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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
THE PROPER Time TO BOOST

Being the Rhymng Ruminations of the Boosting Bleach
is With Leather Lungs Win Lose)
We all be loyal boosters when the ahead
We all be loud-lunged shouters when we beat
But the fan best loved by player the
When the home goes kerpiunk into defeat.
We all smiling faces when the home hits the ball
And push winning across the goal;
But the grandstand bleacher
To keep roofing when the home teams in hole
When em the hog train thing boost
But it's different when they We got going south.
When win all the custard the boys that cut the
mustard
If lose the knocker'' gets there with his mouth
We all happy when the scoreboard looks
But the cheerful loser is the love-
May the Lord acon of the whose prediction
Is to give the down grade team hearty shove.
That's the time the loyal fan will rise and 'root" "
When winning only knockers take
And it's time the loyal fans gave them the boot.
Here's beacherite who's pulling for the home lose
win;
Mr.. Hard Luck can't forever camp in town.
dollar shirt
collar
That they can't keep Guy Green bunch of players down
Cheer up Mr. Grouehy Loser Throw your in the
Boost. instead of always knocking the team.
Quit your everlasting growing smile bit instead of
sowing
Wait until the players generate
Don't think Fox, Jude Pritchett, Gus Wadron
love to lose,
Or that Thomas Gag like defeat.
Don't think ''Davy,' Jones ''Sully inger the
gully
Victory is for all the team morsel sweet
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
Workingmen Want an
Opportunity to do Things

There was an interesting meeting
at the city hall last Monday afternoon.
called to consider ways and means
of helping the workingmen~ and par
ricipared in by ministers. Iaymen.~ Y.
NJ. c. A workers, women of the CITY
Improvement Society, and others. Pro-
fessor Howard was elected chairman
and that especial friend of labor. L.
O. Jones. was elected secretary. The
matter of drinking fountains and pub
lie lavatories was given first atten-
ton, and after the need for them
was discussed at length a committee
was appointed to interview the city
council in relation thereto 1t was
stated that there was double need
for these conveniences now that the
saloons have been closed
Then the meeting proceeded TO dis-
cuss some other things that the work
ingmen might need, now that the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

themselves for any useful career and
after few years they are pushed out
from the positions which they occu-
pied, with nothing higher TO which
they may aspire and without the
training, the strength. or the skill to
do even ordinary manual labor.
Every citizen should know the laws
OF his own state in regard to the en-
ployment of children and he should
interest himself 10 see whether those
laws are enforced. If the laws are
not up to the highest standard or if
they are not properly enforced. it is
due to lack Of intelligent public in
terest and the citizen owes it to him.
self and to the state to help in awak-
ening such an interest Humanity
Christianity. patriotism. and self-in-
terest all unite in protesting again
child labor. 1t must be eliminated.
Let us do it now,-By Everett w.
Lord. Secretary New England Child
Labor Committee
Note.-Information regarding child
labor may be obtained by anyone who
cares to apply to the National Child
Labor Committee, los East Twenty
second Street. New York City.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

saloons have been closed" and a
municipal club house was suggested
Another suggested coffee houses. Some
one else suggested a place where men
might play pool and billiards amidst
clean surroundings, which brought out
protest from another who was quite
sure that pool and billiards were the
inventions and chief weapons of the
devil Unfortunately no one sug-
gested ping pong and croquet. TO say
nothing of finch" and golf. now
that the saloons have been closed"
Another committee was appointed to
consider the club and coffee house
propositions
1t was also suggested that now
that the saloons have been closed"
it might be a good idea to provide
series of public band concerts in the
city park, and this suggestion met
with instant favor, and some of the
ministers present even went to the
length of saying that Sunday after
noon concerts in the park might be
helpful. especially in view of the fact
that now that the sloons have been
closed" Somehow or other, the inn
preston was conveyed that owing to
the closing of the saloons 1t was I'M
perative that something be done for
the workingman the intimation being
that workingmen spent all their ieis-
ure hours in the saloons
One man present who admitted
that he did not and could not speak
for workingmen, but Woo did lay
claim to speaking as workingman.
declared that it was high time to quit
insulting the workingmen by offering
to do something for him. What the
workingman wants" declared this par
ticular speaker. lis an opportunity TO
do things for himself His inherent
democratic feelings impel him to re-
| sent the idea of always and eternally
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

