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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-08-29
Deals Only in Facts.

In the earlier years of the work peo-
pie did not, in many instances, take
kindly to the idea of having their pri
vate affairs probed for the benefit of
the public, but latterly this spirit has
largely disappeared. Nowadays If the
special agents of the bureau of labor
are refused information by one manu-
facturer they usually have no difficulty
in discovering some other establish
ment where the needed data may be
obtained. The government labor ex-
perts have won confidence by never
allowing the names of parties furnish
ing facts to be given in its reports. al
though, to be sure, they take every
possible means to verify all the infor-
nation gathered. The bureau will
have nothing to do with estimates or
hearsay statements about labor con-
ditions. 1t never makes any state
ments unless it has positive facts to
back them up.
At the outset the government labor
experts thought that they could carry
on their investigations largely by mail,
but 1t was soon found that few people
would respond satisfactorily to queries
thus transmitted and so the bureau of
labor had to organize a corps of spe-
cial agents who are continually ION
the wing" securing information at first
hand and recording 1t on carefully pre-
pared schedules. The policy of the
bureau of labor in looking into labor
conditions and the problems of life
affecting the working people is seldom
If ever to argue a point. It simply
secures all the facts in the case and
then let's the intelligent labor man de-
eide what is best for him from the in
formation set out for his benefit. The
bureau of labor is particularly fortu-
nate in it's directing heads. The COM
missioner of labor, DR.. Charles p.
Neill, formerly one Of the faculty of
the Catholic university at Washington,
is man who has wonderful faculty
for clear-sighted investigation and the
chief clerk of the bureau, Mr.. q. w. w.
Hanger, has been fitted by long expert
ence for work in behalf of the cause
of labor.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-08-29
Has Wide Scope.

Thirdly, this bureau of labor infor-
nation reviews exhaustively for the
benefit of it's millions of American eli
ents the labor and statistical docu-
ments of all foreign countries and
when anything is discovered that has
bearing on labor interests in Yam
keedom it is promptly brought to the
attention of the people concerned.
Fourthly, the bureau fulfills it's func-
ton as public servitor by publishing
and sending broadcast all new laws
that are passed affecting the interests
of the working people. No matter
whether law be passed by the nation
al congress or by the legislature in
some one Of our two score states it
is no sooner on the statute books than
the toilers who will be affected. Final
ly there is similar system for the
distribution of news relative to court
decisions Interpreting labor laws or
other happenings affecting the rela-
tons of employer and employee.
Most interesting and most important
of the undertakings of the bureau of
labor are the special Investigations
conducted by it's own experts. These
nave covered a very wide range of
subjects. 1t is, of course, impossible
to enumerate them at length but just
to convey an idea of the fields that
have been explored there may be cit
ed such subjects as industrial commu-
mites at home and abroad; co-opera-
tive distribution; railway relief de-
partments; the padrone system; con-
ditions of negro workers; building and
loan associations; the inspection of
factories and workshops; the trade
union label; protection of workingmen
in their employment; child labor in the
United States; wages and cost of liv.
ing, etc.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-08-29

digest of state labor reports, thus
bringing to the attention of the gen.
eral public many matters relating to
conditions in the different states of the
union that might not otherwise become
matters of common knowledge.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-08-29

NE line of accomplish
ment in which the Unit
ed States government
has gone ahead nightly
in recent years is in the
help that has been rem
dered to the cause of la
Dor. Moreover the aid
that has haan xiuon To
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
This Weeks News Forecast

Well filed Judge Taft will number delegations Cincinnati
OF
in the in
political
o IN
Mansfield with
New Hampshire
will convene presidential
and the senate the republican ticket will Madison
of irons
President
ational
tuberculosis which will
a be
by distinguished medical
extraordinary
of the
brothers charged William F
be lie n
Francisco of Wan Chang the killed
o
of
Washington the National Wholesale
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

THE INTERESTING NEWS that comes from Indianapolis is
Thomas Tom Tggart
a had his little with
Mr.
them
who thought that Tag
of w
assembly
capital interviewing
undoubtedly
of
ha
activity should
Lake should Taggart
Tagart nothing with
republicans
apos Fairbanks
off
or AIr O Ar. Fairbanks.
WE SHALL SEE WHAT WE SHALL sEEi
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
THIS Is MY 45TH BIRTHDAY.
Frederick w Mae Monnies.

