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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07
GENERAL MENTION.

For union made shoes go to Rogers
& Perkins.
Jess Nickel had business in Cedar
Rapids this week
Mrs. Will BASTARD is enjoying a visit
with relatives and friends in Wahoo
Tuesday night. If you are a delegate
do your duty
Mrs. Jesse E. Nickel returned the
first of the week from a visit to the
Arkansas farm.
Woman's Label League meeting next
Monday night. If you are member,
be there on time.
Rogers & Perkins have the largest
line OF union made shoes at popular
prices in the entire city.
Mrs, G. w. Armstead has returned to
her home in North Bend, Neb., after
two weeks visit with her daughter,
Mrs. w. M. Maupin.
Capital Auxiliary's April social at
Bohanon's hall, Wednesday evening,
April 10. Now don't say you never
heard word about it,
Mrs. Frank D. Eager, who was in
jured in runaway accident one day
last week, has completely recovered.
Mrs. Eager had very narrow escape
from serious injury.
The local Transfers Union reports
that it is progressing finely with the
work of getting signatures to its scale.
Ask to see the card of the man who
hauls your coal, ice or household
goods.
There has been SO much political
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07

, doin's'' in the last week that there was
little news in the local labor field. and
what little there was the editor didn't
have time to get. Next week things.
Twill be different.
Porto Rico has now over 100 crafts
union, all affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The international Brotherhood of
| Carpenters has renewed it's lease on
| the International offices at Indianap
| oils.
big Six" Typographical Union of
New York held it's annual ball re-
Gently, and only 5000 people were
present
The factory inspectors of Pittsburg
have started a crusade against sweat
shops and child labor. More power to
the inspectors.
C. G. Keister, union painter of
Oakland, Calf, has just fallen heir to
| $4,000. If he is wise he will not begin
another branch of painting.
The Potters' Herald says the clean
est and most honorable piece Of card
board is paid-up union card. The
Potters' Herald says good things in a
concise way.
Philadelphia electrical workers are
negotiating with the Electrical Con-
tractors association for new agree
ment for the coming year. The out
look is favorable.
The Washington legislature was
asked by the Parryites to enact a law
prohibiting the boycott, but the legis-
| lature refused Then the Parryites
| asked for the repeal OF the 8-nour law
,, and met with another refusal.
Dave Parry's organ says that the
Typographical Journal in every issue
abuses and villifies the Los Angeles
Times. This will be cheerful news to
Frank Kennedy. The only trouble
with Parry is that he can not tell the
truth about union workmen.
The business of the Philadelphia
Trades Union News has grown so big
Gently into larger quarters. The Wage
worker has it's eye on three-story
building covering quarter of block,
and is waiting for the business to grow
up to it.
Lincoln painters and paperhangers
have coined a new one. Instead of a
strike" it will hereafter be known az
a temporary cessation of labor pend
ing settlement of a slight miSunder-
standing appertaining to the hours of
manual toll and commensurate COM
pensation therefore" That sounds aw-
fully good.
Monday, March %, was George M.
Wathan's 'steenth birthday, and Mrs
Wathan planned and executed a COM
plete surprise on him in honor of the
occasion. A number of friends came
in while Wathan was sitting around
in his stocking feet and pipe in his
mouth, and they took complete pos
session. The evening was pleasantly
spent in various games and social con-.
versation, and at seasonable hour
Mrs. Wathan served refreshments. Mr..
Wathan says he hopes to have more
of 'em, and the guests present were
united in expressing desire to help
him celebrate 'em as they come for
! about the next hundred years.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07