having others do something for hfm
while insisting that ne do nothing thar
is repugnant TO the ideas and INSTINCTS
OF others
This speaker also declared that lie
churches were not reaching the work
ingmen as they should which secIzrz-
ton brought ont a deciarzriou from
Rev Dr. Roach that the speaker was
making assertions ne could not sub
stantiate. and the further inrimassou
that the speaker did not knox muca
about church work The speaker re-
torted by saying that as he was the
son OF a minister. the grandson OF a
minister and a very close relative OF
two other ministers. and himself a
church member as well as a working
man he felt somewhat qualified to taTx
with knowledge upon that particular
point
Mrs T. J. Doyle injected a little
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

Every citizen of our country ought
10 be well-informed about this prob
lem OF child labor. IL is of prime i'm
portance that everyone should make
himself familiar with important civic
and national economic conditions, and
child labor is problem so far-reach-
ing and so interviewer with others
that il is of particular interest, 1t in
terests the poet and the painter, who
have delighted to depict the beauty
and the purity of childhood; it inter
ests the educator. threatening as it
does our long established standards
of literacy and culture: it interests the
statesmen. who fear the racial degen-
eracy sure to result; ii interests the
manufacturer. forcing upon him un-
skilled and inefficient operatives. and,
perhaps most of all. il interests the
workingman. for he sees in it a men
ace TO his own and his children's live
lihood.
The busy man may not wish to go
into the entire history of the long
fight against child labor. but he should
know something of its beginnings
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
Child Labor a Deadly
Menace to Civilization

census reports 1.150.11S children be-
tween the ages of 10 and Is years en-
ployed in gainful occupation 1t is
worth while to consider whether the
gain is on the part of the child or
on the part only of the manufacturer.
Ii is worth while to consider what
profit it shall be to the nation if divi-
dends are increased. while children
are destroyed. All these children are
of school age and they ought to be
in school. fitting themselves for some
useful career. What may we expect
as result of their passing those years
in the factory instead of in the school?
They are not likely to become so
habituated to their monotonous and
wearying tasks that they will learn
to love life of drudgery. as was
hoped by some English philanthrop-
lists. Rather are they likely to do
what many have done, throw off the
hateful burden and go out into the
land to join the ever increasing army
of vagrants and tramps. They cannot
be expected to acquired or retain much
literary knowledge, and so they in
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

ginger into the discussion by fngusrfnx
attract men, she was quite certain IL
was something other than the sole
desire to drink. for she could NOT be-
lieve there was any amusement in
merely drinking Infoxfcznrs she de-
ciared that sIOvenIy hozsekeepinx
and poor cooking was responsible for
large part of the Ioafinz around sz-
looms This brought out a rejofnder
from another woman VINO was absa-
lutely sure that men Ioafed around
saloons and spent their money there
because they craved fnfoxicznrs- This
by the way. merely demonstrated that
the good woman who made tine asser-
ton simply didn't know what she vas
talking about
Dr. WeatherIy. pastor Of All Souls
church. declared it to be his opinion
that it was time to quit putting them
selves in the attitude Of doing some
thing for the workinzmen.- and be-
gin helping workingmen to do right
things He favored park concerts
Sunday afternoons and weekday eve-
| nings. public play grounds and Ike at
fractions. all owned and controlled
by all taxpayers. not by any parric1s
lar organization This would make the
workingmen a part and a parcel %
| the movement
| The Rev. 4 l. Wearherfy moved
| that the chair appoint committees OF
three to prepare a suitable memorial
to the city council urging tine esszh-
Iishment of drinking fountains The
committee includes A. L. weasEeriy.
Mrs T. l. CIaffin and e. z Prevey-
A. J. Northrup asked thai cons-
---stee of seven be appointed BIZ the
chair to investigate the matter OF a
nrents to report at a latter meeting
The committee consists Of e. NJ
AIayne. A. J. Northrup- W. N Man
Il pin W. f. Hardy W. A. Seilerk~ Miss
Lucille Eaves and E. 8. RfpIsy
II 1t was agreed that committee Of
/ three be appointed with Nr- Hax@-
now as member. to consider rh.s
4 question OF band concerts I'm the err
Dr. s. T. Batten. A. Hzzenor and A
| l.. Wer.herty we're named
IL was decided now that the sa-
looms are closed TO hold another
zleesing at a later date To eonslaes
ether questions and to hear the re-
ports OF the committees appointed
The meeting then adjourned
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

