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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-05
STATIONARY FlREMEN,s ,

sTATIoNARY FlREMEN's UNION, NO,
1877 Il: 3. Of 8. F.)-Meets on the
World Hall. Manhattan building Presi-
dent, John A. Ledingham: vice president
Jos. Franknowsky: guide, Chris G. Lar
son secretary-treasurer, John Noble, no
Lake Avenue south,
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evenings at Rowley building. 10 W.
president, Geo. McNabb; recording Sec
retary. s. T. skrove. 21H Piedmont
avenue; treasurer. Edw. Erickson; fin
Fifth street.
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srEAMF1TTERs' UNION No. 4zs-Mests
second and four Wednesday OF each
month at Labor World Hall Man
haitian Building. President c. Oman
Vice president, e. Krause; treas
urer, o. q. Larson, recording and cor
West Superior street.
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PRESENTS CREDENTIALS.
WASHINGTON, Nav i, = Iiaaa.

Aoki, the newly arrived Japanese am
bassador, will present his credentials
to President Roosevelt Thursday. .s
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1sAKERs AND CoNFECT10NERs' UN-
Saturday Of each month at Is West
Superior street. President Henry Jacob
son; treasurer, sick and death benefit
secretary, John 1: Lynn: :d financial sec
tary, Ricnard Richter. 21S w. 4th st.
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CITY Union Directory

FEDERATED r RADEs ASSEMBLY,
Meets second and fourth Friday Of
each month at Labor World Hall. Man
haitian building, President. Joseph Shar-
tel; vice president John Mcdonald; fin
ancial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, c. w. F,
Hegg: Rec. Sec.. John Barron. III w.
Second St.; reading clerk, Geo. North
field, 121 E. Superior street.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-05

Butcher Workman Local 13.-Meets
at Labor World Hall. Manhattan Build
Ing, second and fourth Wednesdays Of
each month. President, n. Telrney;
vice president, G. B. Uncaphex: hnan-
cial secretary. Geo. Northtield. 121 r.
Superior street; treasurer. Jos. Burk.
BUILDING TRADES ALLIANCE
Meets first and third Monday at Labor
World Hall, Manhattan Bldg. President,
Edw. Lowe: Vice President, T. c.. Fresh
ney; Rec. Sec., VIM. A. Harbour; 1920
Polk street; financial secretary-treasurer,
Geo. F. Walters, 1908 W. Fourth st.
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MAcH1NIgTs' UNION. ZENITH LODGE

No. z47 I. A Of M-meets second and
fourth TyesdaXss, Of each month at the
President. A. A. Barr. 122 18th Ave.
West; vice president, s. s. McDon aid.
s. Fifty seventh avenue W.: l.. Ewald.
financial secretary, 1904 East Third
Osborne Terrace: w. s. GranEer''
treasurer. 1927 West Second Street
w. IS. Granger, Sentinel, 1927 West
Second street: A. Archambault. con-
ductor. 1927 West Second street
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ELECTRICAL WORKNRs' UNION NO.
?l.-Meets on the first. third .nd
Labor World Hall. Manhattan building.
President. VIM. r. Nurnian: $40. n. 5$th
Hartiey. ga ri 4th st. recording Sec
rotary. Geo. schuler, 1006 p. It'll st.
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art; Second Vice President. e. Wagner;
Financial Secretary, r. #. Barrows;
Recording & corresponding Secretary,
II. p. Dttzel; Treasurer, Edw. England.
MARINE NNGINEERs' BENEFICIAL.
Association. No. 7s.-Meets every
winter months at Engineers' hail. II.
ceum Bldg. President, Jas. II. Bishop;
first vice president. Chas. Hector: Sec
ond vice president, J. ]. Mccoy: treas
urer. A. Harvey; corresponding secre-
tary. J. r. Burg, 2722 Minnesota Ave-;
financial secretary. George Trevillion.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
SOCIOLOGICAL LAUNDERING.
One Unfortunate Effect of ChicngO's
Child Labor Legislation.