Ralph Waldo Emerson. There are men
called "employing agents. who drive
through the country and make the ac-
quaintance OF the poor whites-the
white trash This expression, by
the way, was launched by the negroes
and then taken up by the whites. No
white man will acknowledge himself
as trash" but he applies the epithet
to others who are supposed to be still
more trashy than himself.
No matter how poor these whites
are, they are always well stuffed with
pride; they are as proud as the rich
and they would conduct themselves
just like the Il. F. VS. if they had the
money. They are F. F. VS. slightly
run down at the heel.
They apologize for their poverty and
lay it all to the war. All consider
themselves very much above the ne
groes-they will not work with the
blacks.
The employing agent drops in on
this poor white family and there is
much friendly conversation, for time
is no object to the cracker. Gradu
ally the scheme is unfolded. There is
nice man who owns a mill-he will
| not employ negroes--they are not sui
iciently intelligent. The visitor can
get work for all the women and the
children OF the household with this
nice man. There will be no work fol-
the man of the house. but he can get
odd jobs in the town. This suits the
cracker-he does not want to work
A house will be supplied gratis fol
them to live in. A photograph of the
house is shown it is a veritable pal
ace compared with the place they now
call home. The visitor goes away
promising to call again the next week
He comes back and reports that he
has seen his friend, the house is ready
work is waiting, wages in cash will be
paid every Saturday night.
Cash.
Why, this poor white family never
A printed agreement is produced
and signed.
II the cracker hasn't quite energy
| enough to move, the employing agen,
packs up his scanty effects and ad
vances money for car fare. The fam
lily land in the mill town. are quar-
tered in one of the company's cottages
and go to work-the mother and all
the children over five. The head Of
the house stays at home to do the
housework, and, being a man, OF
course does not do it. He goes to the
grocery or some other loafing place
where there are other men in the
| same happy condition as himself. Idle
men in the south, as elsewhere, do not
feel very well-they need a little slim
ulant, and take it. The cracker dis
covers ne can get whiskey and pay
for it with an order on the company.
He is very happy, and, needless to
say, is quite opposed to any fanatic
who would like to interfere in his fam
lily relations. He is not aware of it
but he has sold his wife and children
into a five years slavery. The COM
pany threatens and has the right to
discharge them all if one quits. Even
the mother is not free.
But the cracker knows his rights
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07

America, the land of the free and the
home of the brave!
For the adult who accepts the life of
the. mills l have not a word to say-it
is his own business. My plea is in de-
Tense OF the innocent; | voice the cry
of the child whose sob is drowned in
the thunder of whirring wheels.
The iniquity of this new slavery in
the new south has grown up out of
conditions for which no one man or
The interests of the cracker, the
preacher, the overseer, the superin-
tendent, the president, and the stock
holders are so involved that they can
not see the truth-their feet are en-
shared and they sink into the quick
sands of hypocrisy, deceiving them
selves with specicus reasons. They
must be educated and the people must
be educated.
So it remains fer that small. yet val
liant, band of men and women in the
south, who are fighting this iniquity, to
hold fast and not leave off in their
work until the little captives are made
free. We reach friendly hands across
the miles, and out of the silence we
send them blessings and bid them be
strong and of good cheer. Seemingly
they fight alone, but they are not
alone, for the great, throbbing, melt
ing, mother-heart of the world has but
to know Of their existence to be one
with them.-Elbert Hubbard in The
Philistine.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07

