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L. L. Huckett returned Sunday
evening from Rockwell City where
he has been visiting with his wife at
her parental home. Mrs. Hockett
will remain there for some two or
three weeks yet.
Ray Sutton and wife returned from
Shenandoah Monday after a pleasant
week spent with relatives and friends.
The Presbyterian and Methodist
churches are about to open what prom
Uses to be one Of the greatest union
revivals that has been known in the
history of the town.
The Christian Endeavor held an
Identification social in the Sunday
School room of the church last Friday
evening. each person in attendance
wore some article to represent the
state in which they were born. A
large crowd Of young people were in
attendance and a royal good time
with neat sum in the treasury is the
result of the efforts of the Endeavor
members.
Four car load of cattle. the prop
erty Of E. D. Saunders and ALI.
Miller were shipped from this point
to Chicago Saturday night.
One of the most important events
of the week past was the organization
of the Eastern Star Lodge which took
place last Thursday afternoon and
evening at the Masonic Hall. The
lodge starts out with about 20 mem
bers and great interest is being
shown by the charter members in its
behalf.
No doubt it will be one Of the best
and strongest orders in our city.
| E. A. Bigelow left Saturday noon
after weeks visit with old friends.
for his home in Denver. Mrs. Bigelow
will spend another week with us be-
| fore her return.
Chas. Pease is spending short
time off the road having been called
home to attend the funeral Of his
niece Margle Ligget. whose death
we chronicled in last weeks issue.
A. H. Willis and wife was called
to Omaha Xmas Eve, to the sickbed
of her mother who was lowering at
the point of death. Mr.. Willis re-
turned Tuesday evening but Mrs.
Willis will remain for some time.
Mr.. Parch who some years ago re-
sided near Manila on farm and who
is now a prominent contractor and
builder of Des Moines was the guest
of D. H. Naeve and Adam Bohlander
this week.
James Paiste and wife are visiting
their daughter Mrs. Perez of Madi-
son. Wis. during the holidays.
Mark Sutton and wife left Tues
day morning for a weeks sojourn at
Shenandoah and other points in the
south part of the state.
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liter FROM OLSON.
Former Washington correspon-
dent Writes Once More.
DISCUSSES NATIONAL ISSUES
Opening of Congress. - Letters of
"Savoyard"-Probable Legs
.lation.
Washington. D. c., Dec. %, 1906.

