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HOPEFUL INDICATIONS.


news item to the effect that Taft pro-
poses after his Inauguration to take
an advanced stand in favor of reduc-
ing the Notwithstanding the abuse
of the Injunction process and other
reforms.
We congratulate the country upon
such good prospects, and hope while
he is at it, he may see his way clear
towards insisting upon the putting
upon the free list of all goods that
compete with trust products.
This might not be to the advantage
or liking of the multi-millionaires to
whom the tariff robber has given
more tribute money than is good
either for themselves or others but it
would be wonderful relief to the
millions of our people who are now
victimized by the privileged class un-
der tariff laws.
With regard to the writ of injunc-
tion, we very much fear that organ
lied labor has very little to hope for
from any insistence of Mr.. Taft.
So far as he has seen fit to express
himself upon the subject he has not
touched the point which organized
labor seeks to have remedied.
1t is not injunctions without notice
o: arbitrary postponement of hearings
that is responsible for the grievances
of the working class; but it is the
denial of a jury in the trial of alleged
violations of the injunction granted
on ex parte affidavit and in which all
the safeguards thrown by enlightened
experience around the liberty of the
citizen are being disregarded.
AS was well said by a. contemporary
durin gthe last campaign
"The suggestion of Mr.. Taft that
the Intervention Of jury would give
greater advantage only to the wealthy
and INSCRIPTIONS defendant able to
employ astute and cunning counsel
and anxious to avoid JUSTICE has a.
humorous sound to it when one thinks
OF the repugnance to jury trials which
the great corporations markedly
show"
But, nevertheless, if Mr.. Taft will
use his good offices towards putting a.
stop to the practice of transferring
through so-called protective tariffs,
millions of dollars of hard earned
money from the hands of the people
who need it., to the pockets of colossal
combinations that don't need it.
never earned it, and have no moral
right to it,-then he will have de-
served the everlasting gratitude of the
American people; and no class of citi-
zens will be more willing to hold him
la grateful remembrance than the
members of organized labor.
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Duluth, Dec. 6, 1908.

-, w. Duluth, Dec. 6, 1908.
Editor Labor World: '::. .] .,8.>
The following article is clipped from
the Brick, Tile and Terra Gotta Work
ers journal. It is so true to life and
modern methods of police administra-
ton that you will confer a favor on
me by publishing it in your Every
body's column. Yours truly,
=. E. A SUBSCRIBER.
How to Make Criminals. .s j.
The making Of criminals is a very
important American industry. Pro-
coed as follows: ~!!zs
Find out something that a large
number Of people desire to DO and then
make q law against It. The law
should be sufficiently elastic to admit
OF exceptions when the public good or
the Offenders purse seem to demand
It. ..3 a45ss s:. # 81. So .53ss3 H
# After the law is made hire q few
good policemen to lie In walt tor of
tenders. It 10 necessary to catch q
criminal before you make him. Many
4 man has remained good all his life
Nv not being caught After you get
hold Of one he Will probably tell you
that he did not know the Law. Il he
does, tell him that ignorance OF the
law excuses no one. n he insists, tell
him that even the lawyers don't know
the law. %, otherwise. there would not
be 50 many 81 them Il he insists FUR
ther, crack him over the head and tell
MIN to shut up II the man has no
money at all. crack him IN the head IN
the flrst place.
ID Next. publish his name In all the
5newspapers. This ID for two reasons:
First ito make him more OF q criminal;
and, second, to show that the police
'department II doing tn duty
E2 Next chuck him into 81 UNPLEASANT
q place NJ can 20 ddeyinedk AT might
round him dice Holl ertion
|e BIZ 3 8 s g. 4 Il q y
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is no use in having two parties to rep
resent the same ideas. S5|@ . = &c.
If capitalism is right and just, no
man can find any fault with the Re-
publican party. The frightful graft.
thefts and corruption In public office,
and the awful poverty, want, misery,
crime, prostitution, child-labor and I'M.
employment are all the necessary and
legitimate results of capitalism, under
any party, and they were none the less
in evidence under Democratic rule than
under Republican rule. .,. &
And, had Bryan been elected, he
would have been absolutely powerless
to change these awful conditions as
long as he acknowledged that the
earth and the means of life are Justly
the property Of whoever Is rich enough,
strong enough or cunning enough to
seize them.
Now, the Socialists say that these
evils complained of are not the result
OF any particular party in power, but
OF. the system of capitalism, under
which the means Of production arc
owned by the few, who absorb all the
products of labor, except bare living
Luz -lHe workers..
And even that is not the worst
feature Of the case; the workers, being
robbed Of the greater part Of what
they produce, are able to purchase
back only q part Of their product and,
production being carried on for profit
to the owners, or employers, when the
workers have produced more than
their masters can dispose of at profit,
production must cease and the work.
ers and their families must starve,
steal or live upon what is doIed out to
them by their masters in the name Of
charity.
Now, socialism strikes at the very
root Of capitalism, by declaring that
the earth and the means of life are
Justly the property of all the people;
that all the great industries should be
operated comparatively and that every
worker should receive the full product
OF his toll, less his share Of the cost
of administration and the support of
the aged and dependent members of
society.
Under such system, men and wo-
men would need to work not more than
four hours per day to produce more
than they could consume and poverty
ana want would be unknown.
This is the issue for the future
Socialism VS.. Capitalism. Party lines
will be adjusted to meet this issue and
the Democratic party will cease to
exist. Members Of both the old parties
who want to see the readjustment will
get into the Socialist party; those
who believe in capitalism will get into
the Republican party.
REFORMER.
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PLAY GROUNDS FOR CHILDREN.
The Board of Education of the city