Frederick William Mac Monnies, the
distinguished American sculptor, was
born in Brooklyn, n. Y, Sept. 20, 1868.
He began his studies at the studio of
Augustus st. Gaudens in 1880 and
worked there four years, while at
night he went to the night life classes
at the Academy of Design and the Art
Students League. Later he studied in
Munich, with Falguiere at the Ecole
des Beaux Arts and with Antonin
Mercie. He received the prix d'atelier,
the highest prize open to foreigners,
and soon won distinction by his exhi-
billions at the Salon. Many of his best
and most famous works are in the
United States, among them the Nathan
Hale statue in New York, the ]. S. t.
Stranahan statue in Brooklyn, the bust
of Sir Harry Vane in Boston, the fig
ure of victory at West Point; several
groups of the soldiers and sailors
monument at Indianapolis, etc. His
home is at Giverny- Vernon, in the de-
partment Eure, France. He is a mem
Der of the Legion of Honor and was
made a chevalier of the Bavarian or
der of st. Michael in 1897.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
We Illuminating Editor.

An esteemed exchange fings few
ribald remarks at this department be-
cause of some twaddle touching Words
worth's poem, THE Happy Warrior"
which recently appeared herein. 1t was
stated that the poem in question is
doggerel. The fact that Wordsworth
wrote it makes no difference. 1t would
have been doggerel just the same had
it been written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
or Sol Long. 1t does not follow be-
cause man dislikes Wordsworth
poetry that he is obtuse, or fit for
treason. stratagems and spoils. Byron
was something of a poet, and Words
worth give him a dry pain. The lat
ter is a Front Porch poet; that is, the
people who read him do so in as pub
lie a place as possible, to leave the
impression that they have refined tastes
in Observation-Disclosures (Kan) Ga
zette.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
THIS Is MY 5Oth BIRTHDAY.
Sir Henry Norman.

Sir Henry Norman, author. traveller,
newspaper-writer and since 1900 men,
Der of the British parliament, was
born at Leicester, England, on Sept. 10,
1858. He received a cosmopolitan edu-
cation, first in England, later in Paris,
then in the United States, where he
graduated from Harvard university,
and finally in Germany, where he was
for two years a student at Leipzig uni
versity. He became first known after
his graduation from Harvard, when he
inaugurated the public agitation for
the national preservation of. Niagara
Falls, which resulted in their subse-
quent purchase by the state of New
York. He began his newspaper ca
reer on the Pail Mall Gazette. When
he inherited a fortune four years later
he began to travel extensively. He
visited many foreign countries and
wrote interesting descriptive and criti-
cal articles to various newspapers. In
1895 he became assistant editor of the
London Chronicle and in 1902 he
founded THE Worlds Work" He is
the author of a number of excellent
books and was knighted last year.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
Heart Heart
Talks. !
HER BOY AND YOUR BOY.
BY EDWIN A. NYE.
Copyright. 1908. by Edwin A. Nye.

Your boy!
Your boy wears the badge of pros
perity, good clothes. He has never
known real hunger When he needs
money he comes to you and gets it.
He has not missed a term of school
since he began in the kindergarten.
He plays on Saturdays. On Sundays
he goes to Sunday school in an extra
suit
Her boy?
Her Boy has little to show in the
way of clothes. and lie wears cheap
kip shoes. Sometimes when he turns
his wages over to his mother she
gives him a nickel. but not often He
had to quit school in the second grade.
He earns about as much delivering
newspapers as your boy spends.
While your boy turns over in bed for
his morning nap her boy is at work.
He is due at the newspaper alley at 4
o'clock. If the morning is frosty, in
stead of an overcoat he runs to get
warm. If it rains, he gets wet And
where your boy would be in bed with
cold her boy just coughs little and
keeps going.
Your boy?
Why. he has contact with good teach
ers, and he has his own little library
Of books. He goes to the 7. NJ. c. 4.
gym. He has all the refnements of a
comfortable home.
Her boy?
Her boy runs up against all sorts
good, morally unfit, vicious. He knows
little of the finer things of life He
knows things in the rough only. Work
is his physical exercise. play a luxury.
Nevertheless
1t may be her boy will outrun yours.
Who knows? The very worldliness
about him may put mental keenness
In the brain Of her boy. His hard ex-
perience may cause him to see things
as they are. Something may cause the
seeds Of ambition to sprout.
1t all depends on the yeast in him.
II the yeast stuff is good, let your
boy look out for the washerwoman's
boy.
On the other hand
1t Is a pity to think it-her boy may
go down instead of up. There may be
no real yeast in his makeup. If not,
the sordid life that is about him is
likely to overwhelm him. The handi-
cap is too much. The odds your boy
has over her boy are too great, more's
the pity.
But
If her boy has real soul stuff, he
may go stumbling, yet, stumbling, shall
find the safe way to tomorrow
In that case your boy will step aside
| for him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
SENATOR HEMENwAY SPEAKS TONIGHT.
WHAT WE SHALL SEEl