From THE Chicago Chronicle.
Il has been frequently pointed out that
when sociology is put into practice it in
wolves continually passing one law to
correct another Sociology is an ineNact
science. an empirical system. II is a
series Of blind exper.ments-shootin in
the dark
Sociology procured the passage Of the
law under which children below the age
Of sixteen are not permitted 10 work
for a living This enactment Gas most
sensible people predicted mas not op-
Grated to keep big, husky boys at school,
but has resulted in turning them loose
upon the streets. Consequently, sociology
evinces a desire To remedy It's blunder
by enacting that children between the
ages Of fourteen and sixteen may be cx-
cused from school attendance if their
parents can show that the children are
actually working not less than five hours
daily for not less than five days in each
week.
Prof. Graham Taylor. who has pro-
posed the resolution in the charter con-
vention, regretfully admits that the pres
ent child labor law has resulted in keep
ing a large proportion of children be
tween the ages Of fourteen and sixteen
years I'm idleness and placing them I'M
der vicious Influences a. the most i'm
pressionable period of their lives. This
was foreseen by everybody save the So
biologists
Il was certain that most of the boys Of
fifteen or sixteen would not 60 90 school;
the law would not permit them to 90
20 work Prof. Taylor Instances that in
a single gang of seven or eight boys
charged with twenty-eight burglaries all
were between the ages OF fourteen and
sixteen The circumstance tells its own
story.
After boys have reached the age OF
fourteen a large proportion Of them find
school life intOlerable. If they are forced
to attend school they learn nothing; if
they play truant-as they usually do
they learn burglary and other unscholarly
arts.
One Of the greatest curses of this city
is the existence of organized bands Of
young hoodlums who might be learning
something Of real use 20 them and earn
ing a living besides but who are forced
into deviltry by the law which the So
biologists got passed and which they now
want to amend.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
SOUTH IN RETROSPECT.
What Might Have Happened Had the
Lost Causer Won.

Gen. r. p. Alexander. in Scrihuer's
The world has not stood still in the
years since we took UP arms for what we
deemed our most invaluable right-that
of self-government. We now enjoy the
rare privilege Of seeing what we fought for
In the retrospect. Il no longer seems de
sirable. It would prove but curse. We
have good cause to thank God for our
escape from tt, not alone for our sake,
but for that Of the whole country and
even OF the world.
Had our cause succeeded divergent in
terests must soon have further separated
the States into groups. and this continent
would have been given over to divided
natiOnalities. each weak and unable to
command foreign credit. Since the days
of Greece, confederacies have only held
together against foreign enemies. and. in
times Of peace, have soon disintegrated.
Ii is surely not necessary 10 contrast
what would have been our prospects as
citizens Of such States with our condi-
ton now as citizens Of the strongest,
richest. aud-strange for us to say who
once called ourselves conquered" and
our cause 'lost"-the freest nation on
earth.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER.
THE PARTING.

Come. then. my pipe. and say farewell;
HencefOrth I'm going TO be good.
Too long you've held me in your spell
Hereafter. be It understood.
III burn no shreds Of pungent leaf
Within your round and shiny bowl;
And yet-and yet some subtle grief
Lays chilling fingers on my soul.
I mind how oft on country roads
We trudged together, you and /,
And hearkened 70 aeolian odes
The wind-swept trees flung 10 the sky,
] mind how oft your smoke would drift
In lazy spirals through the air,
And by some alchemy would lift
From of my heart the weight Of care.
And when misfortune sought me out
And all my friends went one by one.
Your never showed the slightest doubt
But that my foes some day should run;
You bubbIed so0thingly 10 me.
When on nay woes / fain would brood
! know no human friend could be
Such comfort in my solitude.
count the many wlntry nights
When We sat in the inglenOok
And asked no other fair delights
Just you and ] there with a book.
And times you've helped me when / met
Some problem that held me AT bay
Friend pipe, I never shah forget
The times you've helped me on my way
But now, fareweil-old pipe so brown.
Old stem that is so Coarsely chewed-
Yet can I find in all the town
Another with your traits imbued2
No. Wait Your glowing heart is warm
Your incense rises sweet and clear:
I think that L l do reform
Il shall not be until next year
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
Another Crisis in NIississirni.

