The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-01-06


ment of the Lincoln Gas & Electric
Light Co.
But this is correct statement: The
Miller & Paine adj, the Armstrong
Clothing Co. ad., and the Lincoln Gas
C Electric Light Co. ad. were the
three largest advertisements ever ap-
pearing in labor paper in this coun-
try. And The Wageworker hopes to
see even this great record eclipsed
several times during the coming year.
JERRiEs.
New York, Dec PA seat on the
stock exchange was sold today for
$4,000, new high record price.
For the benefit of the readers of The
Wageworker, who otherwise might not
have known, will state that the above
investment was not made by a work
ing man or trades unionist who had
saved his wages" for that purpose
Evening Standard from Constantine
pie says that the Turkish consul at
Batoum reports that the Armenians are
massacreing Tartars at the rate of 500
daily.
1t has been over nineteen hundred
years since the Christ child was born
in Judea's hills, and the angels of God
proclaimed Peace on earth, good will
to men, And still men, created in the
image of their Father, deluge the earth
with each others blood. What beau
Siful sentiment is contained in Mr..
Maupin's Christmas poem, Ring love
until all wars shall cease" Mr. Maui
pin should be congratulated on bring
ing forth poem worthy to live through
the ages and to be ranked among the
best. Let us indeed do all we can to
hasten the time when brotherhood shall
be established, and to instill horror
of war and bloodshed in the young
and rising generation.
The Atchison Globe pointedly re-
marks that "the rich should get out
and mingle with the poor occasionally,
in order that the poor may learn upon
closer inspection that there is no cause
for envying them
Mr. J. D. Rockefeller asserts that in
the next Industrial panic, which he
says will come about 1907, over 7,000,-
600 of our people will be without en-
ployment, and that the government
will no doubt be required to relieve the
situation by putting them at work on
public improvements, such as build
ing good roads. There are great
many unemployed with us now, but
that they are not alone in their misery
is shown by the following dispatch
from England:
London, Dec 17.-Londons unem-
ployed made a demonstration at st.
Paul's cathedral this afternoon in a
kalf-hearted, hopeless and unusual
manner. Only few hundred of them,
with appropriate banners, went in pro-
cession from Trafalgar square to the
cathedral, where they arrived during
the progress Of the service and up the
steps of which they marched singing
the 'Marseillaise' Here the motley
crowd was joined by contingents from
other quarters, and all, to the number
of some 5000, began fling into the ca
thedral silently and respectfully, maxi
ing an incongruous picture in contrast
with the fashionably dressed worship
ers
Such scene has not been witnessed
at st. Paul's since twenty years ago,
when John Burns, now president of the
local government board, led similar
demonstration to the cathedral.
Although the preacher made a SYM
pathetic reference to the problem Of
the unemployed, the men became tired
long before the service ended and most
OF them filed out Some of the leaders
delivered addresses from the steps and
the demonstration was quietly dis
persed.
That there are people in this coun-
try who are prospecting is shown by
the following dispatch:
New York, Dec. 18.-Imports of dia-
monds and other precious stones have
reached the remarkable total of $37,-
900, 900 dollars at this port for the pres
ent year. Not only has the annual in
crease of from one to one and one-half
million dollars been kept up, but the
banner year of 1904, with $26,O92,275
worth of gems, has been beaten by
nearly eleven million dollars
The "wageworkers" vs. the men with
small means president Roosevelt in
his message) are not supposed to in
quire who are buying these immense