all their
money will
presidential
He
be a one ares
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
THE CREAM OF THE
Morning News

Changes have been made in Taft's
itinerary and he will attend the Asso-
citation of Commerce banquet with Mr..
Bryan.
William r. Hearst at Columbus, o.,
meeting reads letters from John d.
Archbold to Senator Foraker mention
ing the payment by the Standard Oil
of s2s.500 to the Ohio senator.
United States Treasurer Treat says
Bryan's plan to guarantee bank de-
posits is visionary and full of danger.
Burglars who rob Mark Twains
home at Redding, Conn, are captured
after a fight and the humorist posts
a,notice advising the next robbers how
to proceed.
Official board of inquiry finds the
wrecking of the Wright aeroplane due
to the breaking of a propeller blade
VIII of Banker Morosini is fled in
New York and bequeaths estate val
ued at $1,000, 900 or more to his chill
dren.
E. S. Mandels, head of the curb mar
ket in Broad street, New York, an
nounces that election bets are barred
this year.
Critical stage in the Healy- Wayman
contest will be marked today in the
hearing of arguments legal points.
Minority creditors of A. Booth &
Co. file petition with object of throw
ing concern into bankruptcy.
Archbishop Quigley says the agent
who declared he approved the Vaughan
drama lied.
/ BY order of Judge Tuthill surgeons
yesterday amputated the arm of a
Polish boy whose father objected to
an operation to save his life.
| Cholera gains strong foothold in the
garrison of st. Petersburg and the
disease continues to gain throughout
| the city.
Steamship Colon reaches port after
battle with a hurricane, which cost the
| lives of three men.
| Wheat closed easier; raid closes
September corn lower; provision list
rallies; cattle weak hogs lower.
| Illinois Central reports 1896, 600
available for dividends, or s.4 per cent
on the outstanding capital.
Fair rally is feature of the day in
Wall street.
Travers and Behr will meet today
for national golf title.
Eighty-five long distance runners
are scheduled to start in the Illinois
A. C. Marathon today
!
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
Senfauuhar 10

1S04-Mr. Dearborn, son of secretary
of war;. left for Algiers with pres
ents for the ruler of that country
1S14-The British ship Forth" de-
stroyed the American ship Regent
1S64-The federal forces We're victor
ious in the battle of OpeQuan, Va
1S71-Lncoin's body removed to its
final resting place at Springfield
Illinois.
1SS1-James A. Garfield, twentieth
president of the United States
died at Long Branch. n. J., born
in Cuyahoga county. Ohio, Novem-
Der 10, 1881.
1SS4-Earthquake shocks were felt in
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
Canadian statesman, died; borr
September 6, 1917.
1901-The funeral of President McKin-
ley was held at Canton, Ohio.
1902-Marie Henriette, Queen of the
Belgians, died. aged sixty-six years.
1907-The new treaty between Canada
and France was signed at Paris.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
Voiceof thePeopIe
Hammond. Sept. II, 1908.