Every now and then We are reminded
Of our inextinguishable debt to civil serv-
ice reform. Secure in the enjoyment Of
perfect governmental purity, we often for
get TO consider the source Of thar benef-
cence. Bat this emergency which mas just
arisen in the post-ofice OF Hattiesburg.
Miss, reminds as Of our obligations
There is vacancy in the Harrisburg
Office. Incalculable consequences hang
upon the prompt and satisfactory allevia-
ton of that aching vacuum. Hattiesburg
cries aloud for a postal clerk Modern
Mississippi civilization is at stake The
proper transaction Of an enormous public
business is involved And so, the Civil
Service Commissioners, inspired as usual
by "a lofty sense of the fitness Of things
and consecrated to an exaltation OF the
public service in the interests Of a we'll
meaning but benighted people, have as
signed to Hattiesburg a coIored gentleman
Of the name of, say, Jones This is not
because Jones is obviously the man for
the position. or because Of any great local
yearning for his presence. The commits
sion has acted on the high and noble
ground that Jones. standing at the head
OF the eligible list, must necessarily be the
ideal stOp-gaD for the vacancy. Jones
probably knows more about the topo-
graphical conditions of South America
and the navigable lengths Of AsiaUc rivers
than less enlightened persons who might
serve well enough as clerks in obscure
provincial pOst-off1ces. Evidently. there
fore. he must be sent TO Hattiesburg
where the patrons Of the post-ofTfce object
to him and where his presence will enact
the incendiary function Of a firebrand
Thus Jones gets the assignment. All is
regular. conventional. and no doubt for
the best
But how about Jones. personally? The
clientele Of the Hattfesburg post-of1ce OBJ
jet to Jones They do not want him
there, and have more or less deIcateIy
suggested the idea that Jones health will
be materially promoted by a policy Of
careful and vigilant segregation. Not to
put too fine a point upon it, Hattiesburg
draws the line on Jones and won't accept
him on any terms whatever. It mas
reached his ears, IN fact, that any attempt
on his part to discharge the duties Of pos
tai clerk In that burning town viii precip-
itate a consummation Of peculiar if not
fatal consequences TO himself And there
we are.
But does anybody imagine for an instant
that the Civil Service Commissioners will
shrink at tins psychological moment?
Perish the base thought! We predict that
they viii uphold Jones at any cos1-even
at the cost Of Jones life They are safely
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
IN ADVANCE.

Our friend Mr.. Duzzit astouishes US by
hailing an expressman and addressing him
with a fluent outburst Of profanity The
expressman gives him an astonished look
and drives on hastily. We say nothing,
feeling that discretion is the better part
OF friendship for the moment.
Next We meet his grocer, and that gen
Jleman also Is treated 10 as fine a display
Of double dashes as it has ever been our
fortune 10 hear
Then the butcher, who comes in for an
other consignment of swear words.
Mr.. Duzzlt then lends US into a drug
store. where he goes TO the phone and
rings up the manager Of the telephone
company. whom ne consiEns 10 the deep
est and hottest part Of the hereafter.
Thus il goes for an hour or two. our
wonder growing with leaps and bounds
until finally We make bold TO ask what IL
all means.
Just this" he explains I'm going
to stop swearing tomorrow, and I'm de-
termined that all these people shall have
their proper amount of cUssing from me
before I acquire any handiCaps"
WILBUR NEsBIT.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
Mr.. Tafrs Announcement.

President Roosevelt is not TO be a can
didate for a third term. That IS the chief
significance of the statement, made in
Secretary Taft's behalf. that the political
future of the Ohio jurist is in the hands
of his friends. We have been confident
that the President cherished no intention
TO seek another term in the Executive
Office. and that his purpose had not
changed since his declaration Of two years
ago that he would be content with seven
years of the Presidency. Whether the
American people viii permit him TO retire
IS another matter. yet to be determined.
We share Mr.. Taft's doubts as 10 his
availability as candidate. but these
doubts have no relation TO his capacity
for the Presidential Office. which is un-
questioned. His independence of charac-
ter, his breadth Of vision, his patriotic de
vottOn 10 duty. his training in the law.
and his genial personality combine 10
make him one of the most admirable and
attractive figures in public life Obiec-
lions TO his availability, Mr. Taft tells us,
do not lessen with the continued dis
charge Of his official duty. In other
words, honorable, conscientious, and up
right public service does not count with
the influences that are now seeking TO
gain control of the Republican national
convention Of 1908. Mr.. Taft is not avail
able, because he is not spineless and
eomplaisant politician lacking in either
convictions or independence TO assert
them. No more than Theodore Roosevelt
would he be a subservient tool in the
White House of the powers that prey.
But it may be that the prestige Of
Theodore Roosevelt can triumph over the
unexpected and the apparently impossi-
bic. Perhaps he may be able TO bring
about the nomination Of Taft as the man
best fitted 10 carry TO their logical conclu-
sion the policies initiated by his admins
tration. Mr.. Roosevelt is not TO be deter
red by difficulties or turned aside by up-
position. We know that his hand is set
10 the task. and we feel there will be no
7inehing. With what greater achieve
ment could he leave office than the nomi-
nation and election Of his successor
against the powerful influences now being
arrayed against his administration?
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
SENATOR BAILEY'S CASE.
His "Indiscretionr Held Not to Dis
qualify Him for Public Service.