The Board of Education of the city
of Duluth merits the commentator of
every right thinking man and woman
in this city, in its efforts to provide
adequate Fairgrounds at our schools,
and restoring to the children their
natural birth right, the opportunity
for safe and healthy play
This movement on the part of our
Board of Education is emphatically in
the right direction. Play and educa-
ton are compliments of each other,
and for the recognition of this fact
our school authorities deserve the en-
couragement of every Individual who
wishes to contribute toward the hap
piness of the rising generation and
consequent betterment of the next
generation.
According to the statistics now be-
fore us there are today no less than
1T cities of five thousand population
and over maintaining public play
grounds for the children at an aggre-
gate expense of one million dollars
monthly. In the big cities, New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago,
most gratifying progress has been
made in the establishment of public
Fairgrounds, the first named city
maintaining seven of these necessary
institutions, together with eleven ball
grounds and summer camp. Chicago
does even better with it's park sys-
TENS, while Pittsburg has appropri-
ated 100000 for the establishment
Of thirteen play grounds with neees.
4 sary buildings and. equipment. 49, :.
Sound bodies and sound minds 80
together, and It is extremely crafty
4 ing to note that our school authorities
ara determine that Duluth shall rank
y With cities OF the nrst class In giving
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THE TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT

THE TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT. 81
The deadly march on humanity OF
the most insidious and CHASTITY of all
diseases, tuberculosis, has been faith
fully and earnestly emphasized dur
ing this week in Duluth, by specialists
who impressed every one who heard
them with the fact that they knew
whereof they spoke. .
The great lesson which the man
ayers and speakers of the exhibit
sought to impress, and did impress,
upon the minds of their audiences,
may be summed up in one sentence,
viz: Consumption is communicable,
durable, and preventable.'
1t is communicable, and therefore
the campaign against it is not only a
campaign for the benefit of those who
slready suffer from the dread disease,
but a campaign for the protection of
all the millions who are in danger of
infection.
1t is preventable, and therefore
every additional case-and the dis
ease is spreading with frightful rapid
lty-is reproach to the community
that does not take the necessary steps
to check its growth and to stamp it
out.
It is durable, and therefore the
campaign against the disease is one
which can be waged with confidence,
even on behalf of those who are al
ready affected.
But the full force of this triple les
son will not be felt unless it is real
lied that tuberculosis is directly trace,
able to bad conditions of housing,
carlessness about the expectoration of
persons affected, bad conditions of
employment, impure air, insufficient
nutrition, excessive work and espe-
cially excessive worry.
In the language of DR.. Beffel "all the
hospitals and sanitoria that may be
endowed, all the doctors and nurses
that may be set to work, and all the
instruction that may be given to indi-
viduals as to how they ought to live,
will be nothing but comparatively in
effective palliative measures, unless,
along with all this, radical measures
are taken to procure better lighting
and ventilation and less crowding in
the factories, shops, and stores and in
the tenements, sufficient food for all
the people and especially for the chill
dren, and shorter hours of labor,
higher wages, and more security of
employment for the workingmen:."
After hearing these learned expon-
ents of the art of right living one
could not help but reflect that the
trades union movement for these
many years, has been contending for
the very. things those specialists now
say are indispensable to the health
and prosperity of the nation.
The reason is not too far fetched
