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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05
LABOR PARTY SCORES
!. AGAIN IN AUSTRALIA
Increases; It's Membership in
State Legislature from Six
to Fifteen.
As the Body Consists of But
40 Members it is Believed
Labor Will Control.

New York, August s.-The labor par
ty Of Australia has struck another
powerful blow.
In the state election for members Of
the legislature Of South Australia, COM
posed OF q members. the labor party
has just increased the number Of rep
resentattves from to is.
But this is not all. The laborites
swept the principal cities. In the i'm
portant places like Torrens and Adel-
aide the workers captured every seat,
defeating the Liberals by tremendous
matorfties. The state atorney-general
below the lowest Labor man on the
ballot.
It is believed that when the legis-
lature meets, Tom Price, the leader of
the Labor party. will become premier,
as a. number Of Independent members
arc in sympathy with the Labor party
If Price wins an aggressive campaign
Will be begun at once against the up
per house, election to which Is re-
stricted by rental and property quail
f1cations. A deadlock will probably en-
sue. the legislature will be adjourned
and an appeal taken to the country.
Throughout the compaign the ques-
ton Of socialism was uppermost Ma
tional Premier Reid was imported in
to the state to "smash'' Socialism"
with the result that the Labor party,
accepting the guage of battle, leaped
into control Of the Assembly.
This important piece Of news was
not cabled to this country by the AS
ISOLATED Press for obvious reasons. The
labor press has obtained it from English
and Australian newspapers that have
just arrived, and this paper is probably
the first to publish the result in this
country. It is with pleasure that we are
enabled to supply this information to
the Parry1tes, who have lied about the
Australian working people, as well as
to our other friends" who are continu-
ally advising labor to keep out Of pol
it1cs" and let the plutocrats and their
grafters run things
Every victory gained by the working
class in other countries tends to heart
en- and encourage the progressive labor
Ing people of our land, and despite all
obstacles the workers of America will
soon be in a position to give a good
account of themselves. OF right this
country belongs to labor and one of
these fine days labor is going to take
control Of it's own. Keep on agitating,
organizing and voting for the working
class!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05
Ten Arietotlelian Commandments.

4Vn Af1otOtlcl10A COmm00d meAt0.
Thou shalt devote thy utmost pow
ers to some section of our common
welfare.
Thou shalt hold this end above all
lesser goods such as pleasure, money
and honor.
Thou shalt hold the instruments es-
sential to the service of this end. Sec
ond only to the end itself.
Thou shalt ponder and revere the
universal, laws that binds ends and
means together in the ordered universe.
Thou shalt master and obey the spe-
ciac laws that govern the relation of
means to thy chosen end.
Thou shalt use just so much Of the
materials and tools Of life as the SER
vice of thy end requires.
Thou shalt exclude from thy life
all that exceeds or falls below this
mean, reckless of pleasure lost.
Thou shalt endure whatever hard
ship and privation the maintenance of
this mean in the service Of thy end
requires, needless Of the pain involved.
Thou shalt remain steadfast in his
service until habit shall have made it
second nature, and custom shall have
transformed it into joy.
Thou shalt find and hold a few like
minded friends, to share with thee
this lifelong devotion to that. common
social welfare which is the task and
goal Of man.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05
BREAKS PITCHER
TO WAKE employees