more than n century ago, when the
good people of England were shocked
10 learn that thousands of English
children. some of them not more than
five or six years of age. were being
driven to death in their factories and
mines. The pauper children OF the
London workhouses were being fed to
the machine almost as children in the
ancient idolatries were fed to Moloch.
Pauper children whom nobody owned,
deserted waits. orphans and thousands
to supply the demand for cheap labor
created by the introduction of factory
methods in the manufacture of textile
goods. These puny laborers were
worked to death. but that was not
serious matter because the supply
seemed amply able to fill up the de-
pleted ranks: and when the workhouse
supply became low. there were not
lacking English fathers and mothers
who were willing to send their chill
dren to the factories that they them
selves might live In greater ease.
When all this became known and
the conscience of the English people
was aroused. there was enacted in
1902 the first English factory law,
which though but beginning was a
step in the direction of reform
In America the conditions have
never been so bad as they were in
England a century ago. but they have
been bad enough. When factories were
first introduced in this country We
had the advantage of having seen the
experience of England. and from the
first there were some restrictive laws
in regard to the employment of chill
dren. Then too. our universal feeling
for popular education kept the child
in the school for AT least a few years.
But within the past geneartion there
has come a change in the nature of
our population, and the factories,
which urgently need the cheapest la
hor they can get. have extended aheir
field to part of our country where they
had been formerly unknown. America
now has TO consider the case of thou
sands OF children who toll in the tex
tile mills. North and South. We have
to reckon with the army of little boys
constantly bending over the chutes OF
the coal and clear from elinkers at the
expense of their very life blood; and
that other army of boys working al
night in the superheated glass factor
les We have to consider the girls
employed in the department stores
in the cigar factories. and the can
neries: the messenger boys. and the
newsboys. and the bootblaeks. get
ting an education in our public streets
We have TO remember the unfortunate
children. and the very babies. KEEP
awake and at work AT night in
sweatshop home. Every citizen should
ask himself what it means when th'
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
vEToEs EIGHT-HoUR BILL.

Governor Draper of Massachusetts,
has vetoed the bill which provided that
no public employees shall be required
to work more than eight hours a
day. The bill was an amendment to
an eight-hour act already on the sta
tute books providing that public en-
ployes would not be required or re-
quested' to work more than eight
hours day, the claim having been
made that the present law is evaded
by requests that overtime work be
done
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

will be the very best-the social fea-
lures will embrace variety of things
calculated to make the visitors be-
lieve that the Lincoln men know
how to do things
There will be some big Brotherhood
men in attendance, not all of them en-
gineers, either The governor, the
mayor and County Judge Cosgrave will
deliver addresses of welcome.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
v. LABOR LEADERS IN THE CHURCH

twenty of parliament affiliated
and of LAY unordained
Sundays conducting religious
leaders of labor England and Scotland
the churchindeed they will tell that
their public speakers in the church
NJ p chairman of the labor the
of church brotherhood
which membership
Will Crooks NJ p George Nlchos
members parliament.
and Sunday afternoon
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
WHITE FIaEMEN STRIKE

