The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-07-04

" luAO VI D1, oUU,UUU TO
fight organized labor, the National
Association of Manufacturers has
grappled with the problem the wrong
way. Cooperation, not war, should
De the program. It we're better to
adopt the suggestion of Secretary
Straus and invite the leaders of Or
ganized labor to meet with the manu-
tacturers for joint consultation and
action. The thing to do is for ORGAN
lied capital and organized labor to
get together on a program for concili-
alton and not to make war upon each
other.-Wall Street Journal
Several Happenstances.
There is surely tide in the affairs
OF men. r. G. Dunn and judge
Collins happened to have a row.
That row happened to create a tide.
That tide happened to swirl about the
coat tail of a man named Johnson.
That man johnson happened to float
head foremost into the governors
chair That governor happened to
become great at once because he had
happened to land instead of drowning
in the tide. That's how it happened
that John A. johnson happened to be.
come a great man. Had Dunn and
Collins had no row, then all that hap
pened to Mr.. Johnson would never
have happened.-Mille Laos Pioneer.
He Made Farming Pay.
some farmers make money out of
their farms. While sojourning with
an uncle in Columbia county, Wis
consin, thirty-seve years ago the
writer remembers hearing of Warren
Gilbert, who was at that time regarded
as one of the hardest working and
most prosperous farmers in Lowville
township. The Martin County Inde-
pendent tells of recent visit Mr.. Gil
bert made to son in Fairmont and
has this to say of him: "Mr. Gilbert
settled in Wisconsin over ffty-nine
years ago; has reached the good old
age of eighty-one years, hale and
hearty. He is one of the true aristo-
Gratis OF the country, not the kind
that wants to cover up or conceal the
humble surroundings of early life,
but he takes pride in the same and
the success that has come by industry
and the development of the country.
He tells of the first year of their SET
tlement, when a prairie fire DESTROYED
their cheap, temporary shanty. Him.
self and wife lost all their household
goods and clothing, with exception of
what they wore. He also spoke of the
humble home rebuilt, made from
rough timber, II by 16 in size, in
which they lived for some time; of the
scenes and incidents attending the
early settlement of Wisconsin, of the
primitive tools that he used. The
drag with which he cultivated his land
was homemade, out of timber that he
cut in the woods and hewed with his
Ak. The teeth were not even iron, but
OF wood. Ok teams were all the SET
tiers had and homemade carts and
sleighs. He further tells how the
country gradually prospered; of high
prices that followed the War of the Re-
bellion, when wheat sold at $3.50 a
bushel, oats 80 cents to 81. 90 and wool
Sl.oo per pound. Mr.. Gilbert can
now count his money by the HUNDREDS
OF thousands. He states that he en-
joyed those days of privation. in the
early settlement equally. as we'll as the
present. It is pleasure for him to
tell how himself and wife worked, get
ting up-at four O'Clock in the morn
ing, and during the summer season
averaging sixteen hours a day at
work"