It is the unusual that attracts at
tention. It is the unusual on the stage.
It Is the unusual In the magazine.
It Is the unusual in the newspaper.
It is the unusual in business life.
successful public speaker has a
reason for every move he makes while
addressing an audience.
Soon after John H. Patterson, presi-
dent Of the National Cash Register
company, returned to Dayton after a
trip around the world he addressed his
employees on the subject Of promotions.
It was soon after lunch. and some Of
those present appeared to lose interest
In his talk.
Mr.. Patterson asked for a glass Of
water. It was brought and placed on a
table in front of him. He did not drink
it, but continued to. talk. He again
turned and asked for some water. An
attendant brought a pitcher Of water
and placed on the table. Mr.. Patter-
son continued to talk on promotions.
AS he made a telling point he push
ed against the table and down went
the pitcher. glass and all. The crash
startled everyone in the room, many
jumping out of their seats, thinking
Mr.. Patterson had met with an acct
dent. He had the attention of every
one in the room. With a smile, he
resumed:
II wanted to do something unusual.
You will remember that breaking the
pitcher Of all the things I did today.
You would have forgotten all about our
having a meeting today. and of our
talk on promotions and therefore you
would not have gotten any good out Of
it. I want you to tell your wife this:
why, what do you think Mr.. Patterson
did at our meeting today?' you Will
say at home this evening. why he
stood up there and Just knocked over
a table with a pitcher of water and
a glass OH it. I saw him, end was
going to warn him, but was too
late. The water was all over the
table and all over the floor. saw it
going, but did not yell because it was
all done so quickly What was he
talking about?' He was telling US
how we could win promotion, how we
could all make more money. Some Of
us were little bit sleepy after a
hearty dinner and he wanted to wake
us UP and make us remember the part
about promotions. He said the pitcher
cost only -seventy-five cents, and. the
reason he broke 1t was to do some of the
men SIS worth of good. He aaid that
If man wanted to. succeed financially,
morally, mentally and socially he could
DO 80 by resisting tenQtat lions zafsa1l
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05
A'VlsIoN OF TRAGEDY.
passed the plate in church.

passed the plate in church.
There was little silver, but the
crisp bank notes heaped themselves up
high before me.
And ever as the pile grew the plate
became warmer and warmer. until it
fairly burned my fingers. and a smell Of
scorching flesh rose from it. and
perceived that some Of the notes were
beginning to shoulder and curl, half
Drowned at the edges.
And then I saw through the smoke
into the very substance Of the money.
and beheld what it really was:
saw the stolen earnings Of the
poor, the wide margin Of wages pared
down to starvation.
I saw the underpaid factory girl exc
ing out her living on the street. and
the overworked child, and the suicide
of the discharged miner.
saw poisonous gases from the great
manufactures spreading disease and
death:
I saw despair. and drudgery filling
the dram-shop.
I saw rents screwed out from brother
men for permission to live on Gods
land:
I saw men shut out from the bosom
Of the earth and begging for the poor
privilege to work in vain, and becom-
ing tramps and paupers and drunkards
and lunatics, and crowdin into aims
houses, insane asylums and prisons;
saw ignorance and vice and crime
growing rank in filthy, sitting slums;
saw usury spring from usury, itself
again born of unjust monopoly and
purchased laws and legalized violence:
saw shoddy cloth ana adulterated
food, and lying goods of all kinds,
cheapening men and women and vul-
garizing the world;
I saw hideousness extending itself
from coal mine and foundry, over for
est and river and field:
I saw money grabbed from fellow
grabbers, and swindled from fellow
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05
CLERKS union NEEDS
SOME GOOD BRAC|hG
Members Seem to be Inactive,
and But Few Of Them Take
Interest in Union.
Some Talk of Sending for a
National Organizer to Put
Them on Their Feet.