, he is the head of his family; the labor
of his children is his until the girls
are Is and the boys 81. He knows
these things, and he starts them OF to
their work while it is yet night.
And at the mill the overseers look
northern men, sent down by the cap
italists. In war time the best slave
drivers were northerners-they have
the true spirit and get the work done
If necessary they do not hesitate to
"reprove" their charges.
But the cracker wants to be kind
he wants to accumulate enough money
to buy home in the country-it will
take only few years! The overseers
do not wish to be brutal, but they have
to report to the superintendent
must be SO much cloth made every
day. The superintendent is not a bad
man, but he has to make a daily re-
port to the president OF the company
and the president has to report to the
stockholders.
The stockholders live in Boston, and
all they want is their dividends. When
they go south they go to Pinehurst
Asheville, or ST. Augustine. Details
| Of the mills are not pleasant; they
simply leave matters to the good men
who operate the mills-it is against
their policy to dictate.
Capital is king, not cotton. But CAPT
tai is blind and deaf to all that is not
to it's interest; it will not act while
/: child labor means 10 per cent divi
dends on industrial stocks.
Instead Of abolishing child labor
| capital gives a lot, near the mill prop
erty, to any preacher who will build
church, and another lot for parson
age, and then agrees to double the
amount any denomination will raise
for a church edifice.
Within a quarter of a mile from one
cotton mill, at Columbia, S. c.,
counted seven churches, completed or
in process of erection.
and that is the way the mill owners
capture the clergy In talking with
| various preachers on the question of
child labor they all, found, had ar
guments to excuse it, blissfully un.
aware that the entire question had
been fought out in the worlds assize,
and that civilization fifty years ago
had placed her stamp of disapproval
on the matter. One preacher put it in
| this way, with gracious, patronizing
smile q quote his exact words): "Oh,
of course, it is pretty bad-but then,
| dear brother, you know the children
are better off in the mill than running
the Streets"
1t is assumed that there are only two
occupations for children, working in
the mill and running the streets. And
then this man of God confessed to me
without shame that many of the men
whose whole families worked in the
mills subscribed one-tenth of their in
come to the support of "the gospel,
and gave him an order on the mill
company for the amount; and this
amount was withheld from wages and
paid to him regularly by the cashier
of the company.
The majority of the clergy of South
Carolina have always stood for slav-
cry. The clergy never move faster
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07

than the people, usually tagging lit
is to separate from them, SO the ave-
rage, clergyman will not champion an
unpopular cause. The clergyman who
speaks his mind for freedom has to
onarola, Emerson, Beecher, McGlynn,
Professor Swing, DR.. Thomas, and all
that band of preachers who have
stood out and voiced the cause of
freedom have been regarded by their
denominations as renegades. Exile
and ostracism have been the lot of
freedoms champions; and their os-
tracism and social disgrace have been
the work of the respectable element
in the church.
And the reason the church has al
ways sided with slavery is because she
has thrived on the profits of slavery.
We have heard much about the dan
ger that follows an alliance between
church and state; but what think you
of a partnership between grasping
greed and religion-the professed re-
ligion of the suffering, bleeding Christ,
the Christ who had not where to lay
his head!
The orthodox Protestant preacher is
an institution in the south. You see
his well-buttered face on every train,
at every statlon-he attends every
gathering can be done with
out him. He breaches 1.-The blood of
Jesus and nothing else. His gospel
hereafter for all who believe as he
does, and hell and damnation for all
who don't. There has not been a pat
entable improvement made on his
devil in two hundred years.
The south is priest-ridden to an ex-
tent that should make Italy and Spain
jealous. The preacher is a power. One
of them explained to me that most of
the heads of the families that worked
in the mills were christian people,"
He seemed to think that Jesus said,
Suffer little children to come unto me
and forbid them not, for of such is the
kingdom of Cotton"
If the child workers of South Caro-
lima could be marshaled by bugle call,
headed with fife and drum, and
marched through Commonwealth ave-
nue., out past that statue of William
Lloyd Garrison, erected by the sons of
the men who dragged him through the
streets at a ropes end, the sight
would appall the heart and drive con-
yiction home. Imagine an army of TO-
600 pigmy bondsmen, half naked, half
starved, yellow, weakened, deformed
in body, with drawn faces that show
spirits too dead to weep, too hopeless
to laugh, too panied to feel! Would
not aristocratic Boston lock her doors,
bar the shutters, and turn in shame
from such sight?
I know the sweat shops of Hester
street, New York; l am familiar with
the vice, depravity, and degradation of
the Whitechapel district; I have Wis
tied the Ghetto of Venice; I know the
lot of the coal miners of Pennsylvania,
and I know somewhat of Siberian at
rocities; but for misery, woe, and
anything to equal the cotton mill slav-
hopeless suffering, I have never seen
cry of South Carolina-this in my own
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07
How Much Will 1t Cost?
Will the Quality be Right?