Every white fireman and hossIer en-
ployed on the Georgia Railroad Is ous
on strike as a protest against the EN-
ploymenr of negroes By the COMPANY
The officials of the road say the strike
will nor interfere with the Operations
of the trains
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29

trOduce the hazard OF large percent
age of ignorant and even illiterate
persons in our population. We have
been proud of our standards of intelli-
gence. and il is somewhat of a sur
prise TO some of us to know that the
percentage of illiteracy of the adult
population in the United States is
greater than that of any of the more
progressive European antions, yet this
is true even of our most progressive
states. The public school, which we
have always regarded as the palla-
dunn of our liberties. has failed to
reach one full tenth of our population.
and it has failed to reach effectively
much greater proportion.
These children in the factories and
mills are deprived equally of an op-
portunity for proper physical develop
ment. They have no opportunity for
free exercise or for life in the open
air, and what greater needs has the
growing child than pure air and exer-
else? 1t is not surprising to find that
many of them go to fill early graves
and that others lively only the half
life of physical infirmity and mental
inferiority.
We are told that child labor is on
ly a result of poverty. True, child Ia
Dor and poverty usually go together.
but it is perhaps truer that poverty
is result of child labor. rather than
child labor a result of poverty. At
least, the two together form a vicious
circle, each creating the other. Where
children work adults are either forced
out of employment or obliged to work
at wages fixed by child standards The
family income is never permanently
increased by the employment of chill
dren. Rather it is decreased. even
though the adult members of the fam
lily continue their accustomed work
The young workers are not fitting
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
The 1 labor Movement in Europe
by
Rec. Charles
Sickle

church
hoods by the composed largely of trades unIonss
addressing brotherhood
London. Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester
The the learned the
with the church
confrmit church. closely identified with the interests OF
quite
personally think of
select
the house of high moral
character and usually who abstaner member
of
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
TELEGRAPHERS GAIN.
Many New Members for the Month OF
March.

Six hundred and fifty-two new mem
bers were initiated into the Order OF
Railway Telegraphers during the
month of March.
The grand division opened their
regular biennial session in Atlanta
Ga. Monday. with the largest attend
ance in its history.
The surplus in the mortuary fund
of the mutual benefit department now
exceeds s253,O00, which is the high
water mark
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-29
THE ENGINEERS MEETING.
Plans Practically Completed for a
Hearty Good Time.

The reunion planned by Division No.
9S. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, TO be held in Lincoln June 90
80. will be the biggest of its kind.
This means that it will be something
worth waiting for and going many
miles to see.. In addition to the good
features of each session-and they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-11
FORMER BA1T1MoREAN DIES.
Col. John F. Wilson, Once Mayor OF
North Plainfield, N. J..

PLAINFIELD, N. j.. October 1.-Col.
John Farmer Wilson, a retired merchant
and former mayor of North Plainfield.
where he had resided since 1873. died
suddenly at his estate, Tunlaw.
He was born in Baltimore. Md. May
q 1882, and was descended from Col.
BENJAMIN Wilson, an officer in the revo-
lutionary army and member Of the Vir-
ginia convention. At the age Of one
year he removed, with his parents. to
Alabama, where he spent the next if
teen years. Returning to Baltimore. at
the age Of sixteen years. he engaged in
mercantile pursuits until the outbreak Of
the civil war. Immediately after the
commencement of hostilities he went to
Richmond, Va, and offered his services
to Pope Walker, secretary OF war Of the
Confederacy, as a result of which he
served with the army of northern .Vir-
ginia through the entire war.
Returning to Baltimore. he engaged in
business until 1885. when he accepted a
position in New York city with the Le-
high and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, and
remained with that company until 1892
retiring from active business In that year
He married Miss Mary Elizabeth Farmer
of Baltimore April ii. 1855. Mrs. Wilson
died in 1885, and Of the twelve children
born to them but two survive-W B.
Wilson and Mrs. ]. p. Truitt the latter
OF whom since her husbands death, in
Philadelphia, has made her home with
her fatheE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-11
MINISTER WI As INVESTIGATOR
SEEKS TO INFORM HIMSELF RE-
GARDING sPIRITUALIsM.
by Legation Attache,
He Attends Seance and Fires
Questions at Medium.