Washington, d. c., Dec. %, 1906.
Time is a persistent innovator.
Ofsen her changes are slight and
almost imperceptible. At other times
they approach a revolution in scope
and profundity. Generally a series
of apparently insignificant incidents
lead up to and superinduce fundamen-
tai readiustments. 1t does not re-
quire exceptionally penetrating powers
of observation to discover in the gov
ernmental activities of our country
positive indications Of transition.
True. the currents of influence are Of
ten Elusive and Intangible: but con-
sidered in larger perspective they
contribute to general comprehension
Of tendencies and Developments. We
have been coming to it for some time
in this country. and it required but
an occasion to publish our secret con-
victions with reference to the powers
of the general government. This is
the leading question confronting
SL0LOSIICU VI ILLS COuuCAy eOuoys
What are the legitimate and abiding
limitations to the scope Of the feder-
al government That they are not
generally understood or defined is
patent from the frequent conflicts be-
tween prominent statesmen and offii-
ais. In confederation of this view
we cite the controversy now raging
between Senator Foraker. of Ohio.
and the president. The former takes
positive issue with the executive on
the question of his authority to dis
miss the negro regiments of the
Twenty Fifth Infantry, which has
aroused so much feeling. Anticipat-
ing further agitation of the matter
the president has sent Assistant At
torney General Purdy to Texas to
secure further evidence in support of
his action. Senator Foraker AYERS
that he is in possession of data which
will render his position unassailable.
Lodge. Knox and other giants in
forensics and constitutional Law are
expected to champion the course of
the president. and the public looks
forward with some degree of excite
ment to the clash Of arms which is
pretty certain to take place. 1t will
probably result in throwing some light
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on the problem of relative rights and
limitations of state and national gov
eminent in the United States. Re-
cent riots anddisturbances in the
south will no doubt add intensity to
the conflict.
It is customary to disparage the
present and laud past. There are
those who profess an inability to dis
Germ anything remarkable or great in
present craftsmanship or literature.
and who never tire of dwelling upon
the power and genius inherent in the
literary and political achievements of
men who are dead and gone. Such
people view these things with a biased
eye. and permit distance to lend UNI
due enchantment. Able and brilliant
writers are now so numerous that they
attract no special attention. and
hence the note of contempt with
which they are treated in comment.
In the days of Pope. Swift. Milton
and Addison public discussions were
reduced to print and distributed in
pamphlets. This practice gave prom
inence to the efforts of essayists and
political writer's. In the immense
volume of our periodical literature
the productions of this character are
not SO conspicuous as they might be
under the regime referred to. One
needs but read the articles of tSav-
oyard" of the Washington Post to
realize that men capable of interpret
ing national political tendencies and
conditions are not the exclusive pos
sessions of ages gone by. This man
resembles Ebert Hubbard in the ex-
pansiveness of his intellectual hori-
zon. He is as familiar with the field
Of American politics as Hubbard is
with the realm of literature. He seems
to harbor democratic leanings. and as
becomes member of the deposed and
exiled party he writes caustically and
with a strong flavor of pessimism.
For instance he says on one occasion
~ have been Fostering my poor brains
for forty years to find out what il
Americanism in this country. 1t is
this The old flag. an appropriation.
an Office and a privilege" His ap.
parent cynicism is the result of much
knowledge and long familiarity with
practical politics in the days wher
they were even more corrupt that they
now are. in places. Savoyard's'
real name is Newman. Like Phillil
Francis. the old associate and thorr
in the side of Warren Hastings, who
wrote as Junius. he writes under {
pseudonym. In recent article hi
delivers himself of the following
"The republicans will follow Roo,
and the democrats will follow Bryan,
and the republicans will win. because
in contest between men of first class
ability and men who cannot rise
above the dead level of mediocrity.
the former always get there. lake
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Mr.. Bryan's lungs away and he would
be in Benton McMillan's class down
about the middle of it. or lower. In
a mighty tariff argument advocating
free trade, Bryan quoted Tom Moore's
Last Rose of Summer shade of
Adam Smith! Benton quoted Bryan's
apostrophe to Corinth, beginning,
" Many vanished year and age. "
And these speeches were lin the
hearance Of" Carlysle and Reed. Will
son and Dingley. Turner and Grosve-
nor!" And again: When the
democratic party shifted its flag. dis
solved. and was merged in the Pop
ulist- Socialist party of Bryan and
Debs, it deserted the constitution,
which was left defenseless. All sorts
of things have been done to that in
strument since Mr.. Bryan came on
the carpet. and now he wants the
government to buy or steal the rail-
roads lit is not quite clear which.
though there are suggestions OF
steal" And SO the merry fight over
the constitution goes on; each side
claims the other is violating the his
toric document. One side invades
this section. and the other tramples
down that clause. Political expediency
must be regarded under all circum-
stances. and the poor old bulwark
of our rights must take its chances in
the melee. unless impending de-
bates shall clear up the field some
what.
John Wesley Gaines is member
of Congress from Tennessee. He holds
the record for the number of speeches
delivered at the last session of Con-
gress by single member. He is
nominally democrat in political
utilization. Virtually he is John
Wesley Gaines. He has conceived
a novel idea concerning the duty of a
congressman. He has acquired the
unusual habit of being right on the
! spot when Congress is in session. anc
scrutinizing every item of Legislation
which comes up for consideration
He is. veritable hawk in watching
the course of legislation. Now he has
the audacity to recommend a measure
which has for its purpose the with
holding of the salary of a member Of
Congress each day he is absent from
the chamber when it is in session
which would be depriving him of
some cents over thirteen dollars {
day. Congressman Hearst, of New
York. the most notorious truant o.
the House, would in the event of tn,
passage of this measure be mulctet
of his entire salary. Many Others
would either have to mend thei
ways. or forgo a large portion of theil
salaries. ;sws, 49,.
Elmer Dover, for some years, pri
vate secretary to the, late MARI
Hanna. at present secretary to tn.
Republican National Committee. in {
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Notice Of Probate Of Nm.