We both questions your
spring clothing
will the will be comparatively
quality will be right because handle only the right kind goods.
We clainnd opportunity provetha price quail
considered this clothing
for that
Our line of Spring Clothing is complete and better
offered in Lincoln. We bought satisfy all
color and fabric. We bought satisfy purses
speak cothing everything
wears-from shoes to hal from collar
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-07

capital of $2,0OO,OOO. In half dozen
other cities there are mills with cap
ital of a million or more. These mills
all have company department stores"
where the employees trade. A certain
credit is given, and the employee who
has dollar coming to him in cold
cash is very, very rare. The cashier
of one mill told me that 10 families
out Of 20 never see any cash, and prob
ably never will. The account is kept
with the head of the house. Against
him are charged house rent, insurance,
fuel--three things the man never
thought of. Next, the orders drawn
| on the company must be met. Then
| come groceries, clothing, and gew-
| gaws that the young women are
tempted into buying, providing the ac-
count is not too much overdrawn.
Sometimes it happens that the account
is so much overdrawn by the last of
| the month that the storekeeper will
dole out only corn-meal and bacon
| just these two things to prevent star
The genial cashier who made this
explanation to me- did it to reveal the
pitiable ignorance of the poor white"
the cracker can not figure his ac-
count-it is all matter of faith with
him. ITO manage a cracker you have
to keep him in debt to you," explained
my friend, then you can control his
family.
The ingenuity displayed in securing
the laborers reveals the instincts of
Connecticut" to use the phrase of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-16

Wanted Six pupils to learn steno-
graphy MISS FLORENCE r. GoRDY.
Miss Mary Espy of Montgomery is q
fair visitor in Americas, the guest oil
relatives.
Mr.. w. r, Spence of Camilla was o
wellknown visitor in Americus yester-
day morning.
| Judge Allen Fort was in Atlanta yes
terday looking after legal matters OF
business there.
| Miss May Davis, after a pleasant
stay of some length in ClarksvllIe, has
returned home.
Miss Mamie Ruth Harris has return
ed to her home IN Leeaburg after a
visit in Amerieus.
Mr. Eugene Peterson, a welIknown
citizen of Fort Gainee, came up to
Americus yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Childers OF
Lacrosse were among other visitors in
the city yesterday.
MIR. w. A. Carter, of Gainesville,
Fla, was in Americas yesterday, stop
ping at The Windsor.
Mr.. j. J. Forester came up from
Leesburg yesterday morning, having
business in Americas.
Willis Morgan has gone to breathe
the north Georgia ozone for vacation
of two or three weeks.
Miss Ruba Brooks of Oglethorpe is
visitg her sisters, Mrs. G. L, Williams
and Mrs. Albert Harris
Judge Charles r. Crisp spent yes
terday in Atlanta where he was called
on important business.
Miss Marie Eta Brown of Monte
yuma ia the guest of Miss Maggie
Buchanan for several days.
Mrs T 81. McGIiis and young son
have gone to Demorest, Ga. where
| they will spend some time.
Mr.. @ r. Willburn of Macon is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N.
Ct. Prince, coming yesterday
Mr.. and Mrs E d. Shelf cid and
Miss Sara Sheffield are spending the
week in Albany with relatives.
Mr.. W. Il. Brown has returned from
Jlarksville. Mrs. Brown and MISS Lula
Brown will remain there until the end
of the season.
Mrs. M. T. EIsm goes north tomor.
row to purchase her fall stock of milli-
merry. Her son, Mr.. w. M. Hawkes.,
accompanies her to New York.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-16