that will charge up to human greed
practically all the causes that contrib
ute to the perpetuation of the tuber.
culosis germ. The disease may there
fore be considered as one of the "all
evils of which the inordinate love Of
money Is the "root'' The truth of
scripture is again vindicated.
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mologist should be consulted. In the
daytime make him work like dog,
but do not give him anything for it.
Give It to some one else. Perhaps the
best way to dispose Of the surplus
product is by the contract system, all
though there are other forms Of graft
nearly as good.
After a few years Of this he is prob
ably a full f1edged criminal. In order
to test your work, turn him loose
without any money or any friends. II
he comes back in short time you
have succeeded. Il not. you have
failed; but 1t usually works.
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and massacres. s= i. n II 1, Il; 81 s# /: 34
The Russian autocracy is fighting
for Its very life. Underneath appar.
ent quietude the whole Of Russia Is
seething with revolution. Every day
the storm now ominously brewing is
gathering force. Even the Cossacks,
SO long the cars trusted tools. are,
according to authentic report, fast
becoming imbued with the revolution
airy spirit
The bureaucracy knows it's peril,
but reckons upon the holding Of Its
mastery. Presently it may discover
it's mistake. Just before his death
Plevhe derisively boosted that he had
exterminated the revolution A few
months later Russia erupted in revo-
lutionary uprisings. However, the
bureaucracy is entirely confident Of
it's ability to handle the situation at
home.
What it especially fears at this
juncture is the subterranean activity
Of the refugees abroad, chiefly in the
United States. 1t is here that the
majority of it's political victims come,
burning with hatred of the institution
Of autocracy. They comprise all of
the many nationalities ruled over by
the car.
In this influx are pure Russians, as
distinguished from other races of the
cars dominion; Poles with their ira
ditions and personal experiences of
cruel prosecutions; Let's and Esthon-
ians, freshly fleeing from the san
culinary acts Of vengeance which the
autocrat has been inflicting on their
native lands; Armenians escaping
from the iron rule at home; and Jews
with the horrors of the massacre Of
Kishineff and other places indelibly
in mind. Differ as these motley
armies of refugees do in race, Ian
guage, customs, and religious beliefs,
they are united by common bond Of
intense antagonism to the despotic
government in Russia.
It is mainly to find out what these
refugees are doing that the Russian
government maintains a large corps
of spies in this country Their exact
number is not known. DR.. Paul S.
kaplan, secretary of the defense com.
mittee, estimates it to be fully five
hundred.
BY treaty ratified between the
United States and Russia during Pres
ident Cleveland's administration, for
gerry, arson and murder were made
extraditible crimes. When this treaty
was under discussion in the senate it
was pointed out that it's ratification
would, if interpreted in the strict let
ter, convert this country into blood
-4ound for Russian despotism.
mat is precisely what the assas-
sinating officials of the car are now
doing, and those who know Russian
methods will have no trouble in
determining what shall be the fate of
any poor unfortunate whom our gov
eminent surrenders on subterfuge
charges.
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recognition to the rights 81 our boys
and girls, the future citizens Of the
republic. '< o. @s.5 !. Il .l
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-12-12

A widow Of Crosscut. Brown county. Tex
40. ID In Jail charged. with shooting At
man and missing. g.
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Gates are not wholly right they are
very far from being altogether wrong.
. THINKER.
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Evcryl DOdy's Column,

Toy Aiseussien ind.stzial
All
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-10
CANNOT AFFORD TO FIGHT.