"God helps those who help them
Selves" is a generally accepted ak
ION; therefore why the local retail
clerks, judging from their present
attitude and actions, should expect
either divine assistance or that OF
the labor paper and the labor unions
of this city is mystery. These
men have shown not the slightest
disposition to help themselves; they
have neglected their craft organize
ton and have allowed it to go to
pieces. AS a consequence the var
ious merchants are ignoring the
closing hours agreed to between
them and the clerks and the latter
are becoming disturbed In conse-
quence.' Many efforts ahve been
made by a faithful few among the
clerks and by organizers and out
side unions to instill proper appre-
citation Of their own welfare into
these clerks, but in vain. BY their
conduct they seem to consider. them
selves too good to adopt the line OF
action taken by the ordinary me-
chanic in safeguarding his interests
Organization.
If Duluth clerks had any get up
in them they could be enjoying what
many locals of their craft through
out the country have gained and
are gaining-a maximum work day
and a minimum wage, with over
time for extra hours. AS it is here
the clerks have none of these things
and they must suffer an indefinite
prolongation of the closing hour in
servile silence. If there condition
should become more and more intol-
cradle it would only be what they
deserve. Let them show a d1spost-
ton to help themselves and they will
find many willing friends and help
ers. " -. -.
An effort has been made, by some
of the more active members, to hold
a meeting of the clerks union on
the last two meeting nights. The at
tendance did not materialiZe, how
ever, thus emphasizing the lack OF
initiative in the members.
Since it does not seem to be with
in the power Of the clerks of their
own accord to manufacture enough
vitality and get-up to do something
for themselves, as last effort an
organizer of the Retail Clerks should
be asked for from national head
quarters. Perhaps he can succeed
in inducing the clerks to fall in line
Certain it is that from most of the
substantial merchants, from all the
labor unions, from this paper, and
from public sentiment generally, he
| will receive every aid and encour'
agement when he arrives and sets tc
work. Very many Of the mer'
chants sincerely desire to, see q
strong clerks organization and q
rigid enforcement of the closing
hours and deplore the existing state
of affairs. Perhaps they have not
been ground down and imposed upon
enough to make them assert their
manhood. Certain it is that their
actions, always excepting very few
have shown them to be woeful1y
lacking in this very necessary quail
ity. At least the clerks might give
the organizer all the assistance in
their power, and let him at least
have fair play to do something fol
them.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05

kinds. re said moro young men are
being held back today BY their inabtli-
ty TO- resist temptation than by anything
else: He. left this thought with them
because they could not realise Its full
meaning in q minute. and that IL why
the pitcher was purposely broken"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05
PHIL CARLIN GETS GOOD
BERTH FROM CARPENTERS

Minneapolis, August 3.-Phil Carlin,
known throughout Minnesota in union
labor circles, and former business agent
of the building: trades council OF Min
neapolis, has been appointed general
organizer for the United Brotherhood
Of Carpenters. ...<--. .l@..3..- IN H..
The candidacy for. the appointment
was holly :: contested between John
Hughes Of st. Paul and Phil Carlin
of Minneapolis: Mr.. Carlin begins work
Immediately and will push the work Of
organizing the carpenters throughout
the northwest. n ..5. II
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-08-05

=. RARoR THEATER.
10 Second avenue West. presents "a
Don't miss II. frank g. Ellis, proprle-
tor and manager. b eS 5ts SSs &
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-02

Es- Senator Chandler /
Makes a Prediction.
SENATE and Hou5e /
Qnayvsl - The oil !
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pacity. or rather incapacity, for self
governments also us to the rapid
growth Of the Monroe doctrine in scope
and in power. The presidents action il
transmitting the protocol to tiS senate
dissipates The fear that he was trying
to act independently of the senate i'll
the ease and places the whole situation
before the country in Il most luminous
manner. That it is a step of far reach
ing consequences must be apparent
even to the tlullest mind. We are doing
this thing. ii we do it at all, at the ear
nest and repeated solicita ton of the GOV
ernment of Santo Domingo. Ii, howey
er. we take charge of her financial af-
fairs why should we not also take
charge in the same way of all the bank
rupt nations of Central and South
America and of the West Indies? Few
of them can pay their debts if left to
manage them themselves. Their over
sea- creditors are clamOrous for settle
ment and threaten all sorts of things.
There can be no question that il we
take over the financial difficulties of
Santo Domingo we have entered upon
course which will lead us to assume a
suzerainty or oyerlordship of all the
bankrupt governments on this CONT
nent, just as by the Platt amendment
we assume and are exercising it over
Cuba. That we would give them bet
ter administration of their financial af
fairs than they now have goes without
saying. but the momentousness of the
action should give us pause at least
till such Il step is most thoroughly CON
sidered and discussed.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-02