If you want bargains for the cash In
box papers, pictures and miscellaneous
books call at M. s Holidays this
week.
Several business chanses here are on
the tapis, to be contaminated before
the busy fall season opens two or three
weeks hence.
Americas cotton men are coming in
every day. and are getting their Offices
in shape for the opening of~the cotton
season in sep ember.
An excellent preventive of fever is
said to be composed of one part sugar,
four parts whiskey and one part water,
shaken we'll together.
More new cotton bales were brought
in yesterday. II We could only have q
week OF fair weather for picking there
would be a rush of bales.
The Americus Light Infantry drilled
last night with well-filled ranks. Com
pany Il always makes an excellent ap
pearance when on parade.
Officer Monahan picked mp q bunch
OF small boys yesterday for shooting q
parlor riff :, giving them o summons to
police court this morning.
The handsome suburban residence
OF Mr.. Barlow Council is nearing COM
pletion and will be occupied next week.
It is model home indeed.
Occasional cases of typhoid fever con-
tinueto develop, though not as frequent
as heretofore. One physician alone has
treated seventeen cases to date.
Prot. E. II. Mcneil, recently of An
drew College, will be located in Amer.
icus after Sept. 1st., 8 wing lessons in
music. See his ad. elsewhere.
Why the halt in beginning work
upon the Central passenger shed here ?
The material is on the ground, but the
sound OF hammer is heard not.
'"The passing of the oars" is still q
subject Of interest among Americus
psople, who wonder if the cars will
really run here, as once promised.
Americus people, famed here by de
lightful breezes, feel a pity for less
fortunate citizens who are hunting
vainly for comfort at summer resorts.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-16
Way to Treat Hay Fever
No Stomach Dosing, just Breathe
Hyomei- Stops Sneezing and Smart

No Stomach Dosing, Just Breathe
Stops Sneezing and Smart
ing.
j. G. Dodson is recommending to b 8
customers as cure for hay fever,
Hyomei.
1t is claimed for this remedy that it
stops the spasmodic paroxysms, the
sneezing, the smarting and running of
the eyes aud nose, and other acute SYM
toms of this disease,
Many persons have been cured of hay
fever by Hyomei, and the discoverer of
the remedy processes to be able to pre-
vent both the occurrence of the annual
attack and to stop the progress of the
disease, even in the most chronic forms
j G. Dodson's offer to refund the money
Ii Hyomei does not do all that is claim
ed for it, is the strongest proof that
can be given as to the confidence he
has in Hyomei's power to cure hay
fever. The complete outfit costs but
81 90, and extra bottles for 80 cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-16
EASILY DECIDED.
This Question Should BE Answered
Easily by Americas People.

This Question Should Be Answered
Easily by Americas People.
Which is the wiser-to have conf.
dence in the opinion of your fellow cit
liens, of people you know, or depend
on statements made by strangers resid
ing in far-away places? Read the fol-
lowing:
A. A. Willet, a we'll known farmer,
living just outside of Americas, says
81 believe that your pills are all that is
claimed for them. They acted quickly
and most effectually In my case. I had
kidney trouble and backache,
from which [ had been O Sufferer for
some years. After lying or sitting ia
one position for any length of time ]
could hardly get up on account of the
dead, heavy pain in the small of my
back. At times seemed almost to lose
the use of my back, aud would have to
take hold of something for support.
The kidney secretions were disco] ored,
being dark and full of sediment, and
strong of odor. used many different
remedies, but without much of any
benefit until [ got Doan's Kidney Pills
at j. G.. Dodson's drug store. Since
using them my back feels strong. The
pain has left it, and the kidneys secre-
tons have also been restored to a nor
NAL condition. You are welcome to
use my name as reference.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's-and take
no other.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-16
Public Ia Aroused.

The public is aroused to knowledge
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stomach, liver and kidneys. Mary b.
Walters, of $40 St. Clair Ave Oolum-
bus. o., writes: 'sFor several months, /
was given up to die. / had fever and
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not sleep, and my stomach was SO weak,
from useless doctors drugs, that could
not eat. Soon after beginning to take
Electric Bitters, obtained relief, and
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G. B. Burhans testifes after four years

G. B. Burbans, of Carlisle Center, n.
Y. writes: ''About four years ago l
wrote you stating that had been en-
tirely cured of a severe kidney trouble
by taking less than two bottles of Fo
ley's Kidney Cure. 1t entirely stop
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and SYMPTOMS Of kidney disease disap-
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never had a return of any of those symp-
toms during the four years that have
elapsed aud / am evidently cured to
stay cured, and heartily recommend
Foley's Kidney Cure to an one suffering
from kidney or bladder trouble" For
sale by E. NJ. Mclaughlin & Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-08-16
Dangerous and Unc ertain.

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Boils, old sores, carbuncles, etc. are
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DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Accept
no substitute as they are often danger
GUS and uncertain Sold by w. A.
Rembert.