qualify Him for Public Service.
From the Louisville Courisr-JournaL
Senator Bailey, of Texas. who has been
virtually on trial before the people Of his
state. seems in a fair way 10 secure a
verdict Of acquittal from the legislature
According 70 the local papers. 100 out Of
163 members Of the Texas legislature have
declared In his favor, and 1t is believed
that when the vote Is taken a greater
number will register their approval Of
Mr. Bailey. although they may disap-
prove Of what the Houston Post calls his
serious, but not dishonest. mistake 20
that of having borrowed money, while he
was member of Congress. from local
oil magnate whose company was after
ward discovered to be a branch Of Mr.
Rockefeller's trust.
There Is a wide difference between con-
demning the transaction which Mr. Bailey
contends was merely personal, but which
was certainly unfortunate and condemn
ing Mr.. Bailey, whose record as a member
of the House and Senate has been clean,
whose services to his State and the ma
ton have been distinguished. and whose
vote and views have not. as far as has
been shown been influenced in the least
by the transaction that has created the
controversy in Texas. II he has been
guilty of nothing worse than indiscretiOn
it would be most unfortunate for a man
Of his ability and age to be retired
from the Senate. where he has been one
Of the largest figures, and where he
promises to be Of increasing usefulness In
his maturer years. Slapder. like DEATH
loves d shining mark, and enemies Of the
gifted Texan, in both parties, have eager
~ seized upon an opportunity TO brand
him as one of the traitors in the Senate
without taking the trouble to sift the
charges brought against him. but proof
of treason has been lacking.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
The colonel. in Washington.

Internal Revenue Commissioner Yerkes,
of Kentucky, complains through the col
umns of The Herald because citizens Of
Washington address him as colonel"
washington" he says, is Just about the
worst place I was ever in for titles"
We are not ready to admit that Wash
ington is the worst place in the United
States. or elsewhere, for titles. But even
if such were the case. we think that Com
missioner Yerkes misapprehends the true
intent and general import of the part1cu-
lar title to which he objects.
The term colonel is a characteristic
feature of Washington existence-just as
much so in social intercourse as is the
steamed oyster in comestible way. The
latter, served properly and devoured at
the psychological moment, Is food too good
for king. and Just ft for the NAV Of any
one among eighty million sovereigns. Yet
the visitor in our midst whose first half
peek steamed" is not properly done. or
who approaches It either too hungry or
too comfortably fed. may depart from our
midst TO spread the false tidings that the
vaunted esculent of the National Capital
is Il delusion II not an abomination. And
even SO. all depends upon the manner I'm
which and by whom the passing stranger
is called colonel"
The title, as used by persons with
some Interior design in view-with hatch
cts TO grind or ravors yet to come in con-
templation-has a fiat and brackish flavor.
and is quite apt to freeze the genial cur
rents OF the soul and put a discordant
crimp IN the cookies OF the heart. But
spoken by an humble WashinEt0nian 10
the manner born, the word colonel" i'm
parts an iuexplicable calm to the most
strenuous soul.
When they would fain fee from the
pressing cares OF state. great generals
admirals. Judges. and even Presidents, are
glad to have it fall upon their ears
Politicians out Of a job and politicians
whose jobs have filled their strenuous
lives with carking cares have been known
TO flee for temporary relief TO the nearest
barbershop. where its sound is mingled
with the gentle swish of the whisk-broom
and adds "a grateful zest TO the mute ap-
peal which preludes the generous tip.
We hope Colonel" YCrkcs will yet come
to know the unctuous title to which he
now objects as the highest compliment
in the vocabulary of the American cleo
torate and learn to yield it the thankful
tribute OF a generous sigh.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
CIeveInnd's Gas situation.

From the Cleveland Leader
That the new gas company will be rich
and powerful goes without saying. What
influence It viii exert in municipal affairs
remains to be seen. Certain it is that Il
will be able TO put up a stronger fight
against measures the city council may
seek to impose upon it than the present
companies have been capable Of But
the prices for artificial gas cannot be
changed until 1910 and the competition
afforded by the natural gas and electric
companies is a healthy factor in the il
Illuminating situation, at least for the
present.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
The ErurnI Jnnnnese.