Crawford County IN ProDate
In the District Court OF Iowa, in and for
Crawford Connty-Nottce OF the reading and
probate of will
To Whom 1t May Concern:
You and each OF you are hereby notified to.
ap app. a IN the court house IL penison, Craw-
uary 1907. at 2 o'clock p. m. to then and there
attend the probate Of an Instrument in writ
Of Gottfried Henning late Of said courty de
ceased, at which time and place you will
appear and show cause; II any you know
why said will should not be admitted to pro-
bate.
In testimony whereof. have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the seal OF
the District Court this 9th day Of Dec. 1905.
CLAUS PAIL.
Clerk,
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PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned will sell at public
sale on his place in Section l. Para
disc township. a miles west of Dem
ison, miles north of Arion and 4
miles northeast Of Kenwood. on
THURSDAY, JAN. 10.
Commencing at 10 o'clock q. m. the
following property:
work horses-a span of black
mares, well matched. weight 5000, 8
and years old; span Of bays we'll
matched. weight $500, and years
old: gray mare. 8 years old. with
foal. weight 1900; bay mare. with
foal. weight 16OO.9 years old. Twenty
six head Of cattle consisting of z
good mich cows. of them fresh, and
balance fresh in February. 3 two
year-old heifers with calf. 8 two
year-old steers.5 spring calves 2.
fall calves and / Shorthorn bull 8
years old. 80 Duroc Jersey brood
sows. bred. Billy Goat. IL dozen
chickens. mostly leghorns. l Gorham
seeder. almost new. tanning mill.
disc. / Intersection harrow. Fuller.
& Johnson corn-planter with $50 rods.
of wire. Sterling corn planter with
100 rods of wire. mower, hay loader.
side delivery and cable. Deering
binder. 16-inch riding pillow. 1y-inch
walking pillow. riding cultivator L
tongueless cultivator. hand corn
shelter. potato digger. hay racks
2 wagons. double seated carriage. l
bob-sled. feed cooker. sets work
harness. set buggy harness. sets,
lynets. cow boy saddle as good as,
new. cook stove. hard coal stove, 1
De Leval No. separator. Klondike
Incubator and other articles.
Terms: A credit of IL months.
time will be given on sums over $40.
purchaser to give approved notes
bearing 8 per cent interest. $40 and
under cash.
Free lunch at noon.
ALBERT SCHWIEsoW.
Jas. w. Smith. Alct.
G. L. voss. cler4
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Before making arrangements for
your sale be sure and see the veteran
auctioneer w. j. McAhren. TIT
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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08
Labor News Picked
Up Here and There

THE ACQUITTAL OF SHEA.
Some Plain Truths About the Famous
Chicago Case.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08
LETTERS FROM A WORkINGMAN
LETTER NO.
LETTER NO. 1

Now suppose l should invest in all
the thirty-eight saloons of Lincoln.
First Presbyterian church, Thirteenth
and M streets, in stock of merchan-
disc. Fifty thousand dollars, for in
stance. And suppose l should keep
hours a week. What would be the re-
suit? Either l would go bankrupt or
my friends and relatives would have
me committed to the asylum for the
insane. Now is it not a fact that with
perhaps half a million dollars invest
ed in churches in Lincoln these places
of Gods bushes are open less than
an average of eight hours week
Gods business prosper on that sort
of basis?
Gentlemen of the pulpit, you may
thunder your anthemas against the
liquor traffic until you are blue in the
face; you may plead for rigid excise
laws until hades boils down to a poul-
tice; you may inveigh against the sa-
looms until the Missouri river dries
up and the Rocky mountains become
holes in the ground-you may do all
these things but they will avail moth
ing. But the moment you set to work
on a commonsense basis and strive to
give the workingman a club that is as
attractive as the saloon, as democratic
as the saloon, and that extends as cor
dial a welcome as the saloon, then the
saloonkeeper will see his finish
Churches closed 160 hours out of every
| 16S do not offer these inducements
Man is a gregarious animal He
seeks the company of his kind. Will
you please tell me more democratic
likely, sociable place than the saloon
for him to find it under our present
social conditions? Do you expect me
to hang around the closed and locked
door of church in order to meet and
mingle with my fellows?
Pray tell me, brethren, what has
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08