through Missouri | heard him speak
1T Hanniba. and introduced him to
audiences at Louisiana and Clarksville,
i'll my district. At Hannibal and Lou
isiana he spoke on stands improvised
near the depot. At Clarksyille he spoke
from the rear platform OF his Pullman
There We're large and enthusiastic
crowds of people at each place He
WAS surrounded by his guards Not d
person in all those shouting thousands
Of Mlssouiians would have harmed
hair of his head even if they had had
free access 10 his person, but | confess
chat | breathed more freely when the
train landed him safe and sound in St
Louis While he was speaking at the
places above named and while the po-
lice and secret service men We're Wig
ilantly watching the crowds | took an
inventory of the surroundings and OBJ
served that at each place there We're at
least 100 windows within easy rifle
range. from any one of which anything
off easily And it Is so elsewhere.
When WAS boy in the back woods OF
Kentucky we thought hunter dis
gruced who would shoot squirrel with
a rifle In any portion OF his anatomy
except his head. | assume that no sane
man desires to Kill or wound Colonel
Roosevelt. but cranks abound. ind,
much as he delights to see the people
and to mingle with them-a feeling
greatly to his credit and as much as
they like to see and hear him. he owes
it to his country to take the best posi-
bic care of his life Even on the visit
to Little Hungary" which turned out
so Well. 4 thing happened which Illus
trates the futility of secret service men
At one point the president escaped the
surveillance of his guards, much to
their horror and spent a few free and
blissful moments shaking hands with
his old friends of the mounted police
and making new ones. 1t may well be
doubted whether Colonel Roosevelt en-
joys being girded about with official
guardians and whether they really add
anything to his safety.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-02
Wise In Affection.

1t is said that the only request made
of the prison authorities by Augustus
w. Machen, once the powerful chief
of the great division of the postoffice
department which controls rural deliy
cry business, now Il convict in the peni-
Tertiary at AIoundsville W. Va, was
permission to take his books, particu-
larry his Greek and Latin books into
captivity with him. | hope this request,
unusual among those doing time, was
granted. The qualification Of Mr..
Machen in that regard can do no harm
may do much good He has splendid
mind. What pitiful conclusion to his
ambitions is AIoundsville prison-if it
be the conclusion. But will it be? Not
necessarily One of the most success
full business men in the last quarter of
Il century served two years in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary when d youth for
forgery He had great capacity and
great courage So when his term eX
tired he resolutely returned to st.
Louis. whence he had been sent to the
state prison, went to work, led Il
lllpdSi lllt. dlltdSscl u IOl NetH
prominent in every good work and died
respected by all who knew him. Mr..
Machen may be able to follow his eN-
ample. for his ability none will deny.
His love of books is rather pathetic un-
der the circumstances, but he may con
sole himself with the fact that two of the
most popular books i'll the wide, wide
world don Quixote'' and Pilgrim $
Progress were written within prison
walls Perhaps Mr. Machen will thus
immortalize himself Even Il well writ
ten description of prison life ought TO
be made both interesting and profitable.
AS one who knew him well officially
when in the heyday of his prosperity
| am glad that he has the taste and the
wisdom to solace himself with books.
| will be gladder still if, when he doffs
his prison garb. he leads u noble and Il
useful life. for
l hold it truth with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones
That men may rise on stepping stones
OF their dead selves to higher things
OF course it would be much easier to
follow the fashion aud abuse Macllen.
but | heartily congratulate him Oh his
love of learning
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-02
The Standard Oil.