Hammond, Sept. II, 1908.
Editor. TINES Dear Sir: l was in
formed that among the East Chicago
and Indiana Harbor news in one of
your recent editions. there was an item
in which it said that the Indiana Har-
Dor Auditorium, Mr.. Barney Cohen,
manager, was put on the unfair list by
the Hammond Federation of Musicians,
local No. 203, A. F. of NJ
AS secretary of said local, No. 203, 1
desire to inform you that no such ac-
ton was taken by said local No 2O3
against the Indiana Harbor Auditor
ium or its manager. Mr.. Barney Cohen.
While I will admit that there is
little difference between our local, or
rather between one of our members.
and Mr. Cohen, which caused our local
to take a hand in it. yet there was
never any intention on the part of our
local to go to extremes by putting the
place and its manager on the unfair
list, nor could we do so without the
consent of our national organization,
and in no case would any such action
be published in any other newspaper.
but in our own official organ, named
The International Musician" publish
ed at st. Louis. Mo.
Whoever gave you this information
told you something which is anything
but the truth.
now ask you, Mr.. Editor. to publish
this communication in your next issue
for the purpose of setting Mr.. Barney
Cohen right before his own towns
people. Respectfully,
ALBERT GEHRING,
Secretary.
Local No. 203. American Federation
OF Musicians.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
Fishing and Hunting sketch.

Buell. c. Wilson and family were
guests several days last week at the
Steen home. Mr.. Wilson reports mos
quitoes along that part of Grand river
fully as large as horse flies, a report
which we believe when he supplements
it with the information that they were
so large that they made him quit fish
ing. The mosquitoes will not keep Cap
tain McCulloh from angling, for after
taking several rife shots at them and
staying them, he went ahead with his
fishing uninterrupted.-Cass County
(Mo.) Democrat.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
MR.. BRYANs ASSURANCE IS QUITE FUTILE.


WHAT MR. TAFT SAID 1T the
ton of
workingman
pros
rate confidence?
he
lovely
that little fortune than its doing
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
Sept. 20.

164S-The Royalists won a victory at
Newbury.
1643-Lucius Cary. Viscount Falkland,
secretary of state to Charles l.,
died. Born at Burford in 1910.
1703-The French defeated the Aus
TRANS in the battle of Hochstadt.
1709-The Russians defeated the
Swedes at Dobro.
1724-Gordon Stonstall. colonial gov
ernor of Connecticut, died in New
London, Conn Born in HaverhiIl,
Mass, March 81, 1866
1737-Charies Carroll of Carrollton,
who was, the last surviving signer
of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, born IN Annapolis. Md. Born
in Baltimore, Nov. IA. 1892.
177T-The British defeated the Ameri-
cans at Paoli. Pennsylvania.
1So4-Spain formally demanded Ameri-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19


Inspector Mcconnell came to Cedar
Grove today to ascertain why Post
master Edward Becker had failed to
remit since June The inspector found
shortage of s300.S1, and at once re-
moved the postmaster and placed Lon
Foil, clerk, in charge pending the
action of the authorities
500 DIvINES AT CONFERENCE.
The Indiana Methodist Episcopal con-
ference at Shelbyville is attracting the
attention of Methodists from all parts
of Indiana There are 500 ministers
and their wives present each day, be-
sides members of the church from all
parts of Shelby county
LEASE MANY OH. FIELDS.
The oil and gas situation in War
rick county is booming During the
last month $50 leases have been filed in
the county recorders office, covering
many thousand acres of territory Elk
perts seem to favor the prospects of
the eastern section Of the county rath-
er than where the present well is be-
ing drilled.
MAKES SECOND ESCAPE.
Buell. Fosnaught, of Huntington, IA
years oId, mas escaped from the off,
GERS a second time in the last year by
squeezing his body between the bars
of the police station. A few months
ago he was arrested for stealing wa
termelons from car.
ROBBERS KILL QUICK.
Edward Quick, keeper of the south
dollhouse at the Indiana state prison
| at Michigan City was murdered in cold
blood this morning as he lay in bed.
An unknown man entered the home,
bent on robbery.
QUICK KNOWN AT WABASH.
Edward Quick, who was murdered
at Michigan City early this morning
| by a masked man, was a Wabash man.
He left here two years ago to become
| a guard in the state prison. Before be-
coming a guard he was county truant
| officer for two years. He had also
served as bailiff in the Wabash circuit
court and on the city police force.
URGE COUNTY OPTION.
| At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Civic League of Madison
county at the Central Christian church
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

Logansport-The Bryan club, which
was organized last spring, is dead, and
Marshall club will be organized at a
meeting of the old members which will
be held in the courthouse tonight. The
Bryan club was a failure from the
start. Logansport is the home of many
gold democrats, who bolted Bryan in
1896 and 1900, and the majority of
them, while now following his leader
ship. had much hesitatancy about join
ing a Bryan club.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of this part
of Madison county will open their cam
paign with a big meeting at the local
rink tonight. Senator Charles Curtis
of Kansas and John Wesley Hill of
New York will be the speakers. Two
glee clubs and a band have been OBJ
tanned to furnish music.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
STEEL OFFICIALS IN CHICAGO.