your church to offer me outside of a
few remarks calculated to impress
upon my mind the necessity of tax
ing out a fire insurance policy on my
soul? Your music is good, but l can
hear just as good or better every day.
Your singing is good, but 1 can hear
as good or better every time of my
comrades get together and begin on
the old songs. Your churches are
bright on Sunday, but they are dark
and cold and dismal every week day
night when | am anxious to meet and
mingle with my kind. If l don't go
to the saloon to meet them, where
will l go? To the library? Fudge!
How about my evening pipe and my
desire to converse with my friends? :?
Remain at home? God bless you,
brothers, l have no home, and there
are nearly a thousand like me in Lin
coin.
Now, as an ordinary man, with a
mans instinct for mingling with his
fellows and mans instinct for amuse-
tment and entertainment, tell me what
you of the churches have to offer me?
The church has set it's face against
most of the amusements that appeal
to virile men, with the result that the
devil has seized them and uses them
as bait to trap men into his clutches.
have seen good Methodist and Pres
byterian brothers and sisters who
would faint if asked to play "cinch'
or euchre, grow so excited over
finch that they could be heard a
half block away. Pray tell me the
difference between playing with cards
that have pictures on them and cards
| that have mere figures on them. Is
there a minister in Lincoln who op-
poses croquet? Now what is the diff
ference between knocking wooden
balls around on the green grass and
knocking ivory balls around on a
green cloth?
! I love to play billiards, and I have
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08

TO THE MINISTER'S OF LIN
COLN.-Dear Brothers: / note that
a committee from your union visited
with the excise board the first of the
week for the purpose of securing
what seems to you to be some neces-
sary steps in the curtailment of the
saloon evil. You would have my sup
port in this matter were it not for the
fact that experience teaches me that
you church people have gone at this
liquor problem wrong end to. In or
der to make my position clear let me
state, emphatically and positively,
that if had the power 1 would close
every saloon in the world before next
Monday morning. But as l haven't
that power, and there is as yet no
lieve we ought to face the problem
fairly and squarely and try to solve
! it with horse sense and not with
/ Mysteries.
Let me tell you something. breth-
rem: The quickest way to put the sa-
loon out of business is to offer to men
something that will be more attrac-
tive. When you seek the aid of the
law to wipe out what you claim is a
moral wrong, you admit that the
power of the gospel of the Nazarene
is not effacacious, and that it needs
an enacting clause from fallible leg
islature and constable's club in the
hands of a sworn officer to make it
effective | can not believe that you
really mean to make tnat admission.
For every dollar invested in the
saloon business in Lincoln there are
perhaps twenty dollars invested in
Gods business. By Gods business
mean the churches. | believe | am
well within the facts when / say that
there are five church properties with.
in three blocks of the Lindell hotel
! that represent more actual money in
vested than there is invested in all
| the thirty-eight saloons of Lincoln
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08

conviction at the start, and these
quickly yielded to the other ten. The
prosecution was utterly without merit.
in court and in the trust newspapers,
for private business ends. The pro-
scouting lawyer was hardly more than
nominally member of the prosecut-
ing officers staff. He was the pri-
vate attorney of the business interests
that instigated the prosecution. And
the prosecution itself, while nominal
ly for blackmailing conspiracy to
injure the business of a mercantile
firm, was in fact for the criminaliza-
ton of sympathetic strikes. It failed,
first because there was no credible
testimony of blackmail, and second be-
cause the jury would not place SYM
pathetic strikes under the ban of the
criminal law.
| A curious thing happened after the
trial Three or four labor leaders
who had been accepted as informers,
had sworn to transactions calculated
to prove that the strike was in fur
therance of pecuniary objects, that
brutal violence had been resorted to
deliberately by the strike leaders, that
they themselves had participated in
these criminal purposes and acts, that
no promise of immunity had been
made them, and that having pleaded
guilty they expected to be imprison-
ed. Now, it is true that the jury re-
fused to believe these informers
| (some of whom were shown to be con-
victed criminals), in so far as their
testimony incriminated the men on
trial. But that was no reason for ex-
! onerating them upon their own pleas
of guilty. Although the men on trial
were acquitted, these informers were
guilty on their own pleas. If the in.
dictment described crime, they stood
before the court self-convicted of that
crime. Yet the prosecuting attorney,
failing to convict the innocent men,
exonerated these guilty ones. This
may be the law, for the prosecuting
attorney did it; presumably it must
be the law, for the judge allowed it.
But what kind of law is it that per-
mits guilty men, men guilty of crime
upon their own confession in open
court, to go free because jury would
not believe their testimony against
other men?-Chicago Public
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08