The Campbell resolution with refer
ence to the Standard Oil trust recently
passed by the house of representatives
and the presidents order to Mr.. CARRIED
to collect evidence in that connection
will perhaps settle the question once
for all whether the government can
really destroy or regulate the trusts
for to all other trusts the Standard
Oil stands i'll the same relation that
Aaron's rod stood to all other rods. If
the Standard Oil trust can be throttled,
so can all the others, but the signs of
the times indicate that those interested
in the trusts 10 not believe that they
can be throttled, for the making OF
new trusts goes mel1ily on ON the
very same day on which the house
passed the Campbell resolution a new
steel trust was formed With a huge
capital. But the passage of the Camp
bell resolution. together with other re
cent happenings, shows that at last the
people are waking up all along the line
to the enormity of the trust evil and
propose to discover some means to
abate it, Even some Republicans ap
pear to be III earnest in the matter
Mr. Campbell is from southeastern
Kansas. 4 region of marvellous natural
wealth. Southeastern Kansas and
southwestern Missouri furnish the
world with the bulk of the zinc CON
sumed Natural gas and oil have been
discovered in amazing quantities. The
Standard Oil company proposed to it.
self to reap All the profits of the Ran
sas oil fieiCs. to which Mr.. Campbell's
constituents naturally and vigorously
object; hence the resolutions The Kan
sans are m infiammable folk They are
Republicans by a large majority, but a
few years ago they kicked out of Re
publican traces. and they are likely to
do so again unless they receive some
measure Of relief from the extortions
of the Standard Oil trust; therefore
this rlmpus.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-02
"At Too Great Risk"

Under til. above caption the Post
Standard of Syracuse. y Y, thus edi-
torially moralzes on the presidents
recent visit TO Little Hungary
Now that it is all ended and safely end
ed may it not be worth while to remark
that incidents like the presidents visit to
the lower east side in New York involve a
degree of personal peril which a wise
prudence can hardly approve?
Vital national and material interests as
well as the presidents life are endanger-
ed, and in thus deliberately tempting the
madness OF madmen the game seems hard
ly worth the candle
Who will say that the Post Standard
il wrong in the opinions set forth in
that brief paragraph. Does it not
speak the words of truth and sober
ness? The president is brave-of course
he is-but courage cannot ward off the
blow Of the assassin. Lincoln and Gar
field and Mckinley We're also brave.
Popular: That goes without saying.
bur Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley
were popular as he. Surrounded by Sc
cret service men and police? Yes. and
so was Mckinley when he was shot,
and Alexander Ii. of Russia when lie
was blown up with dynamite, and
President Carnot of France and King
Humbert when they We're murdered
Cranks and semilunatics we have With
us always. like the poor, and the Very
presence of secret service men, police
and military guards is like as not to
inspire some crack Drained person to
try to picked off the president at long
range just to see If he can do it. Sur
rounded by his friends That's admit
ted so were Lincoln. Garfield. Alex
ander Carnot and Humbert. 1t is alb
solute truth to say that il a man has
made up his mind for any reason to as
sassinate the president he can find 4
way despite all the guards that can
be placed around him.
When President Roosevelt made his
trip 20 the Pacific COAST he came dawn
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-02
Preroaative.

Both senate and house appear sud
denly jealous as TO their prerogatiyes-
the senate jealous of the president. the
took it's stand against the senate en-
croachment in the matter of the draw
back on wheat by almost unanimous
vote. only five members dissenting,
while ON the arbitration treaties the
senate took it's stand against what it
claims is executive encroachment by
the decisive vote of 80 to 8. thereby
amending the treaties by the substitu-
ton of the word treaty for the word
agreement" which to the uninitated
appears Il small difference, but which
is really deep as Il well and wide as
a barn door. The president has refus-
ed to offer the amended treaties to
foreign powers. and hereafter they will
remain as mere reminders of the point
at which the road forked, the Repub-
lican president travelling one path and
the Republican senate another The
contention of the house is that IN the
wheat drawback amendment to the
agricultural bill the senate attempted
to originate revenue measure, a per
Torrance forbidden by the constitu-
ton. as that document confers upon
the house the sole power to originate
revenue measures. The house cannot
back down with any self respect. 1t is
pretty quarrel as it stands, or, more
properly speaking, there are two pretty
quarrels.