Extending the scope Of his inquiry into
things American, DR.. WI Ting-fang. Chi
nese minister to the United States, last
night took a whirl at spiritualism. at
tending the seance of the Temple League
of Spiritualists. DR.. WI was accompanied
by WI Chang. one of the attaches of his
legation and the two occupied seats way
up front.
While their identity was not discovered
until after they had departed. the two
orientals in their flowing robes attracted
the attention of all other persons present
DR.. WI was on the watch for develop
ments from the very opening. and when
Mrs. Hennen took the helm and asked If
any one present had never had a talkfest
with a spirit he was the first to respond.
straightway he was informed that the
spirits of a woman and two children OF
his own country were standing beside him,
and they were described in detail but the
medium either could not pronounce their
names or else the trio of spirits had not
been properly introduced.
WI Chang Given Message.
While all of this was happening to DR..
WI another medium had corralled WI
Chang, and he was given along reading,
in the course Of which he was informed
he was going away very soon. but would
return. WI Chang nodded his head In
the affirmative, and held an animated
conversation in Chinese with his superior,
evidently over the wonders OF the reveia-
tions.
After the meeting DR.: WI poked a
whole bundle Of questions at Mrs. Hen
men, desiring particularly to learn the
names of his ghostly visitors, but the
best information the medium could voucn-
safe was that the trio had been dressed
in white robes. DR.. WI wanted to know
why it was he could not see the spirits.
why he could not hold conversation with
them, how Mrs. Hennen was able to
summon them at will, how long the me-
dunn had possessed this power, etc, to
all Of which the answer was made that
the capacity to call forth spirits from
spookland or spooks from spiritland was
a gift" not often bestowed upon mortals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-11

every one KNOWS. San Francisco is for
tunate in possessing its share of both.
The topography of the bay end the bluffs
that overlook it, the sea beach, the is
lands. the rugged mountains. the military
reservation and other physical features
have been utilized in liberal and artistic
manner, and private generosity has con-
tributed great deal to the public health
and pleasure.
1t is unfortunate that the plan OF beau
Trying improvement which was devised
by Daniel H. Burnham of Chicago n. the
request OF committee of progressive
and public-spirited citizens could not be
carried cu:. for the large rart of the
changes recommended lay in the path #
the fire. The plan involved the straigh:-
ening and widening of streets. the op IN
ing Of squares and the erection of a se-
ries of public buildings along definite
lines with intervals of parking be.wee
them similar to ti:ose at Vienna instead
OF scattering them over the city; but in
their .aserness 10 restore what was de-
stroyed and resume the full volume Of
commerce and industry the people could
not be induced to consider esthetic prvpo-
sitions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-11
Soldier Gets Tar Bath In the Dark

BALTIMORE, October 11.-Unable to
see because Of the darkness the trap into
which he was walking, Clarence Murphy,
soldier of the 103d Company of Coast
Artillery, at Fort Howard, plunged into a
pond filled with tar in the rear Of the
Baltimore Copper Smelling Company's
works last night, and was rescued just
in the nick of time from being buried
alive in the treacherous substance. AS 1t
was, Murphy was saved by the Opportune
arrival of two young men, who, realizing
the plight of the soldier. searched about
the place and found coil of rope nearby
This they cast to Murphy. who tied it
around his waist and he was thus
dragged from his 'murky bath.
The man was removed to the Canton
police station, where his clothing was
stripped from him and. after a warm
bath had been given him, he was put to
bed.
The pond into which Murphy sank has
been filled during the. last eight or ten
factory. 1t is well known to the people
about the neighborhood but on account
of the grass surrounding it deceives a
stranger. Murphy last night was in
hurry to catch a car back to the fort and
decided to cross the lot. with the inten-
ton of making short cut.
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Finds Abandoned Babe in Box Car.

HUNTINGTON, W. Va, October H.
A girl infant about two days old was
found in a suitcase in a box car of a
Chesapeake and Ohio freight train just
east of this city yesterday The car
had been attached to the freight in this
in this city. The conductor, hearing the
screams of an infant, started an investi-
CATION. The little one was neatly dressed.
but nothing could be found which would
lead to its identity. Conductor Beavers,
who found the infant. turned it over to
Magistrate Davis at Montgomery. He
said he would adopt the baby If 1t was
not claimed.