From Che Boston Globe.
A college professor. who had spent four
years at Yale and two in Berlin acquiring
his foreign education, lives with his wife
at Kyoto. city, in a rented horse, hav-
ing a little garden, at a total cost Of 465
yen year, or about 1913. This is divided
as follows: Rent, Sl2J. house tax, s.;
servants wages S15; fuel Sl3; light, s.;
clothes, SIS, and food, $50. His salary is
500, and he is applying 500 a year to the
debt he incurred 70 obtain his education
A people who can conquer domestic prob
lens as do the japanese find no terrors
in the economic burden Of a war debt.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
SOM Better Than whisky.

From the Louisville Ccurier-JournaI
A physician says a plate of hot soup
will warm and nourish man more than
six drinks of whisky costing Is cents
each. And, moreover. the plate of soup
win not cause him TO buy a wildcat gold
mine or a Mexican rubber plantation
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
Spencer and Cnssntt.

IL IS q curious coincidence that on the
very day when the black emblems Of
mourning for the death OF Samuel
Spencer were removed from the uptown
ticket office Of the Southern Railway.
the same emblems were draped 10 the
office " the Pennsylvania Railroad for
A. J. Cassatt. The ticket Offices of these
two great railroads occupy adjoining
rooms In "a building on Fifteenth street.
opposite the Treasury. President Spencer
was killed in "a wreck on his road No
vember p The customary period Of
mourning expired yesterday. In less than
au hour after the black Grape had been
taken down from the entrance Of the
Southern ticket Office IL was draped over
the Pennsylvania office next door. Messrs.
Cassatt and Spencer We're intimate friends
Of long years standing Their acquaiut-
ance began soon after the civil war, when
each was getting his start in the business
OF which both were acknowledged mas
tiers when death 50 suddenly and unex-
pectcdIy cut them down. In aims and
methods they We're a good deal alike.
Each was distinctly constructive. and as
administrators Of great and complicated
properties they had no superi0rs and few
equals among Americans Of their day.
Both of them eXerted quietly "a determin-
ing influence on The conduct ~ Congress
al the last session iu railroad rate legis-
Iad0u. Each was AN advocate Of regula-
ton. ard In this attitude they were Op-
posed by a combination OF powerful rail-
road fuauciCrs. They supported PTesi-
dent Rolsevelts programme for increaS-
ing the power of the Interstate Commerce
Commission over interstate transporta-
ton. but they insisted that there should
be- an appeal 20 the courts from the com
missions rulings In this they won a
signal victory. II is probable that had
they joined with the blind opponents of
any further rate regulation by Congress
through the Interstate Commerce Com
mission the Presidents programme as
originally announced would have been
enacted into law, and thus the right Of
appeal 20 the courts would not have been
specifically provided for In the so-called
Duliver-Ifepburn bill.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30

doubt not that the men employees tried
to boss them. Man is ever tyrant, and
woman is rebelling against tyranny in
these enlightened days. If women insist
upon getting along without men, they
ought to be given the opportunity to
do so.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
Spice in PnbIic Lie.

From the Louisville C0urieT-JOurnaL
Now that the President has appointed as
Civil Service Commissioner Mr. Nell
benny, of Louisiana, the man who makes
tabasco sauce, II is recalled that Roose-
welt himself put a little ginger into the
commission fifteen years ago.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30

The Sultan of Morocco. to oblige the
powers. has dismissed Raisoun from the
Eoverncrship of Tangier. Now, If
Raisouli would only get out and be-
have, the Sultan might have a little
peacc
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
A Neglected Field.

From the Chicago Rooord-Herald.
President Roosevelt has contributed to
one of the magazines a paper on the An
cient Irish Sagas. BY the way, the Presi-
dent has never given Us his version of the
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
Dear at Any Price.

From the Columbia State
Local consumers are clamoring for so
cent gas in Washington. The country
at large has long been impressed with the
notion that Washington was already
served with the 90-cent variety.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
Identified.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
That lone mosquito in Panama was
probably Of the Poultneymia Bigelow-
ciata variety.
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
something Missing.

From the New York Mail.
Was it in another life. or did we dream
that we used TO get beautiful insurance
calendars about this time o. year?
The Washington herald., 1906-12-30

Watch me work Andy Carnegie fer
some COIN
"WOts ger scheme2'
L m gOin' ter write him a letter in sim
pliied Scotch