and
mass meeting to protest held last Sun
day. It attended by ministers, business
men, mechanics lawyers, doctors and educa-
tors.
The National Association Of Manufacturers
is trying to coerce the daily newspapers
into helping in the fight against the printers.
The covert threat is made that unless the news
papers proceed to give the printers the worst
Of it the big advertisers will resort to the boy
cot. This precious outfit Of "free and indeperl-
dent" citizens are loud in their denunciations
of the boycott when applied by workingmen,
but they do not fail to resort to it when their
own business is threatened.
The Womans Home Companion is pub
lished by the Crowell Co., Springfield O. The
Crowel Co. secured an injunction against its
printers who were trying to secure the eight
hour day. The boycott is illegal but men
ton the Crowell Go. in this connection lest
The Typotheta, while still claiming that it
has all the non-union men it needs, is still adj
vertising for more. Consistency and truth do
not seem to be on the Typotheta visiting list.
OF course the eight-hour assessment
ried-by overwhelming majority Did any
body believe that it would not?
The Typotheta scheme to import lot of ma
chine operators from England was suddenly
nipped in the bud. As soon as the British union
men discovered the strike situation they gave
the Typotheta agents the merry laugh.
The linotype schools" in Chicago evidently
did not pan out as we'll the union busters
pected. At any rate the schools have been dis
continued.
Three men "ratted' in Omaha. One of them
has received more in benefits from the union
than he had ever paid in the shape of dues.
Only the most cheering news comes from the
firing line. The unions are standing fast and
up to date not one has proved recreant But
Typotheta firms are constantly renigging on
their pledge to the Typotheta's national body.
1t is only question Of weeks and victory will
come to stay.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
AFTER HIS SCALP.
Lincoln Unions Have No Use for an Migrate
and Saw So.

The unions Of Lincoln are taking up the
grievance OF the Carpenters and Joiners against
Engineer Crabtree, and adopting resoiu-
tions denouncing him for his base ingratitude
Crabtree is the man whe employed "scab' car
perlters to build his house after union carpen-
ters had come to his rescue and built cot
tage for him while he was laid up with broken
leg.
The Wageworker has told the story IN de-
tail, and now the local unions are giving the
matter their attention. Last Sunday the y
biographical Union requested that Crabtrees
services to the city be dispensed with, asserting
that man guilty of such base ingratitude was
unworthy Of confidence The resolutions OF the
different unions will be presented to the city
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN.
Do Not Lose Sight of the Main Point in the
Immigration Problem

Do not grow too excited over the threatened
invasion of the Chinese. That old anti Chinese
cry has been worked scarcecrow about
long enough. While we have been-throwing fits
about the Chinese the great corporations have
seized the opportunity when we were looking
towards the Pacific coast to sneak in million
or two Of the most degraded workingmen pos
Atlantic coast quite sharply enough The great
corporations want some more Huns and Finnss
and Slavs and Lithuarlians, but they are afraid.
are watching them too closely. So they
have again raised the Chinese scarecrow. AS
soon as we get hysterical enough they'll open .
the gates of Castle Garden and bring EN- in
Don't throw too many fits over the China
man.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
MERELY A SAMPLE.
More Than Prayer Necessary to Make Such
Factory Popular

4 year ago Miss Blank (The Wageworlcr
has the name and all the facts) applied for and
secured work at the Lincoln Overall and Shirt
factory. She is an expert needlewoman and also
expert with sewing machine. Her skill as
dressnlaker is we'll known, and she has no
difficulty in securing work But she wanted a
steady position where she would not have to
visit from house to home. She imagined that
she could make good wages at the factory.
Miss Blank worked diligently for tWenty-six
days. ten hours day and at the end of that
time found that she had made the magnificent
wage of $13.41.
And then she quit.