yet to be convinced that it is wrong
to play the game; but if I want to in
dulge in this splendid sport 1 must
either join an expensive club or play
it in a foul pool hall. Why? Because
the church, foolishly, yea, criminally,
gave this fine game over to Satan to
be used as lure to drag men to de-
struction.
But this is wandering from the chief
premise. What 1 mean to say is that
you are wasting time fighting the sa-
loon the way you are. They are here
to stay, in one form or another, until
you can find something better that
will appeal more strongly to the
average man. If one-half the money
now invested in spires and stained
glass windows, and chimes and hand
carved altar rails were invested in
workingmen's clubs that would offer
him clean amusements, clean fare,
clean associations, hearty welcome re-
gardless of dress, and make him feel
as much at home as he feels in the
saloon-say, such an investment would
do more in year to solve the saloon
problem than all the gabfests, petit
tions and legislative enactments in
dulged in since Hector was an infant
canine.
l visit the saloon now and then
chiefly because l find there what
can not find elsewhere of an evening
after my days work is done-con-
genial companions, hearty welcome,
good cheer and forgetfulness for a
time that l am Man with the hoe -
If you'll find me these same things
then I'll promise you upon honor to
cut out the saloon.
Dearly Beloved, I speak as work
ingman who knows workingmen bet
ter, perhaps, that any clergyman in
Lincoln. If my views are worth any
thing to you, you are welcome to them
BILLY MAJOR,
Workingman.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08
pENouNcE SENATOR FORAKER.

OENOONCE SENAIOh fOhANEh.
Unionists Declare This Champion of
Humanity is Sweat Shopper.
Cincinnati, O., Feb. 26.-The union
men of this city are simply disgusted
over the brazen effrontery of Senator
Foraker in pretending to champion
human rights in the Brownsville af-
fair while using his employees like
dogs instead of men.
Foraker's Cincinnati Traction COM
pany discharges an army of more than
1000 men every year, who are denied
both a personal hearing or appeal by
IA representative, the evidence against
them being gathered by Pinkertons
and presented behind closed doors,
and no known union man is tolerated
in the service. Many of the discharg-
ed men are blacklisted.
This is the corporation of Senator
Foraker, who shouts to the galleries
his protest against the summary dis
charge of company of 81 colored
troops by President Roosevelt. How
does he reconcile his pretended inter-
est in the colored troops with his posi-
ton in the employment of labor?
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08

with the murder of Fred Tyler, went
to the jury Wednesday afternoon. The
instructions of Judge Richards were
claimed by the defense to be all that
the prosecution asked for. No refer
ence to the Western Federation of
Miners appears in the Instructions
The Wageworker's forms closed be-
fore a verdict was reached.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08
BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL.

The Building Trades Council met
last Wednesday evening and elected
the following officers for the ensuing
term: President, George Quick, Car
penters' Union vice-president, Louis
Hale, Painters Union; secretary
treasurer, B. J. Chipman, Plumbers
Union; sergent-at-atrms, Charles
Burns, Plumbers Union.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08
Among the Live Crafts
In This Good Town

upon. There is a growing enthusiasm
among the members, and all are TAX
ing greater interest in union work.
Work is better than ever before in
the history of the town, and pay en-.
velopes are fattened up accordingly.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-03-08
CAPITAL AUXILIARY.

Capital Auxiliary, No. II, to Lincoln
Typographical Union, No. 2O9, will
meet Friday at 2:3O p. M, March Is,
at the home of Mrs J. E. Marshall,
1923 North Twenty-sixth street. There
will be picnic supper and social in
the evening to which all members and
their families are invited.