James Gayley, vice president Of the
United States Steel corporatiC ar
rived in Chicago yesterday afternoon
with a party of friends, and left for
the northwest last night. During the
afternoon and evening he held a con-
ference at the Auditorium Annex with
Chicago officials of the corporation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

Osgood-William Kelley, clerk of
Ripley county, who is making the race
on the democratic ticket for the same
agent for the Baltimore & Ohio South
western Railway company in this city,
which he has held for many years.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19
UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA

in Anderson tonight, resolutions were
adopted memorializing the members of
the state legislature to vote for the
county unit local option bill.
ATHLETE is MISSING.
Louis Sugerman, 20 years old, an
athlete at the University of Notre
Dame and son of Walter Sugerman,
millionaire importer of New York City,
is missing from the university. His
father is on his deathbed at home and
every effort on the part of the uni
versity authorities and the police of
South Bend, Chicago and adjacent cit
les to find the missing youth has
proved futile.
Ex-MARSHAL Is ASSAULTED.
Wesley Walker, ex-city marshal of
Bedford. was assaulted last midnight
at the B. & o. station at Mitchell
where he was serving as gateman.
The assailant approached from the
rear, telling his victim to the ground,
and then escaped
ASPHYXIATED IN WELL.
Henry Horstman of North Vernon
and his son were asphyxiated today
while cleaning out we'll The boy
went into the well and was overcome.
Immediately the father attempted a
rescue and almost succeeded when he,
too, succumbed. The bodies were
brought up with hooks and attempts
to resuscitate the men were of no
avail.
w. r.. c. 20 YEARS OLD.
The Women's Relief Corps of Craw-
louisville celebrated the twentieth an
| niversary of it's organization in this
city by giving a basket picnic today.
Army tales and various other tales
were told. Among the guests at the
picnic was L. j. Coppage, an ex-con-
federate soldier who was a member of
the famous Stonewall Jackson brigade.
TRIAL REVEALS INTRIGUE.
The pages of modern fiction do not
contain a record of more intrigue. love
and pathos than presents itself in the
Bartholomew county courtroom at Co
lumbus, where the trial of HURRY
Hamm, who is suing his mother-in-
law, Mrs Martin f. Leslie of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, for 10000 for alternating
! his wife's affections is being heard.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

ewcastIe-Democrats of this city
will open their campaign tonight, wien
Benjamin. F. Shively will speak at the
courthouse. Thomas H. Kuhn, the
party's candidate for congress, has just
completed a campaign of the small
towns of the county, winding up a
series of nine speeches last night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

cas- complete remuneration of the
Floridas.
1S39-Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy
Nelson's flag captain at the battle
of Trafalgar, died at Greenwich
Born in Portisham England, April
rs, 1869.
1901-The duke and the duchess of
Cornwall and York were received
at ottawa by Lord Mimic.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

Rushville-B. F. Shively of South
Bend, fired the opening gun of the
democratic campaign in Rush county
tonight at the Kramer colosseum. A
fair-sized crowd greeted the speaker,
but it was disappointed when he did
not touch on the state issues, but spoke
tariff question.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

P. II. Morrissey, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, is
among the labor leaders who have in
dorsed the attitude of the American
Federation of Labor in regard to the
presidential campaign. Mr.. Morrissey
has issued a political statement to the
100. 900 members of the organization
which he heads asking them to stand
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

Nashville-Brown county republi
cans are trying to get Governor Hanly
here for a speech before Oct l. This
over eight years, and the people wish
to hear the governor tell why there
should not be any hereafter.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-19

Columbus-The democratic central
committees of Bartholomew and De-
catur counties have decided to issue a
call for a joint senatorial convention.
The democrats are proceeding on the
theory that William E. Springer of
Elizabethtown, who represents the two
counties in the legislature. vacated his
seat in the upper house when he ac-
copied an appointment as United States
bank examiner.