Japan cannot afford TO make war up
on the United states. This is the es-
sence of an interview emanating from
an authorized Japanese source" and
published by the Paris Echo. The jap
anese authority referred to points out
that Japan has It's hands full in Asia
and cannot pay any attention to Amer
lea.
This IS satisfactory as far as II goes
1t would be more satisfactory IL Japa-
nese authorities could say with truth
that Japan does not want to incur the
enmity of this country even II 1t could
afford TO do so. Peace resting on the
basis of genuine friendship would be
better than peace by compulsion.
The retiring Japanese ambassador.
Viscount Aoki. agrees with the Paris
authority that there can be no war be-
tween his country and the United
States. and he bases this statement on
the fact that both the governments OF
Japan and Of the United States are de
termlned to keen the peace, In spite OF
any agitation on the part of radical
parties and sectional partisans." To a
representative of the San Francisco
Chronicle the distinguished Japanese
statesman acknowledged that the riots
In Ogden and other Western cities
where large Japanese colonies are es-
tablished seriously embarrassed the sit
uation, but even in the face of these
difficulties he said he was sanguine that
peaceful outcome win be arrived at
and all the war clouds on the Pacific
horizon viii blow away
The japanese representatives of their
government are evidently anxious to
quiet all war rumors that emanate from
irresponsible sources of sensation. With
the immigration question settled there
Is no bone of contention. .Japanese la
borers will be prohibited from emigrat-
ing to this country and American labor
ers will be excluded from Japan, and
that ends the controversy.
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STATUS OF BUSINESS.

Bualness il slowly but somewhat
cautiously feeling It's way back to nor
NAL conditions.
1t is probably fortunate that good
many OF the foreign laborers have
turned to their homes for this win
ter For while many of the eastern
manufacturing establishments which
recently closed are now resuming
operations. the Industrial activity
Will take some time TO get back to
the normal state. The larger cities
are still crowded with men out OF
work.
Cotton manufacturers In New Eng
land have agreed TO curtuil by one
fourth the total production of each
mill during the next two months
There Is n dull and declining market
for cotton products. and wisdom dc
tatea n reduced production.
a similar condition prevails in tho
iron and steel trade. II the greater
firms In this industry. however, should
decide to lower tho prices OF their
products more orders would come In
and there would be more employ
ment Their policy, as announced
is to maintain present prices. even
though It means closing mills or rum
ming them on short time. and 10 wait
for q revival of business activity. This
policy seems to us to be an indus
trial mistake.
The railroads, which are great em-
ployers of labor, we believe, are
not 80 prosperous as they were
last year, and 1t is not surprising that
The conductors and trainmen, know
ing something of the situation, should
abandon their intention of demanding
a wage increase.
1t Is lime when strict economy
in private expenditures and broad
and liberal policy by the captains OF
industry seems indicated by the neces-
sites of the situation.
II is a good time, also. for public
work to be pushed, where appropria-
tons Cor it have already been voted
But as for undertaking great public
operations, simply because Of the fl
nancial outlook. we might do as well
to wait awhile
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A SERMONET FOR WORKERS
lTor the News, BY II. u Hapsood. !

lTor the News" by H. u Hapgood- ]
Have you ever tried to "cnergixo" on
q thing7 During tho recent nea,~panio
the Junior salesman OF big New York
Wholesale house made record FOR
himself by "enerEizing' on his job.
He would got couple of brother
salcsuisn 70 go about with him and
help land trade. BY thus going about
IN squads, 80 to speak, the men cheer
ed UP each other and they got more or
ders individually, than any other three
statesmen on the force.
When times are so hard as they have
been during the last month, and the
heads Of firms glare at any salesman
as an intruder. untlinching courage
and cheerful persistency are the only
qualities that win prevent a good sales
man from losing his job and help him
to win out where others fail. "Ener-
glze," that's the thing. If you haven't
got enough energy on storage TO sup
ply your own needs get together with
your fellow sufferers like this chap,
and pool your energy. II tho boss
throws you down. you will find your
friends at the door to "energize' you
for another onslaught, and thus mer-
rily onward, despite obstacles. unit,
you land. OF course, you arc eN-
pected to do your turn at the "ener-
gizing." but the idea strikes me as
one that is too good to be monopolized
by just one clever young chap.
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THE NIGHT RAIDERS.
snringheld Republlcan.

The Kentucky night raiders in the
tobacco district are illustrating the nice
points of the higher law" In their war
against the tobacco trust by defying the
governor and the militia and continuing
to dynamite and burn the tobacco
warehouses OF producers who sell TO-
baceo to the trust without the con-
sent OF the growers association. Now
and then, yet very seldom, these raid
ers meet an opposition that daunts
them At one place spirited young
woman unfirled the stars and stripes
in front of her home and proclaimed
that she and her father owed no ale
glance to desperadoes. A young woman
might do that with great success, while
a man In the same act would be shor
full of lead. Gov Wilson still has "A
problem of government on his hands,
as the last raid has demonstrated. The
situation Is a lurid phase of the great
question of monopoly adjustment which
confronts the entire people.
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GOOD POLICEMEN.

Good policemen are simply good
men-only stronger. shrewder. kinder,
than the average man.
Chicago has come TO the conclusion
that the police force of the city Is
better organized and more efficient
than ii has been for ten years There
we're more arrests and convictions
during 1907 than in any previous year.
There We're comparatively few crimes
committed where the guilty ones were
not caught and punished. The Increase
in arrests and convictions is counted
good evidence of the efficiency OF or
gnnization in the department rather
than an indication of larger GRIM
inal class due to a growing population.
The Improvement has been brought
about in such ways as these. Any Of
ilcers who have been given 10 the ex-
cessivo use OF intoxicants have been
disciplined. New men have been urg-
cd by superior officers to cultivate hab-
it's and develop qualities demanded by
the trying conditions Of their occupl-
ton. Complaints against any officer
have been investigated. The intention
of the police authorities to stlffen up
discipline has been brought 10 public
notice again and again There have
been several shifts Of men for the good
Of the service. The lazy and incom-
petent have been kept on the move.
Those who have heen faithful and ag-
gressive have been encouraged.
The assistant chief OF police tells
the new patrolmen to make honesty.
sobfety, and courage their watch
words, In strictness he needn't have
gone any further than the first word
honesty, No honest man was ever a
coward. The three traits--honesty, So
briefly, and eourtgo--malte men ideal
patrolmen In any city.
The new men are warned against
the hasty use Of the revolver, and
against going 10 extremes or becoming
impatient when men do not at once
submit 10 unrest The seasoned police.
man shoots only when he must, while
the new recruit in mis- first experiences
is likely to lack the sober Judgment
OF tho experienced officer
They arc advised 20 quit drinking"
also TO keep out OF debt The best
policemen ~ Chicago are said 10 he
those whose strongest beverage Is
huttermilk, The temperate aud frugal
men Is the beast pillar of the law, tln-
der nc obligations 10 saioon Nee pers
ana loan sharks himself. he can better
enforce the law In such ways as TO
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superintendent of Schools Maxwell of
New York would have those parents
punished who fail to put their chill
dren in proper physical condition to
benefit to the greatest extent by their
school opportunities. The teaching a
child would get under an educational
regimen prepared by such pedagogue
would hardly be such as to Justify the
imprisonment OF parents whose stand
ard Of life did not AT in with his. What
tyrants